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Which is Hotter?

February 26, 2016, 11:16 am
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I was just reading through Nat's final Oscar predictions over at The Film Experience and I realized that the two good narratives for statue-catchers this year cancel each other out -- we can't have both "The Titanic Reunion" and "The Real-World Romance" in the winner's circle. I mean the most likely iteration is NEITHER coming together since it will probably be Leo & Alicia and they have balls-all to do with each other, but it's pleasant enough to pretend the possibilities exist, anyway. (And for the record I'd give the Oscars to the Steve Jobs duo, and then pray they marry each other.)


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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Six Times

February 26, 2016, 12:01 pm
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

February 26, 2016, 12:45 pm
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Leap Year (2010)

Anna: Do you wanna talk about it? 
Declan: Listen, Bob. You're not in America now, 
you're in Ireland. So have a drink and shut up. 

Clearly I am just using this coming Monday being the once-every-four-years occasion of February 29th as an excuse to post a picture or two of Matthew Goode, but...

... can ya blame me? I've actually never seen Leap Year though. And I can't imagine I need to see Leap Year, do I? Like, looking at still photographs of Matthew Goode in it is plenty, right? 

I was hoping I could figure out other movies that center on leap years but if you google "leap year movie" this movie is all you get, for pages and pages and pages, and I didn't care enough to try that hard for god's sake. 

Can y'all name any other movies have a "leap year" in them?
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Penny For Your Pants, Josh Hartnett

February 26, 2016, 1:47 pm
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While we sit around sewing little voodoo dolls to perform magicks rituals with and make the next season of Penny Dreadful get here faster, Josh Hartnett's off lining up a movie gig -- he's going to star in 6 Below, the true story of a hockey player and snowboarder who got stuck in the frozen wilderness for eight days while simultaneously battling drug addiction.

Sounds to me like he will be wearing a lot of clothing? Maybe they should re-work the story and move it to a really hot place? Where he can wear a speedo the whole time? (Or maybe he can be the sort of hockey player that Rob Lowe was in Youngblood?) And instead of "battling drug addiction" how about... he's a sexy bartender? Just make Cocktail 2 is what I am saying, Josh Hartnett.

But back to Penny Dreadful...
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... there's the latest trailer! Actually it's kind of the first trailer, proper, since I think everything before this has been teaser-y and this has lots of actual honest-to-evil footage from what's to come. And man it looks (typically) gorgeous and scary and wonderful. The show returns on May 1st! 

And in other Josh news back in November we posted some very fine pictures of him for the clothing brand Marc O Polo; well a new batch of images from the Bruce Weber shot campaign have been released recently and man oh man he looks (typically) gorgeous. Hit the jump for thirteen more...








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Outer Space Babes

February 26, 2016, 2:11 pm
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Not sure when this actually happened (and I'd like to know so I can rewind time and BE RIGHT THERE) but yesterday Tahmoh Penikett tweeted this picture of his Battlestar Galactica reunion with Michael Trucco, Jamie Bamber, and James Callis! This makes me miss that show so much. Or at least it makes me miss the locker-room scenes of that show so much. What, they couldn't have their reunion at the baths? Selfish.
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Is That An Oscar In Your Pocket

February 26, 2016, 3:14 pm
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The first most important thing happening this weekend is I am going to see a play starring Timothy Olyphant in his underpants. And then somewhere far far far below that, there's the Oscars. I mean I considered trying my hand today at optimism about the whole cynical enterprise and making a list of Happy Oscar Thoughts, but I couldn't even think of five possible winners that I'm passionate enough about to make a list of.

Oh well, have no fear - I will certainly watch them, and I will certainly live-tweet them, because I know the night just wouldn't be the same without my progressively drunker demands for various male movie stars to make out with each other. Follow me here. And have an excellent weekend, people. (Unless your Alejandro González Iñárritu, obviously.)
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Good Morning, World

February 29, 2016, 7:21 am
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Well the Oscars kept me (and Kate, no doubt) up past our bed-times last night, and so I totally over-slept and I'm getting a super-late start this morning. If you have anything you want to say about the show give a comment! I tweeted a bunch, read them here. And we're getting around, stuff to come, just give us a little extra room this A.M. and speak softly, please.
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Five Frames From ?

February 29, 2016, 8:04 am
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Who Wore It Best?

February 29, 2016, 9:57 am
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I recently stumbled upon a copy of Phillippe Halsman's 1959 photography book Jump Book, and I highly recommend it - he took pictures of people, you guessed it, jumping, and there's something weirdly exhilarating about it all, flipping through its pages, watching 'em fly. It isn't just actors, it's scientists and politicians and comedians and all sorts, suspended in the air forever.

Happy Leap Day!
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Jai Courtney Two Times

February 29, 2016, 10:22 am
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

February 29, 2016, 11:46 am
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Petra: You're with someone in a car or in a room and you want to say something, but you're afraid. Or you'd like to be affectionate but again you're afraid. You're afraid of losing points, of being the weaker one. It's a terrible moment when you can no longer go back and start again. 

This is the third Life Lesson I have posted from this movie -- see the previous examples here and here -- which make sense since this movie is pretty much my field guide on How To Live. Anyway it's Margit Carstensen's 76th birthday today so I just wanna say thanks for the all the role modeling, Margit!
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Shut It Down

February 29, 2016, 2:25 pm
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Over-sleeping always throws me off all day long and today's been no different -- I've just been kind of staring at the same spot for the past half an hour hoping I'd get some bearings about me, but it ain't happening. Oh well. Call it a case of the Mondays, if you're the kind of person who'd say such abhorrent things, and let's pray a regular night's rest does me right. Bye!
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Good Morning, World

March 1, 2016, 6:50 am
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Thanks to this site here for a bunch of pictures from Kenneth Lonergan's play Hold On To Me Darling, which stars Timothy Olyphant as a big-time Country singer having a nervous breakdown after the death of his mother. There are several more at that link, and I'd posted a shot similar (but different) to the one above previously here. And if you missed my immediate "just walked out of the show" reaction on Twitter, click here. I likened the sight of Tim in his drawers to nirvana itself, and I stand by that equivocation.

Everyone in the cast of Hold On to Me Darling is very good though, and the play's worth seeing for reasons other than ogling. I wouldn't say it's the strongest material that Lonergan's ever written - it remains difficult to feel much sympathy or find much empathy with its leading character, and we remain at a distance for much of the show. Lonergan papers over that with some very funny observations, but it all feels a little bit broader than I anticipated from a man's whose films have felt so incisive and human and true. But again, the actors are good, very good when given the chance - the two women, Adelaide Clemens and Jenn Lyon, especially. (When they finally share a scene it's the sort of stuff you don't blink during.) And the final scene, which I don't want to spoil, is very moving, thanks to an incredible and unexpected introduction. 


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Five Frames From ?

March 1, 2016, 7:31 am
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

March 1, 2016, 9:56 am
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Peter: "Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage." Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that. I'd rather have written that than flown through Hitler's legs! 

Today would have been the 106th birthday of the actor David Niven, you know, if people lived that long.  (Okay some people do, but I don't envy them. No thanks! That is too many years.) Anyway I bought a copy of one of Nivens' autobiographies a few months back, having heard he was a terrific storyteller (and that he knew everybody and told the tales), but I still haven't cracked it open yet. Have any of you read any of his books? He published several. 

And any fans of this film? It's from the geniuses Powell & Pressburger (the duo behind The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus and Peeping Tom so on) and it's pretty great, if not in my estimation quite as estimable a force as the three I just mentioned. I had previously posted some images from the film, since it's typically-for-them gorgeous to gaze upon.
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Brett Dalton Four Times

March 1, 2016, 11:00 am
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So I've been seeing and hearing rumblings of "goings on" with regards to Agents of SHIELD, about Brett here specifically, but I've fallen so behind with that show I've maybe given up? The last episode I remember seeing was the very good one telling us about Jemma's time on "the other side" but... I kind of don't care anymore? So if anybody wants to spoil it all for me, that'd be fine, is my point. I am curious, but in a detached kinda way. (pics via, thanks Mac)
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March 1, 2016, 12:09 pm
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Idris Is The Dark Tower

March 1, 2016, 12:44 pm
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It is officially official -- Idris Elba is going to star in the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. This was floated back in December and everyone (save racists) agreed it was a wonderful idea, and here we are. There's a pretty long chat with King and writer-director Nikolaj Arcel (he previously made the movie A Royal Affair) over at EW where they dive into all of it - what's taken so long, and where the focus will be (which is an important question given that there have been eight books in the Dark Tower series). Do take note of the fact that I'm actively avoiding mentioning who's playing the other main character in the series -- I am staying positive, dammit.
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Who Wore It Best?

March 1, 2016, 1:23 pm
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Today is the 47th birthday of the Oscar winning Spanish stallion Javier Bardem, who we've had a crush on since we saw his wife sit on his face in a bathtub in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh way back in 1997. Three years after that came his turn as gay poet Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls, and from there the world. (In Spanish "the world" translates to "The Coen Brothers & Penelope Cruz, Perhaps Not In That Order.") Happy birthday to him! Anyway looking back through our archives I came upon a very old picture of Javi in the vintage 90s ensemble of shirtless-under-overalls, and I figured this could make a fun contest...


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Great Moments In Movie Shelves #59

March 1, 2016, 2:54 pm
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There's this great scene in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein -- just to be clear they are all great scenes in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein -- where the prancing Dr. Pretorius (played with expert prance by Ernest Thesiger) shows up and invades Dr. Frankenstein's happy hetero home with the doctor's broad-shouldered secret.

Frankenstein's love Elizabeth has already been scurried off to the other room, lest she get in the boys way. This is between a doctor, another even gayer doctor, and the big beautiful man baby they have created, after all.

Anyway there's so much conspiratorial kneeling in front of each other in this movie, you guys, you have no idea until you start to take notice of such things. (The scene between the Monster and the Old Man in his cottage is basically the '30s version of the pup-tent scene in Brokeback Mountain.) Oh and shelves! Those are some nice shelves, right? If you have to be raped by the corpse you brought back to life via lightning bolt it might as well be in front of some nice shelves, that's what I always say.


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