I Am Link

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--- The Huisman Trophy - Looks like casting directors are finally putting Michiel Huisman's pretty pretty face (and the rest of it) on the top of the casting piles, he's just lined up two leading man roles - first there's 2:22 opposite the terrific Teresa Palmer (he is replacing Benjamin Walker), which sounds a little Groundhog-Day-ish, and then there's The Woods, which will probably co-star his Game of Thrones co-star Natalie Dormer as a woman who heads into a mysterious Japanese forest to find her sister, who has disappeared. Huisman's role in the latter sounds like the Michael Douglas role in Romancing the Stone; he aids her on her journey. While looking fiiiiiiine, of course.

--- Lady Strangers - The first little trailer-ish sort of thing for Eli Roth's Knock Knock showed up online over the weekend, watch it here; it seems weirdly edited together and very brief to me, but I'm still down for seeing the movie of course. And here's a chat with Eli at BuzzFeed about why he thinks his movie - which is about two hot chicks fucking Keanu Reeves and then going nuts - is super feminist. 

--- Big Dick World - It sounds like Sundance was just a gay dick lover's paradise this year - besides all of the sex and Sebastian Stan nudity there's the fake dongs Adam Scott And Jason Schwartzman apparently rock (fakers = losers) and here's a chat with director Joe Swanberg about including the real deal, some Full Frontal Chris Messina in his movie Digging For Fire, which premiered there; Messina is no stranger to full frontal of course, but it's nice he's not a one-timer. he can keep going back to that wel as long as he likes, really and truly. (thx Sandisan)

--- Speaking Of Sundance and the gay stuff, James Franco and his I Am Michael director talked to Vulture about the gay threesome heard round the world (or soon to be heard around the world, anyway), and in the process James details just how uncomfortable Michael Shannon was that one time the two of them had to go at it. Maybe it's not the gay stuff; maybe it's just you making him uncomfortable, James.

--- Quick Change - Slash shares Ezra Miller's story about how he got cast as The Flash by Zack Snyder and it's super weird - he makes it sound like Snyder just called him up out of the blue and told him he was playing the part. Zack was probably twenty lines to the wind and The Perks of Being a Wallflower was on HBO and you do the math.
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--- Doc Daze - After reading this first half of a conversation between my pals Glenn Dunks and Daniel Walber at The Film Experience on the documentaries of 2014 that did and didn't get nominated for Oscars I went and watched Citizenfour (am I weird for not being crazy about it?) and I started Virunga (I had to stop it because I was doing something else and subtitles, but I'll pick it back up ASAP) and I suffered through the Elaine Stritch doc (sorry world, she drives me nuts), so I had a very doc weekend thanks to these guys lighting the fire.

--- Drags Away - I haven't read this yet but apparently in this interview with the LA Times David Duchovny not only talks about the supposedly imminent return of The X-Files but he also says he thinks his character from Twin Peaks will be returning when David Lynch gets that thing going.
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--- Snub Off - I love this expansive piece by Nathaniel at The Film Experience responding to a recent piece criticizing critics for their entitled behavior at film festivals, which leads to a conversation of Oscar snubs, which leads to a conversation about Selma and the Whiteness of the nominees, which leads to a conversation about how shameful Pride's reception was, and on - he wraps a lot together but s'good.

--- And Finally I had never even heard of this thing but here BD shares what they call "the first found-footage movie," the 1989 UFO-abduction thriller called The MacPherson Tape, which apparently made the rounds on VHS way back in the day. They say it's awful, like beyond awful, but you know, for history's sake...

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