Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I Am Link

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--- Muscle Men - Finnish director Dome Karukoski is going to make a bio-pic about famed gay artist Tom of Finland, aka Touko Laaksonen, whose oh let's say exaggerated portraits of male physiques and the exaggerated male physiques that love them have been popping our eyeballs out of our heads for decades now. I actually didn't know anything about Laaksonen so I just looked him up and it sounds like he led a pretty crazy life (drawing what he did when he did, that shouldn't be surprising).

--- Mutant Pryde - There's really no substantial news to this since Joss is kind of busy with those other superheroes these days, but Ellen Page would like everybody to know that she'd totally sign on the dotted line if he actually wanted to make a movie starring her X-Men character. Good to know!
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--- Swinton For Prez - And this is like reason number five billion that we love Tilda Swinton - at a screening of Bong Joon-hos' Snowpiercer at a film fest in France this week the actress basically called Harvey Weinstein a dick if he cuts the movie for American audiences. She was already my superhero, but now she's my savior.

--- Bell Bio - I mentioned the news here yesterday about Nicole Kidman taking over for Naomi Watts in Werner Herzog's next movie, but I also mentioned it over at The Film Experience, and over there I went crazy about it, and I recommend it for a chuckle.

--- Game of Thrums - Because all bands have members with giant beards and therefore fit into the world of A Game of Thrones perfectly, bands keep getting cast in the show. The latest band cast for the show is Sigur Ros, and while they don't really have beards, they do look like Keebler Elves, which also works.
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--- Penny Portrait - He's been Peter Parker and he's been Jeff Buckley, and now Broadway actor Reeve Carney is setting his sights on classic literature's preeminent ever-youthful sex machine - he'll play Dorian Gray in Sam Mendes' upcoming Showtime series Penny Dreadful, which we've told you about before, and really just keeps sounding like more and more of a rip-off of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; this way they bypass dealing with noted asshole Alan Moore though.

--- Bug Power -  I'm so used to things I want scurrying away from me in fright that I don't really know how to take the delightful news that Edgar Wright's Marvel superhero movie Ant-Man has been pushed forward from the Fall of 2015 to the Summer. Everything's coming up me! I should go stake out Jake Gyllenhaal's house again, see if this momentum maintains...

--- Mangle Forward - Three killer names have been added to the cast of David Gordon Green's next movie... which, sigh, is not the remake of Suspiria. No word on that. He's making something called Manglehorn, which already has Al Pacino in the lead; the three people who just joined the cast are Holly Hunter (yay!) and Harmony Korine (okay!) and Chris Messina (yummmmm).
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--- No Term Limits -  Another day, another great interview with Brie Larson, continuing her total charm offensive on the world. Short Term 12 (my slightly unhinged ecstatic review here) is slowly rolling across the country so I imagine she's got weeks more of these to do, and therefore we've got weeks of being charmed ahead of us. Smiles!
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--- And Finally just because here's Tom Hiddleston messing around (minds out of the gutter) with Cookie Monster, because, everybody together, awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. (via)
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1 comment:

Glenn said...

I saw a documentary about Tom of Finland once. It was not particularly good, but I am all for a feature film that looks at it since we can always use more films (not always documentaries) about important gay historical stuff.