5 Off My Head: Siri Says 2008

Now that the festival rush of Fall 2025 is behind me I've been feeling the nagging sensation to check back into our long long too-long running series of "Siri Says" posts -- the last one I did was back in January! These posts have gotten increasingly sporadic as the remaining years have dwindled -- when I checked what's left this morning I saw there were only five years out of one hundred left for us to do. Do what, you ask since it's been so long since I've done one? Well the idea is that I had my phone choose a random number between 1 and 100 and then I picked my five favorite movies from the year that corresponds. Once we got down to the teens the process changed a little because it took too long for Siri to get to a number I hadn't already done, so I wrote the remaining years on slips of paper and picked one with my eyes shut. And that's how we ended up with the year 2008 today.

It's the last year of the Aughts we had left to do -- another decade crossed off! And this is another year when I was actively blogging here at MNPP so there's documentation of my thoughts on 2008's movies already -- click here to see what my favorite movies were at that moment. My list now, seventeen years later, has changed a little! Not entirely, but some. So let's get to it. I give you...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 2008

Synecdoche, New York

(dir. Charlie Kaufman)

-- released on October 24th 2008 --

Let the Right One In 

(dir. Tomas Alfredson)

-- released on December 12th 2008 --

In Bruges

(dir. Martin McDonagh) 

-- released on February 29th 2008 --

The Fall 

(dir. Tarsem Singh) 

-- released on May 30th 2008

Lake Mungo 

(dir. Joel Anderson) 

-- released on June 18th 2008 --

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Runners-up: Wall*E (dir. Andrew Snanton), The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Wendy & Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt), Mister Lonely (dir. Harmony Korine), Funny Games U.S. (dir. Michael Haneke), The Chaser (dir. Na Hong-jin), Timecrimes (dir. Nacho Vigalondo), Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh), [REC] (dir. Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza)...

...  Teeth (dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein), Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog), The House Bunny (dir. Fred Wolf), The Ruins (dir. Carter Smith), Doomsday (dir. Neil Marshall), Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves), Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen), Reprise (dir. Joachim Trier)

What are your favorite movies of 2008?

Parker Posey Island Hop

The cast for In Bruges and Banshees of Inisherin writer-director Martin McDonagh's next movie is shaping up and it's a good one -- this past week Parker Posey and Steve Buscemi both joined the already-cast Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich in what's being called Wild Horses Nine. Buscemi is replacing Mark Ruffalo (and I feel like that's the first and only time that sentence has been or will be uttered) and the movie will shoot on Easter Island of all places later this month. I have to admit I sort of feel like Sam Rockwell is a harbinger of doom as far as McDonagh movies go -- he starred in my two least favorite movies from the director previously. But maybe their third time together will be a charm? And Posey's presence more than makes up for anyone else. Our queen! I'm slightly curious what y'all are thinking of her work on The Whote Lotus but also hesitant to ask because just know I vehemently disagree with any complaints, of which I know many are going around. I think she's hilarious AND I think she's nailing the accent. So there!

 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Colm: If punching a policeman is a sin

then we may as well pack up and go home.

Barry Keoghan Eleven Times

Our boy Barry Keoghan is rocking powder blue and skin on the cover of the new Flaunt magazine and we are here for it, baby -- he's so good in The Banshees of Inisherin I'd also be extremely happy if he scores an Oscar nod this year. But then Barry's always good in whatever he's in. It's been that way since The Killing of a Sacred Deer... since Dunkirk... heck it's been ages since I saw '71 (the 2014 movie that also brought Jack O'Connell to my attention) but I remember him being great in that too? Anyway Barry's a forever fave and we only wish good, sexy things for him forever more. So on that note hit the jump for the good, sexy entire shoot...

Do Right By Me, Banshees

The first poster and trailer for Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin starring Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell -- and yes warm memories of In Bruges should be washing over your entire mind and body right this moment -- has arrived this morning, and good god I love it. I've made so secret of the fact that ever since In Bruges -- one of my absolute favorite movies -- I've disliked to outright loathed everything that McDonagh has done, and been very very very depressed about that fact. Will this be a Lucy-Football situation, and McDonagh's once again weaponized Colin Farrell's eyebrows to make me think we're in for a treat...

... only for it turn out to be another sack of bullshit like Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards? I sure hope not! What I am really secretly hoping that maybe some of his girlfriend's brilliance -- one Phoebe Waller-Bridge, if you're unaware -- rubbed off on him, which is to say he let her do a pass on the script. I know to some (including probably Phoebe, because she's nice like that) that sounds like sacrilege, as McDonagh is a prize-winning playwright, Oscar nominee, blah blah blergh. My belief in him has really been worn down in the fourteen years since Bruges. But this feels like such an explicit callback to that movie that I can't help but feel he feels that too? Get that Bruges magic back, baby!

The Banshees of Inisherin is out on October 21st.

Quote of the Day

"I want to work with Andrea Arnold, Lynne Ramsay, and Celine Sciamma, who did Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Those three ladies are at the top of my list. Their films have such strong stories; Celine’s Girlhood has stuck with me since 2014. The performances are so raw that I thought it was real. It let me in so much, and I always find that fascinating, how a director can get actors and actresses to trust them like that."

This quote from Eternals and Green Knight actor Barry Keoghan is actually a year and a half old, from an interview he gave to NME last March when his movie Calm With Horses (a good movie which also starred MNPP fave Cosmo Jarvis and which you should seek out -- here's that trailer) was coming out, but it's making the rounds on Twitter this week thanks to Eternals' release and everybody being like, "Oh right Barry Keoghan kicks ass." But such sentiments must be shared now once they're seen, because... right, Barry kicks ass. If you look at the directors Barry's already worked with at all his twenty-nine years of age -- Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, David Lowery, Chloé Zhao, with Matt Reeves (in The Batman) and Cary Fukunaga (for Masters of the Air, which I posted about here) and Martin McDonagh (for The Banshees of Inisherin) on tap -- it's clear the boy's got taste. But his wanting to work with Arnold especially tickles all of my fancies -- all of 'em! -- because how damn easy is that to picture? They seem like peas in a pod, a perfect match, and I really hope that one happens.

In Oscar

There isn't really enough "news" here to justify an entire post, and yet here we are, because I wanted to post these photos of Oscar Isaac. Funny innit? Anyway today we have "news" that Oscar will be one of the stars of Martin McDonagh's next next movie, about which we know nothing except that -- Oscar will be one of the stars of it. Along with McDonagh regulars Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken. that is. There's no title, no plot. But there is Oscar, and Oscar is plenty! (Oh boy plenty.) This movie will happen after McDonagh's currently-filming The Banshees of Inisherin, which reunites him with his In Bruges stars of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Will McDonagh ever again make a movie I like as much as I like In Bruges? I guess we'll find out. I keep holding out hope but man did I not like the other two. Hit the jump for one extra shot of Oscar...

I Am Link

--- Now Them's Some Women -- I was already pleased as a punch to the happy-places when it was announced back in December that not only was Sarah Polley planning on directing her first new movie in nine years (an adaptation of the book Women Talking) but that it was going to star Frances f'ing McDormand, so trying to measure my renewed enthusiasm when a big batch of absolute queens were further announced to fill out the film's cast this week would be a folly's errand. Stratospheric shit! Said queens include Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Ben f'ing Whishaw, oh my! The story "follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men." This is gonna be something y'all.

--- Friends No More -- I'll admit that my enthusiasm for In Bruges director Martin McDonagh has been dulled a bit by the projects he's done since that -- Seven Psychopaths and especially Three Billboards (ugh) were big letdowns for me -- but today's news that he's reuniting with the stars of his original masterpiece, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, for his next one well that gives me renewed vim n' vigor, McDonagh-wise. The film will be called The Banshees of Inisherin and will film in August and is about a pair of lifelong friends who're navigating the awkward space where they no longer want to be friends.

--- Ain't No Mountain -- Similarly it's hard to get too worked up over a new Doug Liman movie, even though his earliest work I glommed onto, 1999's Go, ranks among my all-time faves, since he hasn't made anything as good since. But I'm gonna give him another chance with this next project because it stars Ewan McGregor and Ewan is always worth a chance. It's a biopic of adventurer George Mallory, who tried to climb Mount Everest back in the 1920s, and it will co-star Mark Strong and Outlander hunk Sam Heughan.  Oh and it'll be called Everest, just like the Jake Gyllenhaal movie from a couple of years back, but I have a feeling that if Ewan has a nude scene in his Everest movie he'll let them leave it in, unlike Jake, so Ewan wins.

--- Step Up -- Another addition to the incredibly stacked cast of that true-crime adaptation The Staircase, which already had Juliette Binoche, Colin Firth, and Toni Collette -- ex-twink Dane DeHaan will now also be sleazing around the joint. I was going to make a joke about how he could play The Owl but I don't know if any of you will get that joke. Anyway I apparently missed the news that the series will also co-star Parker freaking Posey too! Everyone, literally everyone, will be there. get me to this set!

--- What's Good For The Gigolo -- An update on a project we've been keeping tabs on: the series re-do of American Gigolo starring Jon Bernthal got picked up by Showtime, a ten-episode order. It's actually technically a sequel to the movie starring Richard Gere; Bernthal's playing the same character, just years later after he's gotten out of jail. See all of MNPP's previous coverage on this series here, but pay special attention to this post. That's the winner.

--- Til Death Do -- Kristen Wiig is going to star in an adaptation of the upcoming book called The Husbands, which "follows an overworked mother who, while house-hunting in a nice suburban neighborhood, meets a group of high-powered women with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to take on a legal case involving the untimely death of one resident’s husband, she risks exposing not only the secrets at the heart of her own marriage, but the true secret to having it all, one worth killing for." I can't for the life of me tell the tone from that description; it could be dead serious or it could be Desperate Housewives. Even a gender-flipped Stepford Wives maybe?

--- Channing Sandwich -- Speaking of movie descriptions that I can't get a handle on the tone for, Zoe Kravitz has gone and written herself a star vehicle called Pussy Island (indeed) that will have her heading to the orgy-centric tropical getaway of a tech-billionaire (to be played by Channing Tatum, somehow); while there things go from sexy to dangerous, or something. I don't know. Just throw me in a Channing Tatum Orgy and I'll figure it out as I go.

--- And Finally since I began this post with a crazy stacked cast I'll finish with the same - Apple is producing a psychological-thriller series called Surface from the creator of the High Fidelity series, and it will star several MNPP fave babes including Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor, François Arnaud, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Marianne Jean Baptiste. Good grief -- Get me to that set! To all of the sets! I gotta get the fuck outta my house! Ahem. Surface is described as "an elevated thriller about a woman’s quest to rebuild her life after a suicide attempt, and her struggle to remember – and understand – everything that led up to the moment when she jumped." Gugu is the lead. (And hopefully Oliver & Francois are sharing a trailer.)

Pics of the Day

The single best thing about the pandemic (and lord knows there's a lot of competition for that title) has been the discovery of our new favorite fetish, hot guys in masks. I guess "discovery" isn't the right word because I don't know that masks would be so hot without the thing they represent, which is 'I am a good-hearted human being who cares about my fellow man." So I guess they represent the "creation" of a new fetish, one I wouldn't have had without the dire context. Anyway whatever the circumstances Colin Farrell's made another bid for his rightful throne as King of the Sexy Mask-Wearers (after Orlando Bloom gunned pretty hard for it) this week by making another public outing in the mask short-shorts combo that originally bestowed him his crown back in August. 

And he's stepped up his game even further by shaving his head, thereby reminding us of his Daredevil-era sex-tape -- all hail the King! What do we think he actually shaved his head for, y'all? I guess it could be his role as the Penguin in the next Batman movie, which is listed as still filming on IMDb, but in the footage from that that we've already seen he did have hair. Not that the character couldn't have a bald reveal! Let's hope he goes full Kimberly-on-Melrose and yanks off his wig at a dramatic moment. (Seriously, say a prayer that that happens.) I'm kind of hoping it's for his next flick though, his re-team with the In Bruges guys (writer Martin McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson) though, because then he can be bald and hot at once, which Penguin probably won't afford. Anyway we'll see eventually, I guess -- for right now let's just fix our eyeballs on this fine series of photos today, after the jump...

5 Off My Head: So Fiennes

It's the 58th birthday of the actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes aka "Ralph Fiennes" today, and it must be said we are fans. Big fans. Huge fans! But you know this already. We talk about him all the time. Still I did a search and realized I'd never done a list of my favorite Ralph performances? Which seems insane but then the world is insane -- this is one small potato in comparison. Still let's right it! Narrowing it down to 5 wasn't hard, I have a very specific five favorites, but I also could have done a Top 10 just as easy because there are five more I adore. He's real good, you guys.

My 5 Favorite Ralph Fiennes Performances

Harry Hawkes, A Bigger Splash 

"We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. 

That's the whole fucking point. 

We see it and we love each other anyway."

Harry, In Bruges 

"How can fucking swans not fucking be 

somebody's fucking thing, eh? How can that be?"

Amon Goeth, Schindler's List

"The truth, Helen, is always the right answer."

Lord Voldemort, the Harry Potter films 

"Join me in the forest tonight and confront your fate."

M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel 

"When you're young, it's all filet steak, 

but as the years go by, you have to move on 

to the cheap cuts. Which is fine with me, because 

I like those. More flavorful, or so they say."

Runners-up: Spider, Red Dragon, Quiz Show, Strange Days,

The Constant Gardener, The English Patient, The End of the Affair

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What are your favorite Ralph Fiennes performances?

In Bruges 2: The Rebrugening

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Ooh, I do love an excuse to re-watch In Bruges! Love that movie so very much. That said I do have to admit I'm still trying to gauge how excited I can allow myself to be about a new Martin McDonagh movie -- the news of which I'll get to in just a second -- after I really did not like his last one, the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards yadda yadda, at all. And I don't want to hear that it was that year's endless and brutal Awards Season campaigning that turned me on that movie -- I was real excited about seeing it and saw it real early and immediately hated it. I didn't need all the think-pieces picking it apart. I felt it in my gut from frame one. 

Anyway, that news. McDonagh is re-teaming with In Bruges' two leading men, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, for his next film. We don't have a lot of info, we don't even have a title yet, but we do have this:

"Film is set on a remote Irish isle and they will play two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them. has a budget close to $20 million and will shoot this summer."

McDonagh's play The Hangmen is about to open on Broadway with Dan Stevens in the lead; I had considered looking for cheap tickets to that but now maybe I'll wait, store up good feelings, and spend them on this new movie instead. I'll just go google pictures of him with his girlfriend, one Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and get happy...

Good Morning, World

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A happy 23rd birthday to everybody's favorite sad boy Lucas Hedges today -- I don't know about you but if I'd worked with Kenneth Lonergan and Greta Gerwig and Wes Anderson and Martin McDonagh and Jason Reitman and Terry Gilliam and Trey Edward Shults and Joel Edgerton and Steven Soderbergh by the tender age of 23 I might take a day off and celebrate!

Lucas can currently be seen in two of the year's best movies -- there's Schults' film Waves, which I sorta reviewed here; in my review I didn't mention Lucas by name but I usually don't mention people by name in my reviews so that was nothing personal, especially since he's one of the best parts of the movie. His scenes with Taylor Russell are the film's life blood. The other film he's in is the excellent Honey Boy opposite Shia LaBeouf, and...

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When is The Discourse getting around to Lucas Hedges Butt In Honey Boy, that's when I wanna jump in pic.twitter.com/3qgxJquwrt

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 5, 2019

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... if that scene was online that's what I'd be sharing this morning, but it's not, so we're lucky I stumbled upon this photo-shoot you see here. I wish I could've found a higher res version of this photo-shoot, but I did what I could with it. Hit the jump for the rest...

I Am Link

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--- The McDonagh Family Business - I thought Calvary, the 2014 "Brendan Gleeson's a crazy priest!" flick was better than decent, and War on Everyone at least has a bunch of Alexander Skarsgard in his briefs, so sure, we'll look expectantly on the future films of writer-directer (and brother of Martin) John Michael McDonagh, especially if he keeps getting promising actors like this. His next movie is called The Forgiven and it's gathered up Caleb Landry Jones (seen last year in Martin's Three Billboards... sigh) and Rebecca Hall and Ralph Fucking Fiennes (also a graduate of Martin's filmography with In Bruges, duh) and Mark Strong and Saïd Taghmaoui, and it "deals with the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of an English couple, their friends and local Moroccans who all converge on a luxurious desert villa during a decadent weekend-long party."

--- Death To Zero - Well I guess I should slow down my roll through the four seasons of SyFy's anthology series Channel Zero, which I was just praising to the heavens a couple of times last week, since SyFy has just announced today that they've canceled the damn show. I guess they took a look at the moron who just climbed on-board too late and said "The hell with this, we're out." I murder everything with my love. Beware!

--- Rocksy Start - Two years after The Beguiled Sofia Coppola has finally set up her next movie (I'm still sad her version of The Little Mermaid isn't happening, tbh) and it's reuniting her with a glorious ol' pal - Bill Murray, perfect and bright shining light from her Lost In Translation, that is. It's called On the Rocks and as I said on twitter yesterday I'm even more excited about the film's other star, who's Rashida Jones, a tremendously under-utilized actress at this point. EW says it's "set in New York... and follows the story of a young mother reconnecting with her playboy father." It films in the spring. I should stalk the set!

--- And Speaking of Bill Murray, uh, there's going to be a Ghostbusters 3. I don't know that they're going to call it Ghostbusters 3 but Ivan Reitman's son Jason - a filmmaker of some renown as long as the movie he's making stars Charlize Theron anyway - is directing it, and it's set in the universe of the original two movies, therefore ditching the Lady Ghostbusters universe that semi-flopped a couple of years back. No word on anything else, like who is returning, but one assumes it's set in the original universe because they've got people returning, so we'll sit and wait for further announcements. (Can I get a Sigourney, please?)

--- Meet Mother - I know I wasn't alone in hoping that Tilda Swinton would get cast in the role of Reverend Mother Mohiam in Denis Villenueve's Dune reboot (y'all have left comments saying as much) but if it absolutely cannot be Tilda I suppose we can manage with Charlotte Rampling. I suppose! Rampling just got cast yesterday, joining the recently announced Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista and Rebecca Ferguson, all of them bowing in service of their leader, our leader, the whippet Chalamet.

--- Ladies In Space - Toni Collette has just lined up her next project and she's strapping on a space-suit alongside Anna Kendrick and shipping off to Mars for a movie called Stowaway, which is about "an unintended stowaway accidentally causes severe damage to the spaceship’s life support systems." It's being written and directed by Joe Penna, a Brazilian musician who I guess was a big smash on YouTube? I don't know. Just bring me more Toni Collette, please. (Speaking of I finally watched the first episode of Wanderlust last night and I'm already hooked.)
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All Signs Point To Woody

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Out of all the possible movies that are in the running for Best Picture this year Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is my second least favorite of the bunch. (Here's my review in case you missed it.) That doesn't mean I think it's the second worst film of the year, mind you - I would certainly say that Three Billboards is a better movie than, say, Baywatch. There are a couple of things about it that I think are outright good, even - for instance I think Samara Weaving is hilariously funny as John Hawke's new girlfriend Penelope (her comic timing is impeccable). 

And I also think Woody Harrelson is very strong in the film - I'd actually, blasphemy of blasphemies, rank his work higher than Frances McDormand's in the movie, and I say that as a firm disciple of Franny's from way back. Anyway to make a long something longer this week's "Beauty vs Beast" contest at The Film Experience is tackling Three Billboards via my favorite performance in the movie and my least favorite performance in the movie, so head on over and vote and please do the right thing just this once just for me...

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They Say In Ebbing Blood Comes First

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Small towns are funny places. They all end up roughly the same shape, but the pieces they're stacked up with are individually different, like people building castles in three different climates - sand, mud, snow. Think of those unwieldy nightmare figures at the end of Clive Barker's "In the Hills, the Cities" - people piled on top of each other just dying to trip over and spill out their insides on the sidewalks. That's home.

Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri puts the place right there in the title - Ebbing, Missouri. That's not a real place, by the way - unlike Bruges you won't find Ebbing on a real world map. It's a McDonagh dream place - he built it out of his own little piles of people, and made of it what he wanted, as it is any Creator's wont to do. 

McDonagh's a sloppy god then, because Ebbing, as a place, never makes a lick of sense. Almost everything, from their boots to their bandanas, ring untrue. The nagging sensation that these are Actors playing Characters doing Actions strikes early, the minute McDormand's grieving mother Mildred buys up them billboards actually, piercing every turn of phrase with arch wink-wink of "shit piss or cunt" (as she so poetically lists what can and cannot be advertised).

My problem is not with the "shit piss or cunt" mind you. I love me a good "shit piss or cunt." McDonagh just never makes a good convincing case for these people to talk like this. It's like every character is Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges all of a sudden - there's delicious poetry to be wrung from filthy-mouthing but Three Billboards doesn't find it. The dialogue feels stuffed in people's mouths awkwardly, and the affectations - Ebbing is awash in affectations; drowning really - keep us at elbow's length.

And it's a sharp elbow. The reason I keep coming back to McDonagh, hoping he'll get it right again one of these times (it's all been a come-down sine In Bruges), is because of his insistence in heel-digging when it comes to his character's nastiness. Frances McDormand's a dream actress for him. Frances McDormand, bless her beautifully ornery soul - as Lucas Hedges says in Lady Bird, you can be both scary and warm! - is never gonna beg anybody to like her. You'll come to her, thank you very much. (And I will every time, Frances. Even here.)

Ebbing is steadfast in that devotion and that's often its sharpest tool, but McDonagh misjudges too much here - for one the Sam Rockwell character (a racist cop named Dixon, because of course the racist cop would be called Dixon) is a crap heap of overindulged actorishness, bee-bopping in that gee-whiz adorable way Rockwell does even as he makes funny about beating women and minorities, and listen. There are ways to make this character work. They involve using an actor who is like Frances McDormand and doesn't need to be liked. Sam Rockwell is not that actor. 

And worse, McDonagh really wants us to like Dixon. The entire last act hinges on it. In one of McDonagh's more embarrassing attempts at "dynamic" camera-work (you often get the sense he's tremendously self-conscious about his play-writing background when making movies and is trying to prove something, with a capital Prove Something, with his shots) we literally See The World Through Dixon's Eyes Now. And oh, I cringed.

There is something to be said - a whole lot to be said! - for a writer creating their own reality. The characters on-screen don't have to align with the real world as long as we sense there's some sort of logic, some sort of backbone stiffening up the board, to what they do, how they behave. A point to their madness - a way reality funneled through this reinterpretation comments back upon us, as people, here. I went to Ebbing, I hung out there for two hours, but I'll be goddamned if I know shit piss or cunt about it after all that.

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Rock Out With Your Rockwell

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Alright this is more like it - I'm finally seeing Martin McDonagh's new film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tonight thanks to the annual wonder that is MoMA"s "Contenders" series, in which they screen a madcap run of awards favorites through the wintry months -- Billboards is their inaugural film of 2017, and McDonagh and Sam Rockwell are both supposed to be in attendance. Stay tuned to my Instagram for probable photographic evidence of starfuckery. And check out the entire schedule for "The Contenders" series right here, although I don't want any of you snatching tickets from things I want to see. (And yes before you ask I have indeed got tickets to see Call Me By Your Name a sixth time before it's out in theaters thanks to this, wha ha ha.) Billboards trailer in case you missed it:
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Pic of the Day

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A lot of festival news today -- Austin's Fantastic Fest, which takes place the last week of September, has announced its line-up and they've got several big titles, including the one seen above (click to embiggen) - that's Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood in Gerald's Game, the other Stephen King adaptation coming out this fall that we're terribly excited about. When I read Gerald's Game a couple of years ago for the first time it scared the pants off of me, and it appears to have done the same to the actors.

You can read the whole line-up over at DH - they've also got Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer & Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri -- I wish I could go.
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