Monday, June 30, 2014

I Am Link

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--- False Blood -  If you need a quick come-down from the heat-fever that the gay-sex scene between Ryan Kwanten and Alexander Skarsgard provided on True Blood last night, go read our pal Joe's post at The Wire putting the scene into context, terrible context, within the show's lousy history on the gay stuff. I agree with it all, and I've pretty much stopped watching the show because it's nigh unwatchable at this point... but I'm still gonna turn my brain off and enjoy Ryan Kwanten and Alexander Skarsgard bumping their perfect bodies on each other.

--- Drained Out - Since yesterday when I tweeted a link to this article at The Advocate about the Dracula Untold trailer calling Noted Homosexual Luke Evans "Out Actor Luke Evans" they've gone and changed their wording - now it says "formerly out actor Luke Evans" - HA! I cannot wait til the day he's forced to clear all of this up. It will be so simple too, and then it will be done. Imagine it, Luke! So easy.

--- Big Beasts - I saw some post somewhere on Friday that showed off this first picture of Idris Elba in Cary Fukunaga's new movie called Beasts of No Nation but I was so grossed out by the post calling Fukunaga basically just "that dude behind True Detective" that I wiped it all from my brain. Just eww, no, we're trying to pretend they aren't the same person so stop that. Sin Nombre! Jane Eyre! We have much better things to work with, people.

--- Forward Momentum - Don't read this interview if you haven't seen Snowpiercer yet, but Vulture chatted with its director Bong Joon-ho about the ending of the movie, plus there's a lot of interesting talk about the way they shot a movie set inside such a claustrophobic space. He did such solid coherent work on the way he kept the camera moviing from left to right the whole time I can feel it, the impression of that movement, when I think back upon the film.

--- Catch A Fox - I know that Foxcatcher is a Serious Movie from a Serious Director and Channing Tatum gives a Serious Performance in it that's probably going to net him a Serious Supporting Actor Nomination and all, but this here first poster for the movie is still just a little too serious. They clearly should use one of these images I capped from the trailer. Serious Singlet Action is the way to go, marketing department.

--- Get Stuffed - I love how ever-present the entire team behind Hannibal are being online - a week doesn't go by without another interview with one of them - speaking of, here's a new chat with Bryan Fuller about the direction the next season will be taking, and also oh yeah David fuckin' Bowie.

--- Fancy Dresses - I stayed up late posting images from True Blood and The Leftovers last night but I never got around to watching the finale of Penny Dreadful, so nobody say anything about what happened on it! Here as a gift to shut you up I will link to this nice interview with the show's costume designer (thanks Mac) - how amazing are the costumes on that show anyway? Well except for Dorian Gray, I just can't get down with the hair or the damned silky purple shirts, it's too obvious.

--- Horror Unit - I am putting this here to remind myself to read it at lunch so I can't tell you anymore about it other than hey look it's an article at The Playlist about David Cronenberg's The Brood and the so-called "weirding of the American family"  - I'll have to check and see when I read it if they acknowledge the fact that The Brood is a Canadian movie about Canadians.

--- Man of Super - There's nothing much to see here, he's wearing a ton of clothes plus he's covering himself up with a charity t-shirt on top of that, but here's the first look at Henry Cavill in what I assume is his Clark Kent costume (no glasses?) in Batman Vs. Superman; it's for the Roayl Marines charity, hence the tee.

--- Dream Date - I don't know, maybe I'm just broken, or maybe I've just realized that Hollywood can make all the shitty remakes they want to we'll always have the originals to enjoy - Takashi Miike's 1999 freak-out-sterpiece Audition is finally getting a remake, says Deadline. I've actually always thought Audition would translate to a remake easily though, and am surprised it hasn't happened already. It's a pretty basic story - it's just Fatal Attraction turned up to eleven. What made it interesting though was Miike's plunging nightmare spin on it. We'll see if they bother trying.
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1 comment:

iggy said...

Agree with everything said on the True Blood article. What I wonder is how those scenes work when shooting them. I mean, both actors have known each other for years, so it must be weird. But at the same time, they haven't shared many scenes in all these years, so I wonder if they feel like almost strangers and there's room for some actual excitement (sexual or not).

It's also interesting to note that the female lead has probably been with most of the male leads and all happened in the "real" world. No need of dreams to get her topless