I Am Link

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--- I Am Witch - I knew well that David Gordon Green had dropped off making the remake of Suspiria, sadly, but I'd forgotten the news that followed -- that Luca Guadagnino, the director of I Am Love (and the upcoming hotness-fest A Bigger Splash), was going to do it himself! How could I forget that? Dear lord that's amazing. Anyway he's opened up about his plans for the film with Empire; it sounds like he'll be focusing on motherhood somehow? I don't know, but he sounds like a huge fan of Argento's original. (As he oughta be.) He does say that Isabelle Huppert & Isabelle Fuhrmann are not coming along from Green's proposed version (boo)... but if he brings Tilda along, oh my god, I don't care. Tilda in a remake of Suspiria, my brain will literally break.
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--- Unholy Holiday - I have seen lots of people going nuts for the trailer for Krampus, the Xmas-themed horror flick from Michael "Trick 'r Treat" Dougherty, but I haven't watched it myself since I need no convincing, I was there the second I finished watching TRT and started waiting for whatever he did next. Not to mention that I've been clamoring for a movie to focus on the Xmas demon Krampus for a very long time, and I'm glad somebody with as much a sense of fun as he's got got there first. I will say I don't remember hearing that the thing was cast with such awesome folks as Toni Collette, Adam Scott, and Alison Tolman though - yesss!!! Oh and here are a few pictures from the film, too.

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--- Baby Man - To temper the good news, here's some crud -- Jamie Foxx, who I can't stand, has joined the cast of Edgar Wright's next flick Baby Driver, which already has Ansel Elgort (oh my god did you hear about Ansel's upcoming album as DJ Ansolo? WTF) in the lead. I really though Edgar had already filmed this movie, to be honest -- what's taking him so damned long? And enough with the shitty actors, dude. Cast somebody I can actually be enthusiastic about, please.
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.--- Ride Along - I will always take the opportunity when given to express my adoration for Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (I just re-watched it a couple of weeks ago and god it just gets better and better, even) so here go read this fun piece at The AV Club focusing in on one specific song choice he made with the soundtrack. That soundtrack, even apart from the film, is killer.
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--- Blond Ambitions - I can't believe it's taken me this far into the week (I have to keep reminding myself that Monday was a holiday, though) to yelp my happy yelp noises towards the news that Freddie Stroma, the hot-assed dude from the super-fun Lifetime series UnREAL, has joined the cast of Game of Thrones' next season. He'll be playing Sam's brother, which hopefully will involve Sam & Gilly walking into rooms over and over again where he is standing naked in a bucket, lathering himself. That is my vision for the character, anyway.
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--- Never Come Clowns - The reviews for Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation so far have been smashing, making whatever qualms I had concerning the pitch-black subject matter fly right out the window on a tidal wave of "yeah okay this is gonna be painful but gimme gimme gimme" -- he'll probably be able to do whatever he wants next... well except for the version of Stephen King's It he fled away from, that is. The Playlist got a bunch of new info from him on what happened, and I warn you, it will make you very very sad, hearing what we won't be seeing. Fucking studio morons.
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--- And Speaking of Fukunaga, he and Chiwetel Ejiofor chatted in the new issue of Interview Magazine, you can read that here. I haven't read it yet but I look forward to them describing how they recording the chat from opposite ends of the same bathtub, massaging each other's toes as they talk. There's also a nice set of Chewy pictures, if you like to stare at beautiful men or whatever.
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--- OK Computer Again - Nobody ever really comments when I go on one of my Radiohead freak-outs so I always wonder why I bother, but fuck it, this is my blog and I'll crow about what I wanna! Ahem. Pictures have shown up that show Thom & Co are in the studio plugging away on their new album... with a string orchestra! Oh hells yes. (Thanks Mac)
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--- And Finally, a new clip's been released from Roland Emmerich's upcoming gay-history-lesson Stonewall, and sure enough after the hullabaloo that greeted the first trailer this clip is focusing in on, and I quote, "Marsha P. Johnson, the legendary activist and pioneer of the trans movement." I personally had little patience for the hullabaloo - if you wanna boycott this movie do so because the over-paid hack Roland Emmerich directed it, by all means, but I think we should probably see the movie before freaking out about what it might actually contain. Anyway here's the clip:

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