I'm less interested in her news about box-office blockbusters, which I have come to view as theme parks. So I wasn't really following her breathless updates on the casting of the next Spiderman, after Tobey Maguire exited the franchise. It just seemed to me to be the same old story: make someone a star, pay him so much you don't want to pay him any more, get me the next star.
But when she announced that it was Andrew Garfield -- who apparently gives a great performance in the upcoming David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin movie The Social Network -- Finke singled out for praise "his heartbreaking performance in Boy A."
What? I follow the indy movie releases fairly closely, and I HAD NEVER HEARD OF Boy A
. So I immediately 
