Thursday, May 07, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Hot Broads - You might not know this about me since I've literally never mentioned it here at the blog but I'm a gigantic Broad City fan - just love 'em! Love them girls to death, I do. So the news that they're teaming up with Bridesmaids (and the Lady Ghostbusters movie) director Paul Feig to make a movie (for now he's only set to produce it) is being met with some big wahoos round here. What's funny is just last night I randomly asked my boyfriend if he thought Ilana & Abbi would ever do a project without the other one, which led to a whole terrifying conversation about one of them playing the tilted-head listening girlfriend of Jessica Alba in a rom-com. Horror! In related news, here's an interview with the gals in Paper that I haven't gotten around to reading yet.
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--- Super Forever - Going back and watching the earlier Marvel movies (for the first time or the tenth) was of course a big to-do with this week's release of the second Avengers film - over at The Film Experience Nathaniel did that 11 film marathon some theaters were holding which is just psychosis if you ask me - nut balls! - but it makes for good reading. And my pal Sean went back and saw the several Marvel hero movies he'd missed and wrote up some quick smart thoughts at his site on each. In related news, the next Avengers, subtitled Infinity War (it will be in two parts, too), is filming entirely in IMAX. I am super into that.
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--- White Panther - Martin Freeman has elbowed his way to the front of the King of the Geeks pack by landing a role in the Marvel universe - he's going to play "some sort of interrogator" in the next Captain America movie, which Latino Review is speculating means he's playing this expert on the country of Wakanda, which means he'll probably also show up in a Black Panther movie. If none of that makes any sense to you, I wish I was you, seriously, I am jealous of your brain's freedom from this nonsense. You probably remember actual things from your actual life!
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--- And Still Speaking of Marvel, Joss Whedon quit Twitter and it caused way way too many think-pieces - the most interesting tidbits were from the parties directly involved - here's Joss explaining to BuzzFeed why he quit after people speculated it was The Feminist's Fault (somehow it's always Their Fault, funny how that works) and here's Mark Ruffalo defending Joss' feminism bonafides, which I agree with - it's horseshit that this needs to be said. Take a torn up page from Sinead and start fighting the real enemies, people. So much energy wasted on so much bullshit.
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--- Off The Clift - I keep forgetting that Ira Sachs is making a Montgomery Clift biopic starring Matthew Bomer, and how I keep forgetting that it beyond the beyond me, it should always be right there at the front of my brain. Anyway it seems like it's slow going with the project so it's not my fault - there's just not much to report yet. But Ira Sachs posted a picture of Matty doing research in a library! Matt wearing glasses surrounded by books... uhh excuse me, I need a minu... uhhh... nevermind that was quick. (thanks Mac)
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--- The Bae In Beirut - Frat-boy abuser Jon Hamm has signed on to star in a movie called High Wire Act, which was written by Tony Gilroy (writer of a bunch of the Bourne movies and director of the great Michael Clayton) and to be directed by Brad Anderson (director of the great Session 9 and The Machinist). It's a thriller set in Beirut in the 1980s about a diplomat trying to rescue the dude who was responsible for the death of his family. Sounds morally complicated and super fun!
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--- Total Resistance - Wow this is quite the cast: a WWII assassination drama called HHHH just lined up Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Mia Wasikowska, Jack O'Connell, and Jack Reynor to star. O'Connell and Reynor (and I can't believe they're making a movie together; I still kind of get them confused) are playing soldiers sent to kill the Nazi (played by Clarke) who came up with the "Final Solution." In others words, that's a character it will be easy to not like! Half of Clarke's work is done for him already. Pike is Clarke's wife, who introduced him to the Nazi ideology, and Wasikowska's a member of the Polish resistance. What about that title though? HHHH? I don't know about that.
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--- Holy Rollers - A couple of actors have joined the cast of Preacher, AMC's "holy man against desert devils" comic adaptation starring Dominic Cooper - Jamie Anne Allman from The Killing and Derek Wilson from Rectify will play husband and wife Civil War reenactors whose relationship of spousal abuse sucks Dominic in. Did I just say "suck Dominic in"? I did. Wait what? I don't know.
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1 comment:

BRB said...

It's actually HHhH (is that better?) I kind of like it as a riddle of a title. It was a big deal for a translated book when it came out.

Wikipedia says: "It was suggested as a title by Binet's publisher, Grasset, instead of the "too sci-fi" working title Opération Anthropoïde." Maybe it'll go back to that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHhH