I was googling around for pictures of male celebrities in Halloween costumes for this post and I found that picture of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, which is labeled as a Halloween costume... but I'm totally not convinced that's not just Jonathan Rhys Meyers on a regular Tuesday night in like May. And it is freaking me out! Good work, JRM. Anyway I don't have any costume plans this weekend which is depressing me something terrible, so I wanna hear what you guys are going as, and live vicariously through you. Tell me in the comments!
That big, huh? Did you guys see the picture of Josh standing next to Dave Franco yesterday? I mean I knew before seeing it that Josh is supposed to be 6'4" and Dave Franco is supposed to be 5'7" but seeing it laid out so starkly, side by side, really put Dave into perspective for me. Wee Little Dave! Anyway Josh should ditch Fergie and get himself a Wee Little Franco of his own, is my point. They could be the new better sexier gayer version of that cheerleader from Heroes and her literal giant of a husband. Pony Rides for Dave!
--- November Surprise - Greta Gerwig's just joined the cast of Jackie, which will star Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy immediately following JFK's assassination - I know, I know, sounds like a tricky tightrope they'll have to walk with this thing not to get eviscerated, but Pablo Larraín, the director of the fantastic 2012 Chilean drama No with Gael Garcia Bernal (seriously it is so good) is directing so let's stay hopeful. Greta will be playing one of Jackie's aides; Peter Sarsgaard has also joined and will play Robert Kennedy.
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--- The Woman on the Train - I am glad that Allison Janney is still finding time to make movies even with that show Mom being a hit (not to mention her incredible turns on Masters of Sex) -- I wish Anna Faris would take note! Anyway Janney's just signed on for The Girl on the Train, which we've posted about several times - based on the great big bestseller
it's already set to star Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett,
Jared Leto and Justin Theroux. We need to get Janney an Oscar, dontcha
think? Somebody get Allison Janney an Oscar dammit! .
--- Blabbin in the Woods - Dollhouse and Cabin in the Woods star Fran Kranz (also the proud owner of the World's Greatest Chest) is set to star in Rebirth, a new movie that Netflix is producing - it's from the director of Mr. Jones (didn't see it) and is about a dude who gets sucked into a self-actualization seminar in the middle of nowhere that goes bat-shit, or something like that. Adam Goldberg is playing the other dude; the film will also star Harry Hamlin? Okay. . --- X Is For Xenomorph - Sad to hear that Neill Blomkamps' Alien prequel is on hold whilst Fox allows Ridley Scott to do whatever the heck he wants to do with the second Prometheus movie -- I liked The Martian just fine and The Martian is doing spectacular business so I'm sure Sir Ridley can get whatever he wants right now... which worries me on Prometheus 2, because Sir Ridley is way hit or miss. Blomkamp's films might also be pretty hit or miss but I really wanted to see Sharlto Copley get eaten by a Xenomorph, dammit. .
--- To Look Is To See - The Looking movie has already filmed, I believe, and you can see a bunch of pictures of the cast and crew (Oh Groffy) being typically adorable over here
-- I hope the movie goes back to what made the first season such a
treat and skips all the false high-strung ratings-driven drama of the
second; I know that most people seem to think the second season was
better those people are way wrong. I was pretty much ready to give up on
the show at the point it was canceled. (thanks Mac)
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--- Stab Happy - Tis the happy season for horror lists, and Vulture broached one of my favorite topics with their list of The 23 Weirdest Ways To Die in a Horror Movie. Several of them we've covered here in our Ways Not To Die series, and several that we haven't we are tucking away for future use. . --- And Speaking of lists, Crave got Bryan Fuller to talk about ten of his favorite most stylish horror movies of ever, and as you'd expect from the mad mind behind the sick beauty of Hannibal it's a lovely list with a couple of surprise picks -- the greatness of Creepshow really doesn't get acknowledged often enough. . --- The Perfect Slice - This is pretty goddamned crazy, this news -- Walter Hill, the director of The Warriors for god's sake The Warriors, is making a movie called Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale, which is about... yeah this is what it's about -- a male assassin gets captured by the enemy and turned into a woman by a mad doctor played by Sigourney fucking Weaver, that's what it is about. YOU GUYS. Also Michelle Rodriguez is playing the gender-bent killer which, as much as I usually don't like her, she is perffffect for this. I am so excited. .
--- Ryan's Truth - In a world before Mississippi Grind I only paid attention to Ryan Reynolds movies depending upon the degree of nudity he'd be displaying, but in a post-Mississippi-Grind movie I'm actually interested to see if he can act now and that wasn't a big fluke, so the fact that he's going to make a movie with Notting Hill and Enduring Love director Roger Michell is enticing. (Oh my god I need to re-watch Enduring Love right now.) It's called Truth in Advertising and it's based on a book - it actually sounds kind of Jerry Maguire-ish, only with advertising instead of sports. Anyway don't get me wrong, I still want Ryan Reynolds to get naked in his movies, and I do not for-see that changing any time soon.
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--- Straight Shooter - The Playlist got cutie Karl Glusman (who we just posted an attractive picture of yesterday), who is the star of Gaspar Noe's 3D sex film Love, which is out in limited run today (and which I'm seeing it in just a couple of hours!), to talk about the X-rated experience of making the film -- choice bit:
"Gaspar
doesn't have a shot list except what is in his head. He and the DP,
Benoît Debie, would figure out the shot for 45 minutes to an hour and
keep it a mystery to everyone else. I would always be asking him, "Do I
keep my pants on for this take? Am I allowed to wear clothes?""
You should definitely click to embiggen that picture of Roman Castavet standing at the bar of his and Minnie's apartment in Rosemary's Baby and take in all the old-world details of their gorgeous apartment -- the dark woods and all those bloodthirsty red book-spines! It's swoonworthy, the lot of it.
I wonder what Rosemary would've found if she'd bothered to look through any of those books on the shelves? (ALL OF THEM WITCHES, perhaps?) Roman and Minnie took down their creepy paintings but I doubt they bothered editing their entire book collection.
And I'm so happy this series has allowed me to bring together my love of bookshelves with my love of watching Minnie eat cake. These two things forever! And speaking of, today is the 119th anniversary of Ruth Gordon's birth. To the Year 119!
I'm pretty sure you can scramble up the letters of "Ansel Elgort" and get "Taron Egerton" so it makes sense these two twinks would decide to work together -- it's cosmic! They're going to star inThe Billionaire Boys Club, which is based on the true story of two 80s super investors who rose to riches as quick as they fell, what with the drugs and the murder and the [fill in the blank, you know how this story always goes]. I figured this was based on a book but it doesn't appear to be - instead there's a 1987 NBC mini-series with Judd Nelson? Eesh really digging deep here, people.
We got the teeniest tiniest bit of Wes Bentley skin on this week's episode of American Horror Story -- when they showed the parental warning for the episode and there were a whole bunch of letters missing I could be heard shouting "Where's my Sexual Situations and Nudity???" across town, and sure enough, it was a shy one. Why so shy, Wes? Later in the episode when Wes walked around in a perfectly tailored tuxedo looking all kinds of chic and haunted I felt somewhat sated, but still. For a good previous gratuitous bout of Wes-ness click here; he's proven not so shy in the past so I hope as the season progresses so does his exhibitionism. And hit the jumpfor a few more caps from this scene...
Finally a good look at Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad (click to embiggen) -- this is much more important than all that Joker tomfoolery! I mean Jai still looks the fool but he's at least a big beefy mutton-chopped fool I can root for.
Henry got a haircut! At least they let him keep the beard. It's for his military movie Sand Castle, in which he'll star opposite Nicholas Hoult, Logan Marshall Green (who just replaced Luke Evans - clearly Henry wanted to be the only one accessing the beefy extras on that set), and our new Scream Queens boyfriend Glen Powell.
Just bought my ticket to see Gaspar Noé's film Love in glorious pornographic 3D this weekend - pretty excited, and not strictly for dickly reasons. You should go read our pal Jose's interview with Noé about the film at The Film Experience; choice bit:
"I originally proposed Love to Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci before we made Irréversible, they said yes and we got to work on getting the financing; however, when they read the treatment they said they wouldn’t be able to do it ... I actually regretted not having done a more sexual sequence with Vincent and Monica, even though they had simulated sex in the film, they felt kissing was very intimate and they had so many people busting their balls about how the public would perceive them that they decided to do something tamer."
Jo: I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.
Mr. Mayer: You should have been a lawyer, Miss March.
Jo: I should have been a great many things, Mr. Mayer.
There are two paths in the wood here - either I'm doing y'all a favor by divorcing this scene from the film's soundtrack and keeping that "Silver Shamrock" song out of your head, or it's also possible I'm making it worse by forcing y'all to fill in its absence. Either way it's Halloween-time so you should have that damn song stuck in your head, sanity be damned. Okay let's hit the jump for the yucky buggy remainder of this classic moment...
As I told you guys I went and saw Room last night (probably more on that later) and before it started I was subjected to the usual twenty minutes of trailers (is it just me or have the amount of trailers they show gotten a wee bit out of hand?) -- I covered my eyes for the trailer for The Witch because I refuse to see anything before it comes out (and I have a very long time to cover my eyes since the studio is being dumb about it and waiting all the way until February); I groaned my way through the trailer for The Big Short, which I hadn't seen, and appears to be this Fall's preeminent Great Big Wig Movie. So much fake hair, good grief it was distracting.
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And then there was that, the trailer for Spotlight, which I also hadn't seen before; Spotlight is the movie about the journalists covering the church abuse scandal that stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, and in Very Serious Journalist Lady mode Rachel McAdams. Why do I point out that she's playing a Very Serious Journalist Lady? Because in basically every shot of Rachel McAdams in the trailer for Spotlight she's doing a Very Serious Journalist Lady pose. So a list!
Top 5 Rachel McAdams Very Serious Journalist Lady
Poses in the trailer for the movie Spotlight
1. Rachel McAdams, Very Serious Journalist Lady, tosses her hair and places her determined chin in her hand, so she can listen better
2. Rachel McAdams, Very Serious Journalist Lady, leans forward while scribbling in her Very Serious Journalist Lady Notepad
3. Rachel McAdams, Very Serious Journalist Lady, looks back, very seriously, over her Journalist Lady Shoulder while still scribbling seriously in her Very Serious Journalist Lady Notepad
4. Rachel McAdams, Very Serious Journalist Lady rubs her Serious Journalist Lady Eyes from doing too much Serious Journalist Lady Work in the library, where the Serious Journalist Ladies congregate to do their Serious Journalist Lady Work
5. Rachel McAdams, Very Serious Journalist Lady, harried in that Serious Journalist Lady way, sticks a serious business Post-It onto her computer casing, amid the trappings of a neat but disorderly Serious Journalist Lady desk, where she no doubt at some point has blown the steam off of soup inside of a deli container (That shot is not included in the trailer.)
I am worried that Rachel McAdams, Serious Journalist Lady, might lean forward so far while taking her serious journalist notes that she could fall right off her chair. Posture, Rachel McAdams! Posture! I know you care, you care very deeply about Serious Journalist Things, but you should also care about scoliosis.
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