Ben Whishaw Eight Times

A perfect distillation of why I hate Awards Season can currently be seen by the fact that Ben Whishaw isn't getting any attention for his killer low-key work in Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day (reviewed here) -- I'm not saying he's my pick for peformance of the year (sorry haters but that remains to be Timmy) but there are about three or four people actually getting nominated for things that I think Ben acts circles around. Oh well! Awards stay meaningless but I'll be able to revisit this film forever (or until the world explodes, whichever comes first). These shows weren't made to honor this kind of subtle work though, so I get it -- I still maintain that Ben is our Great Gay Hope for our first out Best Actor winner. (Unless Ian McKellen's finally given a role like he was with Gods & Monsters again, anyway.) For now since we' not getting to see him at the statue-shows we'll just enjoy this new lusciously-locked photoshoot of Ben for Man About Town magazine; hit the jump for 'em all...

More Shit For Sale

If these posts are too often and annoying now... well don't let me know. I don't care. I just really have too much shit and not enough money so I'm going to keep pushing the fact that y'all should be checking my eBay account for deals on physical media and the like often, as I'm constantly -- some might say obsessively -- updating it with new things to unload. Over the break I listed a lot, including most of the box-sets of T.V. series I'd been hanging onto -- I'd love to keep the entire Buffyverse in my cold dead hands but I just no longer have the space, alas. And yes if the sleaze of Paul Verhoeven's The 4th Man as seen in the above gif is more your cuppa that's available right now as well! There's something for everybody.

Six Days Til Henry Muck & Co Return

As I stated before the break I'd planned on binging some T.V. over the holiday, and I did -- I watched Heated Rivalry (twice as I mentioned earlier), I have caught up on all but the finale of Pluribus (watching the finale tonight, so don't say anything please), and I binged all three-to-date seasons of Industry, which was the real accomplishment... as far as such things can be considered accomplishments. Anyway I was especially keen on that one since they've been teasing Kit Harginton doing gay stuff in the trailers for the fourth season, which begins airing on HBO on January 11th -- yes that was enough for me to hand over several days of my vacation to it! And it was worth it! I sort of half-assedly posted thoughts as I watched over on Bluesky and you can click down below to read those -- the general consensus being "Holy hell am I hooked." It's one hell of a show, y'all was right -- I will just say that binging all of the toxicity on display over the course of about four days turned out to be, understatement time, an awful lot. They are just the worst fucking people! My god. But completely riveting as characters. I can't imagine how they intend to keep them in each other's orbits after all the unspeakable things they've done to one another, but therein lies the pleasure. And the pain. The delicious, sexy pain. They're all made for one another. So I'm now counting the days til that premiere. Industry fans, and I know you're out there -- thanks for pushing me onto it!

I have started Industry! The things I will do for Kit... (literally anything, Kit -- call me)

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, 2026

Hello, good people of Earth, and welcome (hell-come?) to 2026. This holiday break was so long that bringing up the gay hockey sensation Heated Rivalry now feels almost passé, but let us recall -- the last time I was up in here I still hadn't watched the show! That didn't last long though -- it was my first binge of several over the holidays, and... well it was also my second of the holidays because I watched it through twice. Once for me, and then a second time so my boyfriend could watch. It was just as good the second time. (Your thoughts?) I'm a little surprised we're leading with star Hudson Williams this morning to be honest, just because there have been about fifty times as many photoshoots of his co-star Connor Storrie, but the luck of the draw (i.e. this was the first photoshoot I found buried in my stuff this morning) favored Hudson (shot for Timid magazine) and we're a-okay with that. So while we get ourselves settled back in the blogging seat y'all go and enjoy this full photoshoot after the jump...

And Now Charles Melton Wishes You...

... a very very Happy New Year!
(More pictures here.)

Jamie Dornan Wishes You...

Merry Mifune-mas!

And with that we're done, peaced out, outta here. MNPP's closed up til the New Year -- as long as the world's still spinning and our heart's still beating we'll be back on January 5th 2026 to continue dropping the hottest nonsense around. You can of course keep track of us like good little stalkers on our socials though, since I'm tied to sharing my every thought and action with the world... haha not really. You'd be terrified if that were actually true. As sloppy and over-sharing as I am this shit is curated, if you can believe it. Aaaanyway if you're feeling extra festive feel free to drop a dime in the donation can in the right-hand column -- also I'll surely listing more stuff for sale on eBay for sale because that's a neverending process, so keep your eyes peeled over there for cool things that could be yours! I've listed a shit-ton over the past couple of weeks already. That's a way where we both win! Okay okay I'll shut the elf up and be on my way now. Merry Whatever and Happy New The-Other-Thing to one and all. And as always if you see anything you like please share in the comments... 

Putting the Supreme in Marty

Before I scurry away from the computer for a week and a half like it's injecting poison into my fingers with every button push (and really do we even have proof that computers don't do this?) I do have some stuff to share with you! Awww. I'm a peach. But really, it's not nothing -- there are a heap of movies hitting theaters over the holiday and I reviewed a couple! Starting with, you guessed it, the biggie -- click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, starring one Timmy C. I know y'all have soured on him given the comments I get every time I post about him but he's absolutely top-notch in the movie and I'm rooting for him to get that Oscar y'all. The other options are, what -- Leo already has one (although I do think he's better in One Battle After Another than he was in the role he won one for) and if they give Ethan Hawke a statue for his limp-wristed shrieking in that Richard Linklater movie I am so fucking done. Timmy's legit giving the performance of his career to date in Marty Supreme and all this talk of a hype backlash is bullshit. The boy's doing his job, getting eyeballs on his movie! In 2025 Hollywood ya gotta fucking hustle, man. This is a two and a half hour movie about an asshole playing ping-pong ffs. And it rules. 

The other review is one that's been around for a bit since I saw it at NYFF, but Jim Jarmusch's wonderful Father Mother Sister Brother is hitting theaters tomorrow and it's one of my favorites from him, so you should go see it. But don't let me here convince you -- let me over at Pajiba convince you where I wrote about the movie in actual depth. Jarmusch is hit-or-miss with me but this is a real hit from where I stand. I tend to like it most when he does funny. I think he and I have very similar senses of humor. 

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... bro'ing out with Joe Keery & Dacre Montgomery.

Don't ask me to remember who it was but some producer on Stranger Things shared a series of new-to-me photos of Joe & Dacre on set back in, what, this was the second season? Remember when their characters had their little homoerotic scenes in the gym shower? Because I sure do. Anyway since Stranger Things will be dropping its final episodes over the holidays it seems a perfect time to share these gay ass memories. Hit the jump for the rest of the photos...

Pic of the Day

Here's some this-past-February news you can use that only made its way to my ears today  -- my IRL friend John MacConnell, a fantastic and extremely talented artist you should be following if you're not already, gifted the world with this dreamy life-drawing of actor and new MNPP obsession Garrett Wareing all those many months ago! I've told John this many times but every time I look at his work I think goddamn I should've tried my hand at drawing instead of writing. The perks of his career are much higher than mine!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Max and Kit, Sitting Industry...

I just answered my own question! In the previous post I asked for recommendations of TV shows to watch over the break -- immediately following pressing publish on that I saw the second and final trailer for the next season of Industry sitting on my desktop and remembered, "Oh shit right I want to catch up on Industry since they are teasing us really really hard with Kit Harington doing some gay shit with Max Minghella." The first trailer that dropped a month ago showed Kit getting necked on by some dude and we were already sold, but this latest one makes it clear said dude is Max and...

... we're even more sold. I gotta get on this, though -- there are three seasons already out there and this fourth one starts on January 11th. I got a lot of comments on my previous post about how good Industry is so I won't bother asking that again -- so just so I have something to say can I say that Kit Harington makes every cell in my body vibrate? He does. He really, really does. Here's the trailer:

And after the jump a couple more gifs of note...

The Heated Rivalry Boys Heat Up GQ

Since I really have nothing new to add to the Heated Rivalry discussion that I haven't said in our previous posts on the hot queer hockey romance, since as I said previously I'm saving the show for a good stiff binge over the holiday break, let's take a couple of side-jaunts now here that we have the show's breakout stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams reenacting controversial those Calvin Klein pornography advertisments on the cover of GQ magazine -- okay maybe this first thing isn't a side-jaunt because... WHAT? I'd heard this show had been building as a word-of-mouth hit but who could've foreseen this level of steamy gayness front and center in American Culture? The cover of GQ? 

I did not think I'd live to see the day, honestly. (And it is still early in the day, given the way of the world, so let's not get ahead of ourselves too far.) But by all accounts this show's really busted into the mainstream in a way most gay shit does not -- they talked about it on The View! Which yes means a big part of this is that straight women are enjoying it, but that really is a shift in culture -- that straight American women are openly, happily admitting that the sight of two men in flagrente doesn't gross them out now.  Even a decade ago this was not the case. (Well except one of my good friends. You know who you are, darlin!) 

Anyway that's cool. The other thing, the actual side-jaunt I wanted to take, was -- what shows should I watch over the break? I have this one, I have Pluribus, I have Boots (RIP Boots). I know there are even more but I'm blanking. Generally just assume I haven't seen anything new lately and recommend me some stuff to watch over the break. And in return I'll gift you all these photos after this break...

Good Morning, World

Dunno how I missed these but Him hottie Tyriq Withers was kind enough to share yet another batch of behind-the-scenes photos and videos over the weekend and I think they're right up our alley -- as long as I don't have to sit through that not-good movie again and can be greeted by its highlights (all seen above) then we're good. That's as good a holiday present as any! (On that sidenote today is MNPP's last day til January 5th. Prepare yourselves.) Anyway there are two videos of Tyriq in his drawers and also a photo of Tyriq half naked and all bloodied up waiting for you to unwrap after the jump...

Make Us Warm on a Cold Day, Callum Turner

Possibly my favorite of the current Bond-rumor-hunks Callum Turner (apologies to Aaron Taylor-Johnson but have you seen Callum's ears? Well have you?) hit the beach with his bride-to-be Dua Lipa this past weekend in Mexico, and somehow photographers managed to find them and take photographs of them (via) whilst they were being sexy and loving on their vacation! Scandal! Intrusion! However did this happen? Alert the police! Get me Scotland Yard stat! Okay okay I wrung that bit dry -- so let's get ourselves wet again with some more of these photos after the jump...

Lewis Pullman Four Times

Momentarily I thought maybe it could be considered a spoiler for Mona Fastvold's magnificent film The Testament of Ann Lee to share that the character Lewis Pullman is playing in it is a big ol' 'mo. But I decided instead that one, while it's not an inconsequential note re: the film's themes it's also barely there, and sharing it won't ruin the movie for you in any way, I don't think. It's not some explosive revelation with regards to his character, but it does add to and underline the film's ideas about the Shakers as a community of misfits in their day. That said number two, and more importantly, I thought sharing this tidbit of information might get one or two of you who mightn't otherwise to go and see the two-plus hour musical about a bizarre religious sect. And that's what we want! Because I really love this movie and I'm not entirely sure I'll be properly reviewing it at this point, what with the holiday looming ahead. It's a great movie! Go see it! On a big screen if you can, as it very much demands a big screen. I watched it at home first and I liked it, but then I saw it a second time in 70mm and it blew my brain through the back of my head. With that said hit the jump for a couple more of lil' cute Lewis here...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Okay so which one of you went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash this weekend? I know it was just one of you, and that you, a single person, went and saw it three hundred million times, hence its box office haul. Fess up! Even after I told you it is boring as fungus you didn't listen. Well I don't hold grudges (ha) so I hope whoever it was amongst you were at least able to enjoy all of the "Jack Champion in a wet loicloth" action that the movie contains, focusing as it does so much more on the character of Champion's Spider. See -- I didn't mention that detail in my review because I didn't want to give any of you a single reason to go! But I failed. Happy holidays, I am a failure. That's the gift that greets me every year! Aaaanyway it is indeed Xmas Week and it's gonna be a short one -- I'll only be here today and tomorrow and then I'm off until January 5th! Wowza that's a nice chunka change. So let's get to it, making the next 48 hours disappear as fast as we can then! (Oh and for your googling sake the shots here of Jack pumping up his tighty-whities is from some 2025 movie called Everything's Going to Be Great -- hysterically the top pictures on IMDb are all from this scene! I guess this scene is why the movie got made, released, and will ever be remembered at all.)

Smoke Em If Ya Got Em, Brandon Sklenar

I cannot speak personally pro or anti this weekend's thriller film The Housemaid because I had to miss my screening of it when I fucked up my ankle a couple weeks back -- all I've heard are mixed things though, and those mixed things trend toward the "It's not nearly as campy as it needs to be" so I'm not exactly running out to see it myself. But when it hits streaming? Sure. Probably. I love Amanda Seyfried (who gives a tremendous performance in her other Winter 2025 movie The Testament of Ann Lee). And this marks the third photoshoot (via) of noted hunk Brandon Sklenar that we've posted here at MNPP (see here and see here) so clearly he's in the plus column as well. Anyway it probably won't be as much torture as I found the latest Avatar movie (the other movie out this weekend) to be, so there's that. 

Oh and I guess Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is also out today but I have nothing to say about that movie -- less than nothing. I saw it during NYFF and it left zero point zero percent of an impression on me. Completely forgettable hetero nonsense that totally wastes Laura Dern. Blergh! All that said you might wonder why I'm running through all the movies out this weekend here on a Thursday... well it's because I just found out right this very minute that my office will be closed tomorrow. So it's looking like a three-day weekend for moi! Huzzah! And then next week's a two day week, and then I'm off for nearly two weeks! I'm not saying this to rub it in your face... I'll leave it to Brandon to rub things in your face. Happy weekend!