Hello to you gentle Doc Channel Viewer. Chris here, coming to you from deep within the bowels of Doc Channel HQ (which really means my office, which in reality is on the first floor…i’m not even sure our building has bowels….hmmmm…i’ll get back to you). At any rate, I hope you’ve been watching Anti-heroes month on the channel which has featured a number of my personal favorite films currently in rotation here on DOC but if you haven’t you’ve still got a week left to bask in the multi-faceted splendor before February begins and we’ll be celebrating Black History Month.

So many things to talk about I’m not sure where to begin. The Golden Globes were this week and I have to say that it was my genuine pleasure to see Sascha Baron Cohen receive a GG for Borat (which has a lengthy subtitle that I shan’t duplicate here) and also to see Warren Beatty (who i’ve long had a deep respect for) receive the Cecil B. Demille award. It was a good year.

Also, I hope you’ll take a moment to read my From The Vault Column this week as it deal’s with a film that I enjoy very much and that I deeply believe needs to be seen by everyone “Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday.” In other non-documentary related news the remake of the cult horror flick “The Hitcher” opened today and while i’m wary (the onslaught of recent mediocre remakes and sequels of remakes has caused this) I still have to go. It’ll be a total shocker if the tone and intensity of the original film is at all present in the shiny new retread. Give or take a C. Thomas Howell the cast of the original was top drawer with Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh (sorry Kate, but i’d still marry her***) both doing a fine job and though the remake’s own eponymous madman Sean Bean is certainly no slouch it remains to be seen as to whether he’ll be able carry the weight of the entire remake on his shoulders (plus let’s face it Rutger Hauer does creepy well). Till next week…

***Editor’s note: This Comment was directed toward our own SVP of Programming Kate Pearson who has been very supportive when it comes to my unrequited love for Zooey Deschanel but who has yet to back my second choice Ms. Leigh (you know, in case the whole Zooey thing falls through)