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--- Love That Lannister - Our pal Sean wrote a really beautiful piece for Vulture about the complicated relationship between Jamie and Brienne on A Game of Thrones that's a must-read for any fan of the show - his basic argument is reducing everything that they've been through to sex makes us no better than that vulgarian Bronn. Although I am probably no better than Bronn either way. Speaking of, the couple I'm shipping on that show these days is Bronn and Pod, who make everything about dicks. The sexual tension between those two's off the charts!

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--- Mother Inferior - When I reviewed The Conjuring sequel yesterday I talked a bunch about that demonic nun thing in the film - well I guess I wasn't alone in finding her striking because the studio's working on a spin-off starring her! I hope they decide to mix it up and it's a rom-com where she decides to go to a remote Italian village to find out what it all means and meets a bearded cobbler who shows her what love can be. They can call it Much Ado About Nun-Thing. 

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--- And Speaking of Sexy Holy Folks, the first trailer for Jude Law's miniseries about Pope John Paul II has arrived and you can watch it over at The Playlist. It's called The Young Pope and it was directed by The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino and it will air first in the UK in October and then at some later date on HBO.  It also stars Diane Keaton, apparently? Anyway rename this shit The Sexy Pope and be done with it - I mean they put him in white swim trunks...

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--- Forgive Me Holly Hunter - Wanna hear something awful? Just terrible awful? No I didn't kidnap Dominic Cooper and chain him to my radiator in cut-off jean-shorts and a cropped Confederate Flag tee (not yet anyway). What I did, or rather what I didn't do, is I never finished watching the first season of Top of the Lake. I was doo-doo-doo'ing right along with it, liking it very much, I watched probably 3/4s of it, and then... something happened, I probably got distracted by a shiny object (or Dominic Cooper's shiny objects) and I never finished. And now they have announced the second season and that Nicole Kidman will be in the second season and I gotta go catch the fuck up, man. 

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---  Alien Mined - I'd totally forgotten that Enemy and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve was making a sci-fi movie with Amy Adams but it seems like he's pretty much already made the thing and it will be out this Fall. The Playlist has a lot of little bits of info - it's been re-titled from Story of Your Life to the equally (or maybe a tad bit more so) generic title Arrival, and it co-stars Jeremy Renner (blah) and Michael Stuhlabrg (yay). They've also got a promotional image for the film at that link. Afteer this Villeneuve is making the Blade Runner sequel and then he's reuniting with Jake Gyllenhaal, hooray.

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--- You're Buggin' - I don't know if it's making people happy or sad that Donald Glover has joined the cast of the new Spider-man movie in an unspecified role - when they were casting the web-slinger several years back (before Andrew Garfield got it) he made it clear he really wanted to play Peter Parker, and I could see some second or third banana status this time around being seen as tossing the person of color too small a bone? Maybe I'm just paranoid. Anyway I doubt Donald will be showing off that sweet ass of his in someone else's superhero movie and that's the real tragedy.

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--- Be My Bully Tonight - I didn't realize that they'd already cast so much of the cast for the new adaptation of Stephen King's It, but apparently all of the kids have been cast except for that poor lone female character who's on the receiving end of the bonding gang-bang. (Good grief I hope they leave out the gang-bang scene.) Relatedly this site makes a good point, or at least asks a good question - with the casting of the homophobic slash sexually experimental bully character, will the movie delve into all the creepy gay stuff in the book? When I was 12 or so and read it for the first time all that creepy gay stuff was... you know... a thrill.

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--- And Finally the official Twitter account for the Alien franchise has released a picture of Ridley Scott on the set of his new Alien slash Prometheus movie Covenant, in the background of which you can see a blurried Michael Fassbender in character again as the android David! And he's got a totally new look - he appears to've ditched the bleach thank goodness (that wasn't Fassy's best look):

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