Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hey Pillion Wanting People!


I promised y'all I'd try to keep an eye out for news on the release of Harry Lighton's "dom-com" Pillion as A24 has slowly, slowly, slowly drizzled it into theaters, and so here, an update -- they posted on the social-media-site-that-shall-not-be-named today that the film will be going "nationwide" on February 20th. Whatever "nationwide" means but one assumes it means "in lots more theaters than it's in now." I don't have a list of theaters but hopefully this means you can see it then! You should! It's great -- yes that's my cue to link to my review for the five-hundredth time. Now enjoy these Harry Melling photos -- and on that note over at Pajiba our pal Kaleigh wrote about Harry Melling yesterday and it's a good read. He's a keeper. 


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Let us greet this Hump Day with a little treat 
from Heated Rivalry star Robbie G.K. shall we? We shall.
 

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Welcome to the Araki-verse


Today was a great day for all of us intelligent and beautiful Gregg Araki fans, as a whole bunch of news dropped with regards to the New Queer Cinema legend and icon seen above sandwiched between Pillion star Alexander Skarsgård and director Harry Lighton (oh what a wonderful place to be sandwiched). First came word that his Sundance film I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman has gotten picked up by Magnolia Pictures! And they plan on releasing it... some time this year. The lack of specifics annoy me. Why not just do next week? I don't have anything going on next week. I can do next week! Pencil that in, Magnolia! Ahem. Anyway obviously we'll be refreshing the whole of the internet until we do have a release date  announcement, making it so you can just keep refreshing MNPP for the news. I got you! The other big news is that he chatted with Variety today (thx Mac) about the forthcoming 4K restoration of his masterpiece Mysterious Skin -- we already knew that was a thing happening but now we have a new trailer...


... as well as a new poster, which I'll post down at the bottom of this post. In the interview Araki really gets into the depths of what he did in restoring the film and it sounds like A LOT and I'm not sure it all sounds necessarily "good" to me but we'll see. I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm always worried when these restorations aren't just clean-up jobs and the filmmaker starts talking about how they wanted to fix things they didn't have the money or the tech for before. He even specifically makes to make sure the point that he wasn't doing what George Lucas did to the Star Wars films but... it sounds like a lot of noodling so I worry. Like the one comparative screenshot they share...

... it seems like he altered the movie's iconic angled font? (The top picture is the old version, the bottom is the new.) I don't like that! That is not how the title is supposed to look! But, deep breaths, I will wait and I will see. Anyway the part of the interview that didn't stress me out was this thrilling tidbit -- the film's soundtrack will be getting a vinyl release! That's unimpeachably exciting news. And as for the poster, seen below, the great poster shop Posteritati here in NYC is promising they'll be selling this poster as well as a "limited alternative style" which I will be jumping right on -- I have a couple of signed posters they dropped when Araki's "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy"  came out via Criterion that I cherish deeply. The one for Nowhere hangs over my bed!


Which is Hotter?


I doubt I'm going to review it at this point but there was a hugely entertaining doc at Sundance called American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez about the activist turned movie-director Luis Valdez that you should keep an eye out for. I didn't know 95% of his story and it's almost Forrest-Gump-ian in the way it weaves through American Latino history... but of course, me being me, my biggest takeaway was a vivid remembering how many times I watched and rewatched his 1987 Ritchie Valens bio-pic La Bamba as a kid because of how extremely hot Lou Diamond Phillips & Esai Morales were in it. Good grief were they a formative pair! (And both of them are interviewed in the doc and they're still, almost 40 years later, hot af.) Anyway I haven't seen La Bamba is decades but as soon as this doc was over I went and grabbed Criterion's recent release and plan on revisiting it, but until then answer me an impossible riddle...



Just Say Yes!


I was sold on a new Nadav Lapid movie right off the bat thanks to the name Nadav Lapid -- his previous films Synonyms, Ahed’s Knee, and The Kindergarten Teacher are all phenomonal. But then I watched this, the first trailer for his new movie titled Yes, and... I am even more sold. More even more. Extremely more even! This looks phenomonal and that was even before they sell it as...

A Radu Jude seal of approval? Fuck yeah. These are the world-class provocateurs of our moment, sign me the hell up.  And to have a major artist from inside Israel making something this critical of Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians is uhh let's say welcome. The film stars Ariel Bronz as a musician tasked with writing Israel's new national anthem post-October-7th and it looks no holds barred. Thank goodness there are still real artists out here making real political art. This gives me hope for us. Watch:


Yes is out in U.S. theaters on March 27th. Gimme!



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Today I'd rather be...

... the Heated boys' hose.

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Nobody loves a good time like former Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actor Gavin Leatherwood loves a good time on his Instagram, and over the weekend he posted two goofily gratuitous videos of himself going from goatee to spindly little mustache that shan't be lost unto the algorithms of time if I have anything to do with it! And I do because here I am once again wielding all the power of the world wide web to contain them! Hit the jump for them both...

Monday, February 09, 2026

The Age of Elordi is Upon Us


If you were around here when Saltburn came out back in 2023 y'all know I loved Saltburn very very very much -- I also really liked Promising Young Woman (Carey Mulligan forever) and so I think it's safe to say that if the inevitable world civil war falls upon us and we're forced to take sides based on whether we like Emerald Fennell or not I will be one hundred thousand percent Team Fennell. I honestly think the people who get all bent out of shape about her are hella silly at this point. People get so angry about her! It's very weird! Anyway my side for the end times isn't switching now that Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" has landed -- I liked it a lot and my review just went up now at Pajiba so you can read all about it yourself. I'm not kidding when I say Jacob Elordi is really fantastic in this. He's really found his footing as an actor. The hunk thing we got previously, but actor-wise I'm fully sold now.  


Louis Garrel Seven Times


How does Louis Garrel just keep getting hotter? Every year some new part of me turns to dog-shit while he's out here making the word "distinguished" his bitch -- I'd say it's not fair but it's perfectly fair considering he got a whole Louis-Garrel-sized head-start. Anyway I first saw the above photo an entire week ago but I knew there'd be more so I practised extreme patience and we've been rewarded with this whole shoot for Financial Times, huzzah. (In the interview he talks about his upcoming movie with Angelina Jolie and Disorder director Alice Winocour called Couture which sounds extremely promising!) Hit the jump for all of the pretty man's photos...

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Good Domhnall Day


Hello and happy Monday, readers. Coming to you mid-afternoon this day one of the week instead of the usual morning thingamajig because I had a screening this morning that I forgot I had until last night (see what it was here!) but otherwise let's just get on with it -- I've got another Sundance review up at Pajiba today -- click on over to read my thoughts on The Incomer, a sweet little dramedy starring Domhnall Gleeson that I enjoyed. As I previously mentioned there wasn't a lot that was "light" at this year's Sundance so I think this one felt like a big needed respite from all of the bad feels. Even as it dealt with suicidal ideation and feelings of isolation. You take what smiles you can find in 2026!

Friday, February 06, 2026

Have a Happy Weekend


Do some of what you love best.

It's All Leather & Paddles


Apologies to the one commenter who keeps getting very angry at me for saying that Pillion is out in U.S. theaters this week because it's not out EVERYWHERE -- apologies because I am going to do it again! Pillion is out today, in SOME U.S. cities, some LUCKY U.S. cities, but I've already seen the movie like four times so I'm not keeping track anymore of where and when it's expanding. I assume it will eventually move on to smaller cities and then it will be on streaming and then we can all touch ourselves in unison to it -- a true happy ending. Anyway my NYFF review of the film from last fall can be read at Pajiba -- I love the movie and I am especially happy to see that A24 just dropped the vinyl of the film's score for pre-sale on their website, buy it here. That's the slutty back cover above and we co-sign. And also...

Blessings bestowed upon @thequeerreview.com and @jameskleinmann.com and photographer Mettie Ostrowski for giving PILLION director Harry Lighton the full leather-man treatment alongside their interview; read that here: thequeerreview.com/2026/02/06/i...

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM

... as you can see there director Harry Lighton played Leather Man for our pal James at Queer Review today, so you should click over and check out that interview and those hot-damn buncha photos. Do we have a new hottest movie director? I think we got a contender. Anyway speaking of A24 selling physical media they announced this morning that Marty Supreme will be available on VOD this upcoming Tuesday, when you will also be able to pre-order the blu-ray or 4K disc from their website. Maybe wait til Tuesday to buy the Pillion score and the Marty disc together and save on shipping. There are two of the movies in my Top 10 of 2025! Heck they're in my Top 5. Good shit! Thanks again, A24.


Joe Alwyn Ten Times


The Oscar-nominated Hamnet is now on VOD so you can see what all the fuss was about -- what the fuss definitely was not about was Joe Alwyn, who once again finds himself cast in a thankless forgettable role on the sidelines which he does very little with. I say this as a person who finds Joe Alwyn very attractive and who's seen him live in person at Q&As and he's incredibly charming in the flesh! I think his best roles have probably been for Yorgos in The Favourite and Kinds of Kindness where he played hot creeps (I don't remember much about the Ang Lee movie where I first saw him), so perhaps he should just try going full villain? I don't know, I'm not his agent, but this is the second Oscars race in a row where he's riding the coattails of a big Oscar nominee while offering the final product very little, and I do wish better for him. He is hot. We must take care of our hot boys. Anyway on that note he's being hot on the cover of Fantastic Man this month and we've got those photos after the jump...

A Head Full of Harbour


I didn't pay a ton of attention to the whole "David Harbour is sex addict" thing that came out recently thanks to his ex Lily Allen writing an album about him being shitty because that sort of gossip always feels invasive and shitty in itself to me -- I am not their friend, I don't need to be involved in their dirty laundry. When fans get all worked up about somebody cheating on their partner, if everybody involved are adults, I just don't think it's my business. Anyway that whole mess seemed like it fell into that camp so I didn't pay attention to it, so if I missed a legitimate reason that David Harbour got canceled feel free to yell at me. All I allowed myself to take from it is a few images of David Harbour being a freak and I was happy with those. Because hot

Anyway none of that is why we're here -- we're here because Mr. Harbour has booked a new movie which sounds hella rad on paper. It's an adaptation of Paul Tremblay's book A Head Full of Ghosts and it will co-star scream queen Rebecca Hall and it will be directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fial, the filmmakers behind the original Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, both of which rock. Anybody read the book? I have not but it's about the parents of a teen girl whose descent into schizophrenia is documented by an exploitative reality show, and the aftermath fifteen years later of that. I don't know who's playing who (if Harbour and Hall are the parents or if they play people in the flash-forward portion) but that sounds like a killer on-point concept for a movie, and I generally trust Rebecca Hall's instincts when it comes to horror -- she has done very well for herself in the genre. 

On that note: anybody watching The Beauty? I am and I was sort of enjoying it at first but I find myself increasingly annoyed by the idea that there could be a hotter version of Rebecca Hall that's not Rebecca Hall. I call bullshit! Also Ashton Kutcher sucks and annoys me, and I find the entire Anthony Ramos / Jeremy Pope storyline increasingly dumb as well. I like all the hot naked guys though (hello Isaac Cole Powell rolling around naked and wet on top of Evan Peters) so obviously I'll keep watching.


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The first trailer for David "Hell or High Water" Mackenzie's film Fuze starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw dropped yesterday and hilariously kicks off with these two shots of Aaron half-naked -- I love being pandered to. Watch the trailer here. I told you about this movie previously when Aaron & Theo were announced as co-stars because obviously, although there's not much in the way of interaction (i.e. explicit oral sex) between them in this trailer -- let's hope that changes for the final product. I don't see a release date yet so just twiddle your damn thumbs til then!

I should add that Theo & Aaron were very much seen hanging out on set together (see below sexy evidence) so let's hope this movie does actually understand its assignment: