Punch-Drunk Druggies Cross Delancey

Criterion Announcement Day sneaked up on us again -- and it was technically three days ago! They're late even and I didn't notice. Gosh it's almost like there are distracting things happening in the world? Well let's not focus on those, and instead focus on the movies that Criterion is releasing onto 4K blu-ray this upcoming February of the year 2025... yeah we're especially going to need some distractions right then I wager. Argh. Anyway! Criterion! First up is Gus Van Sant's 1989 druggie drama Drugstore Cowboy starring a very pretty Matt Dillon alongside Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros. Oh and William S. Burroughs! He's in this too. I haven't seen this movie in a very very long time (like at least twenty years) so it's definitely due a revisit -- I have a feeling I'll have grown to appreciate it more because I was never that much of a fan but it feels like a movie I'll get more now than I did when I was younger. 

Next up we have a pair of movies I've never seen -- Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear from 1987 starring Peter Sellers and Molly Ringwald (wtf) and Joan Macklin Silver's 1988 romance Crossing Delancey with  Amy Irving torn between two fellas in late-80s Manhattan. The Godard sounds bonkers; the JMS sounds sweet and perfect for a Saturday afternoon, and I am excited to watch them both. 

Then we've got three more movies (big month, February) which I have seen before -- there's Nicolas Roeg's brilliant 1970 film Performance with  James Fox and Mick Jagger, there's Guillermo Del Toro's first film Cronos getting a 4K upgrade, and there's Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love also doing the same. Love all three of those -- PDL was my favorite PTA movie for a long time but I can safely say that Phantom Thread has replaced it now. But I also haven't re-watched it in several years since every time I do think about it I think about how it shreds my nerves and I move on to another movie since whose nerves have needed extra shredding lately? Certainly not mine! 

Big Things For Our Boy

God's Own Country and Challengers actor Josh O'Connor is set to star in Steven Spielberg's next movie! I had to google it to make sure he wasn't in War Hose because doesn't it feel like he could've been in War Horse? (Full disclosure - I have never seen War Horse. It's one of I think three Spielberg movies I haven't seen.) Anyway this will be Josh's first movie with the biggest man in Hollywood history -- we don't know much about this movie yet except it's a science-fiction "event film" so this will be Spielberg in blockbuster mode. Four other people also joined the cast -- Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson (aka Bono's daughter who co-starred in The Knick!), Colin Firth, and Colman f'ing Domingo! Yes Colman too! Save Colman this is a very British cast though so I am assuming this will be a British-set science0-fiction picture. Wouldn't it be kind of cool if he made a new Day of the Triffids? I love Day of the Triffids. Those killer plants freak me the fuck out. And it's a timely ecological angle. If it gets announced that this is a Day of the Triffids movie I want my flowers dammit cuz I called it!

Come Out Come Out Where Ever You Are

I am one of those weirdos who think that Martin Scorsese's 1991 Cape Fear remake is one of his best movies -- it's so purple and overheated and operatic and Jessica Lange is fluttering her hands all around and Juliette Lewis is biting her braces and I love it, I love it, I just love it. Nevertheless I am excited about today's news that Javier Bardem is going to star in a 10-episode series remake that has been greenlit of the property -- it doesn't hurt that Scorsese himself (with a little nobody named Steven Spielberg) are the producers behind it. But Bardem is a great choice -- assuming he's playing the maniac Max Cady character. I think he'd be wasted as the Nick Nolte in this situation. Not that they shouldn't make that character interesting too. It's just we haven't gotten Javier playing a big villain in awhile, I feel like, at least not that I've seen, and he's so very good at it. No other casting has been announced but the actual show-runner has been and it's also terrific news -- Nick Antosca, the pervert behind the Channel Zero horror anthology series (as well as Brand New Cherry Flavor, also good), will be doing the actual work. I am a huge Channel Zero head. Pretzel Jack! Ahhh just saying his name makes me shudder. One of the great under-sung horror villains of our times. If Antosca can tap into some of this chaotic energy...

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Who Wore It Best?

Timothée Chalamet is on the cover of Rolling Stone this month as he gears up to push his Bob Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown (out at Christmas) -- there are a couple of nice photos, including the two posted here, so click over if you want them. 

(Plus an interview which I haven't read yet so I cannot say.) But then there's also an inexplicable photo of Timmy doing the same pose that the teen daughter Holly in Troll 2 does in the middle of her big infamously much-mocked dance scene in that movie and so obviously I had to ask y'all...

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... the wet fag between Paul Mescal's lips.

(via) First off I hope nobody's too irritable about my use of the f-slur lately -- I've dropped it a few times in print over the past several weeks because I've been working through a little bit of a personal reclamation of it and seeing a member of the British Isles smoking a cigarette always gives me an easy out. I am aware obviously (uhh obviously) that it's a loaded term on this continent; it's a word I've mostly avoided using personally, but I don't feel like giving it any power over myself anymore. Clearly a process I should've dealt with earlier in life, but I think we're all feeling ourselves spinning into weird directions that we cannot aniticipate these days and this just happens to be one of mine. Anyway that aside this is a new photo of Paul taken from this set posted last week -- and I think it's safe to say this photo will probably be topping next year's "I Quit Smoking" post, right? I dare the photographers to come up with a better one in the next six months but this is gonna clearly be up there! In summation here is a photo of Paul with Barry Keoghan at the Governors Awards this past weekend: 

Good Morning, World

On Friday afternoon I shared with y'all a moment of bulge involving Aldis Hodge on his new series Cross -- well I also had this scene on my person at the time and it took me a lot of wherewithal not to shoot that entire load all at once, believe you me. But I edged us through the entire weekend (I feel as if I should stop this metaphor) and now, Monday morning, kapow. You're welcome. Was it as good for you as it was for me? In all seriousness happy Monday -- I hope everybody managed to make it through their weekends unscathed. But if you needed some alone time to slide down the shower wall like Aldis here, well nobody could blame you. These are "slide down your shower wall" kinda times. 

Twist On This

I was hoping if I went digging I'd find that Vanity Fair had already gifted us with an out-take from their shoot of Glen Powell this week, but no such luck -- just the two very hot shots I posted Wednesday so far. But I have never posted this photo before so let's post that photo whilst I direct you to my ol' Pajiba review of Twisters, his blockbuster sequel that came out earlier this summer and which has today, this very day, landed on streaming thanks to Peacock. I found the movie kind of disappointing -- as much as I can ever be disappointed by a Disaster Movie, since I will watch and re-watch even the worst of them a million times over, anyway. But hey it gave us Glen in a wet white t-shirt so s'all not a negative!

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... interrogated by Aldis Hodge.

That is a scene from Aldis' new series Cross which was 100% not on my radar until this video crossed my social media path (via) and uhh I think I might be watching this show now. 

Paul Mescal Two Times

Oh goodness! Paul, you utter scamp. These pictures are for something called Hollywood Authentic magazine which I've never heard of until now but I'll be gosh-darned if these photos didn't get me bookmarking them immediately! There are a slew more photos at the link along with an interview -- I'm just sharing the two most important-to-me photos but if Paul mounting a big beautiful filly is your cuppa you'll wanna be clicking over.

ETA oh wait we have gifs! Hit the jump...

Heading Toward Bluer Skies

Grégoire Colin in Beau Travail should become the official beefcake pin-up for the social media network Bluesky don't you think? When I picture a blue sky I picture this shot of him from that movie, anyway. Just me? Anyway I just wanted to take this moment of buzz for Bluesky to remind y'all that I am on there too -- you can follow me right here. There's been a huge influx of people escaping Twitter this week which is super understandable given Elon Musk being a fascist piece of shit who helped steal the U.S. election for a Nazi. I've long been a Twitter addict and I've got years and years worth of nonsense compiled on there so I don't know that I'll ever delete my account fully but I have been posting on Bluesky much much more since the election and can foresee myself migrating over there for the most part eventually, especially now that there are more people popping up to talk to. So if you're looking for a non-toxic alternative, get it while it's hot! I don't know how long they can keep the good vibes going but right now it's a little wonderland. And as usual you can find all of my social media accounts and other spots where I be writing in the right-hand comlumn or on Linktree. 

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

Earlier this week when my tweet about People's Sexiest Man Alive pick getting usurped by the men of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue went viral the most common source of outrage was the lack of Manny Jacinto anywhere, which yeah, duh! So here is some fresh Manny to sate our thirsts until everybody gets their shit together and starts giving this many the proper sexy respect he deserves. These are from some movie called Balestra -- you can watch the trailer right here -- but I must admit I honestly have no idea where or how you can watch this. I swiped these gifs off of Tumblr. But maybe Paramount+? I don't have that streamer so I can't say for sure. But anyway -- Manny? Manny for all the prizes. 

The Sexy Man...

... to end all sexy men has entered.

Which is Hotter?

John Krasinski was named People's "Sexiest Man Alive" today and actual real live people seemed to be like, "... Huh?" Myself included. While I think the man has had his moments over the years I've soured on him since his shitty overrated and deeply conservative Quiet Place movies came out and, in their wake, so too did some stories about him being a shitty egomaniac. Anyway I now have a hit tweet...

Vanity Fair coming out the same day and making an absolute mockery of People's always terrible Sexiest Man Alive game pic.twitter.com/vkQkQ4ibDj

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 13, 2024

... pointing out that Vanity Fair totally stole People's thunder today with their incredibly hot batch of menfolk prancing about for the annual "Hollywood Issue" and so a path forward seem to've presented itself! There are actually rumors going around that one of those VF men, the probable most likely alternative choice,  Mr. Glen Powell of the film Twisters, smartly turned People's title down. So let's slap the two of them in the face with our big poll and see who comes on top, then!

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Slip a Little Something in Our Coinslot

This post is going to be real orphan clanging his empty food bowl on the cement as he coughs a necrotic rattle so I will temper that with a wee flavor of Paul Mescal's All of Us Strangers sexiness -- just last week I told y'all I would be piling a bunch of shit onto eBay over the weekend. Well I did. It just took me into Monday to get it done so I am re-reminding. Click here to see what I've got for sale -- it really does include some proper fantasticos (like All of Us Strangers for one -- see, it all comes together) and you should buy some stuff from me. On that same note (of beggary) if you look over into the right-hand column in the "Support MNPP" section near the top I have added a blue "Paypal Subscribe" button, which will allow you to donate five bucks to the site monthly. I didn't whip this up on my own -- a generous reader wanted a way to do this so I made it possible. As always there's the other Donate button too, which allows for whatever coinage you can spare. Or just read for free! I'm not making anybody feel guilty for that -- I don't know you or your situation. I just want to continue doing my monkey dance to entertain y'all and so I shall, but any donations are always greatly and profoundly appreciated.  

Paul Mescal Six Times

I have to give credit to the magazines of the world today -- they saw our hearts were hurting and we were in need and they replied with Glen Powell in a mesh shirt and this photo-shoot of Paul Mescal for Variety magazine. (Although do note my noted avoidance of People's "Sexiest man Alive" nonsense -- noted!) Paul is playing the romantic dreamboat role perfectly in these photos (what a shocker) so put down a pillow, hit the jump and swoon with us...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Nobody guessed this yesterday!

So here are five more frames:

Can you guess the movie now?