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With A Son Like Finn
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On Friday I told you about a forthcoming serial killer drama for FOX called Prodigal Son because the actor Michael Sheen, who we like quite a lot, is going to play a serial killer (nicknamed The Surgeon) on it. I tend not to watch these procedurals but Michael Sheen can convince me of many things. Anyway the lead on the show isn't actually Michael -- the lead is Michael's character's son, who uses his knowledge of dear daddy's psychosis to profile killers for the FBI, and it looks like Finn Jones, former Game of Thrones gay and hotly disliked Netflix hero, has nabbed the part (thx Mac). Oh and thing I just noticed -- the show is being directed by the guy who made that Age of Adaline movie with Blake Lively and, more importantly, Michiel Huisman in a towel. Put Michael Sheen in a towel, you cowards! Or Finn too, I suppose.
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Popping Tom Holland's Cherry
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Jake Gyllenhaal's favorite Spider-man Tom Holland -- didja see Jake say he's "super into" him? Uh huh we bet -- has lined up a thing to do with his Spider-man costume off (besides Jake Gyllenhaal). He is going to star in Cherry (with Marvel's favorite directors the Russo Brothers directing), which is the true-life story of an Iraq War veteran who comes home, gets addicted to opioids, and starts robbing banks. Well how much of the book it's based on is fact and how much is fiction I can't quite suss out -- they say it "parallels" author Nico Walker's experience but they're also clear to emphasize it's fictional too. Whatever. We live in a post-truth world. Just tell me a good story and make me forget it all, please. (thx Mac)
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I See You, Jamie Bell
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Yesterday Apocalypse
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Did anybody watch last night's series premiere of
Gregg Araki's Now Apocalypse on Starz?
If so tell me your thoughts so far in the comments!
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Taika 'Nother Little Piece of My Heart, Now Baby
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I noticed this weekend that the posters for Taika Waititi's TV reboot of his vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows have begun popping up in the subways of Manhattan, which makes sense since the thing premieres in less than two weeks on FX. But Taki's cup runneth over -- he's got his Hitler Comedy (yes you read that right) with Scarlett Johansson called Jojo Rabbit coming out sometime this year, and he's an episode of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian filming right now, with Pedro Pascal and Omid Abtahi (one of the gays from American Gods) and, uh, Werner fucking Herzog (!!!) in the cast.
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Pic of the Day
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Lord knows how long ago this photo was taken since it was taken on the set of a film that's already been released in most places, but that there picture of the actor August Diehl hanging out with the Matthias Schoenaerts and the Matthias Schweighöfer (who turns 38 today) on the set of Thomas Vinterberg's submarine drama Kursk is something I clearly gotta have here on my website, however old it might prove to be. Kursk is supposedly getting a US release in June -- we posted the trailer back here. So stay tuned for that! As for Mr. Schoenaerts he's got a new movie out here in the US this Friday called The Mustang (here is that trailer) -- I'll be talking about that more tomorrow! And now, at last, in conclusion... if you feel like giving me an answer for our "Do Dump or Marry" series for the three pictured I'd love to hear your opinions in the comments...
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Good Morning, Gratuitous Félix Maritaud
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Who Wore It Best?
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Yesterday came the rumor that the two men up for the new Invisible Man movie are the statuesque blond fur gods Alexander Skarsgard and Armie Hammer. As you might imagine, to put it uhh mildly, this is news that caught my eye.
Generally I think the best option for such existential quandaries is to let the two men get very very greasy and wrestle it out for our amusement until one man is standing (and the other is kneeling). But until everybody else gets on board with my way of thinking let's just do it this way -- since they want to play invisible let's judge how they've pulled off "see through" in the past...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Wonderfalls (2004)
Jaye: What if we're too late? What if he's already beat her
to death with a bag of oranges for withholding trick money?
Eric: Well, if she had any trick money I don't think
she'd be living in a barrel. I know I wouldn't be.
Jaye: Yes, but maybe she's just a lazy whore. That happens,
right? They can't all have hearts of gold and good work ethics.
Bryan Fuller's Wonderfalls, one of the greatest television series ever put on screen -- and one of the greatest manhandled by its studio tragedies ever taken off that same screen after four episodes that were switched around on FOX's schedule with no notice (yes I am still bitter) -- premiered 15 years ago today. At least FOX was kind enough to release the thirteen finished episodes onto DVD (that doesn't really happen anymore, does it?) so we can cherish that perfect single season, again and again and again and again and on until the DVDs are worn down and we finally throw ourselves off of Niagara Falls in a barrel in despair...
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Great Moments In Movie Staches
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I have definitely not given enough love to
Garrett Hedlund's mustache in Mudbound.
So get over here, Garrett.
And bring that stache with ya.
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Pics of the Day
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Y'all seemed to like the pair of shots of Beau Mirchoff that I shared from this scene yesterday -- well about about these behind the scenes shots via the show's Instagram??? Yeah... no fucking kidding.
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Got to Play Your Harp Until Your Lips Bleed
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king
I'm the last person who'd normally quote Bob Dylan lyrics at anybody, but those lines from his 1983 song "Sweetheart Like You" have been stuck in my head as of late -- you know, with the world and all -- and so perhaps they were right there for the picking already, and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's new film The Mustang, out in theaters on Friday, didn't wholly earn them itself. Still, they reverberated across the movie all the same, and I don't think it's just me looking at Matthias Schoenaerts in a prison uniform and thinking, "What’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?"
No cowboy, it's surely more than that. Schoenaerts plays Roman Coleman, a name which elicits some laughs from his fellow inmates for its Rural Juror like mushiness, and sets him apart from the start. Not that Roman needs help -- he's a strange one, that Roman Coleman, keeping to himself and occasionally bursting out in fits of rage. He's an awful lot like the wild horse that just got captured and brought to the prison, actually -- at the facility where Roman is housed they allow the prisoners to rehabilitate and train these creatures, dragged off the plains, for a quick turnaround buck, you see, and Roman finds himself drawn to one particularly rough steed...
And alright, you're groaning a little bit by now, right? I too was worried that the film was going to be so blunt with its metaphor it would leave hoof-prints trampled up one side and down the other of my chest cavity. Wild Man Finds Wild Horse And Together They Tame. But it's funny, as The Mustang begins to pile up its dusty bowls of American West Iconography -- dirty boots and tattered flags, Cowboys and Indians -- around this strange trapped man, it actually wanders into unexpected territory. It's more The Misfits and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a depressed rumination on a country gone to squalor -- it lives inside a once vast frontier that's found its edges, not so far off after all, boxing itself in. There's chicken wire choking those purple mountains' majesty.
There's a scene around the middle of the film where the prisoners get to take their mustangs for a gallop across the prairies we recognize from old-timey serials onward -- hair wild in the wind, the very picture of Freedom itself. And as the camera pulls back we see everyone surrounded, armed guards on every side. The America of The Mustang is a for-profit-prison stretching in every direction, a Westworld Thunderdome every horizon-long, where we have become the mechanical bulls, bucking like broken robots. Nowhere's as commodified as a strip-mall now, and we're all shoplifters every time we dare to breathe.
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For Skarsgård's Eyes Only
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Well, I warned you. I told you yesterday that I'm off this week after today, and I am keeping my promise slash threat. I'm gone until Monday! Here to keep you company are a couple pictures of Alexander Skarsgård from 2016 that I'm pretty sure I've posted before, but what -- you'd rather look at him with the shaved head and prosthetic gut that he's sporting in The Hummingbird Project, his new movie out in theaters on Friday? You can watch the trailer for that here, by the way -- I haven't had a chance to watch my screener yet but I plan to on my travels tomorrow so perhaps I'll share thoughts on it upon my return. Ooh boy, something to look forward to!
Anyway if you're in a city where they're playing there are two great films out on Friday -- there's The Mustang with Matthias Schoenaerts, which I literally, literally, just reviewed. S'good. And then there's the fabulous gay giallo Knife + Heart, which I reviewed a few months ago, and which I heartily (ho ho ho) recommend. So go watch a movie goddammit. They're good for your ass. (pics via)
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Good Morning, World
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Kind of embarrassed and ashamed that the tune I have stuck in my head right now as I proclaim, "Guess who's back!" is Eminem's song "Without Me" but then that's the appropriate sort of fey butch-ery to go with images of Garrett Hedlund's "tough guy" performance in Triple Frontier so I guess I'm on point after all. Does anybody else -- if you've watched the movie by now, that is -- feel like him and Charlie Hunnam should've traded roles? I mean it's a draw on which one of the two I more want to see playing a cage-fighter...
... but I think Charlie might've been a tad more convincing as one. (They always could have wrestled half-naked in the surf for it...) Of course Garrett wasn't supposed to be a successful one, so perhaps that feeling of it all being a little bit off was the point? Don't mind me, I'm still thinking through my thoughts about the film and probably should be barfing them out before my coffee on my first day back after several days off. Perhaps if I'm inspired I'll write more once I'm truly coherent... ha. Ha ha. Hahaha. Let's nobody hold their breaths on that one.
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Timmy's Ready For His Check-up
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Another day, another awesome addition to Denis Villenueve's Dune re-do -- this time around it's Chang Chen (who you should recognize from several things but who you definitely recognize from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who's probably going to play the role of Dr. Yeuh, the Atreides family physician. Meaning he's going to be giving Timmy check-ups, cough cough... This role was memorably played by Dean Stockwell in David Lynch's film version. Oh man... that was yellow-face wasn't it? Well phew, glad they're not going that route then. See more of Chang here. And in related news The Playlist is reporting the film has officially begun filming as of today!
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In Memory of You
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This week's banner is marking an especially special occasion! Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of our beloved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which hit theaters on March 18th 2004 and immediately became one of our forever favorites. We've watched it dozens of times since then, and our affection for the twisty romance between Joel and Clementine only deepens with age. Click on over to The Film Experience where we're zooming in on a pair of smaller but no less vital performances in the movie.
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Which is Hotter?
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Normally that question would be a great big fat no contest but if you look closely they did some weird ass photoshop to Brad Pitt's face there on the first poster for Quentin Tarantino's new film (I hear there's a trailer coming very soon!) and I think... I can't believe I am saying this... that Leo might actually look better? This world is all upside down!
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