Which is Hotter?

Turns out that October 14th is a very gay day as both Udo Kier and Ben Whishaw were born today. Udo is celebrating a milestone -- 80! -- but we already tweeted him birthday greetings, so we turn our happy gay eyes todward Ben now. Or as I've long dubbed him, "The Great Gay Hope" because I've long thought he'll be the first out gay actor to win an Oscar. I will admit that I'm not so sure about that now that Colman Domingo is giving him a hard run for his money -- and now I am trying to picture a movie starring Colman & Ben and what that might be? maybe a Thelma & Louise type thing? Who wouldn't watch that? Only shitheels, that's who. Anyway until then we're gonna face down two of our favorite Bens -- Ben playing adorkable Q in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies and Ben as the stand-in for all of us painfully in love with Franz Rogowski in Ira Sachs' Passages. Two dependable and wispy Ben bests. Now pick!

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Today's Mood

I'm really feeling this recent photo of James McAvoy this afternoon -- I just finished writing another NYFF review (that'll be up tomorrow) and I'm looking for something, anything, to post here on the site but just kind of ending up glaring at the empty exapanse of the dumb internet with disdain instead. Sigh. And I suppose it's my job to fix this, as a person who posts on the internet -- I should be entertaining us like the little dancing monkey that I am! But I'm not feeling so dancing-monkey today. Anyway all of that said James McAvoy's angry face makes me as the kids say "hot under the collar" so that's also a good reason to post that photo as well.  Va va voom, baby.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Juliet: All the best people have bad chests 

and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.

A happy 30 to Peter Jackson's masterpiece!

Maybe they could announce a 4K release today?

Seeing as how the movie doesn't even have a blu-ray.

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Good Morning, Jake

Happy Monday mystery solved! Back in August I posted a video of Jake Gyllenhaal shaving his hair off in a mirror having no idea why he'd posted the video on his Insta -- appreciatevly, obviously, but still a little mysified -- but now with his Document Journal photoshoot being revealed over the weekend we have our answer! It was for this photoshoot. Also I assume he was buzzing his hair off for a role and decided to kill two sexy birds at once, getting the process photographed for our pleasure...

... and it worked. I feel pleased? Don't you feel pleased? I really love this photoshoot (from photographer Casper Sejersen) by the way -- the surrealism, the psuedo-Lunchian vibes -- some of these photos could be called Eraserhead-lite. And now I am picturing Jake in a David Lynch movie -- swoon. I'd probably die from the pleasure of that meeting. Of course Donnie Darko is Lynch meets like Sweet Sixteeen. His Villenueve movie Enemy is Lynchian as well. Make more scary movies, Jake! Anyway I already posted the cover image from this shoot here, but now we have the rest so hit the jump for the rest...

Weekend Update With Gabriel LaBelle

I haven't seen the making-of Saturday Night Live movie Saturday Night from director Jason Reitman that's out this weekend yet, but I have seen this new photoshoot of actor Gabriel LaBelle (the former Spielberg stand-in is playing Lorne Michaels here) for Esquire magazine and my thinking is this likely tops that! I held off from crushing on Gabriel in The Fabelmans but by the time the movie Snack Shack rolled around last Fall I was fully signed up -- this shoot's triple underlining said commitment! Anyway if y'all do see this movie over the weekend let me know what you thought -- I don't have the time with three films festivals all piled on my docket at once right now so I'll just stare at this photoshoot when I have a free second instead. Hit the jump for them all...

Sleep in Heavenly Pieces

I kind of let myself run wild with my "review" of the new Terrifier movie at Pajiba today -- as I say in my piece these movies are kind of critic-proof so I wanted to prove that something could actually be said... so I said it all! I worked in everything from the entire history of horror and politics to a slow-cinema abortion drama I saw at the New York Film Festival last week. If you want the basic gist of "is this movie good or not" I don't think clicking over will really help you out on that front, but anybody pretending to be able to answer that question is off their rocker anyway. We're beyond such binaries now, baby! Anyway click here to read my thoughts on Terrifier 3 and the post-Elevated-Horror landscape I think it repsents pretty thoroughly, plus what that says about our shift in cultural anxieities. All that plus dick jokes! Your one stop shop, I tell ya.

Take a Jake Break

All I have as of now is this cover image, but Jake Gyllenhaal is on the new cover of Document Journal (via) and why wouldn't I jump right on here and share this even before we have any more of the shoot? He looks sharp as fuck and we deserve it dammit.

Kit Connor Ten Times

Twice this week we've displayed proof that I am a bad, terrible gay, truly the worst -- on Wednesday I posted a photo of Taylor Zakhar Perez and admitted for the tenth time I still haven't watched Red White and Royal Blue. And now here today I'm posting a photoshoot of Heartstopper star Kit Connor while admitting that no, I haven't watched a single second of Heartstopper either. I am an Official Gay -- I'm a member of the guild and everything! -- and yet this is how I behave? Simply excoriable. String me up from the rafters, folks. I have it coming. Anyway Kit is 20 years old now so I can officially feel slightly less creepy for posting his photos -- this photoshoot for Hero magazine (via) has given me permission to ogle! I feel freed and, dare I say, very gay. So hit the jump to feel gay some yourself...

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Good Friday, World

Our Russell Tovey Shirtless Days of the Week Calendar thread on Twitter is now five days down -- just Tuesday and Sunday to go! You can do it Russell! Bring us home!

A Brutalist Man

Another day, another NYFF review -- well that's not exactly true, these have been slow coming, but we're into them now at least. I have written up my thoughts on Brady Corbet's The Brutalist today for Pajiba -- click here to read those. it is mostly all very very positive, although there are a couple of large exceptions to my praise. But still -- it feels like a good and proper big ass movie movie that I see myself watching a dozen more times (I've already seen it twice and it very much rewards repeat viewings). And the second its score is released on vinyl I will buy that shit so fast -- probably the score of the year, right here, give or take a Challengers.  

Morgan Spector Three Times

I've had the first and third photos seen there for awhile now -- I tweeted them last week -- but I've been so distracted with screenings that I somehow hadn't gotten to posting them! Thankfully the middle photo popped up today and I was reminded -- otherwise this website would and should crumnble to dust through my own fault and neglect. These are new ones from Mr. Morgan Spector's photoshoot for The Cut in early September -- I did post the rest of that shoot right here so it's not all negrlect. Anyway! I had my last NYFF screening this morning so things will calm down a little -- although uhhh NewFest kicks off today (see my post on this year's edition here) and the Brooklyn Horror Fest kicks off one week from today so it won't be totally calm. But those are all night-time things -- I will be here day-wise, doing my thing. Giving you the Morgan Spector content you demand! And some other stuff probably. But mostly Morgan. Let's be real. MNPP stands for MorgaN sPector Peen after all!

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Good Morning, World

Catching Dust writer-director Stuart Gatt -- who we should obviously note is very very attractive himself -- has on his Insta been sharing a pile of behind-the-scenes photos from that Texas neo-noir starring Jai Courtney and Erin Moriarty, but it wasn't until he shared the above image that I found myself compelled to share. Actually compelled to do a lot of things, but sharing that photo is the one of them I will tell you about! Catching Dust can be rented on Amazon right now -- I saw it when it screened at Tribeca last year and I remember liking it well enough, if not quite enough to inspire the writing of a review from me, but Mr. Gatt is being so generous with these photos I am telling you right now, go watch his movie! He's a good boy and deserves the views! Hit the jump for a few more photos (and one video) of note...

Pic of the Day

A new photo of Nicholas Hoult in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has been released -- huzzah! And listen I know I over-use "huzzah" in the wake of watching The Great, but since we're talking about Nicholas Hoult, star of The Great, it's called for this time. The full image is down below (via, thx Mac) with its annoying watermark included since I no longer have Photoshop, sighhh. That said the full image is really killer -- the colors, the blood, the snapping black dogs. I love all of it. Also Nicky in a poofy shirt and suspenders is pretty choice too, obviously. Nosferatu comes out on Christmas and is probably I think at this point the only movie left of 2024 that I am really dying to see? Now that I have seen Queer (twice!) it's nothing but Nosferatu!

Arnaud Valois Six Times

Always extremely happy when I can share a new photoshoot of my French boyfriend Arnaud Valois of BPM fame -- okay okay one of my many, many French boyfriends -- and this one is very fine! Via his Insta for a magazine called French Magazine apparently -- how literal! -- these go along with his turn playing Yves Saint Laurent in that Becoming Karl Lagerfeld miniseries that I somehow still haven't found the time to watch even though it also stars Daniel Brühl and Théodore Pellerin. I don't know! Have any of you watched it? Anyway you can hit the jump for the photos...

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Good Morning, World

(click to embiggen) For those of you wondering if I have made time to watch Red White & Royal Blue yet the answer is no, no I have not. But every time I see a picture of Taylor Zakhar Perez -- like the one above, for instance -- my eyes grow hands and these eye-hands then slap me across the face for that oversight. (Bet you didn't think you'd read the phrase "eye-hands" today.) Anyway thanks to Taylor for keeping the flame alive. And for the eye-hands I guess, too. They come in handy! (Oh groan, somebody get the hook.)

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Limey (1999)

Stacy: Why don't they make shows about people's daily lives you'd be interested in watching? You know, like "Sick Old Man" or "Skinny Little Weakling." "Big Fat Guy." Wouldn't you watch a show called "Big Fat Guy"? I'd watch that fucking show.

You can tell this movie is 25 years old now because there basically are entire networks of shows called Big Fat Guy at this point. Anyway a very happy 25 to Steven Soderbergh's The Limey! This is a movie that needs to be mentioned among the list of that phenomonal year 1999's phenomonal offerings more vigorously -- it ranks right up there among that outrageously good year's very best. Y'all are fans, right? If not go watch it or go watch it again -- I got to see it on the big screen again a couple of years back and man alive this movie fucks. One of Soderbergh's greatest.