I Am Link

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--- Super Grouper - Of all the things in the world for me not to go nuts about and rush to watch it seems insane that the teaser for The Avengers, which is online now, would fall amongst them. Yet I haven't watched it yet. I am losing my mind! Oh well. I lose a little more every day. Have you watched it yet? or perhaps you saw it attached to Captain America? My screening didn't have it, the bastards. Anyway yadda yadda it is there to view if you're so inclined. io9 also took some screencaps, saving me the effort. Obviously I'm just a big fat ball of sloth today. But look at Hemsworth's bicep there - is he even bigger? He looks enormous, good grief.

--- Live Longer Than Prosper - It is straight up ridiculous that they haven't even finished a script for a second Star Trek movie, ain't it? There's taking your time to come up with a good idea and then there's just being lazy. LAZY! I know lazy, after all. AICN has a little word on where things are right now and it's not gonna be until at least Summer of 2013 they're guessing. Quinto needs the work, JJ!

--- Baby Mice - If you've noted the Donnie Darko banner this week with a smile - it brings me one every time I load the page - then you'll want to note this as well - there's gonna be a Richard Kelly blogathon! Hosted by Jaime at Exodus 8:2 it'll go from August 15th through the 21st! I was just thinking about Kelly the other day and wondering when we'd get more news on what he's up to - he's supposedly working on a "more straight-forward" thriller called Corpus Christi (yeah, The Box was supposed to be more straight-forward) but I haven't heard anything for awhile. Anyway there's loads to cull from his filmography for a post for this blogathon so it should be good stuff!

--- Call Him Tarry - Terry Gilliam is working on an adaptation of Paul Auster's book Mr. Vertigo. I have never read this book, but I like to hear that Terry Gilliam is working on something. Maybe he'll even get to turn his ideas into a movie for once! Imagine that.

--- Man On Milo - Via BD comes that delightfully homoerotic shot of Milo Ventimiglia hovering at the backside of another attractive looking dude in Xavier Gens' next horror flick called The Divide. Gens made his name off of Frontier(s), which rode the French horror bloodbath wave a couple years back. Anyway sweat and tank-tops and evil thoughts in close proximity, I'm there.

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Gratuitous Rob Kazinsky

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Our Brit brethren probably know Mr. Kazinsky from a hole in the ground, unlike me who only became aware of him this morning when I saw he'd been cast in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim (as has Willem Dafoe!) fighting giant monsters and robots opposite Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba - Kazinsky is straight outta Brighton and was on EastEnders for awhile. Recently he got cast in The Hobbit as one of the thirteen hundred dwarfs, but had to back out for ominous sounding "medical reasons." Hopefully he's alright - must be, since he's signed on for Pacific Rim now. The first thing I stumbled upon when looking him up was this:

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Obviously it snowballed from there. Pacific Rim is just gonna be bursting with eye candy! Hit the jump to see a dozen or so more pictures of Rob and his sexy little furry ginger self.

Happy 38, Stephen Dorff

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Good Morning, Tease

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Morning pictures are piling up! I'd already planned to post the pictures I posted of furry Mads yesterday so these pictures of Eddie lounging around had to wait until today. These pictures make me mad anyway, they're way too teasingly covered up.

Move your damn hands, man! There are a lot more at JJ but they're all the same, and not a hint of his ass anywhere to be seen. When I ask for Eddie Cibiran I've got one thing on my mind, people! God, it's not rocket science. There's a behind-the-scenes video at Towleroad as well if you wanna see him in motion.

Good Headache

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A couple of months ago a friend turned me on to a new comic called Headache. He knew how to sell me on it - he said it was by a Pushing Daisies writer and shared some ass-kicking DNA with Buffy. Indeed it does - here's how Kickstart's website sells it:

"Sarah is an 18-year-old girl who also happens to be the Greek Goddess, Athena. She must embrace her destiny and take on her own family, the gods, in order to stop them from destroying mankind."

It's a terrific read - if you like Joss Whedon this'll very much be your bag - and now I want more. More! You can buy it over here, or via the link above. But my friend wasn't done there - he got to chat with Headache's writer Lisa Joy recently and was kind enough to share said chat with us exclusively.

Like I said up top Joy was a writer on Pushing Daisies, and now she writes and produces Burn Notice. She's married to Jonathan "brother of Christopher" Nolan, who famously wrote the short story Memento was based on (not to mention something called The Dark Knight). Headache is Joy's first foray into comics but we doubt it'll be our last. At least I hope not - I want more Headaches!

What’s the one thing you’d tell someone who think comics aren’t cool?

Lisa Joy: BAM! POW! SHAZAM! How ya like 'em now f@ck$rs!

Growing up, Marvel or DC?

Joy: Neither. I'm a late bloomer. Didn't have my comic book awakening until my mid-20s.

Which superhero is the biggest douchebag?

Joy: The Comedian. No means no, douchebag.

In an all-companies crossover, can you assemble your ultimate five-hero team?

Joy: Catwoman, Buffy, Jean Grey, She-Hulk, and my gal Sarah Pallas (aka Athena). They'd kick ass and get along like a house on fire. And once a month there'd be peace on earth - bad guys would know better than to mess with super women with synced up cycles.

Who’s got the stupidest costume of any hero or villain?

Joy: For women, Wonder Woman. Anyone who's ever rocked a bustier knows they're asphyxiating torture devices. And nip slips would be a real problem when fighting crime.

For men, Ant-Man - He has a helmet that controls ants. 'Nuf said.

Have you ever had a story or character rejected by an editor? What/who was it?

Joy: Right now, I'm batting 1,000. But "Headache" was my virgin attempt. So there's plenty of time to fail.

Which are the best and worst comicbook movie adaptations?

Joy: For best - "Dark Knight" and not just because I'm hitched to the writer. For worst - whaddya take me for - someone who never wants to work in this town again?

What's the project you're most excited about right now?

Joy: My USA pilot "Mind Fields" and some very cool stuff in the works for "Headache".

What would be your dream project to work on?

Joy: Ant-Man. The musical.

What’s been your strangest Comic Con/convention experience?

Joy: Looking out over a sea of cylons, caped crusaders, and storm troopers and realizing - I'm home!

If you were going to do Cosplay, who would you dress up as?

Joy: Wonder Woman with an Ant-Man helmet.

What do you read for fun?

Joy: Lots of explosives and ballistics research for "Burn Notice" which probably has me on a government watch list.

Who is your favorite writer?

Joy: The one I married.

What do you do for fun?

Joy: Chew Nicorette and kick ass. But I'm almost out of Nicorette.

(interview by Savas Abadsidis; photo credit: John Chapple)

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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Mean Girls (2004)

Regina George (Rachel McAdams): Let me tell you something about Janis Ian. We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It's so embarrassing. I don't even... Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first boyfriend Kyle who was totally gorgeous but then he moved to Indiana, and Janis was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would blow her off to hang out with Kyle, she'd be like, "Why didn't you call me back?" And I'd be like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?" So then, for my birthday party, which was an all-girls pool party, I was like, "Janis, I can't invite you, because I think you're lesbian." I mean I couldn't have a lesbian at my party. There were gonna be girls there in their bathing suits. I mean, right? She was a LESBIAN. So then her mom called my mom and started yelling at her, it was so retarded. And then she dropped out of school because no one would talk to her, and she came back in the fall for high school, all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she's on crack.

Jock Bomer Bonanza

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Alright so this gallery of pictures of Matthew Bomer at some videogame endorsement celebrity football game thing has put several thoughts onto my mind. 

First off, this picture below is screaming for a caption isn't it?

That dude's pulling down his shorts! Course if I were playing football with Matthew Bomer I'd try to yank off his shorts too. (Okay if I were within five hundred feet of Bomer I'd try to yank off his shorts, regardless of what was going on, it's true.) I do wish we had a better view of Bomer in that shot but it's also screaming for this side-by-side:

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poll by twiigs.com

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Oh and Matty also gave us a whiff of abs:
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God he's so perfect he's hateful. My final thought on this set of pictures? That I totally thought his jersey said FLAMERS the first time I read it and I thought, finally! He's come out and told us! Alas.

When Cary Met Fassy

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Hey remember that time a couple of weeks back where I sloppily wiped Mia Wasikoska out of a picture because I wanted to see Jane Eyre director Cary Fukunaga and Jane Eyre star Michael Fassbender standing next to each other and I couldn't find any pictures of them without her in the middle? Patience, my pretties - Fassinating Fassbender just posted several pics of the two good-lookers all up in each other's grills - or you know within reach of each other's grills - for a screening of the film at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Of import: check out Fassy's buzzed head!

My fingertips are having phantom sensations of running themselves against the grain of that fuzz and I just might pass out from it.

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These Two Hot Bastards

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As long as we're talking about film festivals I won't be going to and the movies I won't be seeing at them, Slash has the list of films that'll be playing at Venice this Fall and two specifically are delicately putting on a single white glove and slapping me about the face and neck, laughing cruelly at my misfortunes.

Alps, the second film from Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos. Dogtooth was my second favorite movie of 2010. Here's my review. And here's a previous post on this movie.

Wuthering Heights, by Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold. Fish Tank was my fifth favorite movie of 2010. Here's my review. This is Arnold's 3rd film after Fish Tank and the also-brilliant Red Road.

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... rough-riding with a trashy Ryan Gosling. (via)

Wow, white-trash looks good on Ryan, who knew. Although has there been a look that hasn't worked on Ryan? (besides this one, of course) He even made that weird half-balding mustache look in Blue Valentine hot, if you ask me. Here he looks like he'd smack you in the side of the head with a beer bottle, belch, and then demand a blow-job. Hot!

These are from the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, which he's starring in for his Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance. It co-stars several other people plus Greta Gerwig! Hooray!

ETA There's three more shots of him all bleached-out and sleeveless (via) because this shit is fueling some good thoughts today, obviously. Obviously.

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I Am Link

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--- Rah Rah Rosario - There have been several very cool casting announcements (or rumors) coming out today, and this one's arguably the coolest: Rosario Dawson, lady I love and cry about getting no respect every time she shows up in terrible movies which is far too often, has joined the cast of Danny Boyle's new movie Trance. Finally, some respect! A good-to-great filmmaker using her again. Happy news. Also joining the cast is Vincent Cassel, which was rumored already (he's taking the part Michael Fassbender almost took). Trance stars James McAvoy and Cassel as some sort of art thieves, and DH says Rosario's character "has an unusual relationship with both men."

--- Stoker Sweetie - Fighting it out with the above news for coolest casting of the day is Jackie Weaver, so incredibly chilling in Animal Kingdom, getting a role in Park Chan-wook's Stoker. This you should recall is his first English-language film and it already stars Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode (his casting news here). Very happy to see Weaver popping up again in something outside of Australia. No word on what her part will be.

--- Honest Pace - And then we hear that Lee Pace is joining the cast of Steven Spielberg's Abe Lincoln bio-pic! Ya know, Pace is tall and skinny enough to have played Abe himself if they were going younger. But no, they had to go with the completely talentless Daniel Day Lewis! Anyway Lee's playing the mayor of New York. And his part will probably be too tiny because Lee Pace is never given big enough parts to satisfy us. (Insert "But Lee could give me his big part to satisfy me anytime" line here)

--- He Smash - In an interview at the LAT Marvel president Kevin Feige talks about what the Hulk will be like in Joss Whedon's Avengers movie. Supposedly there will be more of Mark Ruffalo to his face then there was of Eric Bana or Ed Norton in their respective films.

--- Mobbed Mentality - I hope this casting rumor turns out to be only rumor because I don't want my beloved wading into this thick den of Scientologists - Dominic Cooper's rumored to be taking a role in that Gotti bio-pic that Barry levinson's making that's already got John Travolta and Kelly Preston and Al Pacino. Dom would supposedly play Gotti's son, Gotti being played by Travolta. Ugh stay away from Travolta, Dominic! Stay away from all of it! Just the thought of the porcupine hair alone, ugh.

--- Got Guts - Universal Studios: Hollywood is building an elaborate Halloween maze based on the Hostel films by Eli Roth for their Fall season. I want to go to this so bad I can taste the blood spurting from my severed tongue.

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Pics of the Day

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EW has branded themselves the hub of all things Hunger Games well, haven't they? They love it, as well they should, so they get all these wonderful exclusives. Like these here first glimpses of our menfolk, Gale and Peeta, played by Liam "Brother of Thor" Hemsworth and Josh "Son of lesbians" Hutcherson. You'll also see a couple shots of our heroine Katniss, played by Jennifer Lawrence of course.

I know I'm just being greedy at this point but I need to have a picture of Isabelle Fuhrman as Clove immediately. That's the most exciting casting decision they made, out of several great casting decisions.

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Good Morning, World

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Nothing like a little Mads to brighten one's day.

See a couple more after the jump. (via)

Sand and Surf and Shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal

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I was starting to worry that this entire Summer would go by and we wouldn't get a single good look at Jake at the beach. Disaster averted! That said, daaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnn.

She Is Woman, Makes Us Roar

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I've been so busy posting today - today has been a crazy prolific day, too much, too much - that I haven't even gotten around to watching this the trailer for Lucky "May" McKee's new movie, The Woman. (via)

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The film's become infamously associated with the screening where some dude freaked out at a Q&A at Sundance that supposedly almost turned into a fight, so offended was the viewer by what he perceived as rampant misogyny. Several of the actresses in the film, inlcuding McKee's muse since May Angela Bettis came to the film's defense. Point being, I've been dying to see this movie since it was first announced and the hoopla only made me die a little bit more. I've been waiting for a New York screening for ages but haven't seen a single one pop up anywhere. Boo! I'll keep on keeping my eyes peeled. According to the film's website it's out on August 18th but it's an Aussie web address so it's confusing. IMDb doesn't have a date listed at all so I'm inclined to wonder. Wonder I will!

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Several Somethings So Far Unposted

When we got word of the Toronto International Film Festival's slate yesterday, I listed off several films I'd kill to see there (even though I probably won't be going). There were a bunch! Looks like an excellent year. Well five minutes later the fine people at TIFF released pictures for most of their films, and a lot of these were our very first looks at these films. Like the ones that I already posted from director Steve McQueen's reunion with Michael Fassbender, Shame, for instance. Well there are other instances of this sort, having to do with movies I'm crazy excited over, and I feel it my duty to post them lest they go unposted, which apparently is the sort of thing that could cause my fragile psyche to swirl the drain. We wouldn't want that, would we? Well let's get on with it then.

First up are 5 new pictures from Todd Solondz's Dark Horse. 

It stars, as you can see there, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow (!!!) and Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber. We don't know a whole lot about DH yet; TIFF describes it as "Todd Solondz creates an intimate dark comedy about a manchild whose desire for a romantic relationship runs smack into reality, " while IMDb says "Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector and a woman who is the dark horse of her family." I'm guessing Gelber and Blair are the ones falling in love. 

Here's a new shot from Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In:

If anybody can make Antonio Banderas sexy again, it's Almodovar.

Here's a shot of Michael Shannon in Take Shelter:

I could've sworn I wrote about this movie once before but I can't find the post so maybe I dreamed it.  It's from the director of Shotgun Stories, which Shannon was fantastic in. It co-stars Jessica Chastain.

This shot of Tilda and John C. Reilly in We Need To Talk About Kevin is sticking a finger in the wound that is the fact that I'm not seeing this movie right now and must wait:

I didn't take note of Burning Man when looking through the list of TIFF movies the first time but it apparently stars Matthew Goode who obviously grabs one's interest right quick, face-wise. He plays some sort of hopelessly sexy chef beset by distracting womenfolk! Yeah I probably won't see this unless Goode takes his clothes off then.

And finally here are two shots from Sarah Polley's next film Take This Waltz, which stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen. Give it to me!

That's someone named Luke Kirby in the second shot with Michelle, and he is adorable. Here he is in his underpants in some other movie. Ending things on a bright but random  note!