Anne Hathaway Catwoman

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--- Lots of Superman news this week - Henry Cavill sported the Supes curl in public which got all the fan-boys wet (I was too busy staring at the way he fills out those trousers and getting correspondingly wet from that to notice his hair), he talked about his crazy training regime and trying on the super suit for the first time, and Laurence Fishburne got the role of Perry White (great choice).

--- Good to see Natasha Lyonne getting some work, we liked her back in the day, and this is some good work at that (we assume, sight obviously unseen) - she's gotten a gig in that dark comedy of Kristen Wiig's called Imogene that we've been hearing so much about lately.

--- Lost Hitchcock movie The White Shadow has been found! Or at least half of it has. Plus Hitch didn't actually so much direct the movie as he did a bunch of important creative tasks in the making of it. But still! Some cool pics from it can be seen over here.

--- End Of Times - Stake Land, a movie I liked, is out on DVD this week and Twitch caught up with its director Jim Mickle to find out his favorite pieces of apocalyptic fiction and it's a fun list.

--- And speaking of apocalypses, and when aren't we, ow weird is it that the problem that's now holding up George Miller's 4th Mad Max film - the one that supposed to stuff Tom Hardy into those snug leather pants - is there's been too much rain in the area of Australia where they were set to film and it's not apocalyptic enough to shoot in now? Cursed by foliage! George Miller can't catch a break.

--- And in sexy apocalypse news, big bad Benjamin Walker, who I haven't seen in anything yet but am still sort of infatuated with, is playing the archangel Michael in Alex Proyas' movie Paradise Lost, which already has Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer. Ben's got the baby-face and godly bod of every dream archangel.

--- Apparently Margaret - the second film by Kenneth Lonergan after You Can Count On Me that's been sitting on a shelf for what, six years now? - is getting released in September. It supposedly has a brilliant performance from Mark Ruffalo, but got all tangled up in legal crap (plus the studio wanted a shorter cut and Lonergan refused).

--- I'm not really sure I have it in me to watch a show from Ryan Murphy at this point. Nip/Tuck became nigh unwatchable after a couple seasons and y'all know my feelings towards Glee, not to mention the man himself has proven himself completely and totally insufferable in the press. I guess we'll always have Popular. Anyway his next show is a horror show so maybe I can be brought around. It's called American Horror Story (Really? Blah.) and it stars Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton (I know people love her from Friday Night Lights but as I've never gotten around to that show she's left me relatively unimpressed so far) but most awesomely Jessica Lange as the neighbor, presumably spooky. I dunno. BD has a teaser and some pictures. McDermott still looks pretty good (although he'll always be the crappy husband from Steel Magnolias to me).

--- Did anybody else see the trailer for Battleship in theaters this past weekend - two minutes of Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard looking hot in naval uniforms amidst some really blatant Transformers ripping-off (Really, Peter Berg? Michael Bay's who you wanna rip off?) - and experience what I did when the title came up, which was an entire audience of people bursting into laughter? I wonder if the folks at Universal did, since news is they're scrapping their plans for several of their long-planned board-game movie adaptations like Clue and Monopoly.

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Yes, as teased in my previous post I went and saw the 10 anniversary celebration of David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer hosted by Stella (Michael Showalter, Wain and Michael Ian Black, as seen above) in Brooklyn last night, and I took some pictures and some videos to share, hooray! Let's get right to the good stuff.

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The above video is thirty seconds of five people fondling sweaters while being cursed at, and if you don't get that then you should probably stop reading this now.

Michael Showalter and Marguerite Moreau,

doing their awkward thing.

There be Janeane Garofalo, telling all the Jews in the audience that they'll have their pick of shoes when the Rapture comes. She was wearing a pillowcase. Unfortunately she never did her moose (mousse) impersonation.

On the left there is Gideon Jacobs who played Aaron, the little boy that Molly Shannon falls in love with. He got some lusty whoops for growing up good. Beside him is Gabriel Millman, who played the caped boy (the one with the twenty sided die that takes douchebag as a compliment). He did not get any lusty whoops. 

In the right-hand picture Showalter's doing his Alan Shemper shtick. Cavemen thought I was old, arrr, et cetera.

That's adorable AD Miles, who played Gary (the one who keeps hearing Christopher Meloni's bizarre comments), interviewing Can Of Vegetables. (Can of Vegetables as voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, otherwise known as Sterling Archer, my cartoon sex crush.)

And finally, we have Ken Marino and Marisa Ryan in character as the boastful virgin Victor and the gum-snapping slut Abby. If you've got a thing for Ken Marino's legs then this was must-see. Oh and he sang "Danny's Song" which happens memorably in the movie! Which you can watch right here!

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That is one of the best things ever. There were videos from several of the no-shows - Amy Poehler's character is apparently now a costume designer on a semi-animated film exclusively for Hulu, while Paul Rudd reenacted his tray-smashing routine for Judd Apatow. They showed a couple of audition tapes too - Bradley Cooper being kind of terrible, Amy Poehler hitting it out of the park from word one, and Naomi Watts (!!!) reading for the part that Marguerite Moreau got in a terribly sleazy-seeming video that felt like the opening scene from a lost 80s porn.

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I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters.

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... you can learn from:

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Can you believe that WHAS has been out ten whole years today? I've seen this movie a dozen times over and oh how we laugh and laugh. Of memories past and wonderful things. There's a nice little commemorative post over at The Film Experience. There was supposed to be a cast-studded party in Brooklyn in honor of the film's anniversary last night but it got pushed to next week, but I'll be there! I hope Paul Rudd's there in just his Andy costume.

Or perhaps Bradley Cooper and Michael Ian Black can reenact
their most famous and tender lovemaking for us?

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Or maybe Chris Meloni will hump a fridge!

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I will die if that happens in front of me.

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I wish there were Greta Gerwig news every day. Greta Gerwig bought an apple from a street vendor! Greta Gerwig cured cancer! Greta Gerwig bought another apple from the same street-vendor when she passed by him later that same day! If only. What a wonderful world that'd be, my inbox filled with such things. For now we just have to make due with when she signs on for new movies, which thankfully hasn't really let up since she went and showed everybody how she's the queen of awesomesauce. Via Deadline:

I really wanted to title this post "What's Good For The Gerwig Is Good For The Gosling" by the way but that was too long and I've used variations on it for Ryan Gosling posts in the past. Who knew a better circumstance filled with such spectacular alliteration would present itself? Nobody, that's who.

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Apparently there is a 2002 movie called Bending All The Rules starring Bradley Cooper who at some point in the proceedings is jailed with another dude (played by David Gail, also seen below) and forced to take it off. I know this because PopWrap just posted the video of this happening, which you can watch at that link. For here, let's just post some caps, eh?

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