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--- What A Lovely Day - Mad Max Fury Road, George Miller's triumphant return to mutated desert midgets and the tumescent pustules that love them, is out on blu-ray on September 1st, and so I imagine we'll be seeing all sorts of little goodies popping up online over the next few weeks -- The Playlist has a trio of deleted scenes today and the middle one cracked me the hell up. Seeing as how this movie was in the making for years and years I imagine there's a ton of extras... I'm holding out hope for the War Boys Orgy of my dreams, personally.

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--- Hot Soup - Joel McHale says he has no plans on quitting The Soup anytime soon - he says he's got another good thirty years of it in him. Let's all get on our knees and play that he outlasts the Kardashians. And as long as we're on our collective knees, hey Joel get over here...

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--- Said Uncle - Did any of you see The Man From UNCLE this weekend? I considered it, the reviews were pretty good, but I decided to see the latest Mission Impossible instead. (Which I will try to review later.) Anyway if any of you did see UNCLE this weekend it seems like you were by yourselves, cuz damn it flopped. Henry Cavill really did try though -- here's yet another interview with him slurring out sexy words... 

"It’s like shagging someone for the first time. Sometimes it turns out to be amazing. Mostly you’re trying to get each other’s rhythm going. It’s on the next go that you start to expand."

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--- Dream Maker - I didn't hear about this until it was too late to post about it but I guess director Bernard Rose, who made the original Candyman movie but more importantly Paperhouse (click here for all of my posts on Paperhouse, which is one of my favorite movies of all time), had a little retrospective in Los Angeles this weekend; here's an interview with him on his career. I would kill for this to happen here in NYC.
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--- Forever Wars - There was of course a bunch of news out of the Disney Expo thing this weekend (for a hot few minutes my Twitter timeline was literally nothing but tweets about the Star Wars theme parks), including the word that Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow will be directing the next Star Wars; I stand by my tweet...
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I don't see how anyone can manage anything more than a shrug over the Colin Trevorrow Star Wars news. He sanded Jurassic down to shavings

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 15, 2015

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Anyway some actual groovy news was that Mads Mikkelsen and Alan Tudyk have both joined the cast of Star Wars: Rogue One, the first spin-off film, which Gareth "Monsters" Edwards is directing. (I'm actually surprised Scoot McNairy isn't in this movie too, seeing as how Monsters gave him his big break.) They'll star alongside Diego Luna and Riz Ahmed and my god there's a sex scene I want to see.
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--- Bombs Away - Speaking of, Scoot's much deserved big boy career is chugging along nicely -- he's just signed on to co-star opposite Brad Pitt in that Netflix Afghanistan war satire called War Machine, which is being directed by Animal Kingdom director David Michod. (thanks Mac) The film's based on the book The Operators: The Wild And Terrifying Inside Story Of America’s War In Afghanistan -- any of y'all read it? 

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--- The Return of Vicki Vale - I don't really think Kim Basinger is a great actress but she's always been a warm and welcoming presence on-screen anyway so I'm happy to hear she's gotten cast in Tom Ford's movie Nocturnal Animals opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams and Aaron Johnson and Michael Shannon. I like everyone that they've cast so far! Basinger is playing Adams' mother (which is possible - they're 21 years apart).
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