Thursday, October 16, 2014

I Am Link

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--- Unbroken Boys - A new trailer for Angelina Jolie's WWII drama Unbroken is out and it's like full-time pretty dudes with Jack O'Connell and Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock (hey we were just talking about him) and Garrett Hedlund showing up halfway through without a shirt on giving a come-hither glare to the Jack. Internment, starvation and torture has never seemed so sexy. (Well okay maybe that one time.) In summation, Finn Wittrock! (I just like saying his Flintstones name.)

--- They Are Risen - George Romero's son G. Cameron Romero is crowd-funding a prequel to his father's original Night of the Living Dead; you can donate right here. I think he's calling it Origins? I'm guessing that will be stretched out to the full Origins of the Living Dead though, if I'm not already misreading it. His father is producing it; they say it'll be about a scientist in the late 60s who, and I quote, "strikes a deal with the military that will give him all the resources he needs to finalize his work in exchange for what he later learns is a price all mankind will have to pay." That's really strange phrasing?

--- Gin & Germans - Criterion is releasing Rainer Werner Fassbinder's masterpiece The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on blu-ray! Petra's been out of print for far too long, this is thrilling. It'll be out in January, remastered and with oodles, yes oodles, of special features. The coolest sounding of which is "Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, a 1992 German television documentary" which apparently has a ton of interviews.
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--- Listen Up Liz - IndieWire interviewed Elizabeth Moss on her new movie Listen Up Phillip with Jason Schwartzman, which I am hoping to review ASAP but you should totally schedule an appointment for yourself to see it, it's great, and she's especially great in it; besides that movie though they also get some quotes from her on Ben Wheatley's movie High Rise, which we're looking forward to.

--- Hot Betrayal - While I'm psyched to see him getting a new high-profile gig after he was so much fun in A Game of Thrones, I'm most amused by all of the alliteration in reporting that Pedro Pascal has signed on to play Pontius Pilate in the new version of Ben Hur that's gearing up from Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov. Jack Huston, yawn, is playing the lead, while upcoming Wonder Woman Gal Gadot is the sexy slave Esther. No name spells sexy like Esther.

--- Jigsaw Returns - Apparently the producers of the Saw movies have decided the right way to celebrate the original film's 10th anniversary is by telling us they are planning on making a new one, and that they've nagged James Wan and Leigh Whannell into maybe possibly coming back to the franchise they gave birth to and quickly abandoned. God I hate the Saw movies.

--- Time Warp - A couple of weeks ago I told you about how Baz Luhrmann was going to be participating in a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show here in New York; well over at The Film Experience reader Derreck got to go and he wrote up the experience (Susan Sarandon was there!) and it sounds like it was a fine way to spend an evening.

--- And Finally you can also watch the trailer for Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth as a scurvy lad spearing big fish on the bigger ocean, right over here - there's a lot of Chris sopping wet and in velvety pants so it's worth your time, even of Ron Howard directed it so it will blow. But hey this shot's pretty!


3 comments:

HyperionCT said...

Very excited for the release of Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on blu-ray! I see on the Criterion website that they just released Ali; Fear Eats the Soul on blu-ray last month!

My husband's mouth tastes like semen said...

So Baz Luhrman...he's like Bruce Weber, right? An effeminate flamboyant homosexual male who produces gay art for a living and has left an indelible mark on LGBT culture due to him dedicating his life to making the world a little bit gayer but is marry to a biological female, right?

Only difference is Bruce Weber had the foresight to NOT drag children into his sham marriage.

At least the kids are adopted just like Hugh Jackman and Tom Cruise's kids which makes the idea of a gay man adopting kids with his best friend (because she really wants kids) a little bit more palpable.

Unknown said...

So Jack Huston, who was incredible on Boardwalk Empire, is boring but human Nytol Dominic Cooper makes you salivate? Wow...