I Am Link

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--- Ozzy Insane - If I hadn't been so distracted by Dominic Cooper's omnipresent nipples this morning this would've gotten it's own post but alas, I am a simple man with simple needs, and so here we are, giving love to Sam Raimi's trailer for Oz, The Great and Powerful in the middle of a link round-up, while it definitely deserves better. Alas, my time is limited. I love the trailer, I want to marry it, and I'm surprised to see a lot of people thinking otherwise. Course it's all the Raimi touches that have me entirely overlooking the less enthralling developments like the Tim Burton's Wonderland vibe in some of the CG. But like I made mention of yesterday, this movie's swooped from zero to tops in my anticipation. I wanna eat its face right off.

--- The Red Bowtie Rises - Speaking of things I haven't gotten around to, I still haven't watched the Jimmy Fallon bit with Pee Wee Herman narrating the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which is about as close to blasphemy as this atheist can get.

--- Romeing Charges - And yet more to file under Things I Haven't Done But Shoulda - I haven't reviewed Woody Allen's new movie To Rome With Love since seeing it a week ago. I really don't have much to say. There were a couple of funny bits, but mostly I agree with what Nathaniel said about it. A really lazy effort from Woody.

--- The ReThongening - The hardest proof I can give you (emphasis on hard): you know I'm distracted if I haven't even mentioned the fact that Channing Tatum's talking up a sequel for Magic Mike yet.

--- The World's Start - Exciting word from ComiCon that Edgar Wright's The World's End, his third flick with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is now officially official, in fact it's so official there's a teaser poster, seen there. The Playlist thinks we should read into the names of each of the bars - the film's about a pub crawl, ya see - that are listed, so I'm especially keen on The famous Cock, natch.

 

--- He's A Maniac - Love very much Glenn's piece on William Lustig's deeply dirty 1980 slasher with a heart of grunge flick Maniac over at Stale Popcorn. Contrasting it with Brian DePalma's soft-focused take on NYC in the same scuzzy period with Dressed to Kill was boffo.

--- Dredd Said - I laughed at what Karl Urban showed AICN his punishment is from JJ Abrams for spilling a big Star Trek secret in an interview the other week (spoilers, obviously), and then I stopped laughing as my mind wandered off to other places involving a bound and gagged Karl Urban and you see why I'm so easily distracted all the time?

--- Refinding Serenity - EW has some pictures from the Firefly reunion that happened in San Diego today. Unfortunately at no point do any of them involve Sean Maher and Nathan Fillion making out, giving handies, et cetera.

--- Z Is For Zeppo - Our beloved geek giant Drew Goddard of Buffy and Cabin in the Woods fame has been brought in to rewrite the ending of Brad Pitt's zombie movie World War Z, which has oddly turned into a giant mess of a movie, it seems. Dear Drew - Brad Pitt plus gay sex with zombies, the end. Voila!
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