Don't Call Him Frankenstein

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When we saw the first trailer for Rob Kazinsky's Frankenstein show back in May it was called The Frankenstein Code, which was a terrible name -- I said at the time that it "just has the ring of something that's canceled after an episode an a half airs" -- but it was better than the alternative original title, boring plain ol' Frankenstein. Well cut to half a year later and the show's set to air on January 13th...
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... and it's now called Second Chance, which I actually think is a better title, given the tone that first trailer established. Yes it's generic, but the show looks pretty generic, and hey generic appeals to some people (look at all of the best rated shows for proof) so why not go for it? Anyway they're smart to slap half-naked Rob front and center in their advertising, at least. (pics via, thanks Mac)

Furry Fantasy

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I am simultaneously not at all the audience for the Warcraft movie and totally the audience for it -- to the first point I have never played the game and it all looks silly as fuck to me here in the first trailer, but to the second it does star Dominic Cooper and Travis Fimmel and was directed by Duncan "Moon" Jones. And as if he knew I was going to be torn Duncan seems to be offering me specifically an olive branch in the form of... hairy chests on the orcs???

Ahhhhh crap... I wanna fuck an Orc.

I totally do. Here's the trailer.

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Jones For Hot Dudes

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Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones is currently at work on his Warcraft movie starring all of the random hot guys in the world -- Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell (sidenote: I want to see lots more Toby Kebbell and not in utter shite like Fantastic Four, please), Robert Kazinsky (see more here), Travis Fimmel (see more here), Ben Foster, Daniel Wu (see more here), Callum Keith Rennie (see more here), Daniel Cudmore (look at him!), some dude named Ryan Robbins (also hot!)... seriously, Duncan! Like a kid in a sexy candy store. A lot of these guys are going to be covered up in make-up and CG sadly, given the nature of the Warcraft beast, but that set was still a real sausage-fest and I look forward to the DVD's behind-the-scenes special-features. 

Anyway I point all this out for a point -- Duncan has announced the first news on his next project, the hard sci-fi flick Mute, and the first two fellas cast are Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd. Clearly, Duncan Jones and I have it in common that a life well lived isn't well lived at all unless you've got hot dudes everywhere around you to look at. Think back upon Sam Rockwell's star-lit showers and Jake Gyllenhaal's jumpsuits, and it all clicks into place. Bravo, Duncan. Bravo. Anyway you can read more about the actual movie of Mute at that link, if you want actual details or whatever. What do i look like? I got my own priorities...

Scares Come Home

Watching a bunch of commercials for the networks' upcoming new shows one after another in a row has a distinctly surreal and insidery Comeback or Episodes feel to it - a "This is really what you guys are making? Really?" feel. Well with the so-called "upfronts" happening right now they're dropping these things online alongside their release there so we can all have that special WTF feeling together! Lucky us. DH gathered up a whole bunch right here, but I wanna take a quick look at three, all dealing with our favorite subjects: hot guys and horror! Let's start with the best one...

I have no idea if the rest of the slaughtered party-goers in the teaser for the Scream TV series are somebodies but that's definitely Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey at the end (seen above) right? He's not listed on the show's cast-list so maybe this is just a one-off gag for the trailer as a favor to his network. Whatever the case, I love this teaser, it's funny and gross and exactly what Scream should feel like. Watch it!

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Fun right? I had very very little enthusiasm going into this, what with all the news so far being about how divorced everything is from the originals (No ghost-face? WTF!) but this was clever enough that I'm paying attention now. I do wonder if Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens and this might cancel each other out, though. Next up...

That there is the British actor Tom Ellis via the trailer for Lucifer, in which he's playing you guessed it the fallen angel himself. I have to say I liked Ellis in the many many many still shots of him I posted in this great big gratuitous post I did for him when this show was announced in March more than I am liking him in motion? I suppose saying that he comes off as smarmy is being ridiculous since he's playing you know THE DEVIL, but he needs to dial things down a notch, based off this trailer. And all the Underworld angel wing nonsense is giving my eyes a headache. Watch it:
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See what I mean? It kind of feels like a joke; like something Episodes would cook up to make fun of Network TV with. Awhile back in that barren post-Buffy landscape I lamented the total absence of any horror on television but this show isn't what I had in mind. It's like Dante's Entourage. (If it's a success - which it won't be - I'm going to keep calling it that.) Anyway next up...

... is one we've yapped about a few times this week (see here and see here) - it's the trailer for The Frankenstein Code, starring Rob Krazinsky. Two things on the above gif: yes, Rob's got visible bulge in those tight-pants, and two:I know his shirt says "LOOKING GLASS" from other shots in this trailer but in the shot the "GL" is missing in a fold of fabric, so... you get the joke. Anyway watch it:
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I Am Link

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--- Dead Meat - On Friday we told you about cute-guy Rob Kazinsky's new television show The Frankenstein Code getting picked up; Rob's know via True Blood and Pacific Rim, to us. (He was also in this weekend's flop Hot Pursuit but let's leave that dog where it lays.) Well Rob's Facebook page has already uploaded the first few pictures from the show; that one to the right I think is just the generic "This is Rob Kazinsky" picture (meaning I don't think that's what Frankenstein will look like) but I like it, it being "his arms," so I'll post it.

---  Feminine Wilds - I ate an early lunch today so I can't say I am saving this article at Time from Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler calling Mad Max Fury Road "a feminist action movie" to read over lunch like I usually do with these things, but I will read it when I have a minute today for sure. You might remember we'd heard awhile back that Ensler had been on the film's set to help set it apart, female-wise. Just 4 days! (thanks Mac)

--- Getting Revenge - A couple of super unrelated Stephen King tid-bits from the weekend - he and his son author Joe Hill wrote a short story together called "In the Tall Grass" (have you read it? I have not but it's apparently available as an e-book) and it's getting turned into a movie by Splice (and Hannibal!) director Vincenzo Natali. It's about a monster, in the grass, which is tall, or something. Second tid-bit: apparently Stephen King and I share a love of the TV soap Revenge, which just ended its 4-year run last night, and Yahoo published some of his emails to their writer about the show, and they made me laugh. Lots of gay! I'm gonna miss that dumb show. Also I'm gonna miss Nick Wechsler's hot short ass (or is that short hot ass) seen to the right in a new picture.

--- Men vs Machina - And add this one to the list of "things to do when I have a minute" -- the directors Edgar Wright and Alex Garland sat down and chatted about Garland's new sci-fi hit Ex Machina, and HitFix recorded the whole damn thing. It's almost half an hour long! That sounds right up my geeky alley. (thanks Mac)

--- The Long Cast - I've kind of given up on keeping up with James Franco's personal projects - there have been too many of middling quality to stay on top of. However reading yesterday that both Josh Hartnett and Ashton Kutcher have joined the cast of his latest one - an adaptation of William Gay's "southern Gothic" novel The Long Home also starring Josh Hutcherson - clearly grabbed my attention. Courtney Love is also listed on IMDb and I'm pretty sure Beth Grant's talked online about being in this movie. That's a lot of cast. Any of you read the book? 

--- Lake of Blood - Our pal Stacie Ponder took on one of our series last week over at Final Girl, using "Who Wore It Best?" to give love to one of our favorite horror movies and one of her favorite video-games. Hooray girls n' gore!

--- Professor Pate - I knew if I didn't post this picture the minute I saw it over the weekend it'd already be everywhere and I probably wouldn't bother, but what the hey maybe one of you missed it - James McAvoy finally shaved his head for the new X-Men movie and happily he's got a really nice skull under there. What it called attention to for me is his nose - James McAvoy's got a gorgeous nose and I don't think I'd noticed it before this picture. His gigantic eyes usually steal the thunder.

--- Stepping Back to Ex Machina for a minute - no I still haven't reviewed it, shame on me, but I think you ought to read my pal Sean's thoughts on the film that he posted over at his site; he's extremely critical of the film and made me think back on it in ways I hadn't while watching it, and now I almost feel as if I should see it again and consider it thru his insights.

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Let's Check In On Rob Kazinsky

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The last we saw of the previously gratuitized fella he was flashing his furrier bits in the trailer for Hot Pursuit - that movie's out in theaters today and while you'd literally have to knock me unconscious and tie me to a theater seat to get me to watch that thing hey at least we got a couple funny tweets from Rob out of it...

Go and watch @hotpursuitmovie in theaters May 8th and see this guy naked. Again. pic.twitter.com/kaFD4xPutG

— Robert Kazinsky (@RobertKazinsky) May 1, 2015

nothing like playing "handsome dude" in a movie only to have paragon of manliness @JoeManganiello show up and show you how it's really done.

— Robert Kazinsky (@RobertKazinsky) May 1, 2015

I forgot that Rob co-starred on True Blood with Joe before Joe started dating Rob's Hot Pursuit co-star (slash toothy braying nightmare) Sofia Vergara. I'm just going to pretend that she's their beard and Rob & Joe are the real couple. That's just what I am going to pretend. 

I mean shouldn't there be some picture of the two of them together somewhere? They co-starred on a show (granted a show with a huge cast) and now there are movie red carpets... yet I couldn't find one anywhere. That is suspicious! It's a plot! Ahem. In other Rob news, his Frankenstein TV show just got picked up by Fox today - they changed the name to The Frankenstein Code, which just has the ring of something that's canceled after an episode an a half airs, doesn't it? Man I really didn't mean for this post to be so dickish - I like Rob, clearly I like Rob, here I am posting about Rob, and yet all I can say are dick things. Sorry, Rob! Go on about your adorable business and don't mind this dick. Yayyy The Frankenstein Code....

Good Morning, World

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Hello there, Rob Kazinsky! Funny finding you here. Actually, since I'm finding you in the trailer for Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon's upcoming comedy (I use that word broadly, which is only appropriate) co-starring muy caliente kryponite Sofia Vergara, "funny" isn't really the right word. More like "sad" and "grating" and "somebody stick a ball-gag in that braying woman's mouth, for the love of all things good and right in the world." Come with me if you want to live, Rob!

(See previous posts on Rob Kazinsky here.)

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Max Martini

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I'd intended to do this post back when Pacific Rim came out in July - Max played the gruff (he's always "the gruff" something) father to Rob Kazinsky's character in that movie - but somehow, didn't. Well thankfully I've gotten a second opportunity within a relatively short time frame - not only is Pacific Rim out on Blu-ray next week, Max also plays the leader of the super sexy Navy SEALs in Captain Phillips, the "Tom Hanks Versus Somali Pirates" movie that's out in theaters tomorrow. 

I saw Captain Phillips at the New York Film Fest last week and I still have to review it, but instead of making mention of this in my review and waylaying that with inappropriateness let me make mention here the strange erotic moment in that movie where we get to watch the SEALs gear up, shirtless and lit by shaky flashlights, that feels transported in from an especially arty porn, or a Madonna video. It's awesome. 

Anyway it was bugging me the whole movie, I couldn't remember Max;'s name, so I looked him up after it was over and was all, oh yeah, I have to do a post about him. And here we are! Hit the jump for a pile more pictures.

Are We Totally Sure...

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... that Joseph Morgan, Zach Gilford, Bryan Greenberg, 

Jon Foster and Rob Kazinsky are not the same person? 

Cuz I'm not sure we're sure about that.

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Do Dump or Marry - Get Ready To Rim-ble!

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(Sidenote: I'm so glad I got that pun out of my system before I write a review of this movie.) Hey guys, Pacific Rim opens in three days! Even less if you're going to a Midnight show! In truth I have grown patient in my old age and I'm not seeing the movie until Sunday. But still, so close! The movie's been getting pretty good reviews from the little bit of scanning around that I've done - sounds like giving an actually talented film-maker a wad of cash to realize his geeky dreams maybe worked out this time. For all of us! We all win. 

Anyway that picture up top is of the three main menfolk in the film - our beloved Charlie Hunnam (more here), sexy British new(ish)comer Rob Kazinsky (more here), and walking sex-bomb Idris Elba (more here) - at the film's premiere and I realized hey, one two three, bam. Let's do a Do Dump or Marry for these suckers! Hit the comments and tell me which guy you would form one night's illicit neural bridge with (do), which guy you'd Jaeger bomb to hell and back (dump), and which guy you'd strap yourself into a gigantic robot with and stomp off into the sunset (marry).

Good Morning, World

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I am actually three full episodes behind with True Blood right now (I've only seen this season's premiere) so I have no idea when that scene aired, or even if it's aired yet - hell I haven't even seen Rob Kazinsky in an episode yet, so I have no idea what the hell's going on really. Except for the fact that it's hot hotter hottest, of course. Although I do wish the damned show would quit playing coy with the gay content - another wet dream tease, you guys? For a show so queer it sure tends to be skittish about actual honest to goodness man on man. More of this please:

Oh Wait There's More

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(Click to embiggen) I posted the best of the bunch last night with that shirtless Charlie Hunnam shot but there were a ton of new Pacific Rim images dumped yesterday, and here are a few of note. You can see the whole bunch, monsters included, over here - I'm trying to not spend too much time staring at the monsters just yet, I want them to surprise me when the movie comes out. So happy this is the movie out my birthday weekend! Oh and the other dude in the last few shots is Rob Kazinsky, who we were just talking about getting naked on True Blood the other day.

Quotes of the Day

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In what may be the single most important interview ever recorded (Couric Palin what? Frost Nixon who?), E!News caught up with Rob Kazinsky - a previous gratuity recipient of some personally valued high esteem, Mr. Rob has joined the cast of True Blood for this new season, on top of also having a role in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim - and this is what they got from him about True Blood:

"I was told that I'm most naked character they've had over the course of one season."

How that's even possible I can't imagine, what with the nudity this show's given us - I mean think of Ryan Kwanten that first season! - but I really look forward to seeing how it's accomplished. (There's still the heady world of full frontal left for them to explore, after all...) Anyway that's great, that is wonderful big news that we're very much looking forward to, but how, you may be asking yourself, does this qualify as so momentous an interview?

It's because they also asked him about Pacific Rim, and the hardcore psychical training he had to do for the film, which led to this...

"It's really really really hard. And we did it because in the original script there were a lot of topless scenes but then when we got up there after putting all that effort in, just Charlie Hunnam's getting naked."

I rest my case.
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True Kazinsky

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A batch of pictures from the next season of True Blood got done released the other day, but the only one that really caught my eye is above - that's new cast-member (and fairy!) Rob Kazinsky, a fellow we gave a big old batch of gratuity to way back in July of 2011. I know, I know - what True Blood doesn't need is new characters. But if they look like Rob I am not going to complain. They could just fill the screen with things that look like that and pan across it for fifity-five minutes each week, and I would probably still watch.

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I Am Link

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--- Faerie Man - Because what True Blood has really been missing is a fella sniffing at Sookie's magical vagina, the first bit of casting news for the next season is for her latest love interest: British actor Rob Kazinsky will play a faerie who helps her figure out the mystery of her parents death. Hey we did a gratuitous post for this dude way back in July! He's also in Pacific Rim, you see. We are so on top of what's hip in hotness, y'all.

--- And Speaking of hot British pieces, Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington - you know nothing, Jon Snow! - is in talks to play the lead in Paul W. S. Anderson's movie about Pompeii, which will of course use the devastating real life tragedy for the backdrop of CG lava and slave love stories. Oh I know, suddenly we're all moral about this shit, or whatever.

--- Daddy Dearest - Nip/Tuck's Dylan Walsh is going to play a business rival for Conrad on Revenge. I would watch him and Henry Czerny make out, is my point.
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--- Power House - A couple of new trailers over at The Playlist that I have not watched yet - here's a second one for Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great and Powerful, which cannot get here soon enough; and here's the first look at House of Cards, that series that David Fincher produced for Netflix starring Kevin Spacey.

--- Deep Impression - I also haven't yet watched the new trailer for The Canyons, that flick starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen, from writer Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader - it's Schrader's name that's keeping me the most curious in this trainwreck-in-the-making; his movies are always interesting, at least. Alright alright I don't mind looking at Deen either.

--- Tex-arcana Terror - As I read thru this review of The Town That Dreaded Sundown over at Stale Popcorn I knew I was going to link to it and mention how precisely Glenn and I agreed, but then I got to the end of the review and saw that Glenn did that for me already.
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--- Chris Mass - Chris Hemsworth is going to star in the directorial debut from the writer of Traffic, and look at this list of names mentioned: "The project has had Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz all circling or being offered roles with Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Bradley Cooper all on the wishlist as well, if their first choices pass on the gig." Sounds crowded. Hemsworth is also maybe going to play Steve McQueen? Or is it his brother? That link isn't clear.

--- Spidey Re Suited - Director Marc Webb says that they're changing the eyes and web shooters for Spider-Man's costume in the second film - hey as long as they leave what matters most alone, I don't give a shit.

--- Stand Up - I only made it about a quarter of the way through this rambling interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of The Last Stand, his movie with I Saw the Devil director Kim Jee-woon, but maybe you'll fare better. I only mention it because have you seen the trailer for the movie yet? I think it looks like a lot of fun.

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Gratuitous Rob Kazinsky

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Our Brit brethren probably know Mr. Kazinsky from a hole in the ground, unlike me who only became aware of him this morning when I saw he'd been cast in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim (as has Willem Dafoe!) fighting giant monsters and robots opposite Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba - Kazinsky is straight outta Brighton and was on EastEnders for awhile. Recently he got cast in The Hobbit as one of the thirteen hundred dwarfs, but had to back out for ominous sounding "medical reasons." Hopefully he's alright - must be, since he's signed on for Pacific Rim now. The first thing I stumbled upon when looking him up was this:

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Obviously it snowballed from there. Pacific Rim is just gonna be bursting with eye candy! Hit the jump to see a dozen or so more pictures of Rob and his sexy little furry ginger self.