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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.

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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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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...

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!

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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:

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.

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...