Say Good Night, François

In front of book-shelves, no less! The nerve! (via, thx Mac) Aaaanyway I don't know about you but I'm extremely thankful for this week to be over -- my mood has vacillated between bereft and savage with only brief moments of anything even resembling sane. It's all just a lot, you know? I know you know. I keep telling myself we're in this together and I should do my best to deliver wit and distracting gratuitousness to help us collectively dig ourselves out of the muck -- some weeks it's just easier than others and this has not been an easy week. Next week, as foretold earlier, NYFF press screenings kick off for me and there's going to be fits of silence about as I dive in with my whole ass -- I'm ecstatic to have proper shit to distract myself with because I think part of this week's problem has been that I have spent a lot of it just staring into the yawning, ever yawning, abyss. That's no good. That's what pictures of François Arnaud standing in front of book-shelves are supposed to fix dammit! Okay I'm done. Have a good weekend. Oh and go buy some of the shit I listed on eBay if you have a moment and the inclination. I have added tons of great film books this past week! Kthxbye.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Fury (1978)

Cheryl: Good lord, Pam, if you're 

that nervous, why don't you masturbate.

A happy 86 to the legend Brian De Palma today.

I Walked With a Black Zombie

One of the best movies that I saw at the Fantasia Fest in Montreal back in July was Maya Annik Bedward's horror documentary Black Zombie, which takes a glancing look at the subject of race via the eating-brains genre -- I wrote up my thoughts right here. And happily y'all didn't have to wait long to see it -- it's out in NYC and LA today! I imagine it will play some other places too, or perhaps hit streaming instead -- if I see that news I will share it. But if you're in either of thoise places go see it this weekend! It is super.

ETA oh also available today -- one of the year's best horror films Mārama just landed on Shudder! I wrote some very brief thoughts on it at this link -- if the phrase "Gothic Maori" doesn't make every nerve-ending of yours tingle and immediately run to Shudder then I cannot comprehend you. This movie is also getting a physical media release thanks to Vinegar Syndrome -- in case you missed that here's the link. Fuck Obsession, this one is so much better. 

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

You can join the DSA here. 

Also, as long as politics are up in our faces this morning -- hey, it's 9/11! As a person who watched the towers burn from the ground and spent that day waiting to find out if my friend who worked in them had survived (he did thankfully) I pretty much have a "shut the fuck up about 9/11" attitude at all times, but especially on anniversaries. My boyfriend had "Trying To Forget" buttons made a decade or so ago and that's deeply my vibe as far as 9/11 goes. I hate this day, I hate being forced to see pictures and videos of it for weeks on end, I hate listening to Republicans pretend they're patriotic and not fascist pigs (that last bit is evergreen). If Hasan Piker's bulge is what it takes to distract me from all of this bullshit so be it. 

Lee Pace Ten Times

I've been sitting here most of today thinking today was going to be a real bust, post-wise -- not much news was presenting itself and I haven't been feeling particularly inspired. Thankfully here at the last minute our favorite pie-maker swooped in and stripped off some clothes for Flaunt Magazine -- bless you for approximately the ten billionth time, Lee Pace! 

Not that Lee has to remove clothing to make our joints ache. Good grief he's a god among men. I haven't seen the Practical Magic sequel that he's promoting (I only just saw the first one last week!) but a good friend of mine saw an early screening and immediately texted me that Lee is naked in it so, you know, there's one reason to see it. But hit the jump for all these Flaunt photos for the time being...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Totally F***ed Up (1993)

Steven: Shit, it's hot!

Andy: Greenhouse effect. Acid rain, nuclear dumping,

no ozone left, the whole planet's a goner.
I give it another five years max.

A very happy birthday to the icon James Duval today!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Why are there like ten famous guys who look exactly like this right now? Not that I mind. I like this look. But I couldn't tell you which is which. Well except that I happen to know that this one here is Jack Innanen from the T.V. series Adults and I've really started to think I should watch Adults. The little bits I've seen around have made it seem very funny and good god could I use funny right now. So I ask y'all -- do you watch Adults? Is Adults funny?

The Boys From Belorado

Hey remember that movie La Bola Negra that I told y'all about last week when the first teaser trailer dropped? The really gay Spanish one? Yeah in related news I am heading out to see... some movie... right now. What movie? Who knows! Nobody will ever know. (I'm not humble-bragging -- I actually don't know if I am embargoed or not.) Anyway in continued related-or-not news La Bola Negra will be in U.S. theaters on October 16th before hitting Netflix after that. Just saying! Have a good night!

Hope in 200 Words or Less

Kind of astonishing that a movie that careens towards three hours is able to keep you hyperventilating on the edge of your seat for quite as long as Na Hong-jin's South Korean blockbuster does, but Hope is a rare breed -- a pile of pedal-to-the-metal monster-mayhem that obliterates any questions or doubts you might have before they can properly form in your head. Is there some extremely dodgy CG? Oh hell yes. Does it never let up long enough to let you know who any of its characters are? Oh double hell yes. I just complained about the same stuff in Adam Wingard's Onslaught a few days ago and yet somehow Hope, at three times the length of that film, is three times the movie even with the same deficits dangling about -- it's just that unlike Onslaught, which revels in showing us things we've seen before Xeroxed to lifelessness, Hope is constantly showing us things we've never seen before. Not this way. It's kind of like the opening scene of Bong Joon-ho's The Host meets Mad Max: Fury Road -- it's a breathless monster of a movie that will blow your hair right back.

Quote of the Day

"It’s so standardized that AI can step in because there’s not real storytelling,... It’s mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.”

We've seen so many exceptional talents, from Paul Schrader to Darren Aronofsky to Steven Soderbergh (ugh), expose their shittiness to embrace A.I. slop -- so when I first saw the words "Herzog" and "A.I." in the same title I winced for a moment, expecting horror. But no per usual Herzog's The Man. Thank goodness. Read about it here.

Dom Daddy Andy

The race for Best Actor at the Oscars this year seems super stacked, even to this here Oscar-agnostic -- everybody from Matt Damon for The Odyssey (please no)  to John Malkovich in Wild Horse Nine to Robert Pattinson in Primetime to Jack O'Connell in Ink and on and on. But the most interesting one to me (sight unseen still, mind you) is Andrew Scott in Elsinore, which just premiered at Venice and made Oprah cry in the street -- one because dear Andrew should have fucking won for All of Us Strangers and he wasn't even nominated. (Who, me bitter?) But two: as long as I've been writing this site I've been wondering who might be the first out gay to win an acting Oscar -- when I started it was really just Ian McKellen out there, but then there was Ben Whishaw (who I nicknamed "Our Great Gay Hope") and now we've got even more options including Andrew Scott yes but Colman Domingo seems possible these days as well. Or somebody could come speeding out of nowhere, of course -- there are enough out people acting these days to make that a possibility too! Golly things've changed. Anyway...

Gay Rights is getting to create your own TV series where Andrew Scott spits in your mouth

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM

... I'm not really here because of all that. Oscar talk was just the "respectable" chatter I could exploit befor segueing into our real reason for being here, which is the super sliutty clip that's been making the rounds of Andrew Scott in the upcoming series It Gets Worse. (More about the show here.) What, I'm not going to post this filth? My god. If Andrew can win an Oscar the same year he speaks the sentence "You're just a hole for Daddy" on-screen that would be more than I ever could've imagined being possible way back when! 

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

I will always take your bait, Karl Glusman.

 

Welcome To Hell

On the one hand I was feeling a little OTT bonkers there before lunch what with a great big pile of awesome things I absolutely had to post all at once dropping on my face -- three important movie trailers and a sexy new photoshoot of Josh O'Connor? Yes please. But on the other hand it's good I gifted y'all with a heap o' content that quick-like because I gots to go. I've got a early screening today. Actually this is probably the right moment to admit that it's basically lift-off for the Fall Movie Season right off the bat post-Labor-Day as I've got early screenings nearly every night this week and then next week NYFF press screenings begin and it gets really crazy. I'll only be online the first two days of next week! Movies movies and more movies -- I hope my fragile brain can keep up. (Editor's note from the future: Reader, it did not.) Anyway I'll be here most of this week save a few early disappearing acts -- you'll surely be sick of me by then. But will you be sick of that photo of Michael Fassbender? Yeah I thought so.

One other note of, uhh, note -- I once again spent most of the long weekend tearing apart my bookshelves and listing things on the ol' eBay for purchase, so please please please go check it out and help me get it all out of my house! Make offers -- I accept (reasonable) offers! I knew I was about to get really insanely busy, so I managed to get this shit done beforehand for a change -- for once I was on it. Probably because I really need the money right now??? Yeahhh my credit card debt has finally caught up to me -- I'm working on sorting that out but if anybody has any advice my ears are wide open. Or buy some stuff on eBay! Or donate money directly to your needy distracted and wholly self-destructive host via one of the links in the right-hand column. Or just send me a cartoon bomb in the mail to get it over with. Really, I'm open to all ideas!

My madness continues -- I have added SO MUCH to eBay for sale over this long weekend. LOTS of film and art books. Have at it (pleeeeease) www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM

And Then There Was Jake!

Okay now it's getting ridiculous -- did all of the PR people get together and conspire to make me a harried ball of overwhelm today? First it was Godzilla Minus Zero, then it was Artificial, and now in the span of an hour a third trailer aimed straight at my interests has dropped -- the teaser for M. Night Shyamalan's Remain starring one Jake Gyllenhaal! This is an inexplicable collab between Night and the writer Nicholas Sparks of all people so I have no idea what to expect... well except what this teaser tells us anyway, which a lot. Including...

... Jake apparently being shirtless for half of it?? 

But this movie isn't out until February so it's the furthest away and, given how much I'm already dealing with pshycologically and emotionally, I'm just setting this one on the back-burner for now. Watch:

Sam Altman's Twink Terrorist Compound

It's barely 11am the morning after a long holiday weekend and I am already spiralling into chaos -- they're throwing too much at me this morning! Literally seconds after I posted the longer trailer for NYFF World Premiere Godzilla: Minus One my inbox lit up with the teaser trailer for NYFF World Premiere Artificial from Luca Guadagnino! And it's everything I needed it to be, this teaser -- Gay Villain Sam Altman's Twink Terrorist Compound is all I needed to see. Luca has made the movie he needed to make. Now feed it to me! (Also I don't think I knew that Damon Albarn had done the music and to this Ravenous-score-fanatic that's got me extra tingly!)

Artificial opens in theaters on Christmas.
This and Werwulf! What a day!

Minus Zero = Everything

I am seeing Godzilla Minus Zero in just eighteen -- EIGHTEEN -- days when it World Premieres at the New York Film Festival and as if I wasn't already wetting myself they went and unloaded a longer trailer for the film than we'd seen previously (click here to see the first teaser) and I AM SO EXCITED. There is a moment mid-trailer when the aspect ratio changes that straight up had me levitating out of my office chair. No new sightings of NYC in this trailer (we saw the Statue of Liberty in the teaser) but they do let on that Godzilla has a foe showing up -- who do you think it will be? You can't really say that the first film in this series was necessarily "realistic" like Nolan did with his Batman movies but it was more realistic than they usually are, so I'm curious which of Godzilla's foes fit into that framework. Which is to say I would be very surprised to see twin lounge-singer sprites serenading a gigantic moth just yet. But who knows! Director Takashi Yamazaki no doubt has the freedom at this point to do whatever the hell he wants to. Let's hope that works out like it did last time!

Godzilla Minus Zero is in U.S. theaters November 6th.

OH MY GOD WHEN THE ASPECT RATIO BLEW OUT I ORGASMED www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0Y...

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 10:47 AM

Drew Starkey in Our Sights

Per usual I liked last week when I said I'd update my last post before the long weekend with a link to my review of Onslaught -- one I got fully settled into my puddle of laziness there just weren't no shaking it off. But this is a net good for you because now you get to stare at that sexy bonus photo of Drew Starkey while I play catch-up -- win win and winnnn. Click here to read my thoughts on Onslaught, which are... mixed, to put it mildly. I even went to see it a second time to see if my expectations had been to high the first time, to see if I might be able to enjoy it more on its own terms as a dumb thing, and nope -- it was even less fun on a second watch. (Except for Drew, who I think walks away with the movie -- yes even more than Dan Stevens doing his own weirdo thing.) Shrug. A shame.