Charlie Hunnam's Shower Anarchy

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I am literally running out the door as I try to get this post together - literally! - so forgive me if my words are brief. I don't even have time to organize these, so they're gonna be jumping all over the place until I can fix them later. Tilda awaits! But you're not here for words! You're here because Charlie Hunnam got naked and wet and walked around in a towel for an extended period of time on last night's episode of Sons of Anarchy. So here's all that, after the jump...

Twice By Tilda

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When it rains Tilda, it pours Tilda - I'm seeing We Need To Talk About Kevin a second time tonight, and for a second time Tilda will be in the house. You may recall I had the good fortune to already have all this one time before. What glorious days! I don't think I can go back to a life without Tilda galloping through my life every couple of weeks. I want her under my tree this Christmas. I want her knocking on my window for Valentine's Day, two hot cups of cocoa in her hand. I want her forever!

Anyway I won't promise it because I never know how my days will go in advance, the thought of typing words could curdle inside my brain at any given moment, but I suppose I can technically share my thoughts on the movie tomorrow, maybe. Maybe? Hoo boy, hold your breath on that one!

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Well This Is Goodbye

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Shame is out in theaters here in New York (and there in LA, DC, Chicago and San Fran) on Friday, so I should be saying my farewells right about now. One seat in the front row for me until my eyeballs fall out of my head, please! That's the new red-band trailer up top and it's a bit of a tease, since everybody knows what we're watching a red-band trailer for, and it ain't there. I suppose they gotta keep their ace up their sleeve for now. The cat will be outta the bag soon! The gigantic swinging cat. Here are a few screencaps anyway because Fassy duh. Boobies beware!

I just realized, I don't think there's a single second of Carey Mulligan in this trailer. Huh. It's come for the penis, stay for the Mulligan, I suppose. That's what I always say. Always!

As long as we're on the subject, I haven't had the chance to look through this yet myself but Movieline's got "an interactive map" of New York City as seen through Shame right here. What a tour that would be! One stop you're blowing Fassy in a basement, and then you're having a nervous breakdown on the pier. I'm in!

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Last Week I Had A Premonition...

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... that Christopher Meloni would be joining the cast of True Blood! I'm a total clairvoyant! Well, if you interpret a sex dream about him as a premonition about that, that is. Which I choose to do. Pro-choice!

Is anybody familiar with the books and know who this big powerful vampire character that we haven't seen yet could be? Basically all I just want to know how gay he'll be getting. The show's been dreadfully straight lately, and we all know Meloni's more than game.

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Puttin' The 'Mo In Mohawk

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(via, thanks Joe)

Anatomy of In A Scene - Ménage à Daniel Craig

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I haven't a single solitary clue just what I was looking up when I stumbled upon this information - maybe I was sent off by this awesomeness - but earlier this week I saw that in 1997 eventual super-spy Daniel Craig starred in an episode of a Showtime show called The Hunger. I don't remember ever even having heard of the show before, but it was loosely loosely based on the Sapphic-vamp movie and apparently consisted of, and I quote from IMDb because the quote is so ridiculous, "steamy, erotic versions of Tales From The Dark Side and the like, with a touch of class, dealing as they do with power, sex, lust and driving urges." Indeed.

So anyway finding out that a 29 year old Daniel Craig had acted in some slutty horror show was obviously enough to pique my interest. From there I saw the episode he was in called "Menage a Trois" - score! - and it co-starred Lena Headey and Karen Black - which, well if it couldn't be two hot dudes he was having this "Menage" with, sigh, then I guess Lena Headey and Karen Black will do since they both rule. This is all very interesting I am sure! Let's get to the meat of it. I sought it out, and he is looking super good in it, and it's a lot of him making pained sexy faces in moody lighting and Daniel Craig's pained sexy faces really do it for me. (Plus momentary pubes. Ya can't go wrong.) From a glance around nobody's posted much from it before. In steps me! Doing my duty! Here are a whole bunch of caps. I do mean that. A whole bunch. Hit the jump for all of it.

Bryan On Bryan On Munster

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Some groovy new news on Bryan Fuller's Munsters rebootening:

"NBC’s The Munsters will be brought to you by The Bryans. X-Men and Superman Returns helmer Bryan Singer is finalizing a deal to direct and executive produce Bryan Fuller’s reboot of the 1960s comedy, which recently received a pilot order by NBC. Universal Television is producing the project, described as an imaginative reinvention of The Munsters as a visually spectacular one-hour drama. Singer, who had been interested in the project since before it got the greenlight by NBC two weeks ago, will executive produce with Fuller."

I'm curious to see how these fellows mesh, since Singer tends towards the more serious manly entertainments with the Supermans and X-Men and Valkyries and Usual Suspects... although I can't help but wonder if he won't be trending lighter when his next movie Jack the Giant Killer comes along, since that's a project that begs for a lightness of touch... while Fuller's shows have been snappier and brighter... although they both do tend towards heavy stylization... and maybe Fuller's trending darker, what with his Hannibal Lecter show also possibly on the horizon... this sentence just keeps going and going, doesn't it? Anyway I have met both of these people! Wow!

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Do Be A Dodo

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I'm not just the president of the Hair Club For Men the author of MNPP, but I'm also a client reader. So sometimes I post things to remind myself to watch them later when I have the opportunity, meaning I myself personally have not seen them yet and cannot vouch for the veracity of their worth to you, the readers who are not me. Case in point, The Dodos singing with Neko Case on Fallon last night. I forgot that she was even on their latest album No Color, which I think I have buried somewhere but think I also have forgotten to listen to (it came out way back in March). But it's got Neko going on so it's gotta have some something. It's gotta! Watch it over at Stereogum.

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Good Morning, World

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Just because I have never posted these,

and Hugh Jackman is so totally heterosexual.

I love this quote from Michael at D-Listed - "Either way, Deborra-Lee gets to watch a topless Hugh sing show tunes while making chocolate chip pancakes in the morning, so I guess she's the one winning at LIFE." Word. I hate you, Deborra-Lee Furness!

Why Can't We Get The Right Sex Tapes?

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I Don't Know Which Turns Me On More...

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... Kristen Bell as Supergirl or Bobby Cannavale as Superman! io9 focuses in on this bit of information from an interview with the actress Leslie Bibb  (who makes out with Sam Rockwell in crowded theater lobbies) on her next movie called Movie 43:

"The Farrelly brothers did this compilation of these shorts and there's a whole slew of us. Hugh Jackman did one, Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet," she told us. "Mine is me, Jason Sudeikis and Justin Long and Bobby Cannavale and John Hodgman is the Penguin. And Bobby Cannavale is a jacked up Superman who smokes and we all are these f**ked up superheroes. Like, I'm sleeping with Batman. He won't call me back. I'm kind of crazy. Kristen Bell is Supergirl and Uma Thurman is Lois Lane or something. And we're all just dysfunctional superheroes, like superheroes who can't get a date."

Okay obviously Bobby Cannavale in a Superman suit turns me on more, but I'm very excited mentally-like about the Kristen Bell thing. Mmmm Cannavale in a Superman suit. Yeah forget everything else, that's what I want please. Okay you can forget the suit too, actually.

Do Dump or Marry - Gotham Gentlemen

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Picture it! You're at the Gotham Awards. You're suffering through another interminable Tree of Life clip, so you decide to go to the bathroom. You get in there and there at the urinals WHAM! it's Hugh Dancy, Penn Badgley and Zachary Quinto staring at you. Naturally, you lock the door behind you. They refuse the fourgy you demand, but in its place they say if you let one of them go, one of them will totally have sexual relations with you one time, and the remaining one will take your hand in wedded matrimony for as long as you may live and have continued sexual relations. (What? It could happen.) So whatddya you do, hot shot? Whaddya you do?

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Hamish Says Hey

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That's Hamish Linklater, one half of The Future, Miranda July's wonderful second film which is out on DVD today. (Here's my review.) Today! Hooray! I should have a copy sitting at home for me right this second (along with July's husband's movie Beginners, which I haven't seen yet, and which just gobbled up a bunch of awards today that his wife's movie is too divisive to claim but totally deserves, alas).

I never told you guys about that live performance of July's new book It Chooses You that I saw a few weeks ago, did I? Oh it was marvelous. The theater didn't let me take pictures, the bastards, otherwise I'd most definitely have posted them. My love for her work (and her personally, I might add) only deepens with every new exposure I get. I worship her, y'all. Have you seen this series of pictures of her posing as extras in old movies? Add it to the list of things her touch has made incredible. Worship.

Hey look who grew a beard!

I like it. I also like him in a towel.

And I like him bare-assed in a half-off kilt. 

I just like him, basically.

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Danny's Darlings

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Way way way back in March of 2009 - that's, like, over two years ago and shit - it was announced that Chris Evans would be playing Jack Kerouac in a movie called Kill Your Darlings, about some sordid gay history involving a friend of Kerouac's and Allen Ginsberg's named Lucien Carr, who apparently murdered his boyfriend. Carr was going to be played by Ben Whishaw, and Ginsberg was going to be played by Jesse Eisenberg. Since then we've already seen James Franco tackle Ginsberg once with Howl, and we're not sure if that scared Eisenberg away or if it's just taken too much time developing, but Eisenberg's gone and Twitch is saying that Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe is going to be playing Allen Ginsberg in the movie. They don't know if Evans or Whishaw are still attached either. But I think Dan is pretty good casting for Ginsberg, don't you?

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Quote of the Day

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"Film school is a wonderful place for teachers.

You need to find a way to earn a living

and it provides you with security and benefits.

For the students, it's questionable."

That's Todd Solondz talking to a crowd of - who else - film students in Poland last week. I don't care if everybody at festivals thought it was terrible, I want to see Dark Horse dang it. Everywhere says it's supposed to be out before the end of this year but we'd have heard something by now, wouldn't we? I didn't even know it had a poster until just looking it up now:

Maggie's Pregnant Again...

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... so I'd say that's a good enough excuse to post this new vintage picture of Uncle Jakey (via) back in the day. He's practically glowing! Congrats Maggie & Peter!

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Which is Hotter?

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Anna Faris: Stoner or Centerfold?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Happy 35th birthday, Anna my love!

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It's Time To Light The Lights

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I should probably plead a conflict of interests here, when trying to write a review of The Muppets, because in all honesty I started crying about five minutes into the movie and I barely stopped until the end. As we watched the new muppet Walter's eyes light up the first time he saw The Muppet Show on TV and he understood a part of himself, a way that he belonged, through it, forget about it I was a goner. Even writing about it right this minute my eyes are filling up! It's impossible. Impossible. The Muppets mean to much to me and the movie captures enough of their magic to just make me the mushiest of mushes, unable to make words work.

I'll rattle off a quick couple of criticisms just to get them outta the way and pretend I'm being level-headed - the movie's a little bit long. It could've cut out some of Jason Segel and Amy Adams, who were totally adorable but fuzzed up the focus too much. The voices were just a smidge off - the absence of Jim Henson and Frank Oz was noticeable. And I kept wishing they'd integrate the Muppets into the dance numbers a little bit better - whenever there were wide crowd shots all of they were completely AWOL, which was weird.

Okay fuck that noise, I loved it. It got so much right - the triumph of decency and friendship and thoughtfulness over cynicism and greed; the new songs were catchy (although bless them for giving me my "Rainbow Connection" moment); and the rag-tag slapped together aesthetic fit the world to a tee. It felt like they were putting us on a show, and they did, to my heart's delight and my tear-ducts woe.

Sidenote: Did anybody else get a "Once More, With Feeling" vibe from it a few times? It felt Jossy to me here and there - especially the early parts in the small town. Which leads me to Oh my god have Joss direct the next one!!!

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The Touch The Feel The Fur of Fahey

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Last week we got all nostalgic about the way that Scott Bakula's magnificent behind in Quantum Leap made us feel funny when we were a kid, and today we're winding back the time machine to another hunky highlight of our adolescence - it's Jeff Fahey's 59th birthday and I'll be damned if his hairy chest wasn't as integral to my upbringing as learning to read and write good. Hit the jump for an extremely lengthy and piliferous love letter.

What Happens In Dubrovnik, Stays In Dubrovnik

Over at EW they sent TV writer James Hibberd to visit the set of the second season of A Game of Thrones in Dubrovnik (dammit, somebody send me to the set of the second season of A Game of Thrones in Dubrovnik!) and he got to publish a few snaps from his trip. Like this waterside fortress, which will apparently be part of King's Landing:

I guess it's not big enough for Dragonstone, but that's what I thought it was a picture of at first. And then there's that waterside castle that becomes a plot point in the latest book... Storm's End maybe? I am so bad with specifics. Anyway it is neither, apparently. And then there's a picture of this giant gate lined with armored men:

He doesn't say what that gate is for, and I'll be damned if my memory of the second book is strong enough to guess. Perhaps it's the main King's Landing gate? Or is it somewhere Dany visits? The costumes seem more in tune with Dany's storyline than they would the knights of King's Landing, I suppose. Anyway he also got a picture of Dany's horse, with it's three dragon baskets:

Alas no dragons. Those bitches probably only show up to the set when it's call time and otherwise are off getting mani-pedis and chilling with Mary Kate.

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