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Wild Rose (2018)

Susannah: Why country?

Rose: Cuz it's three chords and the truth.

A happy birthday to the tremendously talented Sophie Okonedo, always a totally riveting presence on-screen, today -- when she popped up in Janet Planet a couple of years ago I felt like I hadn't seen her in ages. (And weirdly this is the second time Janet Planet has come up today -- guess iut's time for a Janet Planet rewatch!) But seriously why aren't I seeing Sophie Okonedo in everything all of the time?? So that's my birthday wish for her -- work more! Get with it, Hollyweird! Get her all up in my business, please.

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The first photos from Andrew Haigh's forthcoming film A Long Winter have arrived -- I first told you about this movie just about a year ago when it was first announced because it's Andrew f'ing Haigh we're talking about here, of course I did. Then the killer cast started filling in -- our beloved baby bird Fred Hechinger (seen above) Kit Connor, Caitríona Balfe (so great in Belfast), The Bear and Girls actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach -- and we kept reporting! This movie is screening at NYFF in a couple of months (it's also playing TIFF) so surely I'll be on it then -- this is an adaptation of a Colm Tóibín book about a mother who goes wandering into the snowy mountains leaving her family behind, or so I recall the plot being when I first wrote about this news. I never read the book; have you? Anyway no word on when y'all will get to see it just yet but stay tuned and hit the jump for the rest of the pictures...

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I'm so glad that Alden Ehrenreich has been able to stick around -- hell you could even say he's thriving, having gotten a Tony nomination this year for his first role on Broadway! Plus Weapons was such a big hit too. He just had a bunch of high profile flops that made me worry we'd lose Steven Spielberg's favorite bar mitzvah discovery and we wouldn't want that. We adore him. Anyway he's doing his adorable thing in the new Carly Rae Jepsen video...

... directed by Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris (cuz sure why not) -- I can pretty much guarnatee this is and will remain the only time I will type the words "Carly Rae Jepsen" on this here website. But good on here -- these are a helluva pair of collaborators. I mean I never got to see Slave Play but I got to see all of the ridiciulously hot Kit Harington pictures from it and that was enough to know me and Jeremy are simpatico spirits. Anyway -- behold! A Carly Rae Jepsen video on MNPP!! You'll never see the likes of this again:

Anyway there that is.
Happy Tuesday, lovers!

Alden Ehrenreich in the new Carly Rae Jepsen music video lol

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Baby's On Fire

Well there it is -- there you have the poster for the forthcoming re-release of Ken Russell's long elusive The Devils, which dropped like a bomb on the heads of people exactly like me who give a shit about such things with a 4K restoration at Cannes a few months back. The film also has a theatrical date (via) -- October 16th. It's appparently an "exclusive one-week engagement" -- exclusive to whom I don't know, that source doesn't say. I imagine it won't be at every single multiplex though so perhaps be prepared to travel some. It's worth it! I've seen the movie a couple of times on the big screen, including a longer cut with Ken Russell in attendance not long before he passed; I've completely lost track of what cut that was, if it was the same one being released now, but that cut I saw was Russell's own as far as I remember from the time. I have seen this movie so many times and read so much about it that I've lost track of what I have seen and have not seen at this point -- I've imagined the cut-out bits so much I feel like I've seen them! But October 16th we'll all get to see the definitive cut I guess, and even though they're not announcing it yet I have no doubt a physical media release will follow. I have to say I like the original art for the film that I have the poster of better than this new art, but this is good too. 

Puck Me

It's kinda crazy I never saw Splitsville, the 2025 romantic comedy, because the only two things I knew about it -- it stars my beloved Dakota Johnson and actor Charlie Gillespie looks like that above and also showcases a truly world-class ass a moment later -- are enough reasons, big enough reasons, hard enough reasons, that would normally get me to watch a movie. But I have not so I can't tell you shit about Gillespie's acting ability, having seen him in nothing but gifs, and that's now a real demerit against me because over the weekend he was cast as one of the new main characters in the second season of Heated Rivalry. Point being I can't even guess if he was cast solely to challenge Connor Storrie in an Ass Off -- he's bringing some stiff competion though, lemme tell you what! (Or show you, as I'm sure you've already glanced at that gif down below.) Anyway also joining the cast is Justice Smith from I Saw the T.V. Glow -- him we know all about, and he's a terrific (and super cute) actor. Hockey hotness overload, y'all! 

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After the Hunt (2025)

Alma: I feel like deep inside I always expected this. 

I expected the rottenness in me to be seen by other people 

right before I managed to expunge it.

Hank: Spoken like a true woman... 

I never felt myself be rotten at all.

Alma: Spoken like a true man.

A happiest of happy birthday to the great and legendary Luca Guadagnino, who is turning 55 today! If you've been on this here site for longer than an hour you know our feelings about Luca, who speaks deep to us in a way that not many other filmmakers do these days -- not just in the obvious one (Call me By Your Name, which I wrote about just a little bit back circa 2017) but everything from his superior Suspiria to Bones and All to yes this one here After the Hunt, a movie which really didn't get a fair shake when it came out. (At least I knew it was good though.) I actually just re-watched it a few weeks ago and it's  shown itself to be even wilier about where the world was headed -- like all his films they're ever so slightly ahead of their time. We'll see what happens with his Sam Altman biopic Artificial soon enough -- I remain convinced he'lll be ten steps ahead of the current conversation -- but for today, let's just show the genius some love! My gift to him & us is this Andy Garfield gif:

It's a Miasma-piece

Hey weirdos, my beloved weirdos, have I got a movie for you -- well a movie review actually. I reviewed Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this past Friday and you can read it right here. We're playing catch-up, you see, in more ways than one -- I saw this the first time at NewFest and the third time at Fantasia Fest (with a press screening sandwiched in between there) but only just got around to writing about it as it hit theaters this past Friday. But only a few theaters -- NY and LA I believe? It spreads out this week and further after that (you can keep track of that at this link) so I imagine most of you haven't yet had the chance. Anyway I bust out the "m" word in my review -- "masterpiece" that is, which if you know me you know I don't break that word out lightly when a movie is this new. Having seen it three times now though, with it only getting funnier and weirder with every watch, I feel pretty compelled toward that word. It is most definitely one of the year's highlights and not to be missed. 

 

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Yes, Richard. Actually. YES.
(Y'all have watched Half Man by now right?
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.)

How Have I Never...

... seen this picture before???

When It's Too Hot For Plaid Pants...

X Marks the Kit

Everything nasty you can say about Bryan Singer deserves to be said but I have to admit that I still have a huge attachment to the first two X-Men movies all the same -- I re-watched them both this past weekend after a very long time and those movies remain aces; they are still, two and a half decades and gazillions of superhero movies / series on, among the very best that the genre has given us. (I can't stop obsessing about the way that Rebecca Romijn's fight-moves as Mystique were choreographed -- like a gravity-defying panther? Just insane and incredible stuff.) Anyway I was never a superhero kid, I never read superhero comics, so it was those movies alone that made me care about the X-Men -- but care I do! So I am definitely paying attention to the rumor-mill booting up on X-Men casting -- today's news is that they've all but chosen Heartstopper star Kit Connor to play Cyclops aka the Jimmy Marsden / Tye Sheridan dude. (What happened to Tye Sheridan anyway? I really like Tye Sheridan!) I am fine with this -- as I've admitted I've never watched Heartstopper but I thought he aquitted himself well in Warfare, which I have seen him in, and also he's very nice to look at. That helps. Plus he's queer! The X-Men are canonically the gayest of all the superheroes...

LOL this scene still rules

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... and yes again I am mainly speaking from my Bryan Singer base of knowledge. But also I have an ex who was huge into the comics and so I have been forced to listen to all the reasons why that's really the case, and he did make a good one. Anyway Kit's good, the [spoiler for the new Spider-Man movie reveal] was also good, and the other possible casting that's on the record -- aka Samara Weaving playing Emma Frost -- is fucking excellent. We worship Samara Weaving in this house. I have long said that she should have Margot Robbie's career, but maybe this will be the spark that makes Margot wish she had a Samara Weaving career at last. 

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Safe (1995)

Carol: I'm sorry. I know 

it's not normal but I can't help it.

This week Criterion dropped their 4K of Todd Haynes' 1995 masterpiece Safe -- or do I type it as [safe], I am never sure -- and I plan on re-watching the movie for the gazillionth time via this upgrade this weekend; I find something new every single time I revisit it, as all the greatest films manage. Thinking about what it will look like in 4K though has me thinking about what an astonishingly good looking film it is -- I wonder why it's the only movie Haynes ever shot with DP Alex Nepomniaschy? They accomplished something so spectacular together! -- and so I looked up the movie's budget and they made Safe for one million dollars. One million dollars! I know we're thirty years removed but that's incredible -- I looked up what that works out to in 2026 dollars and it's only about two and a half million now; Safe could not be made for 2.5 million in 2026, that's for sure. 

That's an odd tangent for me to spin off on -- the point is they made a film for one million dollars in 1995 that will look better than 99% of the movies released in 2026, and even assuming one percent might beat Safe in beauty and visual extravagance seems an enormous caveat to make. How we're thirty years removed from this movie and Todd Haynes still remains underappreciated I cannot fathom -- Safe is as far as I'm concerned a Top 5 movie about America. It should be bouncing around at the top of Sight & Sound polls. The original poster for this movie that I own is one of my greatest possessions. Sing a song of Safe y'all! Oh and I really recommend you all go read Walter Chaw's fantastic piece on the film at Roger Ebert today -- when he finds the thoughline to The Birds I just about wept at the perfection of it. 

Everybody is incredible in this movie but it really is a Toni Collette Picture when it comes down to it

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And in related news -- Velvet Goldmine is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel so I re-watched it two nights ago and good god what a movie. That's another one that I find new things with every single view. So besides watching Safe this weekend I will be spending most of my time in a prayer circle, dragging a dagger down the middle of my palm, in hopes we can get that movie a 4K from Criterion soon. I'm basically just counting the days until De Noche, Haynes' gay movie with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez will come out. Please please please be next year. In summation the following randomness made me laugh for a very long time this morning:

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Or should I say "Good Afternoon to Alexander Ludwig," who apparently finished his day's workout at 5:29 this morning -- for fuck's sake, man. I guess that's why he looks like that and I'm all...

Dino Fetscher Seven Times

Oh my a very Happy Hump Day to us all from actor and current mustache-rider Dino Fetscher, who was generous enough to share these leathered-up and stripped-down photos via his Insta today! Hit the jump for the set...

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I almost posted these photos yesterday of Taron Egerton taking a shirtless run, but decided to save them for this morning, for extra-good good morning feels -- isn't it like blisteringly hot in the U.K. right now though? (I believe he was in London here.) I hope he's staying hydrated. If not -- Taron, I got you covered. Just ask and hydration will be yours -- all you can drink. The rest of youse, just hit the jump for the photos...