Gay Stoner Utopia Ahoy

I told you about Macbeth and True Story of the Kelly Gang director Justin Kurzel's upcoming movie Burning Rainbow Farm way back in January when it was announced that the movie -- about a gay couple of pot farmers in Michigan who got into a big confrontation with the government in the year 2001 -- was going to star Sebastian Stan as one half of the couple. Well now the other half of said couple's been announced and it's going to be Sebastian Stan and Leo freakin' Woodall, y'all. WTF, Justin Kurzel! Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall as homosexual stoners duking it out with The Man -- are you trying to make our brains explode? Okay maybe not our brains, but some other big throbbing organs anyway. Maybe I should go read the book this is based on? I've purposefully kept myself free of any more details of what happened since I'm unfamiliar with the true story (I did share a photo of the couple on that first post and this is some generous casting) but I imagine it doesn't have the happiest of endings. Such stories usually don't. But if we can't get a happy ending the least we can do in the meantime is watch Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall paw at each other a bunch.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Re-Animator (1985)

Herbert West: Who's going to believe 

a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.

The first screening of Stuart Gordon's Lovecraftian horror-comedy classic Re-Animator was at the Cannes Film Festival  of all places on May 11th 1985, meaning the film officially turns 40 this Saturday! Give yourself some head to celebrate! Or if you're not quite that, ahem, limber, maybe just go buy the just-released 40th anniversary 4K edition of the movie that Ignite Films has put out...

Tthere are several different levels of special edition that they're selling including an "Ultimate Limited Edition" that includes, on top of the movie and all of the new special features they've wrangled together, your very own Dr. Hill bobblehead lol. I'm nerd enough that I do own a couple of collectible bobblehead figures but this might be my favorite one of those that I've ever seen. He's perfect. 

Take Another Little Piece Of My...

Heads up hot stuffs -- the Valentine's Day Slasher called Heart Eyes that stars the hot ass Mason Gooding has landed on Netflix today! You can watch it right here, or more importantly even you can read my review of it right here. It's fun! I didn't find it terribly scary but I liked it anyway. Maybe it was just staring at Mason Gooding for ninety minutes that did it. I guess we'll never know!

Pic of the Day

Ugh I'm annoyed -- just saw that Pillion, the movie I first told you about EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY (weird) that stars Alexander Skarsgard as a queer biker who keeps Harry Melling (so great in Please Baby Please, working with weirdly similar themes) as a happily submissive sex toy, is playing at Cannes later this month. Boo! Boo I says. Anyway that's the first image seen above (click to embiggen) -- I'm glad they're letting them both be hot. You never know. And yes I know Harry Melling isn't to everybody's taste, but I found his erotic journey toward Karl Glusman's chaps in PBP extremely stimulating, so I've myself a crush I don't see going anywhere soon. Especially if he keeps making movies like this...

Nicholas Hoult Eight Times

Apparently today is the 23rd anniversary of About a Boy (according to EW) so I will go ahead and post this new photoshoot of that movie's breakout, the boy himself, Nicholas Hoult. Of course Nicky was only 12 when that movie was made so we didn't know for several years that he'd become the dreamboat movie star he went on to become -- never underestimate the gawky weird kids! I should actually re-watch About a Boy, I haven't seen it in a very very long time -- aww remember when him and Toni Collette reunited for that Clint Eastwood movie that nobody saw last year? That was a sweet moment. Have him and Hugh Grant worked together since? I don't feel like looking that up so feel free to tell me if so. Anyway this new shoot is for Arena Homme+ magazine and dropped yesterday, hit the jump for the entirety (with a little surprise at the bottom)...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

I don't know why Document Journal decided to crop half of their new Joe Alwyn photoshoot into circular form -- all of that white space is giving my OCD agita -- but Joe looks good enough that I will try to set that aside. Right after bitching about it. Okay that's done. I wasn't sure what projects Joe had coming up here in the wake of the awards-behemoth The Brutalist and hilariously just saw that...

... he's in both Chloé Zhao's movie Hamnet (aka the Shakespeare movie starring Paul Mescal) as well as a new movie adaptation of Hamlet, the one with Riz Ahmed I'd mentioned here. (That Hamlet news is from 2017 but IMDb lists the film as being in "post-production" so I guess it's for real.) I wonder if he's the only actor in both? I love that for him.  What a talking point it will be going ahead. (And looking now it does come up in the Document Journal interview these photos are attached to, so he's getting it done already.) Speaking of getting it done, let's hit the jump and get this post done, I got things to do...

44 Days Til 28 Years

Really big fan of this 28 Years Later poster which somehow makes me think of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, of Derek Jarman's set-design for The Devils, AND of a Dalek from Doctor Who all at goddamned once. That is some mad skillz yo. 

Make me think of all of these things in one image and you've won

[image or embed]

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Batshit Jai Courtney Bright & Clear

(click to embiggen) I love that one of the official images that the team behind the murder-by-shark thriller Dangerous Animals has now released is of Jai Courtney's underwear dance -- featured heavily in both of the trailers I've covered (here and here) this official photo (via) is far brighter than the shots in the film, up to an dincluding the reveal of that big ass scar up his side which hasn't been obvious in the moving footage. They know what they've got! Anyway a third trailer, a full one not a teaser, dropped this morning and I wasn't going to share it because I've seen enough by now myself and think we should all stop watching trailers until the movie's out in just a month. (I also heard from a friend I trust yesterday who's already seen the movie that it rules!) But since they lured me in with that image up top I'll share the new trailer too:

Dangerous Animals is out on June 6th!

Lee Pace Is Coming...

... back for another season of Foundation! 

And we have a trailer! (And that image -- good grief.)

Foundation returns for its third season on July 11th.

Noah Centineo Yet Four More Times

The fine folks at Behind the Blinds magazine have so got my number and are so good at making me do posts on their photoshoots a dozen times -- their interview with Noah Centineo in their latest issue hasn't even made its way online and yet here I am doing a sixth (yes a sixth!) post on the photoshoot for them because they set aside one or two to drop every couple of weeks that simply cannot be denied. To see the previous posts (in the order I've shared them) click here, then click here, then click here, then click here, and finally click here for the most recent one before this one today. Will today's be the last one ever? I certainly hope not! You can edge me alongside Noah forever and ever, Behind the Blinds magazine. Hit the jump for the rest...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Ball of Fire (1941)

Garbage Man: I could use a bundle of scratch 

right now on account of I met me a mouse last week.

Prof. Oddly: Mouse?

Garbage Man: What a pair of gams. A little in,

a little out, and a little more out.

Professor Potts: I am still completely mystified.

Garbage Man: Well, with this dish on me hands

and them giving away 25 smackaroos on that quizzola.

Professor Potts: Smackaroos?

Prof. Oddly: Smackaroos? What are smackaroos?

Garbage Man: A smackaroo is a...

Professor Potts: No such word exists.

Garbage Man: Oh, it don't, huh? A smackaroo is a dollar, pal.

Professor Potts: Well, the accepted 

vulgarism for a dollar is a buck.

Garbage Man: The accepted vulgarism 

for a smackaroo is a dollar. 

That goes for a banger, a fish, a buck, or a rug.

Professor Potts: Well, what about the mouse?

Garbage Man: The mouse is the dish. 

That's what I need the moolah for.

Prof. Oddly: Moolah?

Garbage Man: Yeah, the dough. We'll be stepping. 

Me and the smooch - I mean, the dish, I mean, the mouse. 

You know, hit the jiggles for a little drum boogie.

Professor Potts: Please, please, not so fast.

Garbage Man: Brother, we're going to have some hoytoytoy.

All The Profs: Hoytoytoy?

Garbage Man: Yeah, and if you want 

that one explained, you go ask your papas.

The script for Ball of Fire is so much fun (not a surprise given Billy Wilder was one of the writers)  that I had to share this entire lengthy passage of dialogue -- god I love this film. I didn't even need to include a portion involving Barbara Stanwyck here -- that's how you know it's good! But since I tend to give her all of the love for this movie I figured I'd focus in on her stellar leading man Gary Cooper today, given it's Coop's birthday. He was born today, the year 1901. Check out our extensive Gary Cooper Archives for more of him -- he's a forever MNPP fave, he is. One of the greatest faces (et cetera) ever put on screen.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Pic of the Day

I am shocked and horrified to realize I never did a post on this movie when it was first announced -- I vividly remember hearing about it happening so I know I knew about it (you never know) but somehow that never translated into me sitting down here and writing something and for that I ask your forgiveness. Because not only (as seen above in the first image, via) is Isabelle Huppert starring as the real-life imfamous historical figure the Countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose legend has it that she's bathe herself in virgin's blood to keep her youth thereby inspiring a thousand lesbian vampire movies in the process (plus that scene with Heather Matarazzo in Hostel Part II, we shan't forget that). But Huppert s playing Bathory for the avant-garde German filmmaking legend (and compatriot of Fassbinder) Ulrike Ottinger, the woman who directed, among many, Freak Orlando and (my favorite) Ticket of No Return. 

Ten minutes into Ulrike Ottinger’s TICKET OF NO RETURN on @criterionchannl and I am already in love - this is my first Ottinger and I had a feeling she’d be my kinda people - feels like Tati Meets Fassbinder shot by Guy Bourdin (swoon) pic.twitter.com/77Do8H4FO9

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 28, 2021

Ottinger's movies are kind of difficult to see -- there was a traveling show of them several years back and they pop up on Criterion every so often, but the only way to buy physical media versions are via her own website. Which on the one hand I applaud -- make your money and keep ownership of your own work, queen! But they're not cheap and I think it'd do her so good to loosen the grip just a little bit. (At least put together a box-set!) Maybe this new movie starring a legit movie star in a tailor-made role will put this iconoclast's name in big bright lights where it belongs. I mean if Bloody Disgusting is reporting on one of Ottinger's movies then she's very much moving in that direction. Speaking of they've got the plot details and what not so click over if you need those -- it is an original spin but we'd expect no less. No word on a release yet for The Blood Countess, but we'll keep watching! And maybe we'll just re-watch Daughters of Darkness to keep ourselves flush-cheeked and ready... 

Good Morning, World

After a couple of days of dreary rain it's a beautiful spring day here in NYC so I'm feeling this sunny photoshoot of Lewis Pullman for GQ that dropped this morning -- and that's before we even get to whether I'm feeling Lewis Pullman or not. (So to speak. Obviously. Unfortunately.) I will say this post graduates him onto the sidebar, as we've now done enough posts for him to have his own tag -- but truth be told I feel like I still haven't seen him in a ton. He was memorable in the Top Gun sequel in a cast of many. He's got a great ass. (What -- these are important matters!) And he certainly left an impression dancing around in itty bitty black briefs in that movie Skincare last year too. I still haven't seen Thunderbolts but I hear he's good in it? Otherwise... 

Lewis Pullman loves a photobooth!

[image or embed]

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM

... I am a fan of his photobooth fetish. He's certainly already in his short career left more of an impression on me than his father ever did -- I know some people love him but I can't think of a Bill Pullman performance I ever connected to. Him and Patricia Arquette are far and away my least favorite David Lynch pair of protagonists in Lost Highway, and that's about as big a strike one can have against themselves. What else is there -- the President in Independence Day? The sleeping guy in While You Were Sleeping?  The fact that people ever confused Pullman with the electric wattage of Bill Paxton -- WTF. Aaaaanyway we're not here to talk about Lewis' daddy, nepo-whatever aside -- I haven't seen Lewis in enough, so I'm still making up my mind. He's cute and I don't hold the terrible Salem's Lot re-do against him. He's in the plus column right now. Any thoughts on Lewis from you, my peanut gallery? Either way hit the jump for the rest of this sunny morning photoshoot...

A Different Man Hits Home

My favorite movie that I saw at Sundance 2024 was Aaron Schimberg's surreal tragi-comic masterpiece A Different Man (it ultimately landed at #14 on my movies of the year list) -- starring Sebastian Stan as a man who gets what he wished for and finds out notsomuch -- so I'm extremely glad to see that A24 is finally giving the movie the blu-ray treatment, just announced today! You can pre-order it at their site! It's out in June, and includes lots of special features which I'll list down below. A24 always does a terrific job with their discs (cannot wait for the one for Queer, which hits on May 27th). Here is my review of A Different Man if you missed it. Have y'all been able to see this yet? Thoughts if so? And hit the jump for the special features...

Pic of the Day

While I heard it was controversial I actually quite liked Andrew Scott's cotton-candy-colored suit last night at the Met Gala (see below) -- however I like it better that he tore it off once he got inside and showed off his guns, because of course he did. We'd also be remiss if we didn't mention that this photo (via) appears to be shoingw a suddenly half-undressed Andrew and Jeremy Allen White coming out of the bathroom at the Met, together. Just saying! Let them filthy minds of yours flow freely...

I would never ever in a million lifetimes have thought to put these colors together but the longer I look at it the more I adore it

[image or embed]

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM

Penn Badgley Ten Times

For someone who insisted that his character be in just his underwear for the final episode of his serial killer series, Penn Badgley sure did allow himself to be far far too covered up for this Flaunt photoshoot advertising said same series. (And yes I know that fact even though I have never seen a single second of You -- pop culture osmosis y'all. At least as far as the subject of "actors in underwear" is concerned.) 

This whole shoot is pretty boring honestly (besides Penn being so pretty obviously) but there are a couple shots I liked (mostly that first one) so I will share the whole thing. Y'all try not to fall asleep. And Penn -- bring that same energy you brought to the set when you demanded near nudity to your PR campaigns next time around please! We know you're capable of it. Hit the jump for this shoot (plus a video that at least let's us glimpse that famous chest fur)...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Madame Emery: Where were you?

Geneviève: With Guy.

Madame Emery: What were you doing?

Geneviève: Mother, he's leaving. He'll be away 

for two years. I can't live without him. I'll die.

Madame Emery: Stop crying. Look at me. 

People only die of love in movies.

Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the greatest and most beautiful and bittersweet romances ever made and my favorite movie musical by leaps and bounds, has been released by Criterion on luscious candy-colored 4K blu-ray today! No movie deserves the 4K treatment more -- even though I re-watched it just a few months ago I can't wait to toss this disc in and behold it in this new four-kay luxuriousness. What a movie! (As an aside it's pouring rain right now here in NYC today and I've got my soaking wet umbrella laying beside my desk, bright red and popped open to dry, so I feel as if the movie is stepping off the screen and saying hello in the real world. What a movie.)