Matthew McConaughey has said that he’d be up for doing more True Detective. A factoid uttered from his gorgeous mouth that contradicts pretty much everything he said in the press while the show was airing. My two worthless cents? No thanks. Cohle is one of my favorite characters in TV history, and he established his vice-like grip on my heart in a taut eight episodes. As much as I’d like to see his glorious shitstache and gaunt cheek bones one more time, his return would run contrary to so much of what made the show so fucking wonderful in the first place. Let the wonderful coda the season ended on remain its coda.

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There is very little in the way of footage in the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Instead we have Matthew McConaughey with a table-setting monologue about humanity’s loss of dreaming. Though I find this to be a pretty insular view, and would be more fairly applied to the governments of the world (who used the space race far more as  cold war maneuvering than genuine desire to explore) than us individuals who populate the Blue Marble. Whatever. Look at me. Blah, blah, blah.

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Matthew McConausomething must be suffering through some kind of career renaissance. Homeboy is barely done shaking his dong in Magic Mike and now none other than Christopher Nolan is eyeballing him. I don’t mind the good lad’s acting, but that hasn’t stopped me being surprised at the casting.

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