I Am Link

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--- Got Grit - Looks like the Coen Bros next movie really will be that remake of True Grit. I have never seen the original film, for the record, unless it counts possibly being subjected to it when I was young and my father was always watching John Wayne movies therefore giving me a phobia of all John Wayne movies for the rest of my life. Although I do love The Searchers, like any reasonable film student. Aaaaanyway Variety's telling us Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to star.

--- It Had To Be Snakes - Jarett got to chat with horror legend Robert Englund (the man who made Freddy) and got out of him what scares him, as well as what he's thinking about the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Besides his obvious interest in how his successor Jackie Earle Haley spins the character, he's just like me and super-curious about how Connie Britton will spin the character of Nancy's mother Marge, played so wonderfully (and super duper drunk) by Ronee Blakely in the original film.

--- King of the Monsters - Read what Joe says about Where the Wild Things Are.

--- Remember The Cylons - The DVD for the final (?) bit of Battlestar Galactica we'll ever see (?), called The Plan, is out today (I'll have my copy at home tonight!) and io9 has a chat with its director, a chap named Edward James Olmos.

--- Stranger Woody - Is it weird that I sorta love the title (via) for Woody Allen's new flick? It's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. I don't know why I like it so much. I just do. I tend to like long movie titles. I'm so tired of short one-word ones, ya know? Anyway, it's evocative. Evocative, I tells ya!

--- Vocal Armageddon - If y'all haven't been following Arbogast's "31 Days, 31 Screams" - where he documents a scream from a film per day all month long in October - you should be, it's always a blast. Today he's talking about one that's always haunted me in Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

--- And finally, EW's got a couple of bits about my new-found interest, director Ti West, who made the splendid The House of the Devil. First up they're talking about the fact that it's out in actual theaters this weekend - it's been playing on Video On Demand for a few weeks now - and what it might do box-office-wise. Yy'all should find it and watch it. Do it. And then they direct us to West's new web series called Dead and Lonely, which will be in five-parts, posted one-per-day across this week, over at IFC. Here's yesterday's!

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