44 Days Til 28 Years

Really big fan of this 28 Years Later poster which somehow makes me think of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, of Derek Jarman's set-design for The Devils, AND of a Dalek from Doctor Who all at goddamned once. That is some mad skillz yo. 

Batshit Jai Courtney Bright & Clear

(click to embiggen) I love that one of the official images that the team behind the murder-by-shark thriller Dangerous Animals has now released is of Jai Courtney's underwear dance -- featured heavily in both of the trailers I've covered (here and here) this official photo (via) is far brighter than the shots in the film, up to an dincluding the reveal of that big ass scar up his side which hasn't been obvious in the moving footage. They know what they've got! Anyway a third trailer, a full one not a teaser, dropped this morning and I wasn't going to share it because I've seen enough by now myself and think we should all stop watching trailers until the movie's out in just a month. (I also heard from a friend I trust yesterday who's already seen the movie that it rules!) But since they lured me in with that image up top I'll share the new trailer too:

Dangerous Animals is out on June 6th!

Lee Pace Is Coming...

... back for another season of Foundation! 

And we have a trailer! (And that image -- good grief.)

Foundation returns for its third season on July 11th.

Noah Centineo Yet Four More Times

The fine folks at Behind the Blinds magazine have so got my number and are so good at making me do posts on their photoshoots a dozen times -- their interview with Noah Centineo in their latest issue hasn't even made its way online and yet here I am doing a sixth (yes a sixth!) post on the photoshoot for them because they set aside one or two to drop every couple of weeks that simply cannot be denied. To see the previous posts (in the order I've shared them) click here, then click here, then click here, then click here, and finally click here for the most recent one before this one today. Will today's be the last one ever? I certainly hope not! You can edge me alongside Noah forever and ever, Behind the Blinds magazine. Hit the jump for the rest...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Ball of Fire (1941)

Garbage Man: I could use a bundle of scratch 

right now on account of I met me a mouse last week.

Prof. Oddly: Mouse?

Garbage Man: What a pair of gams. A little in,

a little out, and a little more out.

Professor Potts: I am still completely mystified.

Garbage Man: Well, with this dish on me hands

and them giving away 25 smackaroos on that quizzola.

Professor Potts: Smackaroos?

Prof. Oddly: Smackaroos? What are smackaroos?

Garbage Man: A smackaroo is a...

Professor Potts: No such word exists.

Garbage Man: Oh, it don't, huh? A smackaroo is a dollar, pal.

Professor Potts: Well, the accepted 

vulgarism for a dollar is a buck.

Garbage Man: The accepted vulgarism 

for a smackaroo is a dollar. 

That goes for a banger, a fish, a buck, or a rug.

Professor Potts: Well, what about the mouse?

Garbage Man: The mouse is the dish. 

That's what I need the moolah for.

Prof. Oddly: Moolah?

Garbage Man: Yeah, the dough. We'll be stepping. 

Me and the smooch - I mean, the dish, I mean, the mouse. 

You know, hit the jiggles for a little drum boogie.

Professor Potts: Please, please, not so fast.

Garbage Man: Brother, we're going to have some hoytoytoy.

All The Profs: Hoytoytoy?

Garbage Man: Yeah, and if you want 

that one explained, you go ask your papas.

The script for Ball of Fire is so much fun (not a surprise given Billy Wilder was one of the writers)  that I had to share this entire lengthy passage of dialogue -- god I love this film. I didn't even need to include a portion involving Barbara Stanwyck here -- that's how you know it's good! But since I tend to give her all of the love for this movie I figured I'd focus in on her stellar leading man Gary Cooper today, given it's Coop's birthday. He was born today, the year 1901. Check out our extensive Gary Cooper Archives for more of him -- he's a forever MNPP fave, he is. One of the greatest faces (et cetera) ever put on screen.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Pic of the Day

I am shocked and horrified to realize I never did a post on this movie when it was first announced -- I vividly remember hearing about it happening so I know I knew about it (you never know) but somehow that never translated into me sitting down here and writing something and for that I ask your forgiveness. Because not only (as seen above in the first image, via) is Isabelle Huppert starring as the real-life imfamous historical figure the Countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose legend has it that she's bathe herself in virgin's blood to keep her youth thereby inspiring a thousand lesbian vampire movies in the process (plus that scene with Heather Matarazzo in Hostel Part II, we shan't forget that). But Huppert s playing Bathory for the avant-garde German filmmaking legend (and compatriot of Fassbinder) Ulrike Ottinger, the woman who directed, among many, Freak Orlando and (my favorite) Ticket of No Return. 

Ten minutes into Ulrike Ottinger’s TICKET OF NO RETURN on @criterionchannl and I am already in love - this is my first Ottinger and I had a feeling she’d be my kinda people - feels like Tati Meets Fassbinder shot by Guy Bourdin (swoon) pic.twitter.com/77Do8H4FO9

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 28, 2021

Ottinger's movies are kind of difficult to see -- there was a traveling show of them several years back and they pop up on Criterion every so often, but the only way to buy physical media versions are via her own website. Which on the one hand I applaud -- make your money and keep ownership of your own work, queen! But they're not cheap and I think it'd do her so good to loosen the grip just a little bit. (At least put together a box-set!) Maybe this new movie starring a legit movie star in a tailor-made role will put this iconoclast's name in big bright lights where it belongs. I mean if Bloody Disgusting is reporting on one of Ottinger's movies then she's very much moving in that direction. Speaking of they've got the plot details and what not so click over if you need those -- it is an original spin but we'd expect no less. No word on a release yet for The Blood Countess, but we'll keep watching! And maybe we'll just re-watch Daughters of Darkness to keep ourselves flush-cheeked and ready... 

Good Morning, World

After a couple of days of dreary rain it's a beautiful spring day here in NYC so I'm feeling this sunny photoshoot of Lewis Pullman for GQ that dropped this morning -- and that's before we even get to whether I'm feeling Lewis Pullman or not. (So to speak. Obviously. Unfortunately.) I will say this post graduates him onto the sidebar, as we've now done enough posts for him to have his own tag -- but truth be told I feel like I still haven't seen him in a ton. He was memorable in the Top Gun sequel in a cast of many. He's got a great ass. (What -- these are important matters!) And he certainly left an impression dancing around in itty bitty black briefs in that movie Skincare last year too. I still haven't seen Thunderbolts but I hear he's good in it? Otherwise... 

... I am a fan of his photobooth fetish. He's certainly already in his short career left more of an impression on me than his father ever did -- I know some people love him but I can't think of a Bill Pullman performance I ever connected to. Him and Patricia Arquette are far and away my least favorite David Lynch pair of protagonists in Lost Highway, and that's about as big a strike one can have against themselves. What else is there -- the President in Independence Day? The sleeping guy in While You Were Sleeping?  The fact that people ever confused Pullman with the electric wattage of Bill Paxton -- WTF. Aaaaanyway we're not here to talk about Lewis' daddy, nepo-whatever aside -- I haven't seen Lewis in enough, so I'm still making up my mind. He's cute and I don't hold the terrible Salem's Lot re-do against him. He's in the plus column right now. Any thoughts on Lewis from you, my peanut gallery? Either way hit the jump for the rest of this sunny morning photoshoot...

A Different Man Hits Home

My favorite movie that I saw at Sundance 2024 was Aaron Schimberg's surreal tragi-comic masterpiece A Different Man (it ultimately landed at #14 on my movies of the year list) -- starring Sebastian Stan as a man who gets what he wished for and finds out notsomuch -- so I'm extremely glad to see that A24 is finally giving the movie the blu-ray treatment, just announced today! You can pre-order it at their site! It's out in June, and includes lots of special features which I'll list down below. A24 always does a terrific job with their discs (cannot wait for the one for Queer, which hits on May 27th). Here is my review of A Different Man if you missed it. Have y'all been able to see this yet? Thoughts if so? And hit the jump for the special features...

Pic of the Day

While I heard it was controversial I actually quite liked Andrew Scott's cotton-candy-colored suit last night at the Met Gala (see below) -- however I like it better that he tore it off once he got inside and showed off his guns, because of course he did. We'd also be remiss if we didn't mention that this photo (via) appears to be shoingw a suddenly half-undressed Andrew and Jeremy Allen White coming out of the bathroom at the Met, together. Just saying! Let them filthy minds of yours flow freely...

Penn Badgley Ten Times

For someone who insisted that his character be in just his underwear for the final episode of his serial killer series, Penn Badgley sure did allow himself to be far far too covered up for this Flaunt photoshoot advertising said same series. (And yes I know that fact even though I have never seen a single second of You -- pop culture osmosis y'all. At least as far as the subject of "actors in underwear" is concerned.) 

This whole shoot is pretty boring honestly (besides Penn being so pretty obviously) but there are a couple shots I liked (mostly that first one) so I will share the whole thing. Y'all try not to fall asleep. And Penn -- bring that same energy you brought to the set when you demanded near nudity to your PR campaigns next time around please! We know you're capable of it. Hit the jump for this shoot (plus a video that at least let's us glimpse that famous chest fur)...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Madame Emery: Where were you?

Geneviève: With Guy.

Madame Emery: What were you doing?

Geneviève: Mother, he's leaving. He'll be away 

for two years. I can't live without him. I'll die.

Madame Emery: Stop crying. Look at me. 

People only die of love in movies.

Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the greatest and most beautiful and bittersweet romances ever made and my favorite movie musical by leaps and bounds, has been released by Criterion on luscious candy-colored 4K blu-ray today! No movie deserves the 4K treatment more -- even though I re-watched it just a few months ago I can't wait to toss this disc in and behold it in this new four-kay luxuriousness. What a movie! (As an aside it's pouring rain right now here in NYC today and I've got my soaking wet umbrella laying beside my desk, bright red and popped open to dry, so I feel as if the movie is stepping off the screen and saying hello in the real world. What a movie.)

Good Morning, World

Let's start today off with a little Kit Connor since Alex Garland's war film Warfare has dropped onto VOD today. (You can also pre-order the 4K and blu-ray right here.) And no this gif isn't from Warfare, which unfortunately doesn't feature a group shower scene before the ridiculous cast oif hotties (also including Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Henrique Zaga, and on and on and on) heads out to battle -- although we do get Joseph Quinn insinuating group masturbation for a moment, and yes I have written out that whole deleted scene mentally-speaking several times over. No that gif is from Heartstopper, the show that introduced Kit to the world and turned him into a thing. (A thing!) And yes that's the gay show, the beloved gay show that I haven't watched yet. Leave me be, I'm busy dammit. (Busy mentally writing war-time circle-jerks apparently.) Anyway here is my review of Warfare over at Pajiba -- a mixed one but I still think the movie's worth seeing, even if I have some issues. (Issue number one -- no circle jerk...)

Buy Buy Buy Sell Sell Sell

Heads-up to those of you who've bought from me on eBay, or those of you who haven't yet even -- I just piled another pile of movies up for sale! Check 'em all out here. I did a deep dive into my collection over the weekend so most of this was stuff I had multiple copies of or stuff that I looked at and thought to myself, "Why the fuck did you buy that?" Sometimes you buy shit to feel alive, baby, and that's what I'm hoping y'all will do. Some of the new stuff is priced extremely high, I am aware of this -- turns out that box-set of Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy is way out of print and going for a heap of money, I had no idea until I looked it up...

... but a lot of it is reasonably priced too. I got something for everybody! Well not for people who don't like movies I suppose, but fuck those people. (Or rather, don't.) Anyway everything is listed that you can toss me an offer and if it's not unreasonable I almost always accept -- but then I am the judge of what's reasonable or not, so that depends on my whims. (A good rule of thumb is offering somebody 50% of what they're asking is a dick move though, so don't be that person.) Anyway buy my shit! I don't want to die buried beneath it -- I'd prefer to roll around in money with Woody Harrelson in his boxer briefs at least once before I die obviously. 

I Quit Smoking 17 Years Ago Today

I keep doing these posts every May 5th -- marking the anniversary of when I quit smoking cigarettes back in 2008 with a constantly ballooning collection of photos and gifs of actors and the like smoking their sexy asses off -- even though, well, it's been 17 years yo! What else do I have to say about any of this? I haven't missed a cigarette since then -- that Chantix shit I took really did its job and then some. But then the fact hasn't changed that whenever I see an image like this...

... I swoon. It just looks cool. I can't help the rules. I'm not saying it's good -- people love violent action movies because people look cool killing people too. It just is what it is and I'm not out to rewire the human brain. I'm just here to lay the horn on the pleasure receptors as we all sink into the abyss. So come with me into this sexy smoky netherworld of seventeen smoke-free years after the jump...

It's 32 Days...

... until the "Jai Courtney murders people with sharks" movie comes out and my bits be tingling -- vinbrating really at this point. I just shook a coffee mug right off tha table! How can I help myself when a new teaser just got dropped that features more footage of Jai dancing around in his underwear than we saw in the original trailer? I'm sure this scene is like a minute long in the movie -- hell we've probably seen all of it by now -- but I don't care. I was already sold on Dangerous Animals on concept and casting -- and that it's directed by The Loved Ones director Sean Byrne, we cannot forget that! -- but you add a scene of Jai in some vintage red briefs going ape-shit and you're not just speaking my language -- you're showing me how to do things with my tongue that can't be undone. Like your momma always warned you -- it's gonna get stuck that way! More gifs and the teaser itself can be found after the jump...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

G'mornin', Barry

This batch of photos of Barry Keoghan dropped on Friday but I decided to save them here for our Monday morning pick-us-up -- he was photographed by celebrity photographer Greg Williams and interviewed for his site and there are a ton more photos over there if you click on over. These two photos are just, you know, for obvious reasons, my pick o' the litter. We love frisky Barry!

Joseph Quinn Nine Times

I was sitting here hoping that some fine photoshoot would pop up just about now at the tail-end of this Friday to send y'all off with, and this one of our Johnny-Storm-to-be Joseph Quinn for Port magazine is fitting the ticket. We do love a man in a suit with his legs in the air, after all. No reviews of anything from me for this weekend, but there's plenty of good hot content down below this post (did you see Henry Golding's butt y'all?) so I feel like I've given us something to chew on (did you see Henry Golding's butt y'all?) Up to and including this photoshoot o' Joe, all after the jump...