I Am Link

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--- A Fiennes Guy - Who's finally seeing A Bigger Splash tonight? This guy, this guy! This guy's seeing A Bigger Splash tonight, that's who! Since it's out in the US now (or at least in New York) here's a chat with Ralph Fiennes at Collider. And here's a chat with director Luca Guadagnino at The Playlist. I'm sure interviews with these folks are all over the internet today since it's timely, so if anybody sees an interview with Schoenaerts lemme know! I always wanna hear what Matty's got to say (especially if there are pictures). And if you haven't voted on this week's this-movie-adjacent "Beauty vs Beast" click over!
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--- Unspooling The Psychos - As long as you're not paying any attention to politics it's a happy week because Final Girl is doing a VHS Week, double-sized edition! It's like one of those two-tape videos, like Titanic, remember those? Anyway the point is Stacie's doing two weeks of reviews of videotapes she dug up, and she's already begun - click here for her take on William Shatner's 1966 Esperanza classic Incubus, and then click here for her take on the grand ol' James Whale flick The Old Dark House. (God I loooove The Old Dark House.) And stay tuned through next week for tons more from Ponder! What a treat!
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--- Meat Is Murder - When I first saw the headline that Joe Manganiello is going to star in a movie about The Smiths I immediately pictured him trying to pout slash sneer as Morrissey, as I'm sure many of you did, and the frisson of that image hurt my brain hard. Thank goodness that's not what's happening. The movie's about the true story of a kid who held a radio station hostage for a night after The Smiths announced they were breaking up, forcing the station to play nothing but their music -- Joe's playing the DJ. Phew.
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--- I Can See Right Through You - Shocked that I missed participating in this, especially since I just re-watched the movie about a week ago when it was triumphantly released onto blu-ray, but The Film Experience devoted "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" to Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her yesterday, click here to see all the great picks from that still hilarious film. 
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--- Green Is Good - VICE got to chat with the great Eva Green in theory about the third season of Penny Dreadful but the interview surprised me, in good ways, with how shy she proves to be! That's what they mostly talk about - how she's finding herself more and more shy with time, and good god can I relate. And then over at EW there's a chat with her Penny co-star Josh Hartnett talking about the great chemistry he and Eva share, it's a nice book-end to what she says. (thx Mac) Did you guys watch the premiere?
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--- Offred Adventure - I know this news is several days old but it's too freaking exciting for me not to offer my own jump for joy in the face of it - Hulu is making a ten-episode miniseries out of Margaret Atwood's endlessly (sadly) timely book The Handmaid's Tale and it will star Elisabeth Moss. There aren't enough "FUCK YEAH"'s in all the heavens for me to properly FUCK YEAH this news. The 1990 film with Natasha Richardson has some good stuff about it (I really need to give that a re-watch) but the book is so so much more; I hope they can do it justice. It deserves it. Then they should just go turn all of Atwood's stuff into movies and make that woman ten times richer than the Pope - she deserves it.
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--- Convict Charlie - I haven't ever seen the original Steve McQueen prison-escape movie Papillon from 1973 but it's about to get remade and none other than my boy Charlie Hunnam is slipping into McQueen's no-doubt slim-fit orange jumpsuit. Should I bother going back and watching the original? And you all can go ahead and write the jokes about Charlie + Prison Sex yourselves that I would probably make right here; I'm feeling too lazy to bother. But know they're stirring, oh yes they're stirring.

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--- Agent Down - io9 seems to think that all signs are pointing to Agent Carter's doom - I guess Hayley Atwell's other show is definitely getting picked up, which doesn't spell doom in and of itself, but there are other things that are making it seem so. Boo! Boo! I hate this. They need to pull all of the prints of the new Captain America movie from release and re-shoot it with a few hours of the Agent Carter cast edited in then.

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--- And Finally just because that picture of Chris Evans that I posted earlier has got me feeling hard for Cappy today here's a video of him on Jimmy Fallon last night playing one of Jimmy's typical frat-haze-ish gay games - this time around they're pouring ice water on each other's junk. Jimmy Fallon is more obsessed with hot actor's bodies than I am, you guys.

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