More awards, more lists.

Sunnyvale has won the first annual Golden Groundhog Award as Best Underground Film of 2005. Ray Young at Flickhead: "Lacking the poseur cynicism of Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino and what now passes for 'smart; dialogue, the conversations of Sunnyvale resonate with the cliquey banter of a campus rathskeller on Saturday night."

The Writers Guilds, east and west, have announced their awards, with best original screenplay going to Crash and best adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.

And via at Cinematical, the International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood has announced that Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has won the Annie Award for best animated feature.

Josh Ralske posts "The World's Last 2005 Top Ten Movies List." We'll see, we'll see. Mark Pfeiffer, for example, has also just named his bests, honorable mentions and worsts.

At Cinemarati, lylee calls on contributors and readers to write up their favorite "movie moments" of 2005, and there are over two dozen responses so far.

Tasha Robinson presents a new list at the AV Club: "Nine Classic Instances Of Animal Snuff For Kids."

Matt Zoller Seitz picks five movies that made him laugh very, very hard. For example, Raising Arizona: "Midway through we were both laughing so hard that we were kneeling on the floor, holding onto the seats in front of us, gasping and crying. We looked like we'd been tear-gassed in church."

Christianity Today's "10 Most Redeeming Films of 2005." Via Jeffrey Overstreet, who points to Muhammed Abdelmoteleb's review of The Chronicles of Narnia at IslamOnline.

Online listening tip. Andy Bowers announces Slate's Bad Movie Awards: "We assigned our bad-movie expert Mark Jordan Legan to come up with three categories representing some of the richest veins of cinematic slime. On the podcast we reveal the categories, play clips from some potential nominees, and let you know how you can submit your nominations."

Posted by dwhudson at February 5, 2006 11:15 AM