... from Tom Mercier and his.
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Always Look on the Haigh Side of Life
Everything is absolutely terrible right now -- I know it, you know it. There's still a pandemic happening, for one. (No really I promise, it really is still here.) For another the Supreme Court is currently Slim Pickens strapped to the nuke, waving its cowboy hat and happily yeehawing us toward oblivion. We had a nice moment earlier this week when Cassidy Hutchinson twisted her knife around in the former Prez's bloated belly for one long blissful afternoon, but other than that it's been a real hard week to perk up.
So here, I gift y'all some very good news, which hopefully the world can last long enough to see -- Weekend and 45 Years director Andrew Haigh, a fellow proud homosexualist who was last seen making a really great fucking television series starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell which literally nobody but me and like five other people watched (seriously, go find The North Water and watch it already), is making a new movie! And it sounds incredible, every bit of it. First off it will star Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and Jamie Bell, and I could probably just stop there and you'd understand all of this is "incredible" already. But there's more! Here is how the plot is described:
"Strangers follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago."
Now we don't know what that "chance encounter" between Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal consists of, but I think you'll forgive me for going straight unto ye gutter. Still even if it's not "a full hour of butt stuff" I can't help but believe that Andrew Haigh will make it feel like that's what we're getting, cuz he's good like that. I anticipate sexual tension! Like, I'll admit I'm getting big Apartment Zero vibes off this description? Well off the first half of the plot description anyway -- I have no f'ing idea what to make of the second half with the ghost parents thing. But that's good! I love something that sounds like nothing I have heard of before! It's either that or Minions 48: The Minioning in which case I say just bring on the goddamned Apocalypse a little quicker then.
Thursday's Ways Not To Die
I don't really have much to say about this 1957 Hammer Film which I watched last night for the first time -- I just knew when I watched a several minute long sequence of this man exhaustively climbing up a mountainside only to dramatically end with him flopping off the side and a shot of his outfit smashing into some rocks that I had a new favorite dumb thing to adore. I love that they didn't even stuff anything into the clothes where this man's body is supposed to be!
together into a vague person shape! Ha!
That goofiness aside this actually isn't a bad Hammer movie though? It's slow and subtle but I think its restraint ends up being a net plus, and I like the twist at the end about the "monster." And there are some super gay vibes going on between Peter Cushing and his assistant. A perfect Saturday morning old-fashioned serial-type adventure, is my summation! Hit the jump for links to all of the previous "Ways Not To Die" posts...
Cowabunga Garfield
Since we have a new Thor movie out next week -- which I have now seen and y'all, there is butt! -- I've really been expecting Chris Hemsworth to hit up the beach and do one of his surf pap bait runs that always ramp up around the time he's got a new movie out. And we did get one little bit of that -- see here. But instead today it's unexpectedly his momentary-MCU compatriot Andrew Garfield slipping into the wetsuit and batting his best come-hither eyes and sundry bits at us (via), and this is what I call teamwork! I co-sign another Amazing Spider-man movie on the strength of this fan-service alone. Andy, always a team player. Hit the jump for several more alt-Spidey surfin' safari snaps...
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
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Sam: Why did you wall up your house?Berto: To keep out the busybodies!
Born eighty-six years ago today was the actor Tony Musante, best know for playing the lead in Dario Argento's debut picture -- I wish I'd gotten the chance to see this one's brand new 4K remaster when they screened it at FLC here in NYC last week as part of their Dario Argento retrospective since this is one of Argento's most visually arresting films and I don't just (just) mean Musante in those tight 1970s trousers. Its big murder-scene set-piece at the art gallery really is one for the record books.
Probably Musante's other best regarded role is as one of the thugs in the 1967 NYC terror flick The Incident alongside Martin Sheen -- they play a pair of nogoodniks who hold a subway train hostage and I've heard great interesting things about this movie, especially as one of those dangerous-vibed NYC flicks that we all love so much a la The Warriors and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, but I've never seen it! Need to fix that.
Visually everything I've seen from The Incident looks gorgeous, with those dark black-and-whites. It's on blu-ray so I imagine some of you have seen it? Anyway Musante worked as one of those familiar Italian-American character actors right up until his death in 2013 -- he did episodes of everything from Police Story to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour to Marcus Welby to The Rockford Files -- he also had a recurring role as a mobster on Oz, I guess. He was definitely one of "Those Guys." You know those guys. They're Those Guys.
Henry Golding Four Times
A few more photos of Henry Golding modeling for David Yurman have been released (via) -- I wouldn't blame you if you forgot the previous three photos since they were dropped five entire months ago, so you can click here for a refresher. They're just more of the same sexy browns and golds... taking his name literally there, ain't they? Anyway career-wise did you see the first picture of Henry Golding on the set of The Old Guard sequel alongside Marwan Kenzari & Luca Marinelli, the immortal homosexuals we all loved so much in the first movie? I guess Henry is filling the hole left by Matthias Schoenaerts and yeah I'm just gonna see myself out after writing that sentence. Hit the jump for three more pics...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
All of Them Will Be Witches
Well file this under "potentially intriguing slash possibly horrifying, we shall see" -- and yes, I've got an entire filing cabinet full of things that fall under that banner -- we might be getting a Rosemary's Baby prequel? Now that information alone is the "possibly horrifying" part, because nobody should try messing about with Rosemary's Baby. It's a perfect movie -- heck it's literally my favorite movie. People have basically remade Rosemary's Baby a thousand times now -- once officially, to terrible results, and a million other times with vague spins on the material. There's also a nutso TV movie sequel called Look What happened To Rosemary's Baby that is fun insomuch as it's terrible and Ruth Gordon reprises her role.
Anyway setting that aside the rumor gets interesting when you look beyond the initial shock of it because of who's attached to the thing right now -- it will star Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest and it will be directed by Natalie Erika James, the director of 2020's phenomenal horror flick Relic (that one starred Emily Mortimer and I reviewed it right here). Oh and the story will be about the character of "Terry d'Onofrio" (played by Victoria Vetri in Polanski's film), who's the young woman who lives with the Castavets and ends up "jumping" out their window toward the start of that film, after befriending newcomer Rosemary (Mia Farrow) in the laundry room.
Thing is nothing has been stated about any of this officially -- the movie on IMDb is called Apartment 7A and no plot has been released. Bloody Disgusting just says they "have it on good authority" ... and then some incredible sleuth went and noticed that a bunch of the character names on IMDb are characters from Rosemary's Baby, lol. Like how actor Kevin McNally from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies is listed as playing "Roman Castavet" and relative newcomers named Amy Leeson and Scott Hume are playing "Rosemary Woodhouse" and "Guy Woodhouse" for example.
So point being if those character names are indeed authentic to the film then I can't imagine that BD is reaching here, saying this will be involved with Rosemary's Baby. And perhaps we should be open-minded! Natalie Erika James turned out one hell of a film with Relic, and Garner is one of the most exciting actresses coming up. And does this mean that national treasure Dianne Wiest is playing Minnie? Or maybe she's playing the old woman who owned the apartment before Rosemary & Guy move in, the one who grew all the "tannis" herbs? Either way I dare to say...
Steven Yeun Ten Times
When a couple of weeks back Steven Yuen here did a spread for GQ Korea I predicted that it would make some sense to expect some sexy Steven Yeun shoots saturating our screens this summer, given his presence in one of the year's most anticipated movies with Jordan Peele's Nope. And lo, we have a second shoot! I am the Nostradamus of thirst-trappin! These are for Mr. Porter and you can read the chat with Yeun here. Or if you just wanna stare well then you go on right ahead and you stare after the jump...
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Magic Mike (2012)
Dallas: Fact is, the law says you cannot touch!But I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonight.
Magic Mike came out ten years ago today! Isn't that nuts?
I'm sorry but that's nuts. Soon enough (I would guess next
summer) we'll have a third movie. But we'll always have this:
And this:
And this:
People like to pretend this movie didn't offer up
the goods but those people are no good.
I think those people need to be punished...
Which is Hotter?
I was watching the extra special features on the brand new Criterion blu-ray of John Waters' classic Pink Flamingos last night and an obscenity occurred to me -- no not that one. Not the other one. And not that one either. No the obscenity was the realization that I have never done a poll asking y'all which is hotter: Crackers (Danny Mills) in Pink Flamingos or Gator (Michael Potter) in Female Trouble! One very much gets the sense that these boys represented John Waters' taste in men at the time and I've always wondered why none of these "types" ever came back from movie to movie alongside Waters' usual troupe of actors -- these were the only acting roles for the both of them! Basically I've always wondered if they were John's boyfriends at the time, and since Waters never talks about his personal life one is left to wonder! Anyway now I must poll...
Good Morning, World
A happy 36th birthday to the director Riley Stearns today! If you follow me on Twitter then you've no doubt come across my neverending Riley Stearns thread there -- if not I've included the start below and if you click on there you'll be granted an entire year plus one month's worth of obsessing. And I have no intentions of quitting either! Not as long as he keeps being the Insta-gift that keeps giving anyway. I suppose you could also follow him on Instagram but who can keep up with all of these things? Me, that's who! That's my job.
Good grief is Riley Stearns the hottest director pic.twitter.com/UYCAk0o7Z2
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 27, 2021
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