Monday, April 21, 2008

I Am Link

--- Nobody brings the entertaining-crazy like Isabella Rossellini, so this brief Q&A with the star at NYT is amusing in that special way she always is. She's talking about that series of shorts she's doing for The Sundance Channel about the sex lives of insects which involves her wearing bug costumes. Indeed.

--- Mama Cast - No offense to the actress named Nana Visitor (Except, really? That's your name?), whom I know nothing of, but her having been cast as mother to Jason Voorhees (via AICN) in Marcus Nispel's remake doesn't exactly fill me with the enthusiasm that dreaming of Patricia Clarkson in the role did. Nana says Mrs. Voorhees isn't around for very long in Nispel's script though, so I suppose it's for the best.

--- Children In Harm's Way, Part III - Guillermo Del Toro speaks up about an idea for a third in his thematically-related trilogy of little kid's horror movies that began with the modern classics The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth. Not sure where this sits if he jumps into Hobbit-ville any time soon. Anyway, his idea involves grocery shopping and the apocalypse and a little boy named Saturn.

--- "Nobody Wants To Fuck A Penny" - The Film Experience looks at the info Pedro Almodóvar's leaking on his next film, called Broken Embraces and set to star Penny Cruz, which excites me since Volver was the only time I've ever enjoyed Miss Cruz as an actress. I do have to say that his apparent desire, judging by the early wardrobe tests photos, to change her look from the sex-bomb Raimunda was in Volver into a drag queen that was swallowed by a plague of carnivorous rainbows... well, it scares me.

--- The Eyes Of Amity - Last week's Horror Roundtable at The Horror Blog asked us to name something that made us crap our Underoos when we were little.

And finally, two links that do my job for me:

--- SuperCallyFrakkedALiciousExTyrol's AToaster - Okay, that title right there is awesome, if I must toot my own horn. Anyway, there's a terrific review of last Friday's episode of BSG up over here; well worth reading, especially for those of us (i.e. everybody) conflicted about the character of Cally. (via Sean)

--- Title Too Literal - Joe R. posts a brief review at Low Resolution of Forgetting Sarah Marshall that I agree with wholeheartedly, especially the bit about Kristen Bell's character's arc just sort of disappearing at the end. A funny movie, though.
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