The Weekly for 4 January

• Catching up from over the holidays ... the best films to go direct to DVD in 2009.
• Film Experience has a nice series covering the directors of the decade.
• The 15 sexiest gadgets of 2009.
• The seven most influential filmmaking countries of the '00s.
• From Pink Raygun, 50 fictional femmes of 2009: part one.
• "Just as they were about to be written off, stars like Hepburn, Crawford, Stanwyck, and Rosalind Russell showed they could hold their own at the box office alongside younger stars." Katherine Hepburn and The African Queen