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Showing posts with label Dominic Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dominic Cooper. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 August 2011
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I was just updating my calendar with movie release dates - don't act like you don't do the same thing! - and in so doing came upon Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In page of release dates. It comes out in the US on October 14th, but at that link it also lists the film as showing at this year's New York Film Festival on October 8th. Correct me if I'm wrong but I've been following NYFF news and all they've formally announced so far is the opening night film - Roman Polanski's Carnage - and the centerpiece film - My Week With Marilyn with Michelle Williams tackling Miss Monroe (not to mention Dominic Cooper... not tackling Marilyn Monroe too, he's just in the movie, although that'd be something to see) - and so perhaps somebody updating something at IMDb jumped the gun? Whatever the case I plan on watching the fuck out of the NYFF this year so I'll be there!
The final weekend of the fest is also when NY's ComicCon is happening, plus the remake of The Thing comes out... I will be a busy bee. Speaking of...
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I had a laughing fit recently when this part of Best In Show
popped into my head. "That's a bear in a bee costume."
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... that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving,
and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving....
(thanks Mac)
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Wednesday, 3 August 2011
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... by several sources - two out of zero readers polled agree! - that there are people who do not find Dominic Cooper attractive. Obviously I'm inclined to disagree, perhaps to the power of infinity and beyond, but I guess it's not up to me to judge insane people's opinions (out loud). Point being, this.
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But before you make any hasty snap judgments, you should probably check out this new-to-my-eyes photo-shoot of Dom in Flaunt magazine (including that shirtless pic up top) because damn.
What is wrong with you people??? I mean I see the Boston terrier thing just fine but that doesn't mean he's not the sexiest Boston Terrier ever put on Earth! Once The Devil's Double is on DVD and I can screen-cap the extensive coverage of his magnificent ass then hopefully we can put all this silliness behind (har) us. A heap of Boston puppies don't hold a candle to that butt! (And yes, I never thought I'd type that sentence just as much as you never thought you would read it.)
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What is wrong with you people??? I mean I see the Boston terrier thing just fine but that doesn't mean he's not the sexiest Boston Terrier ever put on Earth! Once The Devil's Double is on DVD and I can screen-cap the extensive coverage of his magnificent ass then hopefully we can put all this silliness behind (har) us. A heap of Boston puppies don't hold a candle to that butt! (And yes, I never thought I'd type that sentence just as much as you never thought you would read it.)
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Monday, 1 August 2011
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I'm getting woefully behind with writing up proper movie reviews. Several films have come and gone before me with nary a whisper - I haven't been particularly inspired enough by any of them to force words out of myself... but I should. Force myself, that is. So I'm gonna lop out a few thoughts on several films in one go. Let's see what happens! This is so exciting!
The Devil's Double - A weirdly airless film that can't decide how far it can push the Scarface movie it wants to be without, you know, exploiting the real-world atrocities it's documenting as gangsta cred. It would've been better off going one way or the other - and I would've had it go straight off the deep end, honestly - but as is there's not much tension to be had. Good Dominic Cooper stays good and Evil Dominic Cooper stays evil, and they just kind of sit there and watch each other be respectively good and be respectively evil for two hours. All that said, this tweet contains immense truth that made the viewing experience occasionally dizzying. Good god this movie will do well in The Great Gratuities of 2011.
Cowboys & Aliens - I tweeted an echo of the tweet I just linked to in honor of the spectacle that was Daniel Craig posing in chaps, and that remains my most vivid memory of the flick here less than two days later. What else was there? I mean, besides the same goddamned boring creature design that I railed against a few weeks ago? Slapping some goopy "Benny from Total Recall" arms into their guts does not alleviate the fact that these were basically the same things we saw in District 9 and Super 8 and every damned alien movie forever now. I suppose lamenting the state of creativity in Hollywood is skull-fucking a dead horse at this point but it's especially exhausting when it comes to the monster makers. I want good monsters, people! There's a universe of insane concepts out thereand I keep getting stupid bug-men!Otherwise C&A wasn't offensively bad - Harrison Ford actually appeared to be sober and paying attention this time! And the film took its time and had people actually talking about things to each other, which somehow seems an extraordinary accomplishment these days. But you know how Daniel Craig's jangly little bracelet would light up to warn them whenever an alien was nearby? All that made me think of was the pulsing alien detector in James Cameron's Aliens, you know the one - "They're all around us, man! Jesus!" - and oh how this movie suffered in comparison.
Crazy Stupid Love - I know I'm not the only person who came out of this movie wishing the entire thing had been about Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's characters but good god did those two have sparks or what? Everything else going on I just kept wanting to get back to them. That island of time in the middle where Ryan's shirtless and Emma's being her goofy spazz self was a little slice of heaven. I didn't mind the storyline with the teenagers - I appreciated it's non-ballistic point of view towards teen sexuality (kids masturbate and take dirty pictures of themselves and it's not the end of the world!). But I kind of thought everything having to do with Steve Carell and Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei was way off-key.
Sucker Punch - I was sort of mortified about halfway through Sucker Punch to realize that yup, once again I was finding myself, despite my own sanity begging me not to, mostly liking a Zach Snyder movie. There's a clarity to the way he shoots action that I deeply admire - I hear people scoffing at his patented speed-up slow-down way of shooting and focusing in on movement but I love it. Do we prefer Michael Bay throwing our eyeballs into a blender? Snyder's camera pulls way way out so you can see everything - and some of the scenes he fills the frame with here are ridiculously eye-pleasing - or it swoops through the action fascinated by the ballet of it. And I liked that it wasn't slavishly obsessed with prattling on about the rules of the fantasy world either (cough Inception cough) - it set out a couple of ridiculously basic video-game goals (find the map!) and then let the visuals rip from that, and it knew that sometimes ya just gotta throw in Gwar-outfitted orcs for good measure.But well-shot action aside, Sucker Punch suffers an exceptional lot for its PG-13 rating. Like The Devil's Double it's afraid to go where it needs to to be the movie it needs to be. Where it needs to be has lots of blood and lots of nipples and lots of lesbian heavy-petting, in case you were wondering. It has the imagination but its balls, if not exactly cut off, have kinda shrunk up inside its body. Plus nobody on-screen is even a tenth as compelling as Carla Gugino is as the lost Russian instructor from the Suspiria dance school in a latticed bustier and spackled-on beauty mark. I vant to suck your movie out from underneath you, she cries. Just let her, Zach!
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Thursday, 28 July 2011
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--- Rah Rah Rosario - There have been several very cool casting announcements (or rumors) coming out today, and this one's arguably the coolest: Rosario Dawson, lady I love and cry about getting no respect every time she shows up in terrible movies which is far too often, has joined the cast of Danny Boyle's new movie Trance. Finally, some respect! A good-to-great filmmaker using her again. Happy news. Also joining the cast is Vincent Cassel, which was rumored already (he's taking the part Michael Fassbender almost took). Trance stars James McAvoy and Cassel as some sort of art thieves, and DH says Rosario's character "has an unusual relationship with both men."--- Stoker Sweetie - Fighting it out with the above news for coolest casting of the day is Jackie Weaver, so incredibly chilling in Animal Kingdom, getting a role in Park Chan-wook's Stoker. This you should recall is his first English-language film and it already stars Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode (his casting news here). Very happy to see Weaver popping up again in something outside of Australia. No word on what her part will be.
--- Honest Pace - And then we hear that Lee Pace is joining the cast of Steven Spielberg's Abe Lincoln bio-pic! Ya know, Pace is tall and skinny enough to have played Abe himself if they were going younger. But no, they had to go with the completely talentless Daniel Day Lewis! Anyway Lee's playing the mayor of New York. And his part will probably be too tiny because Lee Pace is never given big enough parts to satisfy us. (Insert "But Lee could give me his big part to satisfy me anytime" line here)--- He Smash - In an interview at the LAT Marvel president Kevin Feige talks about what the Hulk will be like in Joss Whedon's Avengers movie. Supposedly there will be more of Mark Ruffalo to his face then there was of Eric Bana or Ed Norton in their respective films.
--- Mobbed Mentality - I hope this casting rumor turns out to be only rumor because I don't want my beloved wading into this thick den of Scientologists - Dominic Cooper's rumored to be taking a role in that Gotti bio-pic that Barry levinson's making that's already got John Travolta and Kelly Preston and Al Pacino. Dom would supposedly play Gotti's son, Gotti being played by Travolta. Ugh stay away from Travolta, Dominic! Stay away from all of it! Just the thought of the porcupine hair alone, ugh.--- Got Guts - Universal Studios: Hollywood is building an elaborate Halloween maze based on the Hostel films by Eli Roth for their Fall season. I want to go to this so bad I can taste the blood spurting from my severed tongue.
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Monday, 25 July 2011
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"I’m not really a Jet Skiing, top-off,
covered-in-oil, Abba-singing sausage."
Listen, I've warned y'all twice now - once, twice - that there'd be a lot of Dominic Cooper going on this week, so don't you go and roll your eyes at yet another post on him. Don't you dare! That quote and picture are from his interview with New York magazine. He's really self-conscious about his role in Mamma Mia isn't he? It's like listening to Joe Manganiello talk about that Shakespeare he did that one time - let it go, dude. Let it go. Dropping trou's the best thing you ever did, and it's not like you're not showing it off again in your new calling-card The Devil's Double. We've all seen the speedo! (We've all seen and memorized the speedo.) You should not have shame of the sausage, Dominic Cooper. Embrace the sausage.
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I said on Friday that we'd probably be getting some interviews and what-nots with Dominic Cooper showing up online what with his double-header of Captain America and The Devil's Double coming out this month, and so be it. Those pics are from an interview with The Daily Mail. Choice quote:
"I don’t see myself as being a heart-throb at all... It’s a very easy category to fall into... Some people, I’m sure, love doing that, but it’s kind of mind-numbing. Beyond the vanity of watching yourself be the love interest in a reasonably good film, it doesn’t interest me."But surely, I suggest, there are worse ways to spend your working day than cavorting with Keira Knightley. Cooper immediately brightens.‘Yeah, it’s not been bad,’ he smiles. ‘I’ve had some lovely female companions. People always complain about those scenes, saying it’s awkward with so many people around. The fact is that it’s lovely lying in bed with a beautiful woman. Being with a naked Keira Knightley is a really nice way to spend the day.’What about being toy boy to the tantalising Helen Mirren?"She’s incredibly hot. I tried so hard to make her fancy me, but I just knew immediately that there was nothing. She didn’t fancy me at all!’"
Well now I feel bad for calling Helen Mirren a "dastardly old broad" back when I saw the two of them together. Sorry, Hels! You're good people. I take it all back!
Friday, 22 July 2011
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It's only the splittest of seconds worth, but since this is my job now to document such passing glances - my mother is so proud - I went ahead and capped the itty bitty part where Dominic Cooper's seen shirtless in this newly released clip from The Devil's Double. You can watch the whole clip over at the NYT. There's more to it than you're seeing above, only he's wearing clothes in the rest (sad face).
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Ooh I just realized that Dominic Cooper ought to be doing all kinds of press over the next couple of weeks, what with Captain America out today (my review) and The Devil's Double out in just another week. Hooray! I'll have to be diligent and keep up with whatever there is. Perhaps a nude layout? Oh, but to dream. There's an interview with him in the NYT today (thanks Mac!) on his dual role as Uday Hussein and his doppelganger bodyguard and this bit stuck out:
"Whether people respond to the film or not, it certainly lets them see another aspect of what I can do rather than prancing around on a beach singing."
I'm up for seeing every single side of you, Dominic Cooper. Every last angle. Bring it on! But keep prancing. I like it when you prance. Just keep making the swim-suits smaller and smaller while you do the prancing and we'll be fine. And somewhere just now, Meryl Streep has released the hounds.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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First things first: the best thing about Captain America: The First Avenger - well the best thing that's not a topless Chris Evans getting pawed at by Dominic Cooper - is Hugo Weaving's hilariously spot-on Werner Herzog accent. Your mileage may vary here but since I've got a Herzog fetish it got me through the rougher patches of movie. Indeed I realized at one point that all I was paying attention to were the accents - the subtle Teutonic variations depending upon their varying levels of evil between Weaving and Toby Jones and Stanley Tucci - the latter's is so silly he could only be a lovable good guy; the standard issue American dude of Chris Evans versus the showier Dominic Cooper's "I've got a mustache and I like the ladies!" slippery good-time Yankee Doodle fella; Tommy Lee Jones' wonderful Tommy Lee Jones impersonation; Hayley Atwell's clipped Brit coming from between two lips coated with the most hypnotizing lipstick I've ever seen... this movie is a mouth lover's dream!
Those sideshows aside it's not to say it's really such a bad movie that I just had to wander off mentally in order to survive. It's a perfectly serviceable movie. Once Evans gets juiced up to his usual fantastical muscle-man proportions he's a special effect unto himself, and he puts a lot of heart into the earlier scenes as the skinnied-down Steve Rogers. (But that skinnying down special-effect often wanders into the uncanny valley and Evans' head looks freakishly big for that body. It's a bit of a relief when he bulks up and we can stop being distracted by it.)
And the middle section centering on the jingoistic propaganda campaign Cappy finds himself the sudden star of is the movie's stand-out - not only is Evans' costume the snuggest (obviously a concern when judging this film), but it exudes a playfulness and a visual snappiness that's much needed.
And the middle section centering on the jingoistic propaganda campaign Cappy finds himself the sudden star of is the movie's stand-out - not only is Evans' costume the snuggest (obviously a concern when judging this film), but it exudes a playfulness and a visual snappiness that's much needed.
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Thursday, 14 July 2011
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ComingSoon's got a huge bunch of new Captain America pictures to check out, of which the above was quickest to grab my eye, naturally. We're pretty much seen this shot before in the trailer but this is tré HQ - click on it and it's like you're licking the veins of Chris Evans' arms. Just like that. And here's another good one with Cappy in his costume with an especially bunched-up-crotch and his bunk-buddy Sebastian Stan:
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Ya know, there are a lot of things I've been looking forward to this Summer. Maybe you noticed the Harry Potter countdown? Yeah that's nearly here, I see it on Saturday, I am very excited. Or the wait for the latest George R. R. Martin book, which I'm currently plowing through at last. There's the fifth Final Destination movie in a few weeks! Awesome! But nothing I repeat nothing is stirring up the level of anxiety of wanting like The Devil's Double is. That I still have 15 days to go until I can see this movie is making me absolutely insane. And so I hear this from an anonymous person that has seen the film and is kind enough to offer up the information that matters most and I just go insaner.
"Dominic has several nude rear scenes in the upcoming film 'The Devil's Double,' including one in which there are TWO of him showering together."
I mean... we can effectively shut down the blog on July 30th y'all. My work is done! (via)
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
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Hey, remember how the life-changing spectacle of Dominic Cooper's ass got cut out of Mamma Mia, and only showed it's face (har, ass face) in the deleted scenes? Yeah well it apparently happened one other time - that we know of - with that 2008 Keira Knightley flick The Duchess, as seen here. I'd posted caps of Dom's brief bit of skin that showed up in the film properly way back when, but had I known this was sitting around undiscovered I'd have found my way into director Saul Dibb's presence and slapped him silly with my glove, demanding a duel. A duel to the ass!
I mean, this makes two examples - how many movies has Dom dropped his trousers for that we're in the dark over? What if Dom actually never wears pants, ever, and this wonderful secret's being covered up? A team of photo-shop experts follow him around, airbrushing on knickers where none truly exist? Dom's perfect arse just wants to be free - it just wants to LIVE! Damn you, world! (via)
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Monday, 11 July 2011
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--- Swimming With Fassy - Michael Fassbender has joined every other Irishman actor in existence in the cast of Brendan Gleeson's adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s 1939 novel At-Swim-Two-Birds
. I am not familiar with this novel, but here's the world's briefest description:"The story follows a teenage student who populates his creative writing with important characters from his own life."
Has anyone read the book? I should read it probably, shouldn't I? The way all the articles speak of it I feel ashamed not being familiar with it actually. Me = flop.
--- Speaking o' Fassy, have you ever wondered what it'd be like to have sex with him? HA what a question. Well over at FF Simone points us in the direction of a burlesque performer's NSFW blog entry about her day spent shooting a (simulated, duh) threesome sex scene with him for the film Shame, his reunion with Hunger director Steve McQueen. Point of lurid interest:
"our scenes with Michael were totally intense! I'll just say that whoever he is dating (I heard its Zoe Kravitz), is most definitely not disappointed with his...er, manliness."
I mean, anybody who's seen Hunger knows this already (link NSFW), but it's always a welcome reminder.
--- Ze Plane - Apparently there was word via Twitter (a tweet which has since been deleted, so who knows) over the weekend that Dominic Cooper had joined the cast of a Hervé Villechaize bio-pic, which is starring Peter Dinklage (who looks nothing like Hervé, height aside). It's called My Dinner With Hervé and Cooper's apparently playing a journalist who interviews the Fantasy Island star about his life, which probably had more to it than shouting, "Ze plane, ze plane!" for a couple of years, right?--- Crazy Girl - I'd pretty much given up on bothering with seeing John Carpenter's The Ward, the reviews were so foul and Im so tired of watching the great horror directors losing this grip, but now that Pax has admitted to some appreciation for the film (save the ending, which apparently everyone agrees is most foul of all) I'm feeling more inclined than I had been.
--- Planet of the Rapes - James Franco would like you to know that he's not a gay rapist, thank you very much.--- Eyes Wide Shout - Glenn tells us all the movies he's seeing over the course of the Melbourne International Film Festival over the next couple of weeks. 59 movies! Egads. Bets of luck, man. That sounds painful. I mean, he's seeing all sorts of awesomeness - most jealous over Lars Von Trier's Meloncholia and Ti West's The Innkeepers, probably - so that'll help presumably. But that's a lot of stimuli for that amount of time.
--- Hour of the Wolf - Arbogast looks back at Brotherhood of the Wolf which is apparently ten years old - god that makes me feel old, that movies I saw here in NYC are having 10 year anniversaries now - and which I need to revisit myself having not seen it since.
--- Solar Flair - It's nothing new really if you're familiar with the books but in an interview at AICN with James Purefoy (mmm James Purefoy) they got him to talk a little bit about his character in John Carter (have they renamed it just JC yet?) and what the filming was like. A little bit."The character is called Kantos Kahn and he is the admiral of the Xavarin, which is a gigantic sort of ship. But in the John Carter world, these ships fly through the air and are powered by solar panels, so they go very, very fast when it’s very, very sunny, and they slow down a little bit when it’s cloudy."
There is more than that if you click over; I just liked that random comment - obviously this will play into the story at some point given in lieu of much more about his character. Oh he's a dude whose ship goes too slow sometimes. Acting!
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011
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IMDb's showcasing several new shots of Dominic Cooper in The Devil's Double, including that lovely there. Finally a movie that exploits Dom properly! Okay Mamma Mia had him good and half-naked half the time too but there was all that damn singing there. History Boys exploited him fairly well too, now that I think about it. And then there's that prison movie... and that time he stroked Chris Evans' bare stomach... Okay okay so we're not exactly left wanting when it comes to him. Unless you count the fact that he's not naked in every single movie ever made as left wanting, which, well, yeah. Hi. Pleased to meetcha.
The Devil's Double is out in limited release on July 29th.
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Friday, 24 June 2011
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Hey you guys remember how in the first Captain America trailer there was an edit that made it look like Dominic Cooper was totally checking out Chris Evans new buff body, with the whole slo-mo sunglasses-lowering? Well in the brand new trailer they took it even further! We now have Dominic Cooper pawing at Chris Evans abs.
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I mean... what do I say to that? It might be foggy and wet outside today weather-wise but inside my head this is one of the most beautiful days I've ever seen.
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