Good Morning, World

Well it's been awhile since we checked in with Joel McHale, at least here on the site proper (we did tweet a rumbling of things to come with a quartet of gratuitous bath-tub photos a few weeks back though), but it looks like his brand new movie called Happily -- which co-stars the great Kerry Bishé of Halt and Catch Fire -- is giving  us the content we have been craving. You work out so hard, Joel! It's only right that you let us know that. I haven't seen Happily yet but I know it's available to rent on Amazon right now and after the jump I'll give you a few more incentives to do just that...

Nevermind Our Earlier Poll...

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... obviously Joel McHale 

wore his "I Voted" sticker the best.

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Good Morning, World

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Howdy, folks. So I have managed to crawl off the couch today, propped up by obscenely large pills and what little will I have left to keep going, so we'll try to blog a bit. I can't promise you the moon and the stars but if you were looking for the moon and the stars you'd have gone elsewhere anyway. And thanks for all your kind words yesterday, by the way.

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Good Morning, World

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Happy 44 to Joel McHale today, who is officially unemployed now that The Soup is ending its run this season. Well except for his big role on the upcoming season of THE FUCKING X-FILES that is. (The X-Files, now renewed, has been renamed THE FUCKING X-FILES, by the way, in case you missed the memo.) In celebration of Joel's tenure on The Soup coming to a close just the other day we celebrated him in his underwear on the Tumblr, in case you missed it. We love you, Joel, but remember to keep getting naked.

I Am Link

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--- What A Lovely Day - Mad Max Fury Road, George Miller's triumphant return to mutated desert midgets and the tumescent pustules that love them, is out on blu-ray on September 1st, and so I imagine we'll be seeing all sorts of little goodies popping up online over the next few weeks -- The Playlist has a trio of deleted scenes today and the middle one cracked me the hell up. Seeing as how this movie was in the making for years and years I imagine there's a ton of extras... I'm holding out hope for the War Boys Orgy of my dreams, personally.

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--- Hot Soup - Joel McHale says he has no plans on quitting The Soup anytime soon - he says he's got another good thirty years of it in him. Let's all get on our knees and play that he outlasts the Kardashians. And as long as we're on our collective knees, hey Joel get over here...

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--- Said Uncle - Did any of you see The Man From UNCLE this weekend? I considered it, the reviews were pretty good, but I decided to see the latest Mission Impossible instead. (Which I will try to review later.) Anyway if any of you did see UNCLE this weekend it seems like you were by yourselves, cuz damn it flopped. Henry Cavill really did try though -- here's yet another interview with him slurring out sexy words... 

"It’s like shagging someone for the first time. Sometimes it turns out to be amazing. Mostly you’re trying to get each other’s rhythm going. It’s on the next go that you start to expand."

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--- Dream Maker - I didn't hear about this until it was too late to post about it but I guess director Bernard Rose, who made the original Candyman movie but more importantly Paperhouse (click here for all of my posts on Paperhouse, which is one of my favorite movies of all time), had a little retrospective in Los Angeles this weekend; here's an interview with him on his career. I would kill for this to happen here in NYC.
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--- Forever Wars - There was of course a bunch of news out of the Disney Expo thing this weekend (for a hot few minutes my Twitter timeline was literally nothing but tweets about the Star Wars theme parks), including the word that Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow will be directing the next Star Wars; I stand by my tweet...
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I don't see how anyone can manage anything more than a shrug over the Colin Trevorrow Star Wars news. He sanded Jurassic down to shavings

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 15, 2015

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Anyway some actual groovy news was that Mads Mikkelsen and Alan Tudyk have both joined the cast of Star Wars: Rogue One, the first spin-off film, which Gareth "Monsters" Edwards is directing. (I'm actually surprised Scoot McNairy isn't in this movie too, seeing as how Monsters gave him his big break.) They'll star alongside Diego Luna and Riz Ahmed and my god there's a sex scene I want to see.
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--- Bombs Away - Speaking of, Scoot's much deserved big boy career is chugging along nicely -- he's just signed on to co-star opposite Brad Pitt in that Netflix Afghanistan war satire called War Machine, which is being directed by Animal Kingdom director David Michod. (thanks Mac) The film's based on the book The Operators: The Wild And Terrifying Inside Story Of America’s War In Afghanistan -- any of y'all read it? 

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--- The Return of Vicki Vale - I don't really think Kim Basinger is a great actress but she's always been a warm and welcoming presence on-screen anyway so I'm happy to hear she's gotten cast in Tom Ford's movie Nocturnal Animals opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams and Aaron Johnson and Michael Shannon. I like everyone that they've cast so far! Basinger is playing Adams' mother (which is possible - they're 21 years apart).
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Reach For The Stars, Joel McHale

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THR is reporting that Joel McHale, whose nips we were just fondling with our eyeballs yesterday, is signed on to guest-star on the brand new six-episode "season" of The X-Files! They have the details at that link on his character but I'll leave them over there in case you wanna stay one hundred percent unspoiled, which is understandable.... okay but one thing, just one little thing - his character's name is Tad! I'm already smitten. In related news...

... did you hear that Gillian Anderson is going to do A Streetcar Named Desire here in NYC next year? And with Ben Foster! OH OH OH I WANT IT.

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Good Morning, Community

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I believe that these gifs are from the final episode of the sixth Yahoo-based season of Community, which... well I haven't been paying attention, is this it? I know Harmon's mantra is "six seasons and a movie" and the way he's gotten away with flat-lined audience numbers not mattering this far I can't imagine there not being a movie, but I have not heard anything. (I also haven't been looking. I only pay attention to Community when Joel McHale takes his clothes off. Thankfully that happened several times (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here) although not in awhile. This little flash of shirtlessness here is eyeball bait to the me's of the world, and we appreciate it, show. Thanks for doing what you do.

Good Morningish, McHale

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We're getting a slightly late start today for reasons and so instead of the usual morning-themed money-shots let's go with an early lunch treat. Mmm tasty.

I'm guessing there's a When Harry Met Sally joke going on? (I'd like to introduce my harry to Joel McHale's sally, ba dum bump.) Have you guys been keeping up with Community now that it's absconded to internet places unknown? (In this scenario, that obscurity called Yahoo is playing the role of "unknown.") I haven't but I imagine I'll unhinge my jaw and swallow it whole once the season's done.

In related news, Joel was on James Corden's show this week alongside Oscar Isaac and... well, that happened. Lots...

... and lots of that happened. I suppose it's good Joel bent over though (not the first time I've wanted to say that phrase) because Oscar's so teeny tiny it kept Oscar from looking like a munchkin sitting on Joel's shoulder. If I'm going to imagine scenarios between the two of them it's going to involve lots of levers and pulleys and forced perspectives, is my point.

Hand Me My Leather, Donald Glover

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I had totally forgotten that Donald Glover was in Magic Mike XXL, but there he is, strutting his sexy ass across his own one-sheet. It's nice that the sequel added some color to the ranks (and not just to fight off the Chocolate City competition) - Donald's been an underrated hot piece for quite some time, but we've been on his gratuitous case since the start. His Community bromance with Joel McHale clearly helps. (And man I wish Joel was putting the XX in XXL.) Click here for previous Donald gratuity, and click here and here for the previous XXL posts featuring Matt Bomer, Channing Tatum, and Joe Manganiello, amongst others.

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Joel McHale Has A Beard

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Why am I just finding out that Joel McHale's got a beard?

I guess it's my own fault, since 

I fell off with my Soup watching.

But you'd think one of you assholes 

would've told me! Assholes!

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I Am Link

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--- So Many Degrees - The only reason I clicked on this link about an HBO miniseries being made of a book called Olive Kitteredge is I first read that name as "Ouisa Kittredge" and I thought it was a spin-off sequel about Stockard Channing's character in Six Degrees of Separation and I was so fucking excited about that. But it's not that, and I was sad when I realized my mistake, but then I read what it actually is and hey, it's pretty cool - it's Lisa Cholodenko (director of The Kids Are All Right, etc) making the thing, and it will star (deep breathe) Frances McDormand (although honestly I could stop there with just her name and we'd all be sold already), Richard Jenkins, John Gallagher Jr (he was the boyfriend in Short Term 12), Peter Mullan (yay Session 9), Rosemarie DeWitt (yay Tara's sister), Zoe Kazan, Ann Dowd (yay creep from Compliance), Jesse Plemons (yay creep from Breaking Bad) and Brady Corbet (stop stalking me Brady Corbet) amongst others. That is a really nice cast right there.

--- Cherish is The Word - If you're curious what the situation it is that Miss Valerie Cherish will be finding herself in the second season of The Comeback, you can get some details about it right here. I love the idea because it's absolutely not what I was expecting and it's got me excited that Kudrow and Co are really going to be able to surprise me with what they've got to say. As long as I stop spoiling myself for everything, of course.

--- Fin Soup - The movie of the week over at The Dissolve has been Jaws and they've had tons of great little pieces on Speilberg's Summer classic but I wanna point you to this really great article about the shameless rip-off of that movie called Great White, which got banned by Jaws' studio, because it offers up some really interesting thoughts on how important the dialogue is between hucksters and artists and how opaque those lines can be.

--- Whole Joel - There's not really much to offer from this THR chat with Joel McHale besides a couple of zingers about A Game of Thrones and his reaction to The Soup getting an Emmy nomination (he blames it on Matthew McConaughey) but it does allow me to post that picture of Joel McHale, so it's all been worth it.

--- It's Doomed - Hey look it's another day of the week so we need a new rumor about another character getting stuffed into Zack Snyder's Superman Vs Batman Vs The Kitchen Sink - now there's word that big bad Doomsday might in fact be in the movie after all. It could just be a cameo a la Thanos in The Avengers, hinting at what's to come for the Justice League movie.

--- Troll Time - I haven't read through this whole thing yet, it's long and I'm in a rush today (speaking of Summer Fridays have begun at my office starting today so we'll be going quiet for the weekend in just a little bit), but here's a set visit to Laika's new stop-motion beauty called The Boxtrolls over at AICN and it's filled with striking pictures of the filmmakers and the figures they so deftly manipulate for their art.

--- And finally oh my gosh how neat-o is this, it's four and a half minutes of behind-the-scenes from The Exorcist that's never been released before! Levitating, pea soup spitting - it's got it all!
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Deliver Us From Exorcism Movies

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There's actually a not-half-bad domestic heart beating in the exorcism-procedural (now there's a genre for ya) Deliver Us From Evil, when the movie feels like going there. Save a wobbly accent from Eric Bana I bought into his sweet but tortured home-life with an excellent Olivia Munn - once again, as with Magic Mike, she's prying the focus off from a crowd of sexy menfolk with all the effort she can muster and actually, against all the odds, succeeding. Watching her giggle and snort as the hot geek girl on G4 all those years ago I never would've guessed we had a fine actress staring back at us, but here we are. I hope somebody else is noticing.

So for the first hour or so DUFE wasn't exactly reinventing the Catherine Wheel or anything, but there was something to it that was keeping me along for the bumpy ride, and it wasn't just Munn or Eric Bana's astonishingly vast array of astonishingly well-fitted t-shirts. It was ripping off much better movies (David Fincher's Seven could sue) sure, but thanks to that homebound heart and a not-uninteresting mystery involving a group of soldiers coming home from the war fundamentally changed (a solid premise for a horror movie's theme, for sure) I was in.

So I was sad when the film's last hour swerved off straight to Shitsville (Population: every exorcism movie not called The Exorcist). As giddy a thrill as I got seeing Edgar Ramirez make googly eyes up and down Eric Bana (seriously, watch the way Edgar watches Eric and tell me he wasn't pushing an agenda the movie sadly had no interest in), Edgar's whole proper thunk down into the story is like a lead balloon. 

When I saw the first trailer for the movie I said something along the lines of (and I'm paraphrasing myself here) "Director Scott Derrickson just doesn't seem to find scary the same things I find scary" - I felt that when his last movie Sinister devolved into a junky ghost-kids mess and here that same sense of incompatible agendas is rearing its head once again. Once DUFE (god I love that acronym) descends into an endless series of scenes of characters screeching devil chants back and forth it might think that it's dancing with the demons in the pale moonlight, but I was unmoved, standing over to the side tapping my watch willing it spin itself around like a tween's possessed noggin. One man's "Putting the Hell in the movie-going experience" is, well, another man's slightly different same.

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Do Dump or Marry - Deliver Us To Hotness

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Finally an impressive batch of pictures from the upcoming horror flick Deliver Us From Evil has shown us thanks to STYD - impressive not because they show us scary things that a horror movie should be showing us, but impressive because they highlight all the hot pieces of meat starring in this thing. namely Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, and Joel McHale. That's the reason I've been looking forward to this movie, after all!

I wasn't entirely bowled over by the trailer - that rolling stuffed animal just doesn't spook me, much like the ghost-kids in director Scott Derrickson's previous movie Sinister didn't scare me... I have a feeling me and Scott just aren't scared by the same things. That said I'll totally see this movie for this cast wearing their t-shirts while being all solemn and tough.

Sign me up! This movie's finally out on July 2nd, and after over a year of posting about it (I first posted about it last April) I'd say it's about time I gathered the guys up for one of our fun-time threeways and asked y'all to choose. Take to the comments and tell me who would Do Dump and Marry.

Oh and hit the jump for a few more pictures of the guys standing around looking like they're three seconds from the bow-chicka-wah-wah music beginning to play...

Who Wore It Best?

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I can't be the only one who stared at Joel Mchale's cleavage on the most recent Community and saw nothing but Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars right? (I'm totally the only person who saw it.)

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poll by twiigs.com

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What Are You Trying To Ask, Joel McHale?

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Whatever it is, the answer is yes. (via, thanks Mac)

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Good Morning, World

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A happy 42nd birthday to our favorite Seacrest-lampooning wiseacre Joel McHale. Now that Community creator Dan Harmon's going to be back for the next season of that show I hope we can get back to what really matters - making Joel McHale take his clothes off. There wasn't nearly enough of that in the last Harmon-less season, which is why it failed. Sad aside that I just learned from Joel's IMDB page this morning - Joel was actually born in Rome (as in Italy), so he'll never be President of the United States. Boo.

I Am Link

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--- No Ass Kick - Jim Carrey has come out against his upcoming movie Kick-Ass 2, denouncing the violence in the wake of Sandy Hook etc etera. I see movie violence as more of a reflection of society than a cause, but I still think this is totally cool of him all the same. It creates a conversation, anyway. It also creates an opportunity for me to post that picture of Aaron Johnson's backside in costume, so bless you Jim.

--- Another She - I hadn't heard the news that Samantha Morton, my beloved, had been replaced as the voice of the computer that Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with in Spike Jonze's upcoming film Her - Scarlett Johansson is now voicing the role. I can only assume they wanted to go for sexy instead of sweet, because that's the only way that swap makes sense to me. Oh also some footage screened in LA this weekend, which Slash has word on.

--- White Wolf - Channing Tatum says he's playing a half-wolf half-human albino in the Wachowskis new film Jupiter Rising, so you know, he should be terribly attractive to look at, and all. Maybe they're giving him some body hair? Like... white grandpa body hair? I can only imagine. And worry. In a post-Cloud Atlas world I worry.

--- RIP MJ - There was some drama last week when it was announced that Shailene Woodley was cut out of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (she'd already filmed a couple scenes as Mary Jane, Peter Parker's other love interest); now comes word that Cronenberg regular Sarah Gadon has joined the movie, but the suits say she is not taking over the Mary Jane role. 

--- Dino Tacular - What are purported to be story details for the fourth Jurassic Park film can be read over at JoBlo... or right here - apparently the park in the movie is going to be full operational, meaning full of people, and we're going to see aquatic dinos this time! There'll be a full Sea World-esque show. AWESOME. But they've managed to keep wraps on the super-secret super-smart dino that causes all the havoc, still.

--- Night Man - Joel McHale talked to EW a little bit about Beware the Night, that paranormal cop movie he's making with Eric Bana; most importantly they mention he had to be "in top physical condition, especially since he’s working opposite 'freaking Eric Bana.'” Fingers crossed that by "opposite" he really means "underneath."

--- Undead Daddy - Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to make the zombie movie Maggie, about a man whose daughter is slowly turning into one of the undead. I guess the script's fairly well received - course once it's Arnold saying yours precious words, expectations tend to change, eh?

--- And finally, here's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new video (via) for the song "Despair," which is the first music video ever shot on the top of the Empire State Building. Karen O is life.

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Beware The Night Belongs To Lovers

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Even though we kinda thought Sinister stunk (moratorium on ghost kids, stat) that hasn't stopped us from repeatedly posting on director Scott Derrickson's follow-up, the paranormal cop thriller called Beware the Night. How has Mr. Derrickson managed this feat? He's gone and told his casting director to hire all of the hot pieces in all of the land, that's how. All of them! Eric Bana has been set as the film's lead for awhile now; then in April Edgar Ramirez joined the cast as a priest that bana's cop teams up with to fight evil spirits or whatever. And apparently Mr. Derrickson won't be happy until my eyeballs pop right the eff out of their sockets come movie-time because today they've gone and cast Joel McHale as Eric Bana's partner. So my point is that hopefully once they get these chaps on set they'll realize that this "evil spirit" junk is beside the point and shoot the movie we all really wanna see. Bow chicka wah wahhh...

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... summoning a Joel McHale sex robot from the future.

So now we know - 

the suspicious underpants come from the future!!!

The Return of the Suspicious Underpants

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Well it's about time, Joel Mchale. (via)

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