Today I'd rather be...
... bumming at the beach with Garrett Hedlund.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Who Wore It Best?
Several other male movie stars have been photographed wearing Yves Saint Laurent's thigh-high leather boots this year -- including Pedro Pascal and Brad Pitt -- but it only seems right now that Bill Skarsgård has dusted off the pair that brother Alexander wore on the red carpet in Cannes for an official YSL photoshoot to face down the Swedish bros. Also Bill does have the advantage of being photoshopped etc since he's in a studio so make sure to do those math calculations in your head before voting!
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Austin Butler Five More Times
I made the enormous sacrifice on Tuesday to take time out of my very important life and share half-naked photos of the actor Austin Butler with you people, even though he doesn't do much for me personally. Well here we are again! Men's Health just dropped five beefcake outtakes from said photo-session and I figured it'd be a generous way for me to close out the week and leave y'all panting through the weekend. Bye til Monday, hit the jump for them all...
Space Fruits
A wonderful surreal and strange animated film called Boys Go To Jupiter landed here in NYC a couple of weeks ago (after screening at Tribeca earlier this year) and from there has been making the theatrical rounds -- I've been meaning to write it up for the past couple of weeks but... my brain y'all. Not in its best place right now. Anyway! I finally did! Write it up, that is, so click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts upon it. It should also be said that it features the voices of both Julio Torres and Cole Escola, which somehow feels like the gay millenial version of crossing the streams. Anyway it's great, see it as soon as you have the chance. Here's the trailer:
Rocky Mountain Haigh
I don't know how much faith we should have in this rumor since they got the description of the book all wrong, but it's being reported (via, thx Mac) that All of Us Strangers and Weekend director Andrew Haigh will next be adapting Brooklyn writer Colm Tóibín's still-to-be-published book A Long Winter to film. The problem is that report linked above comes with a plot description of a totally different book of Tóibín's from 1990 called The South, which is about a woman in the 1950s falling in love with a painter in Spain. A Long Winter on the other hand, well it's also set in Spain but it's about something else entirely:
"One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's mother walks out of their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced to battle the elements, and their resentment of each other, through the long winter. Miquel's desperate searching for his mother is only interrupted when Manolo, an orphaned servant boy from the next village, arrives to help out in the house. As Miquel is forced to confront the reality of his mother's absence, Manolo, with his silences and longing gaze, offers the promise of new love, and another kind of life."
So, gay! Andrew Haigh making a gay movie -- that sits better with me. I mean I don't want to pigeonhole him in his work, but when we've got a filmmaker with his enormous gifts making truly exquisite gay films like All of Us Strangers I kinda wanna keep him with us for as long as possible. I think you'll understand. But our man also made 45 Years and Lean On Pete and they're both masterpieces even if they're heterosexual, so we'll truly take whatever he sees fit to give us. My dude hasn't faltered yet.
Archie & Theo 4Eva
A movie I liked very much when I saw it at Sundance earlier this year is out in theaters tomorrow -- it's called Lurker and it stars Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe as a stalker and the singer he stalks respectively. You can read my review right here. I've posted about it a bunch since then -- you can watch the trailer right here -- since it's deeply fucked up in several of my favorite delightful ways and I can't wait for y'all to see it. As for right now why not watch this "deleted scene" that the official Instagram account for the movie just shared of our lead twosome being very intimate? To get yourselves in the mood, of course. What mood, well I suppose that's up to you!
Toby Wallace Twelve Times
Ron Howard's weird little movie Eden is out in theaters this weekend after what's felt like a very long delay -- I kept thinking it'd come out already, but then I kept getting emails that it was coming out, you know, later. Anyway I saw an early cut of it like a year and a half ago so I have no idea if it's changed much but given the myriad headlines about Jude Law's Dick I think its most important facets have been left untouched. (Dare I say... uncut?) I'm being a little facetious because Eden is actually the most interesting movie Ron Howard has directed... probably ever? And the fact that it co-stars our boy Toby Wallace here certainly helps -- I mean where are the headlines that Toby also drops trou? Yes it's true -- "Opie" directed a movie starring multiple man-wangs. The world is truly upside down. Anyway it's worth seeing, this Eden movie, so see it when you can; meanwhile Toby's slutting it up in plastic pants for Numero Netherlands magazine (via) today and so we're focusing in on that for right this second. Hit the jump for the entire shoot...
Your Weekend Must Watch
I have had a million reasons to thank Stacie Ponder of Final Girl fame over the past two decades that the two of us have been parallel blogging here on the internet, but Doppleganger is sure the latest one. A truly bewildering slab of camp supernatural horror from 1993 that stars Drew Barrymore that I'd somehow never even heard of, much less seen -- not until Stacie announced she was covering on this week's episode of her podcast "Final Girl After Dark," anyway. So I watched this movie last night and... holy fucking hell, where has this movie been all my days? I'm not going to spoil anything, I'm not saying a single more word on it -- I'm only here to tell every single one of you to go watch this outrageous and unhinged movie right this minute if you too have never seen it and therefore not yet lived. It's streaming all over the place including on Tubi or right here on Prime. I promise you that whatever you think is going to happen in this movie you will never guess what is going to happen in this movie. And then after you've watched it go listen to Stacie dive into its WTF-ery and cry-laugh along with her. I paused the movie and went online and bought the blu-ray 3/4s of the way into my viewing experience, and that was before the last act happens, which... my god. Cinema is still out there. You just have to go digging y'all. Masterpiece!
Let's Steal Away With Josh O'Connor
I'm getting that warm feeling in my belly -- and no not just from that being a shot of Josh O'Connor in his underwear. It's that thing where the weather's cooled off a little bit (I'm wearing an over-shirt today!) and I'm planning for the fall fests and the movie trailers that are dropping are all for serious movies from real directors with perhaps some built-in awards prospects. Like this, the trailer for Kelly Reichardt's new movie! I've talked about The Mastermind a few times (see here) because of course I have -- it's Kelly Reichardt and I'd follow her around like a happy puppy if I could. It's set in 1970 and it's about Josh trying to heist himself a painting while also having a shaggy beard -- aka straight up pornography.
Love the hazy filter look -- it really says, "Hey! It's 1970!" to me. Anyway this is screening at NYFF because of course it is, Reichardt's a welcome fixture here in New York and they show all her movies -- I will surely be all over it then. Here's that trailer:
The Mastermind is out on October 17th.
Oh and here's the killer poster too:
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Good Morning, Clock Twink
A couple more photos of "Clock Twink" aka actor Ben Ahlners from The Gilded Age popped up this week that I missed in my great big gratutitous post of him last week -- well I actually didn't "miss" them; the official photoshoot for V Man Magazine (thx Mac) just hadn't been posted yet so I only had a couple of these photos to share then. But now they all exist... unless there are some outtakes out there -- perhaps one without pants? Dare we dream? Perhaps I will go right back to bed and see if I can dream of exactly that? I can't imagine anything else to happen this Thursday will beat that. But it's early! Let's keep hope and Clock Twinks alive! This is the way.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Karl Glusman Six Times
The action-comedy Eenie Meanie starring Karl Glusman as the ass-pain that Samara Weaving just can't say no to (I get it, girl) is out on Hulu on Friday -- I shared the trailer right here. And so lucky us as the film's set to premiere we get a photoshoot of Karl handsome-ing it up in YSL (via) -- thank you, world. And having already seen Eenie Meanie myself let me add, as an aside, that should you want to see Karl in considerably fewer clothes... well you should hit up Hulu on Friday. Until then make due with more of these after the jump...
Go Go Griffin!
I must have been buried in Fantasia Fest stuff when the official trailer for Griffin in Summer dropped because I can't fathom otherwise not sharing it until now. I saw this lovely comedy at Tribeca in June of last year and adored it -- here is my review -- and I've been awaiting news of its release (and posting sexy photos of Owen Teague) ever since.
The reason why I'm annoyed at myself for having delayed posting about this is -- Griffin in Summer is out next week! It hits theaters on August 29th! So I'm sorry to tell you this late but whatever plans you've made for Labor Day weekend you're just going to have to cancel them right now. This is more important than your stupid face sticking through a hole in a beach boardwalk photo-op that makes you look like a muscle-man and/or penguin. Priorities, people! But to make it even clearer here are a few more shots of Owen Teague to convince after the jump...
A Man and His Beautiful Monster
Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac are on the cover of the new Variety to talk the forthcoming release of Guillermo Del Toro's reowrking of Mary Shelley's vision -- you can read the chat right here. Which I'm going to do myself right after I run and grab my lunch. Hence why I'm not mentioning what the two have to say in the interview -- I'm running out the door and haven't gotten to it yet. But I am taking a quick moment to post the photos of these beautiful men touching each other because -- if this isn't food then what is? I could probably just stare at these photos and survive for months. Hit the jump for them all (plus some video)...
Pics of the Day
HBO has just released the first images of Rochard Gadd's follow-up to the smash hit Baby Reindeer -- and yes that's Gadd beefed up on the right side of that photo, if you can believe it. The series is called Half Man and it stars Gadd opposite the extremely talented and underrated Jamie Bell as "brothers" (they put that in quotes but don't explain why so I'm guessing they're adopted or foster care kids) -- here let me just cut and paste the entie logline:
"Half Man follows estranged “brothers” Niall (Jamie Bell) and Ruben (Richard Gadd). When Niall's estranged “brother” Ruben shows up at his wedding, it leads to an explosion of violence that catapults us back through their lives. Spanning almost 40 years from the 1980s to the present day, Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell portray Niall (Robertson) and Ruben (Campbell) in their younger years, in a series that explores the highs and lows of Ruben and Niall’s relationship, from meeting them as troubled teenagers to witnessing their falling out as adults – with all the good, bad, terrible, funny, angry, and challenging moments along the way. The series will capture the wild energy of a changing city – a changing world, even – and plumb the depths of what it means to be a man."
I like most everyone else devoured Baby Reindeer and was absolutely wowed by it (if any of you hated it please share; I just realized I never read a single bad word about the series except those coming from Gadd's real-life stalker). Anyway I'm sure Gadd is feeling the sophomore pressure to deliver, but having Jamie Bell as his co-star is certainly a big boon right outta the gate. And if this gets Jamie Bell some much deserved awards recognition at last I'll be so very pleased! (He should have gotten nominated for an Oscar -- hell he should have won an Oscar -- for All of Us Strangers.) Here are two more photos they released:
Half Man doesn't premiere until next year.
Cold War II: The Cold War-ening
We love it when talented people gravitate toward other talented people, and this news is a big example of this -- the great and talented Sandra Hüller of Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest (hey I was just making a joke about that role earlier this week that I don't think a lot of people got) and Toni Erdmann (I can't even begin to tell you how often Toni Erdmann bobs about in my brain) is teaming up with the great and talented director Paweł Pawlikowski of Cold War and Ida fame. It's titled 1949 and here's how they're describing it:
"Set at the height of the Cold War, 1949 centres on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller); actress, journalist and rally driver, as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins – from U.S. dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar."
Hanns Zischler is a legendary German actor who starred in Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road and Chantal Akerman's Meetings With Anna and has been working steadily ever since -- I just saw him in 2023's terrific brain-bender The Universal Theory most recently. The movie also co-stars the great August Diehl from Inglourious Basterds and A Hideen Life. Talented people y'all! Anyway now that I'm thinking about it I should re-watch Cold War. What a good fuckin' movie.
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