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Fish Tank (2009)

Mia: What are you looking for?
Billy: A Volvo 940.
Mia: What's it look like?
Billy: Like a Volvo 940.
Mia: Cor! Clever Dick!

I had to google "cor." I learned something today! Anyway a happy 10 to Andrea Arnold's masterpiece -- I'm always aggressively hesitant to call modern films the "M" word but I think a decade is enough time to go ahead and dispense that one, right? It's a fucking masterpiece. I have to admit I'd forgotten that it's one of the Treadaways -- Harry to be specific -- who plays "Billy" in the film though; I only have eyes for Fassy when this suckers on...

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Andrea Arnold's FISH TANK turns 10 tomorrow!!!
How are you planning on celebrating?
(Besides looking at this old post obvs) https://t.co/zAKR3cxoBl pic.twitter.com/G2lAvzldoo

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 14, 2020

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Fish Tank was #5 when I listed my favorite movies of 2010 but I'm not entirely sure it would be that low if I re-ranked them today? It really might swing up a couple of notches, but I'd have to re-watch everything to decide that. The most egregious placement in my 2010 list in hindsight? That would be I Am Love hovering just outside of my Top 10 -- it would certainly move up at this point.  But 2010 was a fantastic year at the movies! Black Swan, Dogtooth, Blue Valentine and such! Tough choices made that time around.

As for Andrea Arnold I just learned a thing today -- she's got a new film listed on IMDb! It's a documentary called Cow -- making this the year with two of my favorite female directors making movies with "Cow" in the title -- that is described as "A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows." Come on Andrea -- re-title it "Second Cow" and go on the road with Kelly Reichardt! I beg of you! IMDb lists the doc as being in post-production so maybe we will see it this year; I'd love to finally get her giving interviews after the Big Little Lies debacle. Did anybody ever see a single quote from her?

Treadaway in Space

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I haven't been paying a ton of attention to the Star Trek: The Next Generation spin-off about Captain Picard that's being made because I couldn't really by any metric be considered a Trekkie but I did grow up alongside TNG so it's the one I know the best of them all and I could probably be convinced to watch it pretty easily. Hiring Harry Treadaway of Penny Dreadful fame (PS I recommend clicking through our Treadaway Twins archives, I do) as well as Allison Pill of Scott Pilgrim and Snowpiercer et cetera fame? I'm that amount of easy. I'm in! DH isn't entirely sure who they're playing but think the character description of "a positronic brain specialist terrified of space travel" fits Harry and I can see it. He's positively positronic!

Great Moments In Movie Shelves #156

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File this under "Thing I didn't know 

I needed in my life until today"...

... a 23-year-old Luke Treadaway cruising Joseph Mawle...

...  (aka Uncle Benjen from Game of Thrones) 

in the college library?
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 I'll take it!
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This scene is from the 2007 British TV movie 

called Clapham Junction - anybody seen it?
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I have not but I'm about to, you can believe that. 

I mean even besides what I have just shown you...

... it also contains a scene where Maurice
stars James Wilby and Rupert Graves reunite to

wave their dicks at each other at a public urinal. 

Just as James Ivory intended!

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I Am Link

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--- Kill Planet Kill - Did anybody watch Mosaic on HBO? That's Steven Soderbergh's murder-mystery starring Sharon Stone & Garett Hedlund. I think it is good so far (I'm halfway through it), enough that I am hooked to see it through - mostly due to some deliciously unlikable work from Stone - but I wouldn't say it's blown me away like I was hoping for. Still there's plenty more to see so... we will see. Anyway on the Soderbergh tip the trailer for Unsane, his "shot on an iPhone" thriller starring The Crown's Claire Foy, dropped recently, you can watch it right here. That's out on March 23rd, so soon! And today comes word of his next project, roundly burying his recent retirement from movie-making but good - all we have is a title, but it's a doozy - Planet Kill. Sounds like something! Oh and it's co-written by his frequent collaborator Scott Z. Burns, who wrote The Informant! and Contagion.

--- Neighbor Knocking - This is old news at this point but that's what these link round-ups are for, to catch up on things I missed - Tom Hanks is going to play Mister Rogers in a bio-pic! That in itself is neat, if a little on the nose, but what's actually exciting about this news is the film will be directed by Marielle Heller, whose film The Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of my favorites in 2015 but she hasn't made a movie since. She has several projects listed in production on IMDb though, so hopefully they all happen. Just give her all the work.

--- King of the Castle - I still haven't watched the trailer for Toni Collette's upcoming horror movie Hereditary, even though I posted it, and here's another thing I am posting even though I'm not going to watch it: here is the first trailer for Castle Rock, the upcoming Stephen King series set in that titular Main town full of bad juju, which will bring together the entire Stephen King universe while starring a tippy-top-tier collection of actors like Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgard, and Sissy fuckin' Spacek. I don't need to watch that damn trailer, I was sold months ago!

--- Taking Shape - If you're as excited (and yet wary at the same time) as we are about David Gordon Green's upcoming Halloween movie then you should read this quote from John Carpenter himself that DH shares today via a recent interview - JC is a producer and a consultant on the new movie, plus he's doing the music! And here he talks about why he's signed up to work on this one even as he's avoided the sequels in the past. And he doesn't even mention the word "money" once! If you missed it we shared a shot of Jamie Lee Curtis on set with DGG earlier this week.

--- Super Quick CMBYN link round-up! THR interviewed Sufjan and he talks about going to the Oscars! Book author Andre Aicman is making the rounds - here's a chat with Lambda Literary and here's a chat with the Globe & Mail. (I couldn't read the second one because of a paywall though.) But most importantly...
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The LA Times just dropped an alternate take of the final shot of #CallMeByYourName -- watch it here https://t.co/481c1iF9vo (thx Mac) pic.twitter.com/YivTEaDEZc

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 2, 2018

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--- Tiffany's a Trip - I couldn't finish Girl's Trip when I tried to watch it, I thought it was awful, but Tiffany Haddish was very funny despite weak material and she's been a joy to watch over the course of the past couple of months - I'm hoping she'll get to work with material up to her level soon; if the whole PTA collaboration comes through that'd be something! Anyway she talks about that and more, much more, in this super fun chat with Vulture, and obviously I gotta share the Timmy bit:

Vulture: There’s also Timothée Chalamet from Call Me by Your Name, who took a picture with you at the New York Film Critics Circle. You two had the biggest fruit-sex scenes of last year. Did you compare notes?
Tiffany: His was way more sexier than mine! Oh my God. He was like, “You’re into fruit, I’m into fruit,” and I was like, “Yeahhhh, but your fruit has a cream filling!"

--- And Finally if you've ever seen Nash Edgerton's film The Square from 2008 (here's a brief review I wrote) then you have reason to be excited about his new directorial effort (yes this is the first feature-length film he's made in a decade) called Gringo even before you find out it has a cast to die for - it stars David Oyelowo as a hapless salesman (this is clearly a much more comic movie than The Square was) who gets in over his head in Mexico, and it co-stars Joel Edgerton (Nash's brother), Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Thandie Newton, Sharlto Copley and Harry Treadaway. It's out on March 9th. Here's the trailer:

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Good Morning, World

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I'm running terribly behind this morning (thank you once again, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority) and so here right quick without anything to say about it is our boy Luke Treadaway dropping his towel in something called Unspeakable (I have no idea what it is except it was on recently), right here after the jump anyway, let's get this day started already...

Good Morning, World

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File this under Most Definitely NSFW but I stumbled upon this fun Tumblr yesterday that collects gifs of actors getting friendly with themselves and if you want to lose a few minutes staring at such a thing, click on over. It's NSFW because it includes movies with the real deal going on, not just pretend, so expect, you know, the occasional erection to pop up. As erections do! And I stole a few of my favorite (non-pornographic) gifs after the jump if you hit it...

Good Morning, World

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Kind of surprised I never posted this scene before since it aired way back at in 2015 but I guess I actually needed to sit down and start watching Fortitude, the show in which this scene takes place, in order to get my wits -- anyway if you're not sure which Treadaway twin we're looking at that is Luke; we saw a very similar scene from his brother Harry in the film Honeymoon, but this one's Luke. 

Have any of you watched Fortitude? I like it! I'm halfway through the first season finale so don't spoil anything if you do have things to say, but I recommend the show for reasons even beyond all the male nudity. (There is a surprising lot of male nudity though.) Speaking of, let's hit the jump, this gets NSFW...

See A Penny Pick It Up

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The third season of Penny Dreadful premieres on Showtime this upcoming weekend, but if you're in the US you don't have to wait -- the entire thing's been uploaded to YouTube! Like legally, and everything. I do believe you can't watch it outside of the U.S. but given the internet's capabilities I doubt that will last long. Anyway I haven't watched it myself yet, but this here appears to be a thing...

... which I am really looking forward to.

Watch the full episode here:

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Penny For Your Pants, Josh Hartnett

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While we sit around sewing little voodoo dolls to perform magicks rituals with and make the next season of Penny Dreadful get here faster, Josh Hartnett's off lining up a movie gig -- he's going to star in 6 Below, the true story of a hockey player and snowboarder who got stuck in the frozen wilderness for eight days while simultaneously battling drug addiction.

Sounds to me like he will be wearing a lot of clothing? Maybe they should re-work the story and move it to a really hot place? Where he can wear a speedo the whole time? (Or maybe he can be the sort of hockey player that Rob Lowe was in Youngblood?) And instead of "battling drug addiction" how about... he's a sexy bartender? Just make Cocktail 2 is what I am saying, Josh Hartnett.

But back to Penny Dreadful...

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... there's the latest trailer! Actually it's kind of the first trailer, proper, since I think everything before this has been teaser-y and this has lots of actual honest-to-evil footage from what's to come. And man it looks (typically) gorgeous and scary and wonderful. The show returns on May 1st! 

And in other Josh news back in November we posted some very fine pictures of him for the clothing brand Marc O Polo; well a new batch of images from the Bruce Weber shot campaign have been released recently and man oh man he looks (typically) gorgeous. Hit the jump for thirteen more...

A Penny For Your Do

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Filming on the third season of my beloved Penny Dreadful is happening in Dublin now and hey look they're letting Josh Hartnett have short hair this year? (Also when was hairspray invented in the show's universe?) And here I'd just gotten used to Josh's shiny lustrous locks, too -- I mean I might've entertained a thought or twelve upon the visual of Harry Treadaway running his fingers through it, even. Oh well. Josh of course looks just fine with short hair, of course. Pretty bastard. In related news congratulations to Eva Green on her much much much deserved Golden Globe nomination this morning!

Josh Hartnett Eighteen Times

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I contemplated fusing this post together with the immediately-previous post about Josh's shelf of condoms, but... nah. They should be their own things. I just don't want you to look at the blog today and think we've evolved into a Josh Hartnett Full-Time Appreciation Blog. We might be that at heart...

... but we do have other interests... occasionally. Things like the Showtime television series Penny Dreadful! Yeah yeah Josh Hartnett stars on Penny Dreadful, but there are, like, other things we like about it. There's news about some of them things that I missed recently -- this site visited the set of the show's third season and divulged some stuff I haven't seen elsewhere.

This is a nice photo-shoot right? Most of what you'll see here was shot by Bruce Weber for the Swedish brand Marc O'Polo earlier this year, I think? I grew lazy halfway through googling up details of the campaign honestly, but the pictures are swell! Hit the jump and I'll share several more plus a couple other random ones...

I Am Link

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--- Steve's Sidekick - This interview with Kate Winslet at Vulture on the making of Steve Jobs with Michael Fassbender & Danny Boyle reads exactly like I dream a phone conversation with Kate Winslet would be - she's drinking wine and spilling tales of hairdresser espionage. It's a delight, in other words. My favorite bit comes at the end when the interviewer suggests she do Shakespeare on Broadway to get her EGOT:

"Not Shakespeare. Do I have to? You’re saying that because I’m British and you think it would be second nature. Come on, admit it. But I don’t go to bed reading Shakespeare sonnets, I swear to God."

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 --- Quentin Follows - I hadn't gotten a chance to link to the Quentin Tarantino interview that's gotten everybody up in arms yet this week (I didn't think it was that ridiculous but people gotta eat) and now there's already a follow-up with further quotes that got edited out of the first draft -- because as we know QT can talk! -- so here, I'll link to that, I think the more interesting stuff's here. Like how he actually tells us the specifics of his problems with It Follows, which I think are interesting, although I give the film a pass because it earns a dream-logic (that is a non-logic) of its own.
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--- Discovery Delayed - The Lewis & Clark miniseries starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Casey Affleck (see previous post here) will resume shooting in the Spring once the bad winter weather they're expecting in their shooting locations up North in Canada pass -- they'll use the down-time to, you know, find a new director for the thing. As long as I get some gruff outdoorsy Matthias, please.
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--- Full Ride - The trio of women that fill out the best-seller The Girl on the Train (which y'all are telling me sucks, book-wise) will now be played in the movie version by Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson (we knew that already) and Haley Bennett (she's the new news) and we love Haley; we love all these women. This is a great cast of ladies.
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--- Hot Hot Hot - I wasn't really sure how to go about sharing this picture that Hannibal producer Martha De Laurentis shared from behind-the-scenes of the most recent episode showing a certain character [spoiler alert] that got burned up crispy-like wearing nothing but gross make-up and rubber duckie and a smile, so here I will just link to it and show a bit of the shot to the side there. Sexy!
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--- Punch Drunk - I'm not sure when the second season of Kingdom is supposed to start airing but we've been fortunate enough to see lots of behind-the-scenes pics of the cast (I've posted plenty of Jonathan Tucker on the Tumblr) and now we've got a nice quote from Nick Jonas about where his character's sexuality is headed this time around...

"It's less about romance than it is about human needs."

I am super cool with that, Nick! As long as you're very very needful, there's no need for nuptials right away.
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--- Pussy Riot - Luke Treadaway, the Treadaway twin that is not in Penny Dreadful (although I really want him to show up at some point to give Dr. Frankenstein an inexplicable double story-line for no reason... well except maybe for them to make out some like they have in the past) will star in a movie called A Street Cat Named Bob, which is about, and I quote, "The true story centres on how Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat." True story! And it's based on a book with the most manipulative "Buy Me!' cover ever created.

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--- Never Dunst - In a new interview with Kirsten Dunst she says that her and Sofia Coppola are totally about to work with each other again, next year even, but she doesn't give any details on what the project will be. I know Sofia dropped her Little Mermaid movie but I'd love to see Kiki in a shell-bra. The Playlist has a more sound suggestion for what it might be though. Dunst is also working with Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols right now, and she says she really fought to work with him - smart smart lady. With that and the second season of Fargo she's got exciting stuff ahead. Love her!

Even More Dreadful

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Put on your heaviest finery and let's throw a blood ball together to celebrate - Penny Dreadful has just gotten renewed for a third season! In the wake of too many things I love getting shit-canned because of low ratings I've stopped paying attention to ratings altogether, so I really have no idea how the show does... but it must do well enough! Watching this week's episode last night I had the same thought I have every week - good goddamn this show looks expensive! Alongside A Game of Thrones these shows are redefining what television can be, I think, speaking craftsman-wise. They don't skimp on the specifics. I mean, the budget on Josh Hartnett's hair-care alone must be in the six digits...

Good Morning, Ramsay

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Iwan Rheon does a good enough job playing creepy Ramsay Snow nee Bolton on A Game of Thrones that I'm actually hesitating wishing him a happy 30th birthday today - maybe he and his creepy dead eyes (and smooth alabaster corpse-like skin) can just have an OK birthday instead. OK enough that he'll leave Sansa alone, the wretch!

I feel like poor Iwan Rheon (yeah "poor Iwan Rheon") is probably getting a lot of that these days on the street - a mixing up of him and his despicable character. It's okay, Iwan. Harry Treadaway will kiss it and make it better.

So these shots are from this week's episode of Thrones; are we all caught up? I really don't feel as if I can ever talk about this show since I'd never want to be the one to spoil anything for it, but if you're caught up and have anything to share on the season so far please do - the comments are right there down below!

Oh and if you've missed our previous Iwan posts, which we posted before he played Ramsay and became kind of hard for us to look at (not a good hard either), click here and then click here, they are both mighty posts, full of most fine gratuity.

Game of Dreadful

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It's the cross-over event we've all been waiting for! 

Frankenstein's new monster is outta control!

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Good Morning, World

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I'm surprised I'd forgotten about posting this scene until somebody reminded me of it yesterday - that's Harry Treadaway, aka Doc Frankenstein on Penny Dreadful, aka one half of those sexy twins we've gratuitized previously, in the not half-bad horror movie Honeymoon, which has been out for awhile now. Maybe I was waiting for myself to actually review the movie, which hasn't happened either? (It's not half-bad.) Yeah I suck. But here's lots of naked Harry after the jump to make up for it. My body is read, Harry...

I Am Link

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--- Boy Magic - I guess I picked the wrong X-Men twink-chaser yesterday when I surmised that director Bryan Singer would be all over working with pretty young thing Kingsman actor Taron Egerton - Hugh Jackman got there first! Taron and Hugh are making a movie called Eddie the Eagle together, which is a true story about Olympic ski jumpers in the 1980s. The best part is this direct quote: "Egerton won the title role after a 'magical screen test' with Jackman." Oh I am sure he did. I thought we had something, Hugh! You looked deep in my eyes! I feel betrayed.
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--- Dome Driver - Have any of you read Stephen King's latest book Mr. Mercedes? I have not, I am taking a little bit of a King break (I feel as if I read a ton of him last year), but I have been curious about MM since King wouldn't stop talking about what a great villain it was he thought he'd written. Anyway Variety just posted that it's being turned into a miniseries by David E. Kelley, of all people. Jack Bender, who's directed a lot of episodes of Under the Dome, will direct, which instills zero confidence.
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--- Rockin Raven - Idris Elba wants to turn the 1978 book Poe Must Die into a trilogy of movies apparently, says Variety; it's about Edgar Allen Poe fighting demons in 1840s New York. What's craziest about this to me is this book was published in the 1970s? Talk about having your finger on the pulse of thirty years later. Anyway I don't think Idris is going to play Poe; there's also a sorcerer character who teaches Poe to kick ass and I am guessing that's the role he wants. WTF to all of this anyway.
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--- Manhattan Show - Well this is certainly unexpected - Deadline's reporting that Woody Allen has signed on to direct a series for Amazon! No word on how many episodes but it'll be half-an-hour long each and it is supposed to premiere next year. Mia Farrow just threw her iPad out her window.
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--- Cherry Pie - Speaking of auteurs doing TV this news here is not surprising, we've basically just been waiting for the confirmation to come, and here it is: Kyle MacLachlan has signed on to resurrect Agent Cooper for David Lynch's return to Twin Peaks for Showtime. No word yet on who else is showing up; when I talked to Laura Dern in person that time I told her she needs to get on it and she said she'd do anything Lynch asked her to do.
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--- Pink Panter - Several trailers struck in the past 24 hours - here's the one for Paul Feig's spy-comedy with Melissa McCarthy called, well, called Spy.  It's kind of a forgettable title, but the previous title for this movie was just the character's name (Susan Carter maybe?) which also sucked, so until they name it Jason Statham And Jude Law Make Out: The Movie, this will have to do. It looks pretty funny though!
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--- Hero Less - Another trailer hitting online was the latest ad for the Avengers sequel, which you can watch right here; I found this trailer terrifically boring myself, how about you? I don't recall even seeing Aaron Johnson a single time, much less getting his clothes torn off and having to do all of his super-speed special-effects buck-naked. Et tu, Whedon?
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--- And Finally, we've already had a couple of quick small glances at the upcoming second season of Penny Dreadful but now there's a full-on trailer, which you can see below. Lots of little flashes leading to the money shot... which is unfortunately not the shot of Josh Hartnett ejaculating upon Harry Treadaway that you might picture from me using that phrase... but Helen McCrory in a bathtub filled with blood is cool too, or whatever. The show's back April 26th.
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Frankenstein is So Hot Right Now

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About a month ago we reported on the two movies currently in production that are about the author Mary Shelley - the director of Wadjda is making one with Elle Fanning, and then there's another one starring Sophie "Sansa Stark" Turner that's being made by a woman named Coky Giedroyc.

Funnily enough Giedroyc has directed a couple of episodes of Showtime's Penny Dreadful, which features, that's correct, its own Victor Frankenstein (Mmm Harry Treadaway) story mashed up therein with other tales of Gothic woe. (As an aside, I love that both of these Mary Shelley films are being helmed by women, don't you?)

There's also that Frankenstein movie starring James McAvoy as the Mad Doctor and Daniel Radcliffe as his assistant Igor, which is supposed to be out next October, and then of course every other week it seems that  Guillermo del Toro talks about how desperately he wants to make his take on the material. Oh and a couple of years ago Danny Boyle did that stage version in London with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, and then of course...

... there was that. That was a thing. Even though we might be trying to forget, that was a thing. Anyway, you get the gist. Frank is having a moment. Which brings us to today's news...

... that Candyman (and Paperhouse!) director Bernard Rose is making his own version, which will be from the point of view of the, um... monster - I hesitate on the word "monster" since he will be played by pretty Aussie Xavier Samuel. Here's what Deadline says:

"Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles and told from the perspective of Adam/The Monster (Samuel), who is created by a husband and wife team of eccentric scientists only to be met with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. Danny Huston and Carrie-Anne Moss will play Victor and Elizabeth Frankenstein in a cast that also includes Rose’s Candyman star Tony Todd. Rose adapted the script himself, updating Shelley’s classic tome"

I love Paperhouse (and Candyman for that matter, although that's a slightly more qualified love) so much that I will follow Bernard Rose to the ends of the Earth and back, so if he wants to tell us his own Frankenstein tale, so be it. I do love the spin that this couple created something as pretty as Xavier Samuel though - I hope he gives the story a kinky sex twist, which would be a novel way to go.

One more thing: this reminds me that there's a great story left to be told attached to the Frankenstein story - that of Elsa Lanchester, the actress who played the Bride of Frankenstein and led a helluva life besides that, which she documented in her phenomenal autobiography. Instead of another Mary Shelley movie why not Elsa? You couldn't get a richer character up on the screen than her.