Pic of the Day

I have been so singlemindedly focused on the upcoming gay romance starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor (for obvious reasons) that I totally forgot we also had a forthcoming gay romance (sort of) starring Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva! I have posted about the movie before right here -- it's called On Swift Horses and today Vanity Fair has given us the first look (seen above, although cropped to avoid their annoying logo) and a chat with everybody involved, check it right here. The film also stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Will Poulter and honestly the description of the plot confounded me a little bit -- all that matters is this bit, I think:

"Elordi and Calva, who broke out in 2022’s Babylon, develop a steamy sexual chemistry that includes several rich, emotional, and explicit love scenes. “He’s a real cool customer,” Elordi says of Calva. “We had a week of intensive [prep] in the motel room, and [the director] gave us a lot of freedom to run around and to play and to find that love within those four walls.”"

This movie is premiering at TIFF so I guess we'll hear how steamy soon enough. Hopefully it's out in theaters before the end of the year. I don't like to wait for sexiness. 

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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Etc

An update on yesterday's news about the Challengers score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross finally getting a vinyl drop -- you can pre-order it right here! There was a bit of a oh lket's be nice and say kerfuffle when I first woke up this morning because Milan Records, the distributor that's pressing the thing, was SOLD OUT when I woke up and natch I freaked out -- they're still SOLD OUT but Amazon still has it, so you're safe. Anyway I think we can all agree that they messed up -- or might I say, they dropped the ball, kersnicker -- not printing the record in tennis-ball-yellow, but we do love those playing cards for our favorite sweaty throuple and the Phil's Tire Town bumper sticker rocks so we'll accept.

Good Morning Again, Alex

Three days in a row! As hoped and desired and prayed upon and blood-sacrificed-for yesterday when I posted some more of Alexander Skarsgard's new Calvin Klein campaign, I have now gotten to post brand new gratuitousness from it three days in a row. Wonders, never cease. (Here is yesterday's batch, and here is the day before.) Okay so yes these gifs are from the official video for the campaign which has technically been around since the first day but I somehow forgot to post it then, but whatever -- spreading Alex wide has always been one of my most wished for dreams, and now it's come true! (I really am being filthier than normal this week -- don't mind me.) Hit the jump for the gifs and the video...

It's Tearing Christopher Abbott Apart

I forgot that this was happening, but actress and writer Zoe Kazan is taking a page from her esteemed Hollywood heritage and writing the script for a new limited-series adaptation for Netflix of John Steinbeck's classic novel East of Eden, which her Grandpa Elia himself turned into a legendary star-making vehicle for one Mr. James Dean back in 1955. Florence Pugh's been attached for some time but the reason I'm reminded of this project's existence is this week's news that one Christopher Abbott will be tackling the role of Adam Trask in the series. Which is not the role that James Dean played, by the way... 

... but the role played by Raymond Massey, aka Jimmy Dean's character's father. The 1955 film only adapted the last part of the epic book, the part about Adam and Cathy's children Cal (Dean) and Aron (Richard Davalos), so yes this is a pretty smart idea for a limited series adaptation -- there's an entire three-quarters of the book laying there to be told! Although I do know there was also a 1981 three-part miniseries that starred, amongst others, the ridiculously handsome Hart Bochner...

... and that I would love to see. Anybody seen that? 

Teo Yoo Eight Times

Imagine my excitement this morning when Past Lives heartbreaker Teo Yoo shared (via) a brand new photoshoot for GQ Korea of himself running around the forest in various states of short-shorted-ness! No no I take that back. Do not imagine it, for your heart might buckle under the thrill. Only I am truly capable of holding such immense feeling without exploding apart Scanners-style -- and I do this for you, my beloveds! Such sacrifice. So remember -- whatever extra load you have to carry, give it to me. I can take it. That's right. I said it. Gimme all your loads! (Especially you, Teo.) And then hit the jump for the photos...

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Yeah Times Ten

I'm still furious that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's fabulous score for Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All hasn't been released on vinyl yet (although heads-up that word just dropped today that the movie itself is hitting 4K in November) -- and same goes for David Fincher's The Killer. But we can check one of these off our list as they finally announced that the bangin' score from those two fine fellows for Luca's tennis throuple extravaganza Challengers is getting a vinyl drop, and it will be available to pre-order tomorrow at some time. Here is what's included:

-- Deluxe gatefold package with a custom interior gatefold collage of on-set photos 

-- Black Audiophile 180g Vinyl 

-- Printed inner sleeves 

-- Three Collectible Trading Cards featuring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor as Tashi, Art and Patrick 

-- Exclusive Phil's Tire Town Bumper Sticker

They don't say where it'll be on sale yet but I imagine it will be at Sony's shop or the Milan Records shop, since they're both listed (my money is on the latter) although since it's Trent Reznor there's also the possibility of the Nine Inch Nails shop too. It'd be awesome to have more info but best believe I'll be refreshing all three of those places tomorrow until I have a hot little confirmation email in my hands. I do wish that this vinyl included the remix album that Boys Noize released as well (just digitally) because that shit kicks and has been my running music all summer long, but given the alternate, the Bones and All big fat nothing possibility, I'll take what I can get right now!

Good Morning, Alex Again

Oh yes please let this week turn out to be a week where they keep dropping new photos every day from the prememinent sexiness of said week -- in this week's instance I speak of Alexander Skarsgård's Calvin Klein shoot of course, which I shared a pile of pics from yesterday (and if you only checked it once in the morning make you you click again because I added several more photos across the day). Today (so far) it's only the above shot and a few behind-the-scenes ones that I'll share below, but honestly an entire post for the above shot is no waste. All want! Hit the jump and find yourself wanting...

Pic of the Day

Vanity Fair has shared a first look at Ron Howard's upcoming film Eden which is premiering at TIFF, and which apparently includes Jude Law half naked. Could those shorts be any lower? (Well yes technically they could be in the dirt.) The film tells the true story of a bunch of pilgrims in the late 1920s who headed off to the islands of the Galapagos to try and forge their own destinies, with tragic results -- it also stars Vaness Kirby, Ana De Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Brühl, and mmmm Toby Wallace. I hope Jude and Toby rassel naked! That's what I call paradise. See more photos at that first link. None as promising as this one though. 

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Good Morning, World

Apparently accosting us with Jeremy Allen White in his underwear a second time last week wasn't enough for Calvin Klein so they had to go and get Alexander Skarsgård out of his clothes this time -- they won't quit until we're all furiously maturbating every minute of every day will they? Well you win, Calvin Klein. You win. Hit the jump for your day's material...

Pic of the Day

Luca Guadagnino and Queer stars Omar Apollo, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, and Lesley f'ing Manville, are on a boat. In Venice. I wish I was on a boat in Venice. With all of these exact people. See more photos here. I have had a very depressing day but this photo made me smile, and that's not nothing. 

Drew Starkey Seven Times

I kind of wish I wasn't even on the internet today because Luca Guadagnino's Queer just premiered in Venice and reviews are dropping along with spoilers and I just kind of want to cocoon myself away for the 32 days (but who's counting) until the movie screens at NYFF. (It might be fewer days for me, since the press screening might be sooner -- dunno yet.) On that same note these photos of Daniel's Craig's love interest Drew Starkey in the film are via Interview Magazine where there is a chat between Drew and Omar Apollo, who is also in the movie, and I'm also not reading that. I saw a few headlines and was like, "Nope, don't want to know." But pictures are okay so hit the jump and stare at the pictures if you care to do something besides count the days...

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Good Morning, World

Happy Mon... err Tuesday? I am already lost sorry -- but it appears that the long weekend is now kaput, meaning we're back! Except not! Because I'm not actually here -- I have a screening this morning (something about a ghost with the most?) so don't expect much from me until this forthcoming afternoon. But here are two photos of male model and sometimes-actor Jon Kortajarena in Venice this past weekend (via) to hold you over until then. Please do enjoy and happy September!

The Karl Chronicles

Another day gone poof like the wind -- they really should have called that movie that, by the way. Gone Poof Like the Wind. It would have been an even bigger hit, I bet. What the fuck did David O. Selznick know about making movies anyway? Nothing, I tells ya. What a dum-dum. People would've remembered and loved Gone Poof Like the Wind -- not some nothingburger starring Clark Nobody. Uhh anyway as all of that underlines I lost my brain somewhere this afternoon while writing and revising a review that will come to you sometime in the next couple of days -- when it does I will come back and share it, but other than that this is it until Tuesday. because of the holiday. If you're not in the U.S., we have a holiday weekend ahead, see. If I'd have had my way it would be Gone Poof Like the Wind Weekend, but ALAS. Nothing ever works out the way it should. Bye. Oh and yes PS there's some Karl Glusman being fucking sexy above (via) because I love you or whatever. Enjoy. And bye again!

Huzzah Quay

As I say every time there is a film festival happening that I am not at I didn't look at the movies playing at said fest because it always just makes me angry. So I had no idea that there was a new movie from stop-motion animation legends The Quay Brothers premiering in Venice this week, but there is, there is, there is! It's called Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (what a killer phrase) and the clip above is our first look at it via Variety. It's based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Polish author Bruno Schulz, whose work they have adapted before. The book is technically a collection of related short stories about the death of the narrator's father, so... basically right up the Quays' usual goth alley. Anyway the only play-date I see attached to this thing right now is Venice -- hopefully it makes its way further into the world shortly!

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Good Morning, World

I've really been in an Alexander Skarsgård mood all week -- I think it's giving his brother all of this Crow attention? I want to leave a little something for Alex. (Oh I got a little something for Alex.) (PSA kids, you really should never use the words "a little something" when making sexual innuendo.) Aaaaanyway I happened to stumble on this gif of Alex getting NUDE out of the bathtub (the word "nude" is always so goddamned silly) in Zal Batmanglij's 2013 movie The East (want to feel old -- that movie is 11 years old now) and it seemed like the moment. I don't think I ever shared this shot before here on the site -- truth be told I don't think that I ever saw The East? I'm not a fan of Zal Batmanglij. Well this post went totally off the rails -- good morning!