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Sinners (2025)

Remmick: Long ago... the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort. Those men lied to themselves and lied to us. They told stories of a God above and a Devil below. And lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth. We are earth and beast, and god. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I - to everything. You will taste the sweet pain of death. We will make beautiful music together.

I'm seeing this movie on IMAX again tonight!

So it's on my mind. Anybody rewatched it lately?

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Pics of the Day

Looks like there's some sexy Y Tu Mama shit going down on the second season of The Night Manager, if these just dropped photos via Vanity Fair are anything to go by. That's the series' lead Tom Hiddleston on the left with actress Camila Morrone in the center and our boy Diego Calva on the right, and do note how he's getting a little manhandled by Tommy. You can see Diego clearer in the photo below. Any fans of the first series of this show? I liked it a lot but I will probably have to go back and re-watch it, I remember very little except for Tom Hollander trying to eat Tom Hiddleston's dick inside a restaurant. You don't forget that sorta thing.

Good Morning, Sexiest Man Alive

I was laying in bed last night seconds away from turning off my phone and falling asleep when this "Jonathan Bailey is the Sexiest Man Alive!" news broke and I almost leapt out of bed, woke up my partner, and did a jig -- okay listen I was deep into my Ambien and I wasn't thinking like a normal person so yes, a little embarassing. But still! This is something! An out gay man just finagled the title of People magazine's annual ""Sexiest Man Alive" for the first time! And he made sure to take pictures for the spread that...

... would remind everyone of that fact! And I know that this is a silly meaningless title and I know it has to do with whose publicist is working the hardest and who's got the biggest PR push behind them for upcoming projects blah blah blah. I don't care this morning. And I didn't care last night when I posted to Bluesky about it (before anyone else I might add -- where's my magazine cover?) 

I no longer have to feel that annoying little poke in the brain that I do every year when this comes around that, "Well they'll never pick a gay guy." It was there every single year and now it's one infintesimal annoyance I don't have to deal with in a world bursting with them. I will take any such respites that I can get so I can have all my energies for actually important things. And yes I am gonna go find and buy an issue of this on the newsstand (if I can find a "newsstand with magazines" in 2025 that is) and I recommend every else do the same. Let's make this their highest selling issue! With this photo-spread they're making it fucking easy, believe me. Hit the jump for the ridiculously sexy (for once) photos...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Alice: I saw the "Waitress Wanted" sign. 

I said, "Why not?" So I took this job.

Flo: Well let me give you a hint.
Honey, unbutton that top button.

Alice: Really?

Flo: Yeah. If you bend over you get
more tips when you're working.

Alice: You're kidding me.

Flo: I'm not kidding. I got $50 last week.

Alice: Really?

Flo: Yeah.

Alice: Like that?

Flo: Yeah. Honey, forget what I said. 

You do that and I'm never going to get a tip again.

Terrible awful news to hear that Diane Ladd passed away today -- her daughter Laura Dern (maybe you've heard of her) released a statement saying "My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California. She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.” I'm just going to assume that last line is a reference to Ladd's iconic role as Marietta in Wild At Heart where she recreates the Wicked Witch's broomstick flight:

I actually almost quoted that role for this post, but then I decided quoting her role as Dern's mother Helen on Mike's White's series Enlightened would be even better but I couldn't find a transcript of the script for that show's legendary episode all about Helen -- one of the great episodes of T.V. period, the end. She was so good on that show. Goddamn Enlightened was a masterpiece ahead of its time. 

Anyway from there that brought me to her lovely and hysterically funny performance in Martin Scorsese's great Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. I grew up watching the spin-off T.V. series Alice, my mom loved it, so I never saw Scorsese's film until I was an adult -- seeing Ladd's take on the grits-kissing role that Polly Holliday (who passed away earlier this year, marking a real bad year for Flos) had burned into my little brain was a surprise and a joy. She's wonderful in it. Anyway I kind of can't believe she passed away before Bruce Dern did (not to jinx anything -- sorry, Laura!) since Bruce has seemed so frail for so long, and so this came as a real surprise to me today. Rest in peace, icon.

 

The Scream King Cometh

After years upon years of bouncing about in horror flicks, from the ace Strange Darling recently all the way back to that time Faux Freddy Krueger menaced him in a red speedo in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, actor Kyle Gallner has gone and written one of his own! It's called Man Vs. and it's a Gold Rush era survival thriller about a miner who gets betrayed and left to die in the Rockies during winter and must, you know, survive. Hence the term "survival thriller." One of the Radio Silence guys (Justin Martinez to be specific) is set to direct the movie -- and Kyle will of course star. As he well should! We love a period horror film, we love movies about grizzly bears hunting people, we love Kyle Gallner -- all we need to know now is when we can buy our ticket. Okay also will there be any skinny-dipping in mountain streams -- if you haven't written that scene yet Kyle I recommend you scribble one down quick. Something like, "And then he goes skinny-dipping in a mountain stream." See? Easy. Can I have a co-wirter credit?

Kyle Gallner’s eyes totally follow you in this photo pic.twitter.com/nSlO0BAuOR

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 20, 2024

Garrett Wareing Three Times

Three outtakes from The Long Walk actor and fave new fur twink Garrett Wareing's previously posted photoshoot for Numero Netherlands have been unloaded upon our faces today (via). I don't think I mentioned on here that I finally caught The Long Walk when it hit streaming after missing it in theaters (although I did share a few words on Letterboxd) and... I did not like it. It didn't work for me at all. Although I will say this for it -- this was my first time seeing Garrett here act and I actually thought he was good in it. I'd been assuming he was just a pretty boy hot piece but he held his own. So he's a pretty boy hot piece who can also act! Will wonders never et cetera. Hit the jump for the other two photos... 

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... cradled tight between Henry Golding's calves.

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Good Morning, World

A good Monday morning from Paul Mescal and from me and from Oliver Hermanus' gorgeous film The History of Sound, which landed on Mubi over the weekend -- did you watch it? I hope you caught it in theaters if you were able to (picture the above shot twenty feet tall and you'll understand why I swooned in my review) but streaming is second-best (or you can now pre-order the blu-ray too!) so I hope you did. If not -- get to it! Look at that shot! That shot is in the running for shot of the year as far as I'm concerned. I do think the shot is even more beautiful in its full framing and not cropped to highlight just the sweet stuff though -- not to mention there is more to this scene worth giffing -- so I've got all of that gorgeousness for you after the jump...

Happy Halloween!

May all your dreams come true.

 

Don't You Forget About Bugonia

Yes this review went up last week when the film opened in limited release but now that it's in wide release I thought I'd remind you that you can read my thoughts on Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film Bugonia at this link if you're so inclined. It's another banger from the Dogtooth man and I hope y'all feel the same. I mean you won't change my mind but it would be nice if we didn't have to be all awkward about it around the Thanksgiving turkey when the time comes. Anyway I hope somebody dresses up as Emma Stone in it for Halloween tonight! I was going to say that "I hope I see" somebody dressed up as her but who am I kidding -- I'm not going out. I am going straight home from work and watching a couple of horror movies and going to bed at a reasonable hour like the pile of dust that I am. In related news -- Jerskin Fendrix's score for Bugonia, also a banger, is now available for pre-order on vinyl thanks to Waxwork Records, you can buy that over here. I heftily recommend, it's killer stuff. I mean Jonny Greenwood should still win the Oscar for his One Battle After Another music -- which you can also pre-order right here if you're so inclined -- but Bugonia is my number two score of 2025 as of right this minute. What scores have you loved this year?

Russell Tovey Six Times

If a few of these photos of Russell Tovey look a bit odd to your eye you're not growing cataracts -- these are apparently 3D scans that've been manipulated by the artist Alex Margo Arden for King Kong magazine, although the info included on the Instagram post where they come from isn't too in-depth on the process and I'm not waiting to buy the magazine, get the magazine, and read the article to figure all of those details out. I'm sure you'll hear all about it if you listen to Tovey's art podcast. For our purposes we're just focusing on the fuckability quotient, and that remains typically high for our favorite pair of ears attached to a slamming bod and horned-up demeanor. Hit the jump for them all...

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Bad Taste (1987)

Frank: Just remember, we're only authorized 

to use violence when protecting the planet.

Barry: And the moon.

Frank: Yeah, and the moon.

A very happy 64th birthday to Peter Jackson today -- coincidentally I just saw Bad Taste for the very first time two nights ago. And it is, true to its title, in very bad taste. Fun though, if seriously rough around the edges. Not sure why I hadn't seen this one before -- I've seen Dead Alive approximately five thousand times at this point. Anyway supposedly Jackson has been off re-working his early films for 4K re-release for the past few years (if you've been wondering wtf he's been up to yeah, join the club) but the clock is ticking, Petey! And as desperate as we all are to see the exploding felt pustules of the Feebles in high-res I think what we really need is a proper copy of Heavenly Creatures at this point. Here's to hoping that 2026 is the year this finally happens.

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Good Morning, Lukas Gage

I haven't been paying much attention to the whole press onslaught that The White Lotus and Smile 2 actor Lukas Gage has been, you know, onslaughting, due to his recently dropped memoir because... I don't know why I am supposed to know or care about that. I have nothing against him! I've liked him when I've seen him in things on-screen and we are contractually obligated to love any hot young actor who is an out homosexual. He also had Murray Bartlett's face up his butt once (that we know of) so he's royalty, practically. But a memoir? In this eocnomy? All that said he wore a jockstrap in his new photoshoot for Paper magazine ...

... and I don't care how much of a stereotype this makes me -- it will always work on me. I can't help it! I saw Rob Lowe in Youngblood at an extremely formative moment y'all! Anyway have any of you read the book? I would love to hear your thoughts if so. What a time to be alive. Anyway just like the last time I posted a Lukas Gage photoshoot this is a photoshoot geared at my preppy jock fetish sweet-spot so I'm putty in his paws. Hit the jump for the rest...

The Monster Demanded a Mate!

I've talked about the poster artist Akiko Stehrenberger here on the site several times as she's one of my favorites, and today the fine folks at Coda dropped her latest, a spin on The Bride of Frankenstein, and per usual I love it. She always comes up with such succinct and surprising images for her designs. (Who could forget those flames for Portrait of a Lady on Fire?) Anyway tomorrow's Halloween and our "Ways Not To Die" post previous to this one aside we haven't been dropping nearly enough horror-related stuff on the site this month dammit! I've been trying to get myself into the mood but it hasn't quite been landing. So y'all tell me what your plans are for the greatest holiday in the comments please! I wanna hear if you're dressing up, what movies you're watching -- all of it! I need mood inspiration. So rattle your bones at me, I beg of you!

Thursday's Ways Not To Die

It's always a shame when David Corenswet has to go but we do sure like watching him walk away. Hit the jump for the rest...

Jake Lacy Twelve Times

What a nice surprise treat -- Jake Lacy content! The White Lotus and Carol actor is in a new streaming series called All Her Fault opposite Succession star Sarah Snook and so he's now being featured as Bustle magazine's cover-boy this month -- there's an interview with him that I have not read right here,. But there are also twelve photos of him to go along with the unread interview and those, those I have stared at. Stared at and gathered up for our communal lunch-time consumption. So hit the jump for those...

Scares Ahoy

Let's just go all in on the horror trailers today, shall we? I shared the trailer for Scream 7 earlier, which is a biggie obviously -- let's turn our eyes towards some lower budget but extra promising stuff now with Man Finds Tape. From first-time filmmakers Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman this has played several fests (somehow I missed it at Tribeca in the spring) and gotten good notices and now Magnet is dropping it in theaters and online on December 5th. This plot actually sounds similar to the plot for Shelby Oaks (which came out last week and which I reviewed right here) in that it's about YouTube paranormal investigators getting wrapped up in real-world horrors, mixing found-footage and not-found-footage. Basically it feels as if the world finally caught onto Lake Mungo (which I mentioned yesterday among my favorite films of 2008) and that movie's influence is spreading at loast, as well it oughta. Anyway unlike the trailer for Scream 7, which I admitted to watching, I have not watched this here trailer for Man Finds Tape -- this one I wanna go into cold. But you can watch it if you want because here it is!

Amd what the hell since we're here, why not -- I'll also share the trailer for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things  since it also dropped this morning -- I don't really talk about this show on here much but I'm a pretty big fan of it and I'm very excited for this stretch of mega-budget mega-length episodes that they're promising to close things out on. (The release date for the first four episodes is November 26th, then the next three on Christmas Day, and then the finale on New Years Eve.) Have they gotten too big for their 80s britches? I guess. we'll see. I mean literally they all have since they're all like 40 with smoker's voices now and still playing 12. Anyway all I ask is for one more shower scene with Joe Keery please. Give us a furry lil' treat before you go!