Today I'd rather be...
... scrubbing my dirty somethings across
Noah Centineo's washboard. (thx Mac)
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Rejoice Pillion Lovers...
... our favorite ruinous dom-sub couple Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgard are reuniting! Unfortunately not for Pillion 2: Who's the Sub Now?, in which Harry leads Alex around on a dog leash for two hours -- although Hollywood hit me up, I already have that script mentally written! But it's not not good news, what the news actually is. They're going to co-star with Maya Hawke and Hunter Schafer in the new film from Canadian iconoclast Guy Maddin called The Confessions, which is about, and I quote, "a group of condemned nuns bearing witness to the accursed, globe-spanning love triangle of a missing sea captain and his poet wife." Sure! That sure sounds like a Guy Maddin movie. As with Maddin's past couple of films this will be co-directed with Galen Johnson and Evan Johnson -- personally I fucking love love love Rumours, their last movie, so I am fine with this. (And I noticed that Rumours made its way onto Netflix recently so really you have no excuse for not watching that hilarious and bizarre movie immediately.) Anyway naturally I'm hoping that the "love triangle" isn't an entirely hetero one because SNOOZE but even if so... well it's Guy Maddin and he doesn't really do "snooze." But Harry & Alex have such wonderful chemistry, i8t really would be a loss to us all if they didn't capitalize on it.
Nicky Buzzes Off
When The Face magazine dropped this photoshoot for Nicholas Hoult back in June I expressed a lot of annoyance that there was no link and no physical magazine to buy, but I did have forty images to share at least -- see all of them here. Now this photoshoot has sprung back up in my timeline, I assume because the movie that Nicky was blond for -- David Leitch's How To Rob a Bank (more to come on that movie soon) -- is out in theaters this weekend. And yet we still don't have a link to share or a physical magazine to buy! I am very frustrated. That said the above and below photos are new ones, not previously shared, so we'll obviously post that shit as quick as our finger-guns can make it happen. Pew pew!
Good Morning, World
Good boy Garrett Wareing was, in his own words, back on his "bullsh*t", by which he means crawling around in the mud in his underwear and then posting lots of photos and videos of it for us all to enjoy. Hooray for Garrett's bullsh*t then! He'll make coprophiliacs of all of us because we eat it up. (Too early for coprophilia jokes?) Aaaaanyway we look forward to him playing Baby Patrick Wilson in the next Cojuring movie (okay maybe not, I came to hate that franchise) but until then, let's look directly forward, downward really, after the jump specifically...
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
We're Having a Grandier Time
This has appeared a day early so information is scarce at the moment but Amazon went and dropped their pre-order link for the 4K box-set of Ken Russell's The Devils -- the brand new remastered director's cut edition that's been causing all the fuss this year -- and you can pre-order it right now right here. As I mentioned last week Clockwork WB was teasing tomorrow as their news-drop day on this so the specifics so far -- an actual release date, what's included in the box-set -- are nil. I imagine they plan on sharing more info tomorrow, in which case I will update this post; but for now, you can pre-order whatever the hell it is at that link! There's also a less thorough special edition for half the price at this link. And Amazon does share the below photo which gives us some idea of what's included in the set. Three discs of material is exciting! And the art is gorgeous. Anyway stay tuned! What an exciting [complimentary?] time to be alive.
ETA okay the official ass announcement dropped this morning whilst I was in a screening, so we're sharing this presumably well after y'all done seen it -- still here I am, due diligence and what not. The Amazon link up above had gone down for a bit but it's back up as of this writing, and we've got all of the details on the set's contents now as well. Hit the jump for the full list...
Good Morning, World
Like, I know he was a slut [complimentry], but were there ever any gay rumors about Warren Beatty? Whilst slutting it out for several decades did he ever you know broaden his horizons, so to speak? Asking for a friend. (Me. I am asking for me.) Anyway happy Tuesday!
Monday, November 09, 2026
Jonathan Bailey Gets Sacked
Jonathan Bailey has a new project, a new gay project, in the works! Gay gay gay, we love gay. He's going to star opposite Bill Nighy in Insomniac City, an adaptation of an autobiographical book by photographer Bill Hayes about his romance with famed neurologist and noted hottie (see down below) Oliver Sacks. Of course those photos were obviously a long time after this story's being set, since Nighy is 76-years-old and I don't think has a De-Niro-esque transformation in him haha. But still Sacks was a fascinating figure -- I really recommend the doc on his life that came out in 2020 -- and this no doubt will be a great yarn. Dominic Cooke, the director of On Chesil Beach, is directing, along with co-writing the film alongside Hayes himself. Click here to see a photo of the real-life couple. I think it'll be fascinating to see a film tackle a gay relationship with this much of an age gap -- it's a dynamic in our community that gets ignored but is everywhere and plays out very different from the ones between men and women I think. The power dynamics are not at all the same. Interesting stuff, great actors, cannot wait.
Good Morning, World
Wake up, there is a glorious view!
ETA just saw this photo and... memories.
Did you see the news that they're shooting the second and third season of Heated Rivalry concurrently, as well as a holiday movie about Robbie G.K. and Francois Arnaud's characters? Very smart of them since all of these actors are getting real busy -- exploit the time (and the asses) while you have it.
Friday, November 06, 2026
The Animal Kingdom Fights Back This Weekend
What you have before you is a really good weekend for movies. I already mentioned Jordan Firstman's Club Kid earlier but there's also Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine (which I need to rewatch as it's been several months but which I really loved upon first view -- I would be fine with John Malkovich winning an Oscar for it) and then of course there's the big kahuna himself, Godzilla Minus Zero. Here's my review. This one I am seeing a second time tomorrow, this time in IMAX, and I'm all a'flutter with renewed excitement. If you see any of these tell me what you thought in the comments!
Oh and let me give a shout out to a small movie that is also out this weekend that I really loved but haven't had the time to write up -- Hen, the latest oddity from Hungarian filmmaker György Pálfi, is A+ terrific weirdness from the man who previously gifted us with Taxidermia. in 2006. Movies told from the perspective of animals -- like Jerzy Skolimowski's EO and Andrea Arnold's Cow -- have been a popular little side-show over the past few years, but Hen is far and away my favorite of the bunch. It's clever and funny and not at all precious about being another heady-handed diatribe about Animal Rights in the way these movies always are. I have nothing against Animal Rights, mind you -- it's just these movies are always fucking downers when sometimes we just wanna hang out with a damn chicken. And yes this is indeed the movie that finally answers the eternal question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It's to kick ass and chew bubblegum -- sad for you she's all outta bubblegum and you lousy fucking humans are about to find out! Great movie.
RIP Sebastián Lelio
Absolutely stunned and saddened to hear the news that the great Chilean director Sebastián Lelio has just passed away at the far far far too young age of 52 -- what the hell?!?! Crawl through our archives on the man to see our many reviews and excited ruminations on his work -- although the last film of his I've seen, 2022's The Wonder with Florence Pugh, left me a little cold, I was still betting on and looking forward to decades more work from him. The run of films from Gloria to A Fantastic Woman to Disobediance to Gloria Bell in the span of just five years was absolutely incredible to witness. Do we get John Turturro's current awards run without his stellar turn in Gloria Bell, which made me totally reimagine him as an actor? I do not think we do! (I put on Gloria Bell whenever I want to feel better and it always works.) And I could go on for days about Disobediance, which is surely the film I'll be firing up this weekend in Lelio's honor -- a genuine masterpiece of empathy and queer eroticism with banger performances from all three of its leads. This is an immense loss for film, for art, as surely as it is for all the people who loved him as a human being in. this world. Terrible, terrible, terrible news. We deserved so much more of his work!
Chiwetel Ejiofor Fifteen Times
As good as I do think Inde Navarrette is in a movie I cannot stand, I still think that, if I were handing out prizes for best acting in 2026 horror movies mine would go to Chiwetel Ejiofor here for his really great and typically unshowy work in Backrooms. I completely bought his character's moral and mental collapse to the point where I was like, "Yeah of course he's eating that weird dude like he's made out of cake. Of course he is!" That's acting y'all. But he's been serving us well since... hell, since Stephen Frears' seriously underappreciated 2002 film Dirty Pretty Things. (Has that movie gotten a re-release? I need to go check -- talk about a movie that deserves a rennaissaince.) Anyway Chiwetel shows up in something, you know you're in capable hands. And judging by these new pictures from AnOther Magazine... strong hands, too. Mmm--mmm indeed yes. Hit the jump for the whole fine shoot...
Pic of the Day
Shocked to realize I didn't mention this on here the other day when they first teased it (see down below) but now I'm glad I waited because that image above is giving me all of the goose-pimples -- all of 'em! On the social media platform I no longer mention or frequent (come follow me on Bluesky though!) Warner Brothers Clockwork, aka the sub-label that was responsible for turning the year 2026 into Ken Russell's The Devils Mania, are teasing the pre-order of a physical media release of the now-fifty-year-old masterpiece will drop on November 10th aka this upcoming Tuesday. Well I am assuming it's a pre-order, but who knows -- we just have that date and now a corner of a box-set. One imagines this will be a fancy 4K thing -- they went all out with the movie's release, I can't foresee them skimping on this aspect. (Really hoping they drop a vinyl of the film's incredible score as well but I will take whatever they give me.) No idea where it'll be available to buy yet either, but if I had to guess I would say looking at the webstore where they sold Devils merch would probably be a good starting point. I imagine between now and Tuesday I'll have more information to share, but for now -- just set all of your mental alarms!!! It's amazing how things can just... turn around all of a sudden, isn't it?
CLOCKWORK APPEARS TO BE TEASING A PHYSICAL MEDIA RELEASE FOR 'THE DEVILS' -- WHAT A DAY! (via www.instagram.com/p/DfU_zffm-fI/)
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
The Drama (2026)
Mike: Why do you want to talk about fuckingin front of your family? Or her family?
Okay no I did not like this movie, but I love Mamoudou Athie and it's his birthday today so we're going there. He certainly wasn't the problem with that movie. He's funny in it. Anyway I am trying to think of, to quote one of our too-oft-ignored series here at MNPP, "The Moment I Fell For" him, but it was a slow build over several years I think. I really enjoyed the movie Patti Cake$ in 2017 (how in the hell is that movie a decade old?) and that was probably where I first saw him; after that the next highlight would be the one-season-wonder Archive 81, which is brilliant and which I still resent Netflix for cancelling. But (skipping over his fun turn for Yorgos in Kinds of Kindness) it weirdly wasn't until...
... last year's curiosity By Design, the movie where Juliette Lewis turns into a chair, that I realized -- hey Mamoudou is actually sexy as hell. He does this interpretive dance with said chair that is H-O-T. (On a sidenote Vinegar Syndrome just dropped By Design for pre-order this month -- you truly will not see another movie like that one. It's from Amanda Kramer, who also directed our beloved gay greaser fantasia Please Baby Please. Can't wait to see what she's doing next!) Anyway let's get Mamoudou cast as the proper lead in a big romantic movie next. A gay one, preferably.
Good Morning, World
Jordan Firstman's film Club Kid is out in theaters this weekend and he's been doing a lot -- like a lot -- of press for it and, shocker of shockers, he's been really charming? He made a really nice movie that's grown in my estimation since I reviewed it at NYFF -- I haven't seen it again but I am next week when they screen it at MoMA -- so I should have just accepted then that there's a person back there behind the obnoxious facade he's developed early on in his career, but still I find myself surprised every time I read or see a new interview with him that I don't want to slap him anymore. Did y'all read the chat he did with Andrew Scott in Interview Magazine last week? I am still trying to figure out if they fucked. I guess I will spend my life wondering! (Slash imagining, natch.) Anyway I look forward to seeing Club Kid a second time and y'all should go see it as soon as you can. It's fun and sweet and lovely (with a couple of extremely hot gay bits as well -- what else could you ask for?)
Thursday, November 05, 2026
Blessings, Mike Leigh Walks Among Us
Can't remember if I mentioned it on here or not (October was a fucking whirlwind) but I got to breathe the same air as Mike Leigh at the New York Film Festival's Opening Night party and it's shit like that that keeps me going -- similarly Mike Leigh's movies are the sort of shit that keeps me going, and it's kinda excrutiating knowing that we might have seen his very last movie now! Well me, that is -- probably not "we" because I saw Tender Loving Care at NYFF and unless you've also seen it at a film festival you'll have to wait until it hits theaters on December 11th. (And that's just 'select theaters" -- you know how it goes.) Anyway I happened to be standing in the hall as Leigh walked by towards the exit at the end of the night and I couldn't help myself, I just blurted out "Thank you!" at him -- thankfully I didn't scare him. He's old! Imagine... no I won't even make that joke. It's Mike Leigh we're talking about here. Anyway the trailer for TLC dropped today and y'all should clear your schedules to see this lovely, funny, artful and humane movie as soon as you can. It's a gorgeous note for Leigh to end his career on, if this is indeed the end.
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