I Am Link

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--- Double Oh Doubles - The terrific Léa Seydoux, recently violently smacking girl-buns in Blue is the Warmest Color and stroking Vincent Cassel's fur in that new version of Beauty and the Beast, is apparently the "femme fatale" in the new Bond movie with Daniel Craig. She a bad Bond Girl, in other words. And Guardians of the Galaxy's Dave Bautista is apparently one of the evil henchmen. Naturally I'm more inspired by the latter, and hope it's he and Craig who do the majority of the wrestling around in the movie.

--- Jenny's Hate -  I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this news across the internet but maybe I was too steeped in Comic-Con when it dropped - Jennifer Jason Leigh has landed the lead female role in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. Although "Leading Female Role" is kind of a misnomer - I believe it should read "Only Female Role," from what I've heard about the script. Anyway I hope JJL's gotten her business together since a couple of years ago when she seemed Xanax'd out to a flat-line on Revenge.

--- Prison Bound - I feel like I've been writing about movies about the Stanford Prison Experiment for all my life - it's all Moritz Bleibtreu's fault for getting naked all over Das Experiment back in the day; now I look to these movies as good excuses for gratuity instead of, you know, allegories about humanity's innate violence, blah blah blah. There's a new one being made right now that I've told you about, it already has Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, James Wolk and Billy Crudup... and now they just added Tye Sheridan and James Frecheville to the "exploit me!" list.

--- Scary Mary - Because all the dude-bros making the V/H/S movies can't be bothered to deal with women unless they're filming rape fantasies (alright, I'm being somewhat harsh, but still) a bunch of female horror directors (including Mary Harron!) have decided to make their own anthology series - it'll be called XX; we already told you about it before but Magnet just financed it. Good for Magnet. (thanks Mac)
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--- Van Dame - Dame Maggie (do I really need to add the "Smith" at this point?) is starring in a movie version of The Lady in the Van, which I guess is a play she did to much acclaim in the UK. (Dame Maggie's dusty farts are met with much acclaim.) It's about an old lady who parks her van in some dude's driveway for 15 years. History Boys and good buds James Corden and Dominic Cooper are co-starring.

--- Speaking Of British farts, the C4 has decided not to renew my new favorite show Utopia for a third season. BOO! My boyfriend says that David Fincher (who's making the American remake for HBO his next pet project) is to blame and I think he's right. Fincher wants to own the property; I've no doubt that's why it hasn't gotten any proper release here in the US. And now it's done! BOO. I haven't watched the second season finale yet, I have been saving it because I feared this might happen. I am afraid to watch it now that that's it. (thanks Bill)

--- Air America - Robert Downey Jr. is spreading his stank outwards from the Iron Man movies and the Avengers movies to the third Captain America movie - just when I figured out how to avoid him as best as possible, he decides to come between me and my Chris Evans' beefcake. I hate you, Robert Downey Jr.
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--- Scully Busting - I haven't read through all of this Reddit AMA with Gillian Anderson (I really find the format impossible, with my old-man eyes, to sort) but supposedly she says the party-line on a third X-Files movie (wait and see!) and she gets very very excited about a female-led Ghostbusters movie, basically begging for a role. I looooooooooove that idea.

--- No Game - I like Benedict Cumberbatch and I very much want to see the Alan Turing bio-pic The Imitation Game but Benny needs to shut his yap on the absence of gay sex in the movie, he is really cramming his foot in it - we don't need heterosexuals to tell us who and what we can claim as our "martyrs" any time or anywhere, good sir, so kindly stuff it. I am generally worried over what I hear about the movie, but we'll see.