Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... doing "press" with the Warfare cast.

As I said yesterday when I posted more of Noah Centineo's most recent photoshoot the press push for Alex Garland's upcoming war film with a cast of ten thousand hotties has lots of possibility, and I ain't just dreaming -- this is real, this is really happening! The guys seem to've been feeling especially frisky while talking to EW for this cover-shoot. At this rate, with nine days to still go til release, they'll be frotting by Monday. Huzzah!

The week of sexy #Warfare cast photos continues

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Do Dump or Marry: The New Beatles

Last night at CinemaCon Sam Mendes unveiled the four actors he's cast to play The Beatles in four yes four seperate movies, each one focusing on a single member -- there's Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney. Love all these actors -- you'll see Quinn in Warfare soon enough but that was when I finally decided I am a fan of him -- but as I've probably said on this site a few times over the past twenty years I just do not give a shit about The Beatles. And I don't say that to posture myself as Too Cool or above anything; I recognize that they were an earthquake in music and they have some perfectly good songs but JFC I cannot be bothered. Put their music catalogue or Radiohead's in front of me and I think you can guess where I'll wander. Anyway this will probably turn out to be an interesting expiriment -- telling their story from each point of view -- so if for no other reason we'll be watching. But for right now I invite you to "Do Dump or Marry" these four actors (and as always when there's four feel free to double up on one of those choices) in the comments! (And "Do" = spend one night with; "Dump" = spend zero nights with, and "Marry" equals "spend all the nights with" of course.)

Good Morning, World

Good morning from the Ratliff boys coming to you from the 

shores of sunny Thailand! Nothing but a positive outlook for them! 

So... who do you think dies?

Saddle Up, Buckaroo Boy

He might not be as evidently nude as he was the last time he fell into our lasso loop, but actor-slash-otter Justin Chatwin was kind enough to share a few new photos from his ongoing disrobed Western adventures this weekend and I was kind enough to post them all over on ye Tumblr -- and that seems a nice way to send us off into the sundown of this Monday. See y'all on the yonder, my fairweather calico queens.

Oh and as an entirely unrelated aside since some of you ask me for updates whenever this happens -- I spent some time over the weekend again sorting through my enormous movie collection and I dumped a large pile of DVDs for sale onto eBay! Here is the link. Lotsa gay shit this time around. Make me offers! I just want this extraneous shit outta my house -- it's eating me alive!

Pics of the Day

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On Thursday I was fortunate enough to attend the 20th anniversary screening of the film version of Strangers With Candy (which is finally getting a new physical media release soon, they told us!) at the IFC Center here in New York, and above are a few photos and one video from the Q&A that followed with Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello -- a Q&A that was moderated by Cole Escola no less! Cole of course co-starred with Amy on the brilliant three seasons of the far-too-hard-to-now-find series At Home with Amy Sedaris. Anyway in the video I shared Sedaris brings up a sequel idea that would see our queen Jerri Blank now attending college, and it looks like I have a new impossible thing to pin all of my hopes and dreams upon y'all! Cole could bring their At Home character of Chassie along for the ride -- have her be a mean sorority sister who torments Jerri. I MUST HAVE IT.

Boundless By the Time I Cried

My morning commute to work is often the shittiest time of the day for me to be trapped on a subway train because around 9am is when all sorts of things drop, and I go into a panic that said things -- I do love my things! -- will be sold out by the time I'm above ground and with service again in order to buy said things. So it went this morning when Sufjan Stevens announced a 10th anniversary re-release of his masterpiece album Carrie & Lowell -- don't fret though, I got mine! And you can get yours at this link. As you can see below the new vinyl looks like a stunner and it's got seven previously unreleased tracks... including a demo version of the Call Me By Your Name track "Mystery of Love"! And you can listen to that track above. Since I'm at work I haven't been able to listen to it myself yet so you tell me what you think in the comments. I am doubtless obsessed even unlistened.

Noah Centineo Fourteen More Times

I was reminded this morning by a kind reader (hello Eric!) that over the weekend a big new batch of Noah Centineo photos dropped from his ceaseless Behind the Blinds magazine photoshoot -- mind you this is a photoshoot that's already given us a couple dozen photos that I posted here, and here, and here! They never go soft! (Do I make the "go hard" joke? Or have you all already done it for me?) But Reader Eric actually shared something altogether different with us -- specificlaly this:

I am already infatuated with the press run for Warfare y'all. I knew when that cast was announced we'd be having some fun and I wasn't wrong. I hope somebody gets the guys together for a group photoshoot -- it can be military-themed. I'm down with some swarthy Jarhead action. Anyway they better get on it since Warfare is out in less than two weeks. I hope to be posting something about the movie every day! And for today we've got more Noah and that sits good with me. Hit the jump for it...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Sam Claflin's got something to say!
(via) And I am sort of listening.
His chest is very distracting though.

First Comes Peace, Then Comes Out

Well I hate to do it to y'all but I'm making like Will Poulter there and peacing out for the weekend -- leaving now for a screening and then I've got a big fun root canal happening tomorrow morning so I'm just taking off the entire day. Wheeeeeeee, that will surely be a blast -- I'll think I'll spend some time going through more movies etc. to list on eBay. Sort through the pain! Speaking of though if you missed my begging post yesterday about my neediness click here -- this looming dental work is a part of that that I didn't mention! But thanks to everybody who's been kind enough to donate already -- it means a lot to me. Moving on -- I haven't got any reviews hitting this weekend but I will say that if you feel like seeing that "Naomi Watts and a big dog" movie The Friend I recommend it -- I saw it at NYFF in the fall and it's surprisingly low-key and moving and Watts is wonderful in it. I know when you hear it's a movie about people dealing with big animals in small apartments you think you've immediately got the entire movie written in your head but I promise you The Friend will surprise you. It's a lovely little piece of work. 

Oh and since I brought up Will Poulter up top this is also a good moment to share the below clip from his new movie Death of a Unicorn (also out this weekend), which showcases a scene that was the movie's highlight for me. Which isn't to say that I didn't like the movie -- it's a lot of goofy fun (Teo Leoni and Richard E Grant are hilarious) if perrrrhaps a tad too long -- but rather that if you have now-era Will Poulter in nothing but a pair of soaking wet shorts getting out of a hot tub, then that's gonna be your movie's highlight for me. That's just math. Have a good weekend, everybody.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Passenger (1975)

The Girl: Isn't it funny how things happen? All the shapes 

we make. Wouldn't it be terrible to be blind? 

David: I know a man who was blind. When he was 

nearly 40 years old, he had an operation and regained his sight.

The Girl: How was it like?

David: At first he was elated... really high. Faces... colors... 

landscapes. But then everything began to change. The world 

was much poorer than he imagined. No one had ever told him 

how much dirt there was. How much ugliness. He noticed 

ugliness everywhere. When he was blind... 

he used to cross the street alone with a stick. 

After he regained his sight... he became afraid. 

He began to live in darkness. He never left his room. 

After three years he killed himself.

God I love The Passenger. Really I love every Antonioni movie I've seen so I should 1) binge more of them because there's a lot I haven't seen and 2) write about his work more. (I mean I watch Blow Up when I need to relax.) Anyway to get to the point actress Maria Schneider was born 73 years ago today. (She passed away in 2011.) Besides starring opposite Jack Nicholson in the above movie she's of course best known for starring opposite Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. And coincidentally there's a movie about Schneider's disturbing experiences making Tango with Brando & director Bernardo Bertolucci that's in theaters right now! It's called Being Maria and I'll share the trailer down below. Anamaria Vartolomei plays Schneider and Matt Dillon plays Brando, while...

... the extremely hot Italian actor Giuseppe Maggio plays Bertolucci in what you might be forced to call an exxxtreme glow-up. That was certainly a choice. A lot of one. That said I haven't seen Being Maria yet, but I've got a screener so hopefully I can dive in this weekend. I'm extremely curious to see how it tackles all the shit that Maria went through making that movie. Here's that trailer:

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Pic of the Day

As stated last evening I did indeed get to go and see Paul Mescal play Stanley Kowalski in the new production of the Teneessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire currently running at BAM in Brooklyn -- if that photo I took during the bows last night didn't clue you in to that fact already. It's a very fine production and all three leads -- alongside our Paul (who I suppose I should note given my audience is in his underwear twice and shirtless several times -- I was in the front row only ten feet away y'all and I kept myself seated; please clap!) there's Patsy Ferran (from my beloved Living with Bill Nighy!) as Blanche and Anjana Vasan (from Killing Eve) as Stella and they're all very very good. I had a couple quibbles with the staging, but then I have got to admit that having seen Gillian Anderson play Blanche in 2016 kinda spoiled me on this play -- she gave what I called at the time the greatest stage performance I'd ever seen, and that remains true today. Anderson played Stella as very much a larger than life archetype though, making the show mythic in its proportions; Ferran smartly brings the character down to earth and so her performance, while not quite as shattering for me, stood on its own. And I think Mescal was a better Stanley than Ben Foster was opposite Anderson -- now I'm picturing Paul & Gillian doing the show together and kapow, mind blown. Anyway I'm very happy I was able to get out of my foul headspace last night and escape into somebody else's foul headspace for a bit -- thanks, Tenneessee! Below are a couple more photos I took:

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Gooding Morning, World

Here are three photos that Mason Gooding felt kind and generous enough to share with us on Instagram this week -- say thank you, everybody!

Tonight's Mood

Right on time to temporarily take my mind off my troubles I'm off to see Paul Mescal in the touchable flesh in the Brooklyn re-staging of A Streetcar Named Desire that he's starring in, after it's been carried over from London -- a couple of desperately needed hours of respite, long sighhhh. So needed. I'll probably spend the majority of the show feeling like he looks in the above photo from the show but hey -- at least I''ll be far uglier while doing it! Wow, a real ball of sunshine over here. Anyway! I might stake out the stage door after the show to get my [redacted] signed by Paul (from what I can tell he's been generous in that regard) so keep your eyes on my Insta maybe. Until tomorrow...

Pics of the Day

While we (impatiently) wait for Plainclothes, the 90s-set gay drama starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey to hit theaters -- although my waiting is probably less impatient than your waiting since I have already seen the movie thanks to Sundance, and reviewed it right here -- that movie's leading man Tom Blyth, who is excellent in it, has news of his next project to share. Specifically some photos he took in Senegal where he just finished shooting Claire Denis' next one titled The Cry of the Guards. It also stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Matt Dillon, and Isaach De Bankolé, and here's how Variety describes it: "The story unfolds over the course of one night near a construction site in Senegal, where a group of workers are confronted by a man seeking justice for his brother’s death at the site." Sounds like a Claire Denis movie! Anyway post-Plainclothes I'll be following Blyth pretty much anywhere but a Claire Denis movie isn't a hard sell at all. Hit the jump for a few more of his photos...

Beggars Off Russell's Backside

Hey look it's Russell Crowe's bum in Virtuosity! Remember when that happened? That was a nice time for the entire family. Pretty sure this was the first time I ever saw Mr. Crowe and while I can't say that I have resolutely stayed a fan of his through the decades this was a perfect introduction. Anyway now that I have your attention this is one of those posts I hate posting but I am feeling the need to today given some unexpected financial difficulties -- and yes I'm deeply aware the world is burning so please feel free to skip on past if you're unable. There are also way more important causes to donate to right now -- I recommend the ACLU first and foremost. But if you have got an extra cent or ten after you've done that why not head on over to my eBay store and buy some movies from me? Like the 4K of Virtuosity, even! (I also added a couple of Michael Haneke box-sets which are total steals!) Plus vinyl and books and posters -- I've got tons of entertainment shite for sale and you can make offers on everything; don't feel the need to pay full price. Or if you don't want anything but would still like to help here is a link for that.You can also set up a monthly subscription over there in the right-hand column too. Or if you wanna use Venmo message me. I seriously appreciate any help, always and forever. Y'all rule. If blogging really dumb thoughts were pennies I'd be a millionaire, but unfortunately I'm just sort of treading (under)water these days. Thanks y'all, from both me and the Crowe butt. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Zone of Interest (2023)

Rudolf Höss: I wasn't really paying attention... I was too 

busy thinking how I would gas everyone in the room.

A happy 60 to the brilliant Jonathan Glazer today.

(Read my review of this masterpiece here.)

The Best Part of Breakin' Up

I guess the little nip of a taste of awards heat that Zendaya felt for her work in Challengers got to her because she's signed up for the surest thing going, nomination-wise -- a music biopic! She's going to star in a movie about the legendary singer Ronnie Spector. Thankfully she's hauling along some Grade A behind-the-scenes talent to make it happen though -- it will be written by Bones and All and Suspiria scribe Dave Kajganich (so one of Luca's right hand men) and it will be directed by, drum roll please, one Mr. Barry Jenkins! And the crowd goes wild. That's the good shit right there. So happy to have Barry off of Disney live-action-ing duties. Ronnie Spector of course had a wild life and the film will focus in on the wildest part, her marriage and partnership with Phil Spector. So uhh who plays Phil then? Any casting suggestions?