Hours and Hours of Gay Entertainment

I don't know about you but today hasn't been nearly gay enough for me. I mean, I have gone into several different spaces and not once -- not a single time! -- has confetti fallen on my head. What is even happening??? So in order to gay up this Wednesday here, over at Mashable I give you my list of the ten best movies on Netflix that were made by LGBTQ+ creators. There's something for everybody but mostly for me, because I made the damn thing. And isn't that what matters the most, in the end? That I am happy, goddamnit?

Stephan James Ten Times

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Stephan was photographed and interviewed for The Last Magazine back in February, you can read the chat at this link -- it's mostly about If Beale Street Could Talk, which... remember Beale Street? Damn that was a fine movie. Go re-watch it right now and get back to me and I'll do the same. (I need to buy the soundtrack, now that I'm thinking about it.) Anyway next up for Stephan is the action movie 21 Bridges with Taylor Kitsch and Chadwick Boseman, while next up for the rest of us is hitting the jump to stare at the rest of this fine photo-shoot...

Do Dump or Marry: CinemaCon Casanovas

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You show me three actors in a row and I'll show you a "Do Dump or Marry" post -- Charlie Hunnam and Henry Golding were in Las Vegas this week to show off Guy Ritchie's new movie (called Bush) at CinemaCon, and for a photo-op they got joined by Black Panther himself Chadiwck Boseman, who was showing off his upcoming action thriller 21 Bridges. And now it's your turn to tell me in the comments who you'd spend a single night with (DO) and who you'd spend not a single night with (DUMP) and who you'd spend every single night for the rest of your lives with (MARRY) -- hurry make it happen before two of them pair up and leave us all in the dust...

Good Morning, Timothée & Co

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I think this might be our first "Good morning" via evening wear but these pictures of Timothée Chalamet on the cover and inside of Vanity Fair's latest annual "Hollywood Issue" were the first thing I saw after sitting down at my desk this morning and they perked me up so I shall return the favor. 

Smart of them, pairing Timmy with his Lady Bird (and forthcoming Little Women) co-star Saoirse Ronan for a couple of snaps, since I don't know about you but I just keep hoping those crazy kids can make it work. (I realize I am projecting, they seem more like brother and sister than anything else, but that's what movie stars are for...

... projecting.) See more pictures here, including Rami Malek & Henry Golding & Nicky Hoult & John David Washington on the manly side, with the queen Regina King & Elisabeth Debicki & Tessa Thompson & Yalitza Aparicio taking care of the lady business.

Stephan James Three Times

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These are via Vanity Fair, where there's also a brief chat with Stephan about If Beale Street Could Talk and Homecoming, his two big hits of this past year, plus the action movie he's doing next called 17 Bridges that co-stars Chadwick Boseman and Taylor Kitsch. 

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Say Good Night, Michael

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As the prophesy foretold this week has come to a quick and un-showy end - just three short days and I'm done til Monday. Good riddance, I'm already exhausted. Next week is a good one though - Hereditary is finally out next Friday! And so is the Mister Rogers documentary! (Now there's a double-feature.) Oh and the finale of Sense8 that us fans wished into existence pops up next Friday too! So y'all do what you gotta, go watch American Animals and tell me how dumb my "not a review" review was or whatever, stare at these pictures here of Michael B. Jordan and then go stare at the pictures of Chadwick Boseman that I posted earlier on the Tumblr and have yourself a stylish Black Panther fantasy-time; I'll see y'all Monday.

So I Finally Saw Infinity War Last Night...

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... and it's impossible to review it without talking about spoilers... and I kind of don't even want to write a big proper review anyway... so if anybody wants to share their thoughts on it let's go to the comments. I'm going to share a quick thought of my own there too. Point being if you're spoiler-averse don't click on the comments, folks.  Don't look down there at all! But since I was probably the last person on Earth to see the movie I don't think any of you will much care either...

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Black Panther Gay

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Fun fact: if you google "Black Panther Gay" you mostly just get a bunch of pictures of the brilliant writer and cultural commenter Roxane Gay, who presumably got asked about and offered her opinions on the movie enough this year that that it what happens, so adjust your expectations accordingly. The relationship between T'Challa & Eric doesn't seem to have ignited the fan-fic quarters quite like some others? That's sad. Somebody forward me some Black Panther Smut, and in return I'll send you over to The Film Experience where this week's "Beauty vs Beast" is finally tackling these two, even if they won't "tackle" each other quite like we keep hoping...

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Viva Panther

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At this point I find it kind of impossible to write reviews of Marvel Superhero Movies - they are what they are, even when they're excellent, like I thought Thor: Ragnarok was (which I never really reviewed) and like Black Panther definitely is. (Marvel's had a good year!) I only finally saw Black Panther this past weekend and I immediately tweeted...

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Black Panther deserves every fucking penny it’s made and then some

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 23, 2018

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... but it still fits the mold of all the other films, ya know? I had a great time but even here a few days later a lot of the specifics have drifted away. What sticks is that Michael B. Jordan gave us Marvel's best villain by far - I actually cried during a Marvel movie, which is really quite something. I've always been mixed on him (I still don't like Creed) but he's fantastic as Killmonger; it doesn't hurt that the character's written with a beautiful and painful backstory and motives tied to the very heart of the film, and he is never an afterthought just there to loudly threaten the hero. 

That said everybody was great - these actors clearly came for their moment in a big fucking movie, and they owned the hell out of it. When the sequel comes out you better believe I'll get there quicker than I did with this one. Anybody have any leftover thoughts on the movie here several weeks out from when most sane people saw it? Or am I too late to this particular super party?

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Good Morning, Black Panther

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Upon seeing this seriously hot new cover of Chadwick Boseman on the new Rolling Stone last night I had two thoughts. First I thought of a tweet I wrote back at the start of January:

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I am going to be so astonishingly irritable if next month's rounds of Hot Magazine Photo-shoots don't include as least three good ones of Chadwick Boseman, who is seriously overdue some serious exploitation pic.twitter.com/DjUUkrhSe5

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 3, 2018

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Basically you guys owe me, is what I am saying.

And second I thought... I tweeted my second thought:

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If this turns into a week spent with multiple think-pieces contemplating Chadwick Boseman's VPL I am here for it pic.twitter.com/ECGHivI16V

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 19, 2018

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This could be a good week, Internet. Let's make it one.
And go vote on our Black Panther Do Dump or Marry!
I feel like these pictures might make a difference...

Do Dump or Marry: I Wanna Wakanda

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I was tempted to use Black Panther director Ryan Coogler for today's "Do Dump or Marry" in honor of the movie because if you ask me...

... Ryan Coogler is as hot as anybody in the cast. (Well maybe not as hot as Daniel Kaluuya. Daniel wins over everybody, if you ask me.) But then from what I have heard once I have actually seen Black Panther I will regret not giving 1/3rd of this post to actor Winston Duke, who admittedly turns it on as "M'Baku" even just in stills...

... so let's go with him. Him versus Chadwick Boseman in the lead 

and Michael B. Jordan as the villain! 

Give your answers in the comments!

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Chadwick Boseman Four Times

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I am beginning to think, reading all of the stories about Black Panther's record-breaking ticket pre-sales, that I may have made a grave error thinking I could just walk in and get a shitty seat via MoviePass opening weekend. Whoops! Guess I will be seeing it later than most. My bad. Anyway there are a couple more pictures of CB over here (thanks Mac), finally giving answer to my pleading tweet from a few weeks back...

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I am going to be so astonishingly irritable if next month's rounds of Hot Magazine Photo-shoots don't include as least three good ones of Chadwick Boseman, who is seriously overdue some serious exploitation pic.twitter.com/DjUUkrhSe5

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 3, 2018

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I Am Link

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--- Hot Priors - The restaging of Angels in America starring Andrew Garfield and Russell Tovey premiered this week and the reviews appear to be out of this world - see a few twitter reactions gathered up right here. What do we think the chances are of this getting carried over here to the US? Any? Man I want it. Anyway as you see with that picture there the boys are on the cover of the new issue of Gay Times and you can see some behind-the-scenes video from the shoot over here. (BONUS -- click over to the Tumblr for gifs I made of the fellas together.)

 

--- Six Degrees - Speaking of theater I can't afford, I saw an ad for the new staging of Six Degrees of Separation starring the always awesome Allison Janney on TV this morning and thought about how much I'd love to see that show if I wasn't totally broke right now (sigh) and as if to twist the dagger there's a great big fun article today in The New York Times talking about how the idea of "six degrees" took off as a forever meme thanks to the show.

--- Fifties Freaks - Free Fire is out in theaters this weekend and so director Ben Wheatley's been doing the rounds, and as pumped as I am to see Free Fire I'm even moreso about his next not-yet-filmed movie called Freakshift, which stars Alicia Vikander and Armie Hammer as cops fighting monsters - in a chat with Collider Wheatley says the movie will feel full-on like a 50s B-movie, lots of goofiness plus monsters, which I'm totally there for.

--- The Monster - I expressed my dismay at having blanked on this news on Twitter last night with a remembrance of Brenda Fraser's Hot Moment so you probably want to see that, but seriously - how could I forget that Bill Condon, director of the brilliant film Gods & Monsters, is in talks to direct the new Bride of Frankenstein movie? If a new Bride of Frankenstein has to be made (and apparently it must) well, there's probably not a better choice, director-wise.

--- Superheroes Ahead - A bunch of folks got to see a bunch of Marvel stuff this week, including a super early look at the Black Panther movie, and it sounds like Marvel is really pumped about what they're getting from director Ryan Coogler and stars Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong'o and Queen Angela Bassett, of course. And also of utmost importance - it sounds like all of the films will keep sexualizing their leading men in the correct ways, too.

--- Oh Norman - As Bates Motel finishes up its run I find myself getting angrier and angrier that its two leads haven't been feted appropriately - the show's often too messy for its own good (I don't care about 85% of its subplots) but Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore have given tremendous performances for five straight years now. You do hear about Vera now and then though, so I was happy to see Freddie get some love thanks to this Gold Derby piece - he has been unjustly overlooked. His Norman Bates can stand proudly alongside Anthony Perkins.

--- Sweet Cheeks - I guess there was a teaser for the trailer for the Kingsman sequel yesterday that flashed by a full trailer in super quick succession -- if you care enough not to wait for the actual trailer to show up you can see captures of its many images over at DH. All I want for this movie, all I demand from it really, is that it end exactly like the first one did, only instead of zooming in on some random girl's butt it's Taron now giving it up for god and country.

---  And Finally I haven't watched this yet but smebody put together a video about "The Cinematic Universe of Andrea Arnold" I am so there for that idea I will watch it as soon as I get the chance. I love thinking about her movies like they're superhero movies.
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I Am Link

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--- Panther Party - So this is just in the rumor stage and nothing may come of it but Slash says they're hearing whispering that John Boyega of Star Wars and Attack the Block might be joining Marvel's Black Panther movie, putting him alongside Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong'o, aka like a fully fifty percent of every great big up-and-comer of color we have, kind of?Well as long as they're gonna keep going can somebody contact Nate Parker's people? I need to see him in spandex. (His speedo that one time wasn't enough.) (ETA before I even clicked "publish on this post this news was denied by Boyega's rep. Oh well, nevermind!)

--- One Big Bonaparte - Also existing only in rumor-land, but somewhat substantially, is the word that Cary Fukunaga might be making a six-hour miniseries about Napoleon for HBO - and not just any Napoloen, but an adaptation of the script that Stanley Kubrick had been trying to make for a very long time, the one documtned in this very large very expensive coffee-table book I have always wanted a copy of.

--- Two Men Out - I think I knew that Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd were making a movie where they played boyfriends and promptly forgot that somehow, but The Playlist shared the first image of the two and I am already worried on the basis of Paul's sassy scarf that he might be leaning a little hard on the fey. We already have The Birdcage, guys. Anyway it's called Ideal Home and here's what it is about:

"The film centers around Paul (Rudd) and Erasmus (Coogan), a bickering couple with an elegantly curated and care-free life in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Erasmus is a demanding popular celebrity and Paul is his more hesitant partner and sidekick. Life is definitely extravagant for this twosome, especially when during a high class dinner party Erasmus' 10-year-old grandson, who he never knew he had, appears on their doorstep with nowhere else to go. The couple take the child in, but soon find out that they are the worst caretakers ever, making every possible parenting mistake."

--- Fashion Forward - Kate Winslet's film The Dressmaker has been out in the rest of the world for ages now so I was suprised to read the news that it still hadn't gotten picked up for the US yet - well it has, that was the actual news, that Amazon has picked it up for US release finally. So now you can see more of this scene of Liam Hemsworth in his underwear yourselves, what a lark that will be.

--- Square Peggy - It's probably weird how often Force Majeure floats into my brain, but float into my brain often it does, and so I've been wondering what director Ruben Ostland... would be getting up to next. nd here we are! He's making his "most likely" English-language debut with The Square, which will be about an art museum's bad-taste attempts to get publicity for an "altruistically-themed exhibit." And Elisabeth Moss has just signed on to co-star in the movie! That lady is everywhere worth being.

---  I Love Hughes - The first couple official pictures from Warren Beatty's new film, that Howard Hawks movie he's been working on for ages starring Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins, have finally arrived, as well as a title - the movie will be called Rules Don't Apply. The movie is out in November. Beatty himself is playing Hughes in the film, while Ehrenreich & Collins are employees of the man's who fall in love. (thx Mac)

--- Damn Them Demons - Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon premieres at Cannes today (actually whatever time it is in France right now I s'pose it could be premiering right now) and so help yourself to a terribly entertaining interview with the man himself over at Deadline. Choice bit about being wooed by Hollywood:

"I love Hollywood, don’t get me wrong. I love it, I love it, I love it. But it’s important to really understand that Hollywood is like a really, really expensive prostitute. She’s going to promise you everything — you can f*** her in any possible way because she’s there for you. She wants your vision. And it’s very seductive: “Come in here, play with me, do whatever you want.” And then when you start f***ing her, it can potentially be like, “Hang on, I know I said it but I didn’t mean it. No you can’t do that, you can’t do that, you can’t do that.” And in the end, you’re like, “Well, where do I come?” And depending on your ability to perform, they’re going to determine how you’re going to come, and then that’s just a really terrifying journey. So I thought, well, I’ll just stay with my wife, knowing that we’ll have very, very satisfying sex, and then I can go do the films I want to make."

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Black (Panther) Is Beautifuller

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Yesterday came word that Lupita Nyong'o is in talks to join the cast of Marvel's Black Panther movie from Creed director Ryan Coogler and which stars Chadwick Boseman, who we just met in the new Captain America film. And now today triple whammy comes word that Michael B. Jordan is joining the cast too, probably as the villain. (And a million geeks don't weep for what this means about any Fantastic Four sequels.) This is one helluva good looking cast, you guys. But since we're here I gotta ask...

I Am Link

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--- United Colors - I feel as if I have to post this even though it's not entirely in my wheelhouse, but then it does involve David Oyelowo so it's not a massive sacrifice - you know how just the other day I was wondering where the hell Rosamund Pike had gone (girl) to? Well here's an answer! EW has the first image of her and Oyelowo in A United Kingdom, about the true-life story of the 1940s romance between a regular ol' white English gal (I mean she looks like Rosamund Pike though, let's not be crazy or anything) and the Prince of Botswana, which was a big scandal and forced the Prince into exile.

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--- Forget The War - Why would you take a book titled The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katherine Gun And The Secret Plot To Sanction The Iraq Invasion and re-title it as a movie called Official Secrets? SNOOZE. The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War is a terrific title! Anyway the thing is being directed by Justin Chadwick, who directed The Other Boleyn Girl and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, so he knows from SNOOZE. But he has gathered up quite a cast - Natalie Dormer, Paul Bettany, Harrison Ford, Martin Freeman and Anthony Hopkins will star as various real folks in over their heads.
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--- La Barbie - I had my own "white privilege" slap me upside the head the other day when it didn't even occur to me when I posted about Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson to consider the racial implications - I was just thinking about the physical  match, which is there. But I get why people were upset! Anyway I had no such problems recognizing the race problem right off the bat with the news that noted-Latino Charlie Hunnam just got cast as a Mexican drug-lord. According to that source the dude he is playing "was also light-skinned and blue-eyed, apparently, and he had the football and cartel-nickname of La Barbie" but still. This is a bit much.
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--- Mama In Law - In my mind I seem to have convinced myself that I like Mama, the 2013 horror flick produced by Guillermo Del Toro, but I think what it is is I just liked it slightly more than my boyfriend, who hated it. I remember thinking it was okay. Anyway there is going to be a sequel because the original film did great business and they just made a really terrific choice on who's directing - Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, the directors who made last year's terrific Hollywood nightmare called Starry Eyes, will take the helm.
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--- That Face - This article amused me -- a site called The Inverse took a look at "The Psychology of Why Mads Mikkelsen Looks So Fucking Evil" by diving into the shapes and contours and individual forms of his glorious and particular visage. The specter of Creepypasta's "The Expressionless" is summoned, and at that point I was rolling on the floor. It's all good though!
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--- Anon Anon - I should probably stop waiting for Andrew Niccol to make a movie as good as his first movie Gattaca (or his second script for The Truman Show) because it probably ain't gonna happen at this point. I did like last year's drone-thriller Good Kill well enough to keep paying attention though, and news on his next thing is positive -- it's called Anon and it's a sci-fi story about a future with no crime and a mystery woman, and it will star Clive Owen. Probably not as the mystery woman, but who knows. Anything's possible.
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--- Make A Scene - Phew, I've got my lunch-time reading all sorted out -- the New York Times spoke to Todd Haynes at length about his visual references for Carol, which he apparently sorts out into photo collages to create a texture and a feel for what he's gunning for. Clearly some enterprising publisher needs to get this shit together and make copies for all of us to have! (thanks Mac)
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--- Mighty Weiner - Nate Parker's ultra-buzzy The Birth of a Nation sold for an enormous sum of money out of Sundance, which is awesome, I can't wait to see it, but it swallowed up the other happy-making Sundance buy which is that Amazon bought Todd Solondz's film Wiener-Dog with Greta Gerwig for "seven figures" and the contract apparently stipulates "a significant theatrical release" which is all great news for Solondz. When I first read Amazon bought it I figured it'd show up on my Prime account next week with no fan-fare or something. I mean I wouldn't mind seeing it that fast but Todd should bank some buck once in awhile.
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Today's Mood

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If I was a beautiful black man in a beautiful suit this picture of Chadwick Boseman would somewhat represent my state of mind sitting here at my desk today -- either that, or this tweet, one of the two. I am just a spazz, is my point - more than usual even. I can't focus, my mouth's hanging open, I'm spinning around in circles. I don't know what's wrong with me but let's hope by tomorrow I'm feeling less spastic and more fantastic. (That's my new motto, by the way - totally trademarking it.) But here to pretend this post has a purpose beyond me being pathetic why don't you go read what Chadwick Boseman had to say on the white-washed (and godawful looking) Gods of Egypt movie that he's a co-star in, it is interesting!

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Quote of the Day

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I haven't watched the James Brown biopic Get On Up yet - any of y'all seen it? - but I'm looking forward to a few things, chief amongst them Chadwick Boseman strutting around in that yellow jumpsuit. We'd already established that when the trailer came out. The movie's out on blu-ray this week and today lo behold and blessed be over at The Film Experience Nathaniel got to chat with Chadwick about the movie, and asked him about what's on all of our (or at least mine, anyway) minds...

Nat: Are you trying not to mention the low cut shiny jumpsuit? Weird to wear or are you basically an exhibitionist?

Chadwick: [Laughter] Two funny stories about that one. When I put it on the first time for rehearsal I was like ‘I don’t know how I’m going to walk out in this!’ Nobody had seen it except the costume designer. The whole band was rehearsing and the dancers were up there rehearsing, AJ the choreographer was working. 'I’m not stepping out until they ready with this on.' So I stepped out and Aunjanue Ellis says, "WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU HAVE ON?" It could have been the most embarrassing thing but I just had to be Mr Brown so I was just [in James Brown's voice] 'What do you mean what I got on? You see what I got on!' and strutted right into it '1...2....3!' I couldn’t think about how crazy it looked.

The second thing is after it was over and we had screened the movie for the family, his wife Deirdre comes up to me and whispers and says 'The only thing is some of those outfits weren’t tight enough [Laughter]' You know what I’m saying?!"

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I Am Link

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--- Ol Man River - Steve McQueen's next movie will be about Paul Robeson, who was a singer and athlete and civil rights activist and general all-around renaissance man back in the day... he was also a looker, as you can see there, so I wonder who they'll get to play him? I can see some David Oyelowo in him but Oyelowo's playing everybody right now, as is Chadwick Boseman, so I hope they go with Nate Parker, who's totally under-rated. (And also yes, a total looker.) That is if they're casting known actors. Also insert general "But who will Michael Fassbender play?" sentiment right here.

--- New Phoenix - The three names up to play the young Jean Grey in the next X-Men movie (and therefore replacing the used up old hag that is Famke Janssen) are Chloe Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld, and Elle Fanning. Even if I've recently appreciated a Chloe performance I'm not quite up to rooting for her, but I do find this news pretty amusing coming directly in the wake of her having just made fun of playing a cheesy mutant superhero in Clouds of Sil Maria. Meanwhile Bryan Singer is looking for an unknown to play Young Cyclops... no doubt he'll be young and cute, ahem.

--- One Man Threesome - Chris Pratt, Sexiest Man loser and ex-shlub, is considering in starring in something called Cowboy Ninja Viking next, which is an adaptation of a comic book about a squad of multiple-personalitied secret agents called Triples who turn into three different kick-ass versions of themselves to blah blah battle evil blah. Chris would be part Cowboy, part Ninja, and part Viking, obviously. Let's hope they re-think it and change the title to Cowboy Stripper Sex-Worker.

--- Haley's Cometh - I was just wondering what was up with the terrific Haley Bennett, she was so good in Kaboom; turns out all her big projects are waiting in the wings (like the Malick movie with Gosling and Fassbender molesting each other), and also she's just signed on to co-star with Patrick Wilson in an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel called The Blunderer, which is about an architect in the 1960s who becomes obsessed with a murder case. I've never read this one, have any of you?

--- Slipper Stud - I'd totally forgotten that Disney was making their live-action Cinderella movie with Cate Blanchett as the Evil Stepmother (when director Mark Romanek dropped off of it I lost a little interest) until I saw everybody talking about the just-released trailer this morning - here's Nat doing a "Yes No Maybe So" on it at The Film Experience. Hey look at Robb Stark as the Prince! Let's hope his flirtation with royalty goes better here than it did in A Game of Thrones (although I love the thought of the Red Wedding dropped into a Disney movie).

--- Goner Girl - The further I get away from Gone Girl the less memorable a movie it seems, and that's spilled over into any appreciation I had for Rosamund Pike's performance; the whole thing's just a big meh to me now. But maybe working with Charlie Hunnam will change that! She's maybe going to join that "trapped in the snowy wilderness" movie he's doing (we told you about it before right here). I wish they'd relocate the whole thing to the jungle though, because snowy movies never have nearly enough nudity.

--- Talking Ass - I meant to link this up yesterday and totally spaced - how great is this take-down by Paul Bettany of a homophobic ass (emphasis on ass) trolling him on Facebook? Very great, that's how great. I'm reminded of the time Paul Bettany and all 17 feet of his skinny legs sat right beside me on a crowded subway train... but then I'm reminded of that moment a lot (with sexy results).

--- Playing Games - I know this is hard for you to believe but my word's not the be-all-end-all on everything; take for example Benedict Cumberbatch's  The Imitation Game, which I just wrote a bunch of not-entirely-nice words upon this morning - other people think other things! Head over and read what our pal Murtada's saying on it at his site, for instance - plenty of wonderful much nicer points are made. 

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I Am Link

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--- Panther Man - Marvel did their big announcement yesterday with a lady superhero movie in Captain Marvel and a black superhero in Black Panther getting announced - Chadwick Boseman will be playing the latter. (Although I'd pay good money to see him play the former.) What I appreciate most though is this infographic here at Comics Alliance laying out when all these movies, Marvel and DC and so forth, are coming out via timeline - it's so ridiculously over-booked, you guys. We're going to be up to our eyeballs in spandex for the rest of our lives. (And hey if it's Chris Evans wearing that spandex, I am willing to make that sacrifice.)
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--- Horror Revival - Didn't Stephen King say not too long ago that he was planning on slowing down or not writing any more horror or something? I swear I'd checked that box off in my mind and yet what's happened instead is he never stops and I've been unable to keep up with it. (I still haven't read Doctor Sleep, for goodness sake.) He's got a new book called Revival, which sounds like it's his take on Frankenstein (what was I just saying about everything being about Frankenstein right now?), coming out in a couple of weeks and Rolling Stone's got the first excerpt from it. They also apparently have an interview with him in the print magazine.

--- John Lives - I suppose it's Halloween-time so John Carpenter is bound to be in the air, but I feel as if it's been an especially Carpenter-ish few weeks - this piece at Rolling Stone on how underrated his 1988 flick They Live is is just one signifier of countless that I've received that he's in the air. Maybe he can make a new movie then?

--- And Speaking of horror directing legends, Wes Craven's not keeping himself cooped up - he is about to release a five-issue comic book series with Steve Niles called Coming of Rage, which was his answer to the joke starting "A Vampire, a Werewolf and a Zombie walk into a bar." Apparently he's planning on turning it into a TV series, too. You can buy it right now at Amazon!

--- And Speaking of Wes Craven and horror television, the Scream TV show is set to come out next year at this time, and I loved Manuel's take on the news at The Film Experience that we might not be seeing the ghostface mask because of rights issues.

--- Slip On Something Horrible - Also at The Film Experience Nathaniel's list of the ten best 2014 movie-related Halloween costumes is a pip - I don't know why a Boxtroll costume didn't occur to me while watching the movie but totally! That's a great idea.

--- 1313 Stud - You'd think what with the blending of horror and beefcake I'd have seen more David DeCoteau movies than I have... basically I have seen scenes from a few of his movies, and no more. (The Sean Faris scenes in The Brotherhood 2 come to mind often though.) I think it's terrific he's been so successful at gaying up horror and exploiting guy-parts in a genre formerly known for just the girl ones anyway, even if the movies themselves are, uh, tough go's. Here's a nice chat with him (thanks Mac) about his whole thing; have any of you seen his "stab at seriousness" called Leather Jacket Love Story?

--- Hamm Game - This interview with Lisa Kudrow at Vulture (thanks Mac) had me laughing so hard I teared up - it was the bit about Jon Hamm's character on Web Therapy that did it. The interview's mainly about The Comeback and I had to skip the paragraphs where they got into specifics on that since I'm trying to keep myself fresh for the November 9th premiere.

--- Cold Rain - The Playlist is giving away a copy of some movie called The Prince on Blu-ray; I hadn't heard of the film until I saw this post and I only took note of this post because hey look it stars Korean superstar and hot-cake-of-beef Rain. Although you wouldn't know it from any of the actual promotional materials - although you see his face all over the movie's trailer his name is never mentioned; Bruce Willis and Jason Patric get sold, and hell even 50 Cent gets his name in the trailer and it looks like he's all but a cameo. Fuck that noise, some of us will only see this crap for Rain, dummies!