Pedro Pascal's Gay For Play

Let's all make a pact right now -- I'm going to try to post this news without going off the edge, and y'all try to do the same in the comments. Even though I know y'all commenters are maybe even more tired of Pedro Pascal's glass closet omnipresence than I am. And I am very. I'm just mostly of the mind that anything that gets a new Todd Haynes movie greenlit is worth praise, even if Pedro's coming at it with a lot of baggage. That said the project itself has baggage, since I'm sure y'all remember how Joaquin Phoenix bailed on this at the very verrrrry last minute last August and caused the entire thing's collapse. Baggage meets baggage. Anyway I've just now realized I haven't mentioned what I'm even talking about lol -- all y'all who aren't as online as me are probably like WTF, but I doubt many WT-Fuckers are visiting MNPP -- I have a knowledgable clientele, baby. But yes let's step back -- Pedro Pascal might be taking over the lead role in Todd Haynes' gay movie that got nuked when Joaquin dropped out of it. It has a title now that I don't recall seeing before -- De Noche -- and actor Danny Ramirez, who was set to be the co-lead in its earlier incarnation, will be coming back. Good for Danny -- I felt especially bad for him. I can't say I'm looking forward to another round of interviews from Mr. Pascal where he tells us all the details of the death of a close relative one second and then pivots to "I keep my private life private!" as soon as his sexuality's broached, but maybe he'll answer the fucking question for this. Time will tell! In summation, hey there Danny Ramirez...

David Corenswet Eleven Times

Maybe it will make some more sense to me why it's Bradley Cooper interviewing David Corenswet for V Man magazine once I read the interview attached to these pictures... oh wait! I just remembered as I typed that sentence that Cooper plays his father in Superman. Nevermind. I get it. And Bradley Cooper probably wants to "get it" too so he's taking any and every chance to be around David and, honestly, we get that too. Anyway David looks sexy as fuck in this shoot (what's new) so let's just set aside my rambling about getting it and get to that instead -- hit the jump for them all...

The Sweet Sweet Bugonia Poster

I have in my movie poster collection like four posters from Kinds of Kindness and as many if not more from Poor Things, and it looks like that trend is going to continue with Yorgos Lanthimos' next movie Bugonia because this here first poster dropping today? Smashing, gorgeous, perfect, I must own it immediately. It's giving me big Peter Strickland vibes actually. There's something very In Fabric about it (see below) -- I guess it's the red and the mannequin-ish head. (Although I do think that's actually Emma Stone under there -- just a bald Emma Stone.) I do think of Lanthimos and Strickland as connected filmmakers, although I'm a weirdo who'd say Strickland is the more interesting and out-there one of the two. Who'd have ever thought that you could call Yorgos Lanthimos the mainstream one? And yet here we are. Anyway we're getting the first trailer for Bugonia tomorrow so stay tuned for that! See all my preious posters on the movie right here. 

My Bed's On Fire, I'm a Real Live Wire

The first posters for Ryan Murphy's Monster: The Ed Gein Story (dropping October 3rd) starring Charlie Hunnam as the original real-life inspiration for Norman Bates and Leatherface have arrived and sure enough -- we're getting Sexy Ed Gein. It's like that joke about there being a "Slutty [fill in the blank]" Halloween costume for college girls looking to sexify up everything under the sun -- a Slutty Hamburglar, a Slutty Office Stapler. Ryan Murphy will make us feel uncomfortably horned up for every maniac who ever lived. And so two years after Evan Peters gave us funny feelings about Jeffrey Dahmer, here's Ed Gein's slutty little biceps. And listen... I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead. Meaning before I have said anything incriminating. I am not about to get canceled today. Bye!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

I usually ignore the captions on celebrity beefcake photos because they're usually inane but the devil help me I laughed at what Alan Ritchson wrote under this picture yesterday:

"Whenever I begin to question where my other eleven abs went, I take a deep breath and remind myself… I gave birth to three children. #grandpabod"

Our Boyfriend Callum Turner

If I was dating Callum Turner I would also post half-naked photos of my boyfriend Callum Turner (I just like the sound of that --- "my boyfriend Callum Turner") -- on social media all of the time, so props to singer Dua Lipa for doing a lot of just that. And because she shared four photos of Callum beefcakery this week she reminded me that we got some (ahem somewhat revealing) photos of them lounging around the water several weeks ago that I never posted -- thank you for the reminder, girlfriend of my boyfriend Callum Turner! And because this afternoon could use the hotness I'll share those along with the rest of these new shots after the jump...

To Thine Own Paul Mescal Be True

The first trailer for Nomadland and Eternals director Chloé Zhao's Ol' Bill Shakespeare flick Hamnet has arrived -- if y'all have been keeping score then you know I think Zhao is pretty overrated as a director, so why do I care? Well you already know the answer since I posted that photo above -- the movie stars yes Paul Mescal but also Jessie Buckley, and we're wild about Jessie. (Team I'm Thinking of Ending Things forever and ever amen.) And I do believe that Jessie, who's playing Shakespeare's wife Agnes, is the film's main character, as this is the story of the pair dealing with the loss of their son Hamnet and how it inspired oh you know some play about a prince. Anyway I'm rooting for the movie because 1) this is a good grand trailer and 2) I'd love for both of these actors to be Oscar winners soon; they've already given several worthwhile performances and both been nominated previously as well. So hopefully the movie's good and I can go on feeling that way! The movie also co-stars Joe Alwyn and (speaking of Charlie Kaufman) Emily Watson. (Let's get Emily f'ing Watson an Oscar while we're at it!) Here's the trailer:

Hamnet is out limited Nov 27th and everywhere Dec 12th.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Saving Face (2004)

Wil: How did you find out she was...?

Grandma: The receptionist at the Manhattan clinic 

is married to one of Grandpa's former students. 

Wil: One billion Chinese people, two degrees of separation.

Alice Wu's wonderful 2004 rom-com for the ladies who love ladies (and everybody else) has hit the Criterion Collection today! Grab a copy right here. When Joan Chen popped up in Andrew Ahn's wonderful re-imagining of The Wedding Banquet earlier this year I think many of us flashed back to this extremely underrated gem, which also saw the Twin Peaks icon playing mom to a queer woman. Great little movie that will hopefully find its rightful place in the canon of wonderful little gay movies now. We need all of the wonderful little gay movies we can get.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Who's a good pup? 

Brandon Flynn's a good pup.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be... 

... bumming at the beach with Garrett Hedlund.

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!

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Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, Monday

Same feeling, Lewis. Same.

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...