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Rest In Peas, Veal, Cream Sauce, Et Cetera

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the death of my hero, the legend Vincent Price, and y'all know what that means -- my annual Vincent Price Dinner is happening this weekend! Stewed and brewed from the dusty, blood-scrawled pages of Price's legendary cookbook Treasures of Great Recipes, we've been having a select group of special people over every October for several years now and dining like Vincent did -- he did us a solid by kicking the proverbial bucket (I say that with love!) right before Halloween so it makes for a perfect grown-up way to have a Halloween party. Cocktails, heavy meats, and spooky thoughts, oh my! Anyway those are my weekend plans -- y'all have a good one and celebrate Vincent in whatever way you see fit! And if I have any good photos to post I will post them on the Insta per usual... 

Tahar Rahim Three Times

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Good Morning, Queer

Good morning from the first official poster for Luca Guadagnino's Queer! A24 shared it on social media this morning along with the word that the first trailer for the movie will be coming our way next week -- I figured it'd be coming soon since the movie is out in one month and two days. Anyway that is quite the striking image and it's taken right from the film (or a variation of it is in the film anyway) -- We'd assumed that would be the font they'd be using for the film's title already because you might recall I saw Luca & Daniel & Drew & Co do a Q&A with the film a few weeks back... well if you don't recall I will share those photos and videos again below because they're always worth looking at. But anyway that font was on the big screen behind them, and it's also the font used in the movie itself. And yes it is very Call Me By Your Name right?

This movie is very much in dialogue with CMBYN -- as I mention in my review of the movie (right here) there are several hilariously aggressive pans out of the windows during the film's sex scenes which are very clearly a good natured fuck you to the people who complained about those in CMBYN. That said I'm not sure making people think they're seeing another CMBYN is a good idea because this movie is very very different, with different intentions and a very different tone. I mean I love it, a lot, but it's a different movie altogether. Anyway you'll all see soon enough. Oh and if you missed it a new photo from the movie dropped a couple of days ago as well. Here are those Q&A photos and videos I mentioned:

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This is Magaro News

Score one for awesomeness today -- director Kelly Reichardt is re-teaming with her First Cow and Showing Up actor John Magaro for her next one! I'm surprised I didn't do a post on this movie when the news broke that it was going to also star Josh O'Connor -- I think that came when I was firmly enconsed in NYFF happenings and doings -- but we're here now doing it and that's what really matters. Tge movie is called The Mastermind and it's about an art-heist and it will also star Licorice Pizza's terrific Alana Haim -- I wasn't sure if she was going to keep acting after that (since she's originally a musician -- but I'm glad she's keeping it up! She's good at it. Anyway we're always seated for Kelly Reichardt and even more we've yet to be disappointed in so doing, and with this cast -- shut the front door et cetera. This plot, genre-tinted as it is, is giving me memories of Night Moves, her excellent 2013 eco-thriller of sorts with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard. God I love Night Moves! So underrated, that one. 

Fassy's on the Hunt

I slid through my archives and came up empty-handed on The Agency -- I guess I forgot to post about it when it was announced? Anyway it's a new limited series for Paramount+ that stars our boy Michael Fassbender as a CIA agent and Richard Gere as his minder or whatever, along with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston (Alien Covenant reunion holla!), and as featured heavily in the just dropped trailer the queen the iucon the eternal legend Harriet Sansom Harris! Killer cast -- the show itself looks stylish but not like anything we haven't seen a thousand times before to be honest -- it's a remake of a French series, even -- but I'll still be there for this cast alone. And two episodes were directed by Joe Wright so that's something! Here's that trailer:

The Agency drops on November 29th.

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Good Morning, World

There have bee so many Cooper Koch photoshoots of gratuitous note that've dropped over the past few weeks thanks to his Monsters turn, but since it's coincided with me being crazy busy with film festival season I've barely had the chance to keep up. Still when I saw these two snaps yesterday I said to myself, "Post those." And they make for the perfect compliment to his co-star Javier Bardem's photoshoot "Good Morning" yesterday, as well. Perhaps tomorrow we'll catch up with Nicholas Alexander Chavez?

Pic of the Day

Happy day -- we have a new photo of Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Luca Guadagnino's Queer! Queer, Luca's adaptation of William S. Burroughs book, is out in 35 days -- on November 27th to be precise. And if you missed it I saw the movie at NYFF and reviewed it right here. Big fan. Huge. Cannot wait to watch it ten more times.

Aldis Hodge Twelve Times

I was about to write "What an excellent day for photoshoots" but I kept reading that in the voice of The Exorcist demon Pazuzu croaking out "What an excellent day for an exorcism" so... yeah, anyway. My head is littered with pop culture detritus, what's new. (Or possibly I am actually right now possessed by Pazuzu -- also possible!) The point is...

... that this morning I fed you that sexy shoot of Javier Bardem and this afternoon I am feeding you this sexy photoshoot of the exquisite Aldis Hodge -- consider yourselves fed! These photos are via Essence magazine -- there's also a chat with Aldis so if you'd like to read that click here. Or feel free to just stare at him in silent awe with ten more photos after the jump...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Crimewave (1985)

Girl in bar: You're cute.

Renaldo the Heel: Keep talkin', baby. 

Maybe you'll tell me something I don't already know.

Happy 65 to Sam Raimi!
Any fans of Crimewave up in here?

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Good Morning, World

Without having yet watched the apparently rather lurid Menendez Brothers series from Ryan Murphy I have  still managed to hear a lot about Monsters -- but I have somehow heard nothing about Javier Bardem in it? Whether he's good, bad, whatever -- I have heard nothing. So if you've watched the show -- how is he? 

Also, and of as much importance, all of the sexy photoshoots of the series's cast have focused on the young actors Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez -- at least The Gentlemen's Journal knew well enough we'd want to see some photos of Javier too! And photos taken by his lil' missus Penelope Cruz no less. Hit the jump for the whole hot shoot...

Boys Will Be Beefs

Back in February it was reported that the second season of Netflix's smash hit series Beef would be about dueling couples (meaning original stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong were not returning) and that said couples were going to be played by in one corner Charles Melton & Cailee Spaeny and in the other corner Jake Gyllenhaal & Anne Hathaway. This obviously excited me! But then the months passed and word was bandied about that our Brokeback besties Jake & Anne were not reuniting for whatever reason, and that Oscar Isaac & Carey Mulligan would be taking their roles instead. And today this has been confirmed as official, via Netflix themselves. And... as much as y'all know I love Jake and Anne... it's impossible to be angry about this swap. It's a good swap as far as swaps are concerned! I love all of these actors and will watch any combination of them go at each other. That said since it's what we're getting... let's hope Oscar & Charles "go at each other" like the lord intended. We deserve that dammit. 

Barry Keoghan Flies High

I should have known not to doubt in Andrea Arnold! I went into the Fish Tank director's latest film Bird with a bit of muted anticipation because the reviews I'd seen had been themselves muted, but I ended up love love loving the film when I saw it at NewFest last week -- and now I have written my review and you can read it at Pajiba. Starring both Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski -- talk about catnip to me -- along with newcomer Nykiya Adams, the film isadmittedly a stretch for Arnold, in that it's actually in the end a pretty optimistic movie (imagine that!) and it also wades further out into the realm of magical realism than she ever has before. I mention Alice Rohrwacher's movie Happy As Lazzaro in my review and that movie is very much a sibling to this one; if you've seen that movie then you'll know what I mean. Anyway go read my review and go see this movie when it's out in November! On top of everything else it's got what will inevitably be my favorite scene of the year! Here's the trailer:

Paul Mescal Getting In Gladiator Shape

The time has come for the Gladiator II workout videos! A staple of the PR push for movies where our favorite hot ass actors get into fighting shape we knew we'd be getting these for Paul Mescal beekcake-ening and sure enough, here they be. Well it's just one now but I foresee myself also making gifs out of like a Men's Health cover story video at some point in the near future and I am not mad about it. But for now just an official video!

Gladiator II is out on November 22nd -- pretty much the perfect Thanksgiving movie -- and you'll hear more from me when the time comes on it. Because oh right I saw it last night?

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Yes as I "hinted" at yesterday I was in the presence of Mr. Mescal himself, and saw the movie and the whole deal. You'll hear my opinion about the movie when the time comes but Mr. Mescal in person? All you could hope for. Funny, charming, somehow really genuine-seeming even though he's very much in the period of time where we're all staring dumbly at him not hearing a word he's saying. Honestly though I don't remember a single word he said. I was just like, "Look at that profile... those eyes... swoon..." Although I will say -- it was 80 degrees here in New York yesterday so the fact that he wore pants felt like a slap in the face. I don't care if this is a fancy movie premiere thing -- they make dress shorts now, Paul. Okay my leering aside let's hit the jump for more gifs so we can all leer at Paul together...

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