NYFF Gets Artificial!

If you're in the downtown NYC vicinity I apologize for terrifying you with my yelp of excitement in the past half an hour -- it escaped me before anything could be done once I read the email from the New York Film Fest that they have just added the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino's new film Artificial to this year's line-up! I'd begun to think this might not make it out this year, given the hullaballoo when Amazon dumped it because the tech-bros don't like the big mean movie that makes fun of their stupid A.I. bullshit. Thank the movie gods aka the folks at Neon who picked the movie up and the folks at NYFF who got it onto the slate. This just made my day. I know most opinions were mixed the last time Luca was at NYFF -- i.e. last year with After the Hunt -- but I fucking love that movie, and will not be psyched out by the naysayers. Gimme that sweet sweet "Yura Borisov with hair" movie, baby!

OBSESSED WITH YURA BORISOV'S HAIR

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM

Picture Me This

Although I have a love-hate relationship with Zack Snyder's movies I think it's a little less contentious than most -- I loved Dawn of the Dead and 300 unabashedly, and Watchmen and Sucker Punch both have pieces worth defending. If I had to watch hetero-bombast I always preferred his more Kinsey-middle version to Michael Bay's! Anyway it wasn't until he waded into the swamp of making really shitty Superman movies (Henry Cavill's pecs excused) that I became more and more exasperated by him -- yes I have seen "his" cut of Justice League and yes it still sucks. Anyway he seems to've wanted a change as well so we've been keeping track of his next movie The Last Photograph for awhile now -- okay mainly because Snyder has been posting beefcake-y photos of his leading men ...

And it continues

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM

... Stuart Martin and (out gay!) Fra Fee on social media for awhile, but still. It had me curious! Anyway the movie's got a trailer today and as you can see by these gifs Snyder hasn't lost any of his ability to objectify beautiful men. This is why he and I will probably never be over! Watch:

The Last Photograph is set to premiere at TIFF soon -- in it Martin plays an ex-DEA agent who enlists the aid of a "junkie photographer" (Fee) to find the kidnapped children of a murdered diplomat in South America. I don't know what to make of the politics and exoticist issues on display in this trailer -- let's hope Snyder has delivered something thoughtful and not jingoistic. One can dream! Until then hit the jump for more of his fellas looking hot as sin...

Ask Werner

This video is making the rounds on social media and somehow 

I'd never seen it and it's the most Werner Herzog thing

I have ever seen in all my days. Incredible. 

Good Morning, World

Y'all know I don't love the beach but I could spend this Labor Day weekend at the beach with Michele Morrone in exactly this outfit, if asked. I will be waiting for my telephone to ring, Michele!

Garrett Wareing's Four Favorites...

... includes my beloved Skinamarink??? As if I wasn't already crushing! Pull my heart right out, beautiful baby. Somebody should tell Skinamarink's director Kyle Edward Ball that he's got a possible star for his next movie here. Put the Skin in Skinamarink!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

 

Good Morning, World

I was trapped on the subway for an extra hour coming into work this morning so I am running terribly, terrifically behind -- so here's a gif of the great, sexy Michael Sheen on Masters of Sex that I saw on Tumblr the other day and made sure to snatch. Kinda can't believe I didn't make this gif myself back when Masters of Sex was airing as I loved that show and Michael Sheen therein -- such a great show and such a great performer. Where the hell has he been anyway? I guess Good Omens, which I never watched -- did any of you watch Good Omens? Should I? There is the whole Neil Gaiman of that now though, yuck. Oh his name was on that wild cast list for the next season of Murderbot -- that'll be great! We love Michael Sheen in this house. Anyway hi happy Monday let me get my shit together and perhaps something will come of it...

Oh Lordy

So I suddenly have a brief errand to run this afternoon that's gonna take me offline for a couple of hours -- please allow this recent photo of Jacob Elordi, star of this weekend's new film The Dog Stars, to hold and keep you close until I'm back. Those are long arms -- they've got room for all of us!

ETA well that took far longer than I anticipated, and now I am soaked to the bone by the rain -- so I'm done. Done! Dunzo for the day. Which means dunzo til Monday. (Just two more Summer Fridays left, eek.) Anyway y'all have a good weekend -- go watch a movie and then come back here and tell me about it. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)

Pee-wee: You know I don't want to go 

anywhere, or try anything new.

Not to pile on extra sad with all of our queer legends dying this week but today would've been the one and only Paul Reubens 74th birthday and good god I miss him. It's been three years since he passed but I still think about him all the time -- it probably helps that Pee-wee memorabilia is scattered all over my home. including the holiday cards that I got every year from the man himself in the wake of him reaching out to me after I said some nice things on this very site regarding the above movie. (I don't care if I bring this up too much -- it's the great highlight of my "professional" life.) And his birthday and my birthday especially I think about Paul, because we'd also text each other on those days -- he'd send funny little gifs to me on mine and I'd send him one on his day. I was always too starstruck to be too chatty but he always replied, sincere and grateful. Since Dolly passed this week he's been on my mind too -- not just because of the below photo that made the rounds, but because they were both paragons of decency and humor from my childhood who taught me as much about how to be a good person as any actual human being in my orbit. I fail every day at living up to the standard they set but you know both of them would just giggle and say well get on with it. Being good is an every day effort, but look at the legacies of joy they left. What's better?

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Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

That photoshoot of actor slash sentient mustache [complimentary] Dino Fetscher that I posted some hot photos from recently has bred (heh, if only) more hotness -- its photographer Ramon Christian dropped eight more skin-tingling snaps over this past weekend, bless his heart. (And I mean that in the nice way, not the Southern way.) So what are you waiting for? I certainly have nothing of interest to say right this minute. (I give myself too much credit -- any miute.) So hit the jump and get your Thursday morning Dino drool on...

Space Fassys

Imagine my delight when I went looking for a recent photo of Michael Fassbender and stumbled upon this gem of him posing with a fan on vacation a couple of weeks ago! He's all but quit doing press over the past several years -- if only we'd understood how good we had it back during his slutty photoshoot heyday. (Actually I did -- I understood how good we were having it then.) Anyway that made me happy to see -- are any of you watching The Agency? I have been and think the show really came into its own in its second season -- I really kind of love it now. With a cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, and Harriet Sansom Harris, well how the hell could I not? Anyway y'all should give a shot if you haven't, with the understanding that its second season is when it really picks up. 

Oh my god I had totally forgotten about this Michael Fassbender / Charlize Theron photoshoot circa Prometheus. GOOD LORDDDDDD THE 🔥🔥🔥 (more here www.mynewplaidpants.com/2012/07/they...

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But that's not why we're here! We're here because Sir Ridley Scott has a new movie coming out this week (The Dog Stars with that other whippet-shaped-man Jacob Elordi) so he's doing interviews and in one he just said that he's working on a third Alien prequel film to round out his Prometheus / Alien: Covenant trilogy, which would follow the further wackadoo exploits of Fassbender's David character. Even though I think both of these movies are hot messes to various degrees (ones I can nevertheless watch over and over again) I'm all for it -- because hopefully Sir Scott makes the Michael Fassbender Clone Throuple of our dreams a reality this go! Third movie -- three gay Fassys! That's the rule!

Breeder Me

Are any of you watching the show The Shards, Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' book? I am watching it but it's sort of a hate-watch -- I think all of the young actors who make up the main cast are fairly awful. (How is that nepo-baby supposed to be Richard Gere's son??? I refuse to believe they are even related.) That said the older actors playing the adults on the show are pretty much the exact opposite, a delight to watch to a tee; I would much rather be watching a show about them. And when Glee actor Dot-Marie Jones showed up in an episode that I watched this past weekend playing a porn director that went triply true. So much fun. And seeing her also reminded me that I saw and loved a horror movie called Breeder earlier this year at Tribeca that she's the villain in -- and well whaddya know the trailer for Breeder just dropped today and who do you think...

... was quoted? Me, that's who! And that my quote drops over DMJ getting her face absolutely tongue-wrecked by one of her adorable doggies is very very funny to me because that's one of my boyfriend's triggers -- he finds it absolutely repulsive when people let dogs lick their face haha. That gif's for you, sweetums! Anyway Breeder is extremely fucked up and has far more disgusting things in store for y'all than some face-licking, but you can find out all about that when it lands in theaters on October 16th. Here's the full trailer:

Jack O'Connell Seven Times

I was just earlier putting Danny Boyle's upcoming movie Ink into my calendar -- it's hitting some theaters on December 11th and then lands on Netflix in January -- and then wham, suddenly this cover-shoot of the movie's leading man Jack O'Connell dropped at Variety. Kismet! Sexy kismet. It's a long chat and I haven't read it yet, feel free to join me over lunch and do just that at this link. This is the movie (based on the play) about Rupert Murdoch's takeover of The Sun  tabloid -- Murdoch's played by Guy Pearce while Jack is the editor Larry Lamb; also joining the boys is Claire Foy as a reporter. The movie will premiere at Venice so I guess we'll know then if any of these extremely under-appreciated actors will be in the awards conversation but that'd be nice, as they're all overdue as hell. (Jack should have a statue for Sinners and Guy should have a statue for The Brutalist dammit.) Until then hit the jump to stare at pretty little Jack some more...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Pillion (2025)

Colin: You know I love you, right?

Ray: ... Yeah.

Colin: But what?

Ray: That's not what this is, Colin. 

That's not the point.

Colin: Isn't... love the whole point?

Ray: Of what?

Colin: Everything.

It didn't feel right to've not wished Alexander Skarsgård a happy 50th birthday yesterday, but (again) we got all overwhelmed by Dolly's passing and everything else fell to the wayside -- thankfully that never-before-seen photo from Pillion's set popped up today (via) and reminded me to step back to our favorite Swedish sex-bot and wish him the best. (If you missed my forever-ago Pillion review click here. Phenomonal movie.) Did y'all see the list of people joining Muderbot for its second season? Everybody's running to rub on Alex's Ken crotch and we get it! 

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... giving Tom Hardy a little prick.

I know the comments on this post might devolve into the pro versus anti tattoo thing but that's not really why we're here so let's focus on why we are -- those bulging mini-trunks of Tom's of course! I stumbled upon these photos yesterday (via) and freaked out and immediately wanted to share them, but it felt right to leave Dolly at the top of the page for rest of the day -- now we can and should get back to distracting ourselves from the sewer of the world with beautiful things again. It's what Dolly would have wanted. So hit the jump for several more photos...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Please somebody tell me there are more photos of this.

RIP Dolly

Truly -- what am I going to say that we're not all, every single one of us, feeling already? Dolly Parton hes left us at the far too young age of 80, and nobody will ever replace her. She radiated goodness and humor and intelligence -- for years she's felt like the one remaining bridge between everybody. We're all mourning today. Click here and you can donate to her Imagination Library program, which puts books in the hands of kids -- it'd be cool if we can give her life's greatest work a great big boost in her honor. Now if you excuse me I am gonna go listen to her cover of "Stairway To Heaven" (the greatest cover of all time) a dozen times and cry for a bit. And feel free to tell me in the comments what Dolly meant to you.

The Darko Night Rises

You kind of have to hand it to Richard Kelly -- the writer-director of Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, and The Box never does anything halfway, which... has basically crippled his movie career for decades. The Box came out in 2009 and he's been promising new work for every single one of the seventeen years since then, usually as some off-shoot of one of those earlier projects because the man is an obsessive one. I find that admirable, even if frustrating -- probably because I find it deeply relatable. Anyway either way the promises he's been making have finally come to something -- an 800+ page "sequel" novel to Donnie Darko called The Philosphy of Time Travel that you can actually pre-order right this very minute. It has a release date of December 15th though so, given our history, I'm waiting until the thing is in my cold dead hands before I really believe it's true. Here is a description of the book (and yes the influence of Mark Frost's Twin Peaks "dossiers" is obvious to me too):

"On October 4, 1988, a derelict jet engine falls from the sky over Los Cerritos, California, and crashes through the bedroom of sixteen-year-old Donnie Darko, killing him instantly. For his family, the tragedy should end there. It doesn't. Assembled entirely from recovered government transcripts, secretly recorded conversations, and early email correspondence, The Philosophy of Time Travel reconstructs the eighteen months that follow through the eyes of Donnie's mother, Rose Darko, as she and her husband Eddie, a senior CIA analyst, are drawn into a widening investigation that reaches from the Oval Office to the Mojave Desert. FBI surveillance teams, FAA officials, USC professors, and a mysterious circle of trackers and financiers all converge on the same impossible discovery: a strange "celestial fluid," a set of unexplained artifacts, and a forbidden book, Roberta Sparrow's own Philosophy of Time Travel, that appears to predict the exact circumstances of its own recovery."