I better see somebody wearing this tonight.
(I am actually going out to a party if you can believe it!)
Let me know if you wear something neat
or watch something cool in the comments...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Halloween's Ways Not To Die
Let's all go to the movies, let's all go to the moooovies, let's all go to the movies... and have ourselves a snack! I know I shamefully haven't done one of our "Ways Not To Die" series in awhile but since it's the greatest day of the year today I figured we should celebrate and what better way than with one of the greatest death scenes in all of cinema? Hit the jump for our take on the movie theater scene in 1973's Messiah of Evil...
Which is Hotter?
A batch of five character posters for Robert Eggers upcoming remake of Nosferatu dropped this morning -- notably twas none included for the titular role, as they have so far kept Bill Skarsgård's vampire look deliciously out of sight (and I hope it stays that way until the movie is out). But since I will take any measly excuse to post about this movie, by leaps and bounds my most anticipated for the remainder of the year, let's put Nicholas Hoult's look up against Aaron Taylor-Johnson's this here Halloween afternoon!
Nosferatu is out on Christmas damn day!
Show Us The Hole, Theo James
Even though I am legitimately excited about this just-announced project what, you thought I wouldn't go right for the dirty joke in my headline? You don't know me at all. Anyway yes it's true -- Theo James is set to star in a movie titled The Hole. The jokes they write themselves. But we should only joke a little because the movie will be directed by I Saw the Devil and A Tale of Two Sisters director Kim Jee-Woon, one of the great voices in South Korean cinema, and it's based on an award-winning novel (of the same name) that has a terrific Misery-like premise to it. Theo plays a man who moves to South Korea with his South Korean wife, only for them to get into a terrible car accident, killing the wife. As he's recuperating in the home of his South Korean mother-in-law's house she starts to uncover that he might not have been a good husband to her daughter, and yadda yadda you can expect things to go pretty south from there. South... towards The Hole! That sounds good, right? Anyway I am happy that Theo is making some horror-type movies at this stage in his career -- you might recall that he's also the lead in Longlegs director Oz Perkins' next movie The Monkey...
Nicholas Alexander Chavez Eight Times
It is indeed overdue that I drop down some Nicholas Alexander Chavez gratuity on us (even if I still have yet to start watching his Menendez Bros series Monsters) so here is a sopping wet new photoshoot of the actor and big sexy slab o' man for our old friend Schön! magazine (via). Hit the jump for them all...
Kit Harington Gonna Ride Billy Magnusson Hard
Some news that shoots right up our alley dropped yesterday -- Kit Harington and Billy Magnusson are set to star in a fantastical horse-racing comedy called Chariot! It's about "an oversized jockey" (and no offense Kit but that's some flattery, insinuating you're too big to play a jockey -- we love you pocket-sized!) who gets injured but finds his way back into the sport... with the comedic twist being that the "horse" in question that shows him how to suceed again is really a centaur. And if you can't picture Billy Magnusson as a centaur then you have no imagination. Anyway yes if you've now caught up this is a movie about Kit Harginton riding on (a presumably shirtless) Billy Magnusson's back. And the next time someone says to you that the movies are dead you need to slap them twice across the face, once for each cheek, because this is proof the movies have never been more alive, baby!
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Barry Keoghan Seven Times
Yesterday we got the Franz Rogowski photoshoot and today we get his Bird co-star Barry Keoghan for Port magazine -- well "co-star" is a little bit of a liberal description since the two unfortunately share no scenes in the movie. But they're still technically "co-stars" I suppose. And once you see the movie it makes sense they don't share scenes -- there's a real swapping out of energies between the two, and what their influences mean to the lead character. Anyway! Bird is a very good movie and you should see it when it hits theaters on November 8th. Here is my review of it. But back to our Barry boy -- it's a good chat with him in Port, read that too. But I've got all of the photos after the jump...
Good Morning, World
Swallowed director Carter Smith sent out this photo (click to embiggen) of his lead actor Cooper Koch last week as part of his weekly "All the Dead Boys" newsletter, and as a reminder that Swallowed is getting the fancy blu-ray treatment via Vinegar Syndrome -- buy it here! Mine just shipped out yesterday, which was what reminded me to share this photo of the Monsters star taken at an earlier but no less unshy date. Here is my review of Swallowed -- terrific flick, that. And a good one to add to your Halloween watch schedule if you're in the mood for some creepy queer body-horror goodness. If you don't have the blu-ray it is rent-able on Prime right now. So no excuses! Happy Hump Day.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Craig: There is truth, and there are lies, andart always tells the truth. Even when it's lying.
Happy 25 to one of the many many 1999 masterpieces, and one of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's many masterpieces. Doesn't that single line from the film feel like a nice distillation of Charlie Kaufman's ethos? He's always uncovering the deepest truths about humanity through artifice and deception, boxes within boxes, pulling back the telescopic lens on us again and again until he spirals our brains into something like Herzog's ecstatic truth. And this movie is where our journey with that genius began (no The Dana Carvey Show does not count) and I haven't regretted a single second since. Anyway did you see the news that Jonze had apparently been working on a big sci-fi series for Netflix that's just been shelved? Boo, I say -- we need Spike back already! It's been ages and ages. Come back to us! On camera, too -- I like to look at you.
Queer The Trailer Is Here, It's Queer
She's here and she's lovely! The trailer for Luca Gudagnino's Queer arrived this morning -- why do they always have to drop while I'm in the middle of my work commute? -- and you can watch it below. If this is your first time here this is Luca's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel starring Daniel Craig as a Burroughs stand-in during his time in Mexico and South America, swooning over a hot but semi-indifferent boy played by Drew Starkey.
I reviewed the movie right here when it screened at NYFF earlier this month -- I was a fan. Of course I was a fan. What can I say at this point? Luca and I work on very similar wave-lengths. Here's a bit of what I said about the film:
"Queer is a bold act of kindness from one queer to another, excavating an unexpected and impossible love story out from one of our most enigmatic homosexual touchstones. It is a rare gem, haunting and strange, a romance of shivering ache and heartbreak closer to Guadagnino’s Suspiria or Bones and All than the flushed skin and peach fuzz of I Am Love and Call Me By Your Name that Luca-in-lover-mode is known for. It’s dazzling and dirty and sad, like a haunting dream we find ourselves fighting to not wake up from so as to not have to stare at the empty, featureless room that surrounds us."
The trailer kind of splits the difference between the two Lucas and I suppose that's apt -- when I saw him talk about the movie (see some video here) he insisted this was a love story, just for two people out of sync, and that's very true.
Queer is out on November 27th!
Good Morning, Franz Rogowski
Oh happy day -- as Andrea Arnold's wonderful new film Bird is about to hit theaters (my review here) Another Man magazine has gifted us with a gratuitous photoshoot of our beloved Franz Rogowski for the ages! Not that Franz has ever been a shy one -- outside of all the many many times he's disrobed in his movies he's posted photos of great gratuity on his Instagram and he's given us several other photoshoots of note. He's a generous giver and I feel given to. You should definitely read the interview that goes with these pictures...
... because on that front I learned Franz was raised by parents in a menage a la Passages, that he refuses to identify sexually, and that he got kicked out of clown school. And every single one of those things make sense when it comes to him, right? The writer of the piece is show-offy with how intimate the interview is, mentioning Franz flirting with him during yoga and "applying some pressure to my glute" and then how they went and showered afterwards... not that I wouldn't mention these things too! I am just jealous. So very jealous. But we've at least got these pictures to show for it, even if Franz didn't touch our glutes. (Yet.) Hit the jump for them all...
Monday, October 28, 2024
Mason Gooding Wants Your Sex
Another batch of names have been added to the cast of Gregg Araki's upcoming movie I Want Your Sex, and one of them is Scream hunk and MNPP fave Mason Gooding! Yes I cannot wait for Araki's lens to frame this slab of man -- Gregg will know how to do it. This is the movie that stars Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman as a May-December pairing whose entire calendar goes outta whack due to the power of their passion. I just came up with that plot description myself, I really should work in PR. Here is the way Deadline puts it:
"A provocative film blithely exploring desire, domination, and fantasy, I Want Your Sex asks, how far is too far? When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder."
Also joining the cast are Johnny Knoxville, Daveed Diggs, Charlie XCX, Margaret Cho, and Chase Sui Wonders from Bodies Bodies Bodies, which is such an Araki-esque movie I'm just now realizing? Ooh why isn't Gregg working with Rachel Sennott??? My brain just exploded. They would be amazing together. Get to work on the next one right now, Gregg! Mason can come too!
Kit Harington Eleven Times
Kit Harington has been very good to us in 2024 -- better to people who were able to go to London and see him on stage in Slave Play obviously -- and he keeps on keeping on with the hotness parade via this new photoshoot for ICON magazine. There could be fewer clothes but there could always be fewer clothes -- what matters is how much he makes us think sinful throughts through said clothes and my brain is popping off. Hit the jump for the full shoot...
Who Wore It Best?
I am ashamed to admit I didn't think of this myself first, nor in a timely fashion (i.e. when The Iron Claw came out last year), so go thank this person on Twitter for realizing that Zac Efron wears the same yellow mesh tank top in that movie that Lena Dunham wore in a memorable scene on Girls. Anyway I'm pretty sure I have a clue which way this poll will go (pretty sure!) but how could I not ask:
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