Who's Coming For Cox & Co.

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When I posted about Luke Cage & Iron Fist this morning I posted some pictures of all of The Defenders (also including Daredevil & Jessica Jones) gathered for the very first time this past weekend at New York's Comic Con. And if you actually looked at the one picture you maybe noticed that Sigourney Weaver was there too. I noticed her, and I thought it was weird, but it was early and I just thought maybe she'd done the moderating for the panel or something. She had co-starred in 2012's execrable Vamps with Krysten Ritter, after all, so there was a relationship there. 

But good lord I should've looked further into it because it turns out that Sigourney's been hired to play the Big Bad on their show! The Defenders, in case you don't know, is the Netflix series that will bring together Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage, a la The Avengers. And the villain they will face will be Sigourney fuckin' Weaver. Can you imagine?!? There's no word on who she's playing but this link already did some fan-guessing; you got me though. I'm not familiar with any of the comics.

Anyway, in summation, hit the jump for seventeen pictures of Charlie Cox being hot that I think I have never posted before, because why wouldn't I post seventeen pictures of Charlie Cox being hot that I think I have never posted before...

Good Morning, World

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Has anybody watched Luke Cage yet? I'm slowly but surely working my way through it - I like to stare at Mike Colter (and Mahershala Ali, for that matter) but I'm finding the show a bit of a chore, honestly. Every episode feels three times longer than it is - I've only watched four episodes so far and it feels like very very little has happened. When my boyfriend sat down during the fourth episode, having not seen any of the previous ones, he asked me what he needed to know to catch up and there was literally one thing I could tell him.

It feels kind of like the superhero shows from my youth, like Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk, which were similarly overly plotty - you look back at them and it's a bunch of people sitting around yapping about absolutely nothing for long stretches of time. Daredevil (which I love) and Jessica Jones (which I have mixed feelings about) both felt more dynamic than that, but maybe I just like their cast of characters better? Nobody's really popping off the screen in Luke Cage's world. (I do wish they'd give Alfre Woodard something to do already.) That said...

... it was still kind of a thrill to see pictures of all of Netflix's Marvel superheroes all in one place at New York Comic-Con this past weekend! And not just because it gives me the visual of Mike Colter and Finn Jones climbing right on top of Charlie Cox and suffocating him with their various body parts.

ETA oh and here's the first trailer

for Iron Fist with Finn Jones!

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Happy Hiddles Day

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I didn't intend for MNPP to turn into MNTH today but here we are crafting a third Tom post in a row, following this morning's new High-Rise trailer -- but see, only after I posted those did I notice today is actually Tom's 35th birthday! How appropriate to give us him in his birthday suit, then. Anyway I figured I'd take a look back and figure out, since we're clearly a bit fixated on him these days, how it came to be. What was...

The Moment I Fell For... Tom Hiddleston

I liked Tom from the start; obviously he was great as Loki in the first Thor, and I found him a delight as F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris. 

But I wouldn't say I "fell for" him that early. So I went through our Hiddles-archives trying to pin-point the exact moment a general warm feeling spread from my heart outwards (southwards) and I think I found it! I saw a panel at New York ComiCon in 2011 for The Avengers and blogged about it - the crowd went absolutely ape-shit for Tom Hiddleston while kinda sorta ignoring Chris Evans...

... which at the time made very little sense to me, but I think it sort of clicked the, "Well, wait a minute..." thought process into gear. After that the ball was rolling down the mountain, the sexy mountain, picking up steam as it went, and here we are today. (As for Chris I don't think he should worry - the Captain America films have been much better than the Thor movies, and he's soundly kicking Tom's cute butt in today's towel-off poll.)

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The Devil You Dare

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I skipped New York Comic Con this year because I kind of hated it last year -- it's too crowded and they made it practically impossible to get into any of the panels unless you're willing to sacrifice your entire day to waiting in line, and I wasn't, and that's that. With the New York Film Fest going on at the exact same time it was always a killer anyway. Yadda yadda there was a Daredevil panel at NYCC and they showed the first teaser trailer and it's now online. You can watch it over here. I am so bummed about whatshisface's casting as The Punisher, you guys. But hey, Charlie Cox bulging!

Who Wore It Best?

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Torchwood star and gay sci-fi pioneer John Barrowman is turning 48 today. I've never watched any of his sci-fi shows - I'm mostly familiar with him the most from Central Park West, that terrible 90s soap he was on; there were lots of pictures of him in magazines like US (before it was US Weekly!) like that one up top that put him on my radar at the time.  That said my favorite thing about John is that he seems to have turned his sci-fi career into an excuse to go to Comic-Cons around the world and grab dude's dicks for photo-ops.

Seriously, if you search for such things (and who doesn't search for such things) the internet is awash in pictures of John Barrowman (and sometimes his husband Scott Gill too) grabbing geek junk.

Speaking of John's husband though...

... okay maybe they over-share with the internet a bit. But John really is forging ahead a path through the wilds of an unfriendly territory - this isn't a statement that will surprise anybody but Comic-Cons and geek culture (like all the world) can be homophobic, and John really puts it out there. So a happy birthday to him... and now let's judge him and his husband in their underwear.

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Hello Goodbye, Charlie Cox

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I've had other things to attend to today but you can expect my annual post about New York Comic-Con later this week; if you missed it I posted a bunch of pictures over on Instagram though. I'm sure I'll whine more about it when the time comes but due to some changes NYCC made I wasn't able to see any of their panels this year, yes including my beloved Charlie Cox for Daredevil. And yes, I'm incredibly bitter about it. So much so that the first pictures from the show were released there and I can't even summon the oomph to post them! I'm oomphless! (pic via)

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Good Afternoon, World

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Howdy, folks! I had a screening for the NYFF this morning, hence my tardiness - just a heads-up that this week will be kind of erratic because of a bunch of screenings and then Comic-Con stuff at the end... busy, busy, busy. But good busy. (I say that now; ask me again in seven days when I am blown to smithereens by it all.) Aaaanyway let's get on with it. Hi!

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Stay Inside With Daniel Radcliffe

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When I bitched and moaned yesterday about all of the groovy junk coming up that I was missing out on I included the screening tomorrow night of Alexandre Aja's movie Horns, starring Daniel Radcliffe, at IFC Center for their so-called "Super Week" in conjunction with New York Comic-Con. But my bitching slash moaning was all for nothing much, because it turns out it's being released onto VOD tomorrow too!

In fact, according to that link, several of the movies they're showing this weekend will be out on VOD before the end of the month - VHS Viral and the Dead Snow sequel and the Nicky Hoult movie with Michael Shannon. Lars von Trier's complete cut of Nymphomaniac is apparently out today, although I haven't checked. Also titles like Nacho "Timecrimes" Vigalando's Open Windows with Elijah Wood as well as Listen Up Phillip, an excellent film with Jason Schwartzmann and Elisabeth Moss that's playing the NYFF that I will probably be reviewing for The Film Experience soon.

And that link doesn't mention A Good Marriage, the Steven King adaptation with Joan Allen, but I have it written in my calendar as hitting VOD tomorrow too. So basically what I am saying is if you never want to leave the house ever again, we gotcha. Let's all rot into our couches together, hooray!
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All The Stuff I Can't Do

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We're entering the craziest time of the year for me - that nightmare space (I mean that in the nicest sense of the word "nightmare") where the New York Film Festival and New York Comic-Con overlap ever year. It's so terribly hard to have too much awesome stuff to do! Anyway in the interest of letting you know that I'm not the perfect saintly ball of awesomeness that you think I am, I figured I'd highlight some of the stuff slipping through the cracks that I'll be missing. Because I'm not perfect! Of flesh, and bone, am made!

The biggest fail on my part is I won't be seeing any of the truly amazing events that the IFC Center here in New York is coordinating for their side-show of Comic-Con - it's called "Super Week" and the list of things they've got going on is just beyond the beyond. Baz Luhrmann himself doing a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Check! The director's cut of Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac? Check! The new Nicholas Hoult movie with Nicky there? Check!

Premiere screenings of several upcoming horror movies I haven't seen yet? Oh hell yeah. Here by the way is the list of those titles - VHS Viral, The ABCs of Death 2, The Canal (which I actually did see at Tribeca Fest and liked a lot), Extraterrestrial (which I also saw at Tribeca and didn't like at all), Dead Snow 2, Inner Demons, and HORNS!!! I have to miss Horns, dammit all to hell. (At least it's only a couple of weeks until that's out.)

They are also showing The Babadook, which as I told you yesterday I thankfully was managing to see a second time last night - it was even better a second time through, and I am unreservedly in love with the movie now. Once you get the chance, do not miss it.

The other big thing that's coming up that I am going to have to miss isn't because of Comic-Con or the NYFF, it's because of a concert I have tickets to, but I wanted to point it out all the same - the Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn is showing all the shorts, experimental films and documentaries of HR Giger on the night of October 15th. That is way too cool, and it's necesarry that each and every one of you understand what a gigantic heaping pile of dung I am for missing it. Heaping! People - spit on me on the street! I have it coming!

Cox Takes Comic-Con

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Now that the John Waters Retrospective is wrapping up I've got two gigantic heaps-o-fun barreling my immediate way - The New York Film Festival and New York Comic Con. I'll have plenty to say on the former when press screenings gear up next week (I'll be covering it over at The Film Experience and I will of course be linking up all that here) but as for the latter we're finally getting word of what the panels will be and yesterday I got an email on a doozy - Netflix and Marvel are bringing their Daredevil series, meaning Charlie Cox will be in the building.

If you need to find me during Comic Con, I'll be the one throwing panties at the main stage. Just barrels and barrels of panties. By the time Charlie Cox is ready to leave he won't be able to because I will have built a fortress of panties hundreds of feet tall on every side of him, and he will be mine. It's a plan! In related news, hey look Charlie did one of those long-forgotten ice bucket videos and I never noticed until now.
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Let's All Go To Comic-Con!

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He is the one who knocks. 

You can't blame me for having Breaking Bad on my mind - as y'all probably know, I spent this past weekend taking in the sights and the sounds and the spandex of the New York Comic-Con, and there was so much Breaking Bad up in there, you guys. It was kind of weird.

Well hey, anything that gets more guys that look like that in their tighty-whities in public, I suppose. And I suppose Walter White's sort of a superhero slash super-villain story, in its own way. (And I realize I'm hardly a unique snowflake in pointing that out.) He's got the costumes. The yellow jumpsuits were so ubiquitous I refused to take any pictures of them. I laid down the same law with the Kick-Ass costumes, but really only because nobody looked nearly as good as Aaron Johnson does in it. Ubiquity didn't stop me from some of the other usual suspects though...

Sometimes simplicity is just right, ya know?

So as I do every year I've gathered together my favorite shots of the cosplaying geniuses out of the piles and piles I took. Head with me after the jump and we will stroll along together!

Which Is Hotter?

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Superman (left) or Superman (right)?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Yes it's true I am digging through my pictures from this past weekend's New York Comic-Con at last, so you should expect some of that in a bit. I tried to be more forward in asking the attractive male cosplayers for pictures this year - I'm usually too intimidated, but I know my demographic! I couldn't let you down. So stay tuned!

Pic of the Day

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I wasn't able to go to the panel for Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy at New York Comic Con since it was during the day on Friday and I was still too busy with the New York Film Festival then (I seriously, seriously hope that Comic-Con moves itself date-wise next year, there's just too much going on at the start of October), but it looks like they revealed that there first good look at Sharlto Copley in the film. (I mean I'd also define the shot of Sharlto butt-ass naked in the trailer as "the first good look at Sharlto," with "good" being the understatement of the millennium, but this is the first time they've made it totally clear that that was indeed Sharlto swimming in the pool showing off said butt-ass, so that counts as "good" in my book too. You can find talk of the panel with some new clips and stuff over at DH, which is where I found this shot. I'm so so happy that we've all realized that Sharlto's super duper worthy of exploiting in this manner, because it is truth. I don't even mind the scars. It's always scars with him. I dig it.

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MNPP Does NYCC: Part 2

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As I mentioned in the first part of my coverage of 2012's New York Comic Con, I spent the majority of Saturday cooped up inside the IGN Theater, which is where all of the big movie and television presentations happen. I corralled myself inside earlier than I needed to be so I could guarantee myself a decent seat to the later festivities, since they don't bother clearing the room all day and people tend to camp out for the more exciting stuff that happens later - I managed to score rather prime placement in the fifth or sixth row center, in reward for my vigilant nerdiness.

It actually worked out well for me though, because there was something on the program that I'd missed while poring over the schedule, so I got a happy surprise. James Wan was with The Conjuring, the "true life" story of the Warrens, a married team of parapsychologists played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who get called to the possibly haunted home of Lily Taylor and Ron Livingston to work their magic. I've posted a lot about this movie, so how I missed it being on the schedule I dunno, but there suddenly James Wan was, and then two minutes later there was Patrick Wilson, Lily Taylor and Ron Livingston in the flesh!

Very exciting. Especially the Patrick Wilson part. That makes twice I've been in the same room with him - three times means we're married, right?

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I don't think that the footage they showed for this has made its way online yet? I haven't noticed it yet, at least. Maybe that's since the movie's not out until July of 2013. (Ugh!) Anyway they showed us both a trailer and an extended clip and it seems very much in line with what Wan did with the marvelous Insidious (my review), only it seems a little bit more grounded in reality (read: no silly marionette people). The clip involved Lily Taylor playing a game with one of her daughters in the house, gone very wrong. Lots of what seemed like long takes and slow atmospheric settling in for the jump - very fun. I can't wait. Next up...

... was Barry Levinson with The Bay. you may recall I've already seen The Bay, I saw it at the New York Film Festival, here's my review. It's a terrific little creep-machine, is the gist. The audience at Comic Con didn't seem all that enthralled by the two brief clips they showed, but it's a hard movie to get a handle on in small pieces - there's a lot of set-up and it needs the slow-build and the claustrophobia from the way Levinson closes it in around you slowly but brilliantly. Anyway point being poor dear Barry didn't really ignite the auditorium the way the starrier panels did, but I'm in his corner. Next up...

... was this thing called Beautiful Creatures, which is I guess the next big Twilight slash True Blood-ish series of books to make the jump to the screen. I knew zip about this going in but it looked like it could be fun, honestly. Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, and Jeremy Irons, yo! Plus the girl who's not Elle Fanning in Ginger and Rosa! 

None of these people were at the panel though. What we got were Emmy Rossum (the collective unfurling of fan-boy tongues at the sight of her was kind of unsettling) and Alden Ehrenreich (okay my tongue was wagging as well). Oh and writer-director Richard LaGravenese, who wrote Living Out Loud, and is therefore an American Hero.

Coming Up Next: The remakes of Carrie and The Evil Dead,

and then The Walking Dead and the Firefly 10th Reunion special!

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Creepy Chloe...?

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I'll have more to say about this tomorrow when I get around to writing up my thoughts on the movie panels I saw at Comic Con this weekend, including the one for this here Carrie remake and the Evil Dead remake and so on. But for now here's the teaser they showed us, since it is now newly online (via). I need you to tell me something...
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... is it just me and my inextinguishable bias against Moretz, or is the look on her face at the end of this trailer that's supposed to get our "Whoa!" just... kinda dumb? I think it's probably just me - everybody at Comic Con seemed to like it. The moderator exclaimed how "scary" she seemed. It's just... she totally made me think of this immortal picture, and that was before Glenn posted it again today. I just don't find it convincing. Again this is just a single shot so who knows. Tell me what you think though, I'm sure I'm being the usual Moretz-grump.

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poll by twiigs.com

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For the record, even though I feel this way about this, Julianne Moore and Kimberly Pierce were both very smart on how they sold everything about the film at the Comic Con panel. But like I said I'll get into that tomorrow. For now, judge her!

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Shaun of My Wall

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That right there is the only thing I bought at Comic Con - Mondo's Shaun of the Dead poster, which as soon as I can stuff it into an appropriate frame will be going right above my bed. (It'll be best friends with The Burning!) See all the posters they were selling here. I would've bought all of them if I weren't so damned poor and downtrodden. These things are investments, right? I see this one's already selling for a couple hundred bucks on EBay. I'm rich!

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MNPP Does NYCC 2012: Pt. 1

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In case you haven't been anywhere else movie (or anything else) related on the internet in the past couple of days, I am here to tell you that New York Comic Con happened. It was their sixth year I believe, and it's either my third or fourth time going, I'm not sure. 

I thought it was my fourth but I only found posts here for 2010's Con and for 2011's Con, so what do I know. Maybe I was counting that time I went to San Diego a thousand years ago. (X-Men 2 was the big movie, and I shook James Cameron's hand, being the main things I remember from that.)

So I ended up wandering around the floor for two straight days, numb with awe at the avalanche of awesome geekery, per the usual routine. Well I wandered around save that six hour stretch I spent on Saturday hunkered down in the IGN Theater where they give all their big movie presentations, that is; we'll get to that later. First off I figured I'd share an assortment of pictures I took from the floor. 

So hit the jump and you'll get a look at a whole bunch more - everything from marauding packs of superheroes mingling willy-nilly with their nemeses, to undead plumbers and beyond!