Take a Big Bite Outta Jai

I feel like it's been ages since I've had Jai Courtney news to share, but now that I do it's absolutely awesome Jai Courtney news that is one hundred percent right up my alley -- he is going to star in a shark attack slash serial killer movie (yes I did indeed just write all of those words together) called Dangerous Animals, and it is going to be idrected by Sean Byrne, the director of my beloved 2019 prom horror movie The Loved Ones! Jai is playing a serial killer who abducts pretty girls and feeds them to sharks and I need this movie in my life immediately. It will co-star a couple of pretty young things I'm not familiar with -- Yellowstone's Hassie Harrison plays the kidnapped girl who must escape Jai Courtney Shark Serial Killer, and a very attractive young man named Josh Heuston (see below) (PS he played "Zeus Pretty Boy" in Thor: Love and Thunder, lol) plays her love interest who's trying to find her before Jai Courtney Shark Serial Killer gets his way. Serial killing. Via shark. I love the movies!

Pic of the Day

That there is our first "look" at David Corenswet as Superman in James Gunn's upcoming film daringly titled Superman (I think that's where they have landed anyway) -- listen I want this to be good. I love Superman the character and I love David Corenswet. And I love the concept behind that image. Supes just a regular dude, putting one boot on before the other before saving the world. But that image looks like half-finished A.I. to me?  Nothing in it up to and including David's beautiful beautiful face has any weight whatsoever. I think maybe David sat in an actual chair in the costume and that much of the photo is real, although everything's been airbrushed to the point where none of it looks real anymore. And the entire background looks like a screensaver from 1997. And I promise you I am not trying to be Shitty Internet Guy here. I'm rooting for this. Fingers crossed. (click to embiggen) ETA and here is a new photo of David Corenswet at the gym getting that Superman build (via):

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All of Us Strangers Blu-ray Alert!

Picture it -- you're laying on the couch with either Andrew Scott or Paul Mescal and you're trying to figure out what to watch. Yes yes in this theoretical exercise you would "watch" something instead of fucking their brains out; I know it's hard to imagine, but just go with me. What better thing to watch than Andrew Haigh's masterpiece All of Us Strangers right? Well fucking ALAS, because if you're in the U.S. Disney has basically said fuck you, they're not putting the movie out on physical media at all. I KNOW. But today an answer has answered our cries -- the movie IS getting a release in the U.K. and not just that -- the blu-ray is region-free so it will play in any old blu-ray player here in the U.S. just fine. Angel choirs have erupted in your head right? Me too, me too! Pre-rder the disc right here on Amazon UK -- it's out there on June 17th, right in the thick of Pride Month, just as it should be. Now to celebrate I will allow you to move your thought expirment onto its next phase -- fucking the brains out of Paul Mescal and/or Andrew Scott. For celebration, of course! Awesome news.

Good Morning, World

Happy Mescal Monday.

I Quit Smoking 16 Years Ago Today

Well, here we are. My nicotine cessation can officially drive a car in the United States now. Today marks sixteen years since I touched a dirty filthy cigarette and sixteen years of me doing these posts of famous men looking hot as shit while smoking dirty filthy cigarettes. I regret nothing! I admit remain surprised that I can continue to find enough photos to fill up these posts, but I hear smoking has become cool with the kids again? I don't recommend it obviously, but I also can't lie...

... sexy motherfuckers be looking sexy while doing it. And listen, nobody should be looking to me for moral guidance. I'm just a fucked up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind -- don't assign me yours! Oh wait that's Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine. The point remains! Don't smoke! Unless you're sexy! Then do whatever the hell you want to. Hit the jump for a pile of photos and gifs...

Let's Fall Into the Weekend, Guys

Well somehow it's Friday, don't ask me how, and the weekend is here. I don't have any reviews going up today which is fine by me since my brain has been fully dysfunctional this week -- I blame the pollen but it's probably just dementia setting in. Whatever. Twas inevitable. That said I have seen two of the movies that are in theaters today -- one of them, Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow, I have seen twice and I will be reviewing that -- just not until it opens wide in two weeks. It's only in NYC and LA today. But if you're in one of those places go see it! It's [spoiler alert for my eventual review] awesome [end spoiler alert]. And the other one is The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, which is fun. I am terribly happy I don't have to review that because I could not possibly be bothered to come up with more than that, I don't think. Gosling & Blunt have mega-watt chemistry which the dumb story coasts on for awhile, and the stunts are very much worth seeing on a big screen. But the movie is at least half an hour too long. As far as David Leitch Action Movies go it's no Atomic Blonde, but it's better than the Deadpool movies. Also this is a hoot:

Not sure if I am going to review THE FALL GUY or not so let me just make sure I get it out there that Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Matthew McConaughey impersonation is funny as fuck pic.twitter.com/amFZxEkRsR

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 2, 2024

And that's that. Oh well one more thing I guess as long as I am in a rambling mood -- I just added a shit-ton of movies for sale on eBay, so if you're in the market for some physical media head on over and make me an offer on something. Then I can in turn buy more movies for myself. It is, dare I say, the circle of life.

Brokeback Mounts a 4K Edition

We are inexplicably roaring toward the 20th anniversary of Brokeback Mountain next year and just in time to celebrate the film is getting remastered for top-shelf 4K sadness by the wonderful folks over at Kino Lorber -- click here to pre-order the disc, which is out on June 25th. I started this here website in 2005, just a few months before Brokeback came out, and I can sort of credit that movie with starting my "career" (such as it is) since writing about it was how I started making contacts and friends and gaining readers here on the internet. Hard to believe it's almost been two decades of this nonsense! But at least when movies like Brokeback or Call Me By Your Name come along they inspire me to maybe be a little less nonsensical and share something genuine with y'all. Awwww, feelings! G'bless. I haven't watched Brokeback since... well since they last screened it at FLC, I think in 2017? Honestly seeing it on the big screen is such an overwhelming experience and it'd lost none of its power -- it's not a movie I can watch often but I can't imagine this new 4K restoration won't make the big-screen rounds and I expect to be sitting there with my moist tissues all over again. 

NewFest Pride 2024 Ahoy

New York City's annual LGBTQ+ film fest NewFest became a twice-annual fest recently with an edition happening during Pride Month in June and then the usual fest in the fall, October-ish. And with the June edition rolling up on us fast somehow (what even is time anymore) today they have announced their 2024 Pride line-up and, if I do say so myself, it's looking terrific. The highlight for me is called Haze -- for one it stars actor Cole Doman seen above, who you should recognize from Stephen Cone's terrific Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (because I have been telling you to watch all of Stephen Cone's movies for years and you listened to me, right, RIGHT?) or maybe from last year's movie Mutt (which was also terrific). And for another it is from writer-director Matthew Fifer, whose film Cicada played NewFest a couple of years ago and which I very much dug. (It's on Tubi now if you so desire.) But most of all it's that plot-wise it sounds up my alley:

"A young journalist (Doman) returns home to investigate the unsolved deaths at an abandoned psychiatric center. As he dances with the shadows of his past and a mysterious new man in his life, his family history and the town's secrets begin to converge in this evocative psychological thriller. "

We do love a psychological thriller. Anyway there's plenty more o' highlights -- they're screening Sebastian, which I saw at Sundance and which I loved, and they're screening My Old Ass (with Aubrey Plaza) which I missed at Sundance but got a ton of love from other people. There's a Fire Island doc directed by Sense8 star Brian J. Smith (who PS co-stars in Haze) and they are premiering episodes of Problemista writer-director Julio Torres new HBO series Fantasmas. And there's more which you'll see in the press release down below. NewFest: Pride Edition runs  from May 30th to June 3rd -- and it should be noted that it includes virtual screenings so if you're not in NYC look anyway! And now hit the jump for the full press release...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Resurrection (2019)

Margaret: Fucking men. Can’t put your dick in anything 

without deciding you hate it or you love it.

A happy 42 to the queen Rebecca Hall today!
Hope her man Morgan Spector is treating her right.

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Tahar Rahim is So Alpha

This week has been wild with excellent movie news and today's getting off to another excellent start with the word that Raw and Titane director Julia Ducournau has lined up her next movie and it will star our boyfriend Tahar Rahim! It's to be called Alpha and it's described as the director's "most personal, profound work yet" but that's it, that's all they're giving us. Oh and it will co-star actress Golshifteh Farahani, who was in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson with Adam Driver and the Extraction movies with Chris Hemsworth and most importantly of all she was in Asghar Farhadi's fantastic 2009 film About Elly -- if you've never seen that one seek it out immediately. Farahani and Rahim have that in common -- he starred in Farhadi's film The Past, which was also wonderful. If you're gonna cast your movie casting it with Farhadi alumni ain't a bad way to go!

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And a Happy Friday from Kyle Gallner.

Okay So Who Watched Baby Reindeer?

I just finished Netflix's buzzy hit Baby Reindeer from creator and lead Richard Gadd (as seen above) last night and... I don't have much in the way of coherent and put-together thoughts on it quite yet but it hit me like ten tons of bricks, basically over and over again anew with each episode. Although nothing I experienced was as outrageously harsh as what Gadd went through the show definitely reminded me of some negative codependant experiences I went through early in my coming out journey -- one adult woman that I worked with back in high school tried really hard to get me to, uhh, inseminate her, and that was an uncomfortable one for sure. But it wasn't just the main stalker storyline that hits so hard -- it dug up a lot of the deeply self-destructive behavior one indulges one's self in before you allow yourself to come to grips with yourself. I talked about some of that when I wrote about Call Me By Your Name for the first time, but there's plenty more where that came from and this show was pinpoint precise in its excavation of that un-fun kind of self-abuse. Where you don't think you're worth any more than degradation. Just an astounding and brutally funny (emphasis on brutal) program and if you haven't watched it yet, do.

Jonathan Bailey Thirteen Times

The clothing brand Orlebar Brown has quite wisely kept Jonathan Bailey on as their spokes-pretty for another season, and so we've got a brand new summery batch of Jonny photos to share! Not that the spring photos didn't already feel summery -- see them here and here. Or maybe Bailey just makes us sweat. Whatever the case we're sweating again looking at these photos, so grab a towel and hit the jump for the rest...

Pledge Your Allegiance

There is the poster for Luke Gilford's film National Anthem (via),  a truly lovely film that I saw and reviewed at NewFest this past fall -- it stars the wildly underrated actor Charlie Plummer giving what might be his best performance to date (give or take a Lean on Pete) as a sexually uncertain young feller who stumbles on a queer ranch one fateful day and finds his life changed forever. And, as Marge Simpson would say, "With sexy reults." It's much more than just a Sexy Cowboy movie though -- it's gorgeously filmed (it's Gilford's first movie but he's an accomplished photographer) and moving in all aspects. I can't wait for everyone to see it! It feels like we've been waiting for news of it for ages but I imagine we'll get a trailer soon too and I will share it when it drops -- it hits theaters on July 12th. 

Mona Lisa Smiles Upon Andy

Writer-director Andrew Haigh has never made a bad anything. Every movie he has directed, right back to his debut film Greek Pete in 2009, has been at base wonderful and at best a masterpiece -- right up to last year's number one movie All of Us Strangers. His TV series -- Looking and The North Water -- are both tremendous accomplishments. He is quite simply one of the greatest directors working today, and even more importantly he is MNPP Royalty. He should be discussed as one of the greats every damn time his name comes up. Anyway I'm happy to report that he's being handed a project of import from a big studio next -- Universal has hired him to direct its Leonardo Da Vinci bio-pic, which they've been trying to make for awhile, based on Walter Isaacson’s 2017 biography. Da Vinci was of course a big ol' 'mo, so it tracks that Haigh would be interested in this, and my interest just shot up like a rocket. Now we turn our mind to casting. Below is a portrait of Da Vinci as a young man. Not that anybody should give a shit if the actor hired looks like him here five centuries later -- let's just let Haigh hire the best actor for the gig. And given his track record, he will. But who would you cast?

Oscar Isaac's Giving Us His Flesh of the Gods

Now here is some movie news so chockful of sweet names that you're gonna get a tooth-ache -- Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart are going to star in the new movie from Mandy director Panos Cosmatos, which was co-written by Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker. The movie is called Flesh of the Gods and here is the plot description:

"In glittering 80’s LA, married couple, Raoul (Oscar Isaac) and Alex (Kristen Stewart), descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm of 80’s Los Angeles. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence.”

Tell me that doesn't sound like the hottest shit you have ever heard? 1980s sexy neon decadence starring those two adventurous hotties??? Admittedly I had mixed feelings about Mandy -- specifically because I'm over movies about women dying horribly to send men on righteous vengeance quests and I thought it would have been ten times a better movie if Nicolas Cage had been the one to die and Andrea Riseborough went on the righteous vengeance quest for him. (Obviously the fact that I prefer Riseborough as an actor to Cage by degrees of thousands had something to do with that too.) 

But Cosmatos really won me over with his episode of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, which was one of my favorites... although I will say that I adored 90% of that series, one of the best anthologies in some time I thought -- Hey Guillermo can we get a second season already? Anyway Flesh of the Gods! That's a motherfucking title already -- add the cast, the writer, the director, that plot description -- I am super duper sold on this and need it inside of me like five days ago.

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