Monday, September 30, 2013

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:


Dick: Next move... Mexico. 
Once we beat it out of the country. 
 Perry: On what? $43 and a smile and bullshit.
Dick: You guessed it, chief. It's the smile that does it. 
Like it says in the commercials, 
the family that sticks together lives forever. 

Truman Capote was born 89 years ago today.
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... parrying with Hiddleston (via).

Never change out of that t-shirt, Tom.
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Franco Without a Cause

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At this point I'm just going to stop trying to keep up with what James Franco's doing - it's a futile endeavor; I'm sure even his mother's stopped attempting it at this point. It's just a bunch of, "Oh that's nice, dear." on those phones calls. So here's the trailer for his Sal Mineo bio-pic, starring the dude he was all happy to make uncomfortable in that Cruising movie he made (my review of that right here). Sal will be on demand starting October 22nd.
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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?
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Fat Bloody Fingers Are Sucking Your Soul, Away

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Although Thom Yorke looks like he's patting a baby bump in that picture, Atoms For Peace put on a phenomenal show in Brooklyn this past Friday, and I was there, and I was the obnoxious person recording a bunch of it. I can't help myself when it's Thom Yorke, you guys, you've got to cut me some slack on him - one day he's going to retire and these videos are going to save my life. You can watch all seven videos I took over at YouTube; here's him singing the song he did way back with the band called UNKLE, called "Rabbit in Your Headlights."
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The Coens Take New York

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If you follow me on Instagram then you already saw several of my pictures from the Inside Llewyn Davis screening at the New York Film Festival on Saturday night; if not go check them out. Garrett Hedlund was standing right in front of me! And I totally respected his boundaries, I didn't stuff him in my backpack and run, or anything. I've grown as a person. I was surprised by how many people they brought out on stage during the intro...

(click to embiggen bunches) Left to right starting from the second person (the first guy's the interviewer from the festival) that's Max Casella, Marcus Mumford, T-Bone Burnett, Alex Korpovsky, Jeanine Serralles, Stark Sands, F. Murray Abraham, Adam Driver, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, and Carey Mulligan. (This was right before Oscar Isaac came out, you can see him in this picture at Instagram.) And yeah I took these pictures myself - I was seated in the second row! Which was a little bit of a burden while actually watching the movie I was there to watch, but was killer for this intro with the cast and then the Q&A that followed. Indeed I recorded the entire Q&A for y'all...
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It wasn't the best Q&A I've ever been to - the questioners checked off several of the most obnoxious questions possible, ranging from "Hey I'm making a movie, give me advice, and then make me famous please!" to the guy who will not shut up when his question is so broad it's nonsensical so he keeps trying to frame it as if it means something, and failing. But anyway, its pretty good before it gets opened up to the audience. 

I'll write up my opinion about the movie itself later.
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It's Ryan Phillippe & Breckin Meyer's 54 Kiss!

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We all owe the anonymous commentor on this old post of mine an enormous, enormous debt of gratitude for digging this up and letting us know about it over the weekend - somebody's posted the deleted scene from the 1998 film 54 where Ryan Phillippe and Breckin Meyer kiss on YouTube! Granted it's really lousy quality, but it's more than the big fat nothing we had before except for that picture up top, which only hinted at its possible greatness. Behold!
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Alright so I was led to believe there was more to it, but perhaps its legend over the years had just been built up. Now they just need to release the Director's Cut already. Free money, people! Releasing that would be free money. Not to mention a humanitarian service.


I Am Link

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--- Dragon Forward - British actor Joel Fry, seen there to the left, has joined the cast of the next season of A Game of Thrones in the important role of Loraq, who's someone that Daenerys will be dealing with a bunch in the next big city she comes upon. They're speeding up Dany's story a lot then, because he doesn't show up until the fifth book, while this season's supposed to be primarily based off the second half of the third. Also Kit Harington says the next season's a bloodbath!

--- Under Studies - All hail the Supporting Actress Smackdown, StinkyLulu's glorious tribute to actressing at the edges through the lens of the Academy Awards - it returned via The Film Experience last month and today comes the second chapter, taking on the lovely ladies nominated in the year 1980. I've only seen two of the performances discussed, and it's probably not hard to guess which two.

--- Good Chap - I guess Hugh Jackman liked what he saw when he saw Sharlto Copley in nothing but short shorts in Elysium, just like we all did, because he's just joined Copley's next flick with director Neil Blomkamp, the robot gangster flick called Chappie.
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--- The Red Dress - I'm not sure what led me to stumbling upon this 2010 piece on Ellen Burtyn's performance in Requiem For a Dream by Matt Mazur at PopMatters this weekend, or how I'd missed it back when it was posted originally, but man am I glad I caught up with it, it's one of the finest pieces on Burstyn's astonishing work that I've read.

--- All Over Amnesiac - NME chatted with Stanley Donwood, the man behind the art of Radiohead, about how he came up with all of their album covers. He's done all of them save their first record. I can't even tell you how many hours of my life I've spent staring into the sharp horrible mountains on the cover of Kid A.

--- Bad Brother - If Marvel was going to make a movie with Loki as the central character, Tom Hiddleston would like it to focus on Loki's troubled romance with the character called The Enchantress. If that means we get Tom out of his big rubber suit a little bit, I'm down.

--- Blonde & Blonder - It's probably just a one-scene cameo but I love this, it's the only thing that's made me curious about seeing the movie - Jennifer Lawrence is going to play a flash-backed young version of the character that Kathleen Turner's playing in the Dumb and Dumber sequel. I didn't even know Kathleen Turner was in it - that's enough on its own to grab me! I do really like the original D&D though, I still quote it all the time.
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Good Morning, Wu

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I posted three pictures of Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu over at the Tumblr back in August, including one very fine shot that I'm very fond of indeed, go check them out right here. Today's his 39th birthday - I would not have guessed that he's three years older than me. I was all set to say I've never seen him in anything but he was in The Man With the Iron Fists, which I did see, although you'd have trouble getting me to recollect not just his role but pretty much anything that's not Lucy Liu in that movie. He's also in something called Europa Report which I heard a lot about this Summer thanks to following Magnet on Instagram, but don't know anything about other than it was sci-fi of some sort. Anybody see it? Blah blah there are a few more pictures of the birthday boy worth the effort of hitting after the jump, so go on and hit it...

Friday, September 27, 2013

What's A Weekend?

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I'm off to Brooklyn in a few to see Atoms For Peace, aka Thom Yorke's other band. Tomorrow I have a pair of movies at the New York Film Festival to attend (think Miyazaki and the Coen Brothers). And then on Sunday I am going to collapse into a heap of dust (until the Breaking Bad finale comes on, of course). I have tons and tons of reviews to catch up on, I know - with this cold I've had killing me this week the medicine's turned my brain to mush, and words have felt few far between. Let's see how next week rolls, eh? Til then, my friends...
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Three Some, And Then Some

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Somehow I missed these pictures of Victor Garber and his ridiculously hot painter-model husband Rainer Andreeson (see heaps of Rainer here) tag-teaming Bradley Cooper at the SAG Awards back in January.

I hate you, Victor Garber. I really, really do.

ETA Here's Rainer's painting of Bradley (via):


Which Is Hotter?

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Nancy Wilson of Heart or
Meryl Streep in the first picture from Into the Woods?
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I can't wait to see how Rob Marshall
 stages the "These Dreams" number!

 (The internet definitely needs more "These Dreams" gifs.)
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Quote of the Day

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"I would love for this to be as canon as possible, given the departures that we make. But if we don’t get the rights to the Clarice Starling character, we will introduce a similar character, Shmarlice Shmarling, that won’t get us sued."

-- That's Bryan Fuller in an interview at Crave talking about how they don't have the rights (yet...) to bring Clarice onto Hannibal any time soon. He goes on to say they have a couple of seasons of dallying with Will & Co. before they really need to worry about bringing Lamb Girl in, though. 

But speaking of Hannibal, y'all did run out and buy the DVDs this week, right? I'm talking to those of us who are good people and have already seen the show as well as those of you who are awful people and not watched it yet. I am talking to all of us. Shmarlice Shmarling, and everybody else. Go buy them, watch them, and fall in love with the show so we can make it mammoth in its second year! I'm waiting.
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Hard To Pin

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Hey oh, it's the man in the wrestling singlet that we've all been waiting for! The teaser trailer for Foxcatcher, starring Channing Tatum (he'd been the man in the singlet of which I speak) and Steve Carell and Mark Ruffallo (we're also looking forward to seeing him in a singlet, which we've seen in jock-stuffed pictures from the set but there's no hint of in this trailer), landed yesterday...
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... just in time for the movie to be delayed from December until next Spring. What what what? It looks great in the trailer; I guess the director (Bennett Miller of Moneyball and Capote) just wants more time to finish it. Come on, slap together ninety minutes of singlet scenes and whammo, instant classic.Oh well - to tide us over, after the jump are caps of the moments that matter in the trailer...

The Enemy Of My Enemy

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(via) There's not really a whole lot to see in that, the first clip from Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal's second movie (after Prisoners) with Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, except for Jake's scrumptious beard and that the entire movie may have been shot through a stream of urine. But we already knew that from that teaser trailer we saw the other day. The scene kind of reminds me of Shame though - instead of Fassy on a subway flirting we've got Jake on a bus stalking. Maybe I just want to imagine Jake remaking Shame though. (Ya think?)
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Sail Away Sail Away Sail Away

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I'm not being lazy, I swear! I'm also not dead from that cold I caught earlier this week, in case you were worried. (I know you were.) I was just chilling with Tom Hanks, is all. We're thinking about making a sequel to Turner & Hooch. I've been working on my Hooch impression for twenty-five years, man, I think I finally got it down! Alright either that or I was at the NYFF screening of his new fun-time pirate-movie movie Captain Phillips; you decide. (I think the picture up top might've given the game away though.) Aaanyway I'll have more to say of CP at some point when I properly review it, but if you're attending the real non-press premiere at the New York Film Festival tonight, you're in for some really solid cinema. Or if you're planning on seeing it when it comes out in theaters and stuff - you should! It is good. Alright let's get the day started then.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Thursday's Ways Not To Die

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Honestly the barbell to the neck is a mercy after getting that weight dropped so cruelly on his (it must be noted substantial) bulge. I'd welcome it! Seriously though, let this scene be a lesson to all of us - if one of your friends is wearing all black from head to toe and refusing to speak, you might just be in a very bizarre whodunit sort of slasher movie, so you probably shouldn't let them spot you. It will probably go awry!

I've done a scene from HBTM for this series before (the kabob!); it really is one of the most delightfully strange entries in the Slasher Pantheon. Today's the birthday of its star Melissa Sue Anderson (yeah, the blind one from Little House on the Prairie) so a happy day to her! At least a happier one than the birthday in this movie.

All the previous Ways Not To Die after the jump...

Henry Cavill Turns Me Into The NRA

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Fighting for his right to bare arms forever! (via)
Hit the jump for a bunch more...
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Christoph Angles For Alex's Vine

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The last we'd heard about the Tarzan movie with Alexander Skarsgard it was on indefinite hold, which we'd taken as an indefinite never, which murdered our Alex loincloth dreams... so this news today perks up our spirits - Variety says that Christoph Waltz is in talks to play the movie's bad guy. David Yates, he of the last several Harry Potter movies, is apparently still the director; they say they're still casting about for their Jane though, which must mean that Jessica Chastain ain't happening. Boo, she would've been fab... but not too big a boo, because I don't give a shit who's in it as long as I get my Skarsgard loincloth dreams back.
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