We saw a brief teaser for Netflix’s Pablo Escobar drama, Narcos, a few weeks ago, but we now have an actual, full-length trailer full of explosions and mustaches and huge piles of cocaine. And it looks pretty good! As trailers containing explosions and mustaches and huge piles of cocaine often do! It looks kinda like Blow meets Cocaine Cowboys meets Bad Boys meets, uh, something else, probably. Not a complaint! Here again is the summary of the project, which was created by Elite Squad director José Padilha: Narcos is the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels across the globe and attendant efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It centers…
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Two Scenes That Must Be In Woody Harrelson’s Upcoming Film About LBJ
Getty Image Woody Harrelson was just cast as Lyndon B. Johnson in Rob Reiner’s upcoming movie, LBJ. This is all well and good, and I’m sure Woody will do an excellent job, as he has with most of his recent roles. (Matthew McConaughey got all the press for True Detective because he got all the big, deep, cuckoo monologues and such, but Woody as the straight man is what held things together.) The Hollywood …
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Friday Conversation: Who Is Your All-Time Favorite Movie Villain?
First things first: Jurassic Park is awesome. This isn’t really in dispute, but it’s worth mentioning anyway every now and then just to refresh people’s minds. I mean, Jeff Goldblum played a cool-ass math scientist in a leather jacket and a dinosaur blasted a kid with snot. What more do you people want? For the love of God, this was ART. Additionally, the film featured my favorite movie villain ever: the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex that terrorized the park, as depicted in the scene above. Sure, other movie villains have had the luxury of things like “words” and “functional upper body appendages” and “motivations beyond just eating …