I Am Link

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--- Thrill Kill - Elijah Wood is just obsessed with serial killers! Obsessed! I guess getting harassed by Macaulay on The Good Son left a mark. His production company is making The Boy, the first part in a planned trilogy about a budding serial killer - the first film will be about him at age 9 (then 14, then 18). A bunch of supporting actors just joined the film, including blonde god Mike Vogel.

--- And Speaking of Elijah Wood, our pal Glenn Dunks reviews a couple of my favorite recent genre efforts over at his site - the Elijah starring ridiculousness that is Grand Piano (here's my review of that), and then also the be all and everything Alpine monster movie Blood Glacier, which I just lavished love upon the other day. Glenn and I watched the latter together and he was all curled up in his chair being a big scaredy-pants!
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--- Wang Less - Producer Joel Silver talked to ComingSoon about Non-Stop, the new Liam Neeson thriller out this weekend that I totally want to see despite myself, but the most interesting part was when Silver talked about the Terry Gilliam version of Watchmen that almost happened. Gilliam's take would've excised Dr. Manhattan altogether. No giant swinging blue wang! Unimaginable.

--- Granting Cary - Here's an interview with Cary Fukunaga that's mostly about True Detective, but also about what he's working on next (that child soldier movie with Idris Elba), what he's recently watched (he saw a rough cut of Darren Aronofsky's Noah, and oh yeah he goes on about how terrible Pompeii is), and a few other things - he's a good interview. They also ask him about the recent criticisms of TD for sexism and he brings up the Bechdel Test, so points to him on that one.

--- Black & White Cookie - The first batch of pictures from the Sin City sequel A Dame To Kill For have shown up, and they look like pictures from a Sin City movie, alright. Since Robert Rodriguez is directing, there's Jessica Alba to look at. Why's he so insistent with her? Until right this minute I'd totally forgotten I watched Machete Kills this weekend; that's how memorable it was, in no small part due to Alba's "star-power."

--- Dark Materials - Over at The Film Experience Michael C. makes some good points about 12 Years a Slave's lack of catharsis and how that might be spooking the Academy's brittle old foolish voters away - I've officially slipped into the "can we just get the damned Oscars over with already" mind-set. I might just have to fast-forward through the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor portions of the night.
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--- Wrist Flickers - I think he overrates what Tom Hanks was doing in Saving Mr. Banks (although I really liked Saving Mr. Banks, you may recall) I love this piece by Tom Shone on how underrated the school of less-is-more acting has become - how everybody needs a schtick nowadays, and how exhausting that can be to watch. What he says about Gary Cooper's hand acting in Morocco, I can recollect all of that off the top of my head; that's how memorable such simple things can be.
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--- And Speaking of men who are getting on my last nerve right now, here's an interview with Martin Scorsese that's at times almost unreadable - he warns us at the start that he's super jet-lagged and exhausted but Kris Tapley's so busy kissing Marty's ass that apparently he couldn't bear to edit the rambling nonsense down a bit. And the bit about Wolf of Wall Street is naturally what pushed me over:

"If you're offended by it you're offended. If you can be offended by this and not be offended by people being thrown out of their houses and people not being found culpable in this situation and walking away with millions of dollars of bonuses — I'm offended by that."

I have more than enough offense for that plus your shitty movie, Marty. I'm at least optimistic about Scorsese's next film Silence, since it sounds like he's attempting to make the polar opposite of Wolf, in theory.

--- Do A Dom - Click on over yonder for a bunch of new clips from Dom Hemingway, Jude Law's new movie - they're not safe for wrk but just because of language and some naked ladies, not because there's any more of Jude Law's bare ass like I was hoping for.

--- Grey Skull - The director of Another Earth (which I did not like at all, and only partially because ugh Brit Marling) and the upcoming I Origins (which got some love at Sundance) is maybe going to make a new Masters of the Universe movie, of all things. The thought of Brit Marling playing She-Ra is tickling my funny bone, I have to admit. A few more names, like the guy who made the second Kick-Ass movie, are also mentioned.
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 --- Passing Strange - Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige says that the "Johnny Depp is Doctor Strange!" rumors are basically bunk, and that they don't feel like they necessarily need to have a giant star play the role. Good, send Depp packing please. I've already got to expend enough effort setting aside my hate for Robert Downey Jr. when it comes to my giant superhero franchises.
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