Random Poll: Who is Sexier at Standing Sideways?

Anything with Channing Tatum is newsworthy to me.  Obviously.  As I looked up posters this morning (because that's something I legitimately do) I came across the character posters for this summer's Jupiter Ascending.  Mr. Tatum is showing off his biceps and elf ears in a profile shot as planets orbit in the background.  We all know I orbit around Channing, so this works for me.  Doesn't it look like a sci-fi Great Gatsby tale?  

The next one-sheet I came across was for Tom Cruise's new vehicle, Edge of Tomorrow.  Mr. Cruise is also standing profile with tons of armor surrounding him all Terminator-y.  I wanted to know who everyone thought was sexier.  Channing is obviously hot right now, but Tom is still pretty dependable, right?  If you can look past all the Scientology crap, you might still think he's hot.  We aren't even talking about movie potential here.  Hotness is the only factor.

poll by twiigs.com

A Pretty Good Muppet Caper

It is a fact that everyone loves The Muppets.  If you deny this statement, I will automatically not believe you and pity you.  The Muppets have been around for as long as I could remember, so when they "rebooted" the franchise in 2011, I thought it was kind of weird.  The Muppets are an institution that have always been there.  

As a huge fan of the last movie, I was excited to see them all again, but I was also wary.  The original title (The Muppets Again!) was scrapped, and the trailers made me nervous.  It looked too gimmick-y, too different that the 2011 sequel that I loved so much.  As Muppets Most Wanted started, I realized that I just needed to shut up and enjoy the ride.  Muppets Most Wanted will make you laugh and smile, and that's all one could really hope for, right?

The sequel opens quite seriously where The Muppets left off.  As the extras file out and the crew starts packing up, Kermit and the gang wonder why the camera is still hanging around.  The studio must have granted them a sequel!  Ricky Gervais immediately shows up as Dominic Badguy, a tour manager who wants to represent The Muppets, and he suggests that they go on a European world tour while they are still hot.  Level-headed Kermit has his reservations but eventually agrees.  Meanwhile, the world's most dangerous frog, Constantine, breaks out of a Siberian gulag.  At Dominic's suggestion, Kermit goes on a walk and Constantine, who could be Kermit's twin, switches places with our beloved, green hero.  

Dominic sets up for The Muppets to perform sold out gigs all over Europe, but he and Constantine really have their eyes on a number of heists.  None of The Muppets (except for Animal) sense that Kermit has been acting strangely.  His new broken English is often hilarious, and Miss Piggy thinks her man has finally come around to committing to her the way she has always dreamed.  Ty Burrell plays a French detective hot on Constantine's trail, and Tina Fey pops up as the prison guard who oversees Kermit's miserable stay in the gulag.  

Muppets Most Wanted reminded me a little bit of The Great Muppet Caper, my all-time favorite Muppet movie.  It has exotic locales, fuzzy intrigue, and celebrity cameos out the wazoo.  Keep your eyes peeled for Miranda Richardson, Tom Hiddleston, and even Russell Tovey.  I squealed when I saw his name in the credits, because I swore I saw him briefly as a delivery man.  None of the parents in the theater seemed to understand my glee.  

The only thing to complain about is that there were moments of visual effects that are distracting.  Not because they are necessarily bad (the final celebrity cameos are obviously green screened poorly), but because they remind me of how amazing it was to see these characters in the 80's and 90's.  Remember when The Muppets rode bicycles?  That blew my mind as a kid, but now it's all too easy.  Not a quibble of the movie per se, but of the reality of it.  

The music delighted me.  A friend of mine (a Muppet enthusiast, if you will) hadn't seen this one yet, and he thinks the music is bad.  Maybe you need to see it in the context of the movie.  All I have to say is that Constantine sings a disco-themed love song to Miss Piggy that made me laugh out loud, and Miss Piggy's duet with Celine Dion didn't disappoint.

You love The Muppets.  Don't deny it.  This time around it's bigger and sillier and more madcap.  It's a romp, and this one will have you smiling all the way until the end.  

Happy Birthday, Jessica Chastain!!!

I fell hard for Jessica Chastain when she skyrocketed to prominence a few years back.  Can anyone else recall such a fiercely meteoric rise to the A-list?  Not only is Chastain a good actress, but she was in everything in 2011 and 2012.  In a matter of months, she proved her range in such diverse projects that some were already proclaiming her the next Meryl Streep.  She turns 37 today.

Her roles in The Help and Zero Dark Thirty are my favorite.  I wanted to be Celia Foote's friend so badly when I saw her in The Help.  Her warmth radiated through the screen.  The last moments in Zero, conversely, hit me more emotionally than I ever thought a movie about Osama bin Laden could.  When Maya learns that bin Laden is dead, she gets on a plane and the pilot asks her where she wants to go.  Maya begins to weep as the pilot heads back to the cockpit.  

Kills me.  

In the next two years, Chastain has no less than six films coming up, including Insterstellar, Crimson Peak, and Miss Julie.  I am prepared for her to wow me with every layered, varied performance.  

Happy Birthday, Jessica!!!

Come Look at the Freaks!

Even though I didn't like how American Horror Story: Coven turned out, I am excited for the news of the newest season of AHS.

It just broke that the new season will be titled American Horror Story: Freak Show.  That's just the in your face kind of horror that fans expect from Ryan Murphy's show.  You can already see the promos, right?  Twisted bodies...dilapidated carnivals...Jessica Lange chain smoking and delivering snappy lines.  Some details were also revealed.  This season will officially will be set in Jupiter, Florida in 1950, and Lange is the overseer of one the country's remaining freak shows.  Which AHS alums will be featured in her freak show?

You know...just because...

And the one I'm most looking forward to?  Angela fucking Bassett!!!

In honor of the title announcement, I think you should all listen to "Come Look at the Freaks" from the musical Side Show.  Just to get everyone in the mood, ya know?

Happy 'Frozen' on DVD Day!!!

See that?  I just made up a holiday!  

If you can believe it, I have yet to pick up my copy of Frozen, and it's really nerve-wracking considering that the only thing clogging up my Facebook newsfeed is the joyous celebrating over this instant classic.  I will hopefully get my hands one one soon, and then you will have to pry it from my cold, nay, frozen, dead haaaands!!!!

Enjoy, everyone!!!

Spring Breeeeeaaaakkk!!! Limited Posting this Week at Movie MoJoe!

This week might be a bit quiet at Movie MoJoe.  The fiance and I are heading down to Miami tomorrow (road trip!) to check out the area that we're moving to in June.  Oh, by the way, in case you didn't hear, I'm moving in June (the hubby and I are heading south for his medical residency rotations).  Since we are going to be enjoying the sun and checking out apartments, it is very probable that I won't be able to write much.  

The entire notion of this trip reminds me of last year's Spring Breakers.  You know, without the early 20's debauchery.  And the crime.  Aaaaand I don't think James Franco will be down there.  Ok, fine, this is NOTHING like Spring Breakers, but I bet we will see some drunk college students enjoying a week off from their studies!  If I do see a Britney Spears piano performance with some pink masked, gun-toting co-eds, I will let everyone know.

A Musical Theater Slasher Movie?! Not Everyone Loves Jazz Hands

Hold the phone.  Hold the effing phone!  How did I not know about Stage Fright?!  There I was, minding my own business at work.  Since there was a lull in the work, IMDB was my destiny, and there was a trailer for the new slasher movie SET IN A MUSICAL THEATER CAMP!!!  The synopsis online says, "A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater."  It's seriously Camp meets Friday the 13th.  This movie was made for me!

Minnie Driver gets it pretty early on the in trailer, and I assume that's because someone actually watched her performance in The Phantom of the Opera.  Oh, I'm sorry.  Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.  Her daughter, Camilla (Allie MacDonald) is now going to the musical theater camp, and they are going to produce the very show that was playing when her mother was murdered.  A creepy guy with a creepy ass mask starts killing campers while saying such pun-worthy lines like, "Break a leg!"  Ok, the mask isn't that creepy considering is looks like it belongs to one of the kids from 3 Ninjas Kick Back.

This is obviously my new obsession.  There's even a sequence in the beginning where the campers are auditioning that looks like it came right out of Camp.  It looks like a throwback to an over-the-top comedic horror flick.

Gotta love tech!

Are the rights to this available?  Can we do this show?  Anyone?  Anyone?!