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And that's just a selection -- there are
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This is What the Fest, That's What
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Christian Bale Four Times
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You guys... it's been so long since somebody reminded me that Christian Bale is an attractive human being that I almost don't know how to react to these pictures! (via)
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Good Morning, World
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Coming Soon to a Tribeca Near You
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As mentioned in passing yesterday I have now delivered unto you a list of some just-announced movies playing at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019 that immediately caught my eye -- only thing is you have to click over to The Film Experience to read it. One click! It's easy! And yes one of the movies stars our favorite Dunkirk twink Fionn Whitehead -- I'm not just posting a picture of him because, you know, because. Not that "because" isn't enough! Anyway Tribeca has got some super stuff it looks like -- I barely made a dent in all I wanna see -- so click on over and check it out, yo.
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Five Frames From ?
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Lady Sarah: Abigail has done this. She does not love you.
Queen Anne: Because how could anyone?
She wants nothing from me. Unlike you.
Lady Sarah: She wants nothing from you.
And yet somehow she is a lady. With 2000 a year,
and Harley sits on your knee most nights.
Queen Anne: I wish you could love me as she does!
Lady Sarah: You wish me to lie to you?
"Oh you look like an angel fallen from heaven, your majesty."
No. Sometimes, you look like a badger.
And you can rely on me to tell you.
Queen Anne: Why?
Lady Sarah: Because I will not lie! That is love!
Man, this bit of dialogue kills me. Never let anybody tell you that there isn't a great big beating heart of hurt and affection strapped beneath the bejeweled vajuju of this perfect movie. And Rachel Weisz, who's celebrating her 49th birthday today, is a big part of why. I hope that Yorgos casts her in everything he does because nobody hits his notes like she can -- nobody else has got the voice to turn his strange phrases into this liquid honey dreamily dripping down our ears. Blessings to her this happy day!
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Pretty, Witty, and Canet
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Non-Fiction is hitting theaters on May 3rd.
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I Wanna Run To Dom
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Don’t worry everybody, everything is better now — I finally started FLEABAG after ages of meaning to and I’m crying tears of laughter just five minutes in pic.twitter.com/4TSsYg6xw1— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 24, 2019
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(Sidenote: hurray for news that the second season is coming on May 17th!) I'm sad I'm not seeing PWB doing the show live on stage here in NYC right now, actually, but I am a poor person. Anyway everything is coming up Phoebe right now -- besides the second season of Killing Eveshe has just announced yet another show called Run (thx Mac) and it will star Merritt Wever alongside our favorite working ginger Domhnall Gleeson (the "working" was added to avoid making Michael Fassbender sad faced). Run is described thusly:
"Run centers on Ruby (Wever), a woman living a humdrum existence who one day gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her life to take a journey with her oldest flame (Gleeson).".
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die
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It seems somewhat likely to me that the majority of you have never seen PJ Hogan's 2002 comedy Unconditional Love, which stars Kathy Bates as a heartbroken American lady and Rupert Everett as the lover of a dead singer she liked. (It's complicated.) Anyway neither of those two are much featured in this sequence here -- this climactic showdown involves Meredith Eaton as Kathy's friend and Peter Sarsgaard (!!!) as an evil window-washer slash stalker...?
Honestly I have seen this film but I barely remember any of this. But it's Peter Sarsgaard's birthday today and this scene is extremely silly and insanely this very strange movie was PJ Hogan's follow-up to My Best Friend's Wedding and since there aren't many death scenes in PJ films... why not? Hit the jump for the rest...
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Unconditional Love (2002)
All of this movie is posted to YouTube by the way, if you would like to find out what the hell all this is about -- don't look to me for explanations because I don't have them. Like I said above this movie is a goddamned haze and even re-watching this sequence I'm at a loss. But happy birthday to Peter Sarsgaard anyway!
Previous Ways Not To Die: Disarmed & Dangerous -- Ladies Who Lunched -- Tasting the Black Sperm of Vengeance -- Chucky's First Victim -- Smoking Kills -- Conk Goes The Boyfriend -- No You're The Puppet -- Killer Looks -- Dumb Blonde in a Box -- Dinner For Two -- Grab the Bull By the Horns -- Shoot Me Jonathan Tucker -- Dressed Down -- Killin' Nazis -- Keep Your Eyes on the Pies -- Sleep Tight -- How Much is the Peyton Out the Window -- It Takes Guts -- Buns Up -- Body Snatcher Bullseye -- Kibbles & Bits -- What's In The Basket -- A Bad Case of Bed Head -- The Last Airbender -- Loose Hips Sink Dips --Bunny Oblivion -- Railroaded -- Man vs Harpoon -- Beam Me Down -- Touchdown to Terror -- Lucy Loses Her Head -- 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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Ben Barnes Three Times
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This shoot is a 2015 shoot of Ben that I just realized I've never posted, and that I should post -- there's a brand new shoot of him right here though, if you need a fresher meat. (I like this shoot better though.)
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I Think They Got My Number
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Good Morning, Billy
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Well this one will certainly wake us up and send us into the weekend with a "smile" upon our "faces" I think -- our favorite new TV writer Tom Rob Smith (he is the man behind Ben Whishaw's London Spy as well as The Assassination of Gianni Versace) has a show airing on the BBC right now that is called MotherFatherSon and which stars Dunkirk twink and MNPP fave Billy Howle...
... (I suppose at some point I'm going to have to stop calling these thirtysomethings "twinks" but as a brand it still makes me laugh so that time's not yet) as a big deal newspaper dude who's the son of a real big important dude (played by Richard Gere). Anyway there've been all these headlines in the UK papers in the past 24 hours about the show having a "chilling" and "cuckoo" sex scene which yeah, sure, it's those things, but it's also just a long slow build to Billy Howle stripping naked and standing there proudly for us, too. Don't believe me? Hit the jump, obviously...
I very much want to see this show.
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Five Frames From ?
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Disobedience (2017)
Rav Krushka: In the beginning, Hashem made three types of creatures, the angels, the beasts, and the human beings. The angels, He made from His pure word. The angels have no will to do evil. They cannot deviate for one moment from His purpose. The beasts have only their instincts to guide them. They, too, follow the commands of their maker. The Torah states that Hashem spent almost six whole days of creation fashioning these creatures. Then, just before sunset, He took a small quantity of earth and from it He fashioned man and woman. An afterthought? Or His crowning achievement? So, what is this thing? Man? Woman? It is a being with the power to disobey. Alone among all the creatures we have free will. We hang suspended between the clarity of the angels and the desires of the beasts. Hashem gave us choice, which is both a privilege and a burden. We must then choose the tangled life we live.
These are the opening lines of Sebastián Lelio's great film Disobedience, which we called our 5th favorite movie of 2018 -- if you're keeping track (and who wouldn't be) that marks three films in a row from Lelio that've placed in my Top 10s of their respective years, what with A Fantastic Womanmaking #9 in 2017 and Gloriamaking #8 in 2014. Needless to say Lelio has immediately become one of my most beloved auteurs, so the realization that it's his 45th birthday today -- and on the day he has a brand new movie hitting movie theaters, no less! -- means we must mark the occasion.
So like I said those are the opening lines of the film, spoken by a man who will die a moment later and set the film's plot in motion -- he is Ronit (Rachel Weisz)'s father and Dovid (Alessandro Nivola)'s teacher, and both characters will come to reckon with the Rav's words over the course of the film. Dovid especially, since he was there to hear them, and feels that this lesson about "free will" holds the key to the tangled life he will live. The entirety of the film's laid out right there in its opening moments, and we'll close the circle by film's end when Dovid will stand in that same place, with his choice laid in front of him.
Lelio often deals with these moments where clouds break and sunlight casts itself down on a single path, a perfect blazing moment of realization that burns off the fog. His characters wander, confused and lost, until they aren't -- my favorite means he uses is pop music, which always gets a moment to shine in his movies; the whole of Gloria and its remake with Julianne Moore are built as a lead-up to theirs (I'll say more about that when I review the latter later today) but I think Disobedience's is my favorite -- how does one even begin to think one can get away with using The Cure's "Love Song" as their movie-couple's primary love song? That is an act of insane hubris. It is obvious as a heart-shaped sledgehammer.
And yet isn't love, or can't it be, that bolt of perfect light out of the blue? The most obvious thing -- the clearest vision. The right song at the right moment, when suddenly our lives don't feel in our hands anymore but out of our control, being guided by a force that's blunt and bigger than us -- Love and Truth and all the words that the poets capitalize. Lelio's films time and time again are about watching his characters join their Free Will hand in hand with Fate -- when the course of our lives slip into place, those two things side by side, running, dancing, bounding ahead together.
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I Am Link
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--- No Really Now - As I've been previewing for weeks now (months, actually) Gregg Araki's giddy gay day-dream for Starz called Now Apocalypse is premiering this very weekend, on Sunday night. I recommend you watch it, I have found the episodes I've seen so far bonkers sexy fun. Anyway there is a very good piece on Araki, that chats with the man himself, over at The Ringer -- they look back at his entire career and how it's all been trash-compacted-up (that is meant as a compliment) into this show, which touches on everything he's stood for since he started the 90s.
--- The Sheen Is Off - It's a big year for our boy Michael Sheen -- Neil Gaiman's Good Omens premieres on Amazon in May, which has him playing the sissy angel Aziraphale. But he's getting his evil on this year too -- he's just signed on to play a serial killer on a FOX drama called Prodigal Son. Dubbed "The Surgeon"(that sounds promisingly gross) he's the father of the lead character, a criminal psychologist who learned how killers think from dear ol' dad.
--- Big Horror - Scream writer Kevin Williamson is teaming up with Hostel director Eli Roth for an adaptation of the book The River at Night, which is giving me some Descent-vibes description-wise -- a girl who's recovering from the death of her brother goes on a wilderness rafting trip with some girlfriends to get her mind off things and, well, things don't go as planned. Okay they don't mention cave monsters so maybe it's more like Deliverance than The Descent.
--- Smile Jacky Boy - It seems like a good idea to me for Jack O'Connell to do something a bit lighter, movie-wise -- I feel like he's always grimacing and grunting (sexily, but still) whenever I see him on-screen. So I look forward to this sci-fi romance called Little Fishthat he's just signed on for, which'll have him living in a world where memory is running out, opposite Bates Motel and Ready Player One actress Olivia Cooke.
--- Squad Member - I remain agnostic on there being a Suicide Squad sequel since the first movie was so so so very lousy even with such a mostly good cast, but the cast just got a little more interesting to me now that Will Smith has left the project and Idris Elba has been brought in to replace him as the super-shooter Deadshot. Will Smith wasn't even really that bad in the first film, to be honest - he certainly wasn't one of its biggest problems, anyway - but I still prefer looking at Idris on all counts. Him and Jai Courtney palling around? Yes please. (thx Mac)
--- And Finally hey remember when I posted that video of Alessandro Nivola doing some shirtless karate training on his Instagram? That was for a movie called The Art of Self-Defense that has him playing the "charismatic and mysterious Sensei" (according to IMDb anyway) to Jesse Eisenberg, who's looking to learn how to defend himself. Well the film is about to play South By Southwest next week (before it hits theaters in June) and the folks at BirthMoviesDeath have got the first teaser trailer -- check it out here. And below I giffed what is naturally my favorite moment...
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Jude Law Two Times
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Those are clearly older photographs of Jude (any guesses at what point in his career these are from?) but they're ones that I've somehow never seen before in my twenty year long career of staring at Jude Law pictures -- that's an actual entry on my resume, by the way. I am very very good at staring at Jude Law pictures. Hire me anytime! Anyway from what I hear we should get renewed interest in these skills thanks to Captain Marvel this weekend...
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a thing we are not talking about enough in our #CaptainMarvel reviews is that Jude Law looks really really good in it pic.twitter.com/gtBeBBQDsG— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) March 5, 2019
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Even If Nobody Else Sings Along
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The "Bell" in the title Gloria Bellmight seem like an executive decision made to simply differentiate this remake from its original, director Sebastian Lelio's much marveled at and loved 2014 film Gloria. That Gloria already had a Gloria problem after all, since I remember at the time wondering if it was a re-do of John Cassavetes' 1980 Gena Rowlands film... a film that had already been remade, to little marvel, with Sharon Stone. So many Glorias!
But upon watching the film the "Bell" of Lelio's Gloria Bell strikes me as more than just a choice to calm down our IMDb searches. The "Bell" says from the top down this movie is about a different person -- a different, fantastic woman -- and that seems to be the ethos that Lelio and his star Julianne Moore took in re-crafting this movie from its Chilean origins and from original actress Paulina García's beloved interpretation of the character. Gloria Bell is not Gloria.
That is to say that Julianne Moore's Gloria Bell feels like a person I hadn't met yet, and the one hundred minutes I spent getting to know this person feel as revelatory and unique, as investigative and curious, as it did getting to know García's person. In place of a bastardized retelling then what we get is one hundred minutes watching Julianne Moore click her own emotional beats into place -- when a plot hinges so totally on character, like both of these films do, then the action scenes, the car chases and the sky-dives, the ground-quaking apocalypses, they manifest themselves in a head tilt; a semi-smile. What Julianne Moore does with Gloria and Gloria's arc, in the hands of an wisely open interpretation like this, becomes its entire own beast.
So in describing the story of Gloria Bell everything might sound similar -- a middle-aged woman who loves to dance meets a middle-aged man who keeps on being a disappointment until she finally realizes that hey, she's the title of her own song dammit -- but Lelio and Moore manage to build new music from played notes. They know that there are more instruments to play, different crescendos to approach, and if that every single body shakes and shimmies to its own kind of music, its own special song. Gloria Bell shimmies and it glows, gorgeously one of a kind.
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Make Robert Pattinson James Bond, You Cowards
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This wasn't my idea, it was the boyfriend's last night
while watching the trailer for High Life,
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Make Like Chuck
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Well that is that, another week of our lives over and dunzo. Personally this weekend I'll be taking in some Captain Marvel, as well as one of those Charles Farrell movies I told you are playing at MoMA this month -- if y'all see anything good feel free to go and tell me about it in the comments. Bye!
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Good Morning, World
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I am running late late late this morning so here's a quick Rock-n-dash -- Rock Hudson, that is. I wonder if he called his time with his tricks that though? Hmm, something to ponder. Oh and as long as we're talking quickies a note about this week -- I'm heading home to visit the fam on Wednesday, so we're only blathering our bupkis today and tomorrow this week. So enjoy it while ya got it!
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