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Macbeth (2015)

Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

Wanna know whose movies need to start getting 4K upgrades like yesterday? Justin fuckin' Kurzel's, that's who. This movie and True History of the Kelly Gang specifically. Both abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous movies that I need to see better dammit. Anyway Kurzel's glorious and deeply underrated version of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard was released ten years ago today, if you can believe that. Go re-watch it and gape in wonder at how beautiful a film it is. We need to appreciate pretty things!

Brandon Sklenar Thirteen Times

One of these days I might even bother to see Brandon Sklenar in an acting project, but for the time being I am more than happy to come across him whenever he does these beefcake photoshoots for magazines (see also) -- oh wait! I looked at his IMDb and he was the male lead in that movie Drop. I saw that. It was fine? He was fine? I don't really remember it that well which is a shame because Meghann Fahy deserves projects one remembers. Maybe he does too!

Who knows. Actually scanning down his older movies -- Vice! Mapplethorpe! Midway! -- I guess I've seen him in plenty. I guess what I mean to say is "I will never watch that Blake Lively movie where everything went haywire and I first learned his name." And that much remains true. I'll probably end up seeing The Housemaid (his next movie) just because I love Amanda Seyfried, but that very much might be a "wait for home" thing.

Anyway I'm rambling because I'm trying to type this fast as my lunch is sitting in front of me getting cold (while the rest of me gets hot due to these photos) -- these photos coming at us via Flaunt magazine; you can read the chat with him here. Or, hey even better, you can just stare at him half-naked and soaking wet -- and do I spy with my little eye... pubes??? Oh Brandon. You shouldn't have -- ten more times after the jump...

Pic of the Day

It's your daily Pillion post! Okay I doubt I can keep this up until February when the movie comes out (especially with two weeks off at the end of this month) so -- enjoy it while it lasts! A new batch of behind-the-scens photos dropped (thx Mac) and you can see them all over here. This portrait of Alexander Skarsgård in his slutty wrestling singlet is the photo of choice, because duhh. But they're all lovely because this is a really lovely looking movie. It's wild that this is Harry Lighton's very first feature film. Good for him! And if you missed the photos of the Pillion cast in person -- which is to say, my person -- that I shared yesterday, see them here. 

Comeback Still Comin' Back

I actually don't want to know too much about the forthcoming season of the world's funniest television series The Comeback, and so I'm a little annoyed this article at Variety gave up some big information about the season's plot -- if you're like me let me save you from their flappy lips and give you the little details that won't ruin anything for you: one, Andrew Scott has joined the cast! Let's be real, that's why we're here posting. Because otherwise I haven't even posted any of the funny clips that have been dropped, even though they seem to exist outside the show itself. I don't wanna see that! That said we've only only got a few more months to try and dodge all of the information that'll be swerving towards us -- the other big news drop is that HBO will be premiering the third season in March! Four months! We can survive that right? Sigh, who knows these days. And here's the first official image of our lady Cherish:

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Good Morning, World

And thank you, Garrett Wareing.

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John Waters Rams 2025 Down Our Throats

Fuck off, National Board of Review -- the only Top 10 Movies of 2025 list that matters is here to fist us in our brains! Head on over to Vulture to read John Waters' ten favorite movies of 2025 -- it's got everything from Ari Aster's latest to the new Final Destination movie, and those are just his first two choices! Also per usual his list is like 50% stuff I haven't seen even though I see so many fucking movies every year -- John always sees more! The new Bruno Dumont movie and the one called Room Temperature both sound like must-finds to me. Anything stand out to you people?

In Spaceships They Won't Understand

Ever since it was announced a month ago that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's fantastic score for Luca Guadagnino's film Queer is getting a vinyl release -- out in nine days, pre-order it right here! --  I've been nursing a hankering to re-watch the movie. (Read my review here.) And now my hanker has gotten itself goosed because the film's supporting sexpot Drew Starkey has just lined up a new killer role -- he'll be starring Deep Cuts, in the new movie from Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest director Sean Durkin! (Yes I ignore The Iron Claw, as it deserves.) And just as exciting -- his co-star is Cailee Spaeny, who I have loved in everything to date, but most especially Priscilla. (She's ace in the new Knives Out movie too, by theway.) 

Deep Cuts is an adaptation of a bestseller by Holly Brickley (which came out at the start of this year) that sounds a lot like it's trying to be for the Aughts what (oh let's just go with the classic example) American Graffiti was for the 1960s -- a nostalgic encapsulation of a recent time period, or as Deadline puts it "a love story about two music- obsessed twenty- somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade." I guess it was formerly supposed to star Saoirsie Ronan and Austin Butler, but no more. I find it much easier to picture Drew as an "Indie Sleaze" sex-god -- he's basically been having photos of himself taken in that drag for the past few years! See that photo above for proof. Anyway this'll be especially interesting to me since it'll be aiming to capture (at least in part) the Brooklyn music scene in the 2000s, which I very much partook in -- it's always a hoot to see a time and place you walked through turned into a rose-colored memory, and yes by "hoot" I do mean "yet another nail in my coffin."

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Just in case staring at beautiful and talented men being funny and thoughtful and charming whilst speaking about a wonderful piece of exceptionally horny gay art they created together is your thing (and I am assuming here at MNPP that it would be) there above are some photos and videos from last night's special Pillion screening here in NYC last night. Disgustingly handsome writer-director Harry Lighton is seen there sandwiched between his two stars, Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, just as we all would be so fortunate to be. What a trio! What a movie! Read my review here if you have not done so yet. And thus went my daily Pillion post.

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Pic of the Day

Variety revealed their annual end-of-year batch of "Actors on Actors" pairings this morning -- see them all here -- but the one we're most excited for, naturally, is the pairing of David Corenswet and Jonathan Bailey. For reasons that are known to them. And you. And to every creature on Earth and outer space probably as well. This chat between the two gets dropped on December 7th. GIMME! 

Jonny! Keep your hands where we can see them (or don't)

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Good Morning, World

Sometimes I feel like I'm stretching the boundaires of what a "Good Morning, World" post is supposed to be -- it's supposed to be, in a perfect world, a photograph of an attractive actor doing something morning related, like waking up in bed, showering, or standing around in a bathrobe and boxer shorts with milk and cereal. But not today! No stretching for Fabien Frankel today! (Don't say it, don't say it...) The dreamy House of the Dragon and Task actor (who's been on our radaer ince The Serpent way back) gave us an ideal "Good Morning" post today with his new photoshoot for The Gentlemen's Journal. You can read his interview over here. And then you can hit the jump for the photos...

Tom Blyth Eight Times

Just a quick heads-up before I run out the door for that Pillion screening I mentioned this morning that what's probably my second favorite gay movie of 2025, the 90s set drama Plainclothes starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, has gotten a blu-ray drop date! It's hitting physical media on January 6th and you can pre-order it right at this link. And if you need me to make my case on why it's so good that it's worth buying read my review at Pajiba from when it screened at Sundance forever ago. And bonus, this gives me a good excuse to post this photoshoot of the beautifully pillow-lipped Mr. Blyth for Sharp magazine (via) that I missed several weeks back -- everybody wins. Hit the jump for them all...

Shell in 150 Words or Less

Like so many people places and thing-like things this 2024 body horror movie about the beauty industry got fully stampeded and ground to dust by Monstro Elisasue and the ladies of the other, better 2024 body horror movie about the beauty industry, The Substance. And Shell ain't no The Substance. But it's perfectly fun and 100% worth circling back to now that the shadow of Margaret Qualley yanking a chicken leg out of her bellybutton doesn't loom quite so large. Consider it the Ugly Betty to Demi's Veronica. Director Max Minghella and screenwriter Jack Stanley don't have anything up their sleeve as daring as Coralie Fargeat did, but when a movie basically reenacts the last scene of John Waters' Multiple Maniancs with what must have been millions more dollars I still have to hand it some slow clap. Moss & Hudson both having a hoot.

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Thelma (2024)

Daniel: I can't ... I can't do anything. I literally 

can't do anything. I'm such a little bitch.

Aww, Fred Hechinger! You're my little bitch if that makes you feel any better. A very happy 26th birthday to the White Lotus and Nickel Boys actor -- we were immediately smitten with him when he popped up in the Fear Street movies and it's been nothing but hits since then. (Well okay I wasn't nuts about the prissy gay villain stereotypes that he and Joseph Quinn performed for Ridley Scott's Gladiator sequel but I don't really blame the actors for that. That was Sir Ridley's doing.) 

As for this year Fred has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role in Marty Supreme (seriously if I wasn't so nuts about him that I recognized him from the back and blurry I might not have realized it was him at all, that role is so tiny) but if you haven't watched this year's romance Preparation For the Next Life you should seek it out -- you can rent it at all the usual places. It's from Bing Liu, the director of the stellar doc Minding the Gap, and it definitely proves he's got the stuff for a move over to fiction films. It's a lovely little movie and Fred (along with his co-star Sebiye Behtiyar) are both terrific in it. It's a shame it's too small for major awards attention but maybe the Spirits will notice it!

Posted some photos and video of my boy FRED HECHINGER and director Bing Liu at tonight's screening of PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE at Asia Society over on the Insta www.instagram.com/p/DN7EiUvjpeg/ (The movie is lovely and also a love letter to Fred's shoulder and back hair i.e. a masterpiece)

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Good Morning, World

I know, I know, it's like Pillion all day every day around here -- and the movie's not even out until February here in the U.S.! But it's out in the U.K. right now so, since we're a global internet, we're also getting inundated with stuff -- not to mention the movie is still gunning for awards attention here Stateside. And is worthy of such! (Here is my review.) 

Anyway I really loved this collection of set photos that photographer Chris Harris posted on his Instagram -- see a lot more at this link. And also it actually is a big Pillion Day for me personally because I'm going to go see it again a third time tonight, and be in the room with director Harry Lighton and one Alexander Skarsgård for a second time this very evening! And hopefully Alex won't be recovering from a stomach bug like he was the last time I saw him (see those photos here). Nobody wants to make out when they're not feeling well, after all.

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Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Sandy: Look Frank. We're not just jerking you around. Some guys are after us because one of them stole a virus that's gonna kill and destroy all the plants and all the trees all around. We stole it back so now they're gonna kill us. You get it? 

Frank: Jesus. The sixties sure 

were good to you, weren't they? 

Lauren: Frank, that's right. Think back to 

the sixties. People did things for each other. 

Frank: They were wasted.

Dear lord I completely forgot that this was the plot of Outrageous Fortune until I read this quote on the film's IMDb page today -- the 1980s man! Movies were wild. Macguffins was wilder. I guess that means this childhood classic is due for a re-watch, especially since we're here wishing its star Bette Midler a very happy 80th birthday today! Since she doesn't tend to make movies I watch anymore I don't talk about the Divine Miss M on here very often but I have in the past, check our archives -- she was Little Jason's favorite movie star. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this, Beaches, Stella, and my absolute favorite Big Business. They're movies that I will have memorized by heart until the day I die... well okay maybe not the bit about the lethal virus in Outrageous Fortune. In my defense that shit's so far outta left field. But now that I've been reminded of COURSE that's why Shelley Long's ballet training is so important, so she can do her fancy jump across the desert mesas to save the world! Duh. Also...

... how funny is it that George Carlin is in this movie? I wonder if he and Bette got along. I know she didn't get along with too many of her co-stars (she and Shelley most certainly did not) and that pairing seems like it would've gone spectacularly wrong or spectacularly right. No in between. In summation -- somebody needs to start upgrading these Bette classics to 4K. Most of them are still DVD only! Get me the President of Touchstone Pictures on the landline immediately!

Alexander Skarsgård Nine More Times

I figured they would make us wait at least til tomorrow for more photos of Alexander Skarsgård in Dust magazine after gifting us with that 🔥🔥🔥 cover this morning, but nope! Big hard fat nope. We've got eight more photos here (via) to share and they FULLY live up to the promise of that cover. So let's shut our yaps and open our eyes (not to mention our zippers) after the jump...

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