Today's Mood

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 in 250 Words or Less

Just when you thought movies couldn't get worse than the first Five Nights at Freddy's was, along some the sequel to say "Wait hold up just a goddamned second you say you want one hundred of your minutes ripped violently out of your life with no recourse? We gotcha covered!" Well guess what, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 -- I became a movie critic just so I could have recourse, bitch! Small satisfaction, sure, but hey it's something. The thing that's so annoying about this franchise is the idea is fun and the animatronic monsters are superbly designed (thank you Jim Henson's Creature Shop) and I keep thinking they'll do something with this. Director Emma Tammi even made a wonderful horror movie called The Wind back in 2018. But these movies are so absurdly tedious, so deathly dull, so flat and ugly and boring and offensively dumb, I refuse to believe there's even anybody standing behind the camera. I could be convinced the camera was set up inside an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese, turned on by a breeze, and then just left there to capture whatever. Gently drifting spiderwebs would be more fascinating. These movies are cruel and vulgar tricks -- some real Lucy-yanking-the-football shit. And they didn't even give the Killer Cupcake anything to do in this one! Fuck outta here.

Timmys On Parade

Mr. Chalamet has been very kind sharing cute pictures of himself on social media the past several days as we storm towards the Marty Supreme release on Christmas Day (including a couple of ultra adorable ones with his new puppy!) and so I figured I'd round us up a quartet of them for our Timmy-ogling pleasure. My review of MS will be landing closer to its release but as I said on Bluesky when the social embargo broke -- he'd get my vote for Best Actor this year. I know he drives a lot of you nuts with his personal life nonsense et cetera but MNPP is firmly and probably forever ensconsed in the Pro-Timmy camp. The boy is just too fuckin' talented, dammit. Hit the jump for the rest of these photos...

Movie Posters Ahoy

Mubi Notebook published their annual list of the year's greatest movie posters today -- see it right here -- and I can't argue with anything! Especially since I ran out and bought a couple of the ones they listed the minute they went on sale or were available. Unfortunately (as far as I'm aware) the above poster for Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia (from noted genius Vasilis Marmatakis) has not been widely printed -- I have the one that was and I love it but I love this one even more. Same goes for Desi Moore's gorgeous poster for Mike Leigh's masterpiece Hard Truths, seen down below -- I've been looking for a couy of that since last fall to no avail. The other ones I have from that list are the original Eddington poster (which I prefer to the one they cite), Daniel Clowes' poster for the Telluride Fest this year (I didn't go to the fest but I had to own that poster) and the one for Hong Sangsoo’s movie By the Stream, which is a visual I completely fell in love with on first sight. I'm also super close to biting the bullet on the poster for Radu Jude's Dracula because it's made out of meat! How can you not be in love with meat? Anyway -- Yay posters! I love them so. Do y'all have any faves not mentioned?

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this? 

Good Morning, World

I have of course posted this iconic, fetish-defining moment of Jean-Claude Van Damme's in Bloodsport here on the site before -- with a few more gifs, see 'em here --but this week's news that several of JCVD's classics are hitting 4K early next year got me reminiscing. Unfortunately Bloodsport is not among them -- even the blu-ray is out of print! Don't they get it -- the people demand the above shot in 4K dammit! You'll be printing money! Anyway the one I'm genuinely considering buying, which is probably the worst one of them all truth be told, is Double Impact where he plays twins. It just doesn't get much more 80s-trashy than that movie, and I love it so. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Macbeth (2015)

Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

Wanna know whose movies need to start getting 4K upgrades like yesterday? Justin fuckin' Kurzel's, that's who. This movie and True History of the Kelly Gang specifically. Both abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous movies that I need to see better dammit. Anyway Kurzel's glorious and deeply underrated version of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard was released ten years ago today, if you can believe that. Go re-watch it and gape in wonder at how beautiful a film it is. We need to appreciate pretty things!

Brandon Sklenar Thirteen Times

One of these days I might even bother to see Brandon Sklenar in an acting project, but for the time being I am more than happy to come across him whenever he does these beefcake photoshoots for magazines (see also) -- oh wait! I looked at his IMDb and he was the male lead in that movie Drop. I saw that. It was fine? He was fine? I don't really remember it that well which is a shame because Meghann Fahy deserves projects one remembers. Maybe he does too!

Who knows. Actually scanning down his older movies -- Vice! Mapplethorpe! Midway! -- I guess I've seen him in plenty. I guess what I mean to say is "I will never watch that Blake Lively movie where everything went haywire and I first learned his name." And that much remains true. I'll probably end up seeing The Housemaid (his next movie) just because I love Amanda Seyfried, but that very much might be a "wait for home" thing.

Anyway I'm rambling because I'm trying to type this fast as my lunch is sitting in front of me getting cold (while the rest of me gets hot due to these photos) -- these photos coming at us via Flaunt magazine; you can read the chat with him here. Or, hey even better, you can just stare at him half-naked and soaking wet -- and do I spy with my little eye... pubes??? Oh Brandon. You shouldn't have -- ten more times after the jump...

Pic of the Day

It's your daily Pillion post! Okay I doubt I can keep this up until February when the movie comes out (especially with two weeks off at the end of this month) so -- enjoy it while it lasts! A new batch of behind-the-scens photos dropped (thx Mac) and you can see them all over here. This portrait of Alexander Skarsgård in his slutty wrestling singlet is the photo of choice, because duhh. But they're all lovely because this is a really lovely looking movie. It's wild that this is Harry Lighton's very first feature film. Good for him! And if you missed the photos of the Pillion cast in person -- which is to say, my person -- that I shared yesterday, see them here. 

Comeback Still Comin' Back

I actually don't want to know too much about the forthcoming season of the world's funniest television series The Comeback, and so I'm a little annoyed this article at Variety gave up some big information about the season's plot -- if you're like me let me save you from their flappy lips and give you the little details that won't ruin anything for you: one, Andrew Scott has joined the cast! Let's be real, that's why we're here posting. Because otherwise I haven't even posted any of the funny clips that have been dropped, even though they seem to exist outside the show itself. I don't wanna see that! That said we've only only got a few more months to try and dodge all of the information that'll be swerving towards us -- the other big news drop is that HBO will be premiering the third season in March! Four months! We can survive that right? Sigh, who knows these days. And here's the first official image of our lady Cherish:

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

And thank you, Garrett Wareing.

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John Waters Rams 2025 Down Our Throats

Fuck off, National Board of Review -- the only Top 10 Movies of 2025 list that matters is here to fist us in our brains! Head on over to Vulture to read John Waters' ten favorite movies of 2025 -- it's got everything from Ari Aster's latest to the new Final Destination movie, and those are just his first two choices! Also per usual his list is like 50% stuff I haven't seen even though I see so many fucking movies every year -- John always sees more! The new Bruno Dumont movie and the one called Room Temperature both sound like must-finds to me. Anything stand out to you people?

In Spaceships They Won't Understand

Ever since it was announced a month ago that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's fantastic score for Luca Guadagnino's film Queer is getting a vinyl release -- out in nine days, pre-order it right here! --  I've been nursing a hankering to re-watch the movie. (Read my review here.) And now my hanker has gotten itself goosed because the film's supporting sexpot Drew Starkey has just lined up a new killer role -- he'll be starring Deep Cuts, in the new movie from Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest director Sean Durkin! (Yes I ignore The Iron Claw, as it deserves.) And just as exciting -- his co-star is Cailee Spaeny, who I have loved in everything to date, but most especially Priscilla. (She's ace in the new Knives Out movie too, by theway.) 

Deep Cuts is an adaptation of a bestseller by Holly Brickley (which came out at the start of this year) that sounds a lot like it's trying to be for the Aughts what (oh let's just go with the classic example) American Graffiti was for the 1960s -- a nostalgic encapsulation of a recent time period, or as Deadline puts it "a love story about two music- obsessed twenty- somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade." I guess it was formerly supposed to star Saoirsie Ronan and Austin Butler, but no more. I find it much easier to picture Drew as an "Indie Sleaze" sex-god -- he's basically been having photos of himself taken in that drag for the past few years! See that photo above for proof. Anyway this'll be especially interesting to me since it'll be aiming to capture (at least in part) the Brooklyn music scene in the 2000s, which I very much partook in -- it's always a hoot to see a time and place you walked through turned into a rose-colored memory, and yes by "hoot" I do mean "yet another nail in my coffin."

The Daily Pillion Post

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Just in case staring at beautiful and talented men being funny and thoughtful and charming whilst speaking about a wonderful piece of exceptionally horny gay art they created together is your thing (and I am assuming here at MNPP that it would be) there above are some photos and videos from last night's special Pillion screening here in NYC last night. Disgustingly handsome writer-director Harry Lighton is seen there sandwiched between his two stars, Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, just as we all would be so fortunate to be. What a trio! What a movie! Read my review here if you have not done so yet. And thus went my daily Pillion post.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Pic of the Day

Variety revealed their annual end-of-year batch of "Actors on Actors" pairings this morning -- see them all here -- but the one we're most excited for, naturally, is the pairing of David Corenswet and Jonathan Bailey. For reasons that are known to them. And you. And to every creature on Earth and outer space probably as well. This chat between the two gets dropped on December 7th. GIMME! 

Jonny! Keep your hands where we can see them (or don't)

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Good Morning, World

Sometimes I feel like I'm stretching the boundaires of what a "Good Morning, World" post is supposed to be -- it's supposed to be, in a perfect world, a photograph of an attractive actor doing something morning related, like waking up in bed, showering, or standing around in a bathrobe and boxer shorts with milk and cereal. But not today! No stretching for Fabien Frankel today! (Don't say it, don't say it...) The dreamy House of the Dragon and Task actor (who's been on our radaer ince The Serpent way back) gave us an ideal "Good Morning" post today with his new photoshoot for The Gentlemen's Journal. You can read his interview over here. And then you can hit the jump for the photos...

Tom Blyth Eight Times

Just a quick heads-up before I run out the door for that Pillion screening I mentioned this morning that what's probably my second favorite gay movie of 2025, the 90s set drama Plainclothes starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, has gotten a blu-ray drop date! It's hitting physical media on January 6th and you can pre-order it right at this link. And if you need me to make my case on why it's so good that it's worth buying read my review at Pajiba from when it screened at Sundance forever ago. And bonus, this gives me a good excuse to post this photoshoot of the beautifully pillow-lipped Mr. Blyth for Sharp magazine (via) that I missed several weeks back -- everybody wins. Hit the jump for them all...

Shell in 150 Words or Less

Like so many people places and thing-like things this 2024 body horror movie about the beauty industry got fully stampeded and ground to dust by Monstro Elisasue and the ladies of the other, better 2024 body horror movie about the beauty industry, The Substance. And Shell ain't no The Substance. But it's perfectly fun and 100% worth circling back to now that the shadow of Margaret Qualley yanking a chicken leg out of her bellybutton doesn't loom quite so large. Consider it the Ugly Betty to Demi's Veronica. Director Max Minghella and screenwriter Jack Stanley don't have anything up their sleeve as daring as Coralie Fargeat did, but when a movie basically reenacts the last scene of John Waters' Multiple Maniancs with what must have been millions more dollars I still have to hand it some slow clap. Moss & Hudson both having a hoot.