Eiffel Me Up

Headed to a screening of Peter Berg's football / war movie The Mosquito Bowl tonight where the cast will be in attendance for a Q&A and reception after  so it's likely I'm about to be in a room with those two above and... [redacted]. Ahem. Keep your eyes on my Instagram for pics!

Which is Hotter?

I don't have much to say about People's pick for "Sexiest Man Alive" this year because -- unlike last year -- this year's pick is a reminder that their whole business is not aimed at me (i.e. it's straight people nonsense). That said I've also just been confronted with these photos of Emily in Paris stars Lucien Laviscount and Lucas Bravo posing together as two of the many runners-up and you know what? I suddenly do feel catered to. So poll we must...

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Drew Starkey Sixteen Times

As terrific as I thought Drew Starkey was in Luca Guadagnino's Queer I wasn't sure he'd translate that into a career I was deeply invested in -- and I'm still not. But I'm more convinced than I was then thanks to his weird-ass turn in the horror flick Onslaught a couple of months ago, which was far and away my favorite thing about that mediocre movie. (Two minutes of Rebecca Hall excepted, of course.) He's not just a one-trick-pony who excelled at being an object of lust in a Luca movie after all. We're paying attention now, Drew! And this new photoshoot for Another Man Magazine isn't hurting his cause either; hit the jump for the whole thing...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

After the Hunt (2025)

Alma: I feel like deep inside I always expected this.

I expected the rottenness in me to be seen by 

other people right before I managed to expunge it.

Hank: Spoken like a true woman... 

I never felt myself be rotten at all.

Alma: Spoken like a true man.

A happy birthday to Julia Roberts today! (My review.)

Am I the only person who thinks about this movie daily?

I hope Criterion comes through one of these days;

this is not a movie that should exist only on streaming.

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Good Morning, World

I am being lazy this morning and just sharing a new photoshoot of Taron Egerton that I had on hand -- this is for L'Officiel magazine -- even though there's nothing "Morning" related about it. I do try to fulfill my own basic rules in such matters but sometimes... no. He's not even showing any skin here -- these are a lot of clothes! -- but he looks great. (And I guess he showed plenty of skin in his last movie so we're even now.) I wouldn't have guessed that the buzzed hair would suit him and I was wrong and he should keep it. Right? Anyway blah blah I said I was feeling lazy this morning and I meant it so just hit the jump for the photos whilst I see if I can wrangle up any sense of energy over here...

Which is Hotter?

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It probably would've made more sense to do this poll two weeks ago when the new Sense and Sensibility movie hit theaters -- did any of you see it? It's very good! Not Ang Lee good but very good nonetheless. But I didn't have the below brand new photoshoot of actor Herbert Nordrum for Man About Town magazine to share two weeks ago, and that's what actually inspired this post into happening. While I assume Dreamboat Georgie will walk away with this, who knows -- I think any of us who saw The Worst Person in the World felt Nordrum steal a little piece of our hearts, and he's just as low-key lovely in this S&S. Anyway I hope he's in lots and lots of things to come! Hit the jump for the full shoot...   

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)

Victor: How often a man believes he's met an angel or a devil, 

only to find it is all an illusion. The game of chess 

we play... We play only against ourselves.

I know the film isn't actually called "Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein" but I have decided that's what I am calling it from now on -- it helps differentiate it from the others. Anyway we're here to mark the film's rescue off of Netflix by Criterion, who've given us the gift of the movie on 4K disc out today -- huzzah! I haven't had a chance to watch this copy yet but it's sitting there on my shelf waiting for a cold night not far off I imagine. What is everybody's opinion on this movie? I think I fall into the general camp which is it's good, but not as great as I'd hoped. Save Elordi who is really absolutely terrific as the Monster. Also we get some naked Oscar Isaac and that's never a demerit! I do wish I loved the movie a little more -- Mia Goth is sadly wasted -- but perhaps that will come with time and multiple re-watches. You certainly can't knock the craft on display -- the sets, the costumes, they're all total stunners. And yes by "costume" obviously I mean Jacob little bandage panties. Duh.

Will Price Nine Times

It's extremely odd that actor Will Price here has acted in two count 'em two Luca Guadagnino movies -- the first being After the Hunt (he played the signature Straight White Male student who got heaped on a few times in Julia Roberts' class) and the second being Luca's upcoming Artificial, which I reviewed right here -- and yet it wasn't either of those movies that made him catch my eye. No instead it's his role as a preening douchebag in Noah Segan's The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, the movie that just hit limited screens this past weekend which will probably get its leading man John Turturro a Best Actor nomination if not a whole damn win for his performance. Will's character is extremely annoying (on purpose), somebody you really wanna punch, and yet... well he's great in the part but I was having a lot of other thoughts too. (Do you see those lips? The boy sure has a purdy mouth, as the saying goes.) Anyway I just saw Pickpocket two nights ago so this is all fresh to me -- thankfully this very fine photoshoot for Hero Magazine was here to help me out, then! Hit the jump for all the snaps...

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Charles Melton Gives Good Pounding

No I have no idea why this new-to-me video of Charles Melton's shirtless fight scene in Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell getting choreographed has suddenly made its way onto the internet (via) -- I am just happy it did. It's a nice way to use thirty seconds of my day today -- okay let's be honest, it'll be several times that because I'll clearly be watching this clip several times. Have you watched this movie yet? I've watched it a couple more times since getting the 4K disc and I regret nothing. (My review.) Masterpiece!

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Some days only Robert Conrad will do.

He Got Squid Game

I don't usually post about events happening in cities that aren't NYC -- because fuck you people, I surely can't go so you just figure it out for yourselves. But I want to post artist Bruno Vergauwen's gorgeous new poster for Andrzej Żuławski's horror masterpiece Possession, seen there above, and so here we are. There's a show featuring new work by Vergauwen and one of my personal faves, the artist who calls himself Elvisdead, that's happening at the Outpost 512 Gallery in Texas this Friday -- anyway they're slowly revealing the new posters and art that will be featured and that poster there popped my cork, it did. I'm deeply jealous of anyone who can go to this show -- I already own a large pile of Elvisdead's posters (one seen below; his work is basically covering the wall behind my bed!) but I'd murder kill to get a copy of that Possession sheet. Sigh!

The great Elvisdead does Oz

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All the Creatures Are Stirring

Did anybody go see Laika's Wildwood this weekend? I'm always shocked that their movies never make big money but then I suppose I shouldn't overestimate the hunger of the American audience for off-the-beaten-path children's entertainment -- why watch an exquisite labor of love that took sixteen years to make when you can turn your children's brains into slop machines via the latest Illumination crap-heap instead? Anyway Wildwood is wonderful, another treasure from the greatest animation studio around, click on over to Pajiba to read my review which dropped this here afternoon. If you're going to see this GO SEE IT ON A BIG SCREEN -- the absolutely insane luxury of these visuals demand it and I promise you you'll regret missing it in a few years time when it's taken its place alongside all of Laika's other movies as masterpiece canon. 

Pics of the Day

My favorite movies are the movies I forget are happening and then suddenly wham like a freight train an image will arrive to make me go "OH MY GOD YESSSSSS" -- for example I had 100% forgotten posting in May that Jonathan Bailey will be starring in a movie about cycling called Pumping Black (and yes my title for that post was about as subtle as you expect), until today when a big batch of photos of Jonny is skintight lycra popped up in my social media feed and thrust (heh) this all back into my head. In the happiest of ways! When I posted about it back before I knew it was co-starring Natalie Portman but now we know it's being directed by Mimi Cave (who made the cannibalism anti-romance Fresh with Sebastian Stan) and will also co-star Lukas Gage and that hot twink Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen from the Netflix series Rain. Jonny surrounding himself with pretty boys, we love to see it. Anyway these pictures of Jonny in nothing but lycra are a lot so prepare yourselves, mentally speaking of course, and hit the jump...

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Good Morning, World

Is it weird that I almost teared up, seeing these new shots of Dominic Cooper half naked on some ITV series called Adultery? (via, thx Mac) Okay don't answer that -- it is very clearly "weird." But whatever, whatever I says, I missed this. We had so much Dominic Cooper to attend to a decade or so ago -- remember the luxury of two times the naked Dom in The Devil's Double? JFC that movie is 15 years old. No wonder I'm crying...

 

... these are reminding me of a time I still felt alive inside. Ha ha, joke's on you -- I have never felt alive inside! Well this is a dark post for a Monday morning, innit? Well at least Dominic is here to lighten our load. (No comment.) Let's get on with it then. Anybody watched this Adultery show? Should I, or is this the height of it here?

Lick Skarsgard's Wick

First and foremost here are a pair of outtakes from the photoshoot of Alexander that I shared the other day here (and here) -- looking at Alexander is always the primary driver we live by. We survive by, really! We don't got much else. That said we do have a review for you of his new movie Wicker, the one where he plays a magic man made out of wicker opposite a fishy Olivia Colman (no she is not made out of fish although I could see the confusion, especially if you've seen The Shape of Water) -- click here to read my thoughts on this delightful little fable! Alex & Olivia have incredible chemistry, which has been obvious for weeks as they've bounced about doing press -- thankfully it translates to the screen. 

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Good Morning, World

I always find it funny slash infuriating when we see on-set footage from a photoshoot and the actor being photographed, like let's say James Norton here for argument and expediance's sake, is half-naked in nearly all of the footage -- but then the photoshoot comes out in the magazine and there's like a hint of shoulder and otherwise he's entirely clothed in everything printed. Triflin'! They be triflin'. Anyway the photographer dropped a video here for this photoshoot and at the end of said video you'll see the final photos and they look nothing like this video. But this video exists and for that we're thankful -- thankful enough to make gifs so these moments of divinity continue existing. Hit the jump for 'em...