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That's Tom laying on his back naked in the snow,
and I sense a shadow... ahem.
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Good Morning, World
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Jean: You were calling me a careerist.
And I was calling you a loser.
Llewyn: Right. Well. ... In my experience,
the world's divided into two kinds of people.
The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people...
Jean: And losers?
I told you guys yesterday that I was thinking about giving the Coens'Inside Llewyn Davis a second chance, and a second chance I did. Give it that is. I re-watched the film last night and I am a big person and I can admit when I have been wrong, and it turns out that I have been wrong about Inside Llewyn Davis. It played much better on take number two then it did the first time around -- funny where it had just seemed dickish before; mournful where it had just seemed wearied and dank. It isn't my new favorite Coens film or anything, but I can dig it.
Movies are a magical thing, folks. When I wrote about Clouds of Sils Mariaearlier this week I noticed a quote from the film that would seem to apply here, so let's do our first ever doubled Life Lesson post. Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
Movies are a magical thing, folks. When I wrote about Clouds of Sils Mariaearlier this week I noticed a quote from the film that would seem to apply here, so let's do our first ever doubled Life Lesson post. Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Valentine: The text is like an object.
It's going to change perspective depending
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Teasing The Wolf
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Thanks to our Aussie mate Glenn for the heads-up on this, the first teaser for the Aussie Wolf Creek spin-off series, which will air some time this year on what I believe is their version of Netflix, called Stan. (I love that name, it's so informal. "Oh me and Stan will be hanging out this weekend. You don't know Stan? Stan's great." Et cetera.) Anyway the series is six episodes and Wolf Creek director (slash silver fox) Greg McLean is behind all of them and they will star Wolf Creek star John Jarratt too, even if you don't see him in that teaser at all. After the wacky turn (entertainingly so) that the second film took I'm curious to see what sort of tone these six hours will go for - it could go either way judging by this footage.
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As for Greg McLean he's also got that horror movie written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn called The Belko Experiment supposedly happening (read about it here), and while looking him up just now I found news of yet another project called Contest, which is based on a best-selling book by Matthew Reilly and which is about, and I quote:
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I am totally down with this - I love movies about people trapped in enclosed spaces full of booby-traps that they must navigate to get out of; that's probably a weird and particular thing to love, but ever since I read The Princess Bride as a little kid and had "The Zoo of Death" imprinted on my brain it's been a fetish. (The one thing that I dislike about the movie version is they cut out "The Zoo of Death.") As for Contest, you add on the LIBRARY FULL OF BOOKSHELVES factor and this is basically my catnip. Gimme gimme gimme! Has anyone read the book? I think I am going to go buy a copy of the book right this second.
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"Contest is a thriller set in the New York Library, where seven contestants must navigate the labyrinth to outwit and outlast unimaginable dangers."
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Quote of the Day
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“Just look at my face. Do these features look like they’re built for romantic comedy? Which is fine because they’re not really my thing. I know many other actors have turned their hand to it later in life, like De Niro, so who knows? Maybe it could happen. But it would feel very alien to me. I don’t think I’m genetically built for a ‘boy meets girl, laughter ensues’, but we’ll see.”
That's Cillian Murphy in a new interview. He's right of course, but he really should go on to say that rom-coms are a half-dead genre because of how routine and close-minded they've become, without enough imagination to cast interesting people over dull ones. I mean how long have I been screaming into the void for my "Udo Kier and Grace Zabriskie meet cute" movie?
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The Glamorous 9/11 Movie We Been Waiting For
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In the wake of his enormous success with Shakespeare in Love I really thought Joseph Fiennes would go somewhere, but I didn't expect that somewhere to be "right off the face of the Earth." Within three years he was doing straight-to-video-ish dreck like Killing Me Softly with Heather Graham (although bless him he was awfully naked in that). He would pop up here (Running With Scissors) and there (American Horror Story - okay clearly Ryan Murphy loves him) but mostly it's been a bit of a disappearing act. (Do you think he offended Gywneth in some way? She is powerful, vengeful.)
Anyway today there is very exciting and strange news regarding the other Mr. Fiennes -- he is going to play... Michael Jackson??? Yes, that Michael Jackson. And you know what, it's actually kind of great casting? Or it could be anyway with the right make-up, for we're talking Michael Jackson in 2001...
Maybe I'm crazy but I can see it. Anyway it will clearly need a lot of make-up (and shaving, constant shaving) to get there. But that aside, everything else about this project screams "YES YES YES" a million times -- it's based on that legendary Vanity Fair article from a few years back that told the tale of how Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando were forced to take a road trip together in the wake of 9/11 when all the flights out of New York were grounded. They were planning on driving all the way to California, but they only made it to Cincinnati.
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To top all of this off, playing Elizabeth Taylor in the tele-film (it's being made for the British TV channel Sky) is Stockard Channing (YES YES YES) and playing Brando is Brian Cox (YES YES YES). Can you imagine? I don't understand why this is only a TV Movie -- they should be spending a hundred million dollars on this thing.
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Original Hipsters
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Back in 2009 it was announced that Eliza Dushku - why I yes I do mean "Faith" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - was producing a movie about the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and that the movie was going to star her brother Nate. Seeing as how seven years have passed and we never saw that movie I think it's safe to assume they hit a snag, and guessing by today's news, that the film is happening and it will starDr. Who star Matt Smith instead, I am guessing the snag was casting. Poor Nate! I wouldn't want to be sitting at the Dushku table this Thanksgiving.
Also probably pissed off is James Franco, who was clearly angling for the gig for awhile, too. Poor James Franco. And adding an extra level of "Hmmmmmm" to the project, Girls star Zosia Mamet is playing Mapplethorpe's great friend, singer Patti Smith, whose recent memoir Just Kids detailing their relationship was a great big success. Hmmmmmm....
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Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... swinging from the rafters with Ryan Reynolds.
With Deadpool out in a few weeks we're seeing a lot of Ryan around (yes including A LOT OF RYAN) and sure enough that's translated into "the cover of one of the men's magazines" -- in this case Men's Health, which has also produced one of the now typical (blessedly so) behind-the-scenes videos of the photo-shoot. So hit the jump for both the video and the excessive (some might use the word "gratuitous") caps that I took of it...
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Nice Entrance, Sebastian Stan
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(That's what she said.) Ahem. We were just wondering whether we'd get this yesterday and here it is - The Bronze has a new trailer out over at BuzzFeed and it gives us a little bit more Sebastian in gym-wear to ogle, but it's still holding off on the "Sex Scene That broke Sundance" stuff, which I guess is a smart card to play close to your chest. Or Sebastian's chest. Whatever. I guess at least we get to see Seb doing push-ups this time!
The movie is out in theaters in March;
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The Coop Scoop
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I've really got to get a handle on Dominic Cooper the schedule for Agent Carter - I totally forgot it was on last night. Tuesdays, Jason! Tuesdays, Tuesdays! Anyway I have not seen last night's episode but I have seen the clip re-introducing Howard Stark the second best possible way to re-introduce any character played by Dominic Cooper, aka half-naked. (The first best possible way to introduce any character played by Dominic Cooper involves the other half being the naked part, obviously.) Anyway nobody ruin anything and in exchange you can hit the jump for a several gifs. Deal? Deal...
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5 Off My Head - Anything But Basic
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It's Rosamund Pike's 37th birthday today which made me realize -- doesn't it seem like it's been super quiet from her since Gone Girl? It's been a year and a half since then and the only thing she's released is some low-rent thriller with Shiloh Fernandez called Return to Sender. That said that might've been done before Gone Girl blew her up, and she does have several things set to come out this year, so all's not lost. I wasn't the biggest fan of Gone Girl and I don't think a revisit will work wonders like it just did for Inside Llewyn Davis since BEN AFFLECK IS LITERALLY THE WORST, but thinking about her in the movie I suddenly felt like making a quick list of five of my favorite Blonde Bitches. So that's what this is!
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), Young Adult
"You're good here, Sandra."
Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close), Dangerous Liaisons
"One does not applaud the tenor
for clearing his throat."
Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen), Carrie
"Oh, Billy. Billy. Oh, Billy. Oh, Billy.
Billy. Oh, Billy. Oh. Oh, Billy.
I hate Carrie White."
Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Mean Girls
"I like invented her."
Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe), Cruel Intentions
"I didn't mean to offend you. I just
picked up on a little bit of that lesbian vibe."
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Good Morning, Teenage Girl
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Now that The Diary of a Teenage Girl is out on blu-ray I was just curious if y'all have gotten the chance to see it yet? It's one of my favorite films of 2015 (here's my review) and I think about it all the time, and no not just because of Naked Alexander Skarsgard. Okay maybe the Naked Alexander Skarsgard helps get the ball rolling but after that it's totally the goodness of the movie Naked Alexander Skarsgard is in, I promise.
It's a shame the film never gained any traction with the Academy but I guess it's way out of their wheelhouse - it should've at least gotten an Adapted nom though, right? The travesty that is everything involving The Big Short up to and including its terrible script is a damn thief - Heller took a tough ass (beautifully so) book by Phoebe Gloeckner and made screen magic with it. Although clearly casting played a big role. It'll be tough to go back and read Phoebe's book again and not see Bel & Alex & Kristen in the roles though. Yes yes, especially the dirty parts involving Alex. And speaking of, getting the the point, hit the jump for I have made you a few more gifs...
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Do Dump or Marry: High Rise In Your Pants
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First things first how hot is that there new poster for High-Rise? This is the second poster that we've posted for this movie (see the first poster that we posted right here) and this tells us that this movie, it's gonna inspire some kick-ass art, it is. I mean just glancing quickly through the imagery in the trailer they released that's clear, too. Visually we can already tell this thing's a boffo eyeball extravaganza. Boffo! For your eyeballs! Extravaganza! Which brings us to...
... an eye-balling of the men-folk in the cast, and how glancing at this behind-the-scenes picture of director Ben Wheatley standing in there alongside Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, and James Purefoy, I realized I needed to force a Do Dump or Marry on y'all. I mean clearly with that most recent nearly nude picture of Tom in this movie still hot on our brains it's not the fairest of fights, but they're all pretty special. I mean look at Luke here, and then look at James here, and then make your decisions about who's getting tossed off the roof, is all I'm saying. Tell us your picks in the comments!
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die
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It is forever hobbit Elijah Wood's 35th birthday today -- doesn't it seem crazy that he's only 35? He's been a movie star for nearly 20 of those 35 years (and even if he wasn't a star at that point I'll always remember his first appearance as the little kid in the 80s cafe in Back to the Future 2) so it makes sense that he feels like such a part of The World Itself that he couldn't possibly still be so young.
Yet young he is. You've still got so much life ahead of you, Elijah Wood! Maybe you can even manage to not be a hobbit someday. I think he's done a good job with his post-Frodo career, but then I am a horror movie fan so of course I do. He's become a genre stalwart! We all thought his creepy role in Sin City was a terrifying outlier but it turns out that's where his heart lives!
Anyway even with all of those horror movies full or murder and mayhem on his resume I still marched right back to Lord of the Rings and poor, dumb Gollum for today's "Way Not To Die." When I looked in our archives and realized this scene hadn't been covered, I gasped, I literally gasped. (It wasn't as gay as that sounds, either.) My guess is the scene seemed spoilery for awhile, but seeing as how you haven't been able to flip past TBS for ten years without this movie being on I think we can set aside such worries now.
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Previous Ways Not To Die: 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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Gratuitous Ricky Whittle
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Okay let's set aside the gratuitousness just for the eensiest of split-seconds though - besides being drop dead perfect looking as a visual object, he is also drop dead perfect for Shadow Moon, right? Gaiman thinks so too, saying in this announcement that his auditions were "remarkable," while Fuller had this to say:
"We searched every continent and country and all the islands in between for our Shadow Moon, and we are lucky to have found Ricky. Fans of the novel will find he has every bit of the heart of the character they fell in love with."
Hooray! I'm sure now that the big dog's been cast we'll be hearing lots more names dropped now - they start shooting this thing in April and if it's true to the source material this thing will probably have a very large cast. I suppose it depends on how much book they cover over the first run of episodes, but still, there are lots of Gods up in there! Speaking of gods...
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... enough talking! Time to get on our knees and... pray? Say thanks, more like it. You know how I mentioned "literally hundreds" of pictures a few sentences ago? Well I gathered up over one hundred of said pictures and I'm posting them here after the jump...
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Good Morning, World
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This is so much gayer than anything I have ever posted.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Design For Living (1933)
Tom: That's one way of meeting the situation.Shipping clerk comes home, finds missus with boarder. Hebreaks dishes. It's pure burlesque. Then there's another way.Intelligent artist returns unexpectedly, finds treacherousfriends, both discuss the pros and consof the situation in grownup dialogue.High-class comedy, enjoyed by everybody.George: There's a third way. I'll kick your teeth outand tear your head off and beat some decency into you!Tom: Cheap melodrama. Very dull.
Today is the 124th anniversary of the birth of the
great director Ernst Lubitch, who made this the very best
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I Am Link
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--- Forget The War - Why would you take a book titled The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katherine Gun And The Secret Plot To Sanction The Iraq Invasion and re-title it as a movie called Official Secrets? SNOOZE. The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War is a terrific title! Anyway the thing is being directed by Justin Chadwick, who directed The Other Boleyn Girl and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, so he knows from SNOOZE. But he has gathered up quite a cast - Natalie Dormer, Paul Bettany, Harrison Ford, Martin Freeman and Anthony Hopkins will star as various real folks in over their heads.
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--- La Barbie - I had my own "white privilege" slap me upside the head the other day when it didn't even occur to me when I posted about Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson to consider the racial implications - I was just thinking about the physical match, which is there. But I get why people were upset! Anyway I had no such problems recognizing the race problem right off the bat with the news that noted-Latino Charlie Hunnam just got cast as a Mexican drug-lord. According to that source the dude he is playing "was also light-skinned and blue-eyed, apparently, and he had the football and cartel-nickname of La Barbie" but still. This is a bit much.
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--- Mama In Law - In my mind I seem to have convinced myself that I like Mama, the 2013 horror flick produced by Guillermo Del Toro, but I think what it is is I just liked it slightly more than my boyfriend, who hated it. I remember thinking it was okay. Anyway there is going to be a sequel because the original film did great business and they just made a really terrific choice on who's directing - Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, the directors who made last year's terrific Hollywood nightmare called Starry Eyes, will take the helm.
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--- That Face - This article amused me -- a site called The Inverse took a look at "The Psychology of Why Mads Mikkelsen Looks So Fucking Evil" by diving into the shapes and contours and individual forms of his glorious and particular visage. The specter of Creepypasta's "The Expressionless" is summoned, and at that point I was rolling on the floor. It's all good though!
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--- Anon Anon - I should probably stop waiting for Andrew Niccol to make a movie as good as his first movie Gattaca (or his second script for The Truman Show) because it probably ain't gonna happen at this point. I did like last year's drone-thriller Good Kill well enough to keep paying attention though, and news on his next thing is positive -- it's called Anon and it's a sci-fi story about a future with no crime and a mystery woman, and it will star Clive Owen. Probably not as the mystery woman, but who knows. Anything's possible.
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--- Make A Scene - Phew, I've got my lunch-time reading all sorted out -- the New York Times spoke to Todd Haynes at length about his visual references for Carol, which he apparently sorts out into photo collages to create a texture and a feel for what he's gunning for. Clearly some enterprising publisher needs to get this shit together and make copies for all of us to have! (thanks Mac)
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--- Mighty Weiner - Nate Parker's ultra-buzzy The Birth of a Nation sold for an enormous sum of money out of Sundance, which is awesome, I can't wait to see it, but it swallowed up the other happy-making Sundance buy which is that Amazon bought Todd Solondz's filmWiener-Dog with Greta Gerwig for "seven figures" and the contract apparently stipulates "a significant theatrical release" which is all great news for Solondz. When I first read Amazon bought it I figured it'd show up on my Prime account next week with no fan-fare or something. I mean I wouldn't mind seeing it that fast but Todd should bank some buck once in awhile.
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--- Mama In Law - In my mind I seem to have convinced myself that I like Mama, the 2013 horror flick produced by Guillermo Del Toro, but I think what it is is I just liked it slightly more than my boyfriend, who hated it. I remember thinking it was okay. Anyway there is going to be a sequel because the original film did great business and they just made a really terrific choice on who's directing - Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, the directors who made last year's terrific Hollywood nightmare called Starry Eyes, will take the helm.
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--- Anon Anon - I should probably stop waiting for Andrew Niccol to make a movie as good as his first movie Gattaca (or his second script for The Truman Show) because it probably ain't gonna happen at this point. I did like last year's drone-thriller Good Kill well enough to keep paying attention though, and news on his next thing is positive -- it's called Anon and it's a sci-fi story about a future with no crime and a mystery woman, and it will star Clive Owen. Probably not as the mystery woman, but who knows. Anything's possible.
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--- Mighty Weiner - Nate Parker's ultra-buzzy The Birth of a Nation sold for an enormous sum of money out of Sundance, which is awesome, I can't wait to see it, but it swallowed up the other happy-making Sundance buy which is that Amazon bought Todd Solondz's filmWiener-Dog with Greta Gerwig for "seven figures" and the contract apparently stipulates "a significant theatrical release" which is all great news for Solondz. When I first read Amazon bought it I figured it'd show up on my Prime account next week with no fan-fare or something. I mean I wouldn't mind seeing it that fast but Todd should bank some buck once in awhile.
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