Do Dump or Marry: High Rise In Your Pants

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First things first how hot is that there new poster for High-Rise? This is the second poster that we've posted for this movie (see the first poster that we posted right here) and this tells us that this movie, it's gonna inspire some kick-ass art, it is. I mean just glancing quickly through the imagery in the trailer they released that's clear, too. Visually we can already tell this thing's a boffo eyeball extravaganza. Boffo! For your eyeballs! Extravaganza! Which brings us to...

... an eye-balling of the men-folk in the cast, and how glancing at this behind-the-scenes picture of director Ben Wheatley standing in there alongside Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, and James Purefoy, I realized I needed to force a Do Dump or Marry on y'all. I mean clearly with that most recent nearly nude picture of Tom in this movie still hot on our brains it's not the fairest of fights, but they're all pretty special. I mean look at Luke here, and then look at James here, and then make your decisions about who's getting tossed off the roof, is all I'm saying. Tell us your picks in the comments!

Well I Have A New Favorite Movie

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The first full trailer for Ben Wheatley's High-Rise - an adaptation of JG Ballard's book it stars Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss, Sienna Miller, and James Purefoy - has arrived thanks to Hiddleston on Twitter, and it looks like everything I want from my movie-going experience: Cronenbergian Weirdness! Brutalist Architecture! Tom Hiddleston Naked!

Also see: Tom Hiddleston Dancing!

And Tom Hiddleston playing racquetball in a tight suit!

Check, check, and check!

Watch the trailer here:

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The movie is out in the UK in March but it still doesn't have a date here in the US -- I might have to fly to London just to watch it, dammit. I'll do it! I swear! Any fans of Wheatley's films? I think they're all fairly genius but it looks like his budget has finally caught up with his imagination. After the jump I capped a ton more from the gorgeous, gorgeous trailer, so hit it...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

John Carter (2012)

Kantos Kan: Ah, Zodanga, where the men are as 

limited as the menu and woman are as hard as the beds. 

This might be the only time in history that somebody says that anybody has anything positive to learn from the John Carter movie, but really we're just here so's I can use the occasion of James Purefoy's 50th birthday to post a gratuitous gif or two of him, including a terrifically memorable shot from Rome that, looing through my Purefoy archives I see I've somehow never posted here. Shock, horror, et cetera, hit the jump...

Good Morning, Gratuitous Kevin McKidd

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James Purefoy's in the sidebar and on our minds thanks to this here so seeing as it's his Rome and Bedrooms and Hallways co-star Kevin McKidd's birthday today we figured we'd give this morning gratuity to their kiss-me-tender lovemaking in the latter. When we fully gratuitized Purefoy back in the day we made note of their... closeness... but we've never given McKidd's Scotsman ginger realness the spotlight it deserves, so here goes. 

Other things you might recognize McKidd from: Trainspotting, Grey's Anatomy, or most excitingly Neil Marshall's terrific werewolf versus soldiers flick Dog Soldiers. Hit the jump for a few more pics.

Good Morning, World

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I've been thinking that one of the greatest tragedies of this past television season has been the fact that I didn't start watching Revenge. It looked silly in previews, enough that I didn't believe they could get the tone right for what I'd want the show to be - but then everybody was all "Yes! This is exactly what it should be!" and I was all, "Oh goodness, me." And now I'm even more "Oh goodness, me!" seeing that they've got James Purefoy swanning around topless. Maybe I'll try to plow through all the episodes over the Summer? (Same goes for Ringer.) What d'ya think?

I Am Link

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--- Kill Thrill - Scream + Teaching Mrs. Tingle writer (I'm sure he'd rather we forgot the latter - never forget!) Kevin Williamson has written "a serial killer thriller" TV show for FOX, and it is going to star Kevin Bacon as a cop on the trail of a murderer played by hot piece James Purefoy. I look forward to seeing Purefoy get his creep on, I most certainly do.

--- People Are Delicious - Jim Mickle, the director of the recent vamp-apocalyptic flick Stake Land which I definitely thought had its moments, is going to be remaking the Mexican cannibal family tale We Are What We Are, which I liked very very much (it was my second favorite horror film of 2010). Mickel also made the "rat people in the Lower East Side" horror flick Mulberry Street, and one thing you get from watching those two movies is he's really good at expressing quick brutality - not in a gratuitous way, but appropriately, and horrifyingly. I don't know if he'll be able to top Jorge Grau's very good film, but I'm willing to watch and see what he does with it.

--- In The Inn - In a nice little small-town tale, Ti West's The Innkeepers screened last evening to a sold-out crowd in the hometown of the Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is where the haunted inn story is set, with the director and his two leads in attendance. The people of the town were all adorably excited. "That's right across the sctreet," screams Jane Q. Public! Aww. Small-town people are quaint.

--- Scar Joe - It's nice when somebody does the talking for you - Nat wrote up some thoughts on the new news of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut being a rom-com starring himself and Scarlett Johansson and an as-yet-uncast third female role (Joe's a lothario caught between two ladies), and my first thought was the same as his, that Joe and Scarlett seem like an odd fit at first, but then after a little thought it starts sounding good. I too am glad that ScarJo might try acting again, since it's been a couple years since Vicky Christina Barcelona.

--- Sex Doll - Slash offers up some fresh details on Lars Von Trier's next movie Nyphmomaniac, which will star his muse the amazing Charlotte Gainsbourg in a supposedly pornographic exploration of a woman's erotic life, which is how they are putting it not me for god's sake not me. This isn't exactly a surprising coming from the Danish provocateur, he's done plenty of explicit sex in the past. What I like about the story is what Charlotte has to say about testing where her limits are with Lars, and how she admits that with Antichrist her limit was jerking off a porn actor stand-in. Good to know!

--- Ben Again - A couple more pics from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter came out yesterday, but still no Dominic Cooper. Why are they keeping the Cooper hidden under a bushel? And don't tell me it's because nobody cares that much except for me, and his role's probably small, I don't want to hear it!

--- Hobbit Hooey - I found this news-story at The Guardian really ridiculous - it's all about how the actors in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies were a bunch of nobodies and how he's cast all these HUGE NAME actors for The Hobbit and how that will change the whole dynamic and ruin it all. They then go on to list a bunch of British actors that are in The Hobbit that might be huge names to BBC watchers but to the lay-person rest of the world are pretty much nobody. Don't get me wrong, I know who Benedict Cumberbatch and Billy Connolly and Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman are, but they're certainly not bigger names to the general populace than Elijah Wood or Ian McKellen or Sean Astin were before Fellowship of the Ring.

--- Web Presence - I guess they're gearing up the press push for The Amazing Spider-Man into high since we're getting trailers and photographs piling up - here's a gallery with a couple new shots right here. I really don't get tired of looking at Andrew Garfield in his spandex so I'll just keep on linking.

--- Terry Time - I haven't been keeping up with news of Terrence Malick's next movies - yes plural; apparently he's decided to get his ass in gear in his old age - since I was totally meh on The Tree of Life and that dampened my Malick enthusiasm for the time being, but DH says that Natalie Portman has just joined two of his upcoming movies. Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett will also star in both movies. So obviously he can just get whoever he wants to make stare at wheat now. Hooray!
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Good Morning, World

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James Purefoy is one of those romantic fellows that has it written into his contract that he must get his arse out in every project, isn't he? Romance is alive! These are from Beau Brummell: The Charming Man, a 2006 BBC program which I stumbled across on Netflix last night. He plays a famous dandy and there's a lot of homo-tension between him and Matthew Rhys and Matthew Rhys' enormous hair playing the poet Lord Byron. Yadda see a few more after the hop...

Good Morning, World

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I rewatched Joe Wright's fantastic movie Hanna last evening (my review) and besides rewinding and watching Eric Bana come out of the water in his dripping wet long underwear four or five times I was reminded of my weird yet insatiable crush on Tom Hollander, running around in his tennis whites therein.

And then I remember these pictures of him and Hugo Weaving in 1998's Bedrooms and Hallways.

I haven't actually even seen this movie yet, but it's on Netflix Instant so I will most certainly find the time soon. You might know or recall that it's also the movie with the hotness that is James Purefoy getting all gay with his Rome co-star Kevin McKidd as well. Any fans?

See a bunch more after the jump.

Insert Sword = Penis Pun Here

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Oh wait, Cinematical already did that. Hrm. Anyway that's Rome's James Purefoy and his gigantic man-skewer (via) in some movie called Ironclad. I just like thinking about James Purefoy in period clothes. And out of period clothes even more...

Naturally. Click here for more of him.
Or click here for a lot more of him in this very scene
seen above. Or don't. See if I care! God!
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I Am Link

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--- Just Make The Effing Movie Already! - Eli Roth chatted up Variety about his big monster movie Endangered Species, marking the fifteen-billionth time he's brought up the project since last making an actual movie. Ugh. He's got time to jerk off on Twitter but not to direct anything, apparently. And yes for the record he's also still thinking he'll be using the change that slides between the couch-cushions on the ED set to finance his full-length version of his Grindhouse trailer Thanksgiving.

But lo, there is other, new news to be had therein! He's also working on a kung-fu flick (!) with RZA (!!!) called The Man With The Iron Fist. I... I just can't. And the horror flick called Cotton that he produced will be screening at Sundance. So that's something, or whatever.

--- Hell's Hounds - Over at AMC Final Girl Stacie Ponder went and pondered the heck-fire out of all those evil canines that've been salivating on horror-cinema for years now. Can I just tell you that Cujo the movie made me literally sick with fear when I was a kid? It made me so tense I had to leave the room and I almost threw up.

--- I Want Your Job, Jarett - PopWrap interviewed Rachel Dratch (here) and Thomas Jane (here) this week. Rachel Dratch and Thomas Jane! So jealous.

--- The Preacher Kane - Hey, whaddya know, apparently the film Solomon Kane - based off Robert E. Howard's fantasty-lit character - is pretty good, says this review at AICN. Hrm. Fascinating. I'm really just using this as an excuse to post that picture of James Purefoy to the right there though, since I will never ever get tired of looking at it. But anyway, Kane hasn't even been bought by a studio yet so who knows if/when we'll see it. All I wanna know is, is there time for the Puritan demon-killer to take a steam, soak, or dip of some kind?
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Gratuitous James Purefoy

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Rome actor James Purefoy turns 45 today. I've never seen an episode of Rome, but I am slightly familiar with Purefoy from a couple of his films. Resident Evil and Vanity Fair spring to mind. I think I'd like to see Bedrooms & Hallways in which he and fellow Rome actor Kevin McKidd appear to do a lot of this:


Anyway, I went a little overboard with the pictures but I got swept up staring at him - he reminds me of Thomas Jane a lot - so whatcha gonna do? Ya gonna deal. There are worse things to have to deal with, believe you me. I could be posting pictures of snot. I imagine there must be a blog that does that. So be glad you're not there.

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Some previous Purefoy appreciation here.
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