I Am Link

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--- Flat Front Trousers - There's a giant gallery of concept costume illustrations that didn't end up being created for X-Men Days of Future Past right over here and you've just got to scan down and see all the costumes we could've seen Michael Fassbender in but didn't. Velvet bell-bottoms! Unlike First Class this new movie dropped the ball (heh) with the Fassy bulge though - not one in sight!

--- Science Fictions - I mentioned the other day that despite my best efforts I'm now looking forward to the new Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow (I just have to keep repeating the director's name to keep myself sane); inspired by this new movie's apparent goodness, The Wire lists the new Sci-Fi Canon - movies that've come out since the turn of the Millennium worth their weight in silvery surfaces. Great list... although the absence of Eternal Sunshine is troubling.

--- Speaking of I've seen Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at least a thousand times (at least) but Michael C still managed to find a couple of little easter eggs in the movie that I'd never noticed before in this list of 20 Details You Might Have Missed in the movie. I never saw those dots on Joel's forehead!

--- A Man For Violence - James Ransone, who will always be to me that boy that choked himself while jerking off in Ken Park, has just joined the cast of Ti West's In a Valley of Violence, the upcoming Western thriller with (sigh) Ethan Hawke & John Travolta.
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--- Shades To Rest - Charlie Hunnam told Life & Style magazine that it was "heartbreaking" that he had to drop out of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie... I suppose that's a nicer sound-bite than "I dodged a bullet there," so good word choice, Charlie. He says he'll go to the premiere if they invite him, or he'll buy a ticket on opening weekend - I will be your date, Charlie! (And I will put out.)

--- Bombs Away - Every time I see a new trailer for the Wachowski's upcoming flick Jupiter Ascending my jaw drops a little bit lower at how unfathomably UGLY the movie looks, from Channing's bleached hair and elf ears all the way up to the mish-mash of color and clutter they built their gigantic worlds out of. So the news that it's been picked up from its release date in mid-July and kicked wildly away to next February only surprises me in that the studio's making such a public display of no faith.
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--- Central Intelligence - That beautiful bald eagle called Corey Stoll is going to be on the fourth season of Homeland! He's playing a big CIA uppity up in Pakistan. I am sure he will wear dark colors and say things very firmly and ooh Carrie that rascal she won't listen to him and it'll be frustrating yet kinda sexy, jazz hands.

--- Big Bear - Inception co-stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hardy (Tom for the win) are probably going to work together again, this time with one of my least favorite of all the directors, pointless miserablist Alejandro González Iñárritu. The project is called The Revenant and it's about a 19th Century fur-trapper mauled by a grizzly bear and then robbed (not by the grizzly bear, but by people - people do the robbing) who then seeks revenge on everybody (bear probably included). Anyway make Hardy the star and ditch the director and I'm there!
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--- Strange Touch - Horror director Scott Derrickson made the snuff-thriller Sinister (pretty good until the ghost kids!) and has the cops-versus-demons flick Deliver Me From Evil coming out soon (with a super hunky cast), so naturally his next project is probably going to be a gigantic Marvel superhero movie. It sounds like he's pretty much confirmed for Doctor Strange. If any of the Marvel movies need a horror touch, that's the one I guess. The terrifying portion of this news is the rumor that Jared Leto is possibly going to play the lead. Don't do this to me, Marvel. Please I beg of you. In related news, Marvel can't get anybody to sign on to Ant-Man now that they fucked it all up with Edgar Wright.

--- And finally Nicolas Winding Refn introduced the brand new transfer of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to the crowd in Cannes the other week, saying that seeing the movie at Cinema Village in NYC when he was 14 made him want to be a director, and now there's video. Watch below! I can't wait for this transfer to screen here in New York.
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