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As I said just two posts down I watched some of the SAG Awards -- or The Actors, whatever, I don't care -- last night but switched over halfway through to watch the finale of my beloved Industry, which turned out to be an excellent decision. I'm on the record that I think Michael B. Jordan is the weak link in Sinners so I don't really understand that win at all, but whatever -- MBJ seems like a great guy and he's a genuine movie star so I get why people would want to reward him for such a big movie. I know the tide's turned on Timmy and it's super cool to hate on him these days but I personally think it's willful blindness to ignore how incredible he is in Marty Supreme. No Marty is not a "likable" character, but the second I start begging to watch likable people in movies is the day you can take me out behind the barn. Anyway the beautiful losers Timmy and Jacob Elordi were all over each other all night so we did win something! These photos. 

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Ohhh Industry

Have I really never scavenged the song "Oh Industry" from my beloved Beaches for a post title about the show Industry before this? I have only been a fan of the show for a couple of months so I suppose it's possible and I'm too lazy to check so since I don't remember doing it that's good enough. Anyway Kit Harington was apparently kind enough to send off the fourth season finale by sharing (via) this shirtless gym selfie -- I mourn the end of another run of stellar episodes but I welcome my new lord and master, those soaked-with-sweat gray sweatpants he's wearing.  Did y'all watch the final yet? I figure some of you were caught up with the SAG Awards (which I also watched some of until I remembered that Industry was happening) so I won't say anything spoilery. But if you have thoughts please share 'em in the comments. I think this was one of the best seasons of televsion I've ever seen, personally. Also:

IF MARISA ABELA DOESN'T WIN ALL THE AWARDS I SWEAR TO FUCK

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM

Good Afternoon, World

Hey! You! It's me! I'm back from my screening I had this morning (see below), which I studiously told you of on Friday -- now let's see how posting goes...? I make no promises, but at least I have given you a little Hero Fiennes Tiffin (click to embiggen) to stare at whilst not doing so. Be back shortly! Probably! Probably? Probably.

Good Monday Morning #nowwatching

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM

Lots of Horror For A February Huh

Look at me -- giving y'all warning an entire three days in advance that I'll be in late on Monday morning. This photo of Jake looking weird slash hot (his specialty) during's yesterday's premiere duties for his sister's movie The Bride! (via) reminded me that I am actually seeing that film first thing Monday morning. So I'll be in after I do that. And then you'll be hearing my thoughts on that film some time after since it's out in one week! How exciting. Anyway for now this is the weekend of Scream 7, so if you go see that feel free to then come over here and tell me how wrong you thought my good review of it was there in the comments. Other than that -- try to stay sane this weekend! That's my only goal. (Psst I am failing miserably.) In summation: let's now fag out over Jessie Buckley's terrific fashion choice for The Bride! premiere -- I really love this entire look!

This is an excellent look for Jessie!

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM

Mason Gooding Five Times

The fact that Scream 7 is getting twice as many bad reviews as the 2022 reboot did can be chalked up to a few factors, I think -- series fatigue probably, plus all of the bullshit that went down with its making definitely -- but I don't think it has as much to do with the movie itself because... babes there's no way this is worse than that 2022 movie was. I actually gave that movie a good review when it came out but subsequent viewings have proven that I was just high on the supply of having Ghostface back because that movie's a pile of shit in retrospect. I suppose that could account for the difference in Rotten Tomatoes percentages! Everybody's willing and happy to give a Scream movie a green tomato now... even when I don't think it's deserving. Cuz as I said yesterday in my brief and vague (i.e. unspoilery) review -- I dug the damn thing. I found it light on its feet and I'm looking forward to re-watching it. I guess we'll see where audiences fall -- it's going to make good money this weekend because franchise horror movies almost always do right out of the gate, but after that it's about word of mouth. I'd be sad if this one was the last one. Not because the franchise shouldn't end on this note, but because I want more still. So we'll see. Anyway here's the ever gorgeous Mason Gooding for Wonderland magazine (via) who basically simply deigned to show up again in Scream 7, smile, and then just melt me to goo in my chair. Hit the jump for the rest of the photos...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Driver's Seat (1974)

Lise: If you think you're going to have sex 

with me, you're very much mistaken.

Bill: But I haven't had my daily orgasm. 

It's an essential part of the diet; an orgasm a day. 

If you miss a day, you have to have two 

the next day and that gives me indigestion.

Lise: I have no time for sex. I mean it. 

Sex is of no use to me, I assure you.

Bill: But orgasms are yang!

The legend known as Liz would've turned 94 today.

Anybody seen this? I did last year and it's incredible.

In that weirdo over-the-top way of all her 70s movies.

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Good Morning, World

I am seeing Cole Escola's comic theatrical juggernaut "Oh, Mary!" a second time in a few weeks -- one of my few claims to coolness is having seen it very early, well before it moved to Broadway, because I knew Cole to be a genius already -- because I had to see John Cameron Mitchell play the lead role; this was non-negotiable. I'd have loved to see everyone that's played the role since Cole left but JCM? No way I'm missing Hedwig as Mary. But I will miss seeing Dino Fetscher here in the role of Mary's Teacher (he's doing it in London) which I'm sad about -- not that I won't enjoy seeing Simu Liu in the role, but Dino... Dino is gay hunk royalty. Anyway he talks about that and other stuff in the interview attached to this gay hunk royalty photoshoot at 1883 Magazine, so check it. Or supposedly he does, I haven't read it yet. I needed to take some time with these photos. Phew! Hit the jump to take it all in for yourselves...

You Two Had a Nice Friendship

I have no idea why Regal is screening a certain little movie called Call Me By Your Name in theaters today -- for a second I thought we'd reached the 10th anniversary but somehow, insanely, that's next year. But I'm not complaining -- I grab at any chance to slip back into the sweet summer ryhthyms of Luca's romantic masterpiece any chance I can get, just as Elio grabs at any chance to slip back into the sweet summer rhythms of his favorite lil' fruit friend. Point being I'm leaving early today to go see CMBYN on the big screen for... well I lost track but we're definitely somewhere between 25 and 30 times now. It's been a couple of years since I've re-watched the movie at all so I'm hoping this viewing will gift me back some of the much needed escapism I luxuriated in during the similarly awful stretch of 2017 when it was released. Fingers crossed. And as always you can catch up on my writing on this movie at this link, which was... extensive. let's just call it extensive haha. See you tomorrow, peach-lovers!

GRAB THEM 🍑🍑 TODAY IS THE DAY

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM

James McAvoy Eight Times

Hilariously I literally let out a "Jesus Christ" when I first set eyes upon the above photo of James McAvoy -- yes I've been on Team Jim ever since he yanked down his yellow shorts and showed us what he's made of in The Last King of Scotland (what, am I not predick-table) but I've been surprised to find myself to be finding him hotter and hotter as he ages. Maybe it's the fact that we're aging together -- we're basically the same age -- or maybe it's the fact that he's really leaned into his inner horn-dog lately. But whatever it is it's working. He's really popping with an, uhh, let's call it a "provocative energy". 

I think I really took note of it circa Atomic Blonde? God he's a horny devil in that sexy-ass movie. But, I mean, LOOK at the last photo I posted of him here on this website! Dude is feeling it these days and so are we. (Anytime, James!) Anyway my projections and stirrings aside (although come on, those are the main basis, the thrust if you will, for this damned forever-running over-sharing website), this new photoshoot pops all on its own thanks to its color scheme -- these photos are for Empire magazine where Jimmy's their cover boy talking his directorial debut, and his long storied career in general, read it here. Or just hit the jump and rollick in the silky daddy smoothness of our favorite Scotsman...

This Call's For You, Sidney

I'm not going to get too thick into the weeds of the extra-filmic horrors that plagued this latest Scream movie except to say right up-front fuck the producers at Spyglass Entertainment to hell for firing Melissa Barrera for speaking the truth about Israel's ongoing genocide. Anybody who wants to boycott this movie because of that is right on -- in fact here's a good site where you can donate to aid for Palestinians; feel free to spend your money there instead of on tickets for this movie. That big bag of bullshit and Barrera's right to the freedom of speech to express such correct and necessary thoughts are far far more important than any slasher franchise.

Now... spinning around to give the movie a good review feels a bit turncoat, I'll own that. But what can I say -- I enjoyed the damn thing. You can feel the return of Kevin Williamson's voice -- this movie is simple, straightforward, and a shit ton of fun. Scream 7 feels like a return to the first two movies in that it's got that old-school buzzing energy to it -- genuine tension in the stalking scenes, a heap of nerdy callbacks to the past movies (Williamson apes several shots in the original, a movie I've seen so many times now it's fully burned into my brain, so I probably am well past being able to be fair and balanced here). 

It's also got some extreme gore, which I've seen some people pin onto the writers from the last two movies being on-board here but I dunno -- does no one remember Drew Barrymore's intestines hanging out as she hung from a tire-swing for her parents? The first movie has its gnarly-ass moments. Indeed one of the kills here feels like a mash-up of that with a scene from part 2 -- okay I could geek out about this sort of thing for awhile because there are a million references mixed up in here, but that's either 1) not fun for you or 2) it would be fun for you so I should leave you to experience it in the movie theater. So I'll refrain from going down that road. That said there's also a sequence that feels positively The-Burning-esque in its quick and bloody kill-count, which had me giddy. 

But I'm glad I'm not tasked with writing this up anywhere except here on my own little site so I can be as vague as I want to be on all of this -- no need to force myself to explain the plot or ruin any surprises. There's Sidney (Never Campbell), there's a Ghostface (or two), there's a bunch of teenagers getting knives plunged into their bellies while Sidney goes ape-shit with her gun-love (I remain uneasy with how much this franchise sees guns as instruments of heroes). I will say that the motive, when it's revealed, delighted me -- it's a perfect fit for the francise and very very funny. 

And that's the whole of it. I had fun. I left the theater with the same high I had from the first couple of films, which -- I didn't deeply hate the last two movies, not entirely (okay five was pretty bad but the last one was okay) but the magical Williamson touch was very much missing. You feel it, watching this. I've only glanced at the other reviews but I saw the opening Rotten Tomatoes score which is Not Good so I guess I'm going to be an outlier on this. Whatever. I'm right, of course.

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Good Morning, World

While this obviously doesn't reach the highs of the skin game that Kit Harington's been playing on the fourth season of Industry to date -- see here and here and here for what I speak of -- I'm still never going to say no to a glimpse of Kit's stellar stems and snug boxers. Plus it gives us the opportunity to play our own game, that of Yay And Nay -- as in "Yay Industry got renewed for a fifth season!" and "Nay it's also going to be the final season." Admittedly I only came to the series over these past holidays so this probably makes me part of the problem, but I have spent the past couple of months trying to be part of the solution dammit, sreading the holy gospel of it's awesonemess far and wide. Mmm wide like Kit's thighs. Sorry I too get distracted by my own images. Anyway the show is incredible, thanks to everyone who convinced me to watch, although let's be real -- it was the promise of Kit doing gay shit that pushed me over the egde. So to speak. Ahem. And then he did so gay shit last week! Edging be gone! Same goes for this post -- hit the jump for a couple of gifs from the above scene...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... sand surf and staching 

with vintage Giancarlo Giannini.

I watched the 1965 proto-giallo Libido last night, which stars a baby Giancarlo as the son of a suicided sex-fiend who returns to his ancestral home only to find all that bad shit bubbling back up. This was Giannini's very first film and you can tell he's going to have a long career already, grounding the outlandishness of the plot with real sadness and anger amongst the silliness.

He's great! And so is that picture up top of him somewhat later in his career that I stumbled upon while looking him up while also watching the movie, as I'm wont to do with movies while at home now. Anyway Radiance just put out a great blu-ray of this movie so check it out if you dig the giallo vibe -- the last act is super bonkers with a series of rug-pulls that reminded me of no less than the masterpiece that is John McNaughton's Wild Things. And I posted a spoilery bit from the movies final moments on my Instagram Stories if you just want a taste of the outrageousness. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Zola (2020)

Stefani: Hey! Money, titties, money titties!

Zola is such a masterpiece. Masterpiece! Riley Keough and Taylour Paige both should've been Oscar-nominated. Anyway a very happy birthday to director Janicza Bravo today! Can't wait to see what she does next as I've loved both of her feature films so far (the other being Lemon in 2017, reviewed here).  She's been working on TV since Zola came out -- directing episodes of Them and The Bear and Poker Face, among many others -- but I'd say our pateince has worn thin. Hand this woman the money for her next feature, yo!

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Good Morning, World

Our Now Apocalypse pretty boy Avan Jogia is advertising his wares now that he's got a new series on Prime called 56 Days -- anybody watching it? Actually anybody watched it -- I think the entire run of episodes was dropped all at once so maybe you're already done with it. I am not! I haven't even begun, but I do think that I'll probably watch it at some point, for reasons displayed in all their glory up above. Anyway! I am running late this morning. Let's get to it. 

The Only Choice is Consumption

I know that we've generally agreed that the concept of a "snub" at the Oscars is kind of dumb but -- who would I be if I wasn't hating on AMPAS? I don't even know anymore. So fuck them for ignoring Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice, which is better than a good three-quarters of the movies that did get nominations. (Here is my review.) It's as timely and as funny and as gorgeously filmed as the probable Best Picture winner One Battle After Another, and it'll be long remembered after a bunch of the other titles fall away, and that's its own reward -- I'm just sick of Master Park getting the shaft. He's too good for them! But the Oscars aren't why we're here -- if they're ever why we're here you should hit the big red alarm button on the whole "pod person" thing. No we're here because there's news on the No Other Choice physical media front. What we can only assume will be a fancy limited edition 4K blu-ray a la the Oldboy release that Neon put out a couple of years ago has been dropped on Amazon for pre-release -- right here -- which will come out on April 28th. It is pricey as fuck -- $76 as of this writing -- which I can only assume will drop closer to the release date. The Oldboy release ended being fifty bucks I think? (Although I see now on Amazon it's going for truly ridiculous prices, good grief.) The annoying thing is we don't have any info yet on what this limited edition will look like or contain, but I imagine that'll be out soon. I went ahead and pre-ordered it now since I will obviously want this, but I'm keeping my eye on Neon's own shop for the information we're missing as well as a probable lower price. If I see it, I'll share!