If you’re a regular reader of this blog or a regular visitor to documentarychannel.com, you may have noticed our coverage of a number of the fine films the folks of Magnolia pictures have released. Between “Crazy/Love” and “Mr. Untouchable” alone they were responsible for two of the finer documentary releases of last year. And this year brings not only their release of the new Hunter Thompson doc “Gonzo” and the surf-doc “Surfwise” but also the creation of a new division “Magnet.” For a while the Magnolia team has been releasing all sorts of interesting genre cinema, from the brilliant pre-Cloverfield monster picture “The Host” to the inventive and hilarious British slasher-flick “Severance” and scads of other great films from all over the map. And now they’ve made their love for foreign and genre cinema official with a new division. The focus makes the new division not unlike the Weinstein’s Dimension films and Fox’s recently formed Fox Atomic arm, but I have complete faith that they’ll have no trouble standing out in the crowd. I have been impressed time after time with the films they choose to release, so I’m greatly looking forward to all the fun stuff we can surely expect from both Magnolia and Magnet this year.