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Other Selections Worth Noting:

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
True Grit
Tiny Furniture
127 Hours
The Fighter
Burlesque
Made In Dagenham

FlixChix

Melinda and Cynthia have been invited to be weekly guests on a television series with their new program FlixChix. Basing their show's content on their extensive film reviews for the ARK newspaper and the MARIN ARTS magazine, interviews with actors and local film directors and a mix of lively, quirky conversations around the business of show business.

The FlixChixs have introduced their unusual, fun rating system for the films... They use a splattered, cracked egg for a bomb and then 1-3 small eggs are awarded in lieu of stars. They will also touch on the best films to be seen coming out of the Bay Area film festivals, including Mill Valley Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival.

One of their current partnerships is with the enormously popular Flixster and the California Film Institute to curate and develop a free international children's film festival in May 2011 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Theater. You can see the reviews on their new Facebook Fan Page FlixChix...peep peep....

See their 10 best films for 2010

Just Ten: 2010 Films Worth Seeing
By Melinda Darlington-Bach

1. The King's Speech
Top notch fare, beautifully shot and acting at the highest level. This lush film, reveals in a true story a very special deep and complicated relationship between King George IV and Lionel Logue, his speech therapist.

2. Winter's Bone
A quiet, bleak film that is so engrossing as an unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hunts down her drug-dealing meth-addicted father while she struggles to keep her own family together.

3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's
Nest Intense and compelling, a multi-layered trilogy and complicated thriller starring the brilliant and fearless, Noomi Rapace.

4. Ghost Writer
Fast-paced political thriller from Roman Polanski with plot twists and turns and like always with this director, wonderful strong performances.

5. The Social Network
Huge box office grosses for the story of the accident that birthed the creation of Facebook and the subsequent arguments over the patronage.

6. Alice in Wonderland
Visually stunning and creative, Tim Burton never disappoints with his unusual, quirky version of the children's classic tale starring Johnny Depp.

7. The Secret in Their Eyes
A messy Argentinian violent thriller about a retired attorney turned author trying to find closure for his past cases.

8. Inception
Heavily weighted with massive computer effects and green screen, this is a clever and thought-provoking film that tackles how to enter the human mind through dream invasion.

9. The Black Swan
Somewhat overwrought but an exciting psychological thriller from edgy Darren Aranonfsky showing a young tormented ballerina's descent into hallucinations and madness.

10. Toy Story 3
The genius of the story telling animators from Pixar gives us more characters that are mistakenly delivered to the wrong place and great family fare ensues.