Wrap Me in Reynor

Florence Pugh (because she is very good, mind you!) has a tendency to swallow up her male co-stars' deserved attention. We saw it with Lady Macbeth and how long it took the world to cotton to her co-star in that, Cosmo Jarvis. And it seems to've happened again with Jack Reynor, Pugh's Midsommar leading man -- he ran around with his willy out (as did Cosmo actually) and for what? Bupkis for years, while she's off starring in Avengers movies. Feminism run amok! In all seriousness I think Jarvis and Reynor stood every bit her equal in those movies so I was very happy when Cosmo started getting attention thanks to Shogun, as I am very happy now to see that Reynor's booked a big leading man gig -- he is going to star in a new version of The Mummy for Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin. I don't think I mentioned it on here but I finally got around to seeing Wolf Man, the Christopher Abbott reboot of that Universal Monster, and I liked it way more than its reputation suggested? I loved its single night structure and I found the dissolving relationship of the family unit surprisingly moving! That movie got a bum rap. (Anyway it's on blu-ray now so you should give it a chance if you missed it.) And Cronin is maybe an even better director than Leigh Whannell -- Cronin's 2019 horror flick The Hole in the Ground is tremendously fine (here is my review). So I'm curious to see what they do with the Mummy mythology and I think Jack will look good covered in sand -- count me in! And since we're here I unearthed something of my own -- an attractive Jack Reynor photoshoot from 2022 that I apparently never posted. So hit the jump for it... 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Night Moves (1975)

Harry: Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make 

much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. 

When you get to be forty, it isn't any better.

Arthur Penn's classic 70s neo-noir Night Moves has hit the Criterion collection in glorious 4K today, as we previously forecasted -- and (unfortunately) there's probably a never better time to revisit it given the recent passing of its star Gene Hackman. Some people consider this his greatest performance! I'd have to go with The Conversation on that front but this one's sure no slouch. Very much worth seeing.

In related news I watched Penn's 1966 film The Chase for the first time over the weekend and I actually found it a really fascinating film. It's not perfect, it's wildly all over the place (and with an unwieldy cast that includes Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, James Fox, E.G. Marshall, and Miriam Hopkins that's to be expected), but as a portrait of the societal tensions (both racial and economic) of that chaotic moment in time it really gets across the feeling of a world on the brink of madness. And as I said in my brief Letterboxd take it really feels like the kind of movie our current moment is really screaming out for. Any fans of The Chase? Or Night Moves for that matter?

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Good Morning, Noah Centineo

Well here's one we've been waiting for a month and a half for -- I won't bother to say "patiently" waiting since I've been screaming inside every other day over it -- as a big batch of Noah Centineo's photoshoot for Behind the Blinds has dropped at last! I posted three extremely sexy photos from this shoot on February 12th but it's been nothing but edging off those ever since -- big throbbing thanks to the photographer Sam Ramirez for sharing these at last! 

Per usual Behind the Blinds still hasn't posted the photos themselves on their website since they presumably want people to buy their actual magazine, and who can blame them? Not me! I recommend you do go buy their magazine because their shoots have been feeding us well over the past few years -- they do wonderful work and bless them for it. But that's not going to stop me from posting these photos here because damn damn damn Noah. Hit the jump...  

Arnaud Valois Thirteen Times

I can't say for sure if this'll be every photo of actor Arnaud Valois in the new issue of Behind the Blinds magazine because they haven't actually posted the photoshoot on their site yet -- I've gathered these up over the past week from a few different Instagram accounts. Because I do the work! But it's a nice big batch anyway and since I'm carrying a big mean case of the Mondays right now I figured why not drop some sunshine and lollipops onto us? 

I've been enamored with this gallic stunner since he starred in the great B.P.M. -- and now that I mention it a re-watch of the great B.P.M. suddenly feels timely as fuck. A movie about righteously antagonizing the ruthless powers that be? Sign me up. I could use the booster shot. Anyway until I manage to slip myself at least marginally outta this funk (ha good luck with that) let's just enjoy these photos of the inspirational Arnaud after the jump...

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Good Morning, World

Happy Monday... well you know. All things depending.  I think we all feel like Patrick Schwarzenegger in this scene from last night's White Lotus these days -- a little sick, a little terrified, every time we wake up -- and who can blame us? Mike White tapping into the zeitgeist in a way only he could! Chaos reigns at home and abroad and entertainmentally speaking. Good times. I suppose this is where I ask y'all what you though of that episode if you watched it? I'm trying to be non-spoilery although these two gifs obviously say a little bit! Feel free to jump in in the comments, and I'll even give you a bouncing off point here with Sam Nivola's lil' bum...

Pic of the Day

Having seen Death of a Unicorn last night I'm now back on my Will Poulter bullshit, real hard -- he spends a good majority of this movie wearing small shorts, and he has an excellent hot-tubbing scene as well! -- and so I wasn't going to resist sharing this photo of Will with Jacob Elordi on the set of their upcoming rainbow drama On Swift Horses. I mean I wasn't going to resist sharing this photo whether I'd just seen Will in soaking wet trunks in a new movie last night or not! Anyway if you missed the trailer it's right here and if you missed the new hot photos of the other dude in the movie -- one Diego Calva -- that I shared yesterday click here. On Swift Horses is out on April 25th! Not even a month to go!

Adam Scott Seven Times

I am doing you all a favor -- or at least I am doing the one commenter here at MNPP who is always really happy whenever I post Adam Scott photos a favor; hey you! -- by posting this new shoot of the Severance star for GQ today when I haven't watched the second season finale yet. I have spent all day dodging spoilers on social media and now I have invited them into my own house! So please be respectful in the comments and don't say anything about the latest episode until tomorrow at the earliest -- I'm planning on watching it tonight. Although as I stated the last time this show came up to several people's consternation I admitted that I'm not super sold on this show -- it comes and goes. The little bit I've seen about this week's finale is people going nuts for it, and I remember feeling that last season too -- last season's finale was what convinced me that my before-that waffling feelings about the show were wrong, and that brought me back enthusiastically for the second season... 

... only for the second season to then reinforce how I'd been feeling before. Point being Severance seems to be a show that gives us really great season finales only to meander in every other episode in ways that I don't find totally engaging even when I want to. Because I would like to like this show more than I do! The ingrediants are there! It looks great, it's got actors I like -- save Patricia Arquette who I still maintain is terrible on this. But I would watch ten hours of just Christopher Walken & John Turturro's characters. All of that said perhaps I will watch the finale and regret my ranting all over again. We'll see. For now we will just stare at Adam looking hot in his GQ suits and extremely necesarry scruff (scruff makes such a huge difference in Adam Scott's attractiveness levels) after the jump...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

The Old Man: Honey, you - uh - what you eat seems 

to settle in the right places. But then, you look to me 

like a girl with a big appetite for everything. 

Varla: I try to think big!

Titty Icon Russ Meyer was born 103 years ago today!

Now that Severin has started releasing his movies

on blu-ray let's form a prayer circle for this one. I need it!

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Good Morning, World

A good Friday to one and all -- it's been one fuck-ton of a shit-fuck week so I'm being lazy and reposting a photo of Aaron Taylor Johnson that I have posted before (see more here) but never quite in this large and smooth a resolution. Click on it and it gets bigger. (That's what his wife said.) So there's that. Let's get this day over with then -- I am really incredibly ready for two full days of floor-time. 

Diego Calva Seven Times

I am not one of those critics who think that Damien Chazelle's Babylon is some misunderstood masterpiece that deserves to be reassessed in the future -- I thought it was a thundering and obvious bore with a few fun scenes and performances sprinkled about. Neither do I think Diego Calva was particularly good in the movie. And yet here we are! And it's all because he has a movie coming out soon where he supposedly has lots of sex with Jacob Elordi (at least we know for sure that they dance in tighty-whities together and that's good for me). That said I also never thought I'd be feeling so pro-mesh-shirt as I have been lately but I'll be damned if the slut-forward fashion gurus haven't convinced me with the likes of Diego photographed here in Bad Hombre magazine (via). (And also that Glen Powell photoshoot -- we can't forget that!) So who knows what the future may hold! (Yeah you can say that again -- fuck.) What a world, what a world. Hit the jump for the entire shoot...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

20th Century Women (2016)

Julie: The way they look at me, the way they all get a little desperate at some point. The little sounds they make. And their bodies. You don’t know exactly how they’re gonna look, or smell, or feel or whatever until you do it.

I have no idea why this specific speech from Mike Mills' masterpiece 20th Century Women popped into my head during my subway commute this morning but it's not the first time a patch of dialogue from this movie has just spontaneously wandered into my mind -- what a script! What a movie. I love how it's a film explicitly about how the teenage boy Jamie soaks up all these different women's perspectives like a sponge but it still manages to feel like every one of them exist outside of him -- they are all remain rich and complicated and unwieldy and they are never defined by him. A perfect movie about the importance of shutting the fuck up and listening. 

I Wanna Jai You Like An Animal

When this movie was first announced last May I immediately went bonkers for it, as could be predicted by the mish-mash of words one needs to use to describe it -- Dangerous Animals is directed by Sean Byrne, director of The Loved Ones, and it stars Jai Courtney as a serial killer who kills people by feeding them to sharks. If you built a blender large enough to drop my entire body into this is the movie that would come pouring out into your glass once my person was fully blended. Anyway that was a year ago and now the time has arrived, so get to building your people blenders -- the movie is coming out in theaters on June 6th and we've got a teaser trailer! And...

... like a full fifty percent of it is Jai dancing around in his underwear! As if they needed to win me over further? I'd already bought my ticket last May y'all! Anyway as I also mentioned in my post last year this movie co-stars the supernaturally pretty Josh Heuston, who we've become far more familiar with (especially his bum) thanks to the Dune series on Max. So that's exciting as well! Here is the trailer:

Dangerous Animals! Out on June 6th! Be there!

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Good Morning, World

Nassim Lyes is gonna take us for a ride 

this morning! Hop in the back!

It's Pink, Mama

I mentioned back in January that I went to see the new 4K restoration of James Bidgood's queer classic Pink Narcissus at MoMA -- well the thing's been floating about a bit since then, screening at a few spots around the country, , and now we've got the happy word that it's taking up residency at the Metrograph theater here in NYC for an entire week beginning on April 11th. Not to be missed! It looked so dreamy at MoMA that my eyes wept ejaculate. You can buy tickets right here. And I have no doubt that there will be a physical release of this soon, presumably some time this year, so if you can't make it to NYC just be patient!

But thankfully that's not the only happy Bidgood news I have to share -- a new book of his iconic and gay-as-the-hills photography is being released next week! Don't know why I'm just learning this today but it's titled Dreamlands and you can pre-order a copy here. The cover is seen below. I saw a photography show of Bidgood's gorgeous and fantastical and ass-heavy work in 2019 and you can see some photos I took of it right here. Gay legend!