Let me put in a plug for the Nevermore Film Festival, which is playing at the Carolina here in Durham all weekend. (Here's the schedule.) Last night Ryan and I checked out Tenebre, which was pretty classic—and at some point this weekend I want to see Nobody and Los Cronocrímenes, and possibly also the original Highlander.

Nobody in particular is probably the greatest movie of all time:

Shawn Linden’s beautifully-scripted directorial debut is part mystery, part gangster film, part time-travel paradox, and part extraordinarily ambitious supernatural thriller.

You're speaking my language.

The hierarchy of the Gambino organized crime family -- from underboss to capo -- was arrested Thursday along with scores of street soldiers and associates in what authorities called the biggest mafia takedown in a generation. More at the Smoking Gun, including a truly wonderful list of nicknames:

...the charged hoodlums include "The Greaseball," "Bobby the Jew," "Tommy Sneakers," and "Mike the Electrician." Some arrestees, like Gambino captain Leonard DiMaria, even have multiple nicknames. DiMaria, the indictment notes, is known alternately as "L," "Lenny," "The Conductor," "Nike," "Uncle," and "Fatso."

At right, John Gotti, beating Tom Delay at his own game.