* There’s a third poster for The Ruins out there, an alternate take on one of the two earlier posters–which prompts this utterly baffling statement from Bloody Disgusting:
What makes this one sheet different (and better) than the one posted earlier is that the woman on the poster has her mouth open.
Um, okay.
* According to Variety, the U.K. theater chain Odeon is refusing to show Rambo for undisclosed “commercial reasons.” The Variety article does not seem to suggest that this has anything to do with Rambo‘s totally awesome violence.
* Zachary Wigon at The House Next Door bemoans what he feels is a lack of critical focus on content (as opposed to formal technique) in No Country for Old Men. In my experience, beyond a half-hearted sentence about how pretty it is or, perhaps, the dopey argument that its technical proficiency makes it a bad movie, just the opposite has been true, and everyone sits around trying to figure out what it all meeeeeeeans based on who was in what hotel room or whether Chigurh was carrying a weapon in such and such scene or whether the words “dog collar” are an Abu Ghraib reference and on and on. I’ve found the vast majority of writing on this film useless in its tendency toward “decoding” the story, which I think is why I haven’t done any myself despite the fact that it was my favorite movie of the year. Sometimes a Chigurh is just a Chigurh.
* And sometimes Chigurh goes to Arby’s.
* Finally, this week’s Horror Roundtable is about the best and worst characters in horror. We have such sights to show you…