It's All Leather & Paddles

Apologies to the one commenter who keeps getting very angry at me for saying that Pillion is out in U.S. theaters this week because it's not out EVERYWHERE -- apologies because I am going to do it again! Pillion is out today, in SOME U.S. cities, some LUCKY U.S. cities, but I've already seen the movie like four times so I'm not keeping track anymore of where and when it's expanding. I assume it will eventually move on to smaller cities and then it will be on streaming and then we can all touch ourselves in unison to it -- a true happy ending. Anyway my NYFF review of the film from last fall can be read at Pajiba -- I love the movie and I am especially happy to see that A24 just dropped the vinyl of the film's score for pre-sale on their website, buy it here. That's the slutty back cover above and we co-sign. And also...

Blessings bestowed upon @thequeerreview.com and @jameskleinmann.com and photographer Mettie Ostrowski for giving PILLION director Harry Lighton the full leather-man treatment alongside their interview; read that here: thequeerreview.com/2026/02/06/i...

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM

... as you can see there director Harry Lighton played Leather Man for our pal James at Queer Review today, so you should click over and check out that interview and those hot-damn buncha photos. Do we have a new hottest movie director? I think we got a contender. Anyway speaking of A24 selling physical media they announced this morning that Marty Supreme will be available on VOD this upcoming Tuesday, when you will also be able to pre-order the blu-ray or 4K disc from their website. Maybe wait til Tuesday to buy the Pillion score and the Marty disc together and save on shipping. There are two of the movies in my Top 10 of 2025! Heck they're in my Top 5. Good shit! Thanks again, A24.

Joe Alwyn Ten Times

The Oscar-nominated Hamnet is now on VOD so you can see what all the fuss was about -- what the fuss definitely was not about was Joe Alwyn, who once again finds himself cast in a thankless forgettable role on the sidelines which he does very little with. I say this as a person who finds Joe Alwyn very attractive and who's seen him live in person at Q&As and he's incredibly charming in the flesh! I think his best roles have probably been for Yorgos in The Favourite and Kinds of Kindness where he played hot creeps (I don't remember much about the Ang Lee movie where I first saw him), so perhaps he should just try going full villain? I don't know, I'm not his agent, but this is the second Oscars race in a row where he's riding the coattails of a big Oscar nominee while offering the final product very little, and I do wish better for him. He is hot. We must take care of our hot boys. Anyway on that note he's being hot on the cover of Fantastic Man this month and we've got those photos after the jump...

A Head Full of Harbour

I didn't pay a ton of attention to the whole "David Harbour is sex addict" thing that came out recently thanks to his ex Lily Allen writing an album about him being shitty because that sort of gossip always feels invasive and shitty in itself to me -- I am not their friend, I don't need to be involved in their dirty laundry. When fans get all worked up about somebody cheating on their partner, if everybody involved are adults, I just don't think it's my business. Anyway that whole mess seemed like it fell into that camp so I didn't pay attention to it, so if I missed a legitimate reason that David Harbour got canceled feel free to yell at me. All I allowed myself to take from it is a few images of David Harbour being a freak and I was happy with those. Because hot. 

Anyway none of that is why we're here -- we're here because Mr. Harbour has booked a new movie which sounds hella rad on paper. It's an adaptation of Paul Tremblay's book A Head Full of Ghosts and it will co-star scream queen Rebecca Hall and it will be directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fial, the filmmakers behind the original Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, both of which rock. Anybody read the book? I have not but it's about the parents of a teen girl whose descent into schizophrenia is documented by an exploitative reality show, and the aftermath fifteen years later of that. I don't know who's playing who (if Harbour and Hall are the parents or if they play people in the flash-forward portion) but that sounds like a killer on-point concept for a movie, and I generally trust Rebecca Hall's instincts when it comes to horror -- she has done very well for herself in the genre. 

On that note: anybody watching The Beauty? I am and I was sort of enjoying it at first but I find myself increasingly annoyed by the idea that there could be a hotter version of Rebecca Hall that's not Rebecca Hall. I call bullshit! Also Ashton Kutcher sucks and annoys me, and I find the entire Anthony Ramos / Jeremy Pope storyline increasingly dumb as well. I like all the hot naked guys though (hello Isaac Cole Powell rolling around naked and wet on top of Evan Peters) so obviously I'll keep watching.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

The first trailer for David "Hell or High Water" Mackenzie's film Fuze starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw dropped yesterday and hilariously kicks off with these two shots of Aaron half-naked -- I love being pandered to. Watch the trailer here. I told you about this movie previously when Aaron & Theo were announced as co-stars because obviously, although there's not much in the way of interaction (i.e. explicit oral sex) between them in this trailer -- let's hope that changes for the final product. I don't see a release date yet so just twiddle your damn thumbs til then!

I should add that Theo & Aaron were very much seen hanging out on set together (see below sexy evidence) so let's hope this movie does actually understand its assignment:

MORE PROOF THIS MOVIE LOOKS REAL GOOD ALREADY pic.twitter.com/pM95y6azlF

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 31, 2024

Tyriq Withers Two Times

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It Ain't Channing's Fault

I would just like to go on the record here upfront that I have been championing Channing Tatum as a talented actor for actual decades now -- I remember seeing him in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints in 2006 and thinking hey, that pretty boy can act. This is all to set off against my pan of his latest movie, the big Sundance winner Josephine, which you can read at Pajiba today -- as of right now I'm one of two negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and by all accounts (other) people really fucking loved this movie so I feel defensive. But I stand by what I said. Which is that this movie is tepid at best. Oh but Chan's not the problem -- he's perfectly respectable -- but since it feels weird to criticize child actors... ahem. I try to step around that as much as possible in my review. I still haven't entirely figured out how to write about what I see as actively bad child performances -- it seems best to lay the blame on those doing the directing and casting and editing when this sort of thing happens. But I'm in a very very very small minority on this one as of right now. This movie won Best U.S. Dramatic Feature AND the Audience Award at Sundance. I don't in the slightest get it but whatcha gonna do... besides post a hot picture of Chan and move it right along.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Whistle in 250 Words

I can be (when an unpredictable mood of  generosity finds me anyway) disgustingly easy to please when it comes to horror movies -- I have sat through far too many hours of bottom-of-the-barrel bullshit to not to be entertained by a movie that is at least competantly made. And so, with that level of "high praise" in mind, went Whistle. It's a bald tire of ideas whose rubber's been ripped off by every Final Destination movie before it -- with a good dose of Talk To Me to boot too -- but as angry and irritated as the movie often made me for its extraordinary plagiarisms of far better, funner previous materials, I still rode the dumb thing to its dumb end and I didn't feel totally dirty about it.

There are a couple of fun scenes -- the horror maze is well-staged with the movie's only genuinely likeable character in peril -- and there is one explosive set-piece of gore that I watched three times in a row, jaw agape. (You will know it when it hits you in the face with its viscera.) Corin Hardy isn't a bad director -- go see The Hallow if you haven't! -- but this is unfortunately closer to his limp Conjuring spin-off The Nun than it is to that original-concept creep-fest that gave him his career. But this will probably be the favorite for some 14-year-old new to the genre and as such my old, expired ass can't get too angry at it since that's who it's made for.

Whistle is in theaters tomorrow.

Good Morning, Melling

I'd whinged previously that while I love a good slutty Alexander Skarsgård photoshoot (do I!) I didn't feel as if his extremely talented Pillion co-star Harry Melling should be left out even if he is, you know, less conventionally attractive. So seeing these photos last night made me happy!  I know they're not "slutty" per se but we'll take what we can get. Anyway it's true, the rumors are true, Pillion is out in U.S. theaters TOMORROW. Hard to believe the day's finally come after all the excruiating edging that A24 has put us through for months and months but your day has arrived, folks. Read my review of the movie from NYFF right here. Pillion was also #4 on my favorite movies of 2025 list, even if A24 made me extremely confused whether I should count it as 2025 or 2026 -- I figured by a year from now... well who fucking knows where we'll be a year from now. So tell the people that you love that you love them while you can, and do the same things with the movies! That's my Thursday morning heap of wisdom for you. 

Pic of the Day

Here is a lovely behind-the-scenes picture from that Paris fashion event where three-quarters of the Heated Rivalry cast were in attendance that I posted about last week; this captures an intimate moment between actors François Arnaud & Robbie G.K... awwwww, everybody say awwwww. All that whilst Aaron Taylor-Johnson lurks in the background like a waiter? No seriously I totally thought Aaron was a waiter in this photo right until I was about to load it here on the site -- if you don't zoom in it sort of looks like he's wearing an apron, I think? Anyway we know Aaron was also there because see below, but it's kinda wild how much that shaggy hair ages him -- Arnaud, who's five years Aaron's elder, looks like a baby beside him. This post is really just me telling Aaron to cut his hair please. The gay boys are overtaking you! (Would pay to watch.) 

Inspecting Aaron Taylor-Johnson checking Connor Storrie out in front of his wife is my Zapruder Film

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 7:37 PM

Today's Mood

Not really -- this is an aspirational mood. I'm in 

actuality quite stressed. Buster, take me awayyyyy...

Danny Ramirez Twelve Times

It's been about 77 weeks since Joaquin Phoenix bitched out of Todd Haynes' gay romance film De Noche in August of 2024 -- that's 77 weeks of one of our greatest living filmmakers' time and output gone, just gone, so let's take a fresh moment to mourn it (all while cursing Joaquin's name under our breath) (or even over our breath). Okay -- better news, better mood, today Variety has officially confirmed the rumor floating about since last summer; that Joaquin's Eddington co-star Pedro Pascal is indeed taking over the abandoned role opposite Danny Ramirez (who bless him has kept himself tightly attached this entire time) and shooting will kick off next month. It's been so very long since all of this began -- did I mention seventy-seven weeks? And that was just the moment the project fell apart; there were months of speculation before that -- that I think I should re-share the plot of the film:

"The story, which echoes classic noirs like “Chinatown,” charts the passionate and unexpected love affair between a cop (Pascal) and a boarding school teacher (Ramirez) in 1930s Los Angeles, when the city is overtaken by corruption and the world is on the brink of war. The two men become targets of the city’s corrupt political machine and are forced to flee to Mexico."

Sounds killer! (No I am not punning on Todd's longstanding relationship with Killer Films, although that's bonus points.) But seriously we love Haynes doing period films and 1930s Noir-tinged L.A. is certainly new for him -- I'll admit I'm detecting a few notes of Luca Guadagnino's ex-pat age-gap homosexual paean Queer in that description (especially their venture south of the border) but as much as I love Queer I have not a single doubt that Haynes will do his own wonderful thing. Break a (Joaquin's) leg(s), Todd! And now in celebration of this news, an older but never-here-posted Danny photoshoot (via) I will share with you after the jump...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Sick in Mind and Body and Soul

So far we're three for three in using the word "Sundance" in today's posts at least once -- let's see if we can keep it up all day long! What a fun game that will be. For me. Only me. So my first Sundance (maybe we should all scream like it's the "word of the day" on Pee-wee's Playhouse?) review dropped yesterday -- it's of the erotic-thriller-ish film Night Nurse and you can read it right now at Pajiba. Or maybe you already read it yesterday -- I don't have a camera trained on your backside at all times, how would I know? Anyway it's a weird little movie and y'all know how weird's my bag so I dug it. Good movie from a first-time filmmaker!

Not Yo Momma's Natchez

A lot of today is going to be catching up on things that landed over the past week while I've had my head buried in Sundance, so let's kick it off with the one that makes me feel the fanciest so I've got the courage to trundle on after a long couch break -- I got another trailer blurb! I don't know how I missed this one since it dates back a few weeks but my review of the really nrather incredible little documentary Natchez, which I called...

... both "bracing and brilliant" made its way into the film's trailer, which I will share down below. I saw it at Tribeca last year -- it's about the small titular town in the South which is reliant upon plantation  tourism, and what that means in the here and now moment of time. There are people still romanticizing it a la Gone With the Wind of course, but there are brave people -- mainly of color because of course they have to do all the damn work themselves -- pushing back against those narratives. Anyway it's a smart portrait of our moment and I really recommend watching it when you can -- it started playing theaters (here in NYC it's at Film Forum) this past week. 

Good Morning, World

And so we're back! From virtual Sundance! We just walked in to find Brandon Sklenar here with that hot smile upon his face... okay I will stop while I'm behind. Did somebody say behind? Which is to say -- g'bless Paul Feig who's gone from making some great female-centered comedies to making some great female-centered trashy thrillers where he also makes sure to have his beautiful leading men flash their big meaty behinds therein. First there was Henry Golding in last year's Another Simple Favor and now we have the meatiest of them all Brandon Sklenar in The Housemaid, as seen down below. Paul Feig, who knew -- you're a true ass connoisseur. Thank you, good sir. Anyway yes I am indeed back on blog from my Sundance stuff -- there will be reviews coming! But for now, as we greet this Hump Day morning, let's just take a moment or two to bask in a big meaty something sure to brighten it:

It's Always Sundance Here in My Pants

Well that's that, me and Jacob Elordi and hopping in our pants-free vehicle and making our way on up to the virtual mountains of Sundance for the next week! As mentioned previously I'll be off-blog from tomorrow through next Wednesday watching and watching and watching some more movies on Sundance's virtual platform, with some reviews to come thereafter or abouts. If you're curious you too can watch some movies virtually, check their website for info. I can't really say what's worth watching yet because I've only watched a couple of screeners so far, but keep your eyes on my socials -- especially Letterboxd where I'm keeping an ongoing list of what I'm seeing -- as well as Pajiba where my reviews will mostly be dropping. I will surely eventually disseminate that information across all the usual places. And no, addressing the Elordi-shaped elephant in the room (really more of a giraffe if we're talking zoo animals) -- there is no Jacob Elordi movie showing at Sundance this year -- I just liked that picture up top too much not to post it. Have a good week!

Do Dump or Marry: Heated Rivalry Eats Paris

Three of the four main cast-members of Heated Rivalry were dolled up at the Saint Laurent show in Paris today -- left to right that's Robbie G.K. (making a feast of those leather trousers), Connor Storrie, and François Arnaud, with Hudson Williams as the odd man not to be seen for this go. (Click the picture to embiggen.) And obviously threesomes of this sort...

... always lend themselves to our favorite game of "Do Dump or Marry" (known to many as "Fuck Marry Kill")! So now you take to the comments down below and tell us which one you'd want to spend a single night of unbridled passion with, which one you'd toss in the trash, and which one you'd choose for your life-long (tonsil) hockey partner. And try not to be influenced by the fact that Luca Guadagnino has obviously already made his choice:

🚨 LUCA GUADAGNINO + CONNOR STORRIE SPOTTED IN PARIS 🚨

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) January 26, 2026 at 7:51 PM

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Birth (2004)

Anna: What happened to me was not my fault. There's no way I could have behaved any differently, you now... What I did wasn't my fault. What happended to me wasn't my fault, and I can't be held accountable for it. There is no way I could ever have said to him 'Go away'. I couldn't do it... It was a mistake. And... I'm sorry. But I want to be with you. I want to be with you. Yes, I do. And I want to get married, and... I wanna have a good life, and I wanna be happy. That's all I want - peace.

A day we've been looking forward to for a decade at least has finally arrived -- after years of being only available on a shitty out-of-print DVD Jonathan Glazer's 2004 masterpiece in discomfort Birth has gotten the Criterion treatment! In 4K no less! Pick up your copy right here -- like every single Glazer movie there is (yes, every single one) this is not a movie to be missed. And NOW if they could just release Alexandre Desplat's astonishing score onto vinyl I'll be satisfied! Temporarily anyway! Related: have I mentioned here that I started a thread on Bluesky for movies I'm dying to get released on upgraded physical media? Click below to see what I've whined about so far if that's your thing:

‪Think I'm going to start a thread specifically for sporadic bitching about movies I need released on updated physical media already, like yesterday, dammit. Seen here are four standards - Apartment Zero, Chuck & Buck, Soldier of Orange, and of course the king of this, Ken Russell's The Devils

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM