Good Morning, World

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Would that Jason O'Mara and his exposed torso greeted us

every morning with our morning cuppa. A happy 40 to him.

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I Am Link

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--- Wettest Men - Here's a picture of Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeaouf staring wanna-hump-hump eyes at each other in John Hillcoat's long delayed but supposedly good anyways drama now called Lawless, once called The Wettest Country in the World, then just The Wettest County - I suppose it's the title that's been holding them up? (via)

--- Telekinetic Debacle - Nat took that "Chloe Moretz is Carrie White!" news to task by making an actual intelligent argument about her fundamental wrongness for the role instead of just making a resigned snarky sigh like I did.

--- And speaking of Nat he finally got around to naming his Sexpots and Villains and Heroes and Divas for his Film Bitch 2011 awards and they're filled with goodies, including another opportunity to gawk at Lee Jung-Jae searing hotness in The Housemaid. And I will take this opportunity myself!

--- PTA Meeting - We'd heard that Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie the "Is it is or is it ain't a take on Scientology?" movie The Master was going to come out in October and now we've got confirmation - October 12th, to be exact. At least limited-ly. Which means New York, I win!

--- Closet Hamm - Far be it from me not to link to a video of Jon Hamm getting molested in a closet by a gay tickle spider.

--- Get Iced - Michael Shannon has an extremely long and dangerous phallic object swinging between his legs is all I'm getting from this first poster for his hitman movie The Iceman. I'm impressed. Watch out - he's gonna shoot!

--- Pretty Future - The Wachowskis are currently making that Cloud Atlas movie with Tom Tykwer I guess (somebody re-encourage me to pick that book back up; I got ten pages in and stalled a few months ago) but they're already lining up their next project - it's called Jupiter Ascending and it's a sci-fi flick but they're being all secretive as to what it's about. They want it to star Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis though, so appraently it's about very very hot people doing something.

--- On The Wall - The trailers have been so obnoxiously awful that I have to admit I'm surprised to hear Glenn lavish such praise on Tarsem's Mirror Mirror - he, like me, has long admired Tarsem though so I think I should listen. Also, Armie Hammer, yes.

--- Dino-soured - Netflix has decided that Terra Nova was too expensive (slash awful, no doubt) or whatever for them to pick up, so the dinos are dead. Hot piece Jason O'Mara already has a new project lined up so I don't really care. Hopefully it's a show about one man's terrifying allergy to clothing.

--- Snow Man - Thing to read later that I haven't read yet: an interview at AICN with Donald Sutherland, currently seen slithering his way through a really bright rose garden in The Hunger Games.

--- And finally, I love this behind-the-scenes gallery of pictures from The Avengers so much I couldn't choose just one, so here's three. Joss plus Renner and Hemwsorth biceps, ho!

RIP Terra Nova

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The fact that somebody was able to make a show that featured both a shirtless Jason O'Mara and motherfucking dinosaurs something that I literally forgot even existed after the second episode is really astonishing to me, so I guess Terra Nova deserves credit for that, at least. That is one very large, very terrible feat.

If Netflix does bring the show back they need to make it an hour of Jason O'Mara in just a loincloth riding on the back of a dinosaur. Show saved! I'll collect my royalties in a lump sum, thank you.

A Guided Tour Thru Geek Nirvana

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Another year, another delightfully bat-shit bonkers weekend of geekery spent at New York Comic Con. As soon as you step onto the floor, the brain-daze takes over and you stumble through the halls like a... dare I say...

... I dare. (Hey Shaun!) I spent the majority of Saturday tucked away inside the IGN Theater where the big movie and television presentations happen, mostly because I wanted to make sure I had a seat for The Avengers panel that was the day's closing act. First up was Terra Nova! They showed an entire upcoming episode (I've been bad keeping up with the show, but I think it aired this week.)

But lemme tell you what, Jason O'Mara looks good in person.

He's built like an action figure!
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I did get to wander the floor a little bit

after that, and I got to meet Ti West!

That's a blurry him at the arrow. I got him to sign a copy of The House of the Devil's poster, and he was very cool. After that there was a little bit more wandering around the floor...

... and then it was back to the big theater to plunk myself down for several hours trapped with spectacle. First up there was a presentation from Sony. The showed the 3D trailer for the new Underworld movie - Leather! Boobs! Fur! Boobs! - and then they showed a scene plus some extra footage from the Total Recall remake, which I have to admit was pretty spectacular. I might actually find myself excited about this, even though it is gonna be very different beast from what Verhoeven did with the material.



After that came the directing duo behind the Crank movies, Neveldine and Taylor, who were presenting some stuff from their Ghost Rider sequel. I love Neveldine and Taylor, the Crank movies are fantastic, so they alone have got me interested in a new Ghost Rider movie, but something I didn't know about Neveldine and Taylor? They are both really, really hot.

Especially Brian Taylor. He's the director version of Jason Statham!

And they were both as nuts and obscene and funny as the Crank movies would make you think they'd be, and I love them so much forever and ever marry me!

Next up, The Walking Dead panel! Last year's panel was better than this year's for a couple of reasons - Frank Darabont was there, and Andrew Lincoln was there (mmm), plus we didn't yet know that the show was gonna be a total mess so optimism was alive. But the gang seemed enthusiastic (although I wish somebody would've had the balls to ask them about the Darabont debacle) and Jon Bernthal and Steven Yeun and Norman Reedus were looking fine, plus they showed the best scene from this week's premiere (the scene on the highway).

And then it was time for the biggie!

Actually, that picture of a happy Chris Evans is really, really misleading about the mood of the panel. This picture captures the essence of it much better.



Nearly every question asked of the panel - which included Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg (who you've already seen sing his theme song) Mark Ruffalo and Marvel CEO Kevin Feige - was directed at Hiddleston, who was the belle of the ball, so much so that the moderator - hey Chris Hardwick! - asked the audience to maybe direct a question to somebody else and the next question was still for Hiddleston anyway!



And at a certain point Chris Evans seemed totally pissed off about it. Poor thing. I'll focus on just you if you give me the chance, Chris!



Anyway I won't bother describing the footage they showed since everybody's already talked that up across the internet by now, but it continues looking to me like an awesome, awesome time and I cannot wait. I just wish Joss had been there! or at least sent a recorded hello! Goddamn, man.



That was it for Saturday, and after all that Sunday was low-key. I hit the panel for Conan the Barbarian in the morning just to see if Jason Momoa might take off his shirt - he didn't, so I didn't take his picture. Take that! And then I hit up the IFC panel for a couple of their comedy shows - The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret had some great riffing by H. Jon Benjamin and David Cross.

Seen above, Benjamin shoved some poor costumed kid out of the way to grab that microphone because he thought everybody's questions stunk. And then there was the Portlandia panel with show creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel being interviewed by Seth Meyers.

And then it was back to wandering the floor, and after a couple more hours of that I was numb to the point of brain damage and had to make my escape. Twas a good time, as it is every year. If you want to see some more pictures I took you can hit the jump...

Good Morning, World

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That's Terra Nova's papa protagonist Jason O'Mara in his previous show, Life on Mars which lasted like negative seven episodes or whatever. Let's hope the dinosaurs feel like tying him up some too, it'll goose this new show a bit (it's in need of goosing). Although TN was kind enough, in the middle of all the semi-tedious family treacle, to give us some of Mr. O'Mara's shirtless chore routine though, so I'll give them some wiggle room, for now. Here are those after the jump...

Psst TV

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I have been terrible, TERRIBLE, terrible, at keeping up with the new Fall season of television. I had no idea Fringe was back this past Friday until Joe Reid told me after the fact (Anybody watch it? When I did get to it I thought it was an alright episode but kinda low-key when they should be hooking us back in), the episodes of Ringer that've aired so far are still sitting unseen on my DVR queue, and the show I oughta in theory have the biggest raging hard-on ever known to humanity for, Terra Nova, I just now notice is starting tonight? Holy crud! Dinosaurs, ho! (And hey there, Jason O'Mara. Ho.) My enthusiasms for TN did get a little battered and bruised with the months upon months of delays, but that's still no excuse. None whatsoever! Forgive me!

What have y'all been enjoying so far or still be looking forward to? I know it's like stepping on the proverbial rake over and over but I can't help but find myself looking a little bit forward to American Horror Story, even though Ryan Murphy can't ever seem to see anything through.

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