I Am Link

.

--- Another Helping - RadioTimes marked the horrible and tragic one year anniversary of the cancellation of the BBC's glorious gore-ious zombie series In the Flesh by talking to the show's creator Dominic Mitchell about where the show's future stands - whether a movie or a limited run of episodes could happen - and he seems kind of optimistic that maybe it could? Although it sounds like he needs fans to holler loud and often to the folks at the BBC about it, so consider this me hollering. Good god do I need more of that show in my life! I miss all of those characters so very much. (Not to mention staring at Emmett Scanlan.)
.
--- Repeat Rampage - Juan Antonio Bayona, the director of The Orphanage and The Impossible and the upcoming A Monster Calls (about which I am very very very excited), is maybe up for the Jurassic World 2 directing gig, says Deadline. He had been attached the World War Z 2 directing gig but that fell through. So it would seem no matter what dude is directing somebody else's sloppy second next. At least he's got more practice than Colin Trevorrow did; maybe he can make a better movie.
.

--- Colorful Girl - As each name got attached to the Suicide Squad movie my enthusiasm peaked and crated, waxed and waned, and last night watching the first proper trailer for the movie I felt that same pull in my gut - glee on second, ambivalence and/or hostility the next. But I think we can all agree that Margot Robbie looks gangbusters, and this piece at Decider does a good job explaining why. It also offers some tidbits about her character of Harley Quinn that were new to me.
 .

--- One Man's Reveries - I haven't actually watched the trailer for Werner Herzog's new documentary yet because what would be the rush in doing so? It's not like Werner Herzog will ever make a movie that I won't go to see the minute it's available to me. Anyway this new one is called Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (of course it is) and it's about robots and artificial intelligence and all that beep boop beep junk and you can watch the trailer over at Vulture. The film is playing at Sundance, and I imagine it'll be out proper-like before the end of the year.
.
--- Give Like Gerwig - When I wished Mickey Sumner a happy birthday yesterday I got bitten by the Frances Ha bug (it's always there, waiting, waiting, waiting) and since I always have Frances Ha on my person, on one or another of my many technological devices, thank you Apple, I watched some of it. Ahh, delight. In related news i-D Magazine talked to Greta Gerwig herself and got her to share her a "Guide to becoming a Real Person" and it is all, you guessed it, delightful. (thanks Mac)

.

--- Who's Hateful Now - I've been having a really hard time writing actual movie reviews again these past few weeks, so a lot of films seen over the holidays (many of the ones now up for awards) have gone unwritten about -- case in point Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, which I saw so long ago now I don't know if I could even rope in my feelings about it without seeing it a second time. I will say my feelings were mixed, but not as brutally so as a lot of folks seem to be. It was pacing and logic that messed it up, I thought. Anyway today I read maybe the best thing on the film that I've read so far over at BuzzFeed, calling it "The Meanest Movie Quentin Tarantino's Ever Made," and which made me actually very much want to sit down and re-watch the film soon.
.

--- And Finally I can't remember why I missed the one screening we got here in NYC of Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama's new psychological thriller The Invitation, which stars amongst others the bountifully bearded two-some of Logan Marshall-Green and Michiel Huisman, but iss it I did, much to my chagrin. So I'm happy to see it's gotten a release date so soon - it will be out in theaters and on VOD on March 25th, and the first teaser trailer's right here.
.
.