Will Poulter Eleven Times

As has been mentioned a couple of times this week already the next nine days or so will no doubt belong to the boys of Warfare photoshoot-wise, and today it seems to be Will Poulter's turn as Man About Town magazine has just dropped these pictures via their Instagram. Will looks hot (arms!), we love us some Will as you well know, but I gotta be honest and admit...

All the gays setting their alarms to go off for when Flaunt mag drops this photoshoot of Kit Connor proper

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... I'm getting kinda frustrated impatiently waiting for Flaunt magazine to drop their new and extremely sexy looking Kit Connor photoshoot, which lo-fi snaps of have leaked onto social media. Look at that shit! I keep checking basically every hour, for naught -- anyway stay tuned. Warfare is out until next Friday so one of these days we'll get it! For now enjoy Will after the jump...

Who Wore It Best?

Crowded field for birthdays of perennial beefcake today -- we already wished Michael Fassbender a happy one this morning but we had other options, given both Chris Meloni and Pedro Pascal slid out their mommas on an April 2nd (the former in 1961 and the latter in 1975). Finding a commonality between these two proved difficult -- I was hoping I'd find pictures of Pedro in a half-shirt or a skirt to go up against photos of Meloni's memorable turns in both of those but they weren't to be. But both have been photographed multiple times wearing white tank-tops -- and as an aside I do understand why we can't use the term "wifebeater" any more for obvious reasons but I do miss its brevity -- so we'll go with that butch-bitch staple. (Butch Bitch is okay, right? Whatever.) Have at it!

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Hug It Out For A Not Half Day

I was just about to tell y'all that it was going to be a half day here at MNPP because I thought I had a press screening of the upcoming queer flick On Swift Horses starring Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, and Diego Calva to head to -- watch the trailer here -- but I fucked up my calendar and the screening was actually this morning! Damn damn damn. I am so daft. Anyway I'll probably be able to sneak into another press screening soon so it's not the absolute end of the world, but I was really looking forward to running free and gay for an afternoon -- sigh. Come comfort me with a hug and our pant-fronts pressed tightly together, Jacob Elordi. Anyway I am seeing Andrew Scott live on stage doing Vanya tonight thanks to a generous friend so at least I do have some proximity to gayness on tap -- I need my fix or I'll turn blue, I tells ya.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Batman Forever (1995)

Robin: Holey rusted metal, Batman!

Batman: Huh?

Robin: The ground, it's all metal. 

It's full of holes. You know, holey. 

Batman: Oh.

Yes I do indeed maintain that the two Joel Schumacher Batman movies are brilliant in their embrace of camp entertainment -- I'm slightly partial to the Batman & Robin (although Clooney is lousy) but they're both such dumb fun and they really should be appreciated as such. Set aside your fears! Straight dudes especially can't seem to get them. Anyway that said, onto the sad reason we're here --  RIP to Val Kilmer. I wasn't ever that huge a fan of him but he certainly was a large and oft formative part of my childhood, gifting us with the volleyball and locker-room scenes in Top Gun, his leather pants in The Doors...

... and of course, the pièce de résistance, Willow. (I should actually send a text to one of my oldest best friends in the world and see how she's doing, as she's the world's biggest Willow fan.) Val was never really my bag but his moving scene in Maverick and the 2021 doc on him both endeared him to me more than he'd been at the height of his career, so I'm at least glad he's not in pain anymore. If you were a fan tell me about it in the comments!

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Good Morning, World

A happy-ish birthday to Michael Fassbender on this the morning of him turning 48 -- oh I'm sure it's perfectly happy for him now that he's made a nice little comeback at last thanks to Steven Soderbergh's movie Black Bag totally rocking (here is my review and PS that movie hit VOD this week so go watch it if you missed it, it is super) and his series The Agency also doing well as far as I can tell. (I was a little bored by that one but he was good and more importantly looked great). I say "happy-ish" for my own reasons -- namely there are like ten workers in my office replacing and cleaning windows right this minute and alongside all of their hammering half the windows are open and it's in the 30s this morning so I am both cold and irritable. Good morning!

Fred Hechinger Ten Times

I'm off to see the new Fred Hechinger picture tonight -- that'd be the forthcoming slasher-comedy Hell of a Summer and you can watch the trailer here -- and so this provides us with a fine opportunity to share these two photoshoots of him (via and via) that've been burning a hole in my Pants for too long. The unspoken business here being that these were both from around the time Gladiator II came out and I was so offended by the homophobia of that movie, with regards to Fred & Joseph Quinn's characters in particular, that I had to avert my eyes for a moment. But Fred still has some goodwill saved up thanks to The White Lotus and Thelma and Fear Street movies so twas inevitable, our swing back his fuzzy, adorkable way. Let's hope tonight's movie doesn't feature too much sissy-phying then! Hit the jump for the rest...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... doing "press" with the Warfare cast.

As I said yesterday when I posted more of Noah Centineo's most recent photoshoot the press push for Alex Garland's upcoming war film with a cast of ten thousand hotties has lots of possibility, and I ain't just dreaming -- this is real, this is really happening! 

The guys seem to've been feeling especially frisky while talking to EW for this cover-shoot. At this rate, with nine days to still go until the movie's release, they'll be frotting by Monday. Huzzah!

The week of sexy #Warfare cast photos continues

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Do Dump or Marry: The New Beatles

Last night at CinemaCon Sam Mendes unveiled the four actors he's cast to play The Beatles in four yes four seperate movies, each one focusing on a single member -- there's Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney. Love all these actors -- you'll see Quinn in Warfare soon enough but that was when I finally decided I am a fan of him -- but as I've probably said on this site a few times over the past twenty years I just do not give a shit about The Beatles. And I don't say that to posture myself as Too Cool or above anything; I recognize that they were an earthquake in music and they have some perfectly good songs but JFC I cannot be bothered. Put their music catalogue or Radiohead's in front of me and I think you can guess where I'll wander. Anyway this will probably turn out to be an interesting expiriment -- telling their story from each point of view -- so if for no other reason we'll be watching. But for right now I invite you to "Do Dump or Marry" these four actors (and as always when there's four feel free to double up on one of those choices) in the comments! (And "Do" = spend one night with; "Dump" = spend zero nights with, and "Marry" equals "spend all the nights with" of course.)

Good Morning, World

Good morning from the Ratliff boys coming to you from the 

shores of sunny Thailand! Nothing but a positive outlook for them! 

So... who do you think dies?

Saddle Up, Buckaroo Boy

He might not be as evidently nude as he was the last time he fell into our lasso loop, but actor-slash-otter Justin Chatwin was kind enough to share a few new photos from his ongoing disrobed Western adventures this weekend and I was kind enough to post them all over on ye Tumblr -- and that seems a nice way to send us off into the sundown of this Monday. See y'all on the yonder, my fairweather calico queens.

Oh and as an entirely unrelated aside since some of you ask me for updates whenever this happens -- I spent some time over the weekend again sorting through my enormous movie collection and I dumped a large pile of DVDs for sale onto eBay! Here is the link. Lotsa gay shit this time around. Make me offers! I just want this extraneous shit outta my house -- it's eating me alive!

Pics of the Day

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On Thursday I was fortunate enough to attend the 20th anniversary screening of the film version of Strangers With Candy (which is finally getting a new physical media release soon, they told us!) at the IFC Center here in New York, and above are a few photos and one video from the Q&A that followed with Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello -- a Q&A that was moderated by Cole Escola no less! Cole of course co-starred with Amy on the brilliant three seasons of the far-too-hard-to-now-find series At Home with Amy Sedaris. Anyway in the video I shared Sedaris brings up a sequel idea that would see our queen Jerri Blank now attending college, and it looks like I have a new impossible thing to pin all of my hopes and dreams upon y'all! Cole could bring their At Home character of Chassie along for the ride -- have her be a mean sorority sister who torments Jerri. I MUST HAVE IT.

Boundless By the Time I Cried

My morning commute to work is often the shittiest time of the day for me to be trapped on a subway train because around 9am is when all sorts of things drop, and I go into a panic that said things -- I do love my things! -- will be sold out by the time I'm above ground and with service again in order to buy said things. So it went this morning when Sufjan Stevens announced a 10th anniversary re-release of his masterpiece album Carrie & Lowell -- don't fret though, I got mine! And you can get yours at this link. As you can see below the new vinyl looks like a stunner and it's got seven previously unreleased tracks... including a demo version of the Call Me By Your Name track "Mystery of Love"! And you can listen to that track above. Since I'm at work I haven't been able to listen to it myself yet so you tell me what you think in the comments. I am doubtless obsessed even unlistened.

Noah Centineo Fourteen More Times

I was reminded this morning by a kind reader (hello Eric!) that over the weekend a big new batch of Noah Centineo photos dropped from his ceaseless Behind the Blinds magazine photoshoot -- mind you this is a photoshoot that's already given us a couple dozen photos that I posted here, and here, and here! They never go soft! (Do I make the "go hard" joke? Or have you all already done it for me?) But Reader Eric actually shared something altogether different with us -- specificlaly this:

I am already infatuated with the press run for Warfare y'all. I knew when that cast was announced we'd be having some fun and I wasn't wrong. I hope somebody gets the guys together for a group photoshoot -- it can be military-themed. I'm down with some swarthy Jarhead action. Anyway they better get on it since Warfare is out in less than two weeks. I hope to be posting something about the movie every day! And for today we've got more Noah and that sits good with me. Hit the jump for it...

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Good Morning, World

Sam Claflin's got something to say!
(via) And I am sort of listening.
His chest is very distracting though.

First Comes Peace, Then Comes Out

Well I hate to do it to y'all but I'm making like Will Poulter there and peacing out for the weekend -- leaving now for a screening and then I've got a big fun root canal happening tomorrow morning so I'm just taking off the entire day. Wheeeeeeee, that will surely be a blast -- I'll think I'll spend some time going through more movies etc. to list on eBay. Sort through the pain! Speaking of though if you missed my begging post yesterday about my neediness click here -- this looming dental work is a part of that that I didn't mention! But thanks to everybody who's been kind enough to donate already -- it means a lot to me. Moving on -- I haven't got any reviews hitting this weekend but I will say that if you feel like seeing that "Naomi Watts and a big dog" movie The Friend I recommend it -- I saw it at NYFF in the fall and it's surprisingly low-key and moving and Watts is wonderful in it. I know when you hear it's a movie about people dealing with big animals in small apartments you think you've immediately got the entire movie written in your head but I promise you The Friend will surprise you. It's a lovely little piece of work. 

Oh and since I brought up Will Poulter up top this is also a good moment to share the below clip from his new movie Death of a Unicorn (also out this weekend), which showcases a scene that was the movie's highlight for me. Which isn't to say that I didn't like the movie -- it's a lot of goofy fun (Teo Leoni and Richard E Grant are hilarious) if perrrrhaps a tad too long -- but rather that if you have now-era Will Poulter in nothing but a pair of soaking wet shorts getting out of a hot tub, then that's gonna be your movie's highlight for me. That's just math. Have a good weekend, everybody.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Passenger (1975)

The Girl: Isn't it funny how things happen? All the shapes 

we make. Wouldn't it be terrible to be blind? 

David: I know a man who was blind. When he was 

nearly 40 years old, he had an operation and regained his sight.

The Girl: How was it like?

David: At first he was elated... really high. Faces... colors... 

landscapes. But then everything began to change. The world 

was much poorer than he imagined. No one had ever told him 

how much dirt there was. How much ugliness. He noticed 

ugliness everywhere. When he was blind... 

he used to cross the street alone with a stick. 

After he regained his sight... he became afraid. 

He began to live in darkness. He never left his room. 

After three years he killed himself.

God I love The Passenger. Really I love every Antonioni movie I've seen so I should 1) binge more of them because there's a lot I haven't seen and 2) write about his work more. (I mean I watch Blow Up when I need to relax.) Anyway to get to the point actress Maria Schneider was born 73 years ago today. (She passed away in 2011.) Besides starring opposite Jack Nicholson in the above movie she's of course best known for starring opposite Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. And coincidentally there's a movie about Schneider's disturbing experiences making Tango with Brando & director Bernardo Bertolucci that's in theaters right now! It's called Being Maria and I'll share the trailer down below. Anamaria Vartolomei plays Schneider and Matt Dillon plays Brando, while...

... the extremely hot Italian actor Giuseppe Maggio plays Bertolucci in what you might be forced to call an exxxtreme glow-up. That was certainly a choice. A lot of one. That said I haven't seen Being Maria yet, but I've got a screener so hopefully I can dive in this weekend. I'm extremely curious to see how it tackles all the shit that Maria went through making that movie. Here's that trailer:

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