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Thanks to BuzzFeed for alerting me to the fact that today is the 39th anniversary of the release of Dario Argento's matserpiece Suspiria! Now I will probably watch it tonight for the gazillionth time. WITCH!
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"Suzy, do you know anything about... witches?"
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Good Morning, World
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Here's a little Ralph Fiennes making horror sexy for the umpteenth time, this go-round as the killer in the film Red Dragon -- this throwback was inspired by Murtada's list at The Film Experience ordering the Oscar-nominated roles in Spielberg films, which (spoiler alert) is topped by Fiennes' terrifying turn in Schindler's List...
... and listen, we weren't the one that sometimes shot Ralph like a dewy-lipped Old Hollywood glamour-puss in that movie, so don't blame us for the disturbingly seductive feelings that Spielberg's camera drew out of us when looking at him there. It's Stevie's fault!
Anyway I want to draw attention to this truth from Murtada's piece:
Anyway I want to draw attention to this truth from Murtada's piece:
"When he lost to the career honor of Jones, everybody thought he’d get many more opportunities to win. Alas 22 years later Fiennes only has one other nomination; for The English Patient(1996). Where is his “overdue” narrative?"
What he said!
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Which is Hotter?
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White Squall (96, C–): Scent of a Shipwreck. Dead Sailors Society. Sea School Ties. Toy Sailors. Eight Male Ingénues in Search of an Auteur.— Nick Davis (@NicksFlickPicks) February 2, 2016
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Anyway Nick's not the type to call out the Twink Factor - he tends to judge films based on something I think he calls "merit" - but me, me I ain't so proud. But I also figured that a straight-forward Twink off would be boring (and that Ryan Phillippe would also probably beat anybody he went up against) so instead we'll toss Daddy into the mix, see what that brings...
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Five Frames From ?
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What movie is this?
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Like The Old Fever, But Hotter
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It's the little things. Here's the trailer:
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This thing hits VOD on February 12th.
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The Boy in 150 Words or Less
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A perfectly serviceable little thriller that I probably won't remember in a few months but which I didn't walk out of angry at - hey, you take what you can get with these kinds of things. The Boy easily could have been a ninety-minute heap of insulting garbage, and it's not! Bully for us! I find Lauren Cohan to be extremely likable; she's one of maybe five people I can still stand on The Walking Dead, and tasked with a load of silliness here she proved that factor's not a fluke. She sells what she needs to sell and you're concerned for her the right amount when the bad stuff starts happening.
As for the ending (there be spoilersafter the jump)...
... early on I'd guessed a couple of outcomes, and one of them was indeed that Brahms, the dead little boy that the doll was a stand-in for, hadn't actually died and was living there in the house behind the walls, moving things around and making it seem as if the doll was doing it, and sure enough. (The movie tried to make us think that the character played by hottie Rupert Evans might be grown-up Brahms, but I never bought that.)
What I didn't expect though was for the Brahms to be a hairy sex beast when he emerged! On IMDb they do a good job of covering up who this dude's playing but the actor is named James Russell and, as if the counter-act the whole "boy" thing of the title, the film positively luxuriates in his chest hair and beard, and it was like a hurricane of pheromones blustering off of the screen. Granted his face is covered with that eerie doll mask, but it still worked. It was a look. I was down. I'll tuck you in, Brahmsy.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Lola (1981)
Lola: Did you love your wife very much?Von Bohm: I don't really know, perhaps. I came back from the war, and told myself: That's the woman I really love, otherwise I wouldn't have married her. But I didn't feel love. It was just... like the memory of love... Then she told me there was someone else, and for the first time since being back, I really felt something. Not love, but pain. I was thankful to my wife for teaching me how to feel again, even if it was pain.
A very happy 66th birthday to Barbara Sukowa today!
Look at this adorable picture of her with Fassbinder:
They look so young and innocent. Aww.
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Miguel Ángel Silvestre One Time
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Gratuitous Jacob Soboroff
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If you happened to tune into the Iowa Caucus coverage on MSNBC last night then like me you probably did a whole "Whoa hey wait a holy rolling minute - who's that adorable correspondent running around the gym down there?"
And then you saw his name is Jacob Soboroff, and then you googled him, and then you spent the rest of the night like I did, with the sounds of Maddow spazzing in the background, falling down the rabbit hole of his Instagram and his Twitter and his personal website and on and on...
Or maybe you're not like me, in which case - good job. Seriously. It's exhausting. Anyway this is Jacob Soboroff and suddenly the primaries seem a little brighter and less intimidating, knowing that his adorable face will be greeting me via MSNBC's coverage. So let's do our best and make him a star! Hit the jump for a few dozen pictures I scooped up...
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Today's Mood
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His Name Was Kato
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Is it weird that the casting I'm most excited about in The People vs OJ Simpson, which starts its ten episode run tonight, is Billy Magnussen as Kato Kaelin? (pic via) I mean this as no offense to Billy but it is such great casting! I hope he kills it. Which, in this context, is maybe not the finest word choice. Whatever.
I've told this story before but the first time I came to New York City was in 1995 to check out NYU and I visited the Planet Hollywood in Times Square because that's what people do on their first trip to the big city and for some reason Kato Kaelin and Charlie Sheen were signing autographs to a teeming mob.
I have a shirt signed by the two of them buried somewhere! Anyway my point is I hope that Ryan Murphy reenacts this scene, and that he's hired somebody awesome to play me. Zac Efron maybe? Jake Gyllenhaal could do it. That's all I am saying.
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Good Morning, World
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This is a couple days overdue but I had more important things - like ruminating upon Ralph Fiennes' sexy creep factor - to do so here we are, Wednesday, otherwise known as Hump Day in some quarters, and we're doing Aaron Tveit. (The last portion of that sentence amuses me.) The above picture was dropped by JJ last week and is from a movie called Stereotypically You, which is premiering in Santa Barbara this weekend at the film festival there. It co-stars Abby Elliot, Chris Elliot, and Kal Penn, and is about a dude having some sort of nervous breakdown that leads to "surreal hallucinations, flashbacks, and sex fantasies." Sure! Anyway that aside Aaron was of course on everybody's lips (heh) this week because of that Grease Live thing he starred in, and if you missed them over on the Tumblr I posted a few terribly vital pictures from it.
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Deidre Chambers, What a... MYSTERY!!!
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I leaned over to my boyfriend and whispered (well I thought I was whispering but he told me later they could've probably heard me five blocks away) 'THAT'S DEIDRE CHAMBERS!!!"
What a coincidence!
For those of you unfortunate folks who have no idea what I'm talking about, Deidre Chambers (played by Gennie Nevinson) is a character -- excuse me, a beauty consultant -- in the 1994 masterpiece Muriel's Wedding, one of my top five favorite movies of all time and quite possibly the movie I have watched more than any other. Deidre is one of my favorite characters in a film rich with incredible creations - I know from Deidre Chambers!
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I AM NOT NUTS I AM RIGHT I SWEAR IT!!!
HOW CAN I FIND THIS OUT???
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ETA the above screenshot (click to embiggen) is from a Muriel's Wedding edition of "Where Are They Now?" on a Toni Collette website which MNPP reader Daniel, my forever hero, dug up, and as you can see it lists Maurice as one of Gennie's credits. I'm not sure of their sourcing but I assume they had one, but either way the mere (dare I say) coincidence of them mentioning Maurice and me being convinced that's her is enough to seal the deal from where I'm standing. HOORAY FOR CLOSURE!!!
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Who Wore It Best?
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DH has pictures of all the brand new hot hot hot Lady Ghost Busters -- see the other two here. I just noticed this movie is out on my birthday, July 15th! Guess I know what I'm doing for my birthday. Anyway they also share a picture of Chris Hemsworth in his role of "Janine Melnitz" and I figured I had to ask...
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Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... experiencing a high with Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Everest has been out on blu-ray for a few weeks now and I haven't gotten around to capping the incredibly brief, incredibly disappointing shirtlessness from Jake. Okay okay -- Jake is shirtless, which is by definition the opposite of "incredibly disappointing." But given the fact that we saw paparazzi shots of Jake naked, bare ass in the breeze, save an eensie taped pouch over his Gyllenhaal Junior, "incredibly disappointing" is nevertheless how it felt seeing the final film and seeing this scene got cut. Heck even the little bit they showed in the trailers was excised! That's some shady business. Anyway Jake Gyllenhaal Shirtless is Jake Gyllenhaal Shirtless so hit the jump for a few more gifs and let's hold out hope that someday somehow that footage surfaces...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Bachelorette (2012)
Gena: What are you doing? Why do you havethe baby out of the garbage bag?Regan: I'm matching the thread color to the dress.Gena: Uh, it's a wedding dress. I think maybe it's white.Katie: Oh, actually, it's ivory.Regan: Actually, it's pearl.Gena: OK. You know what? Knowing stuff like thatdoes not make you guys cool. It makes you...Regan: Amazing?Katie: Gorgeous?Regan: Incredible?Katie: God blessed me with perfect tits,it's only right that people should know that?Gena: I was gonna say it makes you stupid.
I look forward to wishing Isla Fisher a happy birthday every single years as long as she's having birthdays and I am here to wish them, via lines of dialogue she spoke in this movie, for it is heaven, the lot of it. (See last year's right here.) Happy 40, Isla! I hope you just had fun shooting a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Aaron Johnson and Armie Hammer, you lucky so-n-so...
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Great Moments In Movie Shelves #54
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Let's do one more Maurice post since we've got the movie on our mind today (and what a wonderful thing to have on one's mind) and our previous post was only sort of about the movie -- one thing I took note of re-watching the film last night was what a dream world of mine it is that the boys inhabit, represented nowhere more clearly than the endless swaths of bookshelves they find themselves surrounded by. Take for instance the first time that Maurice meets Clive at school...
... sitting on a friend's dormitory floor surrounded by shelves and art and music with that gorgeous vintage Hugh Grant floppy hair and half-smirk among all that deliriously pettable tweed...
Who could possibly resist such a spectacle???
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Nobody but no how!
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Josh Hartnett One Time
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Alternately, Today's Mood.
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Good Morning, World
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Oh Nico Tortorella, I just can't quit you. You're the smack of Insta-studs. In case you missed the thirteen thousand pictures and videos that he and his "good friend" the hair-stylist Kyle Krieger posted while in Utah last week there's now a new video which you can watch right here that's got it all, like them laying in bed together, and them skiing together, and them taking hot tubs together in just some skimpy little speedos...
Like I said, it all.
Hit the jump for a curated taste of said all...
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