I Am Link

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--- Strong Hand - Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth and Mark Strong are all starring in a thriller called Before I Go To Sleep, which is from the writer of 28 Weeks Later (he'll also direct). Firth and Kidman are husband and wife, while Strong is her doctor. Her sexily gravel-voiced doctor? Check and check.

--- Falling Cards - I assume some of you guys have already watched David Fincher's Netflix series House of Cards? I have to finish up the final few episodes of Breaking Bad before I move on to it, but it is definitely next on my queue. Beau wrote up some thoughts on the series over at The Film Experience he wasn't entirely sold on it.

---  Good Greenery - Also at The Film Experience yesterday I wrote up the news that the writer of Beasts of the Southern Wild has just been hired by Guillermo del Toro to adapt The Secret garden for the umpteenth time. Del Toro is only producing, not directing. 

--- People Food - Empire chatted with Eli Roth a little bit about shooting his new movie (yeah it still seems weird that he's really gone and made another movie after the long ass break he took) The Green Inferno, which is about NYU students meeting cannibals in the Amazonian jungle, to no doubt bad effect. Apparently he showed the movie Cannibal Holocaust to the locals, who'd never seen a movie before in their lives. Great introduction to cinema there, Eli! (thx Mac)

--- Pier One - At Stale Popcorn, Glenn's take on a pair of Pasolinis (Teorema and Salo) is worth clicking over for the title alone. I still haven't seen Teorema yet - I've had a copy for ages and ages but it's never moved to the top of the pile. Shame on me. Meanwhile I've seen Salo like three times, which is at least ten times too many if one wishes to remain sane.

--- Bald Assassin - Five years after Timothy Olyphant shaved his spate to play the Hitman, now it's Paul Walker's turn - they're rebooting the character with the Fast and the Furious blunk, who I can already tell you will lose some of his extremely limited appeal without those perfect golden locks to frame those perfect aqua eyes. It's not like he has "acting" to fall back on.

--- Sciffy Duo - I'm a lot less curious about the Wachowskis next sci-fi movie after the slop-heap that was Cloud Atlas, but Jupiter Ascending does have a great cast in Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and now they've just added the perma-gravitas of Sean Bean to it.

--- Evil In Your Genes - The producer of Marie Antoinette is going to direct a horror movie with Joseph Fiennes and Morena Baccarin that's based on an idea from the dudes who made the Spanish zombie [REC] films. That's a weird sentence, but I'm in. And it's about scientists looking for the genetic code for eeevvvil! Oh, yes.

--- Full Penetration - The Playlist has the first image from Lars Von Trier's sexual firestorm Nyphomaniac, and some people will be very happy and some very sad that for now Shia LaBeouf's penis is nowhere to be seen. neither is Jamie Bell's, for that matter! (meanwhile that pic is via here)

--- Ziggy Pic - A bio-pic about David Bowie and Iggy Pop's 70s collaboration is in the works - as if Velvet Goldmine isn't enough? Anyway this thing had best be as gay as it needs to be. Also, Tilda Swinto needs to play Bowie. And don't anybody say she's too old - Tilda is beyond trivial matters like age.

--- Shuffling Thrones - George RR Martin has inked a deal with HBO to make more shows for them, other than A Game of Thrones. Because he doesn't, you know, have some goddamned books to write or anything!

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