Sharing Is Caring: Kill Bill 2 Deleted Scene

Found this on Grantland, ESPN"s spinoff clubhouse for Bill Simmons and friends. This is from the DVD for Kill Bill Vol. 2, which I don't have as I, along with a lot of the films' fans, am waiting for the ultimate combined cut of the two films. Also, a commentary track would be nice.

I can see why the scene was cut, as it feels slow and never quite achieves the cool for which it strives, but it's validated completely by Uma's face at the very end.

For those of us who never quite bought her attraction to Bill, this scene explains it and does so without words. It's very similar to Rosario Dawson's moment in Death Proof when her character shifts from terrified to calm to delighted in the space of six seconds. One of my favorite moments in film. I always liked Dawson. This made me love her.

Sharing Is Caring: Coriolanus

Here's a film I just learned of today, a new Shakespeare adaptation directed by first-timer Ralph Fiennes.

I find him fascinating. Clearly a thinking actor, he's played a remarkable range of roles including Voldemort (the clear hero of the Harry Potter series), Francis Dolarhyde, Amon Goeth, and John Steed. He's also played opposite Jennifer Lopez and Wallace & Gromit. I cannot help watching him no matter the scene or the co-star. He is magnetic, and I'm not surprised a person of his apparent consideration has tried his hand at directing.

Sharing Is Caring: Irene from the ISS

I'd buy extra grapes and Pepsi.

Sharing Is Caring: Debt Ceiling on 'West Wing'

Did someone mention Our Lord and Savior Toby Ziegler?

This is from 2005, by the way.

Sharing Is Caring: Ides of March

Hoffman and Giamatti? SOLD. 

A hat rack could be playing Ryan Gosling's role. Doesn't matter. HOFFMAN AND GIAMATTI. It's West Wing with bigger-name schlubs than we got on the TV show. And I loved those schlubs. If this movie has a walk-on from Toby Ziegler, I'll have to change my pants.

Sharing Is Caring: New Spidey Trailer

 

The cast looks good. The suit looks good. The implication that they are again deviating from the comics is good (Want the comic? Read the comic.).

But I'm not sold on another origin movie. We got the origin on the big screen within the last ten years. His iconic beginnings are known to the mainstream audience. If the movie is only his origin story, you better have great effects/dialogue/chemistry to bolster that new product core.

Sharing Is Caring: Twist In My Sobriety

A moody '80s tune that enjoyed regular radio rotation at the time. I can't imagine this going beyond NPR's World Cafe these days.

Sharing Is Caring: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Hokey smoke, does this look good.