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--- Madding Man - Two posts of interest at The Film Experience - here's Nat's take on the new Far From the Madding Crowd movie, which I personally was curious to read since neither he nor I had ever seen the Julie Christie movie or read the Thomas Hardy book. He liked the new movie with more reservations than I had (here's my review); I loved this though:

"What Bathsheba wants is, in the end, a moot point. The camera knows what it wants and what it wants is the good shepherd played by the greatest movie star Belgium has ever offered us. Schoenearts is irresistible to look at and the camera agrees, continually flattering him with intense closeups..."

Of course I loved that though. Also at TFE is the news that the incredible actress Cara Seymour is going to be taking over the site on June 9th! We have adored Cara Seymour every single day since we watched Christian Bale, naked save a pair of white sneakers, chase her with a chainsaw. I actually right this minute have a goldfish named "Christie" in her honor!

 --- Let's Experiment - Last week we told you that Tony Goldwyn and John Gallagher Jr had joined the cast of Greg McLean's upcoming office-centric horror thriller The Belko Experiment (written by James Gunn) which reads as a kind of "Lord of the Flies meets Office Space" ... well a few more very cool names have since leapt on-board - Michael "Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer" Rooker, for one! Also the terrific and seriously under-appreciated Melonie Diaz.
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--- The Quiet Man - The Playlist shares two pictures of Pedro Almodovar on the set of his next film called Silencio with actress... um is that Adriana Ugarte? She looks different with that hair. They say the film is "the story of the tumultuous life of Juliet, tracking the character across thirty years from 1985 to 2015." Okay. All I know is I'm super sad that Miguel Angel Silvestre doesn't seem to be in this; I was really hoping his small role in I'm So Excited would lead to him becoming Pedro's latest hunk of muse (I guess he's too busy having gay sex for the Wachowskis). Daniel Grao (pictured right) is in Silencio and he is promising, though. I saw him in a 2012 movie called The End and he's gorgeous. (Also gay from what I remember?)
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--- Big League - Last week I was trying to explain Penny Dreadful to a friend of mine who clearly doesn't get out enough (how could anybody have not heard of Penny Dreadful?) and I name-dropped The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie (and why did I think she'd have heard of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen if she hadn't heard of Penny Dreadful?) and here we are less than a week gone and we're hearing that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is getting rebooted? I have powers. Terrible powers. Still that series has no place to go but up; I really love Alan Moore's comics.

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--- Hate 2-0 - Apparently the racial and religious tensions in Europe (France specifically) have got director Matthieu Kassovitz and star Vincent Cassel thinking it's time to revisit their 1995 film La Haine with a sequel. I loooove the original so very much but think this might be a terrible idea. In the twenty years since Kassovitz hasn't approached making anything as great as that movie, and I fear he might be too soft for the subject now.
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--- Witch of the North - Although I feel as if she's being spoilery with what she specifically chooses not to say, here's a nice interview with Melisandre herself the actress Carice Van Houten, who's been an MNPP Icon ever since she dyed her pubes that special shade of golden for the resistance. Fun Fact: She used to date Seth Meyer's twin brother! And Seth is the nerd who convinced her to take the role on Thrones. Thanks, Seth!
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--- Skin Born - I will link to it whenever anybody gives good love to Jonathan Glazer's already-a-masterpiece Under the Skin but I'm especially keen to do so since it's my pal Sean talking up the flick this time around, calling it "one of the most harrowing and singular scary movies you’ll ever see." Word. The way he describes the beach scene (oh you remember the beach scene, don't pretend you don't remember the beach scene) is especially nice.
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--- Never It - We already talked up the news that Cary Fukunaga had dropped out of making Stephen King's It into a movie (or rather a pair of movies) yesterday but now there's more details on what went wrong, and also the news that this pretty much strikes the entire project dead as a little boy who gets his arm ripped off by a killer clown in the gutter. (That is very.)
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