Damson Idris One Time

F1 actor Damson Idris is on the cover of ICON America this month but so far all they've released is this photo and the actual cover (seen here) -- I'm hoping the shoot tends more toward the one seen here than it does the cover shot where he is cruelly completely clothed. Anyway I don't have time to wait and see if they drop the entire shoot today because -- plot twist!! -- I am leaving early today for a couple of screenings. "Early" meaning "right this minute." I've got a double-feature of Robert Pattinson and Princess Peach to tumble through today, sorry! Today's the only day this week like this though, so we'll be back spouting our nonsense at you full-time come tomorrow. Until then hold onto your butts...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Bulworth (1998)

Bulworth: Yo, everybody gonna get sick someday / But nobody knows how they gonna pay / Health care, managed care, HMOs / Ain't gonna work, no sir, not those / 'Cause the thing that's the same in every one of these / Is these motherfuckers there, the insurance companies!

Tanya: Insurance! Insurance!

Bulworth: Yeah, yeah / You can call it single-payer or Canadian way / Only socialized medicine will ever save the day! Come on now, lemme hear that dirty word - SOCIALISM!

Up front I have to admit that I have never seen Bulworth -- I guess I was into what the kids call "cringe" before the kids were calling it "cringe" because the sight of Warren Beatty rapping in the trailers for this movie in 1998 made all of my insides recoil right up into my insides and I never got over it. But I have heard good things about Bulworth -- any fans of it out there? I was going to say that it's a shame it was the last movie Warren Beatty ever directed, but it's not actually that at all -- I think I can be forgiven for forgetting 2016's Rules Don't Apply exists though. (Sorry Alden Ehrenreich.) Anyway it's Warren's birthday today and we wish him a good one, where ever it is that he's been squirreled away by Annette Bening -- there's a really ridiculously long rap quoted on this movie's IMDb page that I came really close to using as our quote in this post but chickened out; it's kind of terrifying how much of what he was saying in 1998 remains true / has only worsened with time, though. We're falling apart. Happy Monday!

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

Charlie Cox, you (dare)devil.

 

Pic of the Day

I'm completely forgotten that Michael Fassbender is starring in a Netflix miniseries about the Kennedy clan -- the old-timey pre-President one -- called simply Kennedy. But here's the first photo of him in character on the set as Joe Kennedy Sr. (via, thx Mac) -- this means very little to me since I have no idea what Joe Kennedy looked like nor do I particularly care; and while I'm at it I'll admit I know and care very little about the Kennedy family from then. (I can tell you right now they're never gonna be as fascinating as the Bouvier-Beales were, that's for damn sure.) Anyway I will watch the series and believe whatever it tells me since on top of Fassy it co-stars Wyatt Russell, Cole Doman, Nick Robinson, Imogen Poots, Denis O'Hare, Toby Huss and Eddie Marsan among others -- if you wanna know who they're all playing click that link up above. I imagine they're timing this photo drop to the finale of Love Story about JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette, which dropped (like a pilot plane plummeting into the Atlantic) last night -- and before you tell me anything wait to do that until tomorrow, because I'm watching the finale tonight. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Good Morning, Gratutious Charles Melton Cont.

I don't know if you guys have been paying attention or scrolling down but that post of Charles Melton photos for L'Officiel Hommes that I posted on Wednesday has been getting bigger and bigger by the day -- you might say it's been swelling, engorging even -- as, predicatably, more photos have landed. I'd said that would probably happen, and it did, and once again I have proven my worth. Not that anyone notices! Ahem. Anyway even more landed last night but it didn't feel right to toss these off into the bottom of that ever expanding post anymore -- especially since these shots somehow, inexplicably, keep getting...

... hotter and hotter by the day. And if they're going to be this generous than I will too. So here, a second post! You've earned it, Charles. No but really, though -- I can't say much about it because I'm embargoed but I got the screeners for the second season of Beef this week, which is what Charles is promoting with this photoshoot (it lands on April 16th) and... believe me, you guys, Charles earns it. Charles earns everything. Beef season two is a veritable smorgasbord of Charles Melton in short shorts, and less. I'm only two episodes in and... heaven. Anyway! Don't tell anybody I said that. And as your silence's reward hit the jump...

Phil Dunster Twelve Times

Because I never watched Ted Lasso all I picture when I see Phil Dunster is him getting pounded by Julian Morris in the miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt back in 2017 -- ahhh sweet sweet memories. I didn't even know who Dunster was when that aired but in the time since I have come, with that newfound recognition, to appreciate the scene even more. Anyway all that is to say that because of that -- and because of this Ted Lasso scene I was very aware of even if I didn't watch the show -- Dunster's always been an ass-first kinda guy for me, and I'm glad to see the photographer for Schön! magazine clearly agreed with me, given the above photo. Make sure to get his good side! Anyway blessedly big-bottomed Phil is on a show called Rooster (the joke's write themselves) now -- anybody watching? Tell me about it in the comments if you are, but first please hit the jump for these photos...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Matrix Ressurections (2021)

Smith: What has the world come to 

when you can't even trust a program?

I feel like one day the world will get The Matrix Ressurections for the deconstructionist masterpiece that it is, but that day doesn't seem to be today (although I know I'm not alone on this island, so cheers to those of you who agree) -- anyway a happy 41st birthday to our boy Jonny Groff today! This is kind of a weird choice of a quote to celebrate him with -- something from Looking or Mindhunter probably would've made more sense, but I actually love watching our sweet boy get to play villainous in this flick. Great fun was had! But speaking of Looking -- anybody done a re-watch lately? I have very much been feeling a re-watch coming on. In summation, this photo of a Baby Groff that I have never seen before:

Heated Hears a Ho

A brief update to Tuesday's post about the Heated Rivalry soundtrack getting a physical media release -- it's released! Well the pre-order, anyway. Click here and the vinyl can be yours on July 10th. That's just a couple of days before my birthday -- it's like they knew. And if they did know then I expect my vinyl to arrive in a ridiculously too large box,  one which any one of the show's four male breakout stars -- Storrie, Williams, Arnaud and Robbie G.K. -- will then pop out of to wish me a happy birthday in whatever way they see fit. Well whatever way I see fit. It's my birthday, I make the rules! What was I talking about? Oh right, a record or whatever. Gotta run, got thoughts to think, bye...

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Good Morning, Hunnam

I was going to say that I really wasn't sure why Netflix's in-house magazine Tudum was doing a feature on Charlie Hunnam here in March of 2026 when the show they're talking about (his Ed Gein series) is six months old now -- but then I realized this is probably an Emmy thing, right? I pay zero point zero percent attention to the Emmys so I have even less awareness of their schedule than I do the Oscars but I do believe Charlie still has the opportunity to be nominated for that series for the Emmys. Right? Whatever. It gave us this new photoshoot of my beloved Queer boy and...

...  I'll never stamp a "no" on that. And he deserves all the praise because he's giving a great damned performance as Ed Gein -- I know a lot of people found the show to be more tasteless true-crime exploitation from Ryan Murphy but I am not one of those people. I think it's the best work Charlie's done and I hope he gets that Emmy nomination, whenever the hell those happen, and I can see him looking pretty on that red carpet whenever the hell that is. But for right now we'll just see him looking pretty (photographed by our fave Carter Smith!) after the jump...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... doing very dirty things with Garrett Wareing.

 Hit the jump for three more photos and a video...

Charles Melton Seventeen Times

I can already tell that I'm jumping on Charles Melton's new photoshoot for L'Officiel Hommes magazine too quickly and that there are going to be more photos dropped today, this week, eventually -- you can see a few of them scattered about in the menus at the link above -- but, I'm sorry. It's Charles Melton. You jump on Charles Melton the second, the literal second, you've got the chance to jump on Charles Melton. 

Am I wrong? I thought not. Anyway this shoot is promo for the second season of Beef of course -- click here if you missed that trailer. That show premieres on Netflix on April 16th and I for one am extremely excited for it. Also exciting me this morning -- this shoot, which is a non-stop tribute to Charles Melton's big beefy beautiful legs. So come, jump on them with me after the jump...

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

Allow Joel Kinnaman to set the mood for this Hump of a Day.

Same, Elijah Wood, Same

Hit the jump for a few more photos...

Ice Dancers

Because I love the insane conversations that happen in the comments of every Heated Rivalry post so very much, let's do a fresh one! In truth I just wanted to post the above photo of Connor Storrie, but there is actual news of note -- specifically the show's ace soundtrack is getting a physical media release! On both vinyl and CD (this whole CD renaissance thing is so weird to me)... 

... and you can pre-order it this Thursday. Well at 12:01am, so, you know, very early Thursday slash late Wednesday night. All the info is at this link. The album will inclue lots of the show's killer needle-drops (that Wolf Parade banger we all had caught in our heads!) as well as the score. You can see the entire track-list on the image below (just click it and it will embiggen). So if this is your bag, bag on baby! And if it's not please tell me all about it in the comments, I'm just dying to hear about it.

Pics of the Day

A new staging of a little something called The Rocky Horror Picture Show is hitting NYC imminently (as in two days from now) and Vogue has the first pictures of its big sexy cast, led by the one and only noted Luke Evans in the fishnets as Dr. Frank N. Furter. For those of you who only know Luke from his action-hero roles in movies like The Hobbitses and that Furious movie he was in -- or from his greatest role as "The guy who got his dick cut by Ma in Ma" -- our man Luke got his start singing on the stage in that Boy George musical in London (indeed that was where he gave the interview talking about being gay that he then tried to bury for several years as he tried to do the action-hero thing in Hollywood until finally coming out properly, again) -- point being no need to worry, he can sing. I guess those of you who saw the live-action Beauty and the Beast movie knew that too -- I only made it about 20 minutes into that abomination before I had to turn it off. Anyway! Luke's not the only hottie in this thing...

... as the dream man of the title is being played by West Side Story hunk Josh Rivera, fitting the role of "dream man" to a tee. Lord almighty, just look at him. Anyway I've never been huge on Rocky Horror, which isn;'t to say I don't like it -- as far as musicals go it's one I can and have watched several times and enjoyed.I just continue being a person who doesn't go seeking out musicals to watch when I need something to watch, it just can't be helped. But if somebody needs a plus one I'd go see this. It also stars the wonderful Harvey Guillén and Rachel Dratch and  Stephanie Hsu and Juliette Lewis and on and on, it's quite the cast y'all. Hit the jump for a couple more photos of them...

Saint Juli

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Juliette Binoche, the world's greatest living actress according to me (sorry Isabelle Huppert, I do go back and forth, but Juli is love), was in NYC last evening at MoMA to show off her directorial debut In-I In Motion, a documentary she and her sister made about a dance performance that Juli created and performed in 2007 with the choreographer Akram Khan, and I was there because she's Juliette fucking Binoche and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Above are some photos and videos I took from the Q&A. I thought the doc was terrific but then I cannot be trusted as I could literally just stare at Binoche's face for ten hours straight and never get bored -- she remains utterly transfixing. The first question my boyfriend asked when I got home afterwards was if she cried, and SHE DID -- she knows her audience. She teared up several times during the Q&A because her emotions really are just like Right There at all times and I don't know how exhausting that must be for her but we are all the richer for it. Incredibly this was Binoche's first time ever being on stage at MoMA, a fact that blows my mind -- I have been in her holy presence before at NYFF but this was special all the same. A legend.