Friday, February 28, 2025

Slava Ukraini!


Listen. I do what I gotta do to grab y'all's attention. And now that I have it -- if you're feeling as furious about the grotesque Fascist-bootlicking display that our President & Vice President put on in the Oval Office today as I am, here is a link to a Ukrainian website where you can make a donation right to their war efforts to help defeat the murderous dictator Putin and to benefit democracy everywhere. Our current piece-of-shit administration clearly isn't going to do the right thing -- it's up to decent people to take a stand. Fascism needs to be stamped out there, and it needs to be stamped out here in the United States too.  Go punch some fucking Nazis y'all.

Bottoms in Your House


Here is some happy news on a not happy day -- there's a rumor that Bottoms is finally getting a physical media release in May! The exquisite broad (and very very gay) comedy from Shiva Baby director Emma Seligman starring Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edibiri, and Nicholas Galitzine among others, has up until now just been a streaming release -- you can watch it on Prime right here. But supposedly Kino Lorber will be dropping a "special edition" of the movie on May 27th. Hooray! Here is my review of the movie from way back.  

Pic of the Day


I am trying to take a momentary break for a minute from anger-scrolling over our shit-ass Russian-puppet President right now so there's a new promotional picture of Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington for their new stage adaptation of Othello -- I've been entering the lottery every day trying to get cheap tickets but so far come up with bupkis; it hasn't even been a week though so y'all keep me in your prayers! Somebody snapped a photo (seen below) of the cast taking a bow the other day and it looks like Jake is full Jarhead in it, and that is some shit I need to see in the flesh y'all. Regular tickets for the show are so outrageously expensive though the lottery's the only way I'll be seeing it. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Barton Fink (1991)

Barton: Have you read the Bible, Pete?
Pete: Holy Bible?
Barton: Yeah.
Pete: Yeah, I think so. 
Anyway, I've heard about it.

Every time I re-watch Barton Fink I come to love it more and more, until my last re-watch a couple of months ago it cemented it firmly in my top three Coens movies (alongside Fargo and A Serious Man). It's so funny and strange and ultimately terrifying and the relationship between Turturro and John Goodman ranks among the greatest in any Coens movie. Most of all I am always, every time, surprised by it -- it always brings something new out to contemplate. Just a brilliant film. And with that we wish John Turturro a happy 68th birthday today! I am a couple of episodes behind (I just watched the episode pictured below last night) but I did finally start watching the new season of Severance and his character of Irving remains my favorite character on the show by leaps and bounds -- when do we are we gonna get John an Oscar? He's seriously overdue. Let's get on that. What are your favorite Turturros?



Leo Woodall Four Times


After reading my fellow Pajiba contributor Chris Revelle's piece on the gay romance at the edges of the series Prime Target starring Leo Woodall I decided it was my patriotic duty -- or whatever the gay equivalent of that is -- to watch the show, even though a show about math that is by all accounts very very silly isn't really up my alley. And so I started it last night. And it is indeed very very silly -- Leo saying that he doesn't use a computer because "they're too slow" made my eyes roll around the world and back. But Leo is so goddamned easy to look at and just ease  yourself right into a salivating stupor that I flew through the first episode without even realizing? I have been in need of a dumb show to watch anyway so I think this'll fit the bill nicely. These new photos are for Vanity Fair -- and I know you've all already embiggened the above photo to glare at Leo's gams and it's okay, I did it too! Hit the jump for them all...

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Good Morning, World


Raise your hand if you suddenly want to be a water bottle! I believe this gif of Aaron Taylor-Johnson comes from one of the special features that will be on the blu-ray that's out on March 4th -- you can pre-order it right here if you'd like a look at those special features; the movie itself, well, that's up to you! It's not the worst superhero movie ever made -- Alessandro Nivola is a hell of a lot of fun and Aaron knows we're there to stare at his muscles and he dutifully obliges more than most actors in his postion. Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, all the Chrisses -- they usually gave us a single shirtless shot per movie but Aaron's bulging out all over this thing. Anyway hello it's Friday and I have perhaps never been happier about that fact -- let's get this weekend going already. I am cooked. 



Thursday, February 27, 2025

I Have a Screening...


... so here is a vintage photo of today's "It Boy" Jamie Dornan posing with a couple more Calvin Klein models back in his own Aughts-era modeling days -- the other boys seem to've drawn the short straw when it came to clothes but we're not angry at the visual (and the scenario) provided! (click to embiggen) I'll be back on here tomorrow, y'all have a nice rest of Thursday.

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Thursday's Ways Not To Die


Sometimes I wonder if there is still magic to be discovered in this world, but this morning I am here to tell you kiddos that yes, there is -- there is still magic! Look no further than me discovering in the year 2025 that Texas Chain Saw director Tobe Hooper made I'm Dangerous Tonight, a Made-For-TV thriller in 1990 about an evil red dress possessed by Incan Devilry that starred Twin Peaks actress Mädchen Amick, Psycho star Anthony Perkins, E.T. & Cujo icon Dee Wallace, and... R. Lee Ermey? Because why not?

You'd think I'd have read something about this movie when my beloved Peter Strickland's killer red dress classic In Fabric came out in 2018 but if somebody did mention it it completely slipped past me -- only this week did I learn of its existence when Letterboxd made a list of movies about "Cursed Objects" (thanks to the release of Oz Perkins' The Monkey) and mentioned this film. Obviously I had to watch it immediately -- I couldn't even wait for the blu-ray to arrive in the mail, I watched the shitty quality copy that you see in these gifs. And it was worth every second of squinting!

Tobe clearly knew he had to lean hard into the camp, so this thing is soapy, it's stupid, it's trash, and I loved every fucking second of it. But let's get to this death scene here --  Mädchen's sex-obsessed cousin Gloria (Daisy Hall, chewing the walls themselves) steals the dress from Mädchen and upon putting it on immediately goes into a slutty rage. Her ten foot tall actual linebacker boyfriend obviously never stood a chance! Hit the jump for the rest of the scene...

Good Morning, World


Ooh batten down your hatches -- we're gonna have a new Jamie Dornan photoshoot! Okay yes all we have right now is the cover and I shouldn't jump the gun, but it was a rare Insta-bright-spot in a sad Insta-morning (did you see SMG's post about Michelle Trachtenberg? Broken hearted. Not to mention all of the Gene Hackman tributes rolling in. Good grief.) I daren't hope this shoot when revealed in full could be as good as his Arena Homme shoot last year but that image above is promising anyway. It reminds me of a bit that Sandra Bernhard had in one of her comedy specials where she made a joke about an album cover for Heart where one of them had "one eye obscured by a peacock feather." And I like that.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Say Good Night, Sufjan


Good night, Sufjan.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Insidious (2010)

Tucker
: A picture's worth a thousand words.
Specs: Words are worth a thousand words, too.

A happy 48 to director James Wan today!
He really understands the appeal of Patrick Wilson...

... and for that we owe him an eternal gratitude.
And I am still super sad we're not getting a Trench movie.

RIP MIchelle Trachtenberg


Incredibly shocking and sad news today as we learn that Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl, Mysterious Skin and Harriet the Spy actress Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away at the far far far too young age of 39. I only started watching Buffy regularly in its fifth season (and had to go back and watch all the earlier seasons on DVD) so Michelle's character of Dawn never felt imposed on the show to me like it did to most people who watched the show from the start (of course that was part of the knowing wink of the character) -- anyway I was vehemently pro-Dawn and was always knocking back at the character's haters. I also got to interview Michelle in 2004 for the Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly -- I tried to find the interview online but it doesn't seem to be anywhere. I've only done two interviews in my entire life (the other one being Michael Fassbender because how could I say no to that) because I am not a natural conversationalist (which should read: cripplingly shy) but I remember Michelle being lovely and sweet and funny in our phone convo. Our deepest condolences go out to all the people who knew and loved her. With the possibility of a Buffy reboot ahead we now have to wonder how they'll address this. How very very sad.


Leo Woodall Five Times


I haven't watched the new Bridget Jones movie yes and I don't know if I will -- I think I only saw the first one? But I definitely appreciate the fact that it's given our former White Lotus trophy boy Leo Woodall some additional press here in 2025 (to go alongside all the hot gay action he's currently engaging in on his Apple+ series) -- if you follow me on Bluesky then you'll already know it's been useful not just for the usual (i.e. staring) but practical too since I used a recent photoshoot of this pretty boy to show to my barber for the haircut I got this morning! He's a man for all seasons, this one!  

Anyway in procuring said haircut photos last night I stumbled upon several other recent shoots I'd not seen before, but I'm only sharing this one (via) right now because.. well, it's plenty. Sleeveless tees, short shorts -- I am sated. We'll save the other ones for the rainy days when we've got nothing else to post. Hit the jump for the rest of these...

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Noah Centineo


First things first that's a terrifically HQ photo above, so liberally click on it to embiggen as I know you will want to. Moving on -- a couple of weeks back I shared with you some photos from Noah Centineo's Calvin Klein campaign in 2019 that I'd (outrageously) never gotten around to posting. Well yesterday I stumbled upon the above photo and realized that I'd only ever seen a pre-crotch cropped version of it, posted here, and that also could not stand. Such horrific oversights on my part! I'd started this post off with an entirely different intent...

... which was to just share the three hot new photos that dropped from Noah's 2025 Behind the Blinds photoshoot (which had already given us three extremely hot photos a few weeks back). But I think we can all agree that that uncropped CK photo gets the top spot on any post. Maybe every post? Maybe every post I post from now on will begin with that photo -- who knows! Makes sense to me though. Anyway this Behind the Blinds shoot is turning out really good and I look forward to seeing them all once they've all been dropped, but here's the thing...

... as I was looking up those photos I found even more old ones I never posted! Also from 2019! (From this video specifically.) I was really dropping the ball in 2019 I guess. And listen -- I have currently fallen down a real Noah Hole and I kinda don't ever want to climb out. You understand. You hear me. Ever since That Scene on his show The Recruit this season the boy's been on my brain and then some! I've been doing this blog for a long time now -- 20 years come June, he types as he crumbles to dust -- and these obsessions come and they go in fits, and it's a big Noah fit we're having this month. So to get to the point I've got the other couple of photos from that Blinds shoot plus a heap of gifs from that 2019 one, plus then some bonus Noah, all after the jump! Come obsess with me on this happy Hump Day...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Arnas Fedaravičius Nine Times


I didn't intend for today to turn so White Lotus centric (see also this morning) but it's not really too outlandish either, given I have been worshipping at the altar of Mike White for two and a half full decades now, ever since his first film Chuck & Buck became Chuck & Buck & Jason Forever back in the year 2000. And this Vogue Scandanavia photoshoot of Lithuanian actor Arnas Fedaravičius, who plays the third season's hot-stuff masseur Valentin, obviously demanded its attention. I won't get into spoilers re: his character since some of you might not be caught up on the show but I think Valentin is going to turn out to be an interesting character, don't you? Mike White always gives the beefcake a surprise twist and I expect no less here. Not that I've seen any more than any of you, but the tea leaves are pointing! Anyway until then though just hit the jump for the full shoot (with a little bonus video at the end)...

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