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[the_grynne]

This week, Matthew McNulty breezed into Lark Rise and Candleford as the whimsically named Fisher Bloom, an itinerant clockmaker who has been commissioned to create the centrepiece for the town square. McNulty can also be seen in the (soon-to-be released?) Salvador Dali biopic Little Ashes, in which he plays Luis Buñuel opposite Robert Pattison's

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[angstbunny]

Michael Fassbender (Hunger), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Dominic West (The Wire) have been cast in Neil Marshall's sword-and-sandal thriller Centurion.

Ooooooooooooh. I'd be watching it just for that cast alone.

But his Holmes can't be any worse than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... Right?

No movie can be as horrible as LEG.

[the_grynne]

Ah-ahah. It's LXG, remember. ;)

[angstbunny]

Riiiiiiiiiiiite. -_-

[aquandrian]

But he will do those things while being a man of action, a chaser, shooter and pummeler of criminals

But must he? Talk about taking all the fun out of Holmes ... drugaddicted cripple, remember?! Honestly, you'd think at least the success of House would count for something ...

*sobs into hankie*

[the_grynne]

Exactly! It's like they saying, "Well, we don't like the actual Holmes, we have to make him into everything adolescent boys like and admire." Forcryingoutloud.

[kismeteve]

At least the Ritchie movie will be better than the Ferrell-Cohen movie. I hope.

[the_grynne]

...for all that's worth. :(

I think my problem with all these films is that Holmes has fallen into the hands of these fratty GUYS, whereas recent literary takes on the character have most been by women.

[kismeteve]

I can get why Ritchie is stressing the idea of Holmes and Watson as younger men, but it's the tone of the thing that's off. "Fratty" is the best way to describe it. Holmes was definitely capable of ass-kicking, but the whole point was that he didn't.

We're never going to get our Laurie King movie (*sadface*), but couldn't they have at least gone for the more contemplative, older Chabon-Cullin route?

[the_grynne]

I'm so disgusted by Guy Ritchie in general lately.

your updates

[ewanmax]

You know I look forward to all your news and links because you are always taking me to things I want to know about....
but.....
I finally actually caught something BEFORE you told me....
Yay...
I had already watched the entire section of clips by newsweek with the group of them and loved getting to see them together and how they interacted. It was an interesting 20 or so minutes, Ann Hathaway came off much better than she usually does and the questions about Obama and what influenced them were very interesting. What did you think of some of Downey's and Rourke's comments? The dynamics were very interesting....

as always you complete me

Re: your updates

[the_grynne]

The Newsweek Oscar roundtable is something I enjoy every year...even if it's just to watch a bunch of Hollywood actors poke fun at one another. :) I'm interested this year in the fact that Sean Penn and Kate Winslet, the forerunners to take the award, weren't there.

And thank you. :)

Re: your updates

[ewanmax]

That would have been wonderful to sit and listen to Kate (I do think she is wonderful) and I loved Milk and would also love to hear Sean talk a little about Into the Wild with Emile. I was still wondering what your take was on Mickey, Robert, Brad and Frank.

Re: your updates

[the_grynne]

Robert and Brad are always entertaining, I liked their comments on the industry; and Frank is as I remember from a video roundtable on American Theater Wing. I find that actor with some theatre experience are often more confident talking about their own craft. Anne Hathaway held her own, and I admired her for that. Rourke...have never seen him do press, but I love him in the old movies (Rumblefish, 9 1/2 Weeks). Not as self-deprecating as RDJ, but his frankness worked off well against him.