I Am Link

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--- Strode On - Jamie Lee Curtis might be starring in a new TV series called The Final Girls, about a group of, you guess it, final girls (a "final girl" is, in case you're unaware, the last survivor of a slasher movie; almost always a young lady) who are brought together to heal their wounds and channel their experience towards good. That description, along with it being for ABC Family, makes me worry this is actually some sort of Oprah-fied thing - hell they might not even mean "final girl" literally - all they say are the girls "survived their own personal horror stories." Hmmm. Not sure what to think. If this were actually a horror series about a group of kick-ass final girls brought together by Queen Final Girl to fight evil, then I would be exploding with happiness. We'll see.

--- Original Dame - I forgot to link to this on Monday but I wished Lauren Bacall a happy birthday the other day at The Film Experience, and since I'm only a moderate fan of hers the comments are where it's at. Lotsa love for her.
 

--- Master Man - The Playlist dropped several new pictures of the cast of 12 Years a Slave yesterday, including Fassy of course, but also a couple admirable pictures of Chiwetel Ejiofor in old-timey britches. Is that my left, or his left?
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--- West Ward - I hated The Descendants so much (here's my review) that I'm having a really hard time working myself up any enthusiasm for Alexander Payne's new movie Nebraska with Will Forte and Bruce Dern, especially since a family road trip involving Alzheimer's doesn't really seem like the place for him to return to the biting satire that made his early films so special. Well I'll see in a few weeks when I see it at NYFF. Anyway The Film Experience is on the same page as me, as Nat dissects the just released poster. It's a nice poster.

--- Hell Bound -  I just rewatched some of the Evil Dead remake the other night; I still like it. No, it's not Sam Raimi. But it's got its own fun gross-out thing going on. (And Shiloh Fernandez is really looking good in it.) Anyway its director Fede Alvarez is going to turn the video-game Dante's Inferno (which turns Dante into a knight breaching the levels of Hell to rescue his Beatrice, natch) int a movie next. Cue the CG demons!

--- Satan's Boy - Speaking of devilry, yesterday was the latest installment of Final Girl's Film Club and they were taking a look at The Omen! We just did a Thursday's Ways Not To Die for that movie not too long ago. So anyway head on over to Final Girl to find a bunch of links for good-time Omen talk, yo.

--- And finally, here's Jake Gyllenhaal on The Daily Show last night. I have not watched it yet myself. Who's going to see Prisoners this weekend? I have to find time, but time is a seriously dwindling commodity right now and so I have no idea when.

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