John Waters Makes His Cinema 2024 Picks

Why am I at work today? Why didn't anybody tell me it was a holiday? Today is the day that John Waters releases his annual Top 10 list and I'm sitting at my desk staring at my computer? I should be slurping egg nog and making Xeroxes of my ass or something. (That's how you celebrate holidays, right?) Anyway click over to Vulture for the full list from the Prince of Puke himself (he stopped writing for Art Forum but I can't remember why; it was something shitty the magazine did though?) Per usual there are picks I adore (I think our final lists will share three titles this year!), picks that I abhor, and unseen picks that go onto my list to see ASAP. Nobody does it better.

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Good Morning, World

Whenever a movie that matters around these parts has a staggered release into the world I feel like I'm a broken megaphone, yelping the same white noise out over and over. So it goes with Luca Guadagnino's Queer, which I saw and loved months ago at NYFF (and reviewed right here) and which got a limited release last week and which is getting a slightly bigger release this weekend. I know I've posted about it a dozen times in the past dozen days but I am nothing if not a good cheerleader when I wanna be. Also a good cheerleader? Actor Drew Starkey, as seen in this brief video for British GQ (via) -- he's getting me excited anyway! And I assume there will be some photos to come from this photoshoot but for now, please enjoy this video of the shoot and a very good morning to each and every one of you:

Pure Love Centipede

Heads-up that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for Luca Guadagnino's film Queer will apparently be dropping on all of the streaming services at midnight tonight! That's the playlist above (via). No word on a physical release yet but let's keep our fingers crossed -- that said this one admittedly doesn't have the pop appeal of their score for Challengers (which we all know got not one but two stellar vinyl releases this year) and so I have my doubts, especially given we're still waiting for proper releases of their music from Bones & All and The Killer. Sighhhhhhh.

Bruce LaBruce's Movie Premiere Sex Party

Why is the UK getting all the sexy fun stuff this year? First it's Kit Harington's penis -- now queer punk underground filmmaking legend Bruce LaBruce is turning the premiere of his new pornographic art movie into a sex party. The movie is called The Visitor, and it is his XXX-rated take on Pasolini's film Teorama -- that tale as old as time where a hot stranger comes to stay with a family and proceeds to fuck every member of the family, the end. 

On January 11th the film is opening in the U.K. with an "Immersive Cinema Experience" at "an undisclosed location" where attendees will be tossed into a series of spaces recreating scenes in the film that "aims to revive the participatory culture of historical porn theaters." Normally this wouldn't be my scene (I am a shy little wallflower) but fuck it the world is falling apart -- given what is happening in the U.S. this January maybe I should just get on a plane. Or maybe BLB can be kind enough to take this traveling sex circus on the road. We're gonna need things to keep our minds (et cetera) occupied next year, man! Anyway below is the trailer (the film doesn't have a U.S. date yet) and then hit the jump for the full press release...

Colman Domingo Thirty-Two Times

I really wanted to be a little more enraptured with the movie Sing Sing than I ended up being -- it really hasn't stuck with me (although yesterday's news that one of its fine actors finally got exonerated was very cool). But I'll be happy if Colman Domingo manages to score another Oscar nomination for Best Actor anyway, just on the principle of getting more openly gay actors overdue recognition at that backwards instutition. And Colman is terrific in the film, which I suppose is a thing that matters to them as well. (More or less.) Anyway I shared a few photos from Colman's hella fine cover shoot for Variety a couple of weeks ago but now that I have seen there are more photos (via) I obviously feel the need to share them too. So here we are! And there the photos are after the jump...

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Pic of the Day

Saw this new photo from Luca Guadagnino's film Queer going around this morning and hadn't seen it before -- well I had seen this image before obviously since I've seen the film more than once already. But I hadn't seen an official release unto you, the people, until now. And it's an image worth sharing! That is the film's stars Drew Starkey and Daniel Craig obviously -- this comes from the "controversial" last act of the film that seems to be leaving a lot of people flummuxed for some reason that remains inexplicable to me. Here is my review if you'd like to read my thoughts -- I'm sure I get into what I think "it all means" in there. Honestly Guadagnino is a filmmaker whose wavelength is so close to my own that I personally don't really get the confusion but we can't all be me, boy genius. (I do hope you get I'm being a smart-ass about myself here.) Sorry I'm just irritated I saw a critic call the movie "pretentious" last night and nothing riles me up faster than that meaningless word. Calling something pretentious translates in my ears to "I am lazy and didn't feel like engaging with something difficult." There are exceptions of course -- where there's no there there under the outwardly higher aims. But to look at Queer's  enraptured heartache and see emptiness boggles my brain too far, so I am just going with the " lazy and didn't feel like engaging with something difficult" definition in this case. All of that said Queer is getting a wider opening starting this weekend, I hear -- I guess it was just NYC and LA this past one. So go on and get! Maybe you too can find it pretentious!

Good Morning, World

Suns up, guns up.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today Id rather...

... be sword fighting with Paul Mescal.

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Good Morning, Billy

A photoshoot of Billy Magnusson for Men's Health magazine should be slightly more gratuitous than the one we got last week if you ask me -- he is Billy magnusson dammit! But as I just said, he is Billy -- we'll happily slobber all over whatever Billy wants us to slobber all over. And you can tell him I said that too! (No really -- please -- somebody tell him that I said that.) Hit the jump for a couple more of our pretty Billy boy...

Take An Adam Brody Cake Break

Adam Brody being adorable with cake while wearing big fluffy sweaters -- what more does the world need on a cold December afternoon? Everything might be shit everywhere else but there is comfort right here, at least. These photos are for Stylist magazine (via) and I really feel as if they are in their miniscule way making the world a little bit of a better, brighter place, so let us live deliciously. Hit the jump for the shoot and a video of said shoot...

Harris Dickinson Fourteen Times

Having now seen Babygirl I think -- I hope -- that Harris Dickinson might finally be breaking through. The boy has been deserving for some time (Beach Rats hive rise) and he is ace in the movie; indeed this was my first immediate thought upon walking out of the theater:

(For real though Harris Dickinson is the best actor of his generation maybe?)

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 10, 2024

The movie is mostly The Nicole Kidman Show and as ever she deserves all the praise she's getting but I am situating myself atop my soapbox that Harris' efforts don't get overlooked. His work in the film is funny, sweet, sexy -- every single bit that it needs to be. He really is that good.

Which is to say I'm glad he's getting some attention from GQ's "Men of the Year" -- with Babygirl not hitting theaters until the 17th he's has been absent a lot of end-of-year press but we the people demand more! I don't have a link to an article yet (I'll update when I do) but I do have the photos, so hit the jump for the photos...

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Good Morning, World

How good is it to see Michael Fassbender bare backside again? Granted it's no Shame but we'll take what we can get these days, given his years-long disappearing act. Let's be encouraging to our Fassy as he sneaks his way back out of his (Harry) Hole. These gifs are from his new Showtime series The Agency -- I shared the trailer for this series (which is a remake of a French show) with you back in October; it's got quite the cast! On top of Fassy! (I will just let you luxuriate in that sentiment for a moment. You good? I good.) Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, JOHN MAGARO, Richard f'ing Gere, HARRIET FUCKING SANSOM HARRIS. The first two episodes went up this past weekend and every time another amazing face showed up I retired to my fainting couch anew. (Which is actually just my couch and I was already there but you get my point. The show isn't anything we haven't seen before so far but I'll keep coming back for this group of people. And for promises of Fassy flesh. Speaking of, hit the jump...

Tonight We Feast!

I never ever do this because I am always woefully running behind but my review of Robert Eggers' Nosferatu was burning a hole in my brain so I have it for you, today, at the exact second the review embargo has broken! The movie isn't out until Christmas Day but I just wanted to get the word out as soon as my purpled fingers could muster -- click here to read my thoughts on the film at Pajiba. To say I loved it would be uhhh fair, I would wager. (I've already seen it three times!) Go buy your tickets!

Alessandro Nivola Six Times

The great and powerful Alessandro Nivola has modeled some fine threads for Dek magazine today -- click here and you can also read a chat with the actor speaking on his three great big projects out this fall, meaning the superhero flick Kraven the Hunter, Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door, and Brady Corbet's Oscar-hopeful The Brutalist (read my review of the latter right here). It's maki ng me nuts that these photos were taken mere blocks from my office in Chinatown -- oh to have stumbled upon this shoot! Alas -- I'll just have to harrass strangers in my dreams instead. Hit the jump for the full shoot (plus a set photo that's probably the hottest of them all)...

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Josh Heuston

From one feast to another -- I hope everyone had a nice holiday! I'm still a little out of sorts from my illness (two weeks in, huzzah) but getting there, thanks for asking. Well enough to come into work and gather up dozens of photos of the latest hottest young thing, Dune Prophecy actor Josh Heuston anyway. Back in May was the first time I posted about (or heard of) Mr. Heuston -- even though you'd think he'd have caught my eye...

... when he played a character named "Zeus' Pretty Boy" in Thor: Love and Thunder). Hrm. Anyway May was when he got cast in a serial killer movie with Jai Courtney called Dangerous Animals that's been directed by The Loved Ones director Sean Byrne -- and yes these are all exciting developments to me personally still, maybe even moreso after having spent this morning staring at Josh's outrageous abdominal muscles. 

These models turned actors, yeesh. Will they ever quit murdering us??? (Also it's good to see also that that Jai movie is listed on IMDb as being in post-production, meaning I'm guessing we'll get to see it sometime in 2025. Gimme!) Anyway I haven't watched any of Dune: Prophecy yet but I have seen gifs of Josh on the show making the rounds and...

... my interest is up, up, up. I actually don't know why I haven't started the show yet, being a Dune fan -- I keep not being in the mood when I open the Max app and see Emily Watson in that great big black headdress staring back at me. Soon though. Soon. For Josh's part he's been doing his best...

... to steer me his direction, appearing on like a dozen magazine covers in the past few months in varying states of undress. Which is what brings us to this morning, this great big gratuitous post. It's a biggun! Took me all morning, it did. Hit the jump for a great big galumph of photos...