I Am Link

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--- Ron For Rampage - While talking about his upcoming monster movie Pacific Rim, director Guillermo Del Toro finally confirmed that his Hellboy star Ron Perlman will be in the movie. Everybody assumed he would since he's always in Guillermo's movies, but he hadn't been confirmed yet. Did I put two and two together before that Perlman must be the link between Guillermo and Perlman's Sons of Anarchy co-star Charlie Hunnam, who is the lead in Pacific Rim? I don't know if I did (and I'm way too lazy to look it up right now). But I hope you don't mind I used a picture of Charlie to illustrate this information instead of Ron. I have my needs, and one of them is a daily dose of shirtless Hunnam. Without it I will die! Anyway here's Del Toro talking about Rim:

"[It's a] very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters."

--- Fire Dog - Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy is being sought to write to script for the second Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, alongside Suzanne Collins, who wrote the books. Collins and director Gary Ross were responsible for the script for the first film and were going to do all of them but apparently, what with the turn-around or lack thereof that the studio's enforcing on them they're needing to go to an outside source for help. I really really did not like Slumdog Millionaire, but I'll attempt to have an open mind on this one. Beaufoy also wrote 127 Hours, which I liked much more.

--- Fresh Despair - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 film Despair is one of the ones that I haven't seen yet - the number is dwindling - so when I just saw a review at Twitch of a newly restored BluRay of the film that's just been released I grew very very very excited. I am very very very excited! This movie's got quite the pedigree (as if Fassbinder himself isn't enough; he totally is), it's based off a Vladomir Nabokov book and was adapted by Tom Stoppard, but does any of that even matter when you see an image from it like that one there of my beloved Margit Carstensen, a gun, and Günther Kaufmann in blackface? Get me this movie now!

--- Here's To Your Fuck - Speaking of movies new on BluRay, Billy Loves Stu took a look at David Lynch's Blue Velvet which just came out on the format and I can only imagine how amazing it looks. And by amazing I mean terrifying - the thought of some of Lynch's images being that clear almost seems like too much, like I don't want Frank Booth to reach out of the screen at me!

--- Mommy Fearest - While I'm still embargoed from talking about We Need To Talk About Kevin, others are not - read what Glenn says about the movie over at Stale Popcorn. That's Kevin himself, at least the oldest version, the striking actor Ezra Miller there to the right, by the way.

--- Getcha Ghibli On - The IFC Center here in New York is having a retrospective of Studio Ghibli films from mid-December to mid-January, including all the Miyazaki classics. I know what I'll be doing on my holiday vacation.

--- Who's The Fairest - I still haven't had a chance to properly watch the trailer for Tarsem's Mirror Mirror, which we isolated the Armie-centric frames from yesterday, but I did get an inkling of the collective shiver of disgust that roiled across the internet so I take it it's not good then. Nat's dissection of the trailer over at The Film Experience already has answered that.

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