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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.

Jeremy Allen White One Time

Obviously we're all disappointed that he's wearing clothes this time -- the last time Calvin Klein showed JAW off it was a bulge riot. That itty bitty sliver of cum-gutter skin is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. But I'll take it! (via) Especially compared to the new Alexander Skarsgård picture which is showing off even less. What do they think, they're selling clothes or something???

We Hold These Hard Truths To Be

Time for another NYFF review! Click on over to Pajiba for my thoughts on Hard Truths, Mike Leigh's triumphant (seriously triumphant) reunion with his Secrets & Lies actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Every time I see a new Mike Leigh movie I am reminded of how grateful I am to exist in the timeline where Mike Leigh gets to make movies and this one, small and absolutely piercing, will stand among his best. This will be on my Best Movies of 2024 list, you best believe it, so pay attention!

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Hey Look It's a Bob Dylan Movie

Whilst I was scuttled away in an NYFF screening this morning the first trailer for A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring our boy Timmy C, dropped -- I'm on the record (probably more than once) in admitting I could give a shit about Bob Dylan, so I'm not the primary audience for this. But that cast is something! Besides Tim-Tim there's Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Scoot McNairy as Woody Gurthie, Ed Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Elle Fanning as "Some Girl." (I think she's playing a made-up character? No doubt to show how the great man changes as he becomes great, like usual. God I could write the script for this movie right now, feels like. Anyway this is a trailer for this movie and I am now back at my desk from my morning screening.

A Complete Unknown is out on Christmas Day. 

Thoughts, if you care?

The Rumours Are True

Well now we're getting somewhere! This here Monday brings you my first review out of this year's New York Film Festival -- I am a slow one, I will be the first to admit it. But I really prefer to let movies marinate in my brain before plopping out a pile of thoughts and thankfully my editors at Pajiba are okay with that. Anyway I'll be dropping several reviews this week so our long national nightmare of waiting for my personal opinion has finally ended, huzzah. First up are my thoughts on Rumours...

... the new, weird, and completely hilarious Guy Maddin flick (co-directed by the brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, who've co-directed Maddin's last several films) -- this one has Maddin's biggest name cast to date (including Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander) and I don't think I have laughed harder in a theater this year? Read my review right here. This one is out super soon -- it hits theaters on October 18th! So below is the trailer. I don't recommend skipping this one -- it's very funny and very smart about the overwhelming hopelessness of right now. Yes -- somehow that's funny! Bless Guy Maddin. 

Oscar Isaac Nine Times

The clothing brand Brioni has wisely decided to keep Oscar Isaac on for another advertising campaign (see the previous one here), as all they need to do is photograph him manspreading in their clothes at crotch-level to make the internet spontaneously combust -- mission accomplished! These new snaps (via) have got my bisuits burning anyway. Hit the jump for them all...

Happy Monday From Russell Tovey

I have finally started keeping track of Russell Tovey's thirst-traps of the day in a thread on Twitter, but I started the thread a little late; I wasn't expecting him to keep going with it -- silly me! Anyway the thread now has Monday, Thursday, and Saturday -- there's also a Wednesday photo (see it here) but he posted that one before I got the thread going so I'll re-post it in two days on Wednesday where it belongs, to keep the thread up to date. Anyway that leaves three more days of the week, Russell! And you'd better not leave us hanging. I need a complete set!

Today's Mood

My schedule had a wrench thrown into it this morning so unlike what I said in this morning's post I am actually not at a NYFF screening but at my desk. Which involved some activity very much like the photo above of Timothee Chalamet seen on the set of Marty Supreme, his movie with Josh Safdie (the bearded one below) that's currently filming here in NYC. The pap snaps from set have been relentless -- the suits and staches are snap worthy indeed -- and I keep hoping I will bump into the production. But that's unlikely given how I am usually in three places these days -- my office, a NYFF screening room, or the floor of my apartment gently weeping. I was kind of hoping Timmy might be at that fancypants Queer screening I attended yesterday to say hey to his pal Luca (or Josh O'Connor -- I would've taken Josh O'Connor!) but no such luck. 

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Good Morning, World

Hello my people, and happy Monday. From model-actor Jon Kortajarena (via) and myself, of course. Guess what? You'll never, ever guess. Yes it's true -- I am not actually here. NYFF screenings are still a'happenin', and I'm at one this very morning. I will be back this afternoon though, so hopefully that photo of good ol' Jon will keep you satisfied until I'm back. I should actually have some reviews going up shortly, so that's exciting. Also below are some photos I took of the Queer crew at a screening yesterday -- Luca, Daniel, Drew, Justin and Jonathan oh my! BTW if you click through my Insta you'll also see photos of Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, and John Turturro at NYFF for The Room Next Door on Friday! I'm living it up y'all! Stay tuned for more soon-ish...

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Happy 50, Female Trouble

I have seen it said that John Waters greatest movie Female Trouble was premiered in Baltimore on October 4th 1974 or October 11th 1974, but whether it's this week or next week I think we can all agree -- I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if I was suffocating and there was oxygen in your balls! In all seriousness -- okay "seriousness" seems like the worst word when it comes to this movie? But in all truth this is my favorite John Waters joint of them all. Every single line of dialogue is hilariously funny and quotable from start to finish, and every character is an icon -- from Taffy to the Dashers to Aunt fucking Ida on down! Anyway since I'm indeed offline again today for NYFF screenings -- and it's happily a very queer day too with Pedro Almodovar and Luca Guadagnino's new movies on the menu! -- please regale me with your favorite bits and bobs from this perfect masterpiece in the comments so I have something to read when I'm back. And never forget -- pretzels give you plaque.

Alessandro Nivola Fourteen Times

There are many reasons to be excited about seeing Brady Corbet's epic film The Brutalist when it hits theaters in December, but I'll get into those when my review of the film from NYFF (eventually) goes up. So let me give you a small taste with these new photos of actor and longtime MNPP fave Alessandro Nivola via The Italian Reve (where they also include a very long chat with him; read that at the link)., because one thing I will say beforehand since it's frivolous all things considered and has no enormous bearing on the movie's richness and worth -- Corbet shoots the hell out of Nivola, to the point where it might be the best he's ever looked on-screen? It's up there anyway. But if that ain't a reason to be excited about the movie then I don't know cinema. Anyway not that it's hard but they also made him look like a million bucks in these photos, so you can hit the jump for a pile of these photos...

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Happy...

... Thursday! Yes somehoiw it is Thursday and we thank Russell Tovey for keeping track of these things for us. (And throwing beefcake in with it -- what a mensch. Oh that all calendars were so gratuitous.) Anyway hello! Popping in for a quick hello (now acheieved) in the middle of NYFF craziness. Don't want you to think these plaid pants have been mothballed. I will try to post some more this afternoon -- right this second I'm back to my desk and trying to shovel some late lunch down my gullet -- so stay tuned!

Good Morning, World

Surprise! I know I said in yesterday's single, solitary post that I was off today and wouldn't be posting anything but then I saw this gif of Harris Dickinson dancing shirtless in the Babygirl trailer going around and I was like... yeah, post that. Do it for your people! I'm actually pretty sure most of y'all caught it already but if not -- there is Harris Dickinson dancing shirtless in the Babygirl trailer. It's exactly like I said it would be, right? Babygirl, the new movie from Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn about a dom-sub relationship between Harris and one Nicole Kidman, got stellar reviews when it played Venice and TIFF and I can't wait for it -- wait I will have to though since it's not out until Christmas. Christmas is sure crowded this year though with this, the Robbie Williams biopic starring a CG monkey, Timothee Chalamet's Bob Dylan movie, and Robert Eggers' Nosferatu! Get out of the way, Jesus!

Manny Jacinto Seven Times

Hey everybody! It's my daily pop-in from the middle of my NYFF press screenings -- and since nothing pops quite the way that Manny f'ing Jacinto pops let's pop with Manny, ehh? Manny pops. These are for Vogue Phillippines (via) and good work, Vogue Phillippines. Anyway posting is going to get very dire indeed this week from this point on out -- I'm in screenings all day tomorrow, then it's another half-day Thursday, and then I am off all day Friday again. (Queer! Queer is happening on Friday!) But I think I chose wisely for a person for y'all to "make due" with until i can posrt again proper-like, wouldn't you say? Hit the jump for Manny and still even more Manny...

Fancy Man Says Hello

I know you might be confused but no that is not a picture of me at the New York Film Festival opening night party that happened this past weekend -- those pictures are down below. That is Kit Harington, former Game of Thrones actor and current owner of my ass (yeah I wish) wearing a full-on Disney Prince tuxedo for some reason I don't care to google. (It might be from his series Industry?) Anyway I'm at my desk after another morning of NYFF screenings -- follow me on my social media accounts if you want real time updates on my every goddamned move. I give it all away! I don't want my stalkers to have to work too hard. That's my advice -- me nice to your stalkers, everybody. You never know when you're gonna need them. Anyway as mentioned in this morning's pre-written post this week is nuts with NYFF stuffs so we'll be posting very, very sporadically. Reviews will start popping up at some point. Until then, enjoy Kit! And me too:

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Good Morning, World

I enjoyed last week's Andrew Scott sex-a-palooza too much to let it go without a fight -- or perhaps we'll call it an epilogue. It's a little early on a Monday for fights. Anyway to make up for the absence of any more new photos here is an old one that I don't believe I have ever posted on here before. look at that little babe! I wonder what year this was taken? If anybody knows -- Andy do you hear me? -- share the info in the comments. 

In other very important business -- NYFF is really in the thick of it this week so I'm technically not here this morning? I'm not posting from the great beyond or anything -- I just planned ahead, and I will forgive you for that blowing your mind so much since I know I'm a lifelong practicer of being shit at planning ahead. But every single morning this week I will be in press screenings, and Wednesday and Friday I am off entirely. So cherish whatever bits I throw you this week is my point. Bits and butts, my speciality...