Somewhere along the line I unexplainably became a Matt Dillon fan, probably Drugstore Cowboy. This film looks like a "Look at how good of an actor I can be" and I think its fair time he got a roll of this kind. I think we all can agree on how well he did in Crash, but still supporting.

As far as future releases and other Oscar contenders:

1/9/07
The Illusionist
Quinceanara 

1/23/07
Angel Face (1952)
Home From the Hill (1960)
Macao (1952)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Yakuza (1975)
Sherrybaby 

1/30/07
Band of Angels - Raoul Walsh
Madame Curie (1930)
Maniac (1980)

2/6/07
The Clock (1945)
Hitchcock: 3 Disc Collecters Edition (Includes Manxman, Rich and Strange, The Skin Game, Murder, and The Ring)
The Heiress (1949)

2/13/07
Half Nelson 
13 Tzameti
Ginger and Fred (1986)
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Performance (1970)
US vs. John Lennon
War and Peace (1968)
Cuban Masterworks Collection (The Twelve Chairs, The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin, Cecila, Amada, A Successful Man)
Lunacy - Svankmajer's latest woo-hoo
Marie Antoinette

2/27/06
Tideland
The Last King of Scotland