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... where the hell is Jamie Bell?
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... Jai walking.
I think the saddest realization I have ever had is the realization that I will probably never go to Bondi Beach in Australia, aka the place where every Aussie dream, from the Hemsworths to Hugh Jackman, have sauntered their hot half-naked asses around for all the public to enjoy. And now...
... Jai too. It's too much, I cannot bear it, I need to be alone. No like seriously I need to be alone for awhile. You all just go ahead and hit the jump for 18 more pictures and give me some me time please...
There was something in the air that night...
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... the stars were bright, Fernando...
They were shining there for you...
... and me, for liberty... Fernando.
Happy birthday to PJ Hogan today!
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Joe Alwyn Seven Times
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Just realized while looking at these pictures (via, thanks Mac) that in the holiday slash election chaos I never wrote up any thoughts on Ang Lee's film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk... and maybe for everybody involved that's for the best. It's an astonishingly flat film (ironic given the million frames per second 3D aesthetic) that only pops to life once or twice (the actual halftime sequence is pretty good!) but mostly just lays there, dramatically inert, as if Ang was so busy with the tech he was playing with he wasn't paying any attention to the stuff he usually excels at - just little things, like character and story and plotting and visuals and on and on.
Anyway the film's star, who you see here (and if you click back to this previous post also there), has a fascinatingly strange face and head that did hold my command at times, and there was always Garrett Hedlund in army clothes hanging around at others, so it's not a total wash. Hit the jump for a couple more pics of Joe...
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Badlands (1973)
Holly: Did you hear about the guy at the nuthouse that walked around naked except for hat and gloves? This nurse came up to him and said, "You can't walk around that way." And the guy says, "It's okay, nobody comes around here anyway." And the nurse says, "Well, what do you have on the hat and gloves for?" And the guy says, "Well, you never know..."
Badlands was on the TV the other night and I caught about half of it for the first time in a long time and it made me sad that we don't have that Terrence Malick anymore - just as refined and pretty but somehow so much looser and funny and less up his own ass. Every movie of his was once an event but I haven't even bothered to see any of them since The Tree of Life, which really turned me off and which by all accounts is a mood he's only doubled down on since then. Oh well. He'll always have given us Badlands and Days of Heaven and The New World and that's more than many, so a happy birthday to him today.
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Good Morning, World
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While watching this week's episode of Westworld
no sooner had I tweeted the following...
.Just had to rewind Westworld because I realized I had drifted off thinking about how sexy Jeffrey Wright's hairline is instead of listening pic.twitter.com/YW5a4X3ycd— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 29, 2016
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... then this happened:
My first thought was, of course, "Damn!" And then, "Who knew, Jeffrey Wright?" But then I looked closer and I think we have a butt double, people. I mean earlier in the episode we see some semi-shirtless JW and...
... those are not the same bodies. Right?
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I mean no offense to Mr. Wright, who is plenty sexy as is, or so I have come to discover watching him on Westworld. He never did much for me before but his tweedy geekiness on this show and his loud proud pro-Hillary stance on Twitter over the past few months have turned him into a pin-up, for sure. Actually I tried scanning through his tweets to see if he'd mentioned, you know, the butt thing during this week's episode but I got a little winded by all the one hundred percent correct and true Trump bashing, I had to take a break. Anyway good morning!
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
I Want Candy
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Finally some news on The Devil's Candy, the second film from director Sean Byrne, who made a fantastic horror movie called The Loved Ones... seven years ago. Candy has been bouncing around for awhile now - it played Toronto in 2015 and it also had a screening as part of my beloved "Scary Movies" series here in NYC (which I missed due to a scheduling mishap, much to my eternal consternation), but there hasn't been word on a release date.
Until now. Dread Central says the film is being released here in the US in March by IFC Midnight. They also share a Russian poster for the movie, which you can see below. Even with all the delays I've kept myself pretty much spoiler-free on this movie; all I really know is it stars an incredibly cut Ethan Embry. Let's all go watched The Loved Ones to celebrate!
Hardy Gone Wild
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Several new commercials for Tom Hardy's series Taboo have popped up online over the past few days and DH was kind enough to gather them all up in one place -- click here to watch them. The clips titled "Dear James" is actually the most impressive if you ask me, showing off the show's impressive visuals, but the one you might be more interested in is the first one called "Little Man" because hello naked Tom Hardy.
That clip can be seen down below. You probably recall that this was the series Tom was snapped strutting around full starkers for back in February - click here for those NSFW pictures. FX is doing something smart with this show - they are airing it at nearly the same time that the show's international co-owner the BBC is airing it, tamping down on any need for impatient persons, cough cough, to pirate the show. It begins to air on FX here in the US on January 10th.
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Trek's Stars
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I guess the previous news that Hannibal wunderkind Bryan Fuller is no longer the show-runner on the new Star Trek show really took the wind outta Star Trek sails because it's been several days since they announced that the kick-ass Michelle Yeoh (not pictured) was joining the show and I'm only now getting around to mentioning it. What got me around to mentioning it is today's casting news, which says that Rent star Anthony Rapp (pictured) us joining the show as the previously mentioned "first official gay character" in the Trek universe. Actually calling him "Rent star" does Mr. Rapp a great disservice since his greatest credits are Adventures in Babysitting and Six Degrees of Separation, obviously.
Obviously. But anyway the big deal here is they actually hired an out gay to play a gay character -- hip hip hooray for progress! And yes the recent Star Trek movie kinda took the wind out of this accomplishment's sails by making Sulu undeniably and reliably gay as all get out, but we're still excited. Also exciting? The other name attached to the new series today is Doug Jones, aka the modern equivalent of Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney.
See our previous ode to the many monsters of Mr. Jones right here. He's amazing. He will be playing a new alien species apparently, and I can only imagine what wondrous life he'll bring to their latex. As for Yeoh it turns out she is NOT playing the main character, which is the female captain of the Starship Discovery, which is a role that is yet to be cast - she is playing the Captain of a different ship. But she's still awesome too, so there's that!
Adam Driver Seventeen Times
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In what's become a monthly recurrence here on the blog (see Tom Hiddleston here and see Alden Ehrenreich here) we have the photographer Steven Klein's latest sleazy-hot photo-shoot for Interview Magazine - this one is with Adam Driver all dirty and sopping wet in a scuzzy bathroom, and I am so down for all of it.
In the interview part of the Interview Driver talks to his Frances Ha and While We're Young director Noah Baumbach about making those movies and also what it was like working with Jim Jarmusch on Paterson and Martin Scorsese on Silence, you can read that here. Or if you're like me and you just want more pictures of him looking like the world's chestiest heroin addict on the toilet hit the jump...
5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1960
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It's Tuesday and that means it's time to ask the little lady who lives inside of my telephone to pick a number between 1 and 100 and then list my five favorite films from the year that corresponds. I actually had to ask her twice this morning because her first choice of "43" we have already done - see our list of 1943 movies right here.
On second pick Siri said "60" and that's a very good first or second choice by her because damn 1960 was a fine year for movies. (Especially of the International sort.) Three of the movies from that year would make my all-time favorites list (can you guess which three?) and there are several more that I love very nearly as much. This might be the highest quality top five I have ever done for this series. So let's parade the greatness about and add a little shine to an otherwise drab day...
My 5 Favorite Movies of 1960
(dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
-- released on September 8th 1960 --
(dir. Billy Wilder)
-- released on June 15th 1960 --
(dir. Michael Powell)
-- released on April 7th 1960 --
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(dir. Georges Franju)
-- released on March 2nd 1960 --
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Runners-up: Breathless (dir. Jean-luc Godard), L'Avventura (dir. Antonioni), Jigoku (dir. Nobuo Nakagawa), Black Sunday (dir. Mario Bava), Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti)...
... The Virgin Spring (dir. Ingmar Bergman), House of Usher (dir. Roger Corman), Village of the Damned (dir. Wolf Rilla), La Dolce Vita (dir. Fellini), The Magnificent Seven (dir. John Sturges)
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What are your favorite movies of 1960?
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