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I mean as long as we're on the subject of the desperately under-utilized actor and pretty young thing Alex Russell, we might as well make a further case for the American Cinema's need of his handsomeness. Hit the jump for six more shots...
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Alex Russell Eight Times
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die
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Carrie (1976)
It's John Travolta's birthday today so it seemed pretty clear that I'd either devote today's Ways Not To Die to either this delight of a scene, or I'd devote today's Way Not To Die to the death of romance itself that his rom-com with Lily Tomlin called Moment To Moment represented... and since I couldn't find a copy of Moment by Moment, here we are.
Ugh, you guys I want to see Moment by Moment SO BADLY (see my previous speedo-filled post here) but it's been entirely buried from what I can tell. If anybody knows where a copy is in the world, I will give out hand-jobs in exchange for it. Or John will anyway. Just pretend you're his masseuse and that's a bingo.
Hit the jump for links to all of the Previous Ways Not To Die
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Previous Ways Not To Die: 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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Here & There's Henry
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Henry Cavill's the cover-boy of this month's DuJour magazine (via) - I think he's got a movie coming out or something? - and I just posted nine pictures from the photo-shoot over on the Tumblr so click over to see all that. It is a nice one. He is attractive, and such.
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Good Morning, Sort Of Gratuitous Sam Reid
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I almost kind of don't even want to do this post, wishing the actor Sam Reid a happy 29th birthday; I have held out on him for a very long time because he should not be rewarded for bad behavior -- he's been around for five years now, pretty much since starring in Roland Emmerich's William Shakespeare flop Anonymous, and after taking a more-than-cursory glance (more of a scouring, really) of the places where such things would be it appears that Sam Reid in those five years hasn't doffed a single bit of clothing. Not a bit!
Please, I beg of someone to prove me wrong. Was there a bit in Belle I am forgetting? That Hatfield & McCoys miniseries didn't seem to have any trouble getting at least one dude half-naked -- maybe Sam's bared torso was floating around there too? Tumblr seems to be infatuated with his unrequited bromance with Max Irons in the recent film The Riot Club...
... but it would appear that stayed snog-free. I mean really, Sam Reid. You get your career jump started by Roland Emmerich for god's sake and this is how you treat us? There's one thing making me do this post, then. Well there are two. #1, goddamn Sam Reid is gorgeous. But #2: goddamn he is gorgeous and goddamn he and fellow actor slash pretty boy Douglas Booth seem to be inseparable.
INSEPARABLE. As you'll see, after the jump where I've collected all these gorgeous fully-dressed (sigh) pictures, he and Douglas Booth sure do seem very... tight. Hit the jump for the rest...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
RIP Harper Lee.
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Five Frames From ?
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Today's Mood
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These pictures are from Buster's 1926 flick Battling Butler, which is entirely on YouTube, and which I will now post in order for you guys to entertain yourselves for a bit - I've run outta gas today..
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I know how you feel, Buster Keaton.
Now I really know how you feel.
I know it's just me projecting upon it but that fade to black just as the masseur gets especially rough with him, well, it reads awfully dirty to me. Where there's a will and the will is to be handsy with Buster Keaton, there's a way! That's what I always say.
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I Suppose That As Long As...
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Eight Little Witches
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I haven't really wanted to think about much else other than The Witch since seeing it on Tuesday night (here's my review in case you missed it) and thankfully the internet has made that really really easy - there have been more reviews of and articles about the movie than you could shake a dowsing rod at.
I wouldn't click on any of these until after you watch the movie, but since you're all going to go and see this movie or else face my wrath, that won't be a problem soon -- so here, eight Witchy links! (thanks to Mac for several of these)
I wouldn't click on any of these until after you watch the movie, but since you're all going to go and see this movie or else face my wrath, that won't be a problem soon -- so here, eight Witchy links! (thanks to Mac for several of these)
1. Here's an interview with director Robert Eggers at The Verge
2.VICE takes a look at the film's patriarchal kick in the pants
3. Eggers talks about his cinematic influences to The Film Stage
4. The NYT on the film's note-perfect production design
5. Rolling Stone talks to Eggers and star Anna Taylor-Joy
6. Manohla Dargis' review in the NYT is a good one
7. And in the interest of fairness, an opposing point of view:
Will Leitch didn't like it... to which I reply:
Will Leitch didn't like it... to which I reply:
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I don't want to come right out & say you're a stupid person if you don't like The Witch, but you're certainly indisputably incorrect, is all— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 19, 2016
8. And finally, here's word on what Eggers will direct next
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Who Wore It Best?
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I weirdly stumbled upon these two pictures in different places within an hour of each other today -- the picture of Daniel Bruhl is from the new movie Alone In Berlin, which Amir just reviewed for The Film Experience, and the shot of Jack is off the show Skins, which my boyfriend is currently binge-watching -- so obviously I was meant to ask this question for some insane (it's always insane) reason. Anyway here's a picture of Jack and his Skins co-star Luke Pasqualino macking on each other to make up for the random bloodiness....
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Tom Hiddleston's Good Night
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I didn't realize this had snuck up on us already -- apparently director Susanne Bier's John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager, starring the kick-ass cast of (deep breath) Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, Russell Tovey, Elizabeth Debicki, Tom Hollander (yay) and Hugh Laurie, amongst others, starts airing on the BBC this weekend.
The first two episodes premiered at Berlinale the other day to what seems to be, at quick glance, good notices. The show will air here in the US come April on AMC (not that I'll be waiting that long). These two pictures above of Tom & Russell (via) certainly seem promising, as does this shot from the trailer...
The plot is described thusly: "A night manager of a European hotel is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate an international arms dealer's network." You know, as happens. Anyway I am fully infatuated with every single person in that cast and Bier's a wonderful director, so this sounds like must-watch TV.
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What Is Positraction
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I totes forgot to give youse guys a heads-up that I'm stuck in Jury Duty this week - you know this if you follow me on Twitter or Instagram or [fill in the name of every social media platform that exists here] where I did some whining about being bored to tears during the course of today, but in case you don't, now you know.
Fingers crossed I'll be in the clear come Wednesday, but until then you'll just have to entertain your own damn selves. Here I'll give you a topic -- I started reading Joel Grey's autobiography today, and so should you.
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Free At Last
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Jury duty's done (until next time).
We'll be back up and blogging tomorrow.
Tell me what I missed, if anything, in the comments.
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Good Morning, World
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Lean in close kiddies, there's a new trailer for Kill Your Friends, Nicholas Hoult's American-Psycho-slash-Trainspotting-ish drugs-n-laddies black comedy, and even more than the first trailer did it seems to be advertising itself on the merits of Nicky's wares.
And he wears his wares well. My favorite bit in the trailer is when we see a clearly coked-out-to-crazytown Nick sobbing in front of Radiohead's "Karma Police" music video, because who hasn't been there? Riiiiiiiiiight? Sigh.
This movie's been out for a bit in the UK (to lukewarmish reviews) but we actually have a US date now - it's hitting theaters and VOD on April 1st. (Unless they're FOOLing me, ha ha get it.) I wonder if it finally getting a US release date has anything to do with the presence of Deadpool star Ed Skrein being in it? (See lots of Ed Skrein here.) Anyway here's the trailer:
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This Little Light O' Fassy's
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The first trailer for Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between Oceans is here -- this is the movie, adapted from ML Stedman's best-seller, that stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander as a childless couple who live alone on the sea when a baby washes ashore, which they then decide to keep, only to years later meet and make friends with the child's true mother (played by a sad-eyed Rachel Weisz). Whatever will they do?
Listen, I know what I am going to do after watching this trailer -- I am going to go climb in a life-boat and wash up on the beach outside Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander's house, that's what I am going to do, because then I'll get to walk on the beach and be spun around by Michael Fassbender. Dreams do come true!
Happiest Little Girl Ever.
Here's the trailer:
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Five Frames From ?
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Baby Boy Matthias
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Is it just me or is Matthias Schoenaerts getting more attractive with age? I know there's the old chestnut about the double-standards of aging between men and women and how we tend to value more of a weathered masculine ruggedness which only comes with time and experience but by golly, goodness me...
... Matty has grown into his looks. Not that he was ever doing too bad, of course! I first saw him ten years ago in Paul Verhoeven's Black Book (god is that movie really ten years old?) and he was doing just fine then.
But now, well... my goodness. This is a very fine photo-shoot. (via) It's interesting to bring up his longevity though, since it was recently brought to our attention (thanks Boyd!) that a video of a 9-year-old Matthias acting recently surfaced! You must watch this, you must. He's soooooo blond, it is nuts.
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Putting The F in BFF
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Speaking of Matthias Schoenaerts, which we were literally just doing, he literally just - like, two minutes ago - posted this picture to Instagram of himself ensconced in Idris Elba. Well, today's done. pack it up, we're done. Not getting a thing done after this.
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Great Moments In Movie Shelves #58
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There are several scenes in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon set in the gorgeous library -- all the better for Kubrick's natural light to bounce off of all those glorious golden spines, am I right?
There might actually be more than one library? It's not as if the magnificent house Barry Lyndon is set in couldn't contain multitudes. Did you know that the location, the Powerscourt House, was gutted by a fire just months after this movie filmed there?
CAN YOU IMAGINE? What a horror. Anyway they apparently renovated and rebuilt the house in 1996; has anyone ever visited? If I ever visited there I might melt right into the shelves, I tell ya what. Beauty! And in summation, cleavage.
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