Night Moves in 200 Words or Less

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Norman Bates mopping the blood off of the tiles in Room #1, mopping mopping mopping, and we're right there with him, our brains in the mental anguish of missing a spot even as the lady we loved only a moment before drains out in the car trunk - that's how you shift an audience's allegiances, and Kelly Reichardt proves herself a bit of a master at that with Night Moves. Not that we didn't already consider Reichardt a master at whatever she tried to do four solid movies into our infatuation, but this one proves something a little bit more explicitly than those previous flicks - she's making some of the scariest, most tense movies out there. Looking back it's plain to see - think of that homeless man silently attacking Michelle Williams in the middle of the night in Wendy & Lucy and cherish that shudder shooting down your spine - but here she's tip-toeing right along the genre line. We've seen this story before, but Reichardt makes it all hers and then some. I can't even foresee a year so good that Night Moves won't be one of the best movies you're gonna see, so see it.

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Who Wore It Best?

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I stumbled across that picture of Robert Redford and I knew his precious little amulet was reminding me of somebody...

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poll by twiigs.com

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... somebody else, that is... 

Buster Keaton One Time

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(via)

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Which Is Hotter?

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So who's the fairest queen bitch of them all?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Wherefore Strip Thou, Romeo

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Master P's son Romeo Miller, who goes by Lil' Romeo some of the time, has been cast as the lead in that upcoming black version of Magic Mike that I told you about last week called (sigh) Chocolate City. (God I hate that title. They really need to change that title if they want people to go see this movie. Nobody is going to want to go to the counter at the theater and say, "I'll have two tickets for Chocolate City, please!" Uggggghhh.) Anyway Romeo had a show on Nickelodeon or something, I don't know, I'm too old to know about that. I am not too old however to ogle him now that he's playing the lead in a stripper movie. Thank goodness for logic. (These gifs are from this video, well worth watching.)

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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I Am Link

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--- Pace Yourself - Our pal Jarett got to interview Lee Pace over at BuzzFeed on the eve of the premiere of his show Halt and Catch Fire and there's some pointed discussion regarding how Lee keeps his private life private, full stop. I would ask 'Why is it always the closet cases making this argument?' but that question answers itself. Aaaaaaaanyway if you're not too annoyed by all that there's also an interview with him over here where he talks about how he'd love to do the Pushing Daisies musical and how he'd love to play a psychopath on Hannibal.

--- Basement Dweller - Because I don't like to let a day go by without mentioning the movie The Babadook, at least not until it comes out here in the US in the Fall (I imagine this will be a difficult goal to accomplish), here's a link over to our friend Glenn Dunks talking about how that movie is successful in wearing its classic horror influences on its sleeve while Jim Mickle's Cold in July is not. I still haven't seen Cold in July, and I really want to.

--- Bite Off - The first poster for Eli Roth's upcoming cannibal epic The Green Inferno can be seen over here - I feel as if there's a germ of greatness hidden inside the image they used for it but it's not there, not at all. I feel like I could mess around with it in Photoshop and make it look better without a lot of effort. It's frustratingly just off.

--- Just Ted - We already knew that Enemy director Denis Villenuve's next flick was going to star Emily Blunt as an FBI agent tracking down a drug kingpin with Benicio Del Toro helping her out; now comes word that The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal, who was beyond godawful on that show, will also be in the movie. He's playing "Ted." That's all we know. Just Ted. Let's hope it doesn't involve a Southern accent because Bernthal is THE WORST.
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--- Speaking Of Bulger - That Whity Bulger bio-pic called Black Mass starring Johnny Depp is filming in Boston right now and all that matters about that can be seen right here in these pictures of Joel Edgerton dressed up in vintage threads. It's very Jeremy Renner in American Hustle looking. Only with Joel Edgerton, so far better.

--- No Seriously speaking of bulges, here's a countdown of important celebrity bulges. Save some pictures worth gawking at this list is bullshit though - Michael Fassbender is #5? You must be cross-eyed.

--- And Finally if you're a Welcome to the Dollhouse fan (and if you're not a Welcome to the Dollhouse fan, you have problems) you're gonna want to watch this video of Heather Matarazzo revisiting Dawn Weiner by way of menoring a bunch of girls and their Special People Clubs. Love! (thanks Mac)

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Wes Anderson Stocking Stuffers

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Amazon has their Criterion collection blu-ray editions of Wes Anderson's movies on sale right now! They're all like 50% off! You can get Rushmore here, you can get Bottle Rocket here, you can get Fantastic Mr. Fox here, you can get The Darjeeling Limited here, and you can get The Royal Tenenbaums here! Them's some good cussing deals, them are.

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Matt Bomer Is On Twitter Now

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He hasn't done much with it yet, he's only been at it for a week or so, but you can follow him over here. I'm sure the shirtless selfies will start up any day now, right? RIGHT??? I won't be ignored, Matt.

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Pic of the Day

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How gorgeous is that shot of Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain in Liv Ullman's upcoming film Miss Julie? Very very very gorgeous, I would say. You can see several more pictures from the movie, as well as a poster, over at The Playlist - that includes a couple very fine shots of Colin Farrell all slicked down and suited up, very nice.

Good Morning, Gratuitous Clint Walker

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What do you guys think - was Clint Walker the ultimate beefcake? I think he might've been. If you're all "Clint who?" well baby, have I got some stuff to show you. Clint's best known for playing the lead role in the late 1950s western Cheyenne, which, well, involved him doing everything without his shirt on. I think my favorite sequence of shots comes from the scene spotted above - you've got to see it in it's entirety. This lady knows what's what...

She is my hero, the wind beneath my wings. I've never actually seen any episodes of Cheyenne, only clips, but I think if I had been a lil' gayling back in the late 50s I would've had to hold my Howdy Doody doll in my lap while watching this show exploit all 6 foot four inches tall and forty feet wide of him, lemmetellyawhat. But it didn't stop at Cheyenne - watch this very similar clip of a similar lady enjoying all life has to offer while bathing Clint as a young shirtless beautiful Roger Moore watches...
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This movie is called Gold of the Seven Saints and I think I have to watch it in its entirety if I can find it, because look at this other picture I found from it...

Roger Moore is SO HAPPY. Dudes what's the deal with Roger Moore anyway? This is the second time in the past few weeks that I've been exposed to a youthful Roger Moore enjoying the experience of man-on-man - we posted that shot of him getting, um, excited as Jody McCrea stepped on his bare back. Roger Moore! Whassup buddy? Anyway...

... back to Clint. Front to Clint! Every side to Clint, Clint, Clint. Clint's still going! He's turning 87 years old today. He hasn't acted in anything in 20 years, but those sturdy genes of his that he showed off so frequently weren't bullshit - he was built to last.

So yeah, that. Good grief. I'm gonna have to go lay down for awhile with a cold compress. Elevate my feet. Take my pulse every sixty seconds and some shit. While I go do that, y'all hit the jump for a bunch more pictures, if your heart can take it.

Happy Birthday To Us All...

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... from Jesse Bradford, who posted this picture of himself yesterday on the occasion of his 35th birthday, which we were already celebrating here with shirtlessness. He gets us. (I also spent way more time than is healthy trying to figure out if he's wearing anything besides that guitar in this picture and I'm undecided - what do you guys think?)

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Putting The Queer In Querelle

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(Click to embiggen) I suppose one of these days I will run out of behind-the-scenes pictures from this 32-year old movie to post... but that day is not today, thank goodness. With the first part of the glorious Fassbinder retrospective coming to a close in a couple of days at The Film Society of Lincoln Center I'm already looking forward to the second half, which will happen sometime in November. My two favorite RWF movies screened already in this first half (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, natch) and I got to see them magnificently projected on a big screen, but the second half, focusing in on Fassbinder's last few years of output, is where the really big visual feasts come in - movies like Querelle and Veronika Voss and Chinese Roulette (oh god Chinese Roulette), and even The Marriage of Maria Braun which I'm not as infatuated with as everybody else seems to be but is visually scrumptious - so this Fall is gonna be awesome.

Pics of the Day

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Via an assortment of Tumblrs here are a few shots from the set of the next Terminator movie (going by Terminator: Genesis I believe) starring Jason Clarke and Emilia "Khaleesi" Clarke (no relation), Jai Courtney, and a very old looking Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I want to bone at least 50% of this cast.

I can't remember - is this a reboot of the series? I feel like it is because I'm sure I remember Nathaniel bitching about that over at The Film Experience, because of how you don't ever need to reboot a series that's about time travel, as the new X-Men movie just pointed out. Anyway I'll take Jai over Edward Furlong or Nick Stahl or even Sam Worthington any day. I mean come on.

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Russell Tovey One Time

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(via) Russell's apparently been spending the down-time between Looking seasons getting himself good and jacked (that's apparently his trainer beside him). Well then let's hope the show make lots and lots and lots and lots of use of this fact when filming starts up again. We wouldn't want all that effort to go to waste.

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Thursday's Ways Not To Die

"These are very funny rollers, Butch."

"Naughty, naughty. Don't touch.

Butch knows best."

"What are you doing? I'm very uncomfortable."

"'Bring forth that sorceress condemned to burn.'"

"That's from Henry the Sixth, duckie, part one. It's a very interesting play, don't you agree, Miss Moon? Particularly that scene where Joan of Arc gets burnt at the stake."

"Though you may find our novel version a bit of a... shock."

"'Spare for no fagots, let there be enough: Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, That so her torture may be shortened. And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure. Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee: Use no entreaty, for it is in vain. Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes, Thou foul accursed minister of hell!'"

 Theatre of Blood (1973)

What, you thought I'd let Vincent Price's birthday go by without giving him one of these? Vincent Price (alongside Chubby Bannister) is the patron saint of MNPP, so hardly! This is the second "Death By Vincent" death I've featured just this year - hell it's the second "Vincent Price sets somebody on fire" death I've featured this year! I mean, I could run this series on Price fumes alone, and never ever find the ending. Viva la Vincent!

All Previous Ways Not To Die linked to after the jump!