Tom Blyth & Russell Tovey Eighteen Times

Somebody at Man About Town magazine must've been a really big fan of the movie Plainclothes -- as was I! -- because not only did they gift us with that sexy photoshoot of Russell Tovey that I shared back at the start of October but then they went and dropped a shoot of Russell with his on-screen gay lover Tom Blyth together, and then today an entire shoot of Tom all by himself! We truly admire their obsession. Anyway with all I had going on this month I shamefully hadn't posted the duo shoot yet so now that we have this opportunity we're snatching it -- hit the jump for them all...

What Happened To Riley Brennan

I haven't done a very good job celebrating Ye Spooky Season here at MNPP this month -- getting sick at the tail-end of NYFF knocked me on my ass and got me too far behind on other things which I'm still catching up on. Alas. But here's a word of advice -- there's a good horror movie out this weekend! It's called Shelby Oaks and I saw it a hundred million months ago (okay okay it was July of 2024 but you know -- time has ceased having meaning or whatever) but I gave it a good review at Mashable when I did, and said review has now made its way onto a new poster for the movie seen above. I'm the one saying "Unnerving As Hell" if you can't quite make out the tinier type. I posted the trailer for the film a couple of weeks ago, you can watch it right here. I look forward to watching it again since it's been so long, but there are a few scenes from this movie genuinely burned into my brain, in the scary way, all these many months later -- a very good sign it will hold up!

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Good Morning, World

Once agaun our Spanish lord and savior Miguel Angel Silvestre coming through for us -- I spent ten minutes scouring the usual places for some "Good Morning" content to share and then wham, there he was, half-naked and as ever more than happy to be exploited. Everybody say thanks, Miguel. And I dunno about you but I'm feeling that dopamine he mentions just looking at this picture...

 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Young Woman: Everything has to die. That's the truth. One likes to think that there is always hope, that you can live above death. And it's a uniquely human fantasy that things will get better, born perhaps of the uniquely human understanding that things will not. There's no way to know for certain. But I suspect humans are the only animals that know the inevitability of their own deaths. Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot. So they invented hope.

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Good Morning, JAW

I was wondering when we'd start getting our Jeremy Allen White awards season PR push and I guess it makes sense that being today since his Springsteen movie is apparently out on Friday! I didn't even realize. I saw the film at NYFF and... it's fine? Actors have won Oscars for worse musician bio-pics and yes I am speaking directly to you, Rami Malek. I imagine it will make Springsteen people happy -- having never been one of said people I learned some stuff I didn't know but I can't say I was blown away by anything I witnessed. This is why I didn't write a review! I really have nothing to say about it. But Jeremy Allen White flashing dem abs and digging around in his jeans crotch for Interview Magazine today? That I could write ten thousand words about. Half of it would take the form of one of those "Man From Nantucket" rhymes sure but hey it's something. Anyway he's a sexy af short king and we love this shoot and good morning, hit the jump for all of it...

Is Anybody Watching Chad Powers?

Is there any reason for me to?

Happy Birthday, Harry Lighton

The writer-director of Pillion Harry Lighton is celebrating his birthday today and what better way to wish him a good one than to stare at this photo of him getting squeezed and manhandled by his leading leatherman Alexander Skarsgard at this weekend's Pillion screening in London? No better. As noted when I saw these two do a Q&A for the film a few weeks ago here in NYC Lighton is himself a dish, and this image of the two of them all leathered + trussed up at an after-party for the movie is very much going onto my lifetime mood-board. Click here if you missed my NYFF review of Pillion, a truly terrific movie. Out in February here in the U.S.!

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Good Morning, World

Yup. It's Monday. Don't know I feel about that. While I go figure that out -- although if I were to shake my Magic 8 ball (not a euhphemism) I'd wager all signs would point to "Fuck this Monday shit" -- here's one thing I am certain of: actor Callum Turner looking all breakfasty delicious as hell in yesterday's spread for The Times. At least that's something! Hit the jump for the photos...

On Your Knees, Joseph Quinn

There is something so Pillion-coded about all of the images of Joseph Quinn modeling for Versace y'all. Grade A sluttiness. Anyway that's just there for me to say good night and goodbye for the weekend with -- my engine, barely fueled this week as it was, is sputtering. I gotta recharge. And if staring at that gif for the next forty-eight hours is how I do it, do not judge. In summation -- go to your local No Kings march tomorrow and also have a great weekend.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Wild River (1960)

Chuck: The most dangerous erosion is not to land 

- it's when your capacity for living gets eroded.

The great the legendary Montgomery Clift was born 105 years ago today. We love him because obviously we do -- gorgeous tortured homosexuals are our forte. Our kin! That said I have never seen this 1960 Elia Kazan picture -- have you? I like having a few Monty treats remaining for a rainy day.

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Good Morning, World

Once I have the time to actually watch the gay show everybody's talking about -- i.e. Boots on Netflix aka the one that Pete Hegseth is clearly jerking off to when he goes home at night and closes the blinds -- I am sure that I will have a lot of posts to do from it. I've already started making and filling folders of photos of several of its actors and I haven't even watched a second of the show yet! But I do keep my ear to the ground (yes my ear) for such things, so I am aware! Which is why I have this gif of former Agents of SHIELD actor Brett Dalton swanning about in the nude looking sexier than ever on Boots -- the nude! Anyway if you've watched Boots yourselves tell me your thoughts, and tell me what to keep an eye out for when I get to it. And happy motherfucking Friday. I am real ready for this exact week to end, believe you me. 

Black Phone 2 in 200 Words or Less

I suppose if forced to choose I'd rather be bored than offended, so I guess Black Phone 2 is better than Black Phone in that it's not quite so rigorously homophobic this time out. Otherwise -- shrug emoji? I swear the first hour of this sequel is the same scene played out several times in a row. Little sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) -- who's very much the protagonist this time out -- slips into a dream, a phone rings, ghost kids, wakes up, little more dream, longer ringing phone, more ghost kids, on and on and on until your eyes have rolled down your throat. I don't recall the sound of a ringing phone being quite so annoying in the first film -- it's absolutely relentless here. Call it "Won't somebody answer the goddamned phone???": The Movie. And I've said this before when it comes to Scott Derrickson's movies (re: Sinister) but I will never find Ghost Kids scary. Ghost Kids will never be scary! There's some fun Elm-Street-esque shenanigans in the last half but having re-watched Dream Warriors earlier this week if you can't have a character say "In my dreams I'm beautiful and bad!" then bzzzt, you lose the contest.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Death on the Nile (1978)

Rosalie: Somehow, I don't think Monsieur Poirot 

is a very keen reader of romantic novels, Mother. 

Mrs Otterbourne: Well, of course he is! 

All Frenchmen are. They're not afraid of good, strong sex!

The grand Dame Angela Lansbury was born 100 years ago.

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We All Need a Little Mads Sometimes

We got a trailer for Bryan Fuller's film Dust Bunny last month along with word that the film is coming out on December 5th -- now we have a clip! Watch it above -- or don't because watching clips from movies out of context is usually a bad idea. I allow people to make up their own damn minds. I am just happy to take the chance to remind you that Dust Bunny is coming and that's a good thing to look forward to. We need those. I myself am seeing it next week at the Brooklyn Horror Fest and you will surely hear my opinion then, so stay tuned for that. 

Good Morning, Gratuitous Charlie Hunnam

My crush on Charlie Hunnam is the longest one I've got going -- twenty-six years running! Since the original Queer as Folk, of course. (Oh how it's burned into my brain.) Just wander through our Charlie Archives if you don't believe me -- some of those Sons of Anarchy posts will probably stop you dead in your tracks, but you'll eventually make it back I think. Anyway said crush shows no signs of slowing -- especially not with the wealth of Charlie content we're getting happily stuffed down our throats in the wake of his Ed Gein series and its success. When I shared that big GQ shoot a week ago little did I know there would be two more great big hot and heavy hitters landing shortly. He did both Interview Magazine (here) and he did Man About Town magazine (here) this week, and hey whaddya know I have both of them for us this morning. Along with some sweet behind the scenes content like these gif of Charlie soaking wet in his underwear because good grief we're living. Hit the jump for dozens and dozens of our Charlie boy...