Pics of the Day

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The first official pictures of M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming film Glass, which unites the characters in 2016's Split with the characters in 2000's Unbreakable as foreseen by the final scene in the former, are here - head over to EW for the whole shebang. I focused in on James McAvoy in spite of Bruce Willis & Sam Jackson though, as is my wont dammit. McAvoy, as we've taken note of from all the shirtless time he spent roaming around the set, went and got himself real real juiced for this movie. Glass is out on January 18th.

Pics of the Day

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The best part of Split, M. Night Shyamalan's surprise hit starring James McAvoy as a multiple personalitied crazy-pants locking young ladies up in the basement of a zoo, was James McAvoy, and even more specifically the last act when James McAvoy got half-naked (not Last King of Scotland naked, but that was a whole lot of naked) just to juice up the proceedings, and so these pictures from the set of Glass, Night's sequel (that's swinging the series together with his previous movie Unbreakable), are promising! They know what we want to see. Hit the jump for more...

Breaking James McAvoy

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Come here baby yeah
U sexy motherfucker pic.twitter.com/GK85AvwAnd

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 2, 2018

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On the positive side after tweeting out the above I now have Prince stuck in my head, but on the negative side I also now feel ashamed because I have remembered that there were some more amazing new pictures of James McAvoy...

... on the set of the Split / Unbreakable sequel called Glass making their way around recently and I never posted them. Okay then let's make ourselves feel positive, and feel some other upwardly-mobile feelings as well, and post a big bunch of those after the jump...

James McAvoy Feeds the Beast

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Given the weekend's stultifying forecast -- they keep throwing the world's worst phrase "wintry mix" around willy nilly -- I'm having a hard time deciding whether I'll head out to a movie theater to see Glass or not. It really is just the weather and not the shit-ass reviews dampening my devotion to seeing James McAvoy get his big-screen Beast back on (pic via) -- I was only going for James's Shirtless Rampages anyway and those be review-proof. But perhaps I'll go and perhaps I'll review it, we will see -- if any of you do venture thus please feel free to share your thoughts and prayers in the comments. And with that, bye until Monday!

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James McAvoy Three Times

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Although everybody knows to avoid reading reviews of M. Night Shyamalan movies before they come out given his predilection for twists you don't want ruined - a good trick he's played on us all, financially speaking - I've seen seen enough review tweets and headlines to know that Glass is getting its can kicked by the critics. What a shame! After all these years you couldn't come up with something that works, Night?

Insert that gif of Tyra Banks saying she was rooting for an America's Next Top Model contestant, we were all rooting for an America's Next Top Model contestant, right here. Still I plan on going this weekend anyway if for nothing else but the trailer show James McAvoy half-naked a whole bunch. Did I say "if for nothing else"? Yeah I mean nothing else. Just that. Just plenty!

Glass in 150 Words or Less

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Glass ultimately feels more like an under-pencilled sketch than a finalized film, a real shame given the 19 years between this and Unbreakable, and when Shyamalan does pull together all of his threads with one of his typical third-act reveals, well, it's telling that I use the word "reveal" instead of the usual "twist"since I never felt twisted; it all comes up wanting. Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson never convince us they even want to be here - they both seem drugged even when their characters aren't supposed to be drugged. At least James McAvoy is having fun and giving it his all, and when he's twisting (ahh there's the word) through all his character's alters the movie is having fun too. Still, that's not a movie, that's an acting reel. Here's hoping James uses it to get some future roles worthy.

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The Commercials For Glass...

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... are now nothing but shots of James McAvoy

raging out half-naked, and they are working on me.

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Can we hope the movie follows suit? Just one long shirtless action sequence, please. For now (before the film is out on January 18th) let's pretend it is so, and hit the jump for the fifteen or so gifs that will help us pretend it is so...