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How You Like Them Apples?

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I like 'em real thick and juicy. (via)

Pics of the Day

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I feel like we never get to see these guys in their costumes. Poor Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth - it must be hard for them, never getting to play superheroes. All those... uh... other roles, having to do with... other... non-superhero-things. Yeah I can barely play that charade. Anyway he look it's Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth as Captain America and Thor for the five-thousandth time on the set of the second Avengers - you guys tired of looking at that yet? I didn't think so. You can see a lot of pics of Mr. Hemsworth at this link, but I've curated it down to a select bicep-heavy few after the jump...

David Cronenberg's The Nest

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I get away with watching a lot of stuff here at my office, but I think I am going to save watching this new short film from David Cronenberg, about a woman with an unwelcome insect visitor living inside of her breast, for when I get home tonight. Not because it's NSFW, I live and breathe NSFW, but I don't think I should be vomiting in front of my co-workers, is all. Y'all free to do what you want though. Vomits away!

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Listen to Tilda

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I don't usually read entire Reddit AMAs because the format makes my eyeballs bleed. Thankfully the good ones usually get the worthwhile bits transcribed by somebody less prone to bleeding eyeballs, and then the world gets to stay clean and carefree without the streets running red with eyeball blood - everybody's happy! Point in case I knew Tilda was up on there over the weekend, and Tilda's always worth our time, and hip-hip-hooray The Playlist went and dug up the bits worth reading. And the best part, if you ask me, comes down to just thirteen words. That'll keep all our eyeballs safe! Asked about the movie she's made that she's most proud of, she answered the terribly under-seen 2008 flick Julia, which she is just so good in (my review) it'll make you scorn every other performance ever given by anyone (what hyperbole?) ever. Says the Swintonster:

"PLEASE look for that one.. it is something else.. and I LOVE it."

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By Brian Bloom's Beard

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I don't know where or when this was taken, or anything having to do with the context of this shot of one of my longest-standing crushes Brian Bloom, where he's sporting a big beautiful full face of fuzz, I don't if it's for a role or what, but it's a big beautiful thing. He should keep it, or grow it back if he doesn't have it right this minute, is my point. Brian's turning 44 today - click on here for lots of him. He's the reason I'll always have a thing for super dark hair and super light eyes - well him plus just the general fact that it's the perfect combination. (It blinded me to Jared Leto's douchiness for much longer than should've been possible.)

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Editing Eddie Cibrian

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It's become nigh impossible to ogle one of my faves - that understandably possessive woman of his manages to jam herself into every single picture. I suppose with his history her grabbiness makes sense - I'm sure the body-language experts at the tabloids have a field day with these two - but she's really insidious, you guys. If they're sitting on a couch beside each other...

... her hand finds its way to his crotch. 

Or its her feet worming in...

It's always something!
Just let us enjoy Eddie, woman!

Anyway ignoring her as best as we can, I stumbled upon a few new-to-my-eyes shots of them making their paparazzi rounds at the beach and not to be entirely vulgar (hahahahahahahaha right) but um, we now know the cut of Eddie Cibrian's jib, as it were.

(The jib is his penis.)
Hit the jump for a couple more pics...

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Sexual Healing

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I'm getting super excited about the return of Masters of Sex in a couple of weeks, so what with that and it being my love Lizzy Caplan's birthday today, I figured it was a solid time to do a "Beauty Vs. Beast" poll for her and Michael Sheen's characters over at The Film Experience - head over and vote! I have a feeling this one will be lopsided, Michael Sheen's character really is such a jerk while Lizzy is LIZZY, but my yapping at the mouth getting more people to watch the show is all I care about.

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I Am Link

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--- False Blood -  If you need a quick come-down from the heat-fever that the gay-sex scene between Ryan Kwanten and Alexander Skarsgard provided on True Blood last night, go read our pal Joe's post at The Wire putting the scene into context, terrible context, within the show's lousy history on the gay stuff. I agree with it all, and I've pretty much stopped watching the show because it's nigh unwatchable at this point... but I'm still gonna turn my brain off and enjoy Ryan Kwanten and Alexander Skarsgard bumping their perfect bodies on each other.

--- Drained Out - Since yesterday when I tweeted a link to this article at The Advocate about the Dracula Untold trailer calling Noted Homosexual Luke Evans "Out Actor Luke Evans" they've gone and changed their wording - now it says "formerly out actor Luke Evans" - HA! I cannot wait til the day he's forced to clear all of this up. It will be so simple too, and then it will be done. Imagine it, Luke! So easy.

--- Big Beasts - I saw some post somewhere on Friday that showed off this first picture of Idris Elba in Cary Fukunaga's new movie called Beasts of No Nation but I was so grossed out by the post calling Fukunaga basically just "that dude behind True Detective" that I wiped it all from my brain. Just eww, no, we're trying to pretend they aren't the same person so stop that. Sin Nombre! Jane Eyre! We have much better things to work with, people.

--- Forward Momentum - Don't read this interview if you haven't seen Snowpiercer yet, but Vulture chatted with its director Bong Joon-ho about the ending of the movie, plus there's a lot of interesting talk about the way they shot a movie set inside such a claustrophobic space. He did such solid coherent work on the way he kept the camera moviing from left to right the whole time I can feel it, the impression of that movement, when I think back upon the film.

--- Catch A Fox - I know that Foxcatcher is a Serious Movie from a Serious Director and Channing Tatum gives a Serious Performance in it that's probably going to net him a Serious Supporting Actor Nomination and all, but this here first poster for the movie is still just a little too serious. They clearly should use one of these images I capped from the trailer. Serious Singlet Action is the way to go, marketing department.

--- Get Stuffed - I love how ever-present the entire team behind Hannibal are being online - a week doesn't go by without another interview with one of them - speaking of, here's a new chat with Bryan Fuller about the direction the next season will be taking, and also oh yeah David fuckin' Bowie.

--- Fancy Dresses - I stayed up late posting images from True Blood and The Leftovers last night but I never got around to watching the finale of Penny Dreadful, so nobody say anything about what happened on it! Here as a gift to shut you up I will link to this nice interview with the show's costume designer (thanks Mac) - how amazing are the costumes on that show anyway? Well except for Dorian Gray, I just can't get down with the hair or the damned silky purple shirts, it's too obvious.

--- Horror Unit - I am putting this here to remind myself to read it at lunch so I can't tell you anymore about it other than hey look it's an article at The Playlist about David Cronenberg's The Brood and the so-called "weirding of the American family"  - I'll have to check and see when I read it if they acknowledge the fact that The Brood is a Canadian movie about Canadians.

--- Man of Super - There's nothing much to see here, he's wearing a ton of clothes plus he's covering himself up with a charity t-shirt on top of that, but here's the first look at Henry Cavill in what I assume is his Clark Kent costume (no glasses?) in Batman Vs. Superman; it's for the Roayl Marines charity, hence the tee.

--- Dream Date - I don't know, maybe I'm just broken, or maybe I've just realized that Hollywood can make all the shitty remakes they want to we'll always have the originals to enjoy - Takashi Miike's 1999 freak-out-sterpiece Audition is finally getting a remake, says Deadline. I've actually always thought Audition would translate to a remake easily though, and am surprised it hasn't happened already. It's a pretty basic story - it's just Fatal Attraction turned up to eleven. What made it interesting though was Miike's plunging nightmare spin on it. We'll see if they bother trying.

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And Then Justin Theroux Jogged

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And it was good.

And it was great.

Good Morning, Jai Courtney

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Okay maybe it's not morning, but it's after Midnight anyway. Whatever - I can call it "morning" if I want to, since that gives me an excuse (apparently I need an excuse?) to post this picture of Jai Courtney in his underpants. I mean fuck, it's morning somewhere. Have we moved on now? Can we just appreciate that picture? Because goddamn. (via)

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Happy Gay Pride, Everyone

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I said this the other day, about spoilers - that there are certain things that are just above and beyond those things. This is one of those things. Tonight on True Blood, yadda yadda this happened. 

Alexander Skarsgard and Ryan Kwanten went at it like crazy animals in heat. I don't even want to pretend words matter now. Pictures. Pictures. PICTURES. Hit the jump for all the caps.

RIP Meshach Taylor

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Black man, black man, where have you gone to?

Black man black man, where did you go?

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I Am Insane You Are My Insanity

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Y'all have a lovely weekend, I am off - scampering away from Pride junk here in New York and seeing Philly for the first time! I've got to make sure I've got all the lyrics to "Motownphilly" down before I get there though, just in case they quiz me on the street - it'll be like that scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure where the Alamo folks sing "Deep in the heart of Texas!" on command, only Boyz-II-Men'ier.

Summer of Sex

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Showing back up just in time for my birthday (is it that time again? SIGH) is one of the finest shows on television, and right outta the gate too, Showtime's Masters of Sex with my-dream-Lois-Lane Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen. It's back on July 13th and not only do we have that lovely poster (adore the vintage coloring and how it looks like an old issue of TV Guide) but there's a trailer, too. 

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For a show about sex the first season wasn't necessarily sexy (except whenever Nicholas D'Agosto was shown clothed or unclothed, of course) which was purposeful, I know, but if this trailer's anything to go on it looks like they're expecting our leads to turn up the heat this go-around. I've no doubt Michael and Lizzy can bring it either.

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... on a journey of discovery with Alex Pettyfer.

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ETA These other shots, just, uh, cuz...

Quote of the Day

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Firstly congratulations to Bryan Fuller and Hannibal and Mads Mikkelsen, who all won golden trophies at last night's Saturn Awards - Bryan receieved the Dan Curtis Legacy Award and saluted Curtis' specifically for freaking him out with Burnt Offerings, saying, "To all the storytellers, inventors and poets who freaked people out and made them think differently, I salute you." Hear hear, and we salute you for the same thing, sir! That's not my quote of the day though - my quote of the day comes from a really wonderful piece saluting Hannibal as "the better version of True Detective and Fargo" over at EW, all of which you should read, but here's the choice bit:

"Hannibal never settles for easy answers. Even when you know that Hannibal Lecter is evil, the show takes his perspective on existence utterly seriously. He’s not a gibbering lunatic in the woods or a wandering loner who keeps running into a symbolic wolf; he’s a likable snob fascinated by human nature. Mikkelsen gets all the praise, but Dancy might actually have the harder job. His Will Graham starts out unglued and then gets worse–and then he gets better because he gets worse. Both True Detective and Fargo presented Evil as an outside force invading; Hannibal torments Will with visions of the evil within him, barely repressed."

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Good Morning, World

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I'll probably get shit, and deserve it, for lauding Tobey Maguire today after dissing the blandness of Chris O'Donnell yesterday, but I love Tobey and I miss Tobey and I wish him a very happy 39th birthday today. I don't really want to get into disparaging Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker either because I like Andrew too, but the Raimi movies were much better than the Marc Webb ones. (And yes it's true I liked Spider-Man 3, even the Emo Peter scenes.)

Speaking of Raimi did you hear that news yesterday about his possible new project? He's producing and very possibly directing an adaptation of Jake Tapper's book The Outpost, about US forces in a battle with the Taliban - obviously this would seem to mark a departure for Raimi - while we're all screaming for Evil Dead 4, he's going all serious on us.

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Here's a Picture of Shia Getting Arrested

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... at Cabaret on Broadway tonight. 

Read the story here. 

It's via this Instagram.

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Pacific Rim 2 Is A Go!

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(via) In this one Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba will make babies.

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Putting The Face In The Faceless Men

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I apologize if you consider casting news a spoiler but I can hardly leave this rumor unremarked upon since it involves one of the hottest dudes on a show of hot dudes - there's a rumor that Tom Wlaschiha, the guy who played Arya's compatriot-in-killing Jaqen H’ghar in the second season of A Game of Thrones, will be showing up again next year. It's via the actor's own agency, which may have let it slip when they shouldn't have - HBO ain't said balls yet. 

Anyway we all wanted it to happen - though he was hardly on the show, he left a mark. Those eyes, those lips. Leave a mark on me anytime, Tom! Since the character he plays is able to change his face to suit his slippery purposes, it seemed as if they wouldn't need to hire the same actor - I hope they have indeed realized what they had with him though. And you can see a whole bunch of what they had with him way back here.