Pics of the Day

I told you of the space thriller Stowaway way back in January of 2019 when Toni Collette was the first person attached -- then I got more excited a couple of months later when Daniel Dae Kim was also cast -- and here we are, a full two years later and we have some photos! EW has more (including a look at co-star Anna Kendrick) but I snatched these shots of Toni in her astronaut get-up and Daniel's arms because these are the things that interest me. Netflix is dropping Stowaway on April 22nd, so not that long a wait! Put Toni Collette in every kind of movie, I'll watch 'em all!

Daniel Dae Kim Gets Lost... in Space

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I don't believe I got around to sharing this news when it was first announced, so here's a good opportunity now that the ever gorgeous Daniel Dae Kim has gotten involved -- our beloved Toni Collette is making a sci-fi thriller called Stowaway with Anna Kendrick, and today DDK has just been added to the cast.

The movie's about what to do with a (you guessed it) stowaway on a Mars-bound spaceship (played by Wynnona Earp actor Shamier Anderson, who's pretty goddamned handsome himself and I look forward to making his acquaintance) -- Toni is the captain (I really missed the boat on a "Captain and Tennille" adjacent pun headline on this one) while Kendrick plays a medical researcher; Daniel here is the ship's biologist. I got some biology for you to study, Dr. Kim...

Quote of the Day

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"This is a very controversial shot... I've never taken a shirtless shot, ever. If you look through my feed, that's the only one. And actually I was very hesitant about posting that, because I don't want to be that guy that...you know. I don't know, I'm not that comfortable being that guy. At the same time, I turned 50 this year and there was a part of me that was like, you know what? I look alright for 50 years old. And when people say to me, you can't play leading men anymore because you're too old... They don't say it directly, but it shows in the kind of roles I'm being offered now. The dad roles are coming up and the uncle roles are coming up, and sometimes the grandfather roles are coming up, and I feel like I'm not quite ready for those roles. So that selfie was kind of just my way of saying, I'm still active, I'm still vital, I still feel really good."

--- That is Hellboy and Lost hunk Daniel Dae Kim talking to Elle Magazine about the ridiculousness of Hollywood where Daniel Dae Kim could be considered for grandfather roles. My god! Look at him! You're crazy, Hollywood. I've been sitting here on my hands since Lost waiting for DDK to headline rom-coms and action movies and pansexual grandfather movies and I hear this shit... y'all suck. Hit the jump for a few more shots from Elle anyway...

Drag Me to Hellboy

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I immediately adopted a defensive tone when it came to the new Hellboy movie when it was announced because lord knows the fanboys had their claws out over Guillermo Del Toro & Co getting brushed off -- I love me some GDT and I enjoy both his Hellboy adventures but man this is Neil Marshall directing! That is not a thing to be scoffed at! Neil Marshall who gave us Dog Soldiers and The Descent, and all of the best episodes of A Game of Thrones! Anyway I was just now realizing I have this defensive tone but I haven't really seen much push-back to warrant that stance, so perhaps I should just get the chip off my shoulder and straight up say WHEE this looks fun. Also...

... yup I am very much going to be crushing on Hellboy now with David Harbour inside there -- his lovingly shot hirsuteness is only stamping that deal for certain. Oh and they're giving us a shape-shifting Daniel Dae Kim to boot???

I'm gonna need to hold a large bucket of popcorn in my lap while watching this movie. Hellboy is out on April 12th -- here's the full, fully insane, trailer:
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Good Morning, Gratuitous Daniel Dae Kim

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Daniel Dae Kim was always fairly shy when he was on Lost, at least as far as it went with showing off that physique of his, so I was surprised when I found out he's been flashing his junk (not literally, sad face) left right and center on Hawaii Five-O. Yes, it is true, that show is still on. I know. It's CBS, man. They gotta fill their slots with something. And scenes of Daniel, Scott Caan, and Alex O'Loughlin coming in and out of the surf...

... that'll do it. 

Hit the jump for whole bunch more...

The Real Reason I Love Jin & Sun Episodes

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Hey there, Daniel Dae Kim.
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Happy Birthday, Daniel Dae Kim

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Daniel Dae Kim Would Like...

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... to cordially request your company this evening.
9pm on ABC, yo.
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Do, Dump or Marry - Lost Edition!

I have blown my own mind with the realization that this is a post that has gone unposted until now. How? Why? Ack cannot compute. So here it is. Tonight, Lost returns after seventeen billion months. And even though I'm pissed off at ABC over the way they've handled Pushing Daisies - seriously fuckers, you couldn't have siphoned .0001% of your advertising for Lost towards the occasional commercial for PD? - I'm still gonna watch because donkey-wheels and four-toed statues have me hooked but good. Gotta see the crazy through to the end.


But most importantly, this show has a cast filled with damn hot pieces. So many I could hardly choose just three for this here round of Do, Dump or Marry. Okay not really - these three guys are easily my favorite eye-candy on the show, give or take an Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje or Henry Ian Cusick or an unfortunate Ian Somerhalder relapse. But I'm complicating it by making us have to choose which CHARACTER we'd Do, Dump or Marry. That's right - we're not choosing between Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim, and Josh Holloway, but rather between Jack Shephard, Jin Kwon, and James 'Sawyer' Ford. Our players then:

Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) - Just a do-gooder with a superiority complex and a chip the size of Australia on his shoulder or a a do-gooder with a superiority complex and a chip the size of Australia on his shoulder that nevertheless looks like Matthew Fox?

Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) - It'd be easier to swoon over the sacrifices he's made and devotion he's proven for his beloved Sun recently if we also didn't remember all that lying and bullying he was up to back in the day.

James 'Sawyer' Ford (Josh Holloway) - Bad boy damaged goods with a knack for folksy nicknames and lots of buried schmoopy longing for freckled fellow castaways.

Okay, make with it in the comments, y'all...
which wins your heart after you've been rescued (and/or killed);
which would you lock yourself in a monkey cage with for one night,
and who's getting thrown between you and the smoke monster?

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Nice Knowin' Ya, Regina...

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... for all of ten seconds! WTF? (oh, um, SPOILERS for last night's ep of Lost here!)

I mean... is that it? They cast Zoe freakin' Bell to read a book upside down, glare angrily, and then throw herself off the ship wrapped in chains? I mean, as a cameo it's a great lil' thing, but I didn't want a cameo! I wanted Zoe kickin ass and taking names. I wanted her swooping in hanging from a rope ladder and taking Kate in her arms and doing some sort of drink-blood-out-of-a-skull ritual that made Kate her evil lesbian lover and they would swing and tumble through the forest making mincemeat out of all that crossed their paths. Or something. Gah.

Okay, that outta the way, as always with Jin and Sun episodes, I had tears streaming down my face at the end. What is it about these two's sad story that cuts through my heart? Daniel Dae Kim and, especially, the amazing Yunjin Kim are such strong performers; I wish we got to see more of them. Vicious face-slapping of Juliet! Shrugging off perennial do-gooder Jack! Ah, sweetness. I love you, Sun.

That end... like I said, sad sad sadness. Why didn't any of the other Oceanic Six come, though? Why would they have something against Sun? Argh, the questions.

The whole switch-up with flash-forwards and flashbacks in one episode was a nasty bit of writerly work, though. I sorta saw it coming - Jin's puffy hair - but still, at the same time as admiring it from a writer's standpoint and how it mixes up the game even further (how long until one scenes a flashback, the next one's a flash-forward... we'll have no idea when it is!), from a viewer's standpoint it was a little cruel, them pulling that rug out from under us like that.

What did y'all think of the episode?
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