I Am Link

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--- Fifty Fab - Yesterday was the 50th birthday of my favorite actress Juliette Binoche and I missed it, boo on me. Thankfully Nathaniel caught it over at The Film Experience and took a look at what she's got coming up - we all know and dread that shot of her crying in the trailer for Godzilla - and is asking what our favorite performance of hers is, go check out all the great answers in the comments. Really when it comes to Juli there are no bad answers - she is always good. Always.

--- Big Bads - Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb talked a bunch about the whole "multiple versus too many villians" thing over here with regards to the upcoming sequel, and sure enough it seems I was right when I predicted that some of the villains are there for mini-battles that will be scattered throughout the movie. I suppose his actual quote is spoilery so I won't get into it; just know I know things, you should listen to me.

--- Scot Spot - Hey look it's the clearest picture we've gotten so far of Michael Fassbender on the set of the new MacBeth movie (via). Shocking no one, he makes for the MacBeth we all most want to sit on. In related news I found this interesting - his Lady is being played by Marion Cotillard and here she is talking about how they're keeping her French accent for it, which ought to prove new since the play's so specifically Scottish.

--- Chainsaw Lover - I still can't believe a Heathers musical is a real thing, but sure enough it opens in just a few days here in New York and here's the fun croquet-themed poster for the show right here. I haven't bought tickets yet since all my focus is on my trip to Italy in a couple of weeks so I really hope the show sticks around long enough for me to catch it. (That means y'all need to go.)

--- Wasted Away - The latest asshole I mean actor who's decided that skinnying down will give him respect (while destroying all the attraction we the people had for him) and possibly an Oscar (which just got underlined and circled and stamped approved by the Academey this year twice over, is Mark Wahlberg, who's lost sixty some pounds for the remake of The Gambler that he's making, you can see pictures of him on set over here. He actually looks a little bit better than some of these guys have (oh Jake) though. I guess what he had to lose was ridiculous cartoon muscle mass.

--- Post Wreck -  I don't recall what sort of reviews that this movie got out of Sundance but Slash has the word that Adam Wingard's follow-up to the terrific slasher You're Next, called The Guest and starring a drastically different looking Matthew from Downton Abbey, has been picked up for release sometime this Fall. I liked You're Next enough that I'll see whatever he does, even if Dan Stevens isn't my favorite person to look at.

--- On The Captain - AICN has posted a couple of reports from the set of the Captain America 2 set, neither of which I've read but hey look it's a picture of Chris Evans from behind in his uniform that I haven't seen before so who gives a fuck about anything else. The trailer for this movie that I saw this weekend on an IMAX screen before the 300 sequel (hopefully I'll get to that later) was the first time I felt anything positive towards it - I've been strangely indifferent til now.

--- And finally, I missed this last week, shame on me, but here's what our pal Glenn Dunks thought of 2013 in the movies, from best movie on down. Some wonderful choices up in there - good love for You're Next and Stoker and Xavier Dolan, oh my. And now back to talking about me some more (phew I was not talking about myself for so long, that was exhausting) - I've been meaning to tell you guys, The 2013 Pantys are going to be delayed until next month. Things might actually be quiet up in here in general for the next two weeks as I prep for my Italy trip, and then, well, then I'll be in Italy, and so our awards for last year are going to have to wait until after all of that, I just don't have time to work on them right now. My apologies for the delay; hurting my arm last month really screwed with my timing. But now April will be awesome, right? RIGHT?

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