Adam DiMarco Seven Times

Rather attractive actor Adam DiMarco has moved on from his star-making turn on the second season of The White Lotus to having a main role on the series Overcompensating (which is coming back for a second season) as well as in the buzzy upcoming A24 horror flick Undertone -- he has done all of those things and yet it's this V Man cover that sees me here, finally posting about him again. I like what I like dammit! No but seriously seeing him on that cover yesterday reminded me of two things. One, I haven't mentioned that the great Vincent Cassel joined the next season set in France, and that shall not stand. I'm guessing he's playing the concierge role but just because they're always gay on The White Lotus and I'm always on the look-out for some gay Vincent Cassel.

And two -- no one named for the new season yet has been someone who's played a character from an earlier season and that's making me sad. Are y'all fans of the recurring character thing? If no, would you be if it didn't have anything to do with Jennifer Coolidge's character this time? I imagine some people feel the Tanya / Greg thing's been played out -- personally I'd love for DiMarco's character Albie to show up with Haley Lu Richardson's Portia again, which would probably entail some more Tanya stuff but if we got to see Adam clenching his butt-cheeks whilst orgasming again wouldn't it be worth it? I thought so. Anyway pictures, we got pictures, hit the jump for pictures...

New Directors 2026 Ahoy

One of my biggest upsets at Sundance this year was missing out on Leviticus, a queer horror film from Australia about conversion therapy and starring Mia Wasikowska -- since I was covering the fest remotely I tried you have no idea how hard I tried to get my hands on a screener but twasn't to be. Anyway I was glad the film was a hit at the fest and immediately got snatched up by Neon, with the intention of releasing it on June 9th, so I didn't have too long to wait -- well now I've got even less time to waste away without it because Leviticus just got announced as the Opening Night Film at this year's annual "New Directors / New Films" festival here in NYC that the fine folks at FLC and MoMA put on together. Hooray for me! The fest, which will run from April 8th through 19th, just this morning announced their full 2026 line-up today and I'll share it down below -- highlights slapping me across the face right off the bat are that and John Early's film Maddie's Secret, which premiered at TIFF last fall and has the comedian satirizing classic Lifetime thrillers and Influencer Culture and could not sound like more my jam. Hit the jump for the full line-up...

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Blue Sunshine (1977)

Man Fleeing Discotheque: There's a 

bald maniac in there, and he's going bat shit!!

Please tell me y'all have seen Blue Sunshine before? I only saw it last year for the first time thanks to the fine folks at Synapse Films who put the movie out in 4K -- and we're posting about it today because they're just today released a standard edition of their previous fancy limited edition set -- and I immediately mourned all the many years I had lived without Blue Sunshine in my life. An absolutely bonkers 70s freak-out in the best sense.

It tells the story of a group of people who took bad acid in their hippie days and then a decade later their brains start melting and sending them into psychotic rages -- a tale as old as time, of course. It is needless to say wildly over the top and a heap of fun -- if you're feeling like you're losing your mind these days I can't recommend this movie enough, which will actually for the briefest of moments make you feel sane again. Or sane in comparison anyway. Big fan!

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Good Morning, World

It's been far too long (five entire years in fact) since we've had a moment to check in with dreamy French-Algerian actor Salim Kechiouche (you probably know him from Blue is the Warmest Color, if nothing else) -- apparently somebody decided to turn Jacques Audiard's 2009 masterpiece A Prophet into a T.V. series? And that's what these are from. Salim doesn't play the Tahar Rahim role (that's a newcomer named Mamadou Sidibé) but then I've no idea how closely this series hews to the movie.If I've got any French readers in the house please fill us in. For now we'll do our thing are stare at Salim being his hot naked self after the jump...

He's Giving Us Woodall

I never saw Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy because I have never given a fuck about those movies -- should I, as a noted Leo Woodall lover, bother? The above gif of him soaking wet in a white button-down cradling a puppy makes me think there may be something in it for me. In related ignorance, is anybody watching Leo's new series Vladimir with Rachel Weisz? Should I watch that? I can no longer make decisions for myself apparently, but earlier today I saw...

... this footage of Leo wanking in a bathroom stall and I decided that maybe I should prioritize Vladimir as well. I'll just have myself A Day of Woodall this upcoming weekend. Sounds like a better way to spend my time than thinking about our imminent Armageddon anyway. Sigh. Where was I? Oh right, Leo. Sweet Leo. Did you hear the rumor that Leo might be playing the younger version of Viggo Mortensen's character Aragorn née Stryder in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum? That would be one way to make me watch yet another unnecessary Tolkein movie. 

Is Calling This 'In The Gay' Too Obvious?

I'm old enough to remember there being an internet rumor like twenty years ago that Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill were boyfriends for a minute -- that said I'm also old enough to have forgotten any and all context for said rumor. But I definitely remember thinking, "Oh my god that's hot" and at least that much has stuck with me all these decades. Anyway I hadn't thought of that rumor in ages, not until the two were cast opposite one another in Guy Ritchie's new movie called In the Grey, and there they are -- the theoretical exes -- in all their glory. Also...

... leave it to Ritchie to introduce their characters in the just-dropped trailer as prison bunkmates. Any dirty fantasies I'm having about the casting in one of his movies, Guy's gonna get there first. Anyway in general I've never been a Ritchie fan but since I loved his Netflix series The Gentlemen and I liked his last two movies The Covenant (which starred Jake) and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (with Henry) well enough, we're on good terms right now. Better than usual. Add on a cast that also includes Rosamund Pike (!!!) and I definitely have higher expectations than I ought to for this. We'll see. 

In the Grey is out on May 15th. And in summation,

here is a gif of Henry Cavill sitting in tight pants:

Joe Alwyn Four Times

As a person who felt some of my earliest "you're different from the other boys" stirrings staring at Jordan from New Kids on the Block, I will always have a thing for guys wearing overalls without anything underneath -- if Joe Alwyn had taken this look one step further and undone one of the straps I'd probably be on the floor right now. Anyway these are modeling photos for Luca Guadagnino's favorite J.W. Anderson (via) and you can see three more after the jump...

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Certfied Copy (2010) 

Elle: After we've seen so many copies of something over so many years, we're not all experts who can stand before an original and understand it. It takes our breath away. Therefore, without the existence of copies, we wouldn't understand originals.

Happy birthday to one of the world's greatest living (or dead) actors Juliette Binoche. I just listened to the "This Had Oscar Buzz" podcast episode on this movie of hers last week, so I've really been jonesing to re-watch it -- it's been a couple years now. I like to take a couple years between watches because I swear to you it feels like a totally different movie every time I do. Just an incredible film, with what might be Binoche's greatest performance. Which, if you've seen a few of her performances, is clearly saying a lot. She is never bad! 

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Let Patrick Wilson pump up your Monday. (via)

 

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Make Jake The Groom!

All due apologies to the main cast of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, meaning Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale mainly, but I was always going to begin this post with a picture of Jake -- no matter how small his role in the movie might be (and it's honeslty a little bit bigger than I assumed it would be) (that's what he said) it's always him. And thankfully a couple of extra shots from that new photoshoot I shared yesterday appeared this afternoon so no need for redundancy. Anyway! Exclamation point! The time has come, now that The Bride! is in theaters, for me to review The Bride! -- funny how that works. Click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts on the movie, which is... 

... a lotta movie. I'm gonna make you click to find out if I liked it or not. But in related news the movie is already available to pre-order on physical media -- no release date set yet but buy the limited 4K steelbook here, or just the regular ol' blu-ray right here. That said you should probably watch the movie first, given how all over the map reactions have been. Also of note, physically-media speaking -- Waxwork Records is putting out a vinyl of the film's soundtrack which delightfully includes a few songs sung by Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal himself! That's out in May supposedly, you can pre-order it here. What a good sister Maggie is, giving her brother a lil' singing and dancing spotlight to savor. The boy loves a spotlight.

George MacKay Eight Times

I think I'd convinced myself that I was only attracted to George MacKay with short hair because he's had short hair for all the recent films he's been in where he won me over -- see The Beast, Femme (especially Femme), True History of the Kelly Gang, on and on. But now I'm looking at these new luxuriously-coiffed photos of George for Esquire UK and I'm realizing -- gee golly he's got some pretty hair doesn't he? What a man, what a mane! Anyway he's got two very good movies coming out this year, both of which I've seen but neither of which I've reviewed -- there's Rose of Nevada (with Callum Turner!) and Broken English (with Tilda Swinton!) and I recommend seeking both out when the time comes. Until then, seek of these fresh-locked photos of George right after the jump...

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Mothering Sunday (2021)

Mrs Niven: You have no family. 

Jane: No, madam.

Mrs Niven: Your mother left you, is that right?

Jane: Yes, madam, an orphanage.

Mrs Niven: How very lucky. To have been comprehensively

bereaved at birth. You have absolutely nothing to lose. 

And you never shall, not really. That is a gift, Jane, 

and you must learn to use it. You're very fortunate.

JFC that quote is wild. I'd forgotten how hard this movie (and Olivia Colman within it) went. It's one of the ones that got unjustly lost in the pandemic tumult -- it deserved better. I reviewed it right here. Anyway in theory we're bringing up this movie because its lead Odessa Young, a wonderful actor, is celebrating her birthday today -- we love her, go watch her in this as well as in Shirley. Hell she was also the best part of the Springsteen bio-pic with Jeremy Allen White this past fall. Anyway that's in theory -- let's be honest, though: bringing up this movie let's me re-post this gif of Josh O'Connor in this movie:

(See more -- I mean lots more, wink wink -- here.)

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I didn't intend to take a Heated Rivalry break here on the site for however long it's been -- no you people who hated on the show in the comments constantly didn't win, sorry -- I've just been... let's say "scattered" lately. That's a nice word for it. Nicer than "wanting to crawl in a very deep dark hole and die" anyway which is far closer to the truth. There's no fun in that, though -- I'd prefer to try and be helpful at keeping everybody's moods up, everybody's minds off all the bullshit, be some sort of oasis in the desert of 2026. It's been a hard couple of weeks at managing all that, is all. Not doing great, Bob! Anyway I do have these photos of Connor Storrie looking ridiculously gorgeous for Vogue (via) so perhaps these'll slap some sunshine on me, you, somebody, this morning. And hey it's Friday! That's gotta count for something too. Hit the jump for the rest...

Today's Mood

Melton's Meat-y Part

Season two of Netflix's successful series Beef is creep creeping creeping ahead -- indeed it's only about six weeks off now (it premieres on April 16th) which means we've just gotten the first teaser for it, which I will dutifully share with you down below. Most importantly though we must first post every new images of Charles Melton without hius clothes on, and...

... done. (See previous sexiness here.) This season swaps out Steven Yeun and Ali Wong and their ever-escalating parking-lot dispute to have Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan playing a couple who come into conflict with a couple played by Melton and Cailee Spaeny, all at a fancy country club. Great actors, looking pretty and cruel, I'm all over this shit. Here's the tease:

Jake Gyllenhaal Eight Times

I suppose I should've realized that we'd be getting some sort of Jake-ness this week with his sister Maggie's movie The Bride! opening tomorrow -- even though his role's not huge he is indeed in the thing. And sidenote: he's a joy in it. But we'll get to that when our review drops. His role's definitely more fun than these relatively somber and serious photos for the luxury brand Bulgari ...

... would have us believe, but qho can blame the boy for wanting all the free watches one can stuff in their pockets? That is how becoming a "brand ambassador" works right? You just get to Supermarket Sweep yourself through their flagship store every time you visit? Anyway even if these photos are a bit of a snooze he's looking exceptionally handsome right now all the same, so hit the jump and make your ass feel luxurious... 

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