I Am Link

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--- Scar Him Not - The second trailer for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie was released and it's just more of the same lip-biting silliness, you can watch it here; there's only one new shot of Jamie Dornan flesh that wasn't in the first trailer, and you can see that right there to the left. I know I am not exactly the audience for this movie but I'm gonna be so annoyed if they mar him up with dirty sex scars (it's hard to see unless you embiggen that image but his perfect pectorals are covered in some sort of welts there) for a bunch of it. I mean you've already denied us the goods, movie.

--- Mix Up - It felt good to get all my bitching about Interstellar out yesterday, cathartic I mean, but that doesn't mean I still don't get a cheap thrill from this story about a movie-theater in my hometown of Rochester NY posting a sign on their door saying that the problems with the sound-mix for the movie were Christopher Nolan's fault, not theirs. Ha suck it Nolan.
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--- My New Mommy - Over on Instagram hipster savant Xavier Dolan shared a trio of new promo-images for the Korean market for his new movie Mommy and they are very fine images indeed. You can see all three here. Mostly I'm just annoyed that Korea's getting his movie and we still haven't seen it here in the US though.

--- And Speaking of posters, some nice new ones have been released for some nice new horror movies - Starry Eyes, which I reviewed right here and which hits VOD today, has a pair of new posters at this link; the one on the right is so Martyrs, which makes sense (I even mentioned Martyrs in my review). And then here's the poster for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the Iranian vampire movie that I reviewed right here, which hits theaters on the coasts next week. Both very good movies worth seeking out!

--- Finn Is In - Since he's the big breakout of the new season of American Horror Story I imagine we'll see plenty of interviews with Finn Wittrock to come, but for now here he is talking to The Wall Street Journal about playing Dandy and standing around in his underwear and all that fun stuff. Nobody could ask him what it's like mounting Matthew Bomer though? WTF WSJ? (thanks Mac)

--- Life After Stoker - Park Chan-wook is finally moving ahead with a new project (his first since Stoker in 2013) -- it's called Second Born and it'll return Park to the sci-fi genre (not to mention the English-language, it seems); it's about consciousness being stored on micro-chips and the black market for, well, personhoods, that creates. Sounds very Johnny Mnemonic or Strange Days or you know anything remotely Dickish (Philip K., that is).

--- Arabian Nights - I don't suppose you could call me a Shawn Levy fan (the Night at the Museum movies make my skin crawl, for instance) so I'm only reporting this news because of the other names - Levy's going to take his own spin on the Ali Baba story called Forty Thieves, and in the running for the lead are Liam Hemsworth, Evan Peters, and Dan Stevens. That's a weird (WHITE) trio of names, innit? Since I'm currently infatuated with those greaser tees + jeans that Evan Peters is wearing on AHS, he's got my vote, of those three.

--- Spy Guy - Listen I like Christoph Waltz just fine; he maybe shouldn't be a two-time Oscar winner, but I always enjoy seeing him on the screen. That said I kinda groaned at the news he's going to play the main villain in the next James Bond movie. He's just SO OBVIOUS a choice. I guess the last thing Bond movies are is subtle. But the best Daniel Craig villains (Mads and Bardem, if you're counting) have oozed a sexual menace towards our super-spy and I don't fore-see CW going there. He's clearly going to be more Amalric.

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