A Brief Interlude

Okay well that's that for this nearly full day of "content" -- I'm running back into the warm embrace of NYFF press screenings now. Tomorrow is the Opening Night of the fest with Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt opening things up -- my reviews will probably start dropping next week over at Pajiba. See my preview of what I was most looking forward to right here. As for blogging here I'll be offline all day tomorrow, but I'll be back here Monday afternoon. So have a good weekend and if you're in NYC go see something at NYFF! Here's their site! There's a super-mass of incredible international cinema awaiting you. Otherwise -- go see One Battle After Another! Masterpiece, says me!

One Masterpiece After Another

Being a man of mystery (ha) I don't usually let on to my opinions on movies until I drop my full review of them -- the whole "spit out twenty words on social media the second the screening ends" thing is just not for me. I need to marinate in what I just watched -- especially when it's blown my mind. But this time there was enough of a break between the first time I saw Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and when the social media embargo broke on it that I'd fully formed my opinion that it's a masterpiece (something a second viewing before I wrote my review only underlined) and so this time I did indeed jump on the "screaming my opinion in a few words on social media" bandwagon, as seen down below. (And that post is in actuality an entire thread so click on to read it all at Bluesky if you care for the Cliff's Notes version of my review.) That said my full on review of the film dropped yesterday -- READ IT HERE. There could still be some surprises down the road with movies I haven't seen yet but to be honest I can't imagine anything knocking OBAA off the top of the year right now. It's astonishing filmmaking from PTA. Urgent, funny, political -- if this is the movie that finally gets him on the Oscar stage I don't think anybody could possibly be angry about that. Well except for Republicans. They'll be angry. But when aren't they angry? Fuck those dirty diaper people.

I don't like doing miniature social media "reviews" when embargoes break but ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is so mind-blowingly good I'm breaking my own rule - I felt like I was levitating upon leaving the theater. As the end credits came up I almost started whooping "CINEMA FUCK YEAH!" at the screen

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM

Théodore Pellerin One Time

(click to embiggen) Obviously I'm hoping that Loewe will drop more photos of actor Théodore Pellerin modeling for them but for now this one of the Lurker actor (via) is making me very happy! In related news -- Lurker is landing on MUBI on October 10th! You should catch it then if you haven't been able to catch it in theaters -- really love that movie. 

Great Moments In Movie Staches

Let us take a brief moment today to honor Vincent Cassel's sleazy little stache in Jacques Audiard's terrific little 2001 noir-thriller Read My Lips, which entered the Criterion Collection this week. Sometimes a stache does a lot of heavy lifting and this is very much one of those!  You can pick up the movie at this link -- an excellent early Audiard movie, way before he sullied his rep with that Emilia Pérez debacle last year. I hope whatever he works on next is a steering of the ship back into better waters. Give us another Sisters Brothers please.

Which is Hotter?

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As soon as I saw the photo on the left of actor, stuntman, and total babe Cameron Brown in the Xenomorph costume for the Alien: Earth series I thought of the legendary photo on the right of actor, stuntman and total babe Ricou Browning doing the same pose in his Creature costume from 1954's Universal monster movie classic Creature From the Black Lagoon -- and thus this poll was born. I finished watching Alien: Earth last night so if y'all want to share your opinions on the show's first season in the comments go to town! I thought it was fine. It didn't blow my mind, honestly -- it's kinda weird when the only character you give a shit about is an extraterrestrial eyeball ya know? But I'll definitely watch a second season. Anyway I recommend following Cameron Brown on Instagram; if you hit the jump I've chosen a few highlights...

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Good Morning, World

I was going to post this scorching new photo-shoot of my man Karl Glusman this morning whether I was here at my desk or not -- in case you hadn't noticed I've been off most of this week doing my annual NYFF thing. But I am actually here at my desk for most of today, huzzah, so anticipate some posting! Including a post of these nearly twenty photos of Karl flashing abs like abs are the special of the week, after the jump...

Twas Only a Moment For You

Okay yeah that's it, I'm off to NYFF screenings again. As I said last time I scampered off keep an eye on my socials, you'll be able to find me there (especially Bluesky). By the time I'm back... uhh Thursday morning... I'll have seen new movies by Claire Denis, Richard Linklater, Pietro Marcello, Lucretia Martel, Noah Baumbach, Bi Gan, Luca Guadagnino (!!!!) ... and Alexander Skarsgård's gay leather romance Pillion! I love the movies. Oh and as an aside keep an eye on Pajiba because my review of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another will also be dropping soon and that -- the movie and my review -- is not something you're gonna wanna miss. Anyway bye til later! And don't forget to celebrate this:

HAPPY 30 TO SHOWGIRLS

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Sam Claflin Seventeen Times

I could pretend that I have something to say about this photo shoot of Sam Claflin for Flaunt magazine but I'm in such a rush this morning trying to get five thousand things done before running out the door (including giving y'all something to look at before I cruelly abandon you for two-point-five more days) that I can't even pretend. Just imagine it woulda been something like, "Durr, hairy!" and I'm sure you'll have the gist. Got it? Good. Gist achieved. Hit the jump for the photos then...

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

I watched Richard Linklater's SubUrbia for the first time last night and -- unlike most Linklater movies -- I liked it. I wrote a little on Letterboxd if you care. Anyway the above moment with Parker Posey is obviously the take-away, and I will cherish it. Moving on to "back to life, back to reality" -- The second week of NYFF press screenings has begun and I'm only here at my desk for about an hour before running off to that, so cherish these brief moments while you've got them. Hope everyone had a nice weekend -- if you watched anything interesting tell me about it in the comments. 

 

Billy Butt on a Boat Bye

Billy Magnusson spent this past weekend proposing to his girlfriend and playing with a drone while naked on a boat -- I think we all know the activity of those two I find more interesting. Aww -- congrats, Billy. If you gotta be straight it's a damn shame but hopefully she sees that butt and understands her responsbility to take care of it. Anyway if you can peel your eyes off those cheeks for a moment let me say hello for this brief moment I am at my desk today -- NYFF press screenings are going strong and I'm heading back into the theater right now to continue our journey through some of the best that Fall 2025 Cinema has to offer. Next week I will be here for a skinny minute again Monday morning, and then I'm out until Thursday. Busy boy! So please enjoy the Billy butt-cheeks in my absence!

Mussolini: Son of a Century in 200 Words or Less

Joe Wright's eight-part miniseries Mussolini: Son of the Century dropped on MUBI last week and it really deserves far better than I'm about to give it, but it can't be helped as I'm running woefully behind and fully ensconsed in NYFF stuff right now. But watching our leaders applaud the racist pile of shit Charlie Kirk this morning made me realize how vital and timely the series is, so I really want to highlight it in case you're unaware -- Italian actor Luca Marinelli, who'd already stunned me right outta the gate with Martin Eden a couple of years back, gives what can only be described by ye ol' chesnut "tour de force" as ol' Benito, and it's in service to a deeply traumatic and extremely worthwhile excavation of how Fascism takes hold. Methodical in its brutal detailing of how Democracy crumbles by the eensiest of steps, one norm crossed without a word after another until it's too late and nobody's noticed, this series made me sick to my fucking stomach but in a very necessary way. Can't recommend highly enough. It's all on MUBI. Go watch it this weekend. I shared the trailer back here.

Plainclothes and Pretty Boys

Gay movie alert! Plainclothes, the movie where Tom Blyth plays an undercover cop who falls for suburban daddy Russell Tovey in 1990s Syracuse, is out in theaters today -- I reviewed this awhile back, read my thoughts here. Big fan. Oh and if you wanna find a theater near you where it's playing this link should help. 

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Even though I have yet to watch any of Euphoria save half of the first episode -- I knew right off the bat that I wasn't going to get into it -- it doesn't seem right that these gifs of Jacob Elordi aren't here on MNPP in a post-Saltburn, pre-Frankenstein world. I didn't make 'em, I swiped 'em off Tumblr, but I shake hands with each and every one and I say welcome home. Hit the jump for four more...

The It-Has-Begun-ening

Okay folks it's the moment y'all have been dreading. I'm leaving you! It's true. I have found another lover and his name is The New York Film Festival. I admit it will be a brief affair, only the next few weeks, but a fiery one inflamed with all kinds of passions nonetheless that will make this separation worth it! Point being I'm headed out to screenings this afternoon and... well, let me just lay out the rest of this week for you. I'll be out all day tomorrow and all day Thursday. I will be here Friday morning, for a few hours. And that kind of erratic schedule persists through... well at least October 3rd. I'll pop in when I'm here and say my hellos, try to drop links to reviews and also try to make time for whatever great gratuities might reveal themselves in that time. It's best to follow my socials for updates -- all of them can be found here but I'm on Bluesky the most. And you can follow what I'm seeing in real time over on Letterboxd! So please -- peace be with you. And let's go get some movies in our guts!

RIP Robert Redford

I'm not gonna lie -- I've never been the world's biggest Redford fan. Note that he doesn't have a tag here on the site (even though he's come up plenty of times given his well-earned prominence in Hollywood history) -- it would probably be fair of me to go back and re-watch the movies of his I saw decades ago wherein I decided he didn't do much for me. Especially All the President's Men, which I have a feeling might resonate with me more today than it did when I was like 18 in the 90s. I did recently see Three Days of the Condor for the first time and... yeah. I still didn't get much from Redford. And let's state the obvious -- in movies like The Sting and Butch & Sundance I was just staring at Paul Newman. And I do want you to know I'm not talking specifically about attractiveness here -- I'm speaking more generally. As a performer he usually left me cold. I realize this is a shitty eulogy for the man, so I admit I nevertheless couldn't understate his importance to the film industry. I am not an idiot! Sundance and what it stood for, how it reshaped the entire industry, is a legacy above and beyond any quibbles I might have with what I personally was getting from him on-screen. He was a titan and more than earned his status. Also -- Quiz Show and Ordinary People are pretty much perfect films. No quibbling on that front. But please, to those of you who felt the Redford love, express it to me in the comments. I want to understand. What performances of his moved you? I'm not being incredulous or antagonistic here in the slightest -- I really do want to hear about it so when I re-watch some of this stuff I can try to find my way to a better appreaciation. 

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Okay the "good" portion of this post officially ends immediately following that gif of Charlie Hunnam naked (in a pose we've seen and loved from him before!) because this gif is taken from the trailer for Ryan Murphy's forthcoming series Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which is... well when I say "not good" I mean evil and disgusting and so forth; so many skin suits, and not just Charlie's beautiful naked one! Because the trailer actually made me more excited for the series -- fone one I had no idea Laurie Metcalf was playing "Mother" and YES. A billion times yes. Charlie Hunnam was already several yesses but this takes it stratospheric. Let your breakfast settle first, and then watch:

This premieres on Netflix on October 3rd. I am so there.

And here is one more Naked Charlie Hunnam gif to see us out: