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Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 10:30AM 
Benjamin Walker: still waiting for the mainstream breakthroughPajiba If you needed some contrarian Grace & Frankie critique try this. I love Dustin but he actually thinks that Grace & Frankie are the problems with Grace & Frankie. Say what? Is this opposite day?
The Dissolve Xavier Dolan's Tom at the Farm getting US distribution two years late. (sigh) So weird that it took so long since it's a) good b) marketable being of the thriller genre and c) only 90 minutes long (that's practically a "short" by the standards of the Dolanverse)
People Actress Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) honored her legendary dad Joel Grey (Cabaret) at a recent event
Broadway World The awesome but still relatively unknown Benjamin Walker (aka 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' Himself and Former Streep-Son-in-Law) will star in American Psycho: The Musical on Broadway next spring.
Towleroad Tony Award predictions
Gold Standard predicts Best Drama Series at the Emmys - suggests that Breaking Bad dominance will continue with Better Call Saul. NOOOooooooo
Today's Must See(s)
Color me so impressed that this site did a video entry for "Hit Me With Your Best Shot". Why didn't I think of that? Maybe it'll inspire others to join us! *crossing fingers* Now go read Movie Motorbreath and subscribe totheir YouTube channel (I hope STinG does this every week).
This short video is like Action Filmmaking 101. And obviously a lot of action directors working in Hollywood need to go back to school since John Seale (cinematographer) and George Miller (director) and Margaret Sixel (editor) just reminded everyone how it's done. This video describes one of the main reasons that Mad Mad Fury Road is so incredibly exciting without ever being disorienting. (Hat tip to Polygon for bringing this to our attention.)
Superhero Link Quota
Heroic Hollywood looks at Marvel/Netflix's Defenders plans post Daredevil success. The proposed Black Widow series is never happening though, get real. ScarJo is too much of a movie star to settle
Comics Alliance Luke Mitchell promoted to series regular for Agents of SHIELD S3. (I liked him a lot but I'm done with that show. It's just far too incoherent and inferior to other Marvel product out there - Agent Carter runs circles around it for one and you can't watch everything.)
Show Tune To Go!
Musical hater Jason would not approve of me commemorating his baby My New Plaid Pants's 10th birthday this week by sharing a showtune but that's why I have to. Otherwise this would be way too sentimental because MNPP is my personal favorite blog (4realz). It's always hilarious and sexy and puts a smile on my face when I'm down and Jason is genius. So go and wish him well. For his tenth anniversary he counts down the ten hot movie stars he's posted about the most over the years. Naturally Jake Gyllenhaal wins but the order is interesting and for the show tune to go I've selected features Bachelor #8 Dominic Cooper's Bathing Suit from Mamma Mia! I can't imagine most TFE readers aren't already aware of Jason's blog (since he posts here regularly, too) but if you aren't, get familiar. There's something for everyone: cinephiles will love "The Moment I Fell For..." and "Five Frames From..." and his succinct reviews; Horny admirers of the male form \will love NSFW stuff like "Gratuitous" and "Anatomy IN a Scene" and "Do, Dump, or Marry"; if you're a horror fan you'll be way more at home over there since he has totally gross but inspired series like "Ways Not To Die," too.
So happy anniversary and keep making the internet a better place with "nonsense incarnate," everyone!
Reader Comments (9)
Walker is no longer the Streep son-in-law! They divorced a couple years ago and now he's engaged to Kaya Scoledario, which is slightly creepy. I know--when did this all happen?!
CICI -- what? they only got married a couple of years ago. that was fast.
That clip from Mamma Mia is my favourite bit of the movie. (Not that it has much competition.) It's because of the editing in the second verse. Suddenly, the editing becomes genius. Just for a few shots. And then becomes ordinary again. But for that second verse, cinematic heaven! It's so odd how mediocre films can have small patches of greatness in it. I think there's sometimes a tendency in our minds to remember a film's quality as a whole - i.e. it's a great film or a rubbish film or a pretty good film - when in fact I often find that a film can be good one minute, great the next, clumsy the next... etc.
Vince Gilligan seems to be your TV (Streepish) Swank, Nat. Looking forward to your Homesman moment. ;-)
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I'm putting this link here not for "The Dark Tower", but because the new director of that franchise is also set to direct a remake of "Rebecca".
Benjamin Walker looking like the young Eric Bana in that pic.
Co-sign all you said about My New Plaid Pants. Lots of sexy stuff but I stick around cuz Jason is hilarious.
I challenge the notion that "Fury Road" is *never* disorienting. The first chase scene with the spiky cars and those explosive darts (sorry, don't know what to call them) and the sandstorm scene often confused me, and I felt my eyes crossing on at least one occasion. But then again, I might argue that visual disorientation was at least partially intended by the filmmakers in a kind of rapidly-cut, visceral Soviet montage kind of way.
I remember in your review of "Frankie and Grace" you wrote something along the line, everytime it's not about F&G it is boring/not so good and you wish it returns back to them. And I wondered if it was my indifference to the two actresses that I felt the opposite. I liked their scences the least; I agree with the Pajiba post that I would like to know more about the children and love the chemistry between the two male leads.