They're Coming...

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"If the sky were to suddenly open up..."

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" ...there would be no law, there would be no rule.

There would only be you and your memories."

Happy 70th birthday, Katharine Ross.

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Dollhouse Ends Tonight

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For real. Really real. Joss is on the record saying he's not stretching it out a single bit, not an iota, that once tonight's finale airs the world is kaput, and kabluey. The story will be finished once the final frame falls. So let's see what comes, eh? Fingers crossed that there's a happy(ish) ending for Victor and Sierra! (yeah right) And Adelle... may she walk off into the sunset a tumbler of vodka in her hand and a snappy comeback on her vodka-drenched tongue.
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Quote of the Day II

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Ooh I been waiting for this one! My pal Jarett over at PopWrap finally got to chat with his (our) beloved, Kristen Bell. And nobody got stuffed into a sack or nothing! That takes strength of character, y'all. But now he's got an in, as they say, so it'll only be a matter of time before I am stuffing him in a sack and pretending to be him and becoming her best friend. Naturally. Anyway, read it here. I'm posting the bit about the slim remaining sliver of a possibility for a Veronica Mars movie, because hello importantest part.

PopWrap: So I've gotta ask about "Veronica Mars." Last we heard it was DOA, still the case?

Kristen Bell: There's really no new news unfortunately. Rob Thomas wrote a treatment about a year ago, brought it to Warner Bros and they said there's no enthusiasm to make a "Veronica Mars" movie at this time. Which means, they don't think it will sell tickets -- because, let's face it, no one is going to finance a movie when they don't think they'll make money back. So it's all a matter of convincing them that people will go see it.

PW: Oh, I'd buy six tickets!

KB: I make them aware of that fact this question comes up in every single interview I do. People will see it, but it's such a small community -- what they need to realize is how fiercely loyal they are. For example, if you have a TV show that gets 10 million viewers, they think that if even half those people see the movie, they'll earn their money back. Even though we only had 3 million viewers, each and every one of them will go see it -- twice!

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Meanwhile over at Cinematical, in honor of the reviews for her rom-com When In Rome being... less than stellar, let's say... they've assembled a list of seven roles (or types of roles) she oughta think about trying next. We share because we really really care, Kristen!
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Qué, Sarah?

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If you fine folks wanna see what's new with Sarah Polley
you might wanna click over here where I discuss it
at The Film Experience. Sounds good to me!
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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?
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Sean Faris Three Times

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(pics via) Saw that he's on The Vampire Diaries now when I was flipping through the channels last night. I suppose that was an inevitable move, what with his "film" "career" turning to dust between his fingers. But what I wanna know is, will he and Ian Somerhalder make out? On screen, I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of behind-the-scenes junk going on, but that's not doing me any good.
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August 13th, 2010

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I already know what I'll be doing that day...
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Quote of the Day

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Shame on me for never having written anything substantive on Fish Tank. This is the closest I've gotten (and then this post on Michael Fassbender's hotness within.) Still, it's been weeks since I saw the film though and it's stuck in my brain something fierce. It might help that I see it on the marquee at the IFC theater every day to and from work. But still. It's a wonderful film (that just happens to exploit Michael Fassbender's hotness with the right degree of exploitation, meaning LOTS). Anyway leave it to the always on-point Kim Morgan to write the review the film deserves. Check it here. Choice bit:

"In a scene near the end of the movie, we watch Mia, little sister Tyler and Mom dance to "Life's a Bitch" (the lyrics continue with "and then you die, that's why we get high, cause you never know when you're gonna go") in an empty room, a rare moment when all the girls connect. Starting out lifelessly, Mia and Tyler follow their mother's joyless attempt at cheerfulness almost instinctively, and their dance builds into a moment of near ebullience. If this were a Hollywood movie, if Goldie Hawn were their mother, they'd be singing in their hairbrushes, smiling and laughing and whipping their hair around to "Respect." Here, the girls are actually coming up with a routine, and there's something really sweet and yet, incredibly sad about that -- like they're trying to create order in the midst of attempting to escape.

I said earlier that it's tough for a teenage girl -- but in this moment you see how tough it is for all of these girls/women -- these generations of teenage girls, past, present and future. For a second, you actually wish they were dancing with a little more wild abandon, whipping their hair around and laughing hysterically -- having some fucking fun. And not for our benefit, but for theirs. After all, they're not here to amuse you."

So that's the entire final two paragraphs to her review, so perhaps I've spoiled her summation. But all that leads to this is worth reading as well so go read it already. But I love the way she compares this moment to the hairbrush-montage from the chick-flick repertoire of cliched scenes and proves how Arnold undercuts such sentiment, while at the same time making you yearn for it. It's a nice summation of the push-and-pull the brilliant film causes inside we viewers.
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Good Morning, World

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I like this morning routine of Paul Bettany's. Wake up, shower with a dude, get dressed. Alright so I took these frames from The Heart of Me outta context and posted 'em outta order, sue me. It's what I do to get through the morning...
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Thursday's Ways Not To Die

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This one'll getcha in Three Easy Steps.

Step 1: Play hero; get bitten.

Step 2: Hours later, start bleeding
from all the holes in your face.

Step 3: Get dragged off; explode.

Cloverfield (2008)

Awww, RIP Marlena (Lizzy Caplan).
You were aware of Garfield.

Here's what Wiki says of these parasite chaps that ride the Great Clover Express and cause such horrors:

"The creature is covered with parasites, which it sheds as part of a "post-birth ritual". Abrams described the parasites as "horrifying, dog-sized creatures that just scatter around the city and add to the nightmare of the evening". Reeves added that "The parasites have a voracious, rabid, bounding nature, but they also have a crab-like crawl. They have the viciousness of a dog, but with the ability to climb walls and stick to objects". The parasites fall off and begin to attack people. The parasite's jaw is unique in that the top half of the head is the mandible, moving up from the lower jaw to open, as opposed to the reverse with almost all terrestrial animals. The top and lower jaws end in serrated edges and also have four pairs of eyes each. The rest of the parasite is comprised of a crustacean-like carapace, several pairs of claws, and arms. A deep blue-purple muscular membrane stretches between the top and lower jaws. When a human is bitten, the victim becomes ill and bleeds profusely, mainly from the eyes, and shortly after this, the torso expands and explodes. They are called HSPs (Human Scale Parasites) on the Blu-ray Special Investigation Mode."

And yes, I have now fulfilled your geek-quota for the day. Let's go get laid now and make ourselves feel complete.

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Previous Ways Not To Die: Daisies Ways #1 - Deep Fat Fried in My Own Unique Blend of 500 Herbs & Spices -- By the Yard End of the Stick -- Screwed From A Very Great Distance -- A Righteous Bear-Jew Beatdown -- Fisted By Hugo Sitglitz -- Xeno Morphed -- Fuck-Stuck -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 4 -- Lava Bombed -- The Cradle Will Rock... Your Face Off!!! -- The Food of the Nilbog Goblins -- The Slugs Is Gonna Gitcha -- Phone Shark -- Hide The Carrot -- Sarlacc Snacked -- Avada Kedavra!!! -- Hooked, Lined and Sinkered -- "The Libyans!" -- Axe Me No Questions -- Pin the Chainsaw on the Prostitute -- The Wrath of the Crystal Unicorn -- The Ultimate Extreme Make-Over -- Drown In A Sink Before The Opening Credits Even Roll -- The Dog Who Knew Too Much -- Don't Die Over Spilled Milk -- Inviting the Wrath of Aguirre -- An Inconceivable Outwitting -- The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique -- Nipple Injected Blue Junk -- Your Pick Of The Deadly Six -- Thing Hungry -- Don't Fuck With The Serial Killer's Daughter -- DO Forget To Add The Fabric Softener -- Any Of The Ways Depicted In This Masterpiece Of Lost Cinema -- Rode Down In The Friscalating Dusklight -- Good Morning, Sunshine! -- Mornin' Cuppa Drano -- The Cylon-Engineered Apocalypse -- Tender-Eye-zed -- Martian Atmospheric Asphyxiation -- Maimed By A Mystical Person-Cat -- The Sheets Are Not To Be Trusted -- Handicapable Face-Hacked -- I Did It For You, Faramir -- Summertime In The Park... Of A Pedophile's Mind -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 3 -- Strung Up With Festive Holiday Bulbs By Santa Claus Himself -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 2 -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 1 -- Decapitated Plucked Broiled & Sliced -- Head On A Stick! -- A Trip To The Ol' Wood-Chipper -- Pointed By The T-1000 -- Sucking Face With Freddy Krueger -- A Pen-Full Of Home-Brewed Speed to The Eye -- Motivational Speech, Interrupted -- A Freak Ephemera Storm -- When Ya Gotta Go... Ya Gotta Go -- Hoisted By Your Own Hand Grenade -- Having The Years Suction-Cupped Away -- Criss-Cross -- Turned Into A Person-Cocoon By The Touch Of A Little Girl's Mirror Doppleganger -- Satisfying Society's "Pop Princess" Blood-Lust -- Done In By The Doggie Door -- Tuned Out -- Taking the 107th Step -- Rescuing Gretchen -- Incinerated By Lousy Dialogue -- Starred & Striped Forever -- Vivisection Via Vaginally-Minded Barbed-Wire -- Chompers (Down There) -- Run Down By M. Night Shyamalan -- Everything Up To And Including The Kitchen Toaster -- Sacrificed To Kali -- Via The Gargantuan Venom Of The Black Mamba Snake -- Turned Into An Evil Robot -- The Out-Of-Nowhere Careening Vehicle Splat -- "Oh My God... It's Dip!!!" -- Critter Balled -- Stuff'd -- A Hot-Air Balloon Ride... Straight To Hell!!! -- Puppy Betrayal -- High-Heeled By A Girlfriend Impersonator -- Flip-Top Beheaded -- Because I'm Too Goddamned Beautiful To Live -- By Choosing... Poorly... -- Fried Alive Due To Baby Ingenuity -- A Good Old-Fashioned Tentacle Smothering -- Eepa! Eepa! -- Gremlins Ate My Stairlift -- An Icicle Thru The Eye -- Face Carved Off By Ghost Doctor After Lesbian Tryst With Zombie Women -- Electrocuted By Fallen Power-Lines -- A Mouthful Of Flare -- Taken By The TV Lady -- Bitten By A Zombie -- Eaten By Your Mattress -- Stuffed To Splitting -- Face Stuck In Liquid Nitrogen -- Crushed By Crumbling Church Debris -- Bitten By The Jaws Of Life -- A Machete To The Crotch -- Showering With A Chain-Saw -- In A Room Filled With Razor Wire -- Pod People'd With Your Dog -- Force-Fed Art -- Skinned By A Witch -- Beaten With An Oar -- Curbed -- Cape Malfunction -- In The Corner -- Cooked In A Tanning Bed -- Diced -- Punched Through The Head -- Bugs Sucking On Your Head
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David Beckham Five Times

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Lost Is Back In 5 Days

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I just thought I ought to make note of that, since I can feel my brains turning towards that ol' obsession anew. (Whatever will happen?!?!? Please let Juliet be not dead, pleeeease!) I even read a new piece by Doc Jensen this morning - a sure warning sign that the sickness is headed this way.

Oh and while I was gathering the above pictures of the cast I stumbled upon the following picture, and it's the sort of thing that must be shared, whether I like it or not.

Right?
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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?
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I Am Link

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--- Catch Kill - David Fincher and Charlize Theron are teaming up to produce a series for HBO based on the book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, about "a top FBI investigator of serial killers and rapists, and the profiling techniques he developed." No word if either of them will do anything beyond producing the show. Fingers crossed...

--- Oh-Nine Regurgitated - Much fun to be had at Low Resolution where Joe's started his look back at 2009. So far he's posted the year's Worst Movies, the year's Best Trailers, the Best Supporting Actors & Actresses, and a list of his favorite individual moments from the year's films. We concur on bunches!

--- Lil' Joe - It's a battle of the Seventies man-sluts! Over at Club Silencio Adam's comparing the efforts of Joe Buck (Jon Voight) in Midnight Cowboy and Little Joe (Joe Dallesandro) in Flesh. You give me an excuse to think about Little Joe, and you win. We all win. Win...

--- Bzzz Saw - That dude I told y'all about yesterday that's being forced to direct the 7th Saw film instead of the sequel to Paranormal Activity like he was set to do by the embittered studio, he's gone online and whined his fool ass off. Good job, dude!

--- Max Cast - The fine acting folks that will fill out the cast in the fourth Mad Max movie are being revealed... besides hottie Tom Hardy in the lead we've now got confirmation on Charlize Theron (hooray!), as well as A Single Man's Nicholas Hoult.

--- Return To Pandora - io9 has early word on the early happenings on the inevitable Avatar sequel. All very early! But the buzz is that they will try to top what they did with the first movie. Shocking! That is shocking!

--- Girl Meets Body - Over at Final Girl Stacie's been coming on strong this week - I missed (per my usual routine) this month's Film Club entry, the wonderful Bava anthology film Black Sabbath, but Stacie's write-up is pure gold and made me wanna rewatch it like now. Plus all the others, so check it. And then she went and reviewed Jennifer's Body which I similarly had mixed feelings about but agree it got an undeserved bad rap.

--- And finally, DH has got a gallery with some new shots from I Love You, Phillip Morris, the supposedly weirdo gay prison comedy romance movie starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor (and Rodrigo Santoro's beautiful bared bod). Here are a couple:

ILYPM is out on March 26th.
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