I Am Link

--- There She Is - Well... it's for real, cuz there she is on the poster (via STYD): Joan Allen really is in Death Race, Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the 70's Stallone B-movie. Let's hope, in the realm of PWSA movies, that this is more Resident Evil or Event Horizon than Alien Vs. Predator or Mortal Kombat. As for Joan... she'll be great, she always is. I just... so freaking weird.

--- Double-X'd - Yahoo has a pair of clips up from The X-Files: I Want To Believe... I ain't watching them, I want to go in fresh as I can, but y'all feel free.

--- Quote of the Day - Today AICN posted a letter from Steven Spielberg on the death of Stan Winston; he's the one I was waiting to hear something from, Jurassic-freak that I am. Here's a bit:

"The dinosaurs he and his shop designed, built, and made real, were natural wonders that seem to be in short supply these days. Like the dinosaurs of the Jurassic period succumbing to extinction, they have been replaced by digital wonders that are actualized months after cast and crew have gone home or onto other pictures.

It’s so much harder getting performances from actors when the principal nemeses are two grips holding 15-foot poles with Day Glo tape at different intervals. Joey Mazzello and Ariana Richards were crazy scared on JURASSIC PARK when Stan’s T-Rex lowered his softball-sized eye right into the window of their Ford Explorer to scope them out. These moments were multiplied and divided amongst the cast, who had to act with a life-sized Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, Dilophosaurus, and two Velociraptors, that could even fog up a window with one powerful snort.

This was Stan’s reality. This was Stan’s art. The next time an actor has to act scared when he or she only has a wooden T-Bar to track, they will ask, along with the rest of us, “Hey, where’s Stan Winston?”"

--- Lust, Bleached - Stale Popcorn decided to see what Rodrigo Pietro's beautiful cinematography for Ang Lee's Lust, Caution would look like in black-and-white, and the results are lovely.

--- That Man Of Many Faces - Stacie Ponder ruminates on the mad skillz of master-of-horror Lon Chaney over at AMC.

--- And finally, I don't really get where this came from, but BD found a video at YouTube of a car-crash stunt being filmed for Final Destination 4. It's not close enough to be considered spoilery really - it's just a car flipping over. Which, well... that's cool enough in its own right for me to post! It's just a bonus that it's for my favorite film franchise...

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