The Time Has Come To Abandon Sleeves

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But only if your name is Alexander Skarsgård. And then, if your name is Alexander Skarsgård, then the time has also come for you to stop reading my blather and send me an email with the time and the place. You name it, Alex. But if you're not Alexander Skarsgård, then whatever, do what you want, I don't care. God. Why don't you watch the trailer for the Straw Dogs remake and leave me alone, Not Alexander Skarsgård. He mostly never wears sleeves!
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And yeah, Jimmy Marsden's there too but he only shows a little chest fur and leg, he doesn't get full credit for that. Not in the face of this all. Fail, Jimmy! Fail. I know you can do better. Look at them, up on that roof! Remember the last time you were on a roof? I certainly do. I remember it well. Why don't you do that again, hmmm?

I Quit Smoking Three Years Ago Today

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It's been three whole years since my last smoke, and it seems a lifetime. I can't even really remember being a smoker anymore. It seems bonkers. The amount of money I used to spend! God! Not that I've managed to save money now that I don't smoke. Heroin's expensive, after all. Anyway this being my anniversary it's time for the third in my series (Here's Year 1, and here's Year 2) of celebrating my nicotine extinction event by posting a bunch of picture of really attractive fellows glorifying the nasty habit through the virtue of looking so gosh darn attractive while doing it. Mixed messages ahoy!

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I Am Link

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--- Strike A Pose - A few of the stories I'm shepherding into this post should probably get posts all their own, and this is one of them. Steven Soderbergh making a male stripper movie starring Channing Tatum, based on Channing's own well-documented g-stringed past? Uh... what? And I love the assertion that Soderbergh was totally gonna retire but this story was one he just couldn't not tell! The epic thrust of it! I love this crazy world sometimes. So that means SS is going from covering Michael Douglas in glitter for a Liberace bio-pic to stuffing Channing into a thong. Never leave us, Steven.

--- Slice N Dice - Slash has got the trailer for Takashi Miike's next film, which is apparently another samurai movie, called Hari-Kari: Death of a Samurai. It will be shown at Cannes.

--- Arrrgh? - I have no idea what the hell this Cobra: The Space Pirate movie is, but it's from Alexandre Aja so I'm immediately curious. But that poster is ridiculous. Ridiculous! (via) 

--- War Man - The terrific Anthony Mackie is up for a role in World War Z opposite Brad Pitt. I'm really curious to see how they managed to make a script from that book, which was just a series of stories told from the point of view of survivors of a zombie apocalypse. There wasn't a through-line to follow so much, no central characters. I guess they just pick one and follow him through the people's stories, probably. Not that hard.

--- The Pie King - Another story that'd deserve it's own post on a morning when I'm not too groggy for it is this: Lee Pace has joined the cast of The Hobbit! Kick-ass! Congrats, Lee! He'll be playing the Elven King Thranduil. I can already see the long flowing blond hair on him, can't you? He wore it so well in Soldier's Girl after all.

--- All Josses Eve - Rumors have it that Lionsgate intends to release Cabin in the Woods on October 28th. I am so glad the Saw movies are finished so we can have horror movies come out at Halloween again! Hooray!

--- Rape Me - The first couple of images from the so-unnecessary-it's-painful Straw Dogs remake, starring James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård and some bland skinny blond woman, are over at BD, and just look at Alex there and tell me you wouldn't want to get raped by that. It's not rape if it's Alexander Skarsgård! Okay I'll stop that now. Sorry. I got carried away.

--- Chain Gang - And yet a third story deserving it's own post - Tarantino's next film has a title - Django Unchained - and a bit of plot. You can read about it over at DH. Sounds like it deals heavily with slavery and racism, in a Spaghetti Western sort of context. Instead of a Western he's calling it a Southern. Sounds like there's a kick-ass lead role in store for a lucky black actor.

--- Nerd Porn - There were some pictures taken from the NYC set of the next Spider-Man movie over the weekend and they included that adorable one of Andy there. how could I not share that? Collective awww. He looks so cute in glasses! Awww.

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I Wouldn't Do That If I Were You, Jake

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This will be the only time that I ever advise against it, but sneaking up behind Patrick Wilson might not be the best idea this weekend. He's awfully jumpy. He's got good reason to be, what with the terrifying demons and what not. And anyway, Jake's got problems of his own, what with the constant exploding.

Both Source Code (my review) and Insidious (my review) are out today, and they're both worth seeing, besides a couple of minor reservations here or there. You'd have a fine weekend at the multiplex if you sought them both out. There are several other movies out today as well, and you can read up on my thoughts on those over at Celebrity Beehive. I blame Hop for altering the course of humanity, amongst other things, so don't miss it!

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