Showing posts with label Josh Duhamel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh Duhamel. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Andrew Liner Nine Times


Do any of you watch a Netflix series called Ransom Canyon? I hadn't even heard of it until I posted my great big gratuitous post yesterday morning on actor Garrett Wareing -- I didn't mention that show then because I didn't know anything about it, but a reader commented that I should also look up Garrett's co-star on that series, the one and only Andrew Liner who you see co-playing as a Jean Cocteau sketch in these photos I'm posting (via) now. And obviously now I find myself interested enough to find out about Ransom Canyon. It's a western (blah) a la Yellowstone (blah blah) which gives me pause, but it also stars Josh Duhamel, so...? Any opinions? At least we can appreciate it's gorgeous cast without having to decide immediately, which brings me back to these photos of Mr. Liner. Ahoy, pretty boy! Hit the jump for them all (plus a bonus video from the shoot)...

Thursday, January 04, 2024

Thursday's Ways Not To Die










Las Vegas, "Mothwoman" (2005)

To be honest I hadn't thought of this legendary moment in television history in a long time, so huge props to the anonymous commenter who popped on here this morning to comment on this 2010 post of mine giving me the access to video of this scene that I had been desiring. It only took fourteen years but I think we can all agree it was worth it! 


Fuck all the canonical moments like the last scene of The Sopranos or Henry Blake's helicopter going down on M.A.S.H. -- this ranks up there with Rosalind falling down the elevator shaft on L.A. Law and Kimberly blowing up the Melrose Place apartment complex (nevermind tearing off of her wig!) among the real greatest TV death scenes of all time. Lara, you goddamned legend!

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for links to all of our 
previous "Ways Not To Die" posts...

Thursday, June 03, 2021

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... sitting on Santa's lap.

Okay that is not actually The Kris Kringle -- it's actor Josh Duhamel wearing his Jupiter's Legacy white wig and beard (and not much else) on Insta as he laments the fact that his show just got canned by Netflix. More people should lament via beefcake, don't you think? It really takes the sting out of lamentation. So did any of you watch Jupiter's Legacy? I'll admit I did not, I'm slightly superhero'd out -- I haven't even watched The Boys yet and that one supposedly has tons of male nudity. Anyway if you'd like to champion this show have at it in the comments, I am listening. (And while you're at it answer me this -- do we think that wig and beard are attached, like one gigantic wooly headdress? Or is it two separate pieces of merkin?)


Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Duhamel Puts the Du In Dude


The trailer for a "ribald" Bro-Comedy (Bro-medy?) called Buddy Games -- directed by and written by and starring Josh Duhamel, Josh Duhamel in sweatpants, Josh Duhamel in sleeveless shirts, and of I suppose some other people -- popped up online a little over a month ago (watch it here) and I aaaalmost posted it here on the site but then I stopped myself and was like, "Self? No." So I tweeted instead:

Anyway I am feeling weaker today and they released a batch of high-quality photos of Josh in the film that don't force me to see any of this "comedy" in "motion" or "with sound" so why not? All they're asking is for me to look at Josh Duhamel, and that, that much I can do. Buddy Games is out on demand on November 24th -- perfect timing for all the people too crippled by turkey to move off the couch. Hit the jump for a couple more photos...

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Bring Nick Robinson Home With You

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The teen gay rom-com called Love Simon is hitting blu-ray in two weeks (specifically on June 12th) and so all sorts of special features and what-nots (or perhaps even better in the immortal words of Dr. Suess "whoozits") are getting unloaded online in order to best separate you the consumer from that cash money burning a hole in your wallet and or/ purse-shaped object. I liked the movie an awful lot, more than I anticipated given its Pottery Barn leanings, you can read my review here. I really do think it's more interesting than it's gotten credit for. 
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Anyway one of the things they've released to whet your appetite is a deleted scene that features Colton Haynes hitting on Nick Robinson at a bar, and I think it's safe to say that several people just had to close their browsers and go change their pants after I typed that so let's just watch...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Dear Daddy

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Although I'm hesitant to share a clip that shows the entirety of one of Love Simon's sweetest scenes -- where Simon (Nick Robinson) and his father (Josh Duhamel) talk about the great big pink elephant in the room for the first time -- I'm still going to because what the hell, it's the internet, you'll click on it here or there or you can not click on it anywhere, it's not up to me. 
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Love Simon is out on March 15th -
Here's my sizable review if you missed it.
And here's a nice interview with the director.
And now let me spoil the sweetness with this tweet:
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Is This Love... That I'm Feeling?

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There's been a lot of talk lately about "What happened to the Rom-coms?" Even just a decade ago the genre was still offering up at least one or two annual sacrifices to the Volcano God of Meet-Cutes. But then somebody pushed Kate Hudson off a cliff, and Sarah Jessica Parker behind her, and Jennifer Aniston behind her, and on and on, and as hard as the adorable smirking white ladies tried to hold onto each other's dangling Louboutins the self-tanner was too slick and down down down they tumbled, dragging all the McFillInTheBlanks with them. (Here Patrick Dempsey was born, and here he died - twas only a moment for you, you took no notice.)

There is delight to be had in the formula of these movies. When it's right it sings. The aforementioned Meet Cute, the tangle of spiky circumstances and obstacles that get in the lovers way, and the triumphant kissy-kissy on the surface of the Moon or Mars or the Empire State Building at the end - this is a most holy quest, one that feeds a ravenous emotional monster flailing around in our bellies. We need it like hamburgers.

But Rom-coms forgot us. They forgot that beast stews in our very real, human juices - if you prick us do we not bleed, Garry Marshall? They got so hung up on their impossible genre trappings, each story taking us further and farther removed from recognizable human behavior - it's not that we need realism from these stories. We want Fantasy. But those obstacles separating the lovers, they need to remain relatable - they can't function only as the MacGuffins raining down upon a deranged nonsense-scape, living and breathing only through their own self-imposed psycho rules. The hoops these movies had their characters jumping through to get to one another were on fire, twenty feet apart, over beds of brain-damaged alligators that hadn't eaten in months. It was romance by way of Bond Villain.

And we wonder why men and women have been staring each other down awkwardly across the sofa cushions lately. Listen. There are surely still perfectly good ways to tell love stories about a white straight man and a white straight woman falling in love. They do it every day in the real world, and it totally works. You get the right stars with the right chemistry and that movie will sing just by showing them bat their pretty little eyelashes at each other. (Yes I am totally looking at you, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.)

But perhaps, as we take this breath, this moment, it might be something if we try to work our way through this jungle we've lost ourselves in by forging different paths. And that's where something like The Big Sick came in last year, enlivening the genre with a true story of cross-cultural coma romance - how about instead of the story of a magazine editor who has it all finding ways to choose between three different but entirely identical men who just won't settle down we instead put ourselves in the shoes of the millions and millions of people whose parents want them to marry somebody who looks just like them and worships (or doesn't) just like them? Novel, I know. You'd think it insane, and yet somehow it clicked.

And now here we have Love, Simon. It stars Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel as a married couple who oh wait this story isn't about the stars of 13 Going on 30 and Life As We Know It meeting cute at an artisanal coffee klatsch at all -- this story is about their gay son, and it's about him falling in love. 

Like The Big Sick before it, Love Simon's not at all afraid of the genre trappings - it could really be set down as a sequel to Life As We Know It + 13 Going on 30 and be a part of their car-commercial world. The big suburban houses stacked with Martha Stewart Livings, the just colorful enough cast of supporting characters, the flashy bee-boppy soundtrack of Starbucks Playlist friendly tunes. It just shows that those trappings needed more than a fresh coat of paint slapped over them - they needed some reworking under the hood.

Love, Simon opens with Simon (Nick Robinson) monologuing about his own perfectly appointed normalcy despite his, you know, Great Big Gay Secret, and in a total flip of my expectations the film doesn't spend its runtime telling him to embrace otherness - no instead... Normal comes to him instead. The world of the movie, aka the world of the Rom-com itself, opens itself up, making space for Simon and all the Simons in the audience.

Okay so nobody's ever going to mistake director Greg Berlanti for Greg Araki - Love Simon's queerness isn't beaming in from a gaudy outer space sex-planet with a high body count. It ain't keeping anybody or anywhere weird. Simon tries on a tighter t-shirt one time, but nahh. Not for him.

And yet the part of me that wanted to scoff and side-eye this movie's puppy-eyed mainstream sincerity at times was at times shoved right out of the way by this sort of Alternate Universe Me - a me that grew up with Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel as my parents in a great big Martha Stewart appointed house where my friends and I drove to get coffee every morning before school and wait just a second isn't this what these movies have been doing for generations of Straight People? Is that what this feeling is? Is this... the thing... called Wish Fulfillment?

This Alternate Universe Me, he went through a lot of the same things the normal me went through. Both of our female best friends in High School were in love with us, which we purposefully, at times cruelly, ignored. Coming out to our families at Christmastime, hooray, that was an experience. That feeling of a small town, of the graduation countdown, the narrative possibilites of our New College Selves erasing our previous selves... me and this other me found plenty in common. And yet this simpler me, this Simple Simon, he sorta sorted through the real life chaos that I remember. He took my true story, my own, and he shined it up a little bit. He rubbed his elbow in, and he made a movie out of it.

And a sweet, funny movie, at that. Where The Big Sick was smart about turning Kumail Nanjiani's feeling of "otherness" in that romance into a literal desertion, an isolation from his object of affection via her coma - he was stranded among a sea of gawkers left to scramble and explain his damn self over and over again - Love, Simon plays a similar smart trick, upending the genre's trappings to its benefit and in a way that speaks directly to the heart of its specific gay love story. Love, Simon is a romance of secrets. 

The conceit of the film is that Simon and "Blue," as he's called for most of the film, find each other via an anonymous online confessional board. They bond with each other anonymously, hiding their true selves away beneath pseudonyms. It's a very queer idea of romance - entirely entangled with secrets and lies and the cover-up. The closet. The film becomes about the their quest to push aside and through all of that - they find strength through each other, daring the other further and further out of their closets. But Love, Simon also knows that vacuums open up in the wake of these revelations, that those lies have seeped poison into our lives, and that process - even for all the pretty people we're watching do it in finely appointed houses - is never neat. It's like a murder mystery, but that's no lead-pipe in Professor Plum's hand...

Anyway Love Simon, in its own way and through its own means, makes some sense of it. It rubs its elbow in, and shines up the chaos just that little bit, bless its pretty, well-meaning heart. And in so doing, it shines up the rom-com too - the genre's not dead, you guys. It just needs a little love and affection, a tender little knock around under the hood now and again to sort out its priorities. May we be blessed with more love stories like Love Simon.
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Love, Simon is out in theaters on March 16th!
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

We're All Homo Sapiens Here

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Love Simon is the upcoming high school gay love story starring Jurassic World's Nick Robinson that we have told you about previously - see here for the original news, and then click here for a couple of the first pictures from it. Well now there's a trailer! A teaser one, they say, but it's two minutes long and that seems like a lot of tease if you ask me. I still haven't gotten a chance to read the book that it's based on (called Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda) but what a delight - mainstream gay teenager love stories, ya know? Imagining having this sort of thing in the world when I was their age is kinda mind-blowing, to say the least...
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Love, Simon is out on March 16th.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Simon Blooms This Spring

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A few weeks ago I shared with y'all the first poster for Love, Simon, the out-next-year adaptation of the gay coming-of-age book called Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli that stars Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner - well yesterday several images dropped over at EW along with a little teaser for the movie, and here those things be! Here's the Halloween-themed teaser:
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We should probably be kind of excited about a mainstream high-school-set gay love story, you guys. Love Simon is out on March 15th; stay tuned for more as it comes.


Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Says Simon

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Have any of you read the book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli? It came out in 2016 and it seems to be "a thing" for the younger crowd (I say from my ice bath at the old folk's home) but first I heard of it was earlier this afternoon when the folks making the movie dropped the poster, which you see above. It's been re-titled Love, Simon as you see, and it stars Nick Robinson, who was really very charming in The Kings of Summer a couple of years back, and also did some movie about dinosaurs and Chris Pratt in tight pants. Here's the plot, vaguely:

"Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing."

The movie's not out until March - it was directed by Greg Berlanti (the one dude army behind TV's superhero craze with Arrow and The Flash and Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow all under his belt,... but most importantly he made The Broken Hearts Club) and written by two of the writers on This Is Us. The movie also stars Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel (although probably not as high-schoolers) and I just feel as if I ought to note here that the last time Duhamel got in front of the camera for Berlanti this happened...

Monday, August 22, 2016

Good Morning, World

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A few weeks back I shared the trailer for Spaceman, Josh Duhamel's new baseball comedy, because it involved him and a pair of loose tighty-whities -- well the movie hit the VOD market this past weekend and we've got some more to share, as you can see here. This is our view over the film's opening credits! And that's how you hook an audience. (This audience, anyway.)

Anyway I have to keep it brief this morning because today's gonna be a kinda crazy day off-blog and I am not sure how much I'll be able to be online, which is also my way of saying I only capped a couple of scenes from this movie, not the whole damn thing per usual. But there are a few more shots after the jump...

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Good Morning, World

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I knew that I knew that Josh Duhamel was making a baseball movie but I had to scan all the way back through our Duhamel archives to March of last year to find the info, and even then the movie was called something else - then it was The Wrong Stuff (cuz get it) but now it's called Spaceman, and there's a trailer, which involves the shot above, involving Josh Duhamel, a beard, some tighty-whities, and bookshelves. I say good day!
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The movie is out on August 18th - not sure if it's any good or if I even care if it's any good, for that matter.... I mean did you miss the part about "Josh Duhamel, a beard, some tighty-whities, and bookshelves" or what? Anyway I capped the good sexy bits of Josh in the trailer after the jump, along with some stills from the movie, so hit it...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Back to the Duhamel

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Have any of you started watching 11.22.63 yet? I watched the first episode and... I'm not totally sold. I think James Franco has maybe forgotten how to act? I know a hundred of you will now chime in with "HE NEVER KNEW HOW TO ACT" but he has been good before, I think... it's just been awhile. And there are some thuddingly bad moments from him here. Anyway my eyeballs did perk up when Josh Duhamel appeared - I have read the Stephen King book on which the series is based and I think he might be good casting? And not only because I look forward to watching him wear those period clothes...

Not only.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Good Morning, World

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When I posted the pictures of Josh Duhamel rocking some tighty-whities earlier this week on Twitter Silvana was nice enough to point me in the direction of some YouTube videos of Vintage Josh on All My Children which are in our wheelhouse. Start here and fall down the rabbit hole; I couldn't even start to make a dent in everything there is on there but I took aim at a couple of scenes. AMC is the first place I remember seeing Josh, and he was in a speedo! But I've never been able to find pictures of that scene, somehow. But there are pretty good too so hit the jump and enjoy...

Monday, November 09, 2015

Good Morning, Duhamel

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Everybody give Josh Duhamel a hand (you know what I mean) - a gratuitous tighty-whities scene is just the way to get your little no-budget movie some attention that might've otherwise slipped right past. We will return the favor and do his bidding! 

These pictures are from something called Lost in the Sun, a road-trip crime buddy movie about the friendship between a criminal (Duhamel) and a newly-orphaned teen boy (played by Josh Wiggins who was in that recent dog movie called Max). The movie is out on demand now, hence these caps; it will actually hit DVD in a couple weeks for the holidays. So you can stuff your stockings...

... with Josh! 
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Lady's Boys - The hot similar looking dudes of American Horror Story: Hotel are fully aware that they all look similar, thank you very much. (Thanks Mac) It's seemed like a silly non-story to me because clearly it was intentional; look at those twin children Lady Gaga breeds! Clearly she's into types. She's like Bert from Sesame Street with his closet full of the same outfit. (Bad analogy actually since Lady Gaga changes outfits per scene, but whatever.) Anyway I did appreciate Cheyenne Jackson's comment on the twin thing:

"There are worse things than to be compared to Matt Bomer."

--- From Gods To Men - Bryan Fuller has poked his head up out of the writing room for his upcoming adaptation of American Gods to talk to Crave about both that project and where it stands and the just announced reboot of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories that he is doing for NBC. Sounds like Spielberg is much more involved than it seemed when the project was announced - he recruited Bryan personally to make the thing because he loved Hannibal! In other Bryan Fuller News, Bryan was asked recently what his dream reboot would be and he said he's love to bring the British spy series The Avengers back from the dead. (thanks Mac)
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--- Daemon Lover - This is hopefully good news, fingers crossed: the BBC is planning on making a television series out of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books! You might recall the movie The Golden Compass with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and Eva Green (who really all were ace casting) flopping violently back in 2007 - they made some good choices but they neutered the story for audience approval and ended up erasing why the story matters in the first place. So let's hope the BBC learned from that, and stick to Pullman's hardcore anti-religious guns because there's a hell of a story to be told here.
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--- And Speaking of Nic, apparently Nicole Kidman is in talks to play "a high-ranking Amazonian Warrior" in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie starring Gal Gadot, spinning off from the Batman v Superman of next summer. People are theorizing that this means she'll be playing Diana's mother Hyppolyta, who is the Queen of the Amazons. Listen I love Nicole but she usually makes reeeeally bad choices when it comes to mainstream movies so I'm not sure whether I'm excited about this or not.
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--- Scrubbed Clean - The Playlist got their greedy mitts on the first picture from Park Chan-wook's upcoming film called The Handmaid, which returns him to Korea after making Stoker here in the States. The movie is an adaptation of an English-language book called Fingersmith (it was turned into a BBC miniseries in 2005) but he's switched locations; now it "is set during the Japanese rule of Korea and follows a handmaid who employs the services of an heiress, con man and pickpocket." See our previous post here. No word on a release yet though.
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--- Just Shoot Me - The first pictures of James Franco and friends in the upcoming Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 have been released, see them over here - I can't recall whether I knew Josh Duhamel was in this show or not but hells yeah. And also Sarah Gadon! And Cherry Jones! And Chris Cooper! Did I just forget this thing had assembled such a stellar cast or what? Maybe somebody went back in time and erased my memory. Anyway I really liked this book, which is about a dude going back in time to stop JFK from being assassinated; did anybody else read it? The series will premiere on President's Day (so clever you guys!), February 15th 2016.
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--- Forever Filthy - I think John Waters has been given like five interviews a week lately and I've posted links to all of them, but we should be happy he won't shut up dammit! Happy as snapping clams. He chatted with Michael Musto in the new issue of The Advocate and while he refuses to take Musto's bait on the trans issue he did offer up this bit of hilarity about Divine:

"He didn’t want to be a woman. He wanted to pass as a monster."
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--- Herky Jerky - This will take forever because stop-motion always take forever but it's still pretty cool news for like ten years from now -- Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and everything good stop-motion-animated ever, is teaming up with comedians Key and Peele (!!!) to make an animated movie called Wendell and Wild, which is about "two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two goth teen acolytes." I will watch that!
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Friday, October 30, 2015

How Big, Josh Duhamel?

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That big, huh? Did you guys see the picture of Josh standing next to Dave Franco yesterday? I mean I knew before seeing it that Josh is supposed to be 6'4" and Dave Franco is supposed to be 5'7" but seeing it laid out so starkly, side by side, really put Dave into perspective for me. Wee Little Dave! Anyway Josh should ditch Fergie and get himself a Wee Little Franco of his own, is my point. They could be the new better sexier gayer version of that cheerleader from Heroes and her literal giant of a husband. Pony Rides for Dave!


Thursday, April 02, 2015

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... giving Josh Duhamel inner peace. (via)
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Monday, March 02, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Modest Mouse - The New York Times has an interesting piece up on the shooting of movie and TV sex scenes - sounds like Amy Schumer was funny and confident (shocker) about shooting hers in Trainwreck, while the more I hear about the behind-the-scenes stuff with Fifty Shades the more I think Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan should just be ashamed of themselves. How much money was wasted on CG'ing pubic hair + creating robo-cameras because these people overestimate their genitals? Europe is laughing at us. You're an actor that signed on for a sex movie - you shouldn't get to have it both ways.

--- Speaking Of I doubt Jamie Dornan will be flashing his oh so fancy and expensive testicles in his new project either - he's signed on to co-star with Cillian Murphy in Anthropoid, a WWII thriller about the real-life mission ("Anthropoid" is its mouthful of a codename) by a bunch of Czech soldiers to assassinate the leader of the Nazi SS.

--- Goth Prince - After seeing him in several things now I still really don't why Jack Huston is getting cast in things (and heaven forbid I imply it's got anything to do with his last name) but he's already playing the leading role in the remake of Ben-Hur that's filming and now comes word that he might pick up The Crow reboot since Luke Evans has dropped it.

--- Lizard King - There are apparently a ton of new dinosaurs making their screen debuts in Jurassic World, and DH has gathered up the images from the film's official site. Dimorphodon loos like it has the head of a T-Rex on the body of a pterodactyl & my inner (and outer) 12 year old just jizzed in his shorts.

--- No Longer Young - I haven't read this interview with Noah Baumbach yet but when they said it's about his "new" movie I got all excited thinking they meant Mistress America, his other Greta Gerwig film, but they just mean When We're Young, which I didn't even realize hasn't come out yet. (I saw it at NYFF last year and was underwhelmed.) Yawn. Noah looks cute in the pictures though.

--- Kiddie Critters - If you haven't read Matt Zoller Seitz's article on showing James Cameron's film Aliens to his son  and his friends for his 11th birthday you're missing out, it'll bring you right back to that time you watched something that blew your mind for the first time. Seitz has been getting a bunch of crap from people on Twitter about showing the film to kids that weren't his own, and he's rightfully told them to cram it. Parents these days are just the worst. Keep up the good fight, Matt!

--- Jock Central - I'm so tired of sports movies not giving up the goods. When I was a kid, sports movies were always a safe place to go see guys in jockstraps while pretending you were there for, you know, sports. Nowadays they never give up anything! It's criminal! Let's hope that Josh Duhamel's new baseball movie called The Wrong Stuff, about a pitcher (insert "I'll be his catcher anytime" pun here) that's "a hot-tempered, self-serving madman unable to see himself as anything other than a baseball player" rights these wrongs. Think Major League, Josh! (PS love the gray beard lately.)

--- Sea Men - Kenneth Lonergan is finally gearing up to shoot another movie (it's been forever and a day since Margaret took forever and two days to come out) - Manchester-By-The-Sea already had Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams attached, and now comes word that Kyle Chandler's joining the cast too. It is supposed to shoot later this month.

--- She Follows - I realized halfway through the horror flick It Follows (which I reviewed right here last week) that I finally need to learn the lead actress' name now that she's been in two probable modern classics in as many years (the other being Adam Wingard's The Guest) - her name is Maika Monroe and you can read an interview with her over here about the making of It Follows. She's almost unrecognizable with brown hair in the picture though.

--- After Twilight - The cast for Kelly Reichardt's new movie is seriously giving me so many tingles - on top of the already in place Michelle Williams and Laura Dern, now Kristen Stewart is in. A year or so ago it would've been acceptable to be all, "Eww KStew no" but not anymore, not after Clouds of Sils Maria. (I still haven't watched Camp X-Ray.)
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