I Am Link

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--- Reading Rainbow - A new sexy poster for Lars Von Trier's Nymphomanic is online, and god help me I actually think it is indeed kind of sexy. I do love a naked man wearing glasses, even if it's Shia. And books! Books are sexy, there's just no ifs ands or big butts about it. 

--- Picture This - In his wonderful yearly tradition R. Kurt Osenlund named his favorite 20 shots from 20 different movies this year over at Slate. I always love this piece. Some real unexpected picks this time around, from several movies I still haven't seen. I've got a long way to go before I'll feel anywhere near complete on 2013, y'all.

--- Hot Lizard - Mark your calendars, the trailer for Godzilla reboot, starring Aaron Johnson and Bryan Cranston and oh yeah a giant lizard that shoots lasers out of its mouth, that trailer will be online tomorrow morningish. I just watched Kick Ass 2 last night and I am ready to stare at Aaron more, please.

--- Crossing Guard - Jake Gyllenhaal's bestie Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve is looking at making something called Sicario next, which is about a female cop who heads cross the Mexican border looking for a drug lord, and all hell breaks loose, as is wont to happen when you're in a movie and you cross the border into Mexico. Most interesting part of the story - Thad Luckinbill, one-time actor who got naked on Nip/Tuck (seen to the right there), is a producer now?

 --- Ghost Pop - In the continuing FYC series over at The Film Experience, where we're championing the efforts of 2013 movie-makers in different categories that will probably go unloved come Oscar nomination morning, Tim Brayton hit up the sound design in James Wan's The Conjuring for honors yesterday. Funny enough I rewatched that exact film the day before (the boyfriend hadn't seen it yet) and I still think it's a mess (here's my way back review) but I don't disagree on the sound design, which is mostly pretty great. There's this low hum to the film that I only noticed when Wan & Co would drop the sound out altogether, as if insects had stopped buzzing because a predator was approaching - it hits that deeply buried place inside your gut. That said I still hate the ghost whispering, though. 

--- Clark Junior - Looking much more fresh faced if slightly less fur-tastic, DH has got a picture of Henry Cavill trying out for Superman back in 2004, when he ultimately lost the role to Brandon Routh. This would've been for Brett Ratner or JJ Abrams; Bryan Singer was the one who brought on Routh.

--- Southern Discomfort - Finally some release info for Ti West's next movie - The Sacrament (which follows a dude and his friends trying to get his sister out of a South American cult, with presumably bad results) is getting released onto VOD on May 5th, and then theaters in June.

--- And finally, hey hey hey it's the first real trailer for the third season of Sherlock you guys! Yeah this has been online all weekend so those of you who wanted to see it have already seen it, whatever, I'm just getting to it. 

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