I Am Link

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--- Unto Outer - Blomkamp and Copely sound like the name of some quirky cop duo. They're the Tango & Cash of South Africa! And they're reuniting, after the very good but not quite as good as it got sold to be District 9, to make another science-fiction politics movie, this one set on a distant planet of sort. It'll be called Elysium. And Sharlto will undoubtedly be cute, and sort of Spike-Jonze-ish.

--- Old Ones - Guillermo Del Toro thinks he might be able to start filming At the Mountains of Madness by June of 2011, and he's getting lots of feedback from producer James Cameron.

--- Dead Space - Meanwhile the Alien prequels are being delayed because Ridley Scott wants to spend approximately fifty billion dollars on them, give or take. These are gonna fall apart, aren't they?

--- Strictly Baz - Luhrmann talked to PopWrap about being the gayest straight director around.

--- Best Supporting Boo - This article about the Oscars and the horror genre at Cinematical makes some good points, especially about how desperate some critics seem to label something like Silence of the Lambs as anything but horror. It's a psychological thriller! No, fuck you, it has a serial killer skinning girls to wear them as a suit, it has a girl in a pit and a decapitated head in a jar and a cannibal biting off a chunk of someone's face. And those are just the surface things. It's a fucking horror movie. All that said I don't know if I'm one hundred percent on board with calling 127 Hours a horror film. It does want to horrify you and show you horrific things but... I don't know. I'll have to think on it. But Black Swan on the other hand is totally a horror movie.

--- Duck n' Weave - Nat's review of his favorite things about David O. Russell's The Fighter has finally managed to make me excited a bout a movie that's looked more and more generic with each trailer. And I'm totally on board with Christian Bale finally getting an Oscar even before seeing the film even with his dickish off-screen behavior. Patrick Bateman needs an Oscar, y'all.

--- Oh Boy A New Boy - Not sure I get the Jackson Rathbone thing fully but then I've never seen him swoon and swoop around in the Twilight movies, but far be it from me not to encourage Joe's posting of gratuitousness when the fancy strike him. Plus bonus Aaron Johnson and Tom Hrdy to boot!

--- Papa Parker - Campbell Scott is playing Peter Parker's father in the Spider-Man reboot. We've never seen his parents on film before and I guess they've hardly been explored in the comics - Peter's always with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben (who are played by Martin Sheen and Sally Field here).

--- And finally, here's the new trailer for Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street (via). If I just keep whispering his name and his previous films to myself this all seems much more promising then it does whenever I see the cast.

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