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Great news for Caucasian non-union whores with natural breasts: Employment awaits. Via The Cut, Quentin Tarantino is casting a very specific subset for his new movie. “Casting Whores for Quentin Tarantino project,” the since-removed notice read. “Caucasian, non-union females, ages 18–35. Western film shoots June 21st-25th in Los Angeles. No highlights, natural eyebrows, natural breasts,…
X-Men: Apocalypse hasn’t amassed as much at the box office as its X-Men: Days of Future Past predecessor and the marketing department doesn’t seem to be doing it any favors. A billboard advertising the film shows Apocalypse (Oscar Issac) choking the mutant Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), with a caption that says “Only The Strong Will…
Do you remember that scene in Love, Actually when Emma Thompson has a controlled breakdown in her bedroom after discovering that her husband (played by the late Alan Rickman) is cheating on her? She paces back and forth in front of her marriage bed, hyperventilating, unsure of what to do with herself or her heart—much…
8TH UPDATE, Tuesday 6:30PM: Final actuals Before we blame franchise fatigue as the catalyst for paltry Memorial Day openings, we need to also acknowledge the overall downward trend in openings for sequels this year. It’s been rampant across all genres including Ride Along 2, The Divergent Series: Allegiant even Captain America: Civil War (if you compare it to Avengers: Age of…
The ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Self-Loathing Index At this point, it feels like just about every actor in Hollywood has appeared in an ‘X-Men’ movie. This is our comprehensive guide to who wants to be there, who’s phoning it in, and who’s still showing up in the makeup trailer to get their prosthetic claws attached. X-Men: Apocalypse…
The script called for an epic battle. In the movie’s third act, the forces of the Eight Faery Kingdoms defend their aquatic empires from annihilation by the evil Demon Mage and his spectral legions. Five hundred extras would play the opposing armies. But in January 2010, when Jonathan Lawrence, the director of Empires of the…
After cleaning up blood, Mike and Jay saw the new X-Men film! Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse – YouTube. Source: Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse – YouTube
(Spoilers, and potential spoilers, below.) At this rate, every Game of Thrones character will be dead by Episode 8. In the first half of this season, we’ve lost over a dozen reasonably important characters, as the showrunners prune George R.R. Martin’s overstuffed plots and cut a swelling budget. For the last two weeks, I’ve said…
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“It’s no coincidence that the targets are shaped like single people and not couples,” says a bow-tied trainer to a schlubby Colin Farrell, during a shooting drill that could only come from the sunless reaches of Yorgos Lanthimos’s imagination (think “Dogtooth,” in English, with fewer smashed molars). In his dystopian feature “The Lobster,” such casual…