It's (Almost) NewFest 2024 Time!

I know I just announced it officially Spooky Season in my previous post, but I don't think I need to differentiate that from Gay Season -- Spooky + Gay is my sweet spot! And it's getting gay now because NYC's premiere queer film festival NewFest has just today announced their full line-up for this year's go-round which runs from October 10th through 22nd. Check it all out right here and pre-order your tickets immediately. A few highlights I will quickly highlight -- the Centerpiece Film is Andrea Arnold's new movie Bird starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski! I've obviously posted about this movie several times already and I was extremely sad to see it wasn't screening at NYFF, so this inclusion made me giddy -- NewFest starts right as NYFF is finishing so I'll switch right on over and get me some Bird there then! They're also screening Emilia Perez,  Jacques Audiard's new film which won a bunch of prizes at Cannes (this one is also screening at NYFF); oh and they are showing a triple-feature of John Waters movies including Female Trouble for its 50th anniversary! But seriously that barely scratches the surface, click on over here to check it all out. Love NewFest every year!

Johnny Meet Jason

Happy Friday the 13th, everybody! I feel like this one in special since it's landed in September and it feels like we've all been jonesing for Spooky Season to get started -- so let's just go ahead and use today's holiday as an excuse to say Spooky Season is offically here! Slap on your bat wings and big fake gummy teeth and go scare somebody, it's time! Or rip off your wings and teeth now -- that would also scare somebody. Anyway an excellent way to properly celebrate -- besides watching one of the Jason Voorhees movies, of course -- is to go watch this year's expirimental Slasher hit In a Violent Nature, which has just today landed on Shudder! Admittedly this movie isn't for everybody, but for those of you who like to try new things it might work as well as it did for me -- here is my Sundance review. (Which landed me on some of its promotional materials, huzzah!) Its killer Johnny, he of the big goofy logger's mask, is basically the new Jason Voorhees -- since we're not getting any new Friday the 13th stuff thanks to the dopes who killed Bryan Fuller's highly anticipated series it'll have to do, anyway. I think I reported this when it was announced but they are working on a Violent Nature sequel, and what's more Friday the 13th then sequels??? I do wonder if the gimmick it uses will work a second time -- I think they will have to find a new way to spice it up. But if Orphan could do it after we got the world's greatest most ridiculous twist -- and goddamn did Orphan 2 work -- then they can!

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Pic of the Day

Pictures have been washing across the internet all week from Thom Browne's fashion dinner that happened a few days ago where he invited a slew of somebodies and had them dress up in his new duds -- I feel as if I should make a joke about everybody being a dish, but let's just pretend I did and move on. I posted a few on Twitter here but the shot I was confronted with this morning really demands its own post given that it stars two of MNPP's long-time most-beloved faves (beloved is one word for what we feel anyway) -- Alessandro Nivola and Morgan Spector. (I'm honestly surprised that I didn't see any pictures of Lee Pace there since this photo was posted on Instagram by Lee's husband, Thom Browne executive Matthew Foley. but then perhaps that's for the best because if Lee had been standing there between those two seen above my frail heart would have poofed into a cloud of golden glitter and that'd be all he wrote, folks.

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I think that we can all agree that this shot of Richard "Dick" Madden strolling out of the surf is the only couple of seconds in the trailer for Killer Heat that looks of interest -- I can't with Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Shaileene Woodley (especially Shaileene) anymore, but I will probably watch this thing because the draw o' Dick is just that strong. 

That title -- Killer Heat -- makes me laugh every time I read it; there's something so Skinemax 90s erotica about it. If it had been that kind of movie with Richard as the star I would be ten ways to Sunday thrilled -- we need more neo-trash. But alas, this looks like some generic vacation noir nonsense, just with a wildly unappealing femme fatale in Shaileene. Good job, everybody. Still, there's always Dick to consider...

Here is the first photo of Richard Madden in a movie called KILLER HEAT, in which he will be playing the titular role pic.twitter.com/sJfE5xG9fO

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 28, 2024

Everything Must Go! Sell! Sell! Sell!

I know I've done several of these posts over the past few months but I'm really trying to dig myself out of the heaps of things that've accumulated in my small apartment so I've been listing tons of shit on eBay, and I feel the need to direct people there so it can get the hell out of my face! It's all awesome great nerdy shit, don't worry -- this week I've been listing vinyl records (mostly horror soundtracks but not all) but there are movies, there are movie posters, there are books (most of them about, you guessed it, movies), there are movie collectibles. It runs the gamut of nerdery and I know y'all do too, so please click on over to eBay and buy some of my shit. I am tired of staring at it. Make me offers! I take (reasonable) offers! And if you buy multiple things I'll combine the shipping and refund you the extra, I promise. And as this blog is 20-some years proof of, I am OCD enough that you don't have to worry about me not packaging everything extremely safely. And I take really good care of my shit so it's all in perfect condition. There's literally nothing stopping you from having a piece of me memorabilia in your house then! So save me from myself, please! And thanks. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Ashes of Time (1994)

Ou-yang Feng: People say, when you can't have what you want,
the best you can do is not to forget.

The great Leslie Cheung would've turned 68 today. 

We miss you, Leslie!

Which is Hotter?

I don't always take requests -- not because you people have bad ideas, just because I'm lazy -- but when commenter  Spideu137 left the suggestion to pit Josh Hartnett's evil sexiness in Trap against James McAvoy's evil sexiness in this weekend's Speak No Evil remake, well, that's a good idea! Crazy difficult choice! So pit them against one another I shall!

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That said if they want to make a sequel where the two of them wrestle one another for dominance, I think we'd all accept that offer. Anyway I haven't seen SNE yet -- I had to miss the press screening Monday so I will see it (and review it) over the weekend. I will try to be impartial given what a masterpiece the original is but James sure is making it hard (heh)...

Every time I want to get angry about the SPEAK NO EVIL remake they disarm me with a photo of James McAvoy GET IT "DISARM" BECAUSE HOLY F'ING CHRIST LOOK AT HIS ARMS pic.twitter.com/rORDmc3IUQ

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 12, 2024

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Get Outta Yer Kit, Kit

Knowing that Kit Harginton is letting his White Walker march across the stage for every single performance of Slave Play in London has been eating away at me for these past several weeks, but these two photos of him somewhat undressed in his dressing room and looking incredibly sexy (what's new) are salving that open wound for a few seconds today. (via) Along with that shirtless photo we got back in July at least it's something. Something! Not everything, but something! (I still want everything, though.)

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Male model and The Gentlemen actor Harry Goodwins, who we have now devoted several posts to, would like to send you some gym-spiration for your Thursday morning. Or is not gymspiration, jerkspiration. Oooh did I just make up a new word? Nevermind I googled it, it's already a word in the urban dictionary. Sigh. Every good idea has been taken! Fuck you, William Shakesepare!

Lucas Bravo Ten Times

More like Lucas Bravissimo! What a stellar week for us Lucas Bravo lovers! Yesterday I shared thirteen new photos of our favorite too-pretty-to-be-real Emily in Paris actor -- and now here today I've got an entirely different and extremely hot in a totally different way photo-shoot of ten more! (via) He's so chameleonic -- yesterday he was the rugged granola type covered in dirt rocking a stache and bandana, while suddenly now he's playing the suave and stylish city gent with all of that luxurious swooping hair. He can do it all! (Especially me.) Hit the jump for all of these...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Raising Cain (1992)

Nan: You know Dr. Nix, 

I should be going out with older guys. 

I'll tell you somethin'. For a man your age, 

you're uh, you're still pretty cute. 

Cain: It's not the mileage, honey. It's the make.

A happy 84 to the legend Brian De palma today! I've actually been re-watching little bits of the 2015 doc De Palma this week in an unrelated coincidence, which I recommend everyone see if you haven't before (here is my review) -- it's nothing but two hours of the man telling stories about making his movies and it's riveting. It's exactly what I want from a doc about a filmmaker. I wish they'd make one for every master still at work right now just like this. 

Anyway do we think that he's got another movie in him? IMDb has two listed as "In Development" -- one called Catch and Kill described as "a horror film set in Hollywood and featuring a predatory movie mogul" and one called Sweet Vengeance that's described as being "reportedly a murder mystery inspired by two real-life murders." But it's been five full years since his last movie Domino came out and that one wasn't well-received at all (with good reason since it wasn't great) -- still I would love for him to drop at least one more sleaze-bomb on us. Not that his legend isn't secured -- I am just greedy!

Happy Hump Day From Russell Tovey

We will always take the bait, Russell!

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Good Morning, World

Let's make like Melanie Lynskey and start our day off with Jason Ritter's cute little bum staring at us! (via) This is from a 2012 movie called Free Samples that I have never heard of in my entire life but which actually has quite the cast -- Ritter, Jesse Eisenberg, and the still under-appreciated Jess Weixler of my beloved 2007 vagina-dentata horror movie Teeth. (And justice for Teeth which I realized recently still hasn't been put out on blu-ray yet!) (You can watch it on Prime right now though!) Anyway thanks for getting us off on the right foot -- cheek? -- this morning, Mr. Ritter!

Lucas Bravo Thirteen Times

Congratulations to French actor Lucas Bravo (I always feel like I am sending in helicopters to a war-zone when I say his name in my head) -- you have fully reached the Michiel Huisman level of "This man is so attractive he makes me angry" attractiveness. As a gay man who deals in objectifying male actors (so to speak, and to simplify) it's always a battle between wanting to be them and wanting to have them. But a select few hit both buttons at once so hard and so violently that I become bewildered, dizzy, verklempt. Lucas has officially unlocked that level.

Anyway I am happy to see on his IMDb that he's got several projects in the pipeline -- several projects that are not Emily in Paris, because I just cannot bring myself to watch that show no matter how much Lucas and Lucien Laviscount hotness it promises me. Two of his projects -- a thriller called Turn Up the Sun with James McAvoy and Merteuil, a Dangerous Liasions prequel series with Diane Kruger -- sound especially interesting. Until then we'll just stare at these anger-inducing photos of his despicable gorgeousness for California Style magazine; hit the jump for them all...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Mum: They say it's a very lonely kind of life.

Adam: They don't say that anymore.

Mum: So you're not lonely?

Adam: If I am it's not because I'm gay. Not really.

My number one movie of last year Andrew Haigh's masterpiece All of Us Strangers is now out on 4K blu-ray today thanks to the wonderful wonderful folks over at Criterion -- pick up your copy here (as if y'all didn't already have it pre-ordered from when I first announced it was coming out). Here is my review of the movie, where I said of it "an epic of intimacy with a staggering open wound of a performance from Andrew Scott in its lead, All of Us Strangers is so brave in its honesty we’re all left naked babes wailing in its wake." 

(Heyyy Paul.) It's a movie that hit me harder with every re-watch -- every single actor in this film should have been nominated for an Oscar, along with all of the people behind the scenes in every single category, and it's total lack of nominations stands as further proof the Oscars are total shit. TOTAL SHIT. Anyway that's hardly news -- I'm just so glad that Criterion's giving it a proper physical-media release. Since it was a streamer's film and it made no money there was no gaurantee that it would get this. So go shower your money on Criterion in appreciation!

Morning ☕ 💙 pic.twitter.com/U2Gi8eQmWo

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) September 10, 2024

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I mentioned Aussie actor Toby Wallace just a couple of days ago when the first images from Ron Howard's new movie Eden hit the net -- specifically the first images of Jude Law half naked in it, and we've got an update on that front:

Didn't tell ya so 👀 https://t.co/k1gdfjZi5z

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 9, 2024

Ahhhhem. Anyway back to Toby -- I've been a fan of his since his turn in Babyteeth in 2019; did any of you see that movie? Eliza Scanlan plays a teen girl dying of cancer and Toby is the bad boy who invades her life and turns it upside down. That's a good, sweet, sad movie, and he is terrific in it -- see it if you haven't. Since then he's been in The Bikeriders and The Royal Hotel with Julia Garner and I expect we'll be seeing a lot of him as he's talented and, also importantly, super cute.

As this new photoshoot for Behind the Blinds magazine makes clear! (PS you'll also be seeing a lot of him in Eden, by the way, but you didn't hear that from me. Ahem.) Aaaanyway this is probably just the first post of what will be many on Toby, so welcome to the gratuitous club, my boy. Hit the jump for the photoshoot...