Thursday, February 05, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Bowler Me Over - Penny Dreadful is filming its second season in Ireland right now and hey look it's Josh Hartnett being beautiful in period costuming on the set. (thanks Mac) The man can wear a bowler and a pair of woolen britches, I tell ya what. The second season starts up at the end of April on Showtime; the show's also got an Instagram account here; I'm hoping that's the place where all the "Josh Hartnett making out with dudes" behind-the-scenes pictures show up.
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--- Snow Show - The town called Sundance can go back to sleep for another year, the movie people have scattered to the wind - click here for all of the reviews that The Film Experience team (aka Nathaniel and Michael) posted from their time there, or you know, bookmark it for later in the year when these things actually get released.
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--- Rings Hollow - How weird, I'd totally forgotten this was actually being made after all these years, much less already filmed and ready for release this Fall - a studio has apparently finally picked up the adaptation of Stephen King's Cell that the dude behind Paranormal Activity 2 directed; it stars John Cusack (ugh) and Sam Jackson and Isabelle Fuhrman (yay Isabelle - and look at her there, all grown up). Once upon a time Eli Roth was very close to making this movie; I have to admit it seems hella dated (evil cell phones!) now. I mean it was hella dated when the book came out nine years ago.
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--- Bronx Beat - Add the name Baz Luhrmann to the list of auteurs taking their business to Netflix - he's signed up to make a thirteen-episode series called The Get Down, which will be about the music scene of the South Bronx in the late 1970s. Baz will only actually direct three episodes of the show (the first two and the finale); it's supposed to be done in time to be released next year.
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--- Going Deep - Final Girl's not reviewing today's Ways Not To Die entry Dagon until tomorrow, but today's entry in VHS Week is no slouch in the funny department - Stacie takes on Leviathan, most specifically the human blight that is Chris Elliot's character. I haven't seen Leviathan in a long long time but I do remember him just being the worst. Stacie really sums up all you need to know about the movie as a whole here though: "Ultimately... you'd have a better time sticking your feet in a bucket of water and watching Alien."
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--- Lady Parts - If you wanna know what the five Best Actress nominees are up to next (and clearly you do, everybody does, they're almost all good people) then click over to The Film Experience where Manuel is telling us just that. While it's Juli & Marion who're my faves of the five it's the so-called "unsalted breadstick" Felicity Jones who's in the project I'm most looking forward to - that adaptation of the book A Monster Calls that I've spoken of several times previously.
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--- Generic Title Here - Horror Director Adam Wingard, who is definitely one of my faves what with You're Next and The Guest being his two prior movies, is making yet another horror flick - it's called The Woods (change the title, change the title, change the title, there are a thousand movies with that title) and all they're telling us is it's about "a group of college students on a camping trip who discover they are not alone." I mean clearly that's an outline that can be taken in a thousand directions - we've seen 999 of them already.
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--- Tyrion V Tammy - Melissa McCarthy has like thirty movies lined up because everything she touches turns to gold (okay Tammy could've done better but it will no doubt have a very long life on cable) so I'd forgotten about this one - she's re-teaming with her hubby, who directed Tammy, for a movie called Michelle Darnell (I hope they change that title; remember when her upcoming spy movie, now called Spy, was called Susan Cooper? Stop with the character titles) and they've just signed Peter Dinklage for her main antagonist. I think they'll play marvelously off each other.
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--- And Finally I haven't checked to see what anybody else's reaction to the trailer for the remake of Poltergeist has been since it was released earlier today but I'll be gosh-darned if I didn't kinda dig it watching it just now.The kids seem like honest-to-goodness kids, it has ghost lightning, and there's a super quick shot of Sam Rockwell's big butt in jeans. What more could you ask for?
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3 comments:

joel65913 said...

Hey I'm all for as many views of Sam Rockwell's butt as possible but just no. This looks like it has nice effects but what's the point of remaking what was perfectly realized the first time? Nobody is ever gonna best Zelda Rubinstein's Tangina for kickass spirit wrangler.

Sean said...

Lame and unnecessary. I'll pass.

dk468 said...

"...Marion who're..."

I love this! parce que elle est bien sur une pute sale!
just don't let me imagine forcefeeding her with the freedom fries!

the best sign on a tips jar on a cafe countertop I have ever seen, was "Justin Bieber assassination fund". I would tip beyond my means, to replace the naughty little brat's name with u know what..

yes dear I would indeed kill to see Julianne win!;-p

Any froggy frogette fans out there?

"Don't fuck with me, fellas!!!", this Juli fan is fierce!! rofl