The Chan-dy Man

Channing Tatum is always going to be younger and hotter than me, that's a given  I came to terms with the first second I laid eyes on Channing Tatum. But I feel as if I can still take some personal pleasure from the fact that a movie trailer can still be sold on the repeated sight of Channing half-naked -- the logic being that once he ages out of that then it's really fucking over for me. But that day is not today! So it goes...

... with the trailer for Derek Cianfrance's new movie Roofman, which tells the wild true story of an ex-Ranger who went to prison for robbing McDonalds (by drilling down through their roofs, hence his nickname) who hides out and moves into a functioning Toys R Us store after he escapes. I remember these headlines! Anyway the trailer makes this seem more lighthearted than I anticipated from Cianfrance, but with this incredible cast -- which also includes Kirsten Dunst, Lakeith Stanfield, Peter Dinklage, Ben Mendelsohn, Uzo Aduba and Juno Temple -- I'd have been sold even wiuthout all the Chan-skin. Watch the trailer:

Roofman is out on October 10th!

Hit the jump for several more gifs...

Hatchets, Crocs, And Hot Boys Kissing

Been awhile since I did a post where I directed y'all to some recent blu-ray releases of note and since I have a few listed on my calendar for today why not? Otherwise I'm just scouring social media for more photos of Theo James in his speedo and there's only so much of that one can do without literally exploding. So today in blu-ray news, first up -- there's Alex Garland's Civil War, which was divisive but not really the way that I think Garland intended it to be. I reviewed it at Pajiba, saying "the film gets to it by coasting on a journalist’s ethics of pure objective documentation over anything resembling subjectivity, and this film that basically demanded to be made at this moment in time doesn’t quite earn its laurels by its end." The movie feels like a cop-out to me. But it's worth seeing and thinking about anyway, and the 4K disc is gorgeous -- you can practically count every hair in Wagner Moura's sexy mustache. 

Also out today is a blu-ray of the sleazy 1979 Jaws rip-off Crocodile from Synapse Films -- this movie isn't my favorite 70s "When Animals Attack!" flick -- heck it's not even in the top 10 -- but it's got its moments, and lots of fun Godzilla-esque miniature work as its enormous croc rampages through puppet-sized Thai villages. My favorite thing is how wildly the size of the crocodile itself vaccillates across the course of the movie -- it's the size of a Brontosaurus in those rampages but then when it goes to eat somebody its mouth is one-person sized. It'd probably be a lot of fun when drunk or stoned. Not that I would know! I am a good, pure, innocent boy, and prefer watching endless underwater shots of bottomless women while sober thank you very much.

Speaking of misogynist sleaze, I meant to mention to the fans of the franchise that Adam Green's Hatchet series of films finally got a proper blu-ray boxed-set release a couple of weeks back -- Hatchet: The Complete Collection contains all four movies (including Victor Crowley) and a fifth disc of special features and the only place to buy it is on Dark Sky's website right here. I personally hate these movies but I know they have lots of fans and I will admit that the practical gore effects do totally rule, and they definitely typify the Aughts era of Bro Horror. Not my cuppa but mileages vary! But finally and most importantly...

... Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is out on blu-ray today! Or at least they say it is -- Amazon has delayed sending my copy because of "supply chain issues, and I am very upset about it. But I suppose some of you probably got your copy, to which I say ROT IN HELL. Ahem. No no, enjoy! I mean that sincerely. ENJOY IN HELL, FUCKFACE. Okay this isn't going right. Here is my review of the film -- obviously I loved it, Luca has yet to do me wrong, and I'll be watching it a jabillion times over. Now if only Trent Reznor & Co would drop the score on vinyl already! They're teasing this out like we're all Josh O'Connor watching Mike Faist change in the lockerroom dammit.

Oh and one bit of news on the pre-order front -- this spring's horror hit Late Night With the Devil is dropping on blu-ray here in the U.S. in September, and you can pre-order it right now right here. I liked, not loved, it -- my high expectations have been slaughtering movies left and right this year -- but it's fun and worth a watch or two. I'll definitely re-watch it when it hits with my lowered expectactions and can foresee it becoming one I revisit every so often when the mood strikes. David Dastmalchian of course rules.

Come Fly Away With Brühl

Triangle of Sadness director Ruben Östlund is definitely in a league right now among international directors like Yorgos Lanthimos who could get any damn actor they want for their movies, and so it's no surprise that the names that have been dropping for his next have been next level -- it started with Keanu Reeves, and now today we find out that both Daniel Brühl and Kirsten Dunst will be joining him in Östlund's next, titled The Entertainment System Is Down. As I told you when Keanu was announced the movie basically sounds like Lord of the Flies on a plane -- a bunch of people get trapped on an airplane and class chaos ensues. This movie, given that plot, will probably have an Airport-sized cast -- meaning the 1970 movie Airport, not that they could fill an entire airport, although the difference between those two is merely perspective. So I imagine we'll have a lot more big name announcements ahead! Östlund has apparently bought an actual 747 to film on so he'll have the space!

Masters of War

Inside of my review of Alex Garland's new movie Civil War it didn't really feel like the right place to go on about how sexy Wagner Moura is in the movie, so let me do it right here -- hubba hubba y'all. He's always struck me as a truly transformative actor who doesn't often rely on the sexy, but when he wants to be our man Wagner can bring it and he brings it to Civil War a hefty amount. Garland shoots the hell out of the strange and surprising planes of his face and I just wanted to slide down them like a disgruntled wall climber. Anyway that said yes indeed I reviewed Civil War today and you can read my thoughts over at Pajiba. The movie is a thrilling watch that I nevertheless wish had been a little more bold and courageous about its specifics. In the interest of both sides (which is what the film wants) I did read a very fine piece on the film right here that argues the movie doesn't need to be specific, but I still don't entirely buy that argument, nor have I ever bought the argument that journalists should strain for total objectivity. As a person who's had the foundations of my life politicized I have just never felt the roominess to make that case and it will always feel like a cop-out to me. Yes war is hell, but we're in it! So somebody better check and see who the fucking devils are poking us in the ass with their pitchforks. But anyway the movie's still a thrill and I do recommend seeing it; I hope that comes across in my review, mixed though it might be. Here is the trailer if you missed it when I posted it before: 

At War With Myself

Well it is time now for me to go see Annhilation and Ex Machina writer-director Alex Garland's new movie Civil War, which stars Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura (seen above) and which sounds like quite the politicized barn-burner -- watch the trailer here if you haven't yet. Feeling like I might have to take a Xanax before going into this one! Anyway Civil War is out in theaters next Friday, April 12th. And you should expect to hear more about it from me some time between now and then! As an aside this seems a good moment to let y'all know I am out for the first half of next week -- it'll be quiet round here for both Monday and Tuesday, but as the eagle finds its nest so I shall return for Hump Day. 

Chuck Makes War Not Love

Even though Charles Melton didn't get his (deserved) Oscar nomination for his performance in Todd Haynes' May December (aka my #8 movie of 2024) it looks like the role put him on the radar of serious filmmakers and he's escaping Riverdale purgatory at last. He's just signed on to star in Alex Garland's next movie, a war film that we have no other info on besides that the Annhilation and Ex-Machina director is co-directing alongside Ray Mendoza -- they worked together on Civil War, which is out April 12th and which I weirdly never shared the trailer for so that is below. With a cast that includes Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman? Sign me up.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Mary: Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.

This masterpiece was released 19 years ago this Sunday!

Try not to turn to dust realizing it's almost 20 - too late for me.

I am dust, typing this out with my dust fingers.
Well here's this gif to cheer us up:

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Peter: How old were you when you met Bronco Henry?

Phil: About the age you are now.

Peter: Was he your best friend?

Phil: Yeah... he was. He was more than that. Once,

he saved my life. We were way off up in the hills shooting elk,

and the weather turned mean. Bronco kept me alive by...

lying body against body in a bedroll. Fell off to sleep that way.

Peter: Naked?

The best movie of 2021 is out on Criterion 4K blu-ray today -- Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog can be yours right now, sittin' on your shelf and everything! And lucky for y'all Amazon has it at 50% off right now (as they do many of their Criterion titles) so go'n grab it, lil' doggy. Still can't believe it lost best Picture to that forgettably adequate Lifetime movie, ugh. God the Oscars suck. Bronco Henry deserved better dammit! Anyway I love the cover-art for the disc, don't you? Tis pretty perfect.

In the Mood For Infernal Power X

I'm jumping the gun on this a wee bit since Criterion hasn't hit up their social medias with this even yet, but they probably will have by the time I finish writing the post -- the November 2022 releases have been dropped on their website though, so we have see what they have in store for us there! First and foremost they hinted yesterday on Twitter that they were releasing Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog and sure enough! Check out all the details and pre-order your copy of the best movie of 2021 right here -- it's in 4K and there are heaps of features! Hoo lil' doggy sign me up on that one. Next up...

... but hardly second-place is Spike Lee's Malcom X, baby! And also in 4K too. and I think this is already in the Collection on regular blu-ray, isn't it? I think I own it that way? But I'm sure it will stun in an upgrade. Check it out here. That hits on November 22nd. And also getting the upgrade to 4K treatment is one of the most beautiful films ever made...

... namely Won Kar-Wai's masterpiece In the Mood For Love. I was just thinking about this movie last night -- I mean there are many nights where I am thinking about ITMFL but I re-watched Everything Everywhere All at Once (what a terrific movie it is) and that film riffs directly on this one in all of those romance sections between Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. Anyway I imagine watching In the Mood For Love in 4K will be akin to shooting heroin into one's eyeballs, only, you know, just without putting needles into your eyeballs or whatever. All the highs, with none of the needly lows!

The final pair of November flicks ain't no slouches, but I'm pairing them up because I personally haven't seen them -- there's the Hong Kong crime saga of the Infernal Affairs trilogy also with Tony Leung (no I ridiculously haven't seen these films, but that will obviously be rectified now) which are hitting disc on November 15th. And then there is the Czech New Wave classic Daisies from director Věra Chytilová, which I have seen portions of, but never from start to finish properly. My friend Daniel had a party once that was themed to the film and it played on a loop on the TV, so I've seen big chunks that way. Now I can finally watch it the way Chytilová intended. It seemed like a stunner.

July's My Birthday & Criterion's Got My Presents

Looks like the leakers were right! Yesterday Film Twitter had a list going around of the titles that Criterion would be announcing as their July 2022 titles and it seemed as if they might be right because Criterion themselves had hinted already at two of them, but we weren't sure until just now, with the official announcement on their site. The titles for July will be Denzel in the 1995 neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress (which, despite Denzel looking like that up above, phew, I have somehow never seen) on July 19th...

... alongside Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-winning insta-masterpiece Drive My Car, that exact same day. (Here is my review of Drive My Car, in case you never read that -- I wrote it up at NYFF forever and an age ago. What a movie.) But that's just the start -- July isn't just my birthday month, but it's apparently a chance for Criterion to be absolutely killing it! 

OOOOOOOO THAT RUMOR! pic.twitter.com/1ebJcehYq1

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 18, 2022

Because yup, they're also dropping Bong Joon-ho's Okja, aka that movie where Jake Gyllenhaal lost his damn fool mind. In a good way! This will be Okja's very first home-video release -- and in 4K no less! -- since it came out in 2017, since it's a Netflix movie and they only give physical disc releases to very rare titles. (Which makes me glad I still get critics screeners these days so I have some movies of theirs on disc anyway, haha I win.) Okja is coming out on July 5th. And yet wait, even more!

A little movie called Raging f'ing Bull from a little somebody named Martin f'ing Scorsese is hitting 4K blu-ray on July 12th, and a little movie called The Virgin f'ing Suicides from a little somebody named Sofia f'ing Coppola is also hitting 4K blu-ray on July 5th! Coppola's movie is an upgrade from the already-released regular blu-ray, but Raging Bull is inexplicably brand new to Criterion. These are some movies! But I saved my fave for last...

... David Lean's 1955 vacation-masterpiece Summertime, starring a possibly never better Katharine Hepburn as a woman who finds herself swept up in a surprise romance while visiting Venice Italy, is hitting blu-ray on July 12th, just in time for my birthday! This is one of my favorite movies -- it's such a gorgeous vibe, and makes you feel as if you've gone on vacation yourself. I already have their DVD of it but I am probably going to have to upgrade because this movie is truly breathtaking, and I need to see this remaster like I need air itself. What are y'all excited about?

Good Morning, Skarsgård

If you had asked me if I wanted to see Alexander Skarsgard photographed by Juergen Teller and interviewed by Kirsten Dunst (aww pour one out for On Becoming a God in Central Florida, gone far far far too soon)  for Interview Magazine yesterday, I would have shrieked at the top of my lungs, "GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!" So I am glad nobody asked, saved us the shrieking, and just delivered that to me today. 

I haven't read the chat yet but after we look at the photos, down below, let's all head on over to Interview to read that. This is presumably to advertise Robert Eggers' The Northman, which unbelievably is out in just about eight weeks! Here is the trailer if you missed it. Now hit the jump for the photos, as they are a lot...

Those Oscar Things

My attention span with regards to the Academy Awards has really cratered over the past several years -- I have always been skeptical towards them as superficial and mediocre but lately they just aren't even fun? The entire conversation is just joyless to me. It becomes statistics for months of the year instead of a celebration of actual art and I hate it. Anyway I was majorly bored yesterday so I did end up tweeting some about the Oscar nominations and when my pal Nathaniel at The Film Experience asked I tossed off a few remarks with the rest of the TFE crew -- you can see that stuff here. 

You were all too good for them, fam! pic.twitter.com/v3jubKy7Oc

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 8, 2022

Generally it's a pretty good batch of nominations? Lots of things I love in the mix -- it's a year where my favorite movie of the year (Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog) is also the frontrunner for Best Picture, and that lines up so rarely it should be noted. Very happy for everybody involved with that movie nommed -- Dunst! Plemons! Kodi! (Just hope the two Supporting Actors don't cross each other out because this should be Kodi's statue -- he gave my fave perf of the year as well.) Jonny Greenwood! Ari f'ing Wegner! 

No but seriously ARI FUCKING WEGNER Y'ALL pic.twitter.com/Pyo083GWy7

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 8, 2022

Also super happy that Kristen Stewart made it in as I am a big Spencer lover. Looking at the Best Picture line-up there are only two movies in it that would make my Top 10, I think -- that'd be the aforementioned Power of the Dog and probably Licorice Pizza? If you can't tell I haven't even thought about my Top 10 for 2021 yet, haha -- this is how serious I am about awards turning me off these days. I don't even want to think about ranking my own favorites anymore. Other BP nominees -- I like West Side Story and Nightmare Alley and Dune and Drive My Car. Belfast and Don't Look Up are middlingly okay. I couldn't stand King Richard or CODA. (Ugh CODA. By far my least favorite. Smarm personified.) They do adore their mediocrity most of the time. Super irritated that room wasn't made for movies like The Green Knight, The French Dispatch, Zola, Red Rocket, C'mon C'mon, Spencer (the techs ignoring this movie is criminal), Titane and a dozen more. But sure what JK Simmons did in Being the Ricardos deserved a spot! Sure okay whatever, Oscars. You do you...

Benedict Cumberbatch's Doggy Style

Yoohoo, you! Benedict Cumberbatch and that beautiful goldenrod sweater are here to tell you that the best movie of 2021, which is Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, is today this very day on Netflix. For one and for all! I mean, as long as you "all" have Netflix. It's funny how we've been programmed to think that once a movie is on streaming it's literally available to everyone everywhere free and easy, as if Netflix doesn't actually cost money. Anyway I digress (as I do) -- this one's worth the money. I posted the trailer here but no, even though I have now seen it twice, once at TIFF and once at NYFF, I still haven't reviewed it even though I keep saying I am going to write something. I promise I will! Just not today. When movies this good come along I have to soak myself in them for awhile -- spitting out immediate thoughts wouldn't do it justice. I know I'm well passed the point of "immediate" even at this point, but I'm going to use that as my excuse for laziness. It's hifalutin and snooty and makes me look thoughtful instead of lazy, dammit!

The best film of the year is Jane Campion's THE POWER OF THE DOG and it's on @netflix this very day! #ThePowerOfTheDog pic.twitter.com/BIZpww3sFJ

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 1, 2021

The Power of This Dog

I promise you that I will write about Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog -- which is out in theaters today! -- at some point, as it is, of this moment, my number one film of 2021. I've seen it twice now, once at TIFF and once at NYFF, and I knew immediately it was a fave -- in the weeks since it's only grown in obsession and masterpiece-ish stature. Y'all know I stay away from the "m" word when movies are this new -- I think a vital ingredient in "masterpiece" is time -- but sometimes movies come along that feel so grand and stunning right outta the gate that you know, deep inside of your everything, your regard's only going to grow bigger and bigger with time, and this is one of those suckers for certain. 

Anyway until I manage to wrangle with the film properly and get my own thoughts down I just wanted to make sure to post that you should all figure out the soonest moment you can see the movie, and so here I am doing that. Find your nearest theater here! If it's not playing in a theater near you it is hitting Netflix on december 1st, and I've seen the movie both ways -- on the big screen for NYFF and the little screen for TIFF -- and it works both ways, but I'm really really really glad I did manage to see it on a big screen because those vistas that Campion captures... man alive. So try for a big screen if at all safe and possible, my loves. And in summation...

(Then again if I had ten minutes to talk movies with Jane Campion I would probably just cry the entire time, so)

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 17, 2021

Of Dogs & Fish Men

I don't know how many of you loved Pixar's Luca as much as I did but I really really really really loved it -- read this piece I wrote about it for Pajiba if you don't believe me! -- and so I made some very happy sounds upon seeing earlier today that they've gone and made a short film sequel called "Ciao Alberto" which they'll be debuting on Disney+ on November 12th. That's the trailer above, although to be honest maybe don't watch it? It's a short film -- a trailer seems excessive. A trailer becomes more and more large a percentage of a finished product the short the finished product gets! Anyway I just wanted you to put the release date on your calendar, so we can all bo back to Italy together. Cannot wait.

Next up that there's the full trailer for Jane Campion's upcoming movie The Power of the Dog, which hits select theaters on November 17th and then Netflix on December 1st, and which I've seen twice so far (thanks to TIFF and NYFF) and miiiiiiiight just be my favorite movie of 2021? I haven't reviewed it yet so that's a spoiler but I just feel as if I should put that out there at this point -- I've been sitting on it for weeks. Lord knows I love Jane Campion but I didn't expect this specific movie to swallow me up the way it has -- I just posted today in my very positive review of The Harder They Fall how Westerns ain't usually my jam, and yet here we are. It's been a stellar year for that genre, I guess. Dog is so much stranger and so much gayer than you're expecting, y'all.

Pic of the Day

Thanks to MNPP reader and pal Boyd for shooting us this photo -- Quebecois actor and delightful weirdo Théodore Pellerin is starring in a play in Montreal called Embrasse next month, and one of the promotional images has him reenacting the famous nude pose of the designer Yves Saint Laurent -- this is how you get audiences to go see your plays, people. According to our pal Boyd (I don't know French so the website's indecipherable to me) the play was written by Michel Marc Bouchard, who wrote Xavier Dolan's best film Tom at the Farm, and is about a young man who dreams of being a fashion designer. (The Dolan connection is interesting given the rumors that Pellerin is dating former Dolan star François Arnaud.)

Okay so I’ve become slightly obsessed with this rumor that Arnaud & Pellerin are an item (and it’s been repeated by another source since) and now today their Instagram posts really seem to have them in the same place! Could it actually be??? pic.twitter.com/Ln869KQj2I

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 29, 2021

(That rumor is my current Quebecois obsession.) Anyway it looks like the fine folks at Netflix have also discovered Pellerin, who first caught MNPP's eye thanks to his stellar turn in the cruelly brief single season of the series On Becoming a God In Central Florida (RIP to my beautiful baby) -- Pellerin had been around for a minute before that series, I know some of you were familiar with some of his earlier work, but I was not. Then he was in several things all of a sudden -- the two films Boy Erased and Never Rarely Sometimes Always foremost -- and we were quick finding ourselves smitten. Well Netflix did too it seems, as he's in two big projects for them right now (neither of which I've seen yet) -- the series Maid with Margaret Qualley and her mom that Andie Macdowell person, and the fright film There's Someone Inside Your House, which just premiered today. Let's hope this is just the start of a beautiful friendship!

Théodore Pellerin understands the sexy bad boy assignment in Netflix's #TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse: https://t.co/RURQI1Jn3D pic.twitter.com/j71323q7cZ

— Decider (@decider) October 6, 2021

Pics of the Day

There's a big piece on Jane Campion's forthcoming film The Power of the Dog in Vanity Fair today, including a chat with the director herself as well as several gorgeous images -- as I admitted when I posted about this film playing NYFF next month I haven't read Thomas Savage's novel on which the film is based and I don't know the plot beyond Benedict Cumberbatch is a cowboy, so color me surprised when the above photo of naked water twinks popped up (I have no idea who those actors are though) -- there's even more in the interview with Campion about the homoeroticism of her film, and this was not where I though things were going. What a thrill! That plus Kristen Dunst -- what else does one need? Hit the jump for several more photos...

Spider-bums Assemble!

This has been a rumor floating about for a few months but it seems this week we've gotten confirmation that the next Spider-man movie from Marvel is going to be a Spider-verse movie that will bring in both of the previous Spider-man actors -- that'd be Tobey Maguire and our boy Andrew Garfield seen above -- to swing alongside the Spider-twink himself Tom Holland. My reaction to this news yesterday was...

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE pic.twitter.com/QDGJg5zGkw

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 8, 2020

... predictable. But this is some nerd heaven, and since I have continually loved the Spider-man movies since the Raimi days this is my kind of nerd heaven. A Spider-bum Heaven! Besides having all of the Spider-twinks and Spider-twunks twerking in one place a couple other names have been officialized, those being Kristen Dunst back as Tobey's and the world's best Mary Jane... 

... and yes, she will get them tigers, and also the franchise's greatest villain (all apologies to Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio who gave a properly valiant effort) Alfred Molina as Doc Ock, from Raimi's second film. This inspired a much more respectable tweet from yours truly shortly before the more lecherous one...

Experiencing Spider-Man 2's subway fight in a New York City movie theater three years after 9/11 was... well I'm crying right now remembering it? It was the probably the best, most moving emotional catharsis that an action movie has ever gifted me pic.twitter.com/DdBfN3KSLS

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 8, 2020

Théodore Pellerin Four Times

I'm still in mourning over the second-thought cancellation of On Becoming a God in Central Florida, due to the pandemic -- it had originally been renewed but, you know, plague happened, and they pulled the plug. This was literally the worst thing to happen in 2020!!! Anyway I went looking for pain management on actor and cartoon-Frenchman Théodore Pellerin's Instagram page and came away with these four photos to share with y'all. You can see more of our previous Pellerin posts at this link -- specifically I really recommend this one. he's got more shape then you might think at first glance! Pellerin can also be seen in one of the year's best films, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which I reviewed over here and highly recommend you seek out!

Quote of the Day

"I’ve spent years of constantly learning the same lesson over and over again, that you can work and work and work on something, and bang your head against the wall and know it inside and out — but then, in that moment, if you’re not relaxed in your mind and body, that’s all for nothing. A lot of that work won’t be seen unless you’re grounded and present. I just don’t think there’s ever anything wrong with attempting to be present."

That's I'm Thinking of Ending Things leading man Jesse Plemons towards the end of a wonderful profile in The New York Times today on the precipice of that wonderful Charlie Kaufman film dropping on Netflix -- I reviewed the film earlier this week right here... well "review" is always a weird word for what I do when I really get into what I wanna do, when a movie inspires me to do it, and Charlie Kaufman always inspires me. My point is I didn't mention in the many many words I typed how good Plemons (or his leading lady Jessie Buckley) is in the film, and he (and she) is very very good. ITOET is way way too weird for awards shows so I'm not getting my hopes up, but this has been a weird year! Who knows? Anyway go read the chat -- there are Kirsten Dunst quotes, after all!