Great new music and films, popular or obscure

A lot of sites that talk about new music and new films go in one of two directions. Either they only cover what's popular and mainstream and act like if it's not well known it doesn't exist, or they're hipster sites that trash everything popular and mainstream and insult your intelligence if you don't like every weird niche title hat comes out. With this blog I want to talk about new music and new films in a way that's neutral to popularity. I'll be equally fair to popular titles and niche titles.

I'll rate on a scale of one to ten on the following criteria:

For films:
Style: How good is the camerawork, the cinematography, the story structure, etc?
Substance: How good is the main plot, the characters, and the acting?
Overall: My overall impression of the film.
Accessibility: How accessible is the film? This scale should be considered independent to the quality of the film, and should be read as an indication of whether the movie is your sort of thing. Mainstream films like Toy Story 3 will get very high accessibility scores, and weird nichey 'form before content' films like Enter The Void will get very low accessibility scores.

For music:
Technical skill: How good are they at playing their instruments?
Songwriting: How good are the melody and the lyrics?
Overall: My overall impression of the album.
Accessibility: Same as for films.

I'll try to write something about most of the new albums I get and most of the new films I see, but I'll also mention older films and albums that I see for the first time if they really stand out to me.

I'll get started over the weekend with the film White Material and Kanye West's new album.

First, to give you an impression of whether my opinion has anything to do with yours, here's my top ten albums and films of 2010 so far:

Films:
1. A Prophet
2. Winter's Bone
3. Toy Story 3
4. I Am Love
5. Enter The Void
6. Last Train Home
7. Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
8. Kick-Ass
9. Please Give
10. Machete

Albums:
1. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
2. The National - High Violet
3. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
5. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
6. Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot
7. Shining - Blackjazz
8. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
9. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two
10. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM