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Good Morning, Bill

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Aww I miss Bill Paxton, you guys. He would've turned 62 today if he hadn't passed back in February due to complications during heart surgery. It's a shame that The Circle was such a piece of shit -- will that be the last film of his released in theaters? I noticed the other day that the movie called Mean Dreams is available online now - and have they run through all of his episodes of the Training Day show? So I think that's it. It's okay, Bill - you left a wonderful  body of work behind. And when I go see the new Alien movie Friday your panicked voice will echo across the whole thing. "Game over, man!!!"



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It's Grace Zabriskie's Birthday!

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Bow down!
Bow down!

I've avoided all of the promotional materials for Twin Peaks - all the trailers, posters, photographs... except for the pictures of Grace back as Sarah Palmer, continually tormented mother of the doomed Laura and wife to the doomed Leland. And I didn't even go looking for them either - they just found me, like home.

Twin Peaks returns this weekend!!! 
I assume you'll all be there with me?



Get Cthulhu

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Jordan Peele has announced that he's following up the massive success of his directorial debut Get Out by producing a TV series calledLovecraft Country (that is a wonderful title), based on a 2016 book by Matt Ruff. Have any of you read it? It sounds terrific and I am ordering my copy right this minute.

And going by Get Out you can see why Peele wanted in on it: the book apparently mixes up race relations in Jim Crow America in the 1950s with, well as the title says, splotchy Lovecraftian monsters from the deep in New England. (Glad Peele's keeping his focus on Northern racism - as a born-n-bred Yank we've gotten it far too lightly for far too long.) 

Anyway as I said Peele's only producing the show (along with "only" JJ Abrams") - the real show-running duties are going to one Misha Green, the woman who runs the WGN series Underground about the Underground Railroad. Anybody watch that show? I do not and I haven't heard anything about it, quality-wise either.
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I Married an Alienist

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Just the other day my boyfriend was haranguing me about what Dakota Fanning was up to and now I have his answer -- she's been filming The Alienist, TNT's upcoming adaptation of the 1994 Caleb Carr book about the earliest crime profilers; basically think The Knick meets CSI. The series is being directed by Jakob Verbruggen, who made the splendid gay fireworks of London Spy (he replaced Cary Fukunaga). My memory on the book is fuzzy, I loved it when it came out, but I'm pretty sure the whole thing's about them chasing a single serial killer? Anyway Luke Evans, who co-stars opposite Dakota and Daniel Brühl, just tweeted out the first trailer, so here tis. It looks very very Knick-ian.
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Alessandro Nivola Seven Times

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I haven't read the interview yet that makes up the interview portion of Alessandro's Interview Magazine spread, but I sure have looked at the pictures by photographer David Needleman! Photo-shoots of Alessandro are too scarce, always too scarce, so I'm gobbling these up like chocolate flavored oxygen. 

Speaking of Alessandro I saw him in two projects last month at Tribeca -- one was that VR thing that I briefly mentioned, and the other was a movie called One Percent More Humidity which he was far and away the best thing about (important sidenote: he's somewhat naked in it too) he actually won the Best Actor award at the fest for the performance (his story about accidentally being there to accept is funny) and it was richly deserved. Anywaygo ahead and hit the jump for the rest of the pictures...



Let's Listen To Some Sweet Tunes!

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Two of my favorite bands finally have albums coming out this year after a little bit of a break, and since they've both dropped songs from them in the past week let's close our eyes and press play (okay maybe you should do that in the opposite order) and drink 'em in. Above is "Mourning Song" off of Grizzly Bear's album Painted Ruins - that will be released on August 18th. There's another song out called "Three Rings" which you can listen to right here.

And below is "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" off of The National's upcoming record called Sleep Well Beast, which is out on September 8th. Both bands are also touring this year, you can google them to find that out if you care. Now let's all get smooth...
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Good Morning, World

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I would apologize to Downton Abbey actor Allen Leech for what I'm about to say but since that dude hasn't taken his shirt off but the couple of times that we have already covered it ain't my fault -- there's nobody celebrating a birthday today that I can exploit properly (but a happy birthday to Allen, anyway - now go find yourself a sexy job) and there's a lot of real-world news for me to plow through today so I am just going to send y'all over to this gallery of Jamie Dornan pictures that I posted on the Tumblr yesterday for this morning's "Good Morning" post. (And yes, that was all one sentence. I am the master of run-ons. The Master!) Click on over for more!



Pics of the Day

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Alias Grace, the new Margaret Atwood adaptation (following the currently-wowing Handmaid's Tale, of course), keeps coming up in conversation these days and I keep not remembering who's starring in the dang thing, so I'm glad I've finally got photographs (via) to aid my bumbling brain now. I kept thinking Sarah Polley was starring in the thing but she's just (just?) writing and producing, while American Psycho director Mary Harron is directing. 

But acting duties have gone to Cosmopolis star Sarah Gadon as the lowliest servant girl who stands accused of murdering her boss and his main housekeeper (played by Paul Gross and Anna Paquin). There's also a role for London Spy super-hottie Edward Holcroft...

... I'm guessing he's an inspector because he's very determinedly writing in his little booklet there. I'm getting real "Rachel McAdams, Serious Journalist" vibes from that photograph. Zahary Levi also stars, although strangely IMDb has no idea who he's playing.

Then again I've never read this book so damned if I'd know anyway.  Anybody read it? So there are more pictures at this link; the show debuts in Canada in late September but it also hits Netflix sometime this Fall - hopefully there's not too much of a break between one and the other. You've already got Justin Trudeau, Canada. How much do you need???


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Meet Me In Scudder

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One month ago I told you guys that Maurice was getting a 4K restoration and voila, like gay magic here it is - James Ivory's 1987 masterpiece starts playing at the Quad Cinema here in NYC this weekend. Ivory will be there for Q&As on Friday and Saturday night - I saw him speak at a screening of the film last year and he's a charmer; don't miss it if you're in NYC. If you're not the film is traveling around after playing here I do believe, and after it's done with that it will hit blu-ray, although we don;'t have a date for release yet. Stay tuned! Any chance I have to sell Alec Scudder to the masses I will sell Alec Scudder to the masses.
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die (Again)

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The book Dracula by Bram Stoker was released on May 26th in the year 1897, marking next Friday as the 120th anniversary of Modern Vampirism as we know it. Oh sure the rules have shifted and sexied themselves up over the years but Bram's text is still the standard against which all other (s)takes are measured.  

The book was a critical and a commercial hit when it was released but not overwhelmingly so -- Stoker died poor, and it wasn't until a couple of years after that when FW Murnau ripped off the story for Nosferatu and got sued by Stoker's widow that the book's legacy grew. After that there was a stage adaptation that traveled the world, which brought the story to Hollywood, and in 1931 Bela Lugosi slicked back his hair and said he vanted to suck our blood, and an Icon was born.

The Vampire's been through as many iterations through the years as there have been years but coming out of the 1980s bloodsuckers were either a joke (think Once Bitten and Love at First Bite) or completely modernized away from their origin (think Near Dark and The Hunger) so Francis Ford Coppola's great big lush romantic horror-drama, with movie stars (Anthony Hopkins had just won his Oscar for Silence of the Lambs) and a 40 million dollar budget, felt revolutionary in its moment. And by slapping the author's name on the title Coppola insisted this was a return to original form.

Of course Coppola's movie ended up being it's own insane thing, twisting  the book together with the 100 years of Vampire Myth-making and Movie Art that preceded it, and nowhere more ferociously than with the character of Lucy - in the book she's a virginal innocent, even more than the main character of Mina, but in Coppola's hands Lucy was sculpted more akin to the fleshy wanton women of the Hammer films of the 1960s and 70s.

And of course there's Sadie Frost's magnificent performance in the role - teeth bared, heaving bosom, she's all in. How you have so much presence that Eiko Ishioka's costumes don't end up wearing you (most especially that frill-necked wedding turned funereal gown) I have no idea but Frost makes it look easy. Brava, missy.

Hit the jump for links to all the Previous Ways Not To Die

Previous Ways Not To Die: Goo Gone -- Jake Fully Loaded-- Time Stops For One Man -- They Shoot Actresses Don't They -- Chop Top -- Paint Me Like One Of Your Dead Girls -- Doggy Puddle -- A Present of Violence -- Backseat Die-r -- Supermarket Reaped -- Jungle Boogied -- In the Hallway with the Candlestick -- This is Not the Blonde You Are Looking For -- The Sting -- Blue Mooned -- Pray For Death. -- I Want To Die! -- Come and Knock on My Face -- All Dolled Up -- Tomahawk Justice -- Sleep It Off -- The Fall Guy -- Catricide -- Rumbling in my Tummy -- Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Monster -- Split End -- That Darn Dame -- Board Now -- Signed By The Zodiac -- Damsel in Da' Street -- Whispers of a Mad-Man -- Peek-a-Boom -- Precious Miseries -- A Triple Salchow Before Dying --Night Nurse -- Don't Be Greedo-- The Hand That Rocks The Greenhouse -- Jacked Up -- The Big Squeeze -- Say My Name --  Silver Shamrock -- As The Wine Turns -- sleepytime --  Eat Crow -- An Un Made Man -- Bear Topped-- When Your Hoop Dreams Become Your Hoop Nightmares -- Ungodly Grabbers -- Head Today Gone Tomorrow -- Something... Happened -- Phone Jacked-- Poker Face -- Not Ready For This Jelly -- World's Greatest DEAD -- Swiss Miss Meteor Strike -- The Whim of a Mads Man -- Big Wheeled -- Deep Red -- Bunny Petit -- Ding Dong Going Down -- The Headless Hitchcock -- Oops I Dropped The Soap -- Mary had A Little Slam -- The Beast With Too Backstabbed -- Wrath of the Merman -- Stomach Bug -- Something Icky This Way Comes -- Dagon It -- The Passion of Margaret White-- Worm Food -- Kim Jong Kill -- Harkonnen A Vagrant -- A Little Off The Top -- Laid Out By Lamas -- 1 2 3 Dandy -- One Ringy-Dingy Two Ringy-Dingy Die Ringy-Dingy -- Nanny Slam -- Forced Head -- A Wolf at the Door -- X-Ray'd -- Helen Helen Helen -- Bad Robot -- Giggle Gassed --Dark Meet -- The Lady in the Iron Mask -- Croaked -- Exit Stage Crazy -- Cold Cocked By Colin Farrell--  Comb Over -- Wishing You Happy Father's Day -- Bright Light Bright Light -- Flame With Ash Highlights -- Don't Spoke Unless Stuck Onto -- Teen Angst Bullshit-- Come What May (Day) -- Dodge This -- The Dead Knock At Dawn -- A Gentlemenly Sacrifice -- Spade & Neutered -- Flambe By Vincent -- L.O.O.K.E.R Over -- Something in the Fog-- Polly Wants A Scalpel -- Major Swirly -- White Meat Dark Meat -- Oh Dae-su You Devil -- Unto Darkness Delivered -- A Hammock Built For Slew -- Venom Down -- Worm Turned -- This Anaconda Do Want Some -- Cereal Murdered -- Deady Dearest -- Spotted Dick -- Chinatown Syndrome -- Feeling the Fury -- Blank With the Blank in the Blank -- Kill the Cook -- You be The Steeple --Boiled Bashed Stabbed & Gassed -- Iced Princess -- Straight Razor Symphony -- Prey For Mantis -- Talos Unplugged -- A Mysterious Raptoring -- Mad Monkey Robo Rampage --Give Me Liberty, Or... -- Horns of Plenty... Dead! -- Mistress-And-Run -- Wolverine Interrupted -- Who Let The Guts Out -- Zzzapped Innards-Side-Out -- Bad Romance -- Twas Beauty (And Also Aeroplanes) -- Bad Head -- Valentine's Day Massacred -- Belly Buster -- For Being Not The Babysitter -- Splat In Slo-Mo -- To Be Dis-Continued -- For Being Mouthy -- Do You Smell What Billy's Mom Is Cooking -- The Milk Done Gone Bad -- An Inability To Stop Drop and Roll -- Bug Sprayed -- Extreme Makeover: Leatherface Edition -- Window Seat Suck -- Razor Bunting -- Stabbed Thru The Heart And Witches Are To Blame -- Shark Kibble --Is That a Straight Razor In Your Trunks Or Are You Just Happy To See Me -- Bad Dates -- Fry Guy'd -- Super Battle Bystander Shrapnel Shred -- Staring Contest of the Dead -- Satanic Self Sacrifice -- Fist and Fortune -- Psychedelic Penis Slice To Window Toss -- For Crimes Against Accent -- Sacked -- Speed Bumped For Traffic Spikes -- Shark Versus Jet-Ski -- Hot Oil Treatment -- Tucked In By Jason -- Just A Pair of Snowbodies -- Poison Pellet Kibble Swap -- Dolly Disassembled -- Fire Escape Fall Out -- Unbuggered -- Tell 'Em Large Marge Sent'cha -- Blue Man Gooped -- Tongue Stung -- Now Wouldn't Cha, Barracuda? -- Leaving on a Rat Plane -- Panthers! -- Fashion Faux-Pwned -- "It's Just A Box." -- Blasted Pigeons -- Taunting Ahnuld -- The Too Hot Tub -- Beyond the Veil -- Sunken Prayers-- Super Crack -- Brains Blown -- Fur For The Boogens -- White Hot Bunny Rabbit Rage --Dragged To Hell -- The TV Van That Dripped Blood -- Don't Mess With Mama -- Heads Ahoy --Martyred For Sheep -- Heads Nor Tails -- He Loves Me Knot -- The Great Bouncing Brad --Miss Kitty's 8 Mishaps -- Boat Smoosh -- Meeting the French-Tipped Menace -- A Magic Trick -- Slick Suck -- We Who Walk Here Walk Alone -- Raptor Bait -- Kneegasm'd -- Dare to Dream in Fincher -- Reach Out and Throttle Someone -- De-Faced -- Voluntary Drowning -- Cross Borne -- Pulled Up Hell's Sphincter -- An Arrow Up The Ass - The Numerous Violent Unbecomings of Olive Oyl -- Ack! Ack! Zap! -- Baby's First Acid Splash -- Chop, Drop and Sashimi Roll -- Forever Rafter -- Can't You Hear Me Now? -- Daisies Ways #5 - Harpoony Side Up -- Acid Dip -- On a Wing and a Prey -- For Standing in the Way of Sappho -- Busting Rule Number Three (For The Purpose of Number Two) -- Daisies #4 - Window Dressed To Killed --Hands Off the Haas Orb -- Bullet Ballet -- A Single Vacancy at the Roach Motel -- A School Bus Slipped Thru The Ice -- Trache-AAHHHH!!!-tomy'd - For Mel Gibson's Sins -- A Wide Stanced Slashing --- Daisies Ways #3 - Scratch n' Snuffed -- The Victim of a Viscous Hit & Run-- Curled -- Kabobbed -- Daisies Ways #2 - Aggravated Cementia -- Boo! Nun! -- 2009's Ways Not To Die -- Bug Scratch Fever -- Daisies Ways #1 - Deep Fat Fried in My Own Unique Blend of 500 Herbs & Spices -- By the Yard End of the Stick -- Screwed From A Very Great Distance-- A Righteous Bear-Jew Beatdown -- Fisted By Hugo Sitglitz -- Xeno Morphed -- Fuck-Stuck -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 4 -- Lava Bombed -- The Cradle Will Rock... Your Face Off!!! -- The Food of the Nilbog Goblins -- The Slugs Is Gonna Gitcha -- Phone Shark -- Hide The Carrot -- Sarlacc Snacked -- Avada Kedavra!!! -- Hooked, Lined and Sinkered -- "The Libyans!" -- Axe Me No Questions -- Pin the Chainsaw on the Prostitute -- The Wrath of the Crystal Unicorn -- The Ultimate Extreme Make-Over -- Drown In A Sink Before The Opening Credits Even Roll -- The Dog Who Knew Too Much -- Don't Die Over Spilled Milk -- Inviting the Wrath of Aguirre -- An Inconceivable Outwitting -- The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique -- Nipple Injected Blue Junk -- Your Pick Of The Deadly Six -- Thing Hungry --Don't Fuck With The Serial Killer's Daughter -- DO Forget To Add The Fabric Softener -- Any Of The Ways Depicted In This Masterpiece Of Lost Cinema -- Rode Down In The Friscalating Dusklight -- Good Morning, Sunshine! -- Mornin' Cuppa Drano -- The Cylon-Engineered Apocalypse -- Tender-Eye-zed -- Martian Atmospheric Asphyxiation -- Maimed By A Mystical Person-Cat -- The Sheets Are Not To Be Trusted -- Handicapable Face-Hacked -- I Did It For You, Faramir -- Summertime In The Park... Of A Pedophile's Mind -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 3 -- Strung Up With Festive Holiday Bulbs By Santa Claus Himself -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 2 -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 1 -- Decapitated Plucked Broiled & Sliced -- Head On A Stick! -- A Trip To The Ol' Wood-Chipper -- Pointed By The T-1000 --Sucking Face With Freddy Krueger -- A Pen-Full Of Home-Brewed Speed to The Eye --Motivational Speech, Interrupted -- A Freak Ephemera Storm -- When Ya Gotta Go... Ya Gotta Go -- Hoisted By Your Own Hand Grenade -- Having The Years Suction-Cupped Away --Criss-Cross -- Turned Into A Person-Cocoon By The Touch Of A Little Girl's Mirror Doppleganger -- Satisfying Society's "Pop Princess" Blood-Lust -- Done In By The Doggie Door-- Tuned Out -- Taking the 107th Step -- Rescuing Gretchen -- Incinerated By Lousy Dialogue-- Starred & Striped Forever -- Vivisection Via Vaginally-Minded Barbed-Wire -- Chompers (Down There) -- Run Down By M. Night Shyamalan -- Everything Up To And Including The Kitchen Toaster -- Sacrificed To Kali -- Via The Gargantuan Venom Of The Black Mamba Snake -- Turned Into An Evil Robot -- The Out-Of-Nowhere Careening Vehicle Splat -- "Oh My God... It's Dip!!!" -- Critter Balled -- Stuff'd -- A Hot-Air Balloon Ride... Straight To Hell!!!-- Puppy Betrayal -- High-Heeled By A Girlfriend Impersonator -- Flip-Top Beheaded --Because I'm Too Goddamned Beautiful To Live -- By Choosing... Poorly... -- Fried Alive Due To Baby Ingenuity -- A Good Old-Fashioned Tentacle Smothering -- Eepa! Eepa! -- Gremlins Ate My Stairlift -- An Icicle Thru The Eye -- Face Carved Off By Ghost Doctor After Lesbian Tryst With Zombie Women -- Electrocuted By Fallen Power-Lines -- A Mouthful Of Flare --Taken By The TV Lady -- Bitten By A Zombie -- Eaten By Your Mattress -- Stuffed To Splitting -- Face Stuck In Liquid Nitrogen -- Crushed By Crumbling Church Debris -- Bitten By The Jaws Of Life -- A Machete To The Crotch -- Showering With A Chain-Saw -- In A Room Filled With Razor Wire -- Pod People'd With Your Dog -- Force-Fed Art -- Skinned By A Witch -- Beaten With An Oar -- Curbed -- Cape Malfunction -- In The Corner -- Cooked In A Tanning Bed -- Diced -- Punched Through The Head -- Bugs Sucking On Your Head
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Enid: Oh my God. 
He just ordered a giant glass of milk. 
 Josh: That's a vanilla milkshake.
Why does that make me laugh so damn hard? I haven't sat down and watched Ghost World in over a decade easy but going through quotes from the movie on IMDb just now had me in stitches -  I can still hear every single actor delivering them. It's such a perfect movie - long overdue for a re-watch. 

And lucky me - Metrograph here in New York just happens to be running a Terry Zwigoff series this whole weekend! They're showing Ghost World tomorrow night with Zwigoff and Steve Buscemi there! Whoo! It's also Zwigoff's birthday today, which is the real reason for this post - happy birthday to him!


Short White Shorts & The Dicks That Fill Them

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It was way back in September that we first heard that Shia LaBeouf was going to make a movie called Borg/McEnroe about the tennis rivalry between John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg (with Sweidsh-Icelandic actor Sverrir Gudnason playing the latter) and not long thereafter the above image showed up but we've only seen it now for the first time as it comes along with the trailer for the film. Well the German trailer anyway. But you know what International trailers mean right? That's right...

... they mean nudity! We love nudity! I'm actually not sure which of our leads that is naked in the shower though - my first thought was it's Gudnason but the longer I look (and I have looked for a long time) the less sure I am. Anyway here's the trailer:
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Weirdly there's another movie about tennis rivalries of the 1970s coming out this year that released a trailer this week (I guess it's this year's Volcano versus Dante's Peak showdown) -- Battle of the Sexes stars Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carrell as the sexist pig monster Bobby Riggs, who faced off in an infamous Penis Vs Vagina showdown in 1973. Nathaniel did a good run-down of the trailer over at The Film Experience yesterday, go read it over there, but the main thing to know is that Andrea Riseborough is playing Emma Stone's girlfriend and that's all you need to know about whether you're seeing this movie or not. (You are.)



Who Wore It Best?

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This picture of Eion Bailey and Matt Bomer on the set of The Last Tycoon (via) is pretty much more than this lover of the black-hair-blue-eyes combo can bear - this is like whatever the opposite of Nuclear Armageddon is. I am anti-obliterated. You know how the universe is expanding because of the Big Bang? This is all the space that the Universe hasn't moved out in to yet.
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The Last Tycoon apparently returns later this year.
And here's a bonus picture of Eion on set just cuz:


Max Minghella Three Times

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Alright I gotta run home and catch up on The Handmaid's Tale now. And also Fargo. And also The Leftovers. Sigh. It's gotten difficult to even get anywhere near an actual movie now and then, hasn't it? And you can forget about re-watching a movie you've actually seen before. Not with this avalanche of Peak TV bearing down upon you. But hey Max showed his butt so who can feel bad for too long, right?
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Good Morning, Gratuitous Tom Ainsley

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It's like I always say - fortune favors the bored and horny, and so it's a good thing I was both of those things (a good thing, maybe, but not an atypical thing, obviously) when the first picture from an upcoming horror movie Serpentshowed up at Dread Central and immediately grabbed my attention...

... and I think you can see why. Serpent tells the story of a husband and wife who go camping and get trapped in their tent with a poisonous snake, taking claustrophobia to whole new places... or, you know, one place. One very very very small place. It premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. Anyway the actor playing the husband is a British actor named Tom Ainsley who's previously been seen on the TV series The Royals and Versailles, so I guess sexy palace intrigue was his racket, before he went before clambering into tents with snakes anyway.

He's got an Instagram because who doesn't, you can follow him here. And he's on Twitter. My favorite thing about him though is his acting reel, which is uploaded on his IMDb page, which is just him hanging out butt naked for a couple of minutes. You can watch that right here. (I also giffed most of it because duh.) In that vein hit the jump for the couple dozen pictures of him I gathered up...






















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Bond: May Day, where have you been? I've been 
waiting for you... to take care of me, personally. 
[pause] I see you're a woman of very few words. 
May Day: What's there to say? 

A very happy 69 
to Grace fucking Jones!


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