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--- Hulk Out - I was supposed to see
Thor Ragnarok last night
but I had to abandon my ticket for a work event, boo hoo me. I have it so hard, you guys. But I'm not
sure when I'll see it now - this weekend's looking pretty nuts. (
See this tweet for confirmation of that.) That
said
Thor shuffled back up the To-Do list first when I read Chris Hemsworth talk about
how many shirtless scenes he's got (apparently Taika really enjoyed getting Chris out of his clothes; use that sentence as you will) and then even more when I read
Vulture's Big Breaking Important News Story
that this one has Marvel's first nude scene - we get Hulk Butt!
Sidenote: I love how furry they've made the Hulk's chest, in keeping
with Original Ruffalo. But is Hulk's butt furry? Stay tuned!
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--- Full Cone - The early retrospective of the career of director Stephen Cone so far, which
we told you about previously, kicks off today at the Museum of the Moving Image out in Queens with his terrific and lovely latest film
Princess Cyd, which we've been telling you to see for several months now. We are on it! Seriously if you're in town you'd be a top shelf fool not to make it out there to something. Anyway
The Film Stage chatted with Cone about... well lots of stuff, it's a great peek into a great mind, go read it.
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--- Great Gerwig - I should have linked to this when I posted
that clip from Lady Bird earlier today but I spaced on it - anyway you can literally never get too much Greta Gerwig, literally -
this profile on her for New York Magazine is top tier stuff, read the shit out of it. She's every ounce the delight we've come to love. In related news The Quad, which is doing
that series on Lady Bird's influences that I told you about, just announced that GG will be there in person for the screenings of Mike Leigh's
Secrets & Lies and (wait for it) Brian DePalma's
Carrie! Ahhh! Oh and I haven't read this one yet but
here's Greta & Patty Jenkins talking about What Makes Female Directors Great, according to the headline. (thx Mac)
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--- We're All Queer Creeps - I found this
personal essay right here about discovering and interpreting one's gayness through the lens of Michael Myers and the original
Halloween film really moving and interesting, go read it. Y'all know I'm a proponent of owning the gay villain or as I've dubbed them the
Queer Creep, so this fits right in our wheelhouse.
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--- Dancing Boys - First things first I've had that behind-the-scenes video of Armie Hammer (and Timothee & Esther Garrel & Victoire Du Bois, but obviously Armie's the dancing star here) practicing their dancing on the set of
Call Me By Your Name for an entire week, maybe longer, and somehow managed to forget to post it - what is the world coming to??? Don't ask me where it came from - somebody posted it on Tumblr but you go try to sort through a week's worth of
CMBYN Tumblr, I double peach dare you. Anyway besides that wondrous thing
here's a new chat with CMBYN screenwriter and almost-director and forever-legend James Ivory on the movie. He even manages to
not bad-mouth Luca's choices this time.
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--- Call Me Leslie - The unjustly ignored in its time and still unjustly overlooked 2006 film
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is
getting a big fancy blu-ray edition next year thanks to the wonderful folks at Scream Factory, so maybe we can push this thing into broader consciousness besides just horror nerds then. Still pissed we never got a sequel. But in that vein I guess a comic series called
Before the Mask (a prequel, duh)
got funded by an online campaign last year and that is indeed coming our way. Don't know how I missed that.
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--- Beale Boys - Barry Jenkins of
Moonlight fame is getting his next movie together (a James Baldwin adaptation;
we told you about it here) and just hired a couple of very fine looking gentleman for supporting roles -
Dave Franco and Ed Skrein will co-star in
If Beale Street Could Talk, which is about a young pregnant woman named Tish (played by newcomer Kiki Layne) who is trying to save the life of her boyfriend who's been accused of a crime he didn't commit.
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--- And Finally have you seen the new speedo-stuffed teaser for the upcoming
American Crime Story second season called
The Assassination of Gianni Versace? Not just any speedo - Darren Criss Speedo. If you missed the pictures of Darren rocking a little red speedo on the set (I doubt you did, but just in case)
click here for them. And here's that teaser:
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