It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Chris Evans!

Why is Chris Evans so perfect? I mean, really! Not content with looking pretty much unbeatable in the sexy man stakes when he takes his clothes off, his latest photoshoot for GQ has demonstrated that he can work a suit like nobody else. We already saw one photo from the shoot, and now thanks to Kenneth in the (212) we get the rest of the pretty pictures. Pretty is an understatement. He even makes the Superman heavy dark-rimmed glasses the most amazingly sexy accessory. And, seriously, is that suit (the pin stripey one) not just dripping off of him? Yowza. And I absolutely love his S-T-R-U-T pose in the fourth image with the white unbuttoned shirt and black three piece with the shiny scarf. Delicious.




[thankfully, Chris Evans grows a lot]

Chris Evans Puts Some Clothes On(!)

We all know how amazing Chris Evans looks sans clothes, but look at the below image from his new modelling shots in GQ and tell me that he isn't just as delicious in a crazy patterned three piece? If he showed up on my doorstep I definitely wouldn't turn him away for wearing that, that's for sure!

Link, Baby, Link

Here's some links to pass your time!

Despite my dust up last year with Kris from InContention I still enjoy some of the features of his site. New writer Brian Kingsley has taken on the 'From Page to Screen' feature and the first one is Gone Baby Gone, the new film written and directed by Ben Affleck. I predicted Oscar glory for this movie, but the following quote doesn't exactly fill me with confidence:

As far as awards potential goes, I don’t think we’ll see much. It’ll deserve a lot I imagine, specifically for this script and, given the potential, Casey Affleck, but it’s not an Oscar picture. It’s brutal, it’s scary and it doesn’t scream Oscar (as many contenders this year do) more so than genre. However, this can certainly be a critic’s darling if it rouses the right amount of passion.

We'll see. Might be interesting to see Ben Affleck be a writing nominee again though, hey?

The Age has an article about writer/director Tom Kalin (Swoon) and his new film - the Julianne Moore-starring Savage Grace. I'm seeing this film on August 10 as part of MIFF and I'm excited. The Age also has a roundup of how the Aussies did with the Emmy voters. In one category - Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries - three of the nominees are Australians! That'd be Judy David, Gretta Scacci, Toni Collette. Plus, Anna Paquin is from New Zealand. We stole Russell Crowe from them... Oh and Rachel Griffiths got nominated too, which was great!

I'm not gonna discuss the Emmy nods because many of the shows aren't even on down here (stuff like 30 Rock) but I'm happy about the multiple nods for Heroes and Ugly Betty - a show I am loving despite it's immense flaws - compared to Grey's Anatomy, which I am falling rapidly out of love with with each and every passing episode because of it's immense flaws. Hmmm. Seriously though, can they just give Kyra Sedgwick the Emmy right now? She owns it. Where was Brothers and Sisters though? I thought the Emmys would eat that show up for a breakfast!

MNPP has a quote of the day from Chris Evans. It's gold and it's all about him being shirtless all the time. Apparently some people think he's "too hairy"! Blasphemy! He's the perfect amount of hairy, thank you very much.

The Hot Blog has the poster for Wes Anderson's upcoming release The Darjeeling Limited. It has a very similar design to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (below). I've had an up and down history with Wes Anderson. I'm in the minority of Rushmore in that I think it's not very good at all. But then I absolutely love love love The Royal Tenenbaums. The Life Aquatic was somewhere in the middle there. I wonder where Darjeeling will fall when it's released later in 2007. Somebody makes a curious comment in the replies to the entry at The Hot Blog - all three of these actors have distinctive noses. Also, if you look in the credits it also has Anjelica Huston and the costumes are done by Milena Canonero. !!!


Electronic Cerebrectomy discusses the new plans for Michael Moore's possible next documentary - gay rights and the Christian left's inability to be rational. Tricky subject, but Moore can do it justice I think. We need someone like him to get it out there on CNN and not just have some obvious panel of "experts" or something on the sidelines at some fringe festival.

And lastly Dave at Victim of the Time discusses how amazing Six Feet Under is. It wouldn't be my favourite of all time (although it would be top 5 probably along with Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and with Sex and the City and Golden Girls battling it out for the final spot) but, those final ten minutes? AMAZING. A few weeks ago there was an interview, in the TV guide that comes with the Herald Sun on Wednesdays, with Rachel Griffiths in which she stated she thought the final ten minutes of Six Feet Under were the finest ten minutes of television in history. I pretty much can't argue with that.

So, naturally, here's the clip! Don't watch it if you intend to watch the entire series (six seasons) some day because it'll ruin everything. If you've seen it already then just... I dunno. Sit there in stunned silence and take it all in. It's stunning. Again - the finest ten minutes ever in the history of television. Don't even try to tell me it's not.

I'm crying by the one minute mark!

No sunshine and rainbows and happy daisy sunflowers here

Since Danny Boyle's latest film Sunshine is clearly a film of two halves, I decided to do a little review of each.


The First Half
Danny Boyle starts Sunshine off very much like previous science fiction film 28 days Later. He deserts Cillian Murphy in a vast area surrounded by nothing. With him are fellow spaceship crewmembers Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh and Cliff Curtis predominantly. Their mission is one of those big film plots that sucks you in by making you wonder "what if..." In this case "what if the sun was really dying and we were stuck in an ice age." It helps to combat that absurdity of the plot description "a crew of astronauts travel to the sun to throw a bomb into it."

There are many scenes of the crewmembers talking. Talking about their lives. Talking about the sun. Talking about physics. It's strangely riviting. It was nice to finally have another science fiction film that focused on, you know, science. Listen up directors - it's just fiction if you don't put a bit of science in there. Anyway. In on particularly scary scene that mixed Aliens with The Exorcist (you'll understand why when you see it) the crew board another spaceship found sitting around in space sending off distress calls. It freaked me the fuck out! Creepy!

In terms of the technical side, it's pretty top notch. The cinematography is small-scale but effective, as is the editing and production design. The music by John Murphy, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith is amazing. At times bold and bombastic, and at other times subtle and emotive. Performances are solid too. Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans and Hiroyuki Sanada all show various stages of male bravado, while Rose Byrne is effective as the Pilot. I personally liked Michelle Yeoh's passionate bio-chemist (or whatever she was). But then, Michelle Yeoh is always appreciated. She always seems so professional and steely.

The first half of Sunshine is great stuff. B+

The Second Half
There is one scene, ney one line of dialogue, in which the film turns from an amazing and smartly tuned slowburner in space into a ridiculous cliched mess. I mean MESS with a capital M, E, S and S. It's really unfortunate, but there it is. Sticking out like a sore thumb. I want to kill this scene. I want to ask screenwriter Alex Garland what the hell he was thinking. I want to try and erase it from my memory it is so stupid and dumbheaded and... ugh. WHY? Why did they do this to me?

Essentially, it turns into one big fat mind-fuck horror movie. But not the good kind. This is the kind that doesn't make any sense. Characters seemingly jump from one ship to another seemingly not comprehending that there's no explanation as to how. Characters run around the sets followed by way way way over-the-top shaky camerawork and I lose all sense of what the hell was going on. I stopped even trying to understand what the going on. I mean, suddenly they're walking around inside the bomb and then suddenly Rose Byrne appears? I dunno. It doesn't make a lick of sense.

It's a shame that it did it, and in the really obvious way too. It could have turned into a tight and scary Alien type thriller, but instead it sank into a ridiculous hyper edited horror special effects extravaganza. I... I... ugh. There's just too much stupid stuff to even comprehend. I just wanna ask "why did..." "who did..." what was that..." "why was he putting his hand through the wall of fire inside the bomb" (yeah, it doesn't make sense in context either). I guess it could have been saved if the editing didn't go hog wild on us they kept the pyrotechnics to a minimum.

And seriously, why does Cillian Murphy jump into the sun only to magically appear in the next scene on the spaceship? Clearly I missed a lot. Ugh. C

So, for the entire thing, I give it a B-. Because even though it sounds like the second half is terrible, it's still watchable in that it's still fascinating to sit there watching it unfold as Danny Boyle just keeps throwing things at the screen (the image room was totally underused by the way), even if I was wondering what the hell was going on and hoping I eventually caught on. It's just not very well made. The first half is though. Exceptionally. It's just disappointing that so much good work went to waste.

Also, see this movie at the cinema. Because I can't even begin to imagine how terrible of an experience it would be to see it for the first time on DVD. Sorry this "review" was so slapshot. I figure a messy film deserves a messy review. Plus I'm just typing this off the cuff and I'm tired and hungry and I'm going now.

Lastly, for a scarily similar review of Sunshine (seriously!) check out Victim of the Time. It's one of those reviews where having seen it I now go "YES!" at, like, every sentence.

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I got nothin' to discuss right now and I've got work in a bit and won't be home til after 11 on the pm so unless I think of something, this is all you're getting today. But because I'm generous and I think this picture (which I've never posted before) is totally adorable...


Also, I think I'm seeing Sunshine tomorrow. Yay!

Chris Evans is a Hottie

Inspired by Ja's New Plaid Pants I decided to make this collage of photos of Chris Evans from the Nick Kid's Choice Awards. There's a whole lot more over at Just Jared. Shame about that ridiculous no shirtless photos clause. I hope that was all just one big fat lie. And if it is true then let's hope he gets half naked in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Ridiculous Looking Blob so we at least have those to drool over for a while. :D


Click to watch it grow!

The End of an Era

No, seriously. Chris Evans has been told by his publicist to not do any more shirtless photo sessions!!!!!! *grumbles* Apparently, the quote from VMan magazine goes "You don't want to end up pigeonholed as a beefcake." What.The.Fuck. That's absurd. Sure, he sort of is pigeonholed as a beefcake, but that's because he's a hot sexy beefcake and he looks good with his shirt off. Ugh. The absurtity of some people.

Also, it's good to read that some girls like his chest hair, because if none did he'd probably resort to that masculinity-stripping (er, that's a bad thing) act of waxing. Ugh. Keep the shirts off and the hair in place, Chris and you'll be around for a few more years. I can guarantee that.

Until next time, these pics that we get from Kenneth in the (212) should make y'all happy. They're not shirtless ones, of course, but I'm certain his publicist will forget about that silly ridiculous rule sooner rather than later.




Plus, it turns out Chris is actually an ectomorph like a lot of us (especially me! I swear I've been the same weight for five years) so there's hope for us all!

Chris 'Queer-baiting' Evans

Thanks to Towlerod for pointing out another reason to see Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer (what a horrible title, btw). And, yes, of course it has to do with the sexy that is Chris Evans. He's pretty famous now for being a queer-baiting hussey, aka - he likes to take his shirt off for the camera. A LOT. Sure, the ladies seem to like him, but he has a very large gay following. For reasons completely unknown. So, anyway, now all us gay guys who like to try and spot any possibility of homosexuality in famous attractive celebrity males can wrack our brains over the following Fantastic Four 2 television ad. *sigh*. I never thought I'd say this, but gosh, I wish I was Ioan Gruffard (or whatever his name is). Towlerod got screencaps too, plus the YouTubeness. God. He's so sexy. He kicks pretty much every male actor regularly titled "hot" to the curb. May he never ever wax.











And just because I can...

Chris in clothes...


And Chris out of clothes...