Your combined Box Office Round-Up and This Week In Movie Posters. We've got a new Kevin Costner, Statham, and a hopelessly-sexual sounding children's movie.
As a fellow Swedish-American, I need to add this interesting fact about Joel Kinnaman: His American dad was drafted during the Vietnam War and sent to Bangkok. He went AWOL and spent four years as a fugitive in Laos before fleeing to Sweden. I mean, that would make a pretty interesting movie.
Unlike Kinnaman, Stormare is 100% Swedish. His birth name is Storm, which means the same thing in both Swedish & English. He changed it to Stormare because a fellow acting student also had the name Storm. I do love the fact that he briefly considered changing it to Retep Mrots ("Peter Storm" backwards). I mean, that's a hell of a name.
It's my firm belief that there should be a musical out every holiday season, and between streaming/theaters, Hollywood mostly agrees - 9 out of 11 years since 2012. Granted, one of them was Cats, but I wouldn't trade that December 26th screening with a shell-shocked audience and my mother walking out halfway through for anything.
Watch the Von Erichs on Dark Side of the Ring. I think it's still on Hulu. I don't give much of a shit about wrestling, but I enjoy the behind the scenes reality. Not all of the episodes are great, but there's some really wild stories.
, but maybe there’s someone online who writes about pro wrestling to explain it for you. Do they have those? People who write about pro wrestling? Someone look this up for me.
I'm always here for an uproxx dig. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Honestly not even an Uproxx diss. I’m just always bewildered by the number of people online who write about pro wrestling. I’m not even trashing any of them (lots of whom I like!) it’s just really funny to me because I don’t get wrestling at all.
When I thought of an inappropriate name for a cartoon charcter, my mind didn't go to "Tumescent". Rather it went straight to "Spongy." But I guess that speaks more to my personal issues than anything else...
If Jason Statham doesn't say "buzz off" I'm going to complain frequently to anyone that will listen.
Oy, sum geezas use 'oney. Oi like ta use viniga. *pumps shotgun*
As a fellow Swedish-American, I need to add this interesting fact about Joel Kinnaman: His American dad was drafted during the Vietnam War and sent to Bangkok. He went AWOL and spent four years as a fugitive in Laos before fleeing to Sweden. I mean, that would make a pretty interesting movie.
What are your feelings on Peter Stormare?
Unlike Kinnaman, Stormare is 100% Swedish. His birth name is Storm, which means the same thing in both Swedish & English. He changed it to Stormare because a fellow acting student also had the name Storm. I do love the fact that he briefly considered changing it to Retep Mrots ("Peter Storm" backwards). I mean, that's a hell of a name.
Who?
You know, that guy everyone says your mom looks like.
Peter Stormare is Willem Dafoe?
“This honey doesn’t need a comb.” is fucking brilliant, they better cut a cheque and print it stat.
Annette Bening looking like she could play a pretty solid George Patton.
Basically a zero percent chance that the movie covers any of it, but there's a Hot Cheetos-esque backstory to that Annette Bening/Jodie Foster movie: https://defector.com/diana-nyads-swimming-brought-her-glory-fame-and-an-adversary-dedicated-to-exposing-her-lies
'Your Highness' is brilliant so just know you're not alone on that one!
It's my firm belief that there should be a musical out every holiday season, and between streaming/theaters, Hollywood mostly agrees - 9 out of 11 years since 2012. Granted, one of them was Cats, but I wouldn't trade that December 26th screening with a shell-shocked audience and my mother walking out halfway through for anything.
Is your mom single?
Watch the Von Erichs on Dark Side of the Ring. I think it's still on Hulu. I don't give much of a shit about wrestling, but I enjoy the behind the scenes reality. Not all of the episodes are great, but there's some really wild stories.
, but maybe there’s someone online who writes about pro wrestling to explain it for you. Do they have those? People who write about pro wrestling? Someone look this up for me.
I'm always here for an uproxx dig. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Honestly not even an Uproxx diss. I’m just always bewildered by the number of people online who write about pro wrestling. I’m not even trashing any of them (lots of whom I like!) it’s just really funny to me because I don’t get wrestling at all.
When I thought of an inappropriate name for a cartoon charcter, my mind didn't go to "Tumescent". Rather it went straight to "Spongy." But I guess that speaks more to my personal issues than anything else...
I hadn’t seen the trailer for Your Lucky Day, so I watched it, and it features a slowed-down/creepified version of America The Beautiful.