The Talented Mr. Plaid Pants

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I can't blog right now, I'm on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean with my best buddy. (OAR am I?) Leave a message after the beep. Beep beep.
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Salim Kechiouche Ten Times

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I really wanted to actually do a big proper gratuitous post for Salim, I am rocking a serious crush on him these days (he's super cute in Blue is the Warmest Color - I would come out of that movie ogling the dudes) but time as you know is not on my side (at least not for blogging) so til then here's an appetizer. Hit the jump for the rest!
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Firefly (2002)

Captain Mal Reynolds: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse... but you take a boat in the air that you don't love... she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home. 

Happy 43, Nathan Fillion!

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Good Morning, World

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Well this is the obvious choice for today, am I right? Right. I'm off to Italia this afternoon; I have a crap-ton of stuff to do between now and then so will I be able to blog anymore? I don't know, I'll try if something strikes me and I have a second, but you probably shouldn't hold your breath or anything. Not for me, not for this!

I will use this as an excuse to remind you to head over to The Film Experience and vote on this week's Beauty Vs Beast poll though, where we've tossed both Tom & Dickie into the bathtub and are forcing them to wrestle it our for dominance. You're welcome.

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Jamie Bell One Time

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The Idrisaurus Elba-Rex Has Gone Extinct

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@bskipper27 I love this rumor as much as the next guy, but Idris Elba won't be joining us. The dinosaurs wouldn't stand a chance.
— Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) March 21, 2014

Boo.

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Quotes of the Day

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I like to look at Kit Harington very much but it really has seemed like he's been on the cover of every magazine over the past couple of months. And the ones he's not on it's Nikolaj. Am I complaining? I am not complaining. I will shut up. Anyway they always seem to ask him about taking his clothes off and he always seem massively uncomfortable talking about it, which it hysterical, so I hope they keep it up for his entire career, however long or short that may be. Here he is talking about the shape he had to get in for Pompeii:

"It's not something I feel like I should look like every day in my normal life, or anyone should look like in their normal lives—it's not a natural state for your body to be in. But for a film sometimes you've got to do those sorts of things. For people's imaginations."

It's tempting to italicize that word "imaginations" - I can only imagine (heh there it is again) it was italicized the way he said it.  And if he's actually showing us the goods it's not really our imaginations, right? If he got that ripped and then wore a burqa for the entire movie then that would require our imaginations. But I suppose it's where we take the beefcake he's giving us from there, that's where our imaginations come in. And man did I take his abs some places this year lemme tell you what. 

Anyway there another funny part in the interview (or the part of the interview that GQ's put online so far, that is) that needs to be shared, because the conversations swings to his cock for some reason. I mean why not? After he admits he used a butt double on A Game of Thrones because he was injured and couldn't do the jumping required in the scene, GQ asks him if he'd ever go full frontal, and after a semi-dismassal and a pause, he says:

"I'm not saying. Because I don't know. 

It would have to be fucking well deserved."

Well somebody has a high opinion of their twig-n-berries, don't they? Quick somebody write Jon Snow the cock-shot that will him an Oscar, a Tony, and the Nobel Peace Prize - that thing's not getting any younger and we wouldn't want it spoiling our dinners.

Good Morning, World

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Today is a day to celebrate all that Tennessee Williams has given the world in the 103 years since his birth... which entirely consists of Paul Newman putting on his shirt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Oh and Marlon Brando drinking champagne in A Streetcar Named Desire. Oh and Warren Beatty lounging in swim-trunks in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Oh and also Paul Newman again in Sweet Bird of Youth... just being Paul Newman. That's it, right? Tennessee Williams in a nutshell. He accomplished more than Ghandi, you guys.

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I Am Link

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--- Vacay Cray Cray - I forgot that they've actually made movies together already (Take Me Home Tonight anyone?) so it felt fresh and exciting to find out that Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, awesome husband and awesomer wife, are making a new movie together. Til I remember the shitty movies. There's always tomorrow! This one's called Vacation Friends and it's about two couples who meet in Mexico and have fun but then the crazier couple follows the less-crazy couple home. (Hmm I wonder if Chris and Anna will be playing the crazy couple.)

--- Go Deep Streep - We've all been begging Meryl Streep to make some movies with more accomplished directors lately, so hearing she's signed on to make a movie with Jonathan Demme sounds not so bad. Add on the fact that Diablo Cody wrote the script and it's even less so bad. it's about a woman who returns to her abandoned family many years later.

--- Space Balls - Ridley Scott is definitely probably making a second Prometheus movie, they've got a new writer (the guy who wrote the Green Lantern movie, so you know this will be quality!) and a date and all that jazz. The most exciting news I'ms eeing is the rumor that the film apparently involves multiple copies of the David android, aka there will be more than one Michael Fassbender on-screen. I want every single character on-screen played by Michael Fassbender, that's what I want. And then rename the movie Orgy. And have it be an orgy. With just Michael Fassbenders. I should be writing this thing dammit.

--- Worth What - I feel like James Cameron is calling in some favors and getting Sam Worthington cast in things again so it doesn't seem so "Who the hell is that guy again?" when he puts out the new Avatar movies in ten years or whenever he gets them actually made. So here's news that Sam Worthington has joined the cast of Jake Gyllenhaal's Ass on a Mountain. Also Robin Wright has joined the cast too.

--- And Speaking of people from Avatar who need a new agent, a new picture from NBC's Rosemary's Baby remake-ish thingamajig with Zoe Saldana and that Suits dude can be seen over here. (thanks Mac)

--- Bald Beauty - Corey Stoll is probably joining Edgar Wright's Ant-Man movie, but the role's a secret. I interpret that to mean he will be either Paul Rudd or Patrick Wilson's love-slave, and I will accept no less. My boyfriend is watching House of Cards right now (I still haven't seen the show) and I walked past and there was Corey half naked on a bed and I can't get the image out of my head...

--- Cherish Valerie - I don't believe I've mentioned this news even though it's a week or so old and I am a crazy fan of the original, so obviously the only excuse for why I'm just linking to the word that Lisa Kudrow might be making some more of The Comeback, in some form with HBO, is a psychotic break. Actually I'm just too scared to jinx it. I want it too much to even breathe until it happens. I am prepared to die for Aunt Sassy.
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... giving Édgar Ramírez a rude awakening.

These shots from 2004's A Dot and a Line should've been today's "Good Morning, World" post but my schedule's all off this week, so here they are in the afternoon. Afternoon delight amirite??? Groan.

It's Édgar's 37th birthday today - he and I are only a couple of months apart age-wise which surprises me, I think of him as older. But then I think of myself as infantile, so that's not all that surprising. Happy birthday, Papa Édgar!

Which is Hotter?

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Lee Pace: Brute or Bandit?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Happy 35, Lee!
After the jump I put a pair
of NSFW gifs from Infamous just cuz...

Rock Will Rock Will Rock You

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The first trailer for the new Hercules movie starring The Rock - I thought we were supposed to call him Dwayne Johnson now? - is here and it's a great big pile of ridiculousness... that's not a complaint; it's an effing Hercules movie, it ought to be a great big pile of ridiculousness. And Dwayne looks like he maybe hit the gym a couple of times?

Just a couple. The fact that it's directed by Brett Ratner is the only thing giving me true pause... but that's a great big enormous true pause. Big. Huge. True. God he's a terrible director. Anyway here:

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Chris Evans Four Times

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(via, thanks Mac)

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Ass & You Shall Receive

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Sorry for that headline - it was just there, I just had to. So yesterday whilst taking our first look at Aaron Johnson in his Quicksilver costume we assked for a good rear view before we judged it; it took a few hours but sure enough, we have received. And it's looking unsurprisingly bountiful. These two shots are via ASL, where you can see several more including Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner.

Americano, Mericano, Mericano

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Don't worry, in a couple days I'll be gone and you won't have to roll your eyes at me finding excuses to talk about Italy anymore... well at least until I'm back from Italy, when I'll probably yap about it some more. But until then - hey look more Italy! I found a way to work my trip into this week's edition of "Beauty Vs. Beast" over at The Film Experience - we're tackling The Talented Mr. Ripley's main men this round. And while you guys go vote on that... I'm gonna go to Italy. Whee!

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The Babadook in 250 Words or Less

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It's a tricky tightrope you've got to walk when you want to review a movie like the totally terrific new Australian horror film The Babadook without tipping the conversation towards spoiler territory. You don't want to mention the movies its walking in the wake of because part of its pleasure is in watching it disturb the patterns - The Babadook is astutely aware of its forebears, it wears its influences like blood-splatters on its sleeve, but it's never in a wink-wink fashion. It's just seen what worked in the past, and it knots it all up into a beautiful new terrifying concoction. Why it works - and it works marvelously well - is first and foremost it never loses sight of character (we buy Amelia and Samuel every step of the way, right off the deep end) and second and second-most it is edited like gangbusters. From early on there's something gorgeously wrong in its rhythms - a nasty arrhythmic pulse like a hiccup inside our chest or a bubble of air in our bloodstream, weaving towards our heart. It squeezes and it squeezes and oh, what a marvelous rush. But implying the film's only some sort of thrill-ride does it a disservice (not that I have anything against thrill-rides, natch) - it's just that heart its got a hold of and is squeezing with ill intent is human, monstrously human, nearly too much so. It hurts.

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Steve McQueen One Time

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The King of Cool was born 84 years ago today.

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999)

Willow: The coroner's office said she was missing an ear, so

I'm thinking maybe we're looking for a witch. There's some

great spells that work much better with an ear in the mix.

Buffy: That's one fun little hobby you've got there, Will.

Happy 40, Alyson Hannigan!

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Everybody But Everybody's In Italy

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Since it's regarding Aaron Johnson I'd love for this post's title to be "Everbody's Butt Is In Italy," but the stupid photographer never caught him from the back so we'll have to hold off from making this too explicit a double-feature with Jake's bare-assed Everest shoot in Rome. (A triple-feature once I'm there in a few days!) But yes this is Aaron shooting The Avengers sequel in Northern Italy (via JJ where you can also see Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch) giving us our first look at his Quicksilver look. Well, he looks better than Evan Peters does playing the same character in the X-Men movies, though that's not the highest bar to hurdle. I'm reserving judgment til I see him from the back though. He needs to pose like the guy on the ground in front of him in this second shot, then we'll know what we need to know about the strengths of his costume: