I would like to file a police report because I feel fully assaulted by GQ's "Man of the Year" drops this morning. I literally just got done posting the Andrew Garfield American Psycho experience when suddenly they tossed this photoshoot of German track and field star Leo Neugebauer on my head -- no really Leo come jump on my head please. Good god...
... this is what we call "a man." I had never heard of him before but this shoot's got me howling at the moon -- I'm going full Tex Avery over here. Really -- I would put every single one of these photos above the fold of this post if I could, each one if hotter than the one before it, but since that's impractical I must implore you to hit the jump and take it in, baby take it all in...
It takes a special magazine cover for me to set aside my OCD regarding type and put one at the top of one of these posts but obviously this new GQ cover featuring Andrew Garfield serving American Psycho qualifies -- of course if and when the photo appears without text you'd best believe I'll be switching 'em out. Anyway! I don't know if Andy thinks he could star in Luca Guadagnino's proposed American Psycho remake and this is some kind of Sean Young like appeal for the gig, but it's not like he doesn't have the Luca connection -- this whole interview is on the basis of Luca's new movie Artificial, in which Andrew gives a tremendously good performance as the real life American psycho Sam Altman. (Here is my review of Artificial if you missed it!) Personally I think Garfield is too old -- part of the point of that story is that all of its awful finance dudes are in their 20s. But he looks good being a slutty businessman in these photos so we'll allow it for this. Hit the jump for all the pictures...
This would have been posted yesterday but just as I was about to get to it those insane Morgan Spector photos dropped and well that was all she wrote for that Monday, sorry Jack -- the maybe-Mister-Bond-to-be (although all the good money seems to be on Callum Turner now) is on the cover of the new GQ Hypeand he's bringing a piping hot ginger-bearded bookishness that's an arrow straight through my heart places. This look is so my fetish -- all of it! Every inch. Shelves included, of course. Anyway I'm of two minds on the Bond thing -- he's a better actor than that dumb franchise deserves (so was Daniel Craig) but I had this dream of seeing him fighting his lady Saoirse as the villain. Maybe they can just do a new Mr. and Mrs. Smith instead. Well for now we'll just make due luxuriating in this stylish Jacky-boy scholar-porn after the jump...
Freddy: Here, piggy! I'm gonna bash your little heads in
and you don't have to worry about the bomb no more!
I've done a million of these posts highlighting dialogue from Brian De Palma's masterpiece Carrie (turning 50 this very day!) before, since it's got one of the greatest and most memorable scripts that's ever graced the genre. But somehow I always overlook this line -- it's not as showy as Piper Laurie's... well anything that comes out of Piper Laurie's lips. But I think it's an important throwaway line in the film that most people miss -- the film doesn't strain towards making political or cultural statements beyond the fascism that is high school -- this isn't De Palma's Blow Out, which is explicitly political just a couple of years later -- but I think the deep nihilism of the late 1970s is in here, infecting these kids to their cores, and this is just a little whiff of that. Anyway this is a perfect and precise movie, a perfect and presicse adaptation, and the quicker we brush Mike Flanagan's abortion of a television show out of our heads and get back to appreciating the GOAT the better. Carrie forever!
I am sure most of you saw some of these photos of soccer stud Jude Bellingham yesterday when Calvin Klein kicked down our doors, grabbed us by the throats, and threatened us all with a very good time -- but have you seen ALL of these photos? Because I spent all yesterday gathering up a few dozen of them, I did, because what better way is there to spend one's day? I have yet to find one. Also...
If this is how they're advertising the World Cup I'm down
(His name is Jude Bellingham)
... I would just like to stake my claim as an early Bellingham supporter. I mean I am sure "British People" or "Soccer Fans" knew who he was before I did -- I just mean amongst us sluts who only pay attention to sports when it gets gay and sexy. My people! Anyway what should be plain to all of us at this point is Jude Bellingham is one of the most attractive people on the planet, so let's get to worshipping after the jump...
I am sure there is some inside joke of a reason why Warfare co-stars Kit Connor and Michael Gandolfini just unveiled matching Marlboro tattoos on social media -- I'm not here to decide if this means they're smoking each other's pipes or not' I am just here to ask the second-most important question:
Before anyone asks or says anything spoilery I have not gotten the opportunity to watch last night's fourth season premiere of The Gilded Age yet, so if like Rail Daddy got Clock Twink on his knees or something don't spoil it for me! Actually if that happened do spoil it for me and I will quit my job to go home and watch it right this minute. Anyway Morgan has got us all dropping to our knees with this new shoot for Man About Townmagazine -- he's so, so good to us. Hit the jump for the whole damn thing...
There's a new album of holiday songs coming from the modern day prince of such stuff Sufjan Stevens -- it's called Worst Christmas Ever! and mostly it's a Greatest Hits compilation from the many many albums he's released over the years; I guess if you don't want to buy the enormous box-set, this is for you. Naturally I recommend the box-set! It's literally the only holiday record I break out every year when we put up the tree. (My most beloved song is "Sister Winter" which I can listen to on repeat for hours.) Anyway in order to juice sales of this new record of old material Sufjan dropped a single new song, and we now have it to hear! (The album is out this week so the timing makes sense.) Listen below, but first here's what Sufjan had to say about this new tune:
"I love the idea of a Christmas apology. A holiday characterized by the giving and receiving of gifts might be made even better by the giving and receiving of forgiveness. “I’m sorry” is the ultimate ice-breaker in a moment of conflict, contention, and misunderstanding. Let’s try to be better this year: more loving, forgiving, welcoming and reckoning. This song is a prayer—that we can all find a way to yield to the wisdom and understanding of forgiveness. I believe the world will find its way. "
Just two weeks back I said I'd post a photo from this photoshoot of actor Dino Fetscher every single day if they dropped one every single day -- well every two weeks isn't quite "every single day" but it's probably a more feasible ask, so we'll take it. You can't blame me for feeling greedy though. Look at this man!
This new photoshoot (via) is an excellent reminder for me that I have a slew of photos and videos of Bill here sitting and gathering dust on my phone from a screening earlier this week of his new war movie The Mosquito Bowl, out in theaters today -- I should post those! (It's also a good reminder that this site only has an "Alexander Skarsgård" tag and no specific one for Bill but that's a lot of work to fix so yeah, not happening today.) Until I post those starfuckery snaps though this very handsome photoshoot will just have to do -- the show down directly below? Probably my new go-to for showing my barber what he needs to be doing with my hair. Perfection. Hit the jump for all the photos...
There has not been nearly enough Horror here on the site this month! No oh-so-spooky countdown of mustaches or telephones or toilets -- heck I haven't even done a "Ways Not To Die" post since September. And now here it is, Halloween Eve -- shame on me. I've been watching and re-watching horror movies, of course; there was the Brooklyn Horror Fest last week, and in the past week I've re-watched Gremlins 2 and An American Werewolf in London and the great Something Wicked This Way Comes -- the latter has the strange distinction of being perfect and weirdly forgotten (I never see it mentioned) while also being a movie I could see a remake of kicking ass. (It always feels weird, calling a new adaptation of a book a "remake" -- really it would just be a new adaptation.) Anyway it feels important to me to drop some horror on our heads before the weekend's here and gone and so I came up with a list! Here are six horror movies I've seen in the past few weeks that I haven't said anything about but I highly recommend. Several of these aren't out yet but I'll mention where / when either way, and you should definitely pencil them in, says me!
Six 2026 Horror Movies To Hand Your Eyeballs Over To
Buddy-- Thankfully this horror spin on Barney the Purple Dinosaur doesn't try to be anything more than that, and as such it's a lot of fun and occasionally extremely fucked up. Works in ways that the truly awful Five Nights at Freddys films don't come anywhere close to. My favorite part if when the rabbit..... (Now streaming on VOD.)
The Cycle -- Personally I think werewolf movies have a really low success rate, but if Robert Eggers nails Werwulf in a couple months (please please please) that will still make him the second to've done it in 2026 because The Cycle starring True Blood & Daredevil star Deborah Ann-Woll already did. And I think people have been trying to obfuscate the fact that this is even a werewulf movie but come on, we all knew it was a werewolf movie the minute you named it The Cycle. Anyway the movie this most reminded me of was The Autopsy of Jane Doe and that's one huge high ass compliment. And just like that wonderful movie, this one's got killer practical effects happening too. Give it a howl! (Now Streaming on Shudder.)
The Threshing -- Horror would be nothing without humanity's endlessly reneweing pool of anxieties -- we're always dresming up new things to make us nervous, and this genre always finds 'em first. Director Sean Mannion delivers here what is essentially a MAHA Horror Movie, about a couple of pretty young rich things who head off to live amongst a sustainable farming cult with predictably (but no less unsettling for it) Tobe-Hooper-esque results. I saw this at Scary Movies back in August and, much like our current Health secretary's worms, it keeps crawling back into my brain. Not sure about a release but keep your ears to the ground. (Unless you don't want brain worms, I guess.)
New Group -- Sort of a zombie movie but also kind of Body Snatchers? Really this thing defies description but it's so strange and funny and WTF-filled that I consider it unmissable. This isn't what the movie is but it's what it is in spirit -- if TikTok manifested itself as a sentient diabolical force, it would be this movie. (Streaming on Shudder on November 6th.)
Never After Dark-- A gorgeous and spooky-as-hell little medium thriller - reminded me of The Innnkeepers and Oddity as well as all the classic J-Horror flicks. Go in knowing nothing! Actually I could say that about all of these movies -- horror movies are always better when you know nothing beforehand. I will never watch another horror movie trailer in my life, I swear it. (Now available on VOD.)
I Love Paris -- It kind of seems impossible that a vampire mockumentary could exist outside the shadow of What We Do in the Shadows (both film and series) but Nicky Murphy's I Love Paris (which won the Audience Award at Fantasia in August and just screened in Brooklyn) somehow manages -- a lot of it is due to the star-making gut-busting turn from Aminata Thiboult in the title role. Paris is a wannabe music star in, yes, Paris, who stumbles into the world of bloodsuckers and keeps finding ways to use her new powers to suck up fame. Riotuously funny at times, weirdly moving at others, this movie keeps you on your toes in the best ways. (Not sure about a release yet, but I will let y'all know when I do.)
After I did that Sense & Sensibilitypost on Tuesday where I pitted Mr. Nordrum here against his co-star George MacKay (while also sharing a brand new shoot of Herbert) I went and did a little deeper of a dive through his Instagram and in so doing was gifted with a few more very fine photoshoots of him. Even that shot in a bed! A instant "Good Morning" post was made, my friends. Anyway now's as good a time as any to drop all the highlights, right? Smile if you mean "yes."
I will take that as a "yes." Anyway I was real happy when Herbie (sidenote: what a joy to have an actor named "Herbert" in our lives now!) showed up in S&S because I wasn't sure he's make the transition from Norway given he's -- and I say this extremely complimentary -- a little funny looking. Funny-looking as in not the boring Teen Beat slop Hollywood favors. Give me interesting faces or give me death! Plus yeah whatever he's talented haha. I suppose that matters! But not for this morning's purposes where we're just gonna stare at him after the jump...
It's not that I forgot my schedule doesn't really clear up very much after all of the fall film festivals, due to all of the awards screenings that suddenly start droppin' at my doorstep -- I think it's more like I block it out every year just so I can make it through without collapsing. It's not even that I make it or -- or more importatnly, am invited to! -- half the things some of my fellow film critics are. I see some of these people at these things and they tell me they've gone to five events that day and I silently thank the stars in those moments that I have a day job to center me a little! Even just having a screening or whatever to go to every single night is too much for this hermit who really just wants to hide on my couch but nevertheless find myself lured out by the promise of breathing in some Bill Skarsgard's air. Anyway that's all to say I'm off to another night's movie screening, which has absolutely nothing to do with Tahar Rahim -- but why not share this new shoot of tahar whilst I ramble? That way you actually get something out of this post that's not whatever this wretched humbebrag of a post was. Hit the jump for your tahar fix...
"I too quit smoking (2013) AND find this type of pictures cool. Also, PSA: if you're feeling like you want to start smoking again, just remind yourself "I do not want my body and house to stink like stale horseshit", then go drink one more glass of water to entertain your hands and lips. Congrats, btw."
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