Get Stuffed By Josh O'Connor

Okay well my office just announced we're closing early for the holiday so today's ending quicker than I anticipated -- two quick notes before I run out the door for the long weekend . One y'all should go see the third Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man if it's playing anywhere near you because it is easily my favorite of the trilogy-to-date. I liked the previous two a lot but I unabashedly love WUDM. I'd like to say it's not just because it's really a stealth Josh O'Connor movie but this is my website and I don't have to lie. Nothing against Daniel Craig obviously but I think it's smart to make Benoit Blanc more of a supporting player, and Josh carries this movie with great humor and grace. The mystery is fun too, although I don't think it's much of a surprise who dun it -- I feel like the casting kind of gives up the game. But I can't wait to watch it again. 

As for the second note o' mine before heading out -- I'm a broken record on this, it's true, but I'm not going to not remind y'all right before the biggest shopping days of the year that if you're doing any shopping on Amazon use this link and it sends a few pennies MNPP's way. Or you can donate through the PayPal link in the right-hand column, or you can buy some of my shit on eBay too! I'm planning on doing some house-cleaning over the long weekend so more stuff will definitely be popping up on there. And I guess that's it. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you celebrate! And if you don't just eat a great big pile of food until you want to die and pretend you do. Bye!

Sing Me a Song of Steve Harrington

I was just reminded that Stranger Things returns tonight at 8pm, with its fifth and final season -- well part of it anyway. The first four episodes tonight. Then there's three more on Christmas, and then comes the finale on New Years Eve. They're swallowing up our holidays! And I am cool with that -- I don't know about y'all but I consider myself a fan of the show, and I wish them the best at landing this immense beast of their creation. It truly does feel like the end of an era. Anyway I realized a fine way to mark this occasion would be to go dig up all of the pictures of Joe Keery on his recent musical tour that I've had gathering dust in the "Joe Keery" folder on my computer -- we certainly shouldn't allow them to go to waste. There are a few other photos mixed in, from magazines etc, but s'all Joe in his glory! Hit the jump for 30+ snaps our favorite furry boy out of Hawkins, Indiana...

Wagner Moura Two Times

The Secret Agent, the ace new movie from Bacurau and Aquarius director Kleber Mendonça Filho, is out in theaters today! (Check this link for tickets near you.) And its sexy slash super talented star Wagner Moura has been on the awards trail in support of it, which has been a big boon to those of us who like looking at Wagner Moura. Especially since it is a movie that treats him very much as a Movie Star, and makes him look about as fine as he can -- just take one look at the main still from the movie and tell me you don't want to watch two hours of that! But beyond starriness Moura gives another world-class turn in the film -- he shot immediately onto my radar in 2013 in Neill Blomkamp's otherwise forgettable Elysium (he'd already been working, mostly in Brazil, for 15 years before that) and it's been a real pleasure watching him fulfill that promise year after year. TSA is definitely his best work to date, and it'd be awesome if he manages to score an Oscar nom for it -- that said I'm also rooting for Lee Byung-hun in Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and I foresee AMPAS being stingy when it comes to giving away slots to non-English language performers. They'll usually go for one, not two. So if I had to bet I'd give the edge to Wagner -- this movie isn't as tonally tricky as Park's movie; as dark as it gets, it goes down easier. Anyway I'm rooting for the both of them, and Wagner if you need a date to the ceremony I am (sorry boyfriend) available... (pics via)

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... kneaded by Jonathan Bailey.

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Good Morning, Monsters

I'd almost posted these behind-the-scenes photos of Frankenstein star Jacob Elordi with his stunt double (I think his name is Daniel Cudmore) a couple of weeks back, but it didn't feel right to splay the look of the monster all over the place so early -- I don't think the movie had even hit Netlfix when I first saw these. But now it has and I think it'll probably be a popular post-turkey watch this holiday so here, enjoy these too. They're a full meal all on their own! But speaking of the forthcoming holiday feast -- today's our last day on site til Monday, which I assume you'd assumed but one shouldn't make too many asses out of you and me so I figured I'd put it into words to make it crystal. Don't worry -- just slide yourself between these two slices of hearty white bread and make of yourself a sandwich til I'm back. You'll be fine.

The Grand Hot Witch

I don't know why I keep watching Wednesday, I think it mostly sucks save some fun casting -- I do like Jenna Ortega but it's Gwendoline Christie, Heather Matarazzo, and that little weirdo Evie Templeton who keep me coming back. That said this last run of mediocre episodes had me thinking I might be giving up that ghost altogether... but Tim Burton's gone and dragged me back in! My beloved Eva Green has been cast as Morticia's sister Aunt Ophelia, a character who has been teased several times -- I cannot, will not, ever say no to Eva. She elevates everything she touches and working with Burton again will surely bring out her delicious witchy ways once more. Aww now I wanna go watch Penny Dreadful again. Hey remember when Josh Hartnett went gay all of a sudden? Good times, good times...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Sandor: You know why women used to get married, don't you?

Alice: Why don't you tell me?

Sandor: It was the only way they could lose their virginity 

and be free to do what they wanted with other men. 

The ones they really wanted.

Alice: Fascinating.

Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut (and yes I do consider this Kubrick's own film even if it was finished post-mortem -- on that tip there's a great new interview with the film's editor right here that address this subject) has landed on 4K today thanks to Criterion -- you can grab a copy right here. I've had a copy for a couple of weeks but it doesn't feel right to watch this movie before the holidays so I've been saving it. I think I might actually watch it right on Christmas, or Christmas Eve anyway. I should time it so Nicole Kidman says "Fuck." just at the strike of Midnight! What are y'all's thoughts on this movie? I've been a big fan since Day One personally, but I know it's a controversial one!

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Good Morning, World

I almost fell out of my chair when I stumbled across this selfie taken by Lakeith Stanfield this morning, and so I now hopefully pass that feeling of joy in horny disorientation along to you, my beloveds. Enjoy. (click to embiggen)

Tempt Me With Kit Harington Gay Stuff

Even when Kit Harington showed his world-class ass on Industry it wasn't enough to get me to start watching the show -- even though people whose opinions I trust very much say the show is worth watching I'm not super drawn towards watching a show about investment bankers; I hated every second of Succession that I watched and people kept insisting that was great. I have a weird chip on my shoulder when it comes to "entertainment" about despicable monied people -- it's why I hated The Wolf of Wall Street and haven't been able to make myself re-watch it to reassess. I just don't find it easy to find such people's antics or quirks charming. But all of that goes right out the window if they have Kit Harington doing gay stuff -- I am after all a simple man. The simplest! So the glimpse of that possibility in the trailer for the fourth season (seen below) has me adding Industry to my queue. Do you watch it? Thoughts?

Lucas Bravo Twenty-Two Times

I feel as if I willed a new Lucas Bravo photoshoot into existence by posting about the French actor out of the blue last Thursday -- whatever this version of a "Spidey Sense" is, I got it. That said he does have a new project that premiered on HBO on November 14th (the series called The Seduction) so maybe I'm not so special? Fuck it, let me pretend. The series is a loose adaptation of the many-times-adapted novel  Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) and it co-stars Diane Kruger and my beloved Vincent Lacoste, so why the hell wasn't it on my radar until now? Lord knows. 

Too much content! Anyway I'll probably start watching that over the holiday -- perhaps you can join me! It's probably too much to hope that Lucas and Vincent make out but I'll hope it anyway. For now this photoshoot is for L'Beaute Homme magazine and you can read the chat with him here -- he talks about loving playing a villain, strangling Diane Kruger, and what he learned from George Clooney (uh huh), so that's something. And then there's that stache, which... somebody hose me down. Hit the jump for all the photos...

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Good Morning, Udo

As I'm sure most if not all of you are aware two terrible things happened this weekend -- one we lost Udo Kier. The gay legend who starred in half of my favorite movies of all time -- movies from Dario Argento, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lars Von Trier, Paul Morrissey, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog, Rob Zombie, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, John Carpenter, E. Elias Merhige, Amanda Kramer, Walerian Borowczyk and Andy fuckin' Warhol, to name but a few! -- and was the most memorable thing in a full 95% of them. He was a freak legend, an icon, a king, and we adored him very much. You can roll through our archives here -- I should do a Top 5 performances of his when I get a chance, but two late roles worth mentioning are his one-scene showstopper in The Secret Agent, which is rolling out this fall, and of course the incredible showcase for him that was 2021's Swan Song, reviewed right here. Cruel that Covid robbed that movie of a bigger rollout, but catch it now if you haven't yet. 

Udo Kier lives forever! He simply ascended to his true form which is too fucking fabulous for us peons to even see anymore. We’re lucky he ever let us look at him in the first place. Here’s some video I took of him two years ago — icon legend king

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM

I could go on and on about King Udo, but this brings me to the second terrible thing that happened this weekend -- I fell down some stairs and twisted my ankle a full 90 degrees and I'm laid up as fuck. I'm hopefully getting an X-ray today so we'll see what happens, but I can't imagine it will be too noisy here today given I'm a shell of a human being right this moment. It's not broken -- I can hobble around alright -- but it's also robbed me of what little will I was already barely working with. So talk to me about Udo in the comments, or don't, I'm around-ish. Udo forever! Jason for never!

Quick Me on Train Dreams & Wicked 2

Train Dreams -- It's not often that I have a completely different opinion when I see a movie a second time than I did the first, and so it feels important to note when it does happen. And it very much happened with Train Dreams, Jockey director Clint Bentley's Malick-ified adaptation of Denis Johnson's book and starring Joel Edgerton as an old-timety railroad worker, on Netflix today. I saw it an Sundance in January and got swept up in the current of its lush visuals and lyrical score (from The National's Bryce Dressner), plus its fine clear-eyed close-mouthed turn from Joel Edgerton. It wasn't enough of a love affair that I felt the need to write a review at the time, but I thought my heart might grow fonder down the line. 

This was not the case -- a re-watch a couple of weeks ago was like a gust of tornado winds splitting through its smoke, and all that was left rang hollow; an ash-heap where a forest once stood. It was as if the film rotated ninety degrees and revealed cardboard backing. It's got the appearance of meaning that reveals itself to be thimble-deep, like a video of somebody diving into a gorgeous lake only to break their neck on the rocks mere inches beneath its serence surface. (The score, on its own merits, still rules though.) 

Wicked For Good -- Nobody should be coming to me for opinions of the Wicked movies, since this shit was always gonna be straight-up me-kryptonite from the start. And yet -- wow! This movie is really, really bad! Far worse than the already awful first one, which at least had a sense of humor, best embodied by Ariana Grande's fluffy little performance therein. This one doesn't even have the decency to have a plot, or "things that happen" -- humorless, tuneless, meandering flying-monkey malarkey, it feels like one terrible song about how a character feels piled on top of another one piled on top of another one until every iota of your patience has been crushed to yellow dust for that endless CG stretch of brick road. Bury beneath it and be done with me! In a better world people would be embarrassed. But, in the spirit of giving, I'll end on the one highlight:

There is this one shot of Jonathan Bailey in Wicked For Good, and you'll know the one when you see it, that is utter pornography, just absolute unhinged filth, and it made all of it worthwhile

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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Good Morning, World

Normally I'd crop out security people and other normies when focusing in on the spectacle of a great big movie star wandering the streets in their underpants, but with these photos of Tom Hardy doing just that (even if it's not quite the full frontal assualt of we saw from the set of Taboo that one time!) on the set of his forthcoming series Mobland I'm taking a different route. Namely because Tom's security guard is a great big hot giant of a man and is turning these photos into a whole tradie fantasy thing. Is "tradie" exclusively Australian? Because I think of it as British too but when I look it up everywhere just mentions Australia. Anyway google that yourselves if you're unaware -- point being the security dude stays in the picture. I hope they're blokes! Big bear-huggin' blokes. Hit the jump for a dozen photos...

That's All For Today...

... gotta go see a guy about a movie.

Pics of the Day

The first photos of Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the set of Robert Eggers' now-filming horror film Werewulf (via) are the literal platonic ideal of what we would hope the first photos of Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the set of Robert Eggers' now-filming horror film Werewulf would be -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson half-naked, howling ferally and covered in blood! Huzzah -- we won, kids! It's giving me The Northman meets Nosferatu -- big shock, that combo. Anyway see my previous post on the film, which is already set to open on Christmas 2026, right here. And hit the jump for the rest of the pics...

Who Wore It Best?

Lots of randomness today! Just the way we like it. See, I stumbled upon that highly attractive old photo of Jeff Bridges first and then I did a reverse image search trying to find more from the shoot, and ever-reliable Google offered me up the shot on the right of Kurt Russell instead. Whoopsie! But this mistake was really a surprise gift. One which we will now force you to choose between:

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