Anne Hathaway Catwoman

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For someone who looks like this without his clothes on, Chris Evans can be a real dork sometimes, can't he? I suppose it's terribly old-fashioned of me to think dorks can't look like that without their clothes on, but it still feels unexpected coming from Mr. Evans. He was all swagger as Johnny Storm! But then a camera will catch him in a shot like the one above and you almost can hear the whisper of pocket protector against polyester-blend cardigan. It's a dichotomy that works well for him in Captain America anyway, even if I sorta chewed apart that movie and spat it out in my review. It does have good things to like about it! Quite a bit!

If you wanna hear a little more from me on Captain America, plus this weekend's other releases - Friends With Benefits, Another Earth (my review), Sarah's Key, and The Myth of the American Sleepover - then head over to Celebrity Beehive.


One movie I didn't mention there but is playing in NYC starting today is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epically weird sci-fi flick World on a Wire, which I posted at length about here. Go see this if you're in this city! You will be amazed.

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Shame that this is news to me so late in the game, since I try to keep up on the Fassbinder-beat whenever there's a Fassbinder-beat to be had - him being dead for just about thirty years now has admittedly dampened the beat a bit - but according to Slash his 1973 sci-fi flick World on a Wire is getting a slight round of distribution this year! 

I saw the film at MoMA back in April of last year and it's a trip, kinda dissimilar to anything else I've seen by RWF in a lot of ways... while being totally him at the same time. That makes total sense! But anything with the lovely and amazing special-effect that is Barbara Valentin in it is gonna reek of Fassbinder, after all. That's a beautiful new poster for the movie up top from designer Sam Smith, and here are the dates and places where the film will be exhibited. See it if you can!

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I'm sure that each and every one of you are fully aware of Original Series Garbage Pail Kid Adam Bomb, right? He's the kid who's pressing the button and blowing a mushroom cloud out of his head - he's basically the most famous GPK image. Point being, I turned into Adam Bomb when I read the news that MoMA is doing a double-feature this weekend of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. KABOOM. They're doing an entire series on experimental melodramas.

Ali is of course Fassbinder's loose remake of Sirk's film and his most obvious tribute to his favorite fore-bearer in strangely detached soap (see another tribute here); it's also my favorite of RWF's films. I was just complaining the other week that I wanted MoMA to show more Fassbinder - somebody was listening! Thank you, somebody!

The only thing that would make it better would be them making it a straight-up three-way with Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which is also a remake of Sirk's film and spins his world off into Haynes' beautiful orbit - they are showing FFH, but not until the following Saturday. Looking back through my Fassbinder posts I even see I called out for such a triple-feature way back in 2009! I am the future.


Oh and I should go ahead and note here that MoMA's also starting their Kathryn Bigelow retrospective tomorrow - she'll be there for a Q&A following a screening of her 1982 Fifties biker movie with Willem Dafoe called The Loveless - which'll include screenings of awesomenesses like Near Dark (see my love for that movie here) and Point Break (!!!) and Strange Days, as well as her Jamie Lee Curtis is a sexy rookie cop being hunted movie Blue Steel that I've never seen but always wanted to.


And I should also also note that, as part of the same series that's giving us Sirk and Fassbinder and Haynes Oh My, they're showing John Waters' Pink Flamingos on Sunday. Goddamn, MoMA. Good goddamn.

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