Wail On

There's a good chance that some of you International Readers outside of the U.S. have already seen the movie I'm about to link my review to -- Spanish director Pedro Martín-Calero's film The Wailing came out in his home country last year and it's traveled around from there. But it hasn't gotten any release in North America save a few festivals and I'm hoping the good word of mouth changes that quickly, cuz this movie rules. Click here to read my review at Pajiba -- I saw it up in Montreal at Fantasia a couple of weeks ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. It's very good! And it's Martín-Calero's very first movie so let's hope we hear more from him. Once we're able to hear this from him, anyway. One movie that kept coming to mind, although I didn't mention it in my review, was Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria -- so that tells you something about how impressive I found it! 

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... Austin Nichols' wipe-downer. (via)

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What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

(via) Russell Tovey wearing Luke Evans' speedo?
These bros out here trying to straight up murder us.

Race With the Glusman

Some movies just feel like they were made very specifically for me first. Like it'll be nice if everybody else likes them but first and foremost somebody was like, "Let's give Jason Adams a nice day. He's earned it." Needless to say, narcissist that I am, I approve of these rare but ocassional efforts to up my mood. I need 'em. And weirdly many of them star Karl Glusman, who I'm pretty sure I might just be the world's biggest, or at least most vocal, fan of. I have no idea if anybody else cares about him but one look through our archives on the Please Baby Please and Neon Demon star -- we have documented every goddamned moment since he caught first our eye in Gaspar Noé's 3D sex-and-misery-capade Love... and hey, I just realized that movie came out 10 years ago! And weirdly, as if continuing the bizarre theme of Karl Glusman being made for me that I'm insisting on here, Love was released in most places (not the U.S.) on July 15th, aka my birthday. I'm telling you. Kismet.

Anyway that all means that I've posted about Karls' upcoming action-comedy Eenie Meanie several times already -- it's from a dude who worked on some John Wick stuff and it also stars Samara Weaving, aka one of my favorite actresses working today -- she just keeps being awesome in everything, even nonsense like the last Scream movie and Babylon. Always on poiunt, that one! And so many of the images released from this movie have been of Karl half-naked, which helps as well. Well now that we've got a trailer (thanks Mac) we know why -- he spends a chunk of the movie half-naked! Hashtag blessed et cetera. Watch:

Eeenie Meanie is going straight to Hulu on August 22nd, which is a little bit annoying -- I'd like to see this on a big screen! But whatever gets it in my eyes the fastest is good. And I think the trailer looks like a whole lot of fun! But with Karl I'm probably just brainwashed at this point. Okay brainwashed is generous. I think the word I'm looking for is "dickmatized." Whatever! If the rubber fits. Ahem. Hit the jump for a couple more Karl gifs...

Pic of the Day

Just a little something to cheer us up.

To make us gay(er)! The Bette shirt, I mean.

The Life of Chuck in 200 Words or Less

Flat visuals, costumes, and some of the most truly inane messaging this side of a dollar store greeting card -- this movie is like somebody wrote a full length screenplay for one of those prescription drug commercials where everybody's wearing solid knits and drinking margaritas on sunny terraces as their depression turns to ash in their mouths. Truth be told The Life of Chuck may induce a cold sweat, nausea, vomiting, seizures, more vomiting, testicular regression, fire and brimstone, dry eyes, an online gambling addiction, Akathisia, simultaneous constipation and diarrhea, chest pain, heart attack, your full torso spontaneously turning into those big snapping jaws of teeth like that dude in John Carpenter's The Thing, drowsiness, coma, tinnitus, voluntary Tourettes, necrophilia, proptosis, an outburst of immediate and unrelenting misanthopy, rashes, hives, leprosy, all ten Biblical Plagues plus a few more plagues that god couldn't have even thought of at the time, sugar spikes, dry mouth, vanishing fingerprints, vanishing fingers, your image disappearing from all known photographs because this movie went back in time and stopped your parents from ever having sex, night sweats, night terrors, day sweats, day terrors, headaches, and so, so, so much suicidal ideation. Also death.

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Anirudh Pisharody

It's been a hell of an annoying morning (slash 24 hours) (slash 9 years) so let's just jump right into this one -- Anirudh Pisharody is one of those actors that I've never seen in anything, but who I started following him on Instagram for reasons this post will make very very clear.  I guess he's on 9-1-1 and I've seen a few episodes of that. And he was on Never Have I Ever and I've at least heard of that, But that's all we got. 

Visually though, we have lots of reasons -- especially since he has spent the past couple of days unloading twenty-two photos from a single shirtless gray-sweatpanted photoshoot that caught or attention once twice and third time's a charm. Thanks so much, Anirudh! Now I can put this morning's nightmare commute behind me and focus on something far sweeter after the jump...

Quote of the Day

Interview Magazine got writer-director Ari Aster to sit down and chat with Babygirl writer-director and former actress Halina Reijn, which isn't a combo I would've thought of but apparently they're friends. That said exactly what I wanted to happen happened in the course of their conversation, which is Aster brought up Paul Verhoeven because Reijn acted in Verhoeven's masterpiece Black Book. Anyway both Aster and Reijn both say a lot of great things about Verhoeven but this quote from Ari seems especially important to me in the wake of Eddington, a movie a lot of people definitely misunderstood:

"[Verhoeven]’s always risking being misconstrued. He has this really impish, ironic sensibility where he genuinely loves the genres that he’s working in. So he’s making these films that function absolutely as just straight genre films, and then at the same time they’re incredibly politically subversive. Satire is harder and harder to come by because people don’t really have the nerve for it. They end up wanting to just explain themselves to make sure that they’re understood, which is not how satire should work. It should risk being misunderstood. There have been a lot of films of his that were not understood upon release, and that must have been painful for him. But he never learned the wrong lesson from that. If anything, he doubled down."

As I off-handedly admitted in my review of Eddington I had to go back the movie a second time before writing my review because I could tell it was going to be an entirely different movie a second time through, and sure enough the tone that was knocking me off balance the first time fell completely into place on view two. After the above quote Aster brings up the confused initial reception to Starship Troopers, and I think that's a perfect comparison for Eddington -- basically I think people are going to be embarassed in twenty years for not seeing Eddington's brilliance, and I'm glad I squeezed myself through to the right side of history!

Charlie Cox Three Times

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Good Morning, World

I thought I'd been doing a better job with posting all the otter-esque adorableness that Justin Chatwin's been dropping on his Instagram lately, but a check through our Justin Chatwin archives shows I haven't posted anything in two month. And there's been more than enough unloaded in that time to justify a fresh post. So let's get fresh! Hit the jump for a perfect Hump Day hit of hirsute hotness...

Jerskin It

I'm at work so I haven't been able to watch this yet myself but I figure maybe some of you freaks will be as excited about this as I am -- Yorgos Lanthimos has directed a music video starring Emma Stone for a song called "Beth's Farm" off the upcoming album of Jerskin Fendrix, the dude who's composed music for Yorgos' last couple of movies. And that's the exact same music video I posted above! What a coincidence. Fendrix was a musician before he made the music for Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and Yorgos' upcoming movie Bugonia -- this song's off his second record, which is called Once Upon A Time. . . In Shropshire and out in October. You can pre-order it right here if you like what you hear above. All of this is well and good but will somebody tell me is "Jerskin Fendrix" is a real name or he made that thing up, because I definitely suspect the latter. I wanna be called Jerskin dammit.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... racing Supes to the finish.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

They Call Him Mister Space Man

You'll want to put a pin in this one for future consideration -- i.e. whenever the hell this movie gets released -- but I had a lot of fun with a movie called Terrestrial from the director of Hot Tub Time Machine that stars actor Jermaine Fowler (seen above) and which just screened at the Fantasia Film Festival -- click here to read my review of it at Pajiba. I did my best to not spoil it -- and it's a movie with a lot of twists and turns so it wasn't easy. But when there's a trailer and such we'll come back to this one so I'll no doubt bring it back up then.

Manny Jacinto Ten Times

Look at that -- okay well look at Manny Jacinto half-naked first. That's why we're here. But that's not what I meant when I said, "Look at that." What I meant was glance to the very bottom of this post where I'm getting to use my "Lindsay Lohan" tag here on the site -- honestly can't believe we even have one of those but we've been around that long! The last time I used this tag was 2021 and that was just to post hot photos of her Canyons co-star Nolan Funk. And that's really what we're doing again here since she's being summoned up BECAUSE Manny is her Freaky Friday sequel co-star...

... and he talks about that in the InStyle interview that's attached to these unbelievably sexy photos. (Good god he is disgustingly gorgeous.) The last time I actually posted about ol' Linds herself was in 2018 for one of our "Beauty vs Beast" series. Anyway, because my opinion matters, I am for one fine with her having a comeback. Especially since it gave us this photoshoot of Manny. Take notes, folks -- this is how you can re-endear yourself to me. (It's real easy.) Hit the jump for the whole hot shoot...

Good Morning, World

Twas a Cheyenne-stravaganza on Cheyenne Jackson's Instagram this weekend as he strutted around Fire Island in nothing but a white speedo and a smile -- the actor-singer-beefcake was in town to do one of his singing gigs but he made sure to put on another show from the beach. One we didn't have to be there among the dunes to enjoy thanks to his phone camera. Although I admit I am sad I was not there among the dunes time time. As much as I loathe the beach. I'd make this sacrifice. Anyway no need to click on over to his account and sort through things for the good bits because I'm giving you nothing but the good bits after the jump...

Together in 300 Words or Less

The best horror movie of 2025 to date is out this Wednesday! (And just screened at Fantasia, which is where I saw it.) Newcomer writer-director Michael Shanks proves with Together that he's not just somebody to not just watch but someone to attach yourselves to as if glued by some sort of demonic force. Tackling the story of an inseparable couple named Millie and her sexy but useless cuck-boy Tim (played by real-world couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco) who literally become inseparable thanks to some weird-shit-in-the-woods hoodoo that they do, Together is exctly what it promises to be on the package -- but what a package! (Don't make the Dave Franco's penis joke, don't make the Dave Franco's penis joke....)

In all seriousness I refused to watch the trailer for this but I had susseed out what the general story would be anyway thanks to 1) its title and 2) the images on the posters -- and as any of you who've ever read anything of mine know, it's not because I'm thrillingly clever. It's one of those stories that is so obvious now that it's been made you can't believe it hadn't been made already. (Final scene of Society notwithstanding.) But Shanks -- with copius thanks to the wonderful chemistry between his stars -- delivers a film that exploits our expectations while also delivering on them to a gratuitous (complimentary) and gore-iffic tee. The shocks come in how far the three of them are willing to go with it all, and Together goes all the way, baby. Two days before a movie comes out is probably early to call something a classic but Together has all of the makings. I will watch this fifty times if the world can refrain from ending first.