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The Favourite (2018)

Queen Anne: Some wounds do not close; 

I have many such. One just walks around with them 

and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood.

A happy 53rd birthday to the great Yorgos Lanthimos! Our favorite Greek pervert (director edition) is supposedly off recharging his batteries post-Bugonia -- we can't say we blame him since he'd been working at one hell of a clip since The Lobster -- six movies in ten years is a feat! And even more impressive -- every single one of them rules. As do all of the ones before The Lobster. Basically -- our man earned a break. But let's hope it's not too too long. We'll give him til next year to announce something. If it gets into 2028 territory and we still haven't heard anything we're gonna get real antsy. I mean -- he's one of the great documentarians of our current mad era. We need his voice. Not to mention his sexy bearish presence. 

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Have You Ever Wanted To Be a Pole So Bad

Here, something to make us feel a little bit better about Daredevil: Born Again's upcoming third season being announced as its last -- that photo of Charlie Cox, I mean. I have no good words to speak upon this news -- well maybe there's the fact that Charlie will be able to grow his body hair out full-time now and not just let it have a few months in between to breathe, which has been a cruel rollercoaster we've been riding for actual decades now. That is the bright spot in this news and if you've seen Charlie in his full furry glory you know it's not an unbright bright.

Good lord. The thoughts that Charlie puts into my head! Unspeakable. Anyway -- hello! I have returned from a morning screening (see below and more on that soon!) and I will be here for approximately four hours before heading back out to a late afternoon screening. Such is the age of NYFF. But let's see what filth we can get ourselves into for this little bit! We're off to a good start.

Fucking finally #nowwatching

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 9:57 AM

Satan is Ever Ready to Seduce Us...

... with sensual delights! If you're unawares my scattered presence as of late has been mostly due to press screenings for the forthcoming New York Film Festival -- kicking off this Friday with James Gray's latest Paper Tiger which coincidentally just dropped its trailer today and I shall do the same down below. Anyway you can spy on me like a creep by following me on my Letterboxd if you're curious what I'm watching before my reviews start dropping -- or you can hang around here on the off-chance that I'll mention something. 

MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR!!! NYFF TIME!!! @filmlinc.bsky.social

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Like ever. Like now, actually! Because tonight's the night I'm seeing the brand new restoration of Ken Russell's The Devils, a moment I've dreamt of for decades. Actual decades! If you missed the trailer for this one I posted it previously right here -- I adore this blasphemous mental breakdown of a movie and am just about popping out of my pants with excitement right now. Anyway since the last time I posted about it The Powers That Be (cough Warner Brothers cough and sigh)  did release more news on the theatrical release of this masterpiece, which will only be one week long and begin on October 15th -- if you're in NYC it's playing Film at Lincoln Center the literal second that NYFF finishes and tickets are on sale this very minute. As for the rest of this week my schedule is still pretty random, with screenings in the morning and early evening, so you'll see me when you see me. And I've already got a heap of NYFF reviews locked and loaded too so please do stay tuned. Movies! How awesome are fucking movies y'all??

 

Noah Centineo Thirteen Times

I won't spend too much time being pissy about it because I'm aware that Noah Centineo did this to his hair for his role in the forthcoming video-game-adaptation and no-doubt-masterpiece Street Fighter and also that this hair's already gone, buzzed off, a thankful thing of the past. Yes I said "thankful" -- while people like Nicholas Hoult and Josh Hartnett proved to be brunettes adept at playing the "slutty blond" card (keeping it short helps) I don't think this stringy yellow mess suited Noah at all. So why am I sharing all these pictures he dropped on Instagram last night? Well for one I am generous and you might disagree with me on the hair and that is your right as a human being of the planet Earth goddammit. But more importantly I can look beyond the hair -- specifically to the abs. I am just staring at the body mostly here, let's be real. Hit the jump for it...

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Good Morning World Redux

Okay! Let's try this again. Yesterday I posted that I had a dentist appointment to fix a fallen filling, but that was a dirty dirty lie propogated by A.I. -- I'd been forced to use my dentist office's chatbot to schedule the appointment since they were closed when I called over the weekend, and sure enough the dumb thing made a fake appointment for me. Not that my A.I. skepticism is a surmountable thing -- not until they figure out how to make it not destroy the environment, much less every industry it touches anyway -- but on the extremely rare moments I've been forced to interact with A.I. it's been trash garbage and fucked me over. So y'all ain't winning the argument, Tech Bros! Okay I got distracted -- point being I called to double-check said appointment with an actual human being and they were like, "No." But I did manage to get in this morning, so I am off getting this sharp jagged monster hole in my face patched up finally. I'll be in probably Noon-ish. Until then enjoy that video of Miguel Angel Silvestre Miguel-Angel-Silvestre'ing.

Nicholas Hoult Seventeen Times

I hate that I'm forced to think about hateful bigot J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter bullshit now when I post about my boy Nicholas Hoult, but he frustratingly brought it on himself (and me!) by briefly signing on to take a role in HBO's trans-genocide-funding adaptation before reading the room's quite reasonable disappointment in him and suddenly finding a "scheduling conflict." (His role was happily snatched up by Kit Harington, another disappointment, but I guess we'll cross that bridge the next time Kit drops a hot photoshoot.) Anyway I haven't seen Nicky further disavow the franchise or Rowling's obscene behavior so it's with that upfront caveat that I bring you this new photoshoot of him looking typically gorgeous for ICON America magazine. The magazine hasn't put the interview with him online yet, not that I can find -- there is no proper link and I had to source these pictures from several different Instagrams. But he looks good and we're hoping he's learned some lessons and listened to some folks. Hit the jump for all the photos...

A Lying Liar

Alright nevermind the dentist appointment I mentioned earlier got moved to tomorrow so I am here. Whee. Let's see if I can stop sticking my tongue into the hole (heh) where my tooth used to be long enough to type out a coherent thought. (Signs point to nope.) 

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Good Morning, World

Hello, you. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend. (Also the three days that preceded the weekend when I was off doing NYFF screenings.) I didn't have such a great weekend -- I had a filling fall out on Saturday and spent all weekend with its jagged remains tearing up my tongue. So I'm unexpectedly running to the dentist this morning to get that fixed, thereby delaying my proper return to the site this week. Dunno how long this'll take but I will probably hopefully be back on here at some point today. For now just please enjoy the above video of the ever-adorable Joey Pollari getting dressed for the premiere of Ryan Murphy's new Lizzie Borden series, which dropped onto Netflix over the weekend. Being as busy as I've been I haven't been able to watch it yet -- did you? Is it good or what? Tell me! I'm in pain here and need the distraction!

Ding Dong NYFF O'Clock

Aww look at baby bird Fred Hechinger rocking a Canadian Tuxedo at TIFF this week -- we love Fred! We do this by blocking out that screeching homophobic bullshit that Ridley Scott forced him into in Gladiator 2. On that front it helps that he's starring in the new queer movie from Weekend and All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh called A Long Winter (see my previous post here), which was what he was photographed for at TIFF -- and whaddya know I am seeing A Long Winter this very evening! That's right it's NYFF time -- press screenings kick off tonight ahead of the Opening Night Film (which is James Gray's Paper Tiger) next Friday. (Tickets went on sale today -- did my fellow New Yorkers get any?) Which is all to say -- bye! I'm off to screenings for the remainder of this week. Next week I'll be around some, in and out (so to speak, you dirty birds) -- anyway it's about to get super busy here in My...Pants, as it does every fall season. I'm a whore for cinema! Expect random quietudes to be followed / interuppted by a whole lot of reviews from me, you know eventually. Probably all at Pajiba but who knows, maybe I'll write about something up here as well. Anyway please wish me well on the full three-and-a-half day movie marathon I have directly ahead -- from morning til night inside my beloved Walter Reade Theater! There ain't nothing better. Movies y'all!

The Criterions Around the Corner

Happy that the Criterion announcements for December 2026 are landing this afternoon before I am whisked away for the next few weeks of New York Film Festival screenings starting tonight -- fortuitous timing for us all. And fortune ahoy because there are a couple of real thrillers here, including as seen above the 4K premiere of Anthony Minghella's Best Picture winner The English Patient! I know opinions are all over the place on this movie but I love every old-fashioned inch of it -- Ralph Fiennes at his most beautiful and romantic, Juliette Binoche winning an Oscar... how can you not love it? This one lands on December 8th so there will be plenty of time to stuff it in deserving stockings. Speaking of...

... I don't know that Werner Herzog's documentary masterpiece Grizzly Man is exactly "happy holiday" material given what a horror show it is, but I personally am extremely thankful. This doc the true story of the nature-lover Timothy Treadwell, who lived amongst the Alaskan brown bears until they gobbled him up, lands on the same day as The English Patient -- it's only a blu-ray, not 4K, but that's probably as good as we'll get given the source material is mostly old video. If you've never seen this movie good god do you have something in store. (Also that cover is gorg.)

Also ahead is Pietro Germi's 1961 black comedy Divorce Italian Style, which stars Marcello Mastroianni (who else) as a married man who falls in love with his much younger cousin -- oh 1961. Never stop 1961-ing. I've never seen this movie somehow? Those deeply hetero sex-comedies of this time period have never really been my bag but I'm sure it's worth seeing. Then there is December's new entry in Criterion's revived "Eclipse" series of box-sets -- this one tackles Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez who made a series of short films (and one feature) in 1960s and 70s Cuba. Anybody familair with her work? Criterion's final two releases of December are two 4K upgrades -- there's Ernt Lubitsch's classic comedy The Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan, and there's a little something called Nashville by Robert Altman. Now that's a movie.

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Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)

Noel: So, wait, what are you saying? 

All these lines that I... 

those crap lines... they actually worked?

Anna: No, they were shit.

Noel: Oh.

Anna: In fact if you'd said nothing 

I might have fucked you earlier.

Saying nothing is usually the way to go, I have found. 

Anyway a happy 49th birthday to Tom Hardy today!

Figured I'd make some love to his pre-Bronson work...

... and it had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with this gif.

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Good Morning, World

I always find it a bit much when somebody on the internet screams, "Choke me, Daddy!"... even though I have surely done just that myself once or thrice but when haven't I been "a bit much" after all. But when Aaron Pierre  in nothing but underwear started choking out a guard out on this week's latest episode of Lanterns I think we all could be forgiven for having that phrase screaming, shrieking, pounding at the walls of the insides of our heads. Biceps like Aaron's basically make such reactions a prerequisite. Anyway I made gifs -- lots of slowing down, lightening up, and freeze-framing happening because this all goes by far too fast -- so hit the jump to see "Choke Me, Daddy" reach its Final Boss Form......

Golden Indeed

Given how literate and worldly my readership is I'm sure all of you knew that Josh O'Connor is about to do a staging of Clifford Odets' boxer drama Golden Boy in London this fall. That said -- knowing it and actually seeing it in the flesh are two different experiences, as casting an eye upon that photo of Josh makes clear. Lord send me a sugar daddy who can jet me off to front row! This play was of course turned into a terrific movie in 1939 that starred William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck, and it made Holden a star ... and so naturally we must ask the question...

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Russell Tovey is an Industry-ous Chap

It was already a monkey's paw kind of situation going into Industry's fifth and final season, knowing that the show (which has absolutely been on fire with awesomeness for years now) would probably be able to get any actor they wanted to for this next, last round of episodes, all while we know that the show's ending and how much that sucks. But it's double-fold monkey-paw shit today when I have to tell you that we have gotten the wonderful word that Russell Tovey's joining the show... but so is Ben Platt. WHY??? Why can't we just have the good part and amputate that second half??? Ugh. Ugh. Ugh! Anyway the info on who they're each playing is there at the link if you wanna spoil yourself -- I know that gay actiors don't have to play gay characters (no matter what I might have said in the past; I was drunk) but I do find it interesting that two 'mos just joined the show in unison. Let's hope it points us in the direction of where Sir Henry Muck's storyline is headed!

Russell Tovey putting on his businessman glasses to go fuck Kit Harington on the new season of INDUSTRY

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM

Buy Me Beautiful

I know that "The eBay Post" has become like a weekly thing here over the past couple of months but that's only because the hoarding situation was becoming untenable and I really needed to unload some stuff, for spatial as well as financial reasons. Nevertheless here I am doing it again. What, am I going to pass up the chance -- since I listed for sale my DVD of Luchino Visconti's first film Ossessione starring Massimo Girotti -- to post a gif of Massimo Girotti in Ossessione? I think not. Check out everything I've listed at this link -- just think, the holidays are coming up! And I have so many beautiful art books for sale right now that the "For Sale" pile is as big as the piles of the stuff I'm actually keeping. I thin the herd, you bring gorgeousness into the life of yourself and/or the people you love. It's a masterpiece I tells ya. (Help meeeee.)

The David Corenswet Jock Movie

The moment that the first beefcaked-up photos from David Corenswet's football bio-pic Mr. Irrelevant appeared online back in April I knoew this was a movie I was going to be psoting about more when the time came -- well tick tock motherfuckers. The trailer popped up over the weekend and it's exactly the sort of soppy sentimental thing we expected, but damn if David doesn't look incredible anyway. 

And I feel less inclined to side-eye this movie than Sports Bio-pics of the past because -- these movies just aren't made very often anymore? The trailer gives away what seems like everything and this is extremely old-fashioned shit, and there's something kind of endearing about that. I really don't even have a warm place in my heart for any esteemed movies of this genre but I'm glad this exists in 2026. Hell if only so we get to see Superman bouncing in those little shorts. Here's the trailer:

Mr. Irrelevant is out on Christmas Day. 

Hit the jump for a few more gifs I made...