I Can Feel Him Coming In The Air Tonight

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You guys, I have to go return some videotapes... actually I have a doctor's appointment, but close enough. But before I vanish for a couple hours I figured I'd leave you with some quick thoughts and feelings (and pictures) on the American Psycho musical on Broadway, which I saw over the weekend and have yet to mention! Which is nuts! I've been looking forward to seeing this thing literally for years -- in 2008 when the project was first announced I was right on that shit, and I haven't let up for a minute since.

And here we are and there's Benjamin Walker as Patrick Bateman (captured by this horrible slash awesome person who took a picture in the middle of the show) rocking his bloody tighty-whities - on that front let it be known that Ben is in those tighty-whities when he enters the stage and he spends at least an hour of the show total, scattered over its run-time, in nothing but. It is fucking glorious.

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Well, Benjamin Walker in tighty whities dancing as Patrick Bateman may just be the sexiest thing I've ever seen on Broadway. @APtheMusical

— Manuel (@bmanuel) March 30, 2016

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Y'all know I'm not a "musical" person so I had to adjust myself to the whole "singing and dancing" thing very quickly, but once I did I enjoyed the show a lot - which wasn't a guarantee! I usually go see all of the horror movie based musicals and it's hit or miss. I mean I wanted to set myself on fire during the Evil Dead musical... but then I loved the Silence of the Lambs one. The songs here are up and down in quality but the show picks up steam as it plows along, saving all the best stuff for after the intermission - the number immediately following the break is easily the highlight (forgive me for not knowing the title), effortlessly channeling what a "musical version of American Psycho" should be as Bateman dance-kills a bunch of 80s hipsters while romancing us on the mic. It's magic.
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The amount of artistry & technology that went into hiding a giant mic pack in Benjamin Walker's tighty-whities BLEW MY MIND #AmericanPsycho

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 26, 2016

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The actress playing Evelyn (the Reese Witherspoon role in the movie) is very very funny (I guess she's from Masters of Sex?) but it's Benjamin Walker's show and while he leans heavy on some of Christian Bale's original interpretation of the part at times he still owns it, confidant and terrifying and sexy as fuck, pacing the stage like a panther in Vuitton. I want to go see it again and again, honestly.
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Before the blood #AmericanPsycho

A photo posted by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Mar 25, 2016 at 6:39pm PDT

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Slash & Dance Man

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I'm guessing that Benjamin Walker will put some extra oomph into his strangling and slashing at tonight's show -- I mean congratulations to the folks who made the American Psycho musical for their two Tony nominations this morning, but I'd argue that clearly it deserved more, especially love for Walker's killer (SEE WHAT I DID THERE) performance. That said I haven't seen enough on stage to pretend I know anything, so don't listen to me. I'm not surprised that the show's been love-it-hate-it, because it's that kinda material. But obviously, given my endless posting, I'm of the former sort. 

I mean I'm tweeting to the world questions about when the Broadway version will get a Cast Recording released -- obviously I've gone wacky for it. For the record my favorite part of the show (favorite part unrelated to "Benjamin Walker in bloodied tighty-whities" natch) is the song right after the Intermission called "Killing Spree" which is indeed heavily reliant upon staging and lighting, which are the two Tony noms the show earned, so that makes sense to me. 

But it is a scene that captures what a musical version of American Psycho should be so, so perfectly - with its raving pulsing slashing throbbing hyper-stylized nightmare sexiness - that I really hope it's the one they get to perform on the Tonys. And you know I mean it because Ben's fully dressed for it and I still want them to perform that number. That's as crazy as a killing spree itself!

Good Morning, Psychos

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Dunno if you guys heard or not but over the long weekend it was announced that this week would be American Psycho: The Musical's last week open - they're closing on Sunday, I guess the show wasn't doing well, because people are terrible and spend their money on garbage, when they had caviar - sexy bloody caviar in just tighty-whities - right there for the taking. Boo, everyone but me, boo!

(pic via) Anyway seeing as how this might be my last opportunity I've gathered up some photos from behind-the-scenes, during-the-scenes, off-the-scenes, from all over the place. Click our Ben Walker tag for lots of earlier posted stuff. Oh and this:

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Via this Tumblr comes that video, bless their sneaky devilish hearts. Oh and one more thing -- if you have Twitter, go retweet this tweet! I can't believe there's a possibility we might never get this recording - I want! My favorite song has yet to be released.
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LIKE AND RETWEET THIS IF YOU WANT A @APtheMusical BROADWAY CAST RECORDING!!!!! pic.twitter.com/JljxcCa7RK

— American Psycho Fans (@APbwayfans) May 31, 2016

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Now slap on your Walkman, tune it to Huey Lewis, 

and let's get hip to be square after the jump...

Good Morning, Patrick

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I'm sure if you follow me on Instagram or Twitter or anywhere within a five to five billion mile radius you probably saw that I saw the American Psycho musical a second time yesterday - I was enthusiastic! I am enthusiastic. I decided about halfway through this time that I probably would be fine going to see this show every night for its entire run. It... settles me. As Patrick says. I actually sat in the front row this time around and man was that an experience. Benjamin Walker's tighty-whities were so close I could reach out and grab them. (I did not.) (sigh.)

Anyway after the show I went looking through the show's official Instagram account, which I don't think existed the first time I saw the show when it was in previews and sure enough, gold. There are several hot dudes (and ladies, if you're into ladies) in the show that you can see at that link behind the scenes of this sexy scary show, but we're just gonna post all the Benjamin Walker pictures because he looked right into my eyes yesterday as he "murdered" someone while covered in blood in just those underwear... and it's totally love. Hit the jump for a few more...

Cheers to the Movies of Now

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Horror of horrors Twitter is down, so I guess I'll write a post instead of screaming nonsense into that void right now -- here, let's take a look at the several movies out this weekend (my birthday weekend!) then. Of which I've seen precisely none but oh well, I can tell you what they are anyway. There's the action-comedy Stuber with adorkables Kumail Nanjiani & Dave Bautista playing an Uber driver and his psycho detective passenger respectively, which is mainly notable for giving us their press rounds bromance, which has included a lot of Dave talking up Kumail's new muscles. Hell Men's Health even did a feature on Kumail's Muscles now!

Looking good, Kumail! I love the both of these guys so I'll probably watch their movie on a bored afternoon once it hits streaming -- there's other stuff I'm prioritizing. Like the ridiculous looking "alligator inside a house" movie Crawl, for one! This sort of shit is so up my alley -- disaster movie, animals attack, getting to think about Benjamin Walker because the actress in the lead is his wife.

All I ever wanted! Maybe the third act twist will have Ben showing up in his American Psycho tighty-whities, soaking wet from the hurricane, to wrestle the alligator and save the day. A boy can dream. On to the next movies, one of which I just talked about yesterday -- the dark karate comedy The Art of Self-Defense with Alessandro Nivola and Jesse Eisenberg. And then there is the only one of these that I have already bought tickets to see, The Farewell with Awkwafina, which has been getting killer reviews ever since it premiered at Sundance. I'm seeing it tomorrow morning and the trailer makes me sob, so I fully expect to be a mess from this one.

What're y'all seeing this weekend?

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A Little Knife Music

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The American Psycho musical starts in previews on Broadway this week, and I'm seeing it very very soon, y'all. I'm kind of terrified that it will be terrible, but perfectly manicured fingers crossed that it ain't. I s'pose at the very least I've got big boy Benjamin Walker bloodily sexing it up as the titular psycho to look forward to. 

Anyway a brand new little teaser for the show dropped on Twitter the other day and it shows Benji in (and momentarily out of, as seen here) all the iconic costumes Mary Harron & Co. came up with for the movie. Stick around until the last second for a hint of clear plastic raincoat action...

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Swing Benny Benny Swing

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Well it certainly does come in handy that Benjamin Walker already  starred in a movie where he swung an axe around a bunch for coming up with pictures for this post, that's for sure. And he looks damn fine doing it too, thankfully. One of my greatest failures as a human being has been continually missing Ben on stage - I missed that astonishingly snug and bloodstained shirt and pants in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; I missed him dropping his towel in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and I just missed him running around next-to-naked and getting handsy with Hunter Parrish in Hair...

(See more Hair pictures here.) Well not this time! I was planning on seeing this show no matter who was in it. Yup, Benjamin Walker's been cast as the singing, dancing psychopathic Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho musical. (thanks Mac) The show already played London with Dr. Who's Matt Smith in the role...

... but now it's coming home where it belongs. I'll have to get reservations at Dorsia afterwards, make a whole night out of it.

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The Psycho & The Superman

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The trailer for the new Nicholas Sparks movie is here and I refuse to look up the plot or anything associated with any of that for this probable garbage movie but as soon as I saw that Benjamin Walker was the star I knew we'd get some shirtless shots in the trailer and sure enough on a quick skim through there he was! Nicholas Sparks is good for that much. As I was scanning through I realized...

... is that Tom Welling? I had to stare and stare to realize it is. The last time we saw Tom he wasn't looking like this - he seems to be playing a dope, guessing from the paint-by-numbers Nicholas Sparks plot I've grafted onto my skim through the trailer, so I guess he decided to dope himself up for the role? Ya dope. Anyway I have talked about a Nicholas Sparks movie too much already - there are more shirtless slash adorable Ben shots after the jump to tide us over til we see him in American Psycho on Broadway in the Spring is all that matters...

Everyone Keeps Saying That Ben Looks Amazin'

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Stephen Colbert got Benjamin Walker shirtless on his show last night!!! #AmericanPsychoTheMusical (thx Mac) pic.twitter.com/yTR8ehtzzt

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 2, 2016

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I hate it when good stuff happens on Friday nights -- since I usually take the weekends off from blogging (for slipping sanity's sake) that means I usually won't post it until Monday and by then the internet's already gobbled it up and spat it out. So I was tempted, when I saw the folks from the American Psycho musical were on Stephen Colbert's show on Friday to come in and post this Saturday, but... well, I had some videotapes to return, so I didn't. Anyway in case you missed my brief thoughts on the show you can read those here; below is the video of the performance.

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When I saw the show I wasn't sure that any of the songs would actually get stuck in my head, but I've had this number stuck in my head all weekend, so my doubts have been proven as false as Patrick Bateman's heart. Oh and you should know that if you see this number performed on stage, Benjamin Walker is in tighty-whities for half of it. (You're all gone to the musical's website now, aren't you?) Well when you come back hit the jump, I made a couple of gifs...

I Am Link

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--- After Jack - I saw the incredibly tense political thriller '71 starring Jack O'Connell at the New York Film Festival a full year ago (here's my review) and the director Yann Demange was there and I took pictures of him (I remember because he's surprisingly handsome but I can't find a link) and here we are and it's 2015 and the Fest is going and only now am I hearing news of his next movie - he's teaming up with Darren Aronofsky (as a producer) on the true story of a teenage police informant in the 1980s who was eventually arrested for drug trafficking.

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--- Enemy Theirs - As any cinephile worth their weight in pretensions will admit, the distributor A24 is where it's at right now - I've orders posters from their online store! That makes me especially pretentious right? They're the studio behind recent movies like Enemy and Under the Skin anyway - they know what they are doing! So maybe you want to read this behind-the-scenes look at them, it's good stuff if you're a nerd like me.

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--- Camp Flamingos - I already linked to one John Waters interview this week (he's got a retrospective happening in London right now) but this interview with him in the Wall Street Journal has actual news and not just hysterical bon mots - his recent college graduation commencement speech is being turned into an illustrated book, is one. And two...

"He is also at work on a new film, which would be his first since “A Dirty Shame” in 2004, but he decided to stay mum on it for now. “Oh, I’ve got a project, but I can’t talk about it. All development deals, it’s like bad luck to talk about it before they happen,” he said. “I’ve never tried to get pregnant, but it’s the same thing. You don’t tell people. Because then it doesn’t happen.”"

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--- Brood On This - Also being feted on distant corners of the globe is David Cronenberg (he's getting a lifetime achievement thing in Iceland) and he gave a big Q&A while there and confessed some juicy stuff -- most of the headlines have been how he said he was offered directing duties on the pilot episode of the second season of True Detective but he turned it down because the script sucked. Way to kick them while they're down, David!
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--- Sing Psycho Sing - Mark your calendars and set aside a clean pair of tighty-whities, we've got news on the American Psycho musical -- it has a space lined up and it will begin previews on march 24th, 2016. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker is still attached to take on yuppie scum magnate Patrick Bateman, even though I keep worrying that his ex-mother-in-law Meryl Streep's gonna wipe him off the face of the planet.
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--- Starry Something - I won't be able to start celebrating the month of October properly until the New York Film Fest is finished but Final Girl is on the case with the annual SHOCKTOBER watch-a-thon beginning - Stacie Ponder's devoting all month to horror films streaming on Netflix, and the first entry is Starry Eyes, which is a very very good way to begin. (Here's my review of that movie.)
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--- Just The Ridge - Over at The Film Experience you can see the first image of Andrew Garfield in (sigh) Mel Gibson's new film Hacksaw Ridge, which is telling the true story of a WWII conscientious objector who nevertheless won the Medal of Honor after saving a bunch of people in a battle. Yes this means you'll see Andrew Garfield in uniform. I'm ashamed to admit I still haven't had time to see 99 Homes, Garfield's currently-in-theaters drama about the housing bubble with Michael Shannon and Laura Dern - I am hoping to find time this weekend. Any of you seen it?

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--- Into the Woods Again - I was hoping I'd see screenwriter Drew Goddard at the New York Film Festival screening of The Martian more than I was hoping to see any of its stars... sadly I did not see him. (I did see Kristen Wiig dancing though.) But he has been giving interviews and over at Den of Geek he admitted that apparently Lionsgate is actively keen on a sequel to Cabin in the Woods... which seems nuts. That movie had such a hard time getting released. But he says he and Joss haven't written anything yet so it's all theoretical at this point anyway.
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The Great Tighty-Whities Way

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I'm still settling in and sorting my brain out after a mentally taxing few days trapped inside a movie theater (and this is just a moment of calm in a week-long storm, mind you... not that I am complaining!) so here's something to settle all of our nerves -- a new picture of Benjamin Walker in the American Psycho musical, currently wowing on Broadway. They really should rename The Great White Way as The Great Tighty-Whities Way in his honor, don't you think? For our previous coverage of this momentous occasion, click here. And here. And here. And here.

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I Am Link

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--- Hammer in Pain - If I'd read this news earlier I would have included it in our earlier Armie Hammer post but what the hey, too much Armie ain't a thing (not to mention I missed that shot to the left) - he's set to star in a movie called Dreamland with Gary Oldman (boo hiss how could you Armie after he stole Timmy's Oscar!) and Evangeline Lilly, from Arbitrage director Nicholas Jarecki. It sounds like one of those multi-strand serious-issue thrillers a la Babel or Traffic that were so popular a decade back, only this time it's about the Opioid Epidemic. There are two male leads - a drug trafficker and a university professor and honestly I have no idea between Armie & Gary which would be playing which. That could go either way!

--- Old and Dead - Although they seem to have taken the trailer off of YouTube (I'll check and see if I can find a working link to fix that) I posted a teaser trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's forthing Amazon series Too Old To Die Young back in June -- it stars Miles Teller and Jena Malone and Billy Baldwin and John Hawkes, among many. Anyway today DH brings us word that Refn is finally nearing completion on the massive thing, which is apparently ten ninety-minute-long episodes, so basically ten films. That will make up for it being three years since The Neon Demon I suppose.

--- Queen Collette - I was sad the first time I found out that Toni Collette's not personally into scary movies all that much (although given I found that out that time I hung out with her having a couple of drinks after a screening of Hereditary I could only be so sad, ya know) but she seems to be getting more at ease with the genre, besides the fact that she's given some of its greatest performances now, given her chat with Out Magazine this week. Loved her embrace of the term "Scream Queen" (she says, "I love the term scream queen. It’s pulpy and kitsch and camp. I’ll take it.") Also loved the news that she's got three projects lined up set to film back to back to back -- this queen of all the kingdoms cannot work too much. 

--- Mr Miller Mourns - Ezra Miller has lined up a new project (probably to fill in the gap where his Flash movie should be filming, goddammit), a thriller called The Mourner based on a Japanese novel by Arata Tendo, which was already turned into a Japanese film in 2015. Ezra will play "a mystical young man" (check check and check) who mourns people who have no one else to mourn them who changes the life of an cynical female detective. Sidenote: it doesn't look like the novel's been adapted into English yet.
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--- There Ben Be - I figured that Our Esteemed Lady Meryl Gummer had had Benjamin Walker buried in a shallow grave when he spurned her daughter's marital bed, never to be heard from again -- seriously when my beloved stage musical adaptation of American Psycho closed Ben just vanished. But hey look he's alive and he's going to star on Broadway with Annette Bening and Tracy Letts! He's be playing one of the sons - it's the titular role! - in a revival of Arthur Miller's post-WWII familial drama All My Sons. (thx Mac)

--- Dog Gone It - On Friday I posted the trailer for Donnybrook, the upcoming cage-fighter film starring Jamie Bell - well Jamie is re-teaming with that movie's director Tim Sutton (as well as his co-star in it actress Margaret Qualley) for a movie called The Chain, based on a short story about a man whose daughter is attacked by a dog, which sets off a series of "catastrophic events." Sounds like a good time for all! Also in the cast, though? Sebastian Stan! That is a good time after all.
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--- Deeper Idris - Did y'all catch the gifs I posted of Idris Elba on the Tumblr the other day? They're worth catching, is my point. I was inspired by the news that he's lined up a new role and it sounds possibly neat-o -- it's called Deeper (insert dirty pun here) and it's about a deep-sea diver who encounters a "sinister and dangerous force" while exploring a "newly discovered trench." Really there are many dirty things I could insert here, up to and including that part about "inserting" "dirty" "things." That said the dude who directed Jake in the forgettable Everest is directing this movie, and it was written by douchebag Max Landis, so we'll wait and see if we're inserting anything.

--- And Finally, a call to arms! I retweeted this earlier but perhaps you missed it - Jessica Chastain is making a female-led spy-thriller called 355 with X-Men director Simon Kinberg that will have her starring opposite Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Lupita Nyong’o, and Fan Bingbing (well if China will let Fan star in movies anymore, anyway). They need a slab of man-meat, a hunky equivalent to the "Bond Girl" type, and Jessica's asking Twitter for suggestions! I have been training you people for just this situation for years - go forth and prove me proud, my minions!
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If you were going to make an ensemble female action movie and you needed a #BondBoy who would you cast? Asking for a friend. #eyecandyneeded pic.twitter.com/MuRL8e2fBq

— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) February 6, 2019

Babs Is In The Air

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I don't think I've been entirely on my own, feeding the flames of my Barbara Stanwyck obsession these past few weeks. I've seen articles about her in several places. Must be one of those moments of her drifting to the fore of the zeitgeist for whatever reason. Anyway there's a review of a new boxed-set of her flicks over at the NYT that I was reading through and this passage grabbed my attention:

"Among female stars perhaps only Joan Crawford and Bette Davis had comparably long careers, though Stanwyck never resorted to camp and self-parody to prolong her appeal. (Her contribution to the post-“Baby Jane” cycle of movie queen gothic horrors was William Castle’s uncharacteristically reserved “Night Walker,” in which she gives her usual controlled, naturalistic performance; a box office flop, it’s her one starring film for Universal that remains unavailable on DVD.) "

I must see this movie! Anybody seen it? And Robert Bloch, the writer of Psycho, wrote the screenplay.

This boxed-set also contains two of her pictures with Douglas Sirk, 1953's All I Desire and 1956's There's Always Tomorrow, that both sound grand and must-see (although this article notes that the DVD of Tomorrow has been cropped, which is the equivalent of spitting in Sirk's face, so seek that movie out elsewhere, I'd say). Anyway, never enough Stanwyck! Not ever!
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I Am Link

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Well I haven't done one of these link round-up posts in ages and ages; they're time-consuming and what with that steady stream of film fests I was caught up in for a couple of months there twasn't meant to be. There's all sorts of news I've missed mentioning, but I'm going to try to keep these links more recent, since one assumes you guys get your news from other places. I know, I know, a nutso assumption, but we'll entertain the thought for today. Here goes...

--- Crazy Rich Christmas - Gorgeous Henry Golding was to the shock of nobody looking gorgeous and exuding charm in Paul Feig's A Simple Favor earlier this year, and so it wasn't a shock when Feig announced he was re-teaming with the Crazy Rich Asians star for his next project, a romantic holiday comedy called Last Christmas that'll have him wooing the elf-pants right off of the mother of dragons herself, Emilia Clarke. Today's news that Henry's CRA co-star and eternal goddess Michelle Yeoh is joining the cast though, that's something to jig fresh over.

--- Divine Interference - I'm heading down to Baltimore myself in a couple of weeks to see the John Waters exhibit that the Baltimore Museum of Art is currently staging, I'll surely report back on that once I do, but if you'd rather hear what John Waters himself has to say on it well I suppose you could click right here for a chat with him in the Washington Post. (thx Mac)

--- Bateman Below - As if the Muriel's Wedding musical wasn't enough to already have me contemplating throwing out my thumb to catch a ride Down Under now the entire continent of Australia is really going out of its way to make me crazy, musical-style - they're staging my beloved American Psycho musical in Sydney in the spring. The only show I've ever gone to see thrice! I don't know who Ben Gerrard is, I guess he's a well-known personality down there, but it's a shame they couldn't coax Benjamin Walker out of whatever hole Meryl Streep tossed him into after he abandoned that Gummer.

--- The Next Killer - Have you guys watched Cam on Netflix yet? The "cam girl" horror movie starring Madeline Brewer from The Handmaid's Tale? Here's my review in case you need convincing - the movie is very smart and fine and I recommend it. Well writer Isa Mazzei and director Daniel Goldhaber, the team behind the film, just let slip that they're teaming back up to make another horror flick next - it's a "semi-autobiographical" female-led serial-killer flick. Mazzei also reassures that the "semi" means she is not a serial killer, so that's good. In related here's a chat with Madeline Brewer about Cam.

--- Follow That Bird - Being so busy the past week I've fallen an episode behind on Park Chan-wook's miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, but if you've happened to be on Twitter while I am watching an episode then you know I am mad about what I have seen so far - it's gorgeous stuff. And happily the Atlantic got to chat with PCW about the visual style, particularly the show's vibrant color palette, you can read it all right here. I'm holding off on reading the article til the show's done myself though, since I don't want to color, har har, the experience of watching the show as it unfolds.

--- Twits Ahead - Every time a new Roald Dahl adaptation has come up over the years, and there have been many, I've always whined about the one story of his that nobody was adapting, his 1980 book The Twits, which was a childhood fave. It's an over-the-top goofy and brief book so whining aside I've always mostly understood why nobody's bothered. But now comes word that Netflix is making "an exclusive new and first-of-its-kind slate of original animated event series and specials" based on all of Dahl's works - basically it sounds like they're doing for Dahl what Castle Rock did for Stephen King and creating a "shared universe." So I expect me some Twits!

--- And Finally a new trailer for Patty Jenkins' miniseries I Am the Night with her Wonder Woman leading man Chris Pine popped up earlier this week - we shared the first look at the show back in June right here; this is about the Black Dahlia killing in Los Angeles in 1949. The series premieres at the tail-end of January. Watch:
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Feel Flesh Gripping Yours

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The first pictures of Benjamin Walker doing Patrick Bateman for the American Psycho musical have arrived (thanks Mac) and Ben's coming right out swinging, as it were. That's my "subtle" way of telling you to point your eyes crotch-ward, by the way. I did lighten the above shot a little bit but other than that, that's all Ben! Big Ben. The show starts in previews at the end of March, and they also just announced the full cast. Here are a couple more:

Benjamin Walker Eight Times

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Big Bad Ben's filling out some suits for a photo-shoot in the new issue of Esquire magazine (shot by photographer Stewart Shining) and we can't help but share (thanks Mac). There's also an interview if words are your bag, but with pictures like these...
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 ... there are better uses for our tongues, people. Anyway the American Psycho musical finally opened this weekend (I saw it in previews way back seems like forever now) and the reviews look nearly as good as Ben looks in his underwear! They should be good, anyway - it's a fun show. I mean I'm obviously going to go a second time, which is basically unheard of when it comes to musical theater (but we all know it's not the music I'm going for). And speaking of staring at Big Ben, hit the jump for six more pictures...
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I Am Link

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--- The Good Doctor - Hannibal is back in two days! Hannibal is back in two days! I almost made the blog full Hannibal themed this week but I know me and my inability to focus on one thing for any period of time so I set that aside. Still we'll be posting some about it over the next couple days. Anyway here's a very fine interview with Bryan Fuller at EW wherein he talks about how his show will avoid rape like the plague, and shares his wise thoughts on the controversial scene with Sansa in A Game of Thrones.
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--- Spy Business - I'm coasting on the laurels of MNPP's 10th anniversary a little bit today, taking it easy, so I might not get around to some of the reviews I'm working on until tomorrow, but that said I will let you know I agree with this everything The Playlist says in this piece stating that Melissa McCarthy should be in the conversation come awards season for what she does in Spy, which is out this Friday and in which she's a force of hilarious nature. Comedy is always forgotten about though...

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--- Killer Company - It's official - Benjamin Walker will be returning his videotapes and then carving up some prostitutes on Broadway! He will for sure be starring as financial psychopath Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: The Musical, when it premieres next Spring. He was going to star when it was off-Broadway, then they nixed plans for that in order to go big, and we weren't sure he was tagging along until now.

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--- Director Fever - I might've linked to this before, I'm sure it's been bobbing around the internet since it's an old thing, but here's Rainer Werner Fassbinder's list of Top Ten Movies, which got some renewed attention what with what woulda been RWF's 70th birthday having just passed. Speaking of, here's a piece on an art-show in Berlin on Fassbinder right now. (thanks Mac) I wish I could go. In related auteur listsicle news, here's Olivier Assayas' ten favotire movies... well actually he cheats terribly, amusingly, and names way more than ten with a huge number of ties. That's how ya do it.
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--- Boogie Woogie - This maybe has made its way to YouTube right now but in the interest of Getting Shit Done I'm just linking to it where I found it - a clips from the 54: Director's Cut got released, you can watch it here. I was hoping it was Ryan Phillippe and Breckin Meyer's make-out scene; it's not. But it does have the two of them in their short-shorts shimmying around a bunch, and that's perfectly swell. I also saw somewhere saying it's released today? But I don't know if that's true; if anybody knows forward me that!

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--- Southern Discomfort - Eli Roth announced on Facebook that his long delayed cannibal movie The Green Inferno's been picked up by Blumhouse (aka horror central) for a release this fall, on September 25th. So that's groovy! I'm still so frustrated that I wasn't able to go to that New York screening of the film that happened right before the movie got yanked. (via, thanks Mac)
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--- Beasts Master - The internet is such a trickster, I thought it was already official that Eddie Redmayne was playing the lead in JK Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and I thought that Asa Butterfield had already been cast as the new Spider-Man, but it turns out that only the former is true, and only just now. Although we will apparently hear who's got the Spider-Man gig relatively soon, maybe even before this week is through. Hell maybe the news will show up before I hit publish on this post. The Internet! Anyway I'm still rooting for Tom Holland for Peter Parker, then.

--- Summer at the Farm - I saw this so long ago thanks to MoMA that I didn't realize it'd never gotten a proper US release but then it being Xavier Dolan I should've figured - his film Tom at the Farm will get a release in August says STYD. It's my favorite film by him so far, here's my review. I look forward to seeing it again.

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--- And Finally Nathaniel's latest Q&A session with his readers over at The Film Experience is chock-full of fun stuffs - he talks about Tom Hardy needing to star in a sex movie and Barabara Hershey being awesome and shows Mel Gibson's butt. It's playing to all my most favorite things.
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I Am Link, Part Two

We're playing catch-up today! Earlier this afternoon we posted some links to some junk that'd caught our eyeballs over the holly holidays; well la-di-da here are some more. 

--- Desert Fetish - A nice little batch of new stills from Mad Max Fury Road were released (thanks Mac) that give us a good look at not just the usual suspects - hi Tom Hardy, and hi Charlize's missing arm! - but also hey look it's a close-up of some of the big bulky muscle-men in those typically weird Mad-Maxian leather get-ups, holla. I'm already going to be annoyed if Fury Road doesn't get an Oscar nomination next year for costume design.

--- The Sound & The Furry - I suppose I shouldn't be surprised hearing from people who've seen it that American Sniper is a rah-rah propaganda-fest, coming as it does from a maniac who conversed with an empty chair one time, but I still feel kinda guilty blah-blahing about the movie so much (ogling BCoop's furry business not once but twice yesterday alone)... like maybe I should donate some money to an anti-war group every time I wanna think about beefy Bradley's beard or something. Whatcha gonna do, I'm only so strong, and quotes like this from interviews with Brad aren't helping my liberal resolve, wherein he talks a bunch about his muscles with big words like "fucking strong as a motherfucker." He makes me feel so Republican and dirty.

--- Dance Man - Our pal Nathaniel got to chat with Cheyenne Jackson for Towleroad, making us very jealous, about his new movie with Gena Rowlands (oh and also the terrific Love is Strange, which is out on blu-ray now, watch it!) and the most jealous inducing bit is when Cheyenne talks about picturing him in his underwear, which I mean, who needs to be told to picture Cheyenne in his underwear? We're all already doing that, Cheyenne.

--- Sassy Lives - I could probably offer a million links to thought-pieces that I read over the break on the second season of The Comeback, which ended its second season run with me in a puddle of tears on the sofa - I read enough to fill an entire post. But let's keep it relatively brief - here's a nice piece at IndieWire examining the show as a response to TV's male antiheroes (thanks mac), here's my pal Sean making some good points criticizing some of the final episode for Rolling Stone, and here's a chat with Lisa Kudrow where she seems to leave the door open for a third season, even despite the low low low ratings the show got.

--- Bond Mountain -The Daily Mail has a bunch of pictures of Daniel Craig on the set of the next Bond movie Spectre, but there's nothing racy - he's all bundled up in winter clothes or seaman gear - and not the good semen! Sigh. But there are a couple funny shots of him and the muscle-mountain Dave Bautista standing beside each other, which will do, fantasy-wise, for a minute or ten.

--- Wild Child - The Comeback ended pretty perfectly; if that's it, I will survive, which reminds me of how I felt at he end of the second season of Mike White's show Enlightened - it stuck the landing, so if that's all she wrote, I will survive. (Yes I keep using that phrase on purpose; picture Valeria dancing y'all!) Aaaanyway that's my rambling lead-up to linking to this interview with Laura Dern (you remember her, she's my BFF?) which is mostly about Wild but I love the part where she talks about whether she'll ever let her kids see Wild at Heart or not. (thanks Mac)

--- Killer Can Do - I don't really know how Broadway works (I know that surprises you) so the news that Benjamin Walker is going to do a "workshop" version of the American Psycho musical - he was cast as Patrick Bateman in the off-B'way version that got canceled when they moved it to B'way proper, you may recall - makes me think that Ben will be hanging on for the new bigger iteration? But I guess we'll see. I hope so anyway!

--- Dark Sided, Again - You see why I'll never catch up with all these links? Just a couple of hours ago I posted news of Daredevil and Charlie Cox, and before I'd even hit the publish button there's newer news to share - the show has a release date! Netflix will release the entire first season on April 10th! I should probably take that day off and buy a lot of frozen pizza.

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