Daryl McCormack Twelve Times

I re-watched the third Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man for the second time a few nights ago and I'm probably not writing up a long review of it but as I've said a couple times on social media (as well as the last time that I posted several Daryl photos right here) it's wonderful and my favorite of the franchise to date. That lands on Netflix on Friday so y'all will actually really be able to see it for yourselves after Netflix gave it one of their supposed "theatrical releases" (such bullshit). A single complaint: I suppose it's not a spoiler to say that he and Josh O'Connor never make out in it, and that blows. Opportunity lost, Rian! But if you close your eyes right now I bet you can picture them making out and for that you are welcome. Anyway let's celebrate the really good movie by sharing this recent photoshoot of the ever handsome Daryl in The Financial Times of all places; it's all after the jump...

A Big Bulging Sound

I don't think it will surprise many of you, given all the posting that I've done about it, that the gay biker BDSM romance (or "dom-com" as it's come to be known) Pillion will be one of my favorite movies of 2025. (And yeah I personally will be counting it as a 2025 release because it's being considered that way for awards attention even though it's really not hitting U.S. theaters until February.) Here is my review of the movie from when it screened at NYFF -- I've been relentlessly delighted by the film's press run, and done the posting to prove it. Anyway one thing I haven't mentioned is the music for the film from musician Oliver Coates, and that's a darn shame because I like the music a lot -- so let me seize onto this news that tumbled into my inbox today and do just that. The film's score is getting a digital release this Friday -- presumably you'll be able to listen to it at all the usual places you listen to music. But the even better news if you ask me is A24 is promising a physical release of the score (presumably that means my beloved vinyl) to sync with the film's official theatrical release in February! I don't know if the above art-work (which is for the digital) will be actually the vinyl's cover, but I sure hope it is. It's serving The Rolling Stones' infamous album Sticky Fingers, for real. (Which was photographed by Warhol -- I always thought it was supposed to be Joe Dallesandro but Wikipedia says there are several bulges vying for the esteemed honor.)

Charlie Cox Says Woof

Well shame on me for not keeping up with the Cox! I had no idea that Charlie had a new movie out today! (Alternately -- shame on Amazon and every streaming service for being so so very bad at advertising their wares. Especially to the very people who would be the loudest noisemakers about it!) It's called Merv and it's a rom-com about a seperated couple (the other half of said couple being played by Zooey Deschanel) who take their depressed dog on vacation only to fall back in love. And yes I kind of threw up in my mouth a little while writing out that plot, but y'all...

... Charlie let his body hair grow back so who gives a flying fuck what this movie is about?!?!? Not I! It's been so long -- dastardly Daredevil has kept his fleece fully defrocked for too long! We need cause to celebrate in the fall of 2025, every opportunity we can seize onto, and this is a wondrous one! So hit the jump for several more gifs and stills of our good good boy, if you please...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Rohan Campbell's Feet Are Calling You

Movie distributors seem to really be going wild lately, and the delightfully perverted gimmick that the folks behind the Silent Night Deadly Night remake just dropped really takes the cake -- they're promising that they'll send you photos of lead actor Rohan Campbell's feet if you send them pictures of your ticket stubs for when the movie releases this weekend. You can get the specific details right here -- this is so fucking filthy, I adore it! Adore. Rohan you might remember from his thankless role in the last of David Gordon Green's Halloween movies -- at the time I tore that movie a new one but didn't have a bad word to say about Rohan, who I liked despite however godawful the movie around him was. Anyway while I enjoy the original SNDN it's certainly not a sacred object so I'm looking forward to this re-do, and this deliciously twisted gimmick has only made me happier to give them free publicity. The original was homoerotic too, after all! And this is some William Castle shit that would make John Waters proud! Here is the movie's trailer, which I don't believe I've shared yet:

And since y'all are here thinking about Rohan's tender parts now I will share three more photos of him from the top photoshoot right now right here after the jump...

12 Strange Little Girls Ahead

Heads up, Tori-heads! One of Tori Amos greatest albums that hasn't made its way to vinyl before is finally doing just that in February -- the 2001 record Strange Little Girls can be pre-ordered over on her website in 12 count em' twelve variants, each one representing one of the twelve characters she embodied for this concept album, which had her playing a different role for every song thereon. To be honest I've watched other artists release ridiculous numbers of variants of records like this and found it somewhat obscene, but in Tori's defense...

... it kind of makes sense with this album. It was built into its concept twenty-four years ago. (JFC I am ancient; dust practically.) I will give her this, even if just barely. She does includes a package deal if you buy all 12 but much as I love her I am not that fucking psychotic, so I went with the one seen up top for two fairly random reasons -- it's the character for the title track, and I always loved the "Satin Worship" shirt she's wearing in that image. Anyway if you happen to buy one and are a super-fan like me tell me which one you got in the comments! That said what I really want are vinyl releases of the two albums that came before this -- To Venus and Back and From the Choirgirl Hotel. Perfect masterpieces the both!

Good Morning, World

Am I being gay-baited by Heated Rivalry co-stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams and more importantly -- do I give a shit if I am? The answer to the second question is a firm, hard no. I never care.  For my entire life I've watched straight guys have a monopoly on the spectacle of straight girls making out at bars for their pleasure, and I want in on that sweet action. We're all consenting adults having a good time dammit! Let them eat cake! Let us all eat cake!

Okay these Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams chaps are OUT OF CONTROL #heatedrivalry

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... letting the pool boy put on a show.

Thanks as ever to the photographer Mert Alas for sharing some fresh images from his Calvin Klein campaign starring the Chef and The Boss himself Jeremy Allen White -- it's been just over a year on since those pictures first seared themselves into our retinas and we're still getting blinded but the good way! Hit the jump for the short video plus a few more gifs I made from it...

Jonathan Bailey Three Times

To make it up to Jonny for focusing solely on David Corenswet's crotch in their conjoined interview this morning (although if anybody gets it, Jonny gets it I think) here are three new and deeply hot pictures of him via Wonderland magazine! There are more photos over there including several very sultry shots of him with his queer Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo -- having had wonderful relationships with many lesbians over the years those pictures give me a special feeling. It's an underappreciated bond, that one. It's part of why the relationship between Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant's characters in Can You Ever Forgive Me? felt so profound -- movies never focus on those friendships! And personally they're some of my most cherished. There's something very particular, specific, and wonderful about those bonds. Make more movies about us, please! Anyway my point is -- Jonny make'ah me drool. 

Billy Got Me Buzzin

Okay I thought this news sounded familiar so I went and checked and yes, I posted about it back in October -- but whatever, writing about it again allows me to post that photo of Billy Magnusson flexing in scrubs that he shared on his Insta earlier. Everybody wins. And it is an update on said earlier news -- we previously told you that Billy was going to star in the next horror-comedy from Suitable Flesh director Joe Lynch, which made us very happy because Suitable Flesh kicked ass (see my review right here.) It kicked ass and also -- Lynch showed a fine proclivity for getting his two sexy leading men (in that case Johnathon Schaech and Judah Lewis) outta their scrubs. The new movie is called Buzzkill and it's got a delightful fun plot which I'll allow Deadline to summarize:

"... billed as a monster movie with a boozy twist, Magnussen plays Sheriff Red, who while recently widowed and struggling with drinking too much, launches an investigation as townspeople begin turning up murdered and dismembered. He soon discovers that a horrifying creature is stalking the town — and can only be seen by the inebriated. With the annual brewery festival approaching and the entire town preparing for a weekend of heavy drinking, Red must confront his demons to save his town."

The new news that Deadline is sharing is the movie is indeed going forward as Bleecker Street Films have picked up the rights, and it'll be shooting in Texas at the start of next year for a 2027 drop. Oh and an actor named Lulu Wilson is splaying Billy's daughter (Billy enters DILF-land, huzzah!) -- Wilson has previously been seen in small roles in a couple of Mike Flanagan series on Netflix along with the films Becky and its sequel The Wrath of Becky, which... I have heard of? For some reason? I don't know why. Anybody familiar with the Becky-verse?

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Well that oughta wake you right up. I mean no offense to Jonathan Bailey -- the above photo was taken for Variety's "Actors on Actors" interview session that featured Jonny and David Corenswet chatting, which I told you about last week and which you can weatch down below -- but David's people did a better job than Jonny's getting The Photo of the spread. Emphasis on Spread! (Yeah yeah you had to see that one coming.) 

Anyway if you can believe it I haven't watched this video yet!

WTF is wrong with me? Stone me in the town square toot suite! 

THE TIME HAS COME

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM

Russell Tovey Ten Times

Any Dr. Who people in the house? What do Dr. Who fans call themselves anyway? Are they Whovians? That seems very close to the people of Whoville in Dr. Suess to me but hey go off. Anyway obviously I don't know my Whos from my elbow or a hole in the ground so needless tp say no, I did not watch the new spin-off starring he of the golden ears, Russell Tovey. But perhaps one of you fine people would like to fill me in on it. I promise to listen politely, and then probably forget it all. But hey we got this new ICON El Pais magazine photoshoot (via) out of it! Some of the clothes and the styling is hella goofy, but for every ounce of goofiness there's an equal dose of skin and/or sluttiness, so we'll take it. Hit the jump for the full shoot...

Matt Keeslar Says What

No no no baby! I ain't been ignoring you! I promise. I've just been trying to get some off-blog stuff done this Monday -- one of which was sending out holiday cards (zzzz) and the other much more exciting thing was I have been listing tons and tons and more tons of movies onto eBay for sale. I spent all day yesterday on one of my pruning jags, making space for new movies by getting rid of older ones -- anyway check the eBay out if you're interested in buying some movies from me. And yes there are two, count 'em two, Gregg Araki movies listed. Also a couple of Criterion box-sets and a heap of Jake Gyllenhaal movies that I'm upgrading to 4K. Good shit to stuff yer stockings with!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

I've stated this a few different places now but I'm saving Heated Rivalry and Boots -- aka the two big gay shows of this televisual autumn -- to watch during my nearly two week break over Christmas. So no I have yet to see or understand the context in which these shots of our beloved François Arnaud can be seen in his little black underpants in the former series, meaning the gigantic hockey asses one. Knowing these gifs exist though, well I had to post them. But sans spoilers why don't y'all tell me what you're thinking of this show? And Boots for that matter? Will I be having the horniest holiday on record or what? I'm excited! In all its definitions!

Today's Mood

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 in 250 Words or Less

Just when you thought movies couldn't get worse than the first Five Nights at Freddy's was, along some the sequel to say "Wait hold up just a goddamned second you say you want one hundred of your minutes ripped violently out of your life with no recourse? We gotcha covered!" Well guess what, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 -- I became a movie critic just so I could have recourse, bitch! Small satisfaction, sure, but hey it's something. The thing that's so annoying about this franchise is the idea is fun and the animatronic monsters are superbly designed (thank you Jim Henson's Creature Shop) and I keep thinking they'll do something with this. Director Emma Tammi even made a wonderful horror movie called The Wind back in 2018. But these movies are so absurdly tedious, so deathly dull, so flat and ugly and boring and offensively dumb, I refuse to believe there's even anybody standing behind the camera. I could be convinced the camera was set up inside an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese, turned on by a breeze, and then just left there to capture whatever. Gently drifting spiderwebs would be more fascinating. These movies are cruel and vulgar tricks -- some real Lucy-yanking-the-football shit. And they didn't even give the Killer Cupcake anything to do in this one! Fuck outta here.

Timmys On Parade

Mr. Chalamet has been very kind sharing cute pictures of himself on social media the past several days as we storm towards the Marty Supreme release on Christmas Day (including a couple of ultra adorable ones with his new puppy!) and so I figured I'd round us up a quartet of them for our Timmy-ogling pleasure. My review of MS will be landing closer to its release but as I said on Bluesky when the social embargo broke -- he'd get my vote for Best Actor this year. I know he drives a lot of you nuts with his personal life nonsense et cetera but MNPP is firmly and probably forever ensconsed in the Pro-Timmy camp. The boy is just too fuckin' talented, dammit. Hit the jump for the rest of these photos...

Movie Posters Ahoy

Mubi Notebook published their annual list of the year's greatest movie posters today -- see it right here -- and I can't argue with anything! Especially since I ran out and bought a couple of the ones they listed the minute they went on sale or were available. Unfortunately (as far as I'm aware) the above poster for Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia (from noted genius Vasilis Marmatakis) has not been widely printed -- I have the one that was and I love it but I love this one even more. Same goes for Desi Moore's gorgeous poster for Mike Leigh's masterpiece Hard Truths, seen down below -- I've been looking for a couy of that since last fall to no avail. The other ones I have from that list are the original Eddington poster (which I prefer to the one they cite), Daniel Clowes' poster for the Telluride Fest this year (I didn't go to the fest but I had to own that poster) and the one for Hong Sangsoo’s movie By the Stream, which is a visual I completely fell in love with on first sight. I'm also super close to biting the bullet on the poster for Radu Jude's Dracula because it's made out of meat! How can you not be in love with meat? Anyway -- Yay posters! I love them so. Do y'all have any faves not mentioned?