Check It. The New Yorker's 'DVD of the Week' column.

If you ever find yourself wondering what interesting, artsy, foreign, or vintage film to add to your NetFlix queue, The New Yorker has an excellent "DVD of the Week" column. Unlike the stories within the mag, with word counts that could give Jonathan Franzen a run for his money, these are short, sweet, and to the point.

Clips of the movie are in each blog post. Last week's film, the French "À Nos Amours" ("To Our Loves" -- clip below).

-- Lauren Williams

Check It. All 36 seasons of 'Saturday Night Live' on Netflix [The Monday Download].

If you're lucky enough to have some time off this holiday season, and looking for something to do to avoid the malls and chilly weather, you've probably been scanning the Netflix instant watch list for something good to watch. Well you're about to hit the jackpot: all 36 seasons (including this current one, and all the best of compilations) of Saturday Night Live are available to stream.

Now how to navigate the hundreds of episodes -- and avoid those lackluster ones that have become quite frequent especially as of late? Splitsider's conveniently got an obsessive guide for you, which will serve as a great starting point, if anything, for remembering all that could be great and absolutely crazy about the landmark show. You might even learn something -- I, for one, never knew that the 100th episode went without a host. I'll be curious to check that out and see how that show differed.

And one moment I won't soon forget seeing live on SNL? The above image -- Ashlee Simpson's outing as a lip-syncher. Ha! Got any other favorite SNL moments of note? Let us know! In the meantime, we'll be streaming and reminiscing.

-- Chau Tu

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