One Stacked Weekend

Although I've got a pile of New York Film Festival screeners to watch and reviews to write this weekend (slash for the next two weeks) I'm actually impressed I got as much done this week as I did, because this week revealed itself to be a doozy, new-release-wise. Not just movies either, what with three television series of note all premiering -- Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are arrived on HBO on Monday, while Ratched hit Netflix...

... (and hey there Corey Stoll in sock garters) and PEN15 hit Hulu today -- but primarily in movies, and I managed to share some thoughts, fast or otherwise, on everything I intended to! So let's do a quick round-up...

WHAT TO SEE, OR NOT SEE, I DON'T OWN YOU

Earlier today I reviewed Sean Durkin's The Nest, starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon, right here. It is good!

I reviewed Antonio Campos' The Devil All the Time, starring every young actor on the planet plus Jason Clarke tugging it to street trade, right here. It is... okay?

I whiffed the fact that they switched the release date for Miranda July's latest called Kajillionaire to next week and went ahead and reviewed that anyway, right here. That'll be out a week from today! I will surely re-remind you then.

The gay horror flick Spiral starring the ridiculously handsome Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman from UnREAL (sidenote: I miss UnREAL), hit Shudder earlier this week and I shared my thoughts on that right here. Bonus as an aside in that review I mention the horror flick Antebellum, out on VOD today, but sadly not worth that much of my (or your) time.

On top of all of that I also got my first of many to come NYFF review out with my thoughts on Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock, which just opened the fest -- read that over at The Film Experience. I'll have more up over at TFE over the weekend and through the next couple of weeks for the fest, so stay tuned!

Your biggest priority out of all of these things would be... well it's PEN15, isn't it? Honestly if I was home right now and not trapped at my office desk I'd be re-watching the second season of PEN15, which is absolutely everything, just everything. I very much liked the first season but the second season takes the whole show to glorious, surprising heights -- the show is a classic now. An all-timer. For real. Watch PEN15 dammit!

I was totally jazzed when my beloved Michael Angarano showed up on #PEN15 in the new season but I had no idea until right now that he and the show's star Maya Erskine are a real life couple!!!! NEW FAVORITE COUPLE ALERT pic.twitter.com/T6oapEQ1n0

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 12, 2020

Devil Needs a Deep Breath

Antonio Campos new film The Devil All the Time (out on Netflix today) is a heckuva big meal -- a feast, really. Based on the 2011 novel by Donald Ray Pollock and narrated by him too, it feels it -- novelistic, I mean. Each scene -- and the space between them especially -- hums with the breeze of a dozen pages flapping in front of your face, introducing another character, another angle on this small brutal town and its small brutal inhabitants; nobody can just sit and eat a pie like Rooney mara in A Ghost Story in The Devil All the Time; it's right there in the title! All the time! Not just a little bit of the time, some devil.

And like a feast you get too much of some good things and not enough of others. I complained earlier this week about not getting enough Mia Wasikowska -- the same is very nearly true of all the female characters, save Eliza Scanlen and maybe Riley Keough, although the latter's character remains a festering question mark. Which is okay -- most of these people don't seem to know themselves (who does) and a movie that knows that isn't not doing its job. It knows better.

I'm surprised to see that Pollock's book (which I have not read) only runs three hundred pages because given everything packed into this film's two-ish hours I could've easily seen the book busting out into twice or thrice that territory. Even as a feast it's the rare occasion of a Netflix thing being maybe not being enough, maybe leaving us wanting -- might this have been better as a miniseries? I could've stood another hour, actually sat with these folks, gotten to know 'em a little better. Maybe made and eaten a pie or two.

That said everybody's wrestling with their own gods in their own ways, and some of the dishes began to seem redundant, piled on top of each other as they are -- so many fishy preachers, all to the same ends. If you want me to see generations falling under the spider-faced spells of the same madness I need to feel the time pass a little better, otherwise it begins to blend, a pile-up of flavors and Robert Pattinson Accent taste sensations -- I just wanna savor the ham, Antonio Campos! Let me savor Rob's ham!

My main complaint, which is only half a complaint, is everybody's doing good work here -- I believed in this place, even as it stuffed itself to the gills with gothic melodrama, and I wanted to spend more time in here rifling around. I wanted some patience, a slow burn, but I got a loping forest fire instead. I'm sure Pollock could've told everybody involved if you let a fire breathe, give it some oxygen, it'll light up even prettier. He seems the type to know.

The Devils of September

(click to embiggen) Guess we can already go ahead and call it a big day for Netflix drops -- that right there's the poster for Antonio "Christine" Campos' The Devil All the Time, which stars Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Bill Skarsgard, Mia Wasikowska, Riley Keough, Eliza Scanlan, and Jason Clarke, and yes I just copy and pasted that list of names from our last post which shared the movies trailer -- I am not typing out all those damn names every time! TDATT hits the streamer on September 20th. There are a lot of big things hitting in September it feels like, doesn't it? I feel like I've had to be extremely boisterous with harassing people for September screeners. I still don't have my greedy paws on this one yet but I am working on it, have faith!

I Saw The Devil

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As forecasted earlier this past week when the first poster (here) and the first photos (here) from Antonio Campos' film The Devil All the Time appeared -- this is the Netflix movie starring (real deep breath now) Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Bill Skarsgard, Mia Wasikowska, Riley Keough, Eliza Scanlan, and Jason Clarke, that's out on September 20th -- we have now gotten the first trailer! Watch it here:

First thought is yes, yes I would follow Robert Pattinson as a snake-oil selling preacher-man, I would follow him anywhere. Don't you see how grimy everybody else is? He's got that beautiful powder blue suit and ruffled shirt? To hell and back, Rob.

Other thoughts -- is this another movie where Riley Keough is terrorized? I love Riley but I think I've hit my breaking point, after Under the Silver Lake and The Lodge and Earthquake Bird and especially especially The House That Jack Built... I am for the time being over, of seeing her get terrorized. This might be especially keen for any of y'all who follow her on Instagram where her very real grief for her brother, who you might be aware just committed suicide this past month, has been ongoing -- I just really need only good things for Riley Keough for awhile now.

I love her so much. And I'm sure those of you who've read the book already are shaking your heads for me as I type -- this will not be the movie for good things for Riley Keough, that much is clear. Anyway it looks like a movie worth seeing -- like I keep saying, that cast that cast THAT CAST. Holy hell that cast. We will see on September 20th.

The Devil in Poster Form

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Netflix smartly chose to play up that endlessly killer cast they've wrangled for Antonio "Christine" Campos' latest flick The Devil All the Time with its first peekaboo that's-who poster -- scan down and you see Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, and pulling up the rear (insert "pulling up the rear joke" here) Robert Pattinson. I don't know about you but sandwiched between Spider-man and Batman seems a fine place to be! TDATT premieres on Netflix on September 20th -- seems safe to assume that we'll get a trailer this week. See some photos from the movie at this link here.

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All of Them Devils

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Today is proving to be a very exciting day when it comes to our first looks at upcoming movies, who'd have thought it? Earlier we saw Tilda in Almodovar's new one, and now here is the first batch of photos of the truly unbelievably get-outta-here knock me over with a feather for how deep this cast runs cast of The Devil All the Time, which is hitting Netflix on September 20th. I mean...

... you've got four pictures here, pictures just of faces, each one makes me more excited than the one before it, and they don't even include names like Sebastian Stan (who replaced Chris Evans) or Haley Bennett or Eliza Scanlen or MIA FUCKIN' WASIKOWSKA. But we do see Robert Pattinson and Bill Skarsgård and Jason Clarke and Riley Keough...

... and Spider-twink Tom Holland bringing up the rear. See our previous posts over here -- the film (which was directed by Antonio Campos, director of the stellar Christine) is based on a 2012 book (I believe some of you have read it) about a serial killer in a small town or something -- honestly I'm trying not to know a lot of details, I wanna keep myself as pure and virgin-like as I can for this one. Speaking of...

Hey Tom. Anyway I guess we'll probably get a trailer for this soon since it's only six weeks away, and I'll probably spoil myself by giffing that once it's here, but for now, let's pretend I know nothing. Ha! Pretend. Rich, that. (click the pics to embiggen)

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Grisly, the Glamour Cats

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Did you know they had like thirty-two cats playing the part of The Cat in the new Pet Sematary? Thirty-two isn't the right number, it's more like five or something, but I'm not googling that crap -- point being there were several. One for jumping, one for scowling, one for making coffee for Jason Clarke every morning, one for folding laundry, one for making copies of everyone's keys. I found that out after I saw the movie and I never would have guessed -- you get two distinct cats in the film, a live one and a dead one, and they sure seemed same enough to me.

Same enough, the perfect phrase for Pet Sematary on the whole -- I gave up on worrying about remakes a couple of years back and it's been great for my digestive tract; I highly recommend letting go of that particular fight, especially when we've got folks like Luca Guadagnino out in the world making magic of the concept of "the remake" with his Suspiria. This is not that, even though Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer are promising up and comers in the director's seat -- you get the feeling they wanted to play the studio game here, far more than Guadagnino gives a shit about, so the 2019 Pet Sematary isn't as subversive as you'd think the directors of the distinctly fucked-up Starry Eyes coulda gone buck-wild with King.

But you know what? It's still kinda fucked up. It's fucked up enough, how's that? Slap that on a poster -- "Same enough, and fucked up enough." It plays it straight-forward and "safe" (as far as a movie about New England Wendigo & Child Murder can be considered "safe" anyway) for the first three-quarters, so much so that this review was gonna be less kind, but the last act really reaches for it, playing out the full extent of its new tricks and twists; it doesn't shy from its tar-black heart by its credits, that's for sure.

I'd actually say its a better film than Mary Lambert's original film, but y'all know as I just said yesterday that I consider that film several good ideas and images mashed up into a piece of real junk -- it's not the highest praise, me saying I'd direct somebody to this version over that version any day. But I would. It's thirty-seven cats, ten cheesy lightning strikes over a foggy swamp, one craggy John Lithgow, and a metric shit-ton of stab wounds superior, tis.

I'm Holding Out For Another Hero

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Is anyone planning on seeing Shazam! this weekend? Thanks to its better-than-expected reviews I would have planned on going if I wasn't so busy I might disintegrate at any moment, but my schedule is punching me in the nards so so hard for the next few days -- it looks like Shazam! will end up waiting. Sorry, Zach! (For a fuller copy of the above picture, which is pleasant to gaze upon, click here.) My nards say no deal! 

This is a busy weekend though -- the best thing you might be able to see depending on where you are is Claire Denis' High Life (read my review) but there's also the Pet Sematary remake (review shortly) and the frontier-lady horror flick The Wind (reviewed here) and Jai Courtney's Aussie Kiddie Flick Storm Boy and the Aretha Franklin doc Amazing Grace and Best of Enemies with Sam Rockwell leaning into his racist schtick alongside Taraji P. Henson...

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There is Taraji Henson’s back #BestOfEnemies pic.twitter.com/2QMvsGpmBr

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 4, 2019

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... whose premiere I stumbled upon by accident last night. Oh and Elle Fanning's pop musical Teen Spirit, which I very much want to see (watch the trailer here) but cannot figure out how or when, thanks to the aforementioned nightmare schedule. Oh and there's a new Mike Leigh movie out today too! What the living fuck. It's too much! Add on the fact that Killing Eve returns on Sunday and you'd be forgiven for saying fuck it and throwing yourself off the Empire State Building. By me, I mean. Not God. God will hate you forever.

Which is Hotter?

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Guess who's seeing the new Pet Sematary tonight? This dweeb! (I mean me.) I've heard opinions all over the map but I'm maintaining enthusiasm because 1) the guys who made the tremendously under-sung Starry Eyes are behind it, and 2) the original film is a real piece of junk. I just re-watched it last fall and man oh man is it even rougher than I recalled it being. I think there's almost nowhere to go but up. Okay the 1989 film does have a few good elements -- it nails Gage and Zelda. And Dale Midkiff might not give exactly the best performance ever captured on-screen (understatement much) but he looks awful good...

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Cowboys Will be Cowboys

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There's not a whole lot new in the movie theaters this weekend -- although Serenity, which I reviewed earlier, is fairly fucking bonkers and might be worth a curious look-see if you go into it with a drink, or twenty, inside ya -- so you might be better off avoiding the cold, staying in, and watching Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers, which officially hit streaming this week. I mean to re-watch it myself -- I reviewed it way back in September but I haven't seen it since, and yet it's haunted my brain an awful lot in the intervening months. Loose images -- sunlight shimmering on a stream-bed, drifting curtains, swaying trees -- that sorta thing. And of course the beautifully rendered bond of friendship and maybe possibly more than friendship that Jake & Riz give life to -- I think whatever it is going on between John Morris and Hermann Kermit Warm (still not over that astonishing name) is one of the year's most indelible things, and I'm dying to revisit it, contemplate it and test out its borders and such. There just wasn't a name for what they were feeling back then, is my sensation.

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I gotta re-watch this movie right away pic.twitter.com/oVxpx5y87B

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 25, 2019

Sometimes Dead Is Better

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I don't re-watch the 1989 version of Pet Sematary all that often but when I do I'm always like, "Yeah, that's not a bad movie." There are all kinds of classic 80s horror moments contained therein - Zelda anyone? - that haunt anybody of the right age. So I don't know that it really needs a remake... but if they are gonna remake it they're making some smart choices. Like casting Jason Clarke in the lead, for one, which just happened today. And like hiring the duo behind 2014's super duper flick Starry Eyes for another. (Here's my review of Starry Eyes, which I sure hope you have seen by now.) Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever read Stephen King's book - have any of you? Is it worth it?  Is it very different from the film? Tell me about it in the comments and then hit the jump for a couple more pictures of Jason Clarke if you like...

Kennedy Cursed Again

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My review of Chappaquiddick - the movie out this weekend starring Jason Clarke as Teddy Kenneddey that dramatizes the titular event back in 1969 where Teddy ran his car off a road and a woman ended up dead - went up at The Film Experience last night, read it here, and there are already a couple of comments complaining that it's not really a review of the film but a mass of jumbled thoughts about politics. Thing is, I bring this up because I don't disagree with that assessment!

The film itself is kind of staid, kind of afraid to swing for the fences, and so what ended up being more interesting to me in writing about it - the only thing that inspired me to actually get out some thoughts - is the atmosphere it's being released into, and the interviews that Clarke & director John Curran have been giving where they've been on the defensive with regards to why they made the movie. And yes my thoughts on politics right now are fairly jumbled - the world is fairly jumbled and I don't pretend to have any answers. Anyway go read that if you care, or just stare at these two nice pictures of Jason Clarke for a second and then movie on - either way!

Halt and Catch Killer Robots

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The Terminator franchise has chewed up and spat out all kinds of great actors at this point - Christian Bale, Claire Danes... I mean does Nick Stahl even exist anymore? So I'm hesitant to allow myself too much enthusiasm about today's news that our beloved Mackenzie Davis has just signed on for the latest reboot, this time directed by Deadpool's Tim Miller. But there are positive signs of fortune in this for her - James Cameron is actually involved this time around, and the film's meant to be a direct sequel to Terminator 2 and will bring back not just Schwarzenegger (I mean he's shown up before, to lesser results each time) but much more enticingly Linda f'ing Hamilton will be playing Sarah Connor again.

That is some very fine International Women's Day movie news right there. What do we think? After the truly terrible Genisys film entirely wasted the super porny set-up of a butt-naked Jai Courtney shaking hands with a scar-faced Jason Clarke I wrote off the whole franchise for good but they're luring me back, the bastards...

Hedlund Into the Weekend Like What

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Lest anyone forget that impossibly fucking handsome movie star Garrett Hedlund has a movie out this weekend,  impossibly fucking handsome movie star Garrett Hedlund has a movie out this weekend too -- Mudbound, the drama about one white family and one black family working the same plot of land after in the late 1940s from director Dee Rees, is now out in theaters and right there at home on your Netflix box too! 

I saw Mudbound at NYFF but never reviewed it (I did post some pictures of Garett at the Q&A though) -- that was basically because I sided about 100% with our pal Murtada had to say on the movie at The Film Experience. Just go read what he said, is what I am saying. I actually thought Hedlund was the best thing in the movie myself, which might surprise some of you who haven't been paying attention but I maintain for all his astonishing prettiness he's also a really very talented actor. Anyway watch Mudbound and tell me what you thought and after the jump I'll share several more shots of this impossibly fucking handsome movie star Garett Hedlund...

Pics of the Day

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I feel like I also have to share this shot of MARY J BLIGE & GARRETT HEDLIND on stage for MUDBOUND cuz that’s a lotta hotness in one frame! pic.twitter.com/lUs8YF6YdH

— Jason X Adams (@JAMNPP) October 12, 2017

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Besides that shot there I also posted a few pictures of Garrett & the rest of the Mudbound crew on Instagram earlier today at the film's press screening for the New York Film Festival - click over there for those. But for you guys here on the site proper I'll share a few lil' bonus shots of Garrett because who doesn't want nay need more Garrett? Nobody I wanna know that's who.

By the way, without getting into reviewing the film (which is excellent) just yet let me say that Dee Rees' camera was clearly infatuated with Garrett too, and shot him like the fucking movie star he deserves to be shot as. He looked drop-dead gorgeous in an old-fashioned movie-star sort of way in every single frame. I ate it up!

ETA oh wait I missed something  -- Garrett is the dude of the month in Mr Porter magazine and there's a very fine photo-shoot of him therein, so hit the jump for nine whole pictures from that...

5 Off My Head: NYFF Selections

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The Main Slate line-up for this year's New York Film Festival was announced today and as usual it's an international phantasmagoria of cinematic somethings. Most thrilling, to little ol' me, is the confirmation of something most of us suspected - Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name is playing the fest! Maybe you've heard me mention that movie once or twice? At least now I know I'll be seeing the thing earlier than its Thanksgiving release date (the festival runs September 28th to October 15th), even if that's coming later than it has for most of my world-hopping festival chasing colleagues. (I'm really flattering myself, calling real movie critics colleagues, but hey, if I don't flatter myself...) 

Anyway you can peruse the entire line-up right here at this link, but I figured I'd highlight five titles that immediately pop out from the list. Oh and I'm going to ignore Call Me By Your Name (too obvious) as well as the Opening Night Film (Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying) and the Centerpiece Film (Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck) and the Closing Night Film (Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel) for this because they'd eat up three of these spots right off the bat (I'll let you guess which of those four films I am not looking forward to) and there's plenty of love to spread below the line.

5 Movies From NYFF I'm Psyched To See

Lady Bird - This one is Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, so duh. It stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, and CMBYN's Elio himself Timothée Chalamet, who I guess will really be making the rounds over those couple of weeks. I love Saoirse and am excited to see how Gerwig uses her but I'm most excited to see Laurie Metcalf hopefully given a juicy film role, which come far too few between. 

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - Looks like it'll be a girlfriend-boyfriend tag-team with Gerwig facing off with her plus-one Noah Baumbach and his new movie! In the wake of Frances Ha Baumbach's always going to be a yes, although I'm a little wary by this thing starring Adam Sandler. Don't get me wrong, Punch-drunk Love is probably my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie and everything, so I know Sandler is capable of greatness, but he's been especially foul over the past couple of years - can I even look at him now? The rest of the cast helps - Ben Stiller (of course) and Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, oh yeah.

The Florida Project - This is Sean Baker's new film, following up on the glorious high of Tangerine two years ago. I'm sold on that alone. It's about a six-year-old little girl running wild around a motel on the outskirts of Disney World in Orlando, and it's also got a big role for Willem Dafoe (yay) as the motel's manager.

Madame Hyde - This is an "eccentric comedic thriller" starring Isabelle Huppert as "a timid and rather peculiar physics professor" who GETS HIT BY LIGHTNING and becomes a totally different person, "a newly powerful Mrs. Hyde with mysterious energy and uncontrollable powers." COME ON NOW.

Zama - The new movie from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel, whose last movie, 2010's The Headless Woman, blew me away. I've been waiting a decade for this! The sad thing is I have gone a decade without sitting myself down to watch Martel's earlier films, The Holy Girl and La Ciénaga, about which i have also heard terrific things, so this finally kicks me in the tail to do that.

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Runners-up: Everything, for real, I want to see everything. But specifically there's Kiyoshi Kurosawa's spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers called Before We Vanish. There's BPM (Beats Per Minute), the new movie from the director of the terrific Eastern Boys and is about ACT UP's work in the 80s; I heard huge raves about that at Cannes. There's Arnaud Desplechin's film Ismael’s Ghosts, which stars Mathieu Almaric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, and Marion Cotillard, wow. Similarly (amazing cast speaking) Mudbound from Dee Rees stars Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jonathan Banks, and Jason Clarke, among others. And then there's The Square, the new movie from Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) which won the Palme d'Or.

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I Am Link

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--- Fierce Hairdo - It's just a teaser but I can already say with true and honest conviction that I am already infatuated with Jessica Chastain's villainous-seeming hint of blonde roots thanks to this look at them on the Death and Life of John F. Donovan poster via director Xavier Dolan - see the whole thing here. That said I want to see more of Kit Harington on the final poster - perhaps wearing jeans? - because of course I do. In case you missed that recent batch of pictures from the movie, click here. Donovan is supposed to be out sometime early next year.

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--- Undead Director - The rumor we heard last month has now been confirmed - David Fincher's next movie will be the sequel to World War Z, starring once again his hot ass muse Brad Pitt. This will be Fincher's first film since 2014's Gone Girl so fine, whatever it takes to get him in the director's chair in. A Fincher Zombie Movie is certainly something to wrap one's head around, anyway.

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Pretty sure that FINN WITTROCK & DARREN CRISS having sex together is the Ryan Murphy equivalent of "crossing the streams" pic.twitter.com/296oGwbHyi

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 21, 2017

--- Fashion Freak Out - I think the above tweet pretty much sums up my feelings on this news but let's fill in the actual details - Finn Wittrock has been cast in the Versace season of American Crime Story. He will be playing Jeff Trail, the first victim of Andrew Cunanan, played by Darren Criss. (See the first pictures from the show here.) I haven't read the book this is all based on so I might be wrong - EW describes Trail as a "friend" of Cunanan's, so maybe they won't have sex? Come on Ryan Murphy. Ya can't jerk me around like this. "True Story" be damned!

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--- Bald As The Moon - Whiplash director Damien Chazelle is following up La la Land with a movie about the moon landing (based on this book) and I guess the first person cast was (of course) Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, but now even better - Corey Stoll has joined the cast to play his fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin! Although one thing that always bothers me about realistic space movies is those great big bulky un-sexy astronaut suits, so let's hope they find a work-around for that with Corey. Maybe we'll find out that Buzz was always naked in the shuttle? Why not? Anyway Kyle Chandler and the great Jason Clarke have also joined the cast so this thing's turning into a real Outer Space Stud Fest.
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--- Bite Off - The two gents behind Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock series are next teaming up to reboot his shadow Victorian contemporary, a fellow called Drac. Dracula, that is. Hey it's got to be better than that Jonathan Rhys Meyers series, which totally wasted both Thomas Kretschmann and Oliver Jackson-Cohen in thankless supporting parts. (I'd support their parts, hardy hard hard.) Anyway this won't be striking any time soon, they say, but it will be released in intermittent movie-length bursts just like Sherlock is.
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--- Corporate Hammer - Reading through the nutty plot description of Sorry To Bother You, an upcoming movie that Armie Hammer has just joined the cast of, it's hard not to think this is proof that the success of a movie like Get Out does have immediate positive repercussions:

"The film is about a black telemarketer with self-esteem issues who discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices. When he uncovers the macabre secret of his corporate overlords, he must decide whether to stand up or sell out."

I mean... that doesn't get green-lit without Get Out, right? But thankfully it has. Anyway as for Armie I am guessing he plays an executive or such. For such a beautiful blond rich straight white dude Armie sure does like diving into stories about queer people and people of color a lot, doesn't he? Good on him. (thanks Mac)
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--- Fallen Feelings - The next Jurassic Park movie (I know we're supposed to call them "Jurassic World" movies now but I'm good, thanks) has gotten its subtitle and its first poster today - the film will be called Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Yeah, okay, sure. I wish I could be more excited - this being the franchise that turned me into a movie maniac in 1993 and all - but the last movie was such bollocks, and I've only grown to like it less and less with time. Anyway Jeff Goldblum is returning so there's that. I will try to be more enthusiastic... eventually... I promise. Fallen Kingdom though? I don't know. It's so clunky.
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--- The Godfather of Gorey - Eli Roth is going to turn an Edward Gorey illustrated book into a movie! I am surprised that Hollywood hasn't turned to Gorey's stuff before this - it makes sense. Gorey did only illustrate this one though -- it's called The House With A Clock In Its Walls and it was written by John Bellairs in 1973; I guess it's one book in a 12 part series so who knows, perhaps Eli has found his Lord of the Rings. In less thrilling news the movie will star Jack Black, who gets on my last nerve 98% of the time, so there's that. Anybody read it?
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--- And Finally the movie called God's Own Country is a gay drama that got a bunch of rave reviews at Sundance and Berlin earlier this year (from what I recall people often lumped it in with Call Me By Your Name, saying it was the better and sexier of the two) - it's out in the UK (where it's from) on September 1st and there's now a trailer and here it is:

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Ethan Embry

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Our long National Nightmare is over! Okay okay not that National Nightmare, a different National Nightmare -- the long long wait for the new movie from Sean Byrne, director of The Loved Ones, is over! The Devil's Candy starring Ethan Embry is out in "theaters" and on demand today. Hooray! In case you missed the trailer watch it here.

I put "theaters" in quotation marks because even here in NYC the film's only doing midnight screenings at one theater as far as I can tell, so seeing it in a theater might be a task for most of us. (I sure as fuck am too old for midnight screenings myself.) But technically they can get away with saying that. Anyway, hi Ethan Embry!

This is not your teenage girlfriend's pretend boyfriend Ethan Embry anymore. Can't Hardly Wait? To get a really very close look at those tattoos, maybe. I'm loving hardcore Ethan though - he's been on a roll with horror movies. In the past couple of years he's been in The Guest with Dan Stevens (my review) and Cheap Thrills with Pat Healy (my review) and Late Phases with Nick Damici (my review) and now this. All absolutely solid flicks, or in the case of The Guest, absolute gems. Keep it up, Ethan!

Anyway let's get to ogling part -- in case you're wondering most of this stuff is from the TV series called Brotherhood, which Ethan starred on for a couple of years a decade ago, which starred Jason Isaacs and Jason Clarke as brothers...

... who sit really close to one another on beds in hotel rooms. This sounds like my kind of show. I mean all that and Ethan Embry filling out a pair of tighty-whities rather... substantially... what else do you need? Hit the jump for the rest...