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Where Is Your Gods Now

February 24, 2016, 11:05 am
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I know we're all boycotting Gods of Egypt because of the white-washing (and thankfully the trailer's so ridiculous that I don't feel much tension in missing it) but I still wanna take the chance to stare at Nikolaj Coster-Waldau when given the chance, ya know? They released a few stills from the movie (click to embiggen) and he looks great, although ridiculous, and yes white.

White as sin! Anyway the movie's on course to flop horribly, but let's not hold it against Nicky. I have a few things that I want to hold against Nicky, personal things, but this isn't one of them. Let's hope the new season of Game of Thrones is a good one for the Kingslayer and we can put this unfortunate bit of business behind us. (And yes I's also like to put Nikolaj behind me - words have many meanings.)


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Which Is Hotter?

February 24, 2016, 12:27 pm
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As you've no doubt seen by now (I'm coming at these a couple days late thanks to Uncle Sam) filming began proper-like on the Baywatch movie this week (I say proper-like since Zac Efron got a head-start on his pap-routine running around in spandex before shooting even began) and Zac & Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have been spotted in their snug life-saver suits. 

Yeah yeah it's an awful lot of suit compared to what we're ultimately hoping to see from the duo (don't let David Chokachi down, fellas) but for now it'll do. (I said FOR NOW, guys.)


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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

February 24, 2016, 12:50 pm
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... you can learn from:

Lolita (1962)

Charlotte: Is, um, Madame Humbert, um... 
Humbert: There's no Madame. We are divorced... 
Charlotte: Oh... 
Humbert: Happily divorced. 
Charlotte: When did all this happen? 
Humbert: About a year ago - in Paris. 
Charlotte: Oh, Paris, France, madame... You know, monsieur, 
I really believe that it's only in the Romance Languages 
that one is able to really relate in a mature fashion. 
In fact I remember when the late Mr. Haze and I... 
when we were on our honeymoon abroad, I knew that I'd
never felt married until I'd heard myself addressed as Senora. 
Humbert: So you were in Spain? 
Charlotte: No, Mexico! 
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Back to the Duhamel

February 24, 2016, 2:38 pm
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Have any of you started watching 11.22.63 yet? I watched the first episode and... I'm not totally sold. I think James Franco has maybe forgotten how to act? I know a hundred of you will now chime in with "HE NEVER KNEW HOW TO ACT" but he has been good before, I think... it's just been awhile. And there are some thuddingly bad moments from him here. Anyway my eyeballs did perk up when Josh Duhamel appeared - I have read the Stephen King book on which the series is based and I think he might be good casting? And not only because I look forward to watching him wear those period clothes...

Not only.
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Good Morning, World

February 25, 2016, 7:20 am
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Back in July of last year when the trailer for The Dressmaker dropped we did a post very similar to this one, since the film's scene of half-naked Liam Hemsworth was naturally featured prominently in the first trailer. This is how you sell your movie, one-oh-one. Well now that the film's been released onto blu-ray overseas (still no word on when we're getting it here in the US, somehow) I have access to this scene in its entirety, and...

... clearly we must revisit! This scene is incredibly sexy, and not just because Liam Hemsworth is standing there in nothing but white boxer shorts (okay, that doesn't exactly hurt). But there's real heat between Liam and Kate, they have fine chemistry, and there's real intimacy and humor to the way it plays that's about ten thousand percent hotter than anything Fifty Shades managed.

But then I felt that way about the entire movie (okay yes I saw the entire movie) -- yeah maybe it feels like a script PJ Hogan dusted off from 1994 and somehow got made but in a good way; it's got that small town goofiness and charm and eccentricity. 

And those two are a delight. Anyway it's not a masterpiece but it's a small delight and I'll probably watch it more than once when the mood strikes. And speaking of being in the mood...

... Liam's got me feeling it and then some.
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February 25, 2016, 8:00 am
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Put Your Cox Into It

February 25, 2016, 8:29 am
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Well a new trailer for the second season of Daredevil is here and they're finally giving us what we're after since "what we're after" is not "lots of Jon Bernthal," which is how they've been interpreting our desires up until this time around apparently -- no, what we're after is Charlie Cox With His Clothes Off...

... and sigh of relief, a la GWB we can hoist a 
Mission Accomplished banner up at last.
(I just wish they'd gotten the "hairy chest" memo.) Watch:
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

February 25, 2016, 9:53 am
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Today I'd rather be...

... on the pointy end of 
Tom Hardy's big stick.

Hey maybe you remember those pictures of Tom Hardy buck naked on a set that recently found their way online? Well he was filming Taboo, a new mini-series for the BBC and also FX, and we've got a trailer! Watch:
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Tom Hardy in a loincloth aside (and yes, big ass aside that be) I think this looks fantastic, don't you? The series is from Steven Knight, who previously worked with Tom (quite successfully, I might add) on the movie Locke (that's the one set entirely inside a car with only Hardy on-screen). Knight also wrote Eastern Promises. 

Anyway Taboo is "about an adventurer who returns to Britain from Africa along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father." Curious to see how exoticized they play the "white dude gone savage" stuff, with his tribal tattoos and all that jazz - I hope they are careful! And also I hope at some point he wears the top-hat with the loincloth because that's a new fetish I have discovered just this very second.


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Riding The Train With Jake

February 25, 2016, 10:34 am
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They're really gonna dole these suckers out slow-like -- here are two more pictures from Jake's upcoming movie Demolition (via), coming hot on the heels of that one new picture they released last week. We've still got about six weeks until this movie's out. In case you missed the last trailer, see it here. He is looking quite sharp in this movie with his suits and suspenders, don't ya think?


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Pic of the Day

February 25, 2016, 11:02 am
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It's been so so so very long since I've heard anything about this movie you'll excuse me for having forgotten it was a thing -- that there is a new photo of Edgar Ramirez as the boxer Roberto Duran in the movie Hands of Stone, which Variety says will finally be released this August. We first posted a picture of Edgar in character a full two years ago, and have heard nada since. Duran was a big-time fighter from Panama who fought starting in the late 60s all the way up through just a little over a decade ago; the movie co-stars Robert DeNiro as his coach and... Usher as Sugar Ray Leonard? Oooookay. 

Anyway I keep hoping that Edgar will live up to the promise he showed in Carlos in 2010 but it's been a weak few years - he was fine in Joy but that was Jennifer Lawrence's show. Maybe this will challenge him? Or at least get him to get naked again? Either or.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

February 25, 2016, 11:35 am
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... you can learn from:


Granny: Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple 
and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle. 

A happy 66th birthday to the writer-director Neil Jordan, who's always managed to trot back and forth between serious stuff (a la The Crying Game and Michael Collins) and fairy tale nightmares like this movie and In Dreams and Byzantium. (I profoundly prefer the latter side of his career, obviously.)

Oh and awhile back we did one of our favorite "Ways Not To Die" posts for The Company of Wolves, you should definitely check that one out. It's the textbook definition of "redonkulous."


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Finn Jones Gets Fisted

February 25, 2016, 12:02 pm
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Saucy Twink Finn Jones - aka Ser Loras the gay dude from Game of Thrones - has just been cast as the lead in Netflix's next Marvel superhero show Iron Fist. This follows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and the upcoming Luke Cage, as the fourth quarter of the eventual Defenders show that will supposedly bring them all together. I only half sort of knew the story of Iron Fist so thanks to EW for this:

"In the comics Iron Fist is Daniel Rand, who at age of 9 travels with his family to a lost mystical city called K’un-L’un. After some tragic twists of fate, Rand is adopted by city’s ruler and taught advanced martial arts and the mystical power of the Iron Fist. As an adult, Rand returns to his native New York City and begins a career as a superhero. Some fans have urged Marvel to cast an Asian actor in the lead role, though others countered that picking an Asian actor simply because the hero’s ability is martial arts would be a stereotypical move. "

I think they should have cast an Asian actor just because there are so many hot Asian actors that I'm not seeing often enough, but Finn's perfectly pleasant I s'pose. I mean Kit Harington seems to like him, so that's good enough for me.


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Hold Me Closer, Tiny Enver

February 25, 2016, 12:26 pm
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I didn't intend to write anything about Agent Carter today, but then I stumbled upon (ha, "stumbled upon") this picture of Enver Gjokaj and James D'Arcy wrapped up in each other like all get out and, well, here we be! So in the interest of not just being a pair of Tex Avery eyeballs I'll try to spit out a couple of words -- so, yeah, how great is Agent Carter right now? About as great as ever actually, which is saying a lot - it's easily my favorite Marvel property and its bad ratings are giving me agita. That musical number dream sequence this week was just magic, so what is wrong with you people? Watch this damn show!!!


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Today's Mood

February 25, 2016, 12:52 pm
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I'm Not So In Love With Ya, Honey

February 25, 2016, 1:34 pm
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I'm an episode behind on Vinyl and already I'm not sure I want to keep watching it - when the premiere wasn't boring me it was indulging in straight-white antihero antics that I'm frankly pretty tired of at this point in television's "golden age." (I mean I hated the ending, with Cannavale's character stumbling unscathed out from that building collapse - the show seemed too concerned with his "revelation" to even spend a second on the horror around him, except to make it kind of pretty.) But that said I do know Bobby gets his dick out on this week's episode so... maybe I'll catch up.

On the good side I did love Juno Temple (of course your mileage may vary since I usually always love Juno Temple and I know she's divisive) and the soundtrack's a lot of fun, which is why I'm even posting about it right now (okay Bobby Cannavale's dick is also a reason) -- anyway I guess there's a new Neko Case song on it, either this week or next; a cover of the Anne Murray classic "Danny's Song" of all things!!! WTF. And it's already shown up online - you can listen to it here:
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die

February 25, 2016, 3:00 pm
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Aerobicide (1987)

This movie's also known as Killer Workout, which isn't a bad title at all but the word "AEROBICIDE" is clearly everything human creativity had been building towards so we'll stick with that one. Anyway if you'd ever wondered whether Final Destination 3 was the first movie to fry somebody up in a tanning bed, now you've got your answer.

I'd been wanting to see Aerobicide for a very long time thanks to Stacie Ponder's cheerleading for the film over at Final Girl, but it was only recently given a proper release - very proper, a fancy blu-ray and everything. We are doing some things right.

Because Aerobicide lives up to the hype! It's ten thousand kinds of terrible slash awesome.The murders happen with a gigantic baby-pin! The camera leers at the sweaty lycra so long you want to spray bleach in your eyes! The folks who created the SNL classic skit "Body Fuzion" had CLEARLY seen this movie. But for all its lady-leering it's also somehow terribly...

... homo-erotic for big portions? There are fight scenes between the men in the film that go on FOREVER and involve all kinds of rolling around in the world's tiniest gym shorts.

He spends just a little too long bent over that car, ya know? Anyway I don't want to ruin all of Aerobicide's magic tricks for you - they are best discovered on your own, with a very large alcoholic beverage and perhaps a fistful of the quaaludes that the actors were clearly all downing. In summation I will leave you with this astonishing fifteen seconds of footage that I posted on Instagram the other night (and hit the jump for links to the Previous Ways Not To Die)...
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A video posted by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on

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Previous Ways Not To Die: 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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Good Morning, Torben Liebrecht

February 26, 2016, 6:57 am
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I've been to German-speaking parts of both Switzerland and Italy but I've never actually been to Germany and I think it might be wise for my boyfriend to never ever let me go to Germany because GERMAN MEN, OH MY GOD. As if I needed yet another one to lust after the fine folks over here just this morning have introduced me to Torben Liebrecht, seen here blowing the lid off my heart-valves in a recent mini-series called Morgen Hör Ich Auf, which I think loosely translates to Listen to Morning? Am I off?

(As an aside my boyfriend is a connoisseur of All Things Elvis and we actually have that exact same Elvis bust on our bookshelves, how weird is that?)

Anyway if any readers know anything about it, or about Mr. Liebrecht, give it up! Looking at IMDb I do see he starred in the horror film Deathwatch (which I have seen and is very good and which you can watch for free on Amazon Prime) and he was also on an episode of Homeland this year? Not naked though, I'd remember him if he'd been naked. Anyway hit the jump for a couple more wonderfully, awesomely NSFW shots...







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February 26, 2016, 7:35 am
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I Have Found Jesus

February 26, 2016, 8:17 am
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I may be an atheist but I know when the time is right to get on my knees, and Tom Payne -- who just showed up as the character nicknamed "Jesus" on The Walking Dead this week -- is the right time for worship. Okay his fake beard is silly and now that I've seen the chase sequence that introduced him set to Benny Hill music it's hard to un-see that...

... but still, dude is pretty, pretty, pretty, even under the show's typically abysmal costuming, and the news that the character he's playing is, in the comics at least, gay... well color me enthusiastic. They haven't admitted whether the show character will follow suit, although Payne apparently said in an interview that fans will be happy and I think de-gaying him would make fans the opposite of that so I think we're safe. He needs to make it with Aaron!


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There's Something In Red Mist

February 26, 2016, 9:48 am
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I was just looking at what movies are out this weekend and I saw that John Hillcoat's Triple 9 is out and it reminded me that I've been getting irritable every time I ride the subway lately (which, you know, is every day - I am a pleasure to be around) because of how bad I think the subway posters, which are a variation on the above poster, are. My eyes just pass right over all of that without catching on a single thing; it's generic as generic can be. And the reason why I find that irritating is I know what Kate Winslet looks like in this movie and I don't understand how you don't design your ad campaign around this:

I mean THAT is your ad campaign. How is that image not EVERYWHERE??? Fuck Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Woody Harrelson and Anthony Mackie and Aaron Paul - yes that's an insane cast but you're not utilizing them anyway with those generic military men standing around in red smoke as is! Anyway as I googled for a picture of Kate looking all blown-out and fierce in this film I discovered they did some character posters for the film, and there is a Kate poster:

It could be better, but it's better than what they are using. Seriously though I was looking forward to this movie - John Hillcoat is a... pretty good director (The Proposition is fantastic but Lawless and The Road could've been stronger), and that's a fantastic cast, and KATE - but the ad campaign for this movie's really dampened down my enthusiasm. Anybody gonna go see it this weekend anyway?  I think if I do make it to a theater this weekend (and with the Spirits and the Oscars I might not bother) it will just be to see The Witch a second time.
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