Damn Fine Coffee

The streaming service MUBI is bringing all three seasons of David Lynch's masterpiece Twin Peaks -- including the brain-breaking The Return, which aired on Showtime 25 years after the first two aired on ABC in 1990 -- on June 13th! This year marks the show's 30th anniversary so this is a nice way to honor that -- another nice way to honor that is to start listening to the watch-along podcast "The Detective and the Log Lady" which has been gifting us with weekly recaps for the past several months and which I'm sure I've mentioned here previously since one half of its hosting duties are performed by our forever blogging pal the Final Girl herself Stacie Ponder. The other half is the great Mike Muncer of "Evolution of Horror" fame -- Stacie's watching the show for the first time while Mike is a longtime fan and it's a lot of fun to listen to their takes on the series episode by episode. And it's given me a good excuse to re-watch the entire thing. We're in the smack-dab middle of The Return right now, so nearing the end -- just nother nine episodes to go I guess? That makes me sad! But it's not like Twin Peaks isn't made to be revisited. Now that it'll be streaming on MUBi maybe I'll just start it all over again when we finish! There are such wonders to behold...  

Good Morning, Gratuitous Garrett Wareing

All it usually takes is an actor getting one sizzling photoshoot that grabs my eye -- the greatest example being Chris Evans' legendary shoot for Flaunt magazine of course -- and even if you've never made an impression on me with the whole "acting" thing I'll still file your name away for further reference. But with Garrett Wareing here, who's been acting since he was 12 (all of 12 years ago), he's had several shoots over the past few years that should've caught my eye but... didn't. Until this week that is, when...

... the latest one for Vulcan magazine appeared. And consider my eye caught. But after doing some digging I found several earlier photoshoots that should've done the trick (his Instagram was especially helpful in this regard) so now we'll play catch-up and post them all. Acting-wise the only thing I've seen Mr. Wareing in appears to be the 2023 film God is a Bullet where he was opposite Nicolaj Koster-Waldau and Karl Glusman, but there was a lot going on in that movie (obviously given those two names I just named) so I didn't notice him. Sorry, Garrett! That said...

... he is in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's infamous short story The Long Walk that Constantine director Francis Lawrence has directed, and which also stars Cooper Hoffman, Charlie Plummer, David Jonsson, Judy Greer, and Mark Hammil, so I assume 2025 will be the year this beautiful boy leaves a mark. I can say that assuredly because he already has, looking through these photos! (God I love furry blonds.) So hit the jump and brand him on your brains too...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Pecker (1998)

Jimmy: Pubic hair causes crime.

How in the John-Waters-loving world had I never done that quote for one of these posts until now??? Talk about one of the most important life lessons one can learn! I guess it's because I only recently, like post-pandemic, decided I love Pecker with all of my heart -- I think it was when I wrote a piece on its 25th anniversary two years back that did it. When it Criterion going to give us a fancy edition of this one anyway? A proper re-evaluation of this movie's far overdue -- it's one of John's greats. Aaaaanyway to get to the point -- a very very very very happy 79th birthday to our favorite Uncle Pervert himself! And let's make 2025 the year where he finally gets a new movie greenlit goddammit.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... sharing a joystick 

with Jon Bernthal & Charlie Cox.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Nobody was able to guess this movie last week

so here are Five more Frames to guess with!

So what movie is it?

Okay! Still going! Tough one, I guess!

Here are five more frames...

Well... what movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Inspired by his moment to shine in yesterday's Mesh Shirt Off post here is the rest of Indian actor Ishaan Khatter's photoshoot for V Man magazine, where he was also photographed in said mesh shirt as seen in said post. The rest of this shoot might be even hotter than the photos I shared yesterday though -- give this boy a career in America stat! He has already had two small (I'm guessing, since I haven't seen one and the other I don't remember) roles in big U.S. projects -- he was in Nicole Kidman's series The Perfect Couple (which I didn't watch) and he was apparently in that awful all-star comet-apocalypse comedy Don't Look Up. We can do better! Scroll through his Instagram and you'll understand. Or just hit the jump for this full photoshoot (with video!) anbd you'll understand doubly....

Feast On This

Having missed Spa Night when it came out in 2016 I only came around to writer-director Andrew Ahn when I saw his 2019 film Driveways at Tribeca that year. But that movie stirred something deep in me (see my review here) so I've been ecstatic to see bigger name actors running wildly toward Ahn ever since -- in 2022 with his sweet queer comedy Fire Island and now this past weekend his updated re-do of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, which on paper feels blasphemous but in practice is turned into a glorious ode to queer family by Ahn. The new film stars Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie-Tran, Han Gi-Chan (seen above, a real revelation in the swoon department), Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-jung, and as I say in my just-dropped review of the film over at Pajiba -- everybody's great in it but it's Youn who steals the whole thing, giving a performance I immediately fell head over heels for. I love this even more than the performance in Minari that she won her Oscar for (and I loved that movie and that performance). All around another grand success for Ahn, and for the rest of us a soothing super-gay balm in trying times. A warm and funny gift of a film!

Who Wore It Best?

I'm kind of annoyed that the Instagram account Portiswasp beat me to this punch because it'd popped into my head last week when I saw actor Brandon Skelnar (above right) wearing this stylist-fave mesh shirt for Interview Magazine and realized I'd seen it everywhere lately and had since then been meaning to do this exact poll. Alas I was too slow and you can see the entire collection of menfolk who've rocked the shirt at their link. Me I'll focus in on four of the fellas, all of whom (save Skelnar until now) had already been featured  here at MNPP in this nip-barer of a fashion choice. (Glen Powell here, George MacKay here, and Kit Connor here.)

online polls

That said those four aside the correct answer is 

probably actor Ishaan Khatter, because goddamn.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Beau is Afraid (2023)

Mona: You let things happen to you. 

Do you think that makes you innocent?

Happy 76 to Patti Lupone today! I rewatched 

this movie a few weeks ago and my god it holds up. 

Oh and since we're here I guess I should share this:

That's the teaser for Ari Aster's next movie Eddington, which reunites him with Beau star Joaquin Phoenix while adding to the mix Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, Clifton Collins Jr., and most importantly my beloved Deirdre O'Connell who's been in everything but recently tore it up as Colin Farrell's sick-headed momma in The Penguin. I'll just admit it right now -- I have not watched this teaser and I still have no fucking idea what Eddington is about, and I plan on keeping it that way for as long as possible. I don't need to know! Just put the fucking thing in front of me already. Unfortunately I'll probably learn more between now and its release date of July 18th. (Probably when it screens at Cannes and all of the fancypants who go to Cannes start jabbering on, sigh.)

Jack O'Connell Seven Times

Wildly I haven't been able to see Sinners yet (I am going this upcoming weekend though) but I have heard from several sources that Jack O'Connell is one of its many highlights and this makes me extremely glad -- talk about a terrific (and yeah let's be honest super beautiful) actor who's gone criminally underutilized for far too long. He's been screaming out for a great director to give him a juicy role for twelve years now since the one-two punch of Starred Up and '71 landed in 2013 (and then there was his breakthrough on Skins before that) -- which isn't to say he hasn't delivered good work in that time. (Go watch Andrew Haigh's miniseres North Water with Colin Farrell and Jack right now.) I'm just glad to hear he's gotten to stand out in a box office hit. More Jack please! Speaking of I have some more from this fresh sexy photoshoot for Hero magazine (read the interview here) for us right on after the jump...

Good Morning, World

All I hallucinating or is our Jacob Elordi
wearing a jockstrap in this picture? 

Anyway our lil' butch boy says Happy Monday.

Guess I Should Catch Up With Surface

I couldn't find any information whatsoever on that photo of Oliver Jackson-Cohen fully mounting Phil Dunster, but since they're both on the second season of the Apple+ series Surface I'm assuming it has to do with that? I watched the first season of the show it feels like ages ago (and posted about it many times) and yet I keep forgetting the second season dropped -- this image however has smacked that forgetfulness right off my face. Dunster wasn't on the first season but he does have a previous work connection to Olly -- they didn't share scenes but they were both in the 2017 miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt, and they both played gay in it! Oliver was partnered with James McArdle in the WWII-era portion of it, while Dunster got railed by Julian Morris in one of the greatest scenes ever committed to celluloid. That was pre-Ted-Lasso though so at that time I was paying more attention to my boy Julian -- no more though! Now I have room for them both in my.... heart. Anyway I doubt Surface will reach those heights, but it gave us that picture up top and for that we are forever thankful. 

Pics of the Day

Jason Momoa shared the first images from his upcoming Apple+ miniseries Chief of War on his Insta last night, which he called his "Braveheart, [his] Last of the Mohicans" -- Momoa himself created the series and wrote one of the scripts, and it tells the epic true story of the 1780s unification of the Hawaiian islands and you can hear him speak with his typical enthusiasm about the project over at GQ today. I look forward to a history lesson alongside all the loincloths then! (First lesson -- Polynesians call their loincloths a "malo.") Fun aside: I posted these same two pictures on Bluesky last night and was told by one of my followers that they were an extra on the series and Jason wore just his malo for the entire time -- now that is making entertainment! Chief of War debuts on Apple on August 1st! There is a very brief teaser for it right here.

Who Wore It Best?

On the left we have an Instagram story from out actor Russell Tovey that dropped a little bit ago, and on the right we have an Instagram story that dropped from out actor Luke Evans also a little bit ago. If these two combined their Thirst-day bulge powers they could devour the world! Anyway we all want to be those dogs right now, but which one would you rather be...

online polls

May For May

Here's a bit of amazing news that dropped while I was away that I didn't realize was as amazing as it is until just now -- Lucky McKee's magnificent 2002 horror flick May is finally getting a U.S. blu-ray release! Starring Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, and Anna Faris, I've long sung this flick's praises so you'd think I'd have been right on this, but I got confused by the film having gotten a U.K. release like last year-ish that I snapped up the instant it went on sale -- this blu from Vestron, which is released on May 13th, is the first for our little pile of states though. For the moment you can pre-order the blu right here, although I can't imagine this will stay limited to Lionsgate's website. But it's loaded to the gills with special features -- as well it should be. What a movie! Here's its trailer if you're unfamiliar:

Good Morning, World

We have writer-director Sebastián Silva to thank slash blame for putting Jordan Firstman onto my radar with his hilarious black comedy Rotting in the Sun (my review here); Firstman's friendship with legend-in-the-making Rachel Sennott has also kept him in my sightline as well. Not that I'm mad about any of that -- I just don't know that I'd have come across (heh) his social-media-based comedy stuff otherwise. But Jordan's whole aggressively gay furball exhibitonist thing is indeed catnip to me, so I find myself happy that Interview Magazine got him to have an X-rated conversation with one of his Grindr hookups about his new comedy album -- we need this kind of horny distraction in the world right now. Or I do, at least. So thanks, Jordan! Hit the jump for a couple more photos...

Jamie Dornan Three Times

See a few more over here.

Quote of the Day

"A lot of people have donated to the David Lynch Foundation. It was something he was very passionate about. People can also follow Agent Cooper’s advice and give themselves a present every day. My father could not believe what was going on in the world politically, and it was very upsetting to him. People can be kind to each other. As much darkness as he was able to swim in and express, there was so much more light in his work. People can do nice things for other people in his name. That would make him very happy."

Y'all should go read Vanity Fair's interview with David Lynch's daughter, the director Jennifer Lynch today -- as sad as the subject is so many of her words moved me greatly. Above is her answer to the final question that she's asked, about what people could do in memorium of her father, and it's a perfect testament to his legacy. As she also says in the chat -- for all the darkness in his work there's just as much sweetness and light and joy. And with all the horrors we're seeing on the news every minute it's important to remember to keep those things alive and vital in your life. They can't win if we don't let them beat it out of us. Fix your hearts or die!