I Am Link

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--- Sharp Pair - This pairing might just be too hot for the world, honestly - I don't know if we could take Idris Elba and Kate Winslet starring opposite each other in a sexy spy thriller. But we might get it, so we should prepare ourselves! Three pairs of underpants, everybody! It is called All the Old Knives, based on a book by Olen Steinhauer, and Neil Berger, director of the first Divergent movie (which Kate was in) is set to direct. Anyone read the book? I was just thinking the other day that I'd really love to see Kate lean hard into sexy sometime soon - I guess we've got The Dressmaker coming too, though.
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--- And Speaking of Kate, has she said anything about Alan Rickman yet? I know they were super close, she was weirdly my first thought when I heard the news. We live in a weird invasive world. But anyway my post yesterday memorializing Alan Rickman was brief because I was busy but you should know I adored Rickman and his death sucks, it really really sucks. In case you didn't know that, now you do! Glad I could convince you with my eloquence. Anyway this piece at Vulture saluting his genre-defining work in the first Die Hard film is impossible to beat. Hans Gruber forever.

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--- The Fur Trade - I haven't bothered watching this video yet because if you follow me on Instagram you know all I have any interest in posting there is dorky artsy-fartsy stuff, and I doubt that Nico Tortorella's advice on how to slut up your app will tell me anything I need to know. That said I assume the video has Nico Tortorella stripping off his clothes in it, since that's his specialty, so I will surely watch it at some point, because I am an easy sell.
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--- For Scary Times - It was way way back in December of 2013 that we first heard that the classic children's head-fuckery of Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark was going to be turned into a movie, and it took two plus years for the only reasonable and proper answer to reveal itself: nobody should be doing this except for Guillermo Del Toro. And he is! Okay for now he's just producing it but I can't imagine him not directing, right? I'm right now picturing Doug Jones in make-up as all the horrors those illustrations contained and just about shitting myself with glee, as seen here:
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--- Cool it Krueger - Everybody dig out your boxed-sets of Nightmare on Elm Street movies and spend the whole weekend preparing yourselves, for next week over at Final Girl the one and only Stacie Ponder will be tackling the entire series, give or take whatever the hell she feels like giving or taking. I hope she writes ten thousand words on that part where Nancy's Mom takes the vodka bottle out from under some towels in the hall closet, because that is what that scene deserves. 
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--- Triple X Xenomorph - I really love a ton of Ridley Scott movies so I felt weird that I felt nothing when he was "snubbed" a nomination for The Martian, a film that is... fine, just fine, perfectly adequate. I tend to find the concept of "career tribute" nominations suspect though. Anyway he's gearing up to work on the new Alien movie (slash Prometheus movie, or whatever) and he told the press backstage at the Golden Globes that it will be totally super hard R-rated, which probably means violence, but seeing as how there are supposed to be multiple Michael Fassbenders in the film, I am taking to mean a Fassy space orgy of epic explicit proportions. Then Ridley will deserve his damn Oscar!
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--- Hot Snubbin' - I mentioned some of this stuff yesterday but I trust you're keeping up with The Film Experience's team looks at all of the Oscar nominations - I've been too busy to participate but seeing as how I'm violently ambivalent about the Oscars it's probably for the best anyway. But here's the Team's take on the things that didn't get nominated that they are sad about, and here's the Team's take on things that did got nominated that they find inexplicable (my answer would be like 60-70% of the stuff).
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.--- And Finally there is no way in hell I am watching this video myself but here's a so-called "sizzle reel" of footage from the new limited run of The X-Files, which begins airing on January 24th -- so soon!!! I'm not spoiling myself any more, I've started running out of the room f a commercial comes on TV at this point.
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