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A Different Man (2024)

Oswald: Guy, you're a masterful actor, 

which is why this is so tragic. I really 

don't know what the ethical thing to do is.

Ingrid: The right thing to do is for you to take the role, 

and you still get to play Edward, Guy, just transformed. 

And you don't have to hide your face behind 

that idiotic thing! You- you get more recognition.

Edward: For one scene.

Oswald: But what a scene. The finale.

Edward: No one's gonna believe that Edward looks 

like him and then suddenly he just looks like me.

Oswald: Magic!

Edward: But she loves him for who he is. 

If he changes, then who is he then?

What a perfect movie A Different Man is! Here is my review. Cannot wait to see what writer-director Aaron Schimberg does next. But for now a happy birthday to Sebastian Stan, who would've been my pick for the Best Actor statue this past year if he'd been nominated for this instead of The Appreintice. And yes I admit I say that still having not watched The Apprentice. I mean kudos to any person who can subject themselves to more time spent thinking about our fucking asshole of a President but I simply cannot. A Different Man on the other hand, that shit I might have to re-watch tonight! Monumentally terrific flick.

If There's One Take Away From Weapons...

... it's ALDENSTACHE.

(See more of Alden's set photos here, and 

read my thoughts on the movie here and then 

my follow-up on its questionable gay shit here.)

Tahar Rahim Eleven Times

What's that you say? A new photoshoot of Tahar Rahim looking exxxtremely fine for something called L’Équipe magazine? (via) Yeah we'll bite. Or rather -- since Google Translate tells me that "L’Équipe" means "The Team" in French I guess I'll take one for The Team. From The Team. If The Team is Tahar Rahim. I will take one, several, from Tahar. 

Anyway we're extremely excited that Tahar is in Alpha, the new movie from Raw and Titane director Julia Decourneau -- I don't care that the reviews were mixed out of Cannes! I will make up my own damned mind thank you very much. Tahar's already got us halfway to heaven, as is. Hit the jump for the entire shoot...

Stick It To Me, Thom

I'm never "not listening to" Radiohead -- just sometimes I don't listen to my favorite band as much as others. But for the past couple of weeks I've been knee-deep in my boys again, giving my ol' favorites playlist a good rutting. Which usually means my decades-tuned Spidey-Sense is feeling 'em up to something and lo, behold, this is something! It's not the something we're all hoping for -- i.e. their first new goddamned record in nine years -- but it's something cool nonetheless. Today they dropped a new record of live recordings from their Hail to the Thief tours in the Aughts and you can pre-order their website's exlucive version of the vinyl right here and as pictured below. 

Or get a regular black vinyl, or a CD, or just listen to the thing digitially -- whatever. I just obviously bought the blue one because it's the most special and therefore I'm the most special Radiohead fan in all the land and they will love me the most. Ahem. But seriously -- support these poor poor chaps so they can afford to keep the lights on in the studio and record a new goddamned album already! Coincidentally they also dropped a shit-ton of new merch on their website yesterday from the current art show in the U.K. happening with the band's regular artist Stanley Donwood -- check that stuff out here. No I didn't buy the tea set although you have no idea how tempted I was! And am! Ooooooh look at it...

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Don't Go Breakin' My Balls

I'm hit-or-miss with the Safdies -- love love love Good Time, hate hate hate Uncut Gems (except Julia Fox, who's great) -- but the trailer for their latest one, the ping-pong-epic Marty Supreme starring Timothee Chalamet, has me thinking this is gonna fall on the "hit" half. It's a fictionalized telling of the true story of midcentury ball-thwacking wunderkind Marty Reisman and it co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Odessa A'zion (who suddenly seems to be everywhere), Sandra Bernhard, Abel Ferrera, Penn Gillette, Tyler the Creator -- basically the usual parade of WTF from the Safdies. 

That said this trailer makes the movie seem on its surface to be incredibly straightforward? This is like Sports Movie 101 stuff. Lively and fun and I'm all over it, but this trailer is very much pitching broad. Knowing Josh Safdie though I'm sure this thing is way wilder than its trailer is letting on. The important question -- do we think Timmy can finally win the Best Actor Oscar for this? Our little ladling is seriously overdue -- Gary Oldman stole his rightful prize in 2018 dammit. I know he's become divisive amongst people because of his whole fuckboi shall-not-be-named-family-dating persona he has off-screen, but we still adore him here at MNPP HQ. Here's the trailer:

Marty Supreme is out on Christmas Day. Here's an adorable image

Timmy shared on Instagram this morning, using the film's tagline:

Good Morning, World

Imagine having this view of Arnaud Valois every morning.

Mon dieu! Good morning indeed. (via)

Manny Jacinto Two Times

I still think he's computer-generated. 

Come prove me wrong, Manny!

Yessir Mister Plainclothes

Sure enough as mentioned in our last post the trailer for Plainclothes has also arrived today -- the closeted cop drama starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey is hitting theaters on September 19th and you can watch the trailer down below. Here is my Sundance review of the movie, which hit me with a whallop given it's set in Syracuse New York in the 1990s aka where and when I grew up and got good and gay. A really special movie, and Tom Blyth and Maria Dizzia as his mom in particular give wonderful performances. Watch it!

Okay here's one more gif, just cuz:

Peter Hujar's Day is Coming

It's turning out to be a very gay day today and I wouldn't have it any other way -- I just shared the news that the leather love story Pillion is screening at NYFF and I believe that the closested cop drama Plainclothes (which I reviewed right here) is supposed to get a trailer at some point today. But first we've got the poster and the trailer for Ira Sachs' new movie Peter Hujar's Day, which stars Ben Whishaw as the titular gay photographer alongside Rebecca Hall as Hujar's good friend, journalist Linda Rosenkrantz. The two spent a day talking on the record in 1974 and this film documents that day and conversation. Couldn't be more excited -- it hits theaters on November 7th! Watch:

A Pillion in New York

I always illustrate my Pillion posts with a picture of Alexander Skarsgård so let's shake it up and go with his co-star and leading man Harry Melling today, because we've come to be enormous fans of his over the past few years. Not just the biggun, our beloved Please Baby Please (which is the obvious forerunner to Pillion given that they're both about mousy dudes finding love and lust through leather daddies), but also an extremely underrated turn in The Devil All the Time -- not a perfect movie but he was amazing in it. Really any time Harry shows up we're enthused to watch his riveting face and so Pillion's been on our GIMME THAT FUCKING THING NOW list since it premiered at Cannes -- okay technically well before Cannes because I am On This Sorta Shit and posted about this movie getting made a full year before it premiered at Cannes. Anyway my great wish for NYFF came true -- today they announced that Pillion is indeed in the line-up for next month's fest, huzzah! It's part of their Spotlight Section which also includes the Springsteen biopic with Jeremy Allen White that I mentioned yesterday, along with fresh reveals -- two movies from Richard Linklater, a five-part docuseries about Martin Scorsese, the new one from Paolo Sorrentino and Daniel Day-Lewis' triumphant (one assumes) return to acting in his son's first film. Check the whole list at FLC's site. Let the countdown until Pillion commence!

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Thank you to an incredibly sweaty 

Pierre Niney for this Tuesday wake-up.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... quenching my thirst with Jamie Dornan.

Is this the first time there have been visible pubes in a Coke commerical? You'd think they'd want to avoid triggering memories of a certain Supreme Court Justice -- and I apologize to all for bringing that up in the middle of what should be a celebratory moment -- I just couldn't help but wonder. I even went back to watch (and watched two or three more times just to make sure) the infamous Lucky Vanous Coke commercial from back in the day but Lucky was so hairy it was difficult to tell where actual pubes began. What even are these sentences I'm writing? Point being, Jamie Dornan is the new Coke spokesperson! Not meaning that he's the spokesperson for the much-derided "New Coke" -- JFC all of the references I'm making right now are so ancient. What is it, 1991 in here? (I fucking wish.) I just mean he's Coke's new spokesperson. You get it. Jamie Dornan is hot, he's funny, he's half-naked, he's perfect. That's all. Here's the commercial:

And I made several more gifs and they're after the jump...

Jeremy Allen White, What a Coincidence!

I'm sure Jeremy Allen White getting photographed half naked at the beach at the exact same time that news just dropped about his Springsteen bio-pic premiering as the "Spotlight Gala" at the New York Film Fest on September 28th was just a coincidence and not at all the start of an awards season long press assault. Anyway it's a good way to get assaulted so I say keep it up! You've got my vote, JAW! I'm not sure if we had the final title of the movie yet (I hadn't seen it if so) so here's that -- it's called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which is a mouthful that feels like a compromise between a studio's chosen title (just Springsteen) and a director's (Deliver Me From Nowhere) right? Why not just call it The Boss and be done with it? Anyway click over to NYFF's site for the first official photo from the movie and more details along with all your ticketing needs; or hit the jump for more of Beach Boy Jeremy...

On Weapons & Its Gay Stuff

Nobody likes a killjoy yet I've found myself falling into that role over and over and over again when it's come (mostly) to horror movies in 2025; I just haven't been on consensus this year. God forbid. But it seems to've been my review of writer-director Zach Cregger's Weapons, which stormed the box office this past weekend, which seems to've annoyed people the most... even though I gave the movie a mostly good review! I gave it a fresh Red Apple on that dastardly Tomatometer! I just have several nits to pick with the film that seem to really be killing people's joy, if the comments on said post are to be believed, and there's one I really want to address since it's a subject I've spent most of my writing career (lol "career") contemplating. 

Annoyed at the should-know-better homosexual’s comment on my review saying we fought for the equality to be played as weirdo jokes and get murdered in horror movies so I’ll probably go off on that at MNPP tomorrow, stay tuned!

— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Yeah that's the one. Specifically people seem annoyed with the following passage from my review (and yes I'm diving head-first into SPOILERS at this point so beware if you haven't seen the movie and care):

"And oh right lest we forget there’s the homophobic portion of our evening’s entertainment, the chapter involving Marcus (Benedict Wong, great and not in the least at fault for the way these scenes are framed). He’s the school’s gay principal and he’s who, along with his hissing stereotype of a partner (they love weiners and have Mickey and Minnie t-shirts, haha!), the film really relishes giving a heftily violent what-for. Killing your gays is so in y’all."

Marcus' partner is named Terry and I honestly don't know if I'll see a more offensive-to-me image in the movies this year than the one of Terry mincingly holding up two boxes of Fruity Pebbles in the grocery store. And that really has nothing to do with the "killing your gays" trope -- although yes I'll get to that -- it has to do with it feeling as if Weapons is actively laughing at these characters for being gay. It's not that I mind "sissies" in real life -- nobody's ever mistaken me for the captain of the football team y'all. It's that the movie thinks these gigantic queens are weird and hilarious and so fucking gay -- aren't they so fucking gay??? So many weiners! Plates and plates of weiners! High-larious!

And yes I will admit I've lost some of my humor here in 2025 on this subject. But I feel as if any sane fucking queer person should be right there alongside me in the same humorless goddamned boat. Look around. Our rights are being ripped away. Marriage Equality is probably going to be gone in the next year. Trans service members are being ripped out of service and denied retirement benefits right now, right this second, and it'll be the rest of the rainbow next. They are coming for us all with terrifying methodical swiftness and all of our systems of defense are failing.

So yeah ten years ago I also might've been making the case, as has been made in the comments on my review, that some modern version of cinematic equality sees gays getting to die in horror movies just like straight characters do. And sure, okay -- in a utopia there's something to that. Maybe just don't turn them into cartoonish stereotypes before that? Maybe we can be main characters once in awhile? And maybe don't have it be the gay characters love for one another that becomes what kills them. Weapons gives us no reason to give a shit about Marcus & Terry's relationship before Marcus is forced to murder Terry by smashing their faces together over and over again, which -- it's not a fucking stretch to see this as "men kissing men" weaponized. 

So yes -- we argued that we gays should be able to die in horror movies just like straights. It's just -- JFC did the storytellers immediately take us up on that offer, like gangbusters. In the past month I've seen (SPOILER for The Gilded Age ahead) a gay dude trampled by horses in front of his lover on The Gilded Age. I've seen a gay couple in the horror movie Together (SPOILER for Together ahead) turn out to be the weirdo freak cult leaders who've come to pervert the straight couple and turn them into non-binary monsters. And now I have seen this sequence -- in a movie I mostly liked otherwise! -- and... I dunno. I'm just pretty tired y'all. So cut me some slack if I kind of come off like this most of the time:

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, Gratuitous Ben Ahlers

I contemplated calling this post "Good Morning, Gratuitous Clock Twink" but actor Ben Ahlers is one of those rare cases where I find him hotter outside of the costumed drama than I do on it -- usually all of those semi-fetishistic costumes with their inherent high-collared repression really snap my suspenders, if you catch my drift. But it wasn't until I recently saw Ben here...

... outside of The Gilded Age and as his own adorable (and uhh surprisingly ripped) self that he actually caught my attention. (Also it turns out that he's 6'2" which doesn't hurt either.) So what I'm saying is -- don't think I'm only into Clock Twink now that his character's gone and gotten rich! I'm an entirely different kind of superficial.

For real though... who'd have guessed it? Wish I'd been paying attention sooner. But consider my twink-blindness your success story because it means I've got dozens upon dozens of photos to share with you this morning. If anybody wants to say what they thought of the third season of The Gilded Age as a whole and its finale (which aired last night) you can do that in the comments, but let's get to the real reason we're here and hit the jump for all of those pictures, videos, and gifs...

Mountain Villain Franz Rogowski Rewind

Even though I inexplicably never posted it I didn't technically "miss" this Fall 2024 photoshoot of Franz Rogowski because I just found it saved on my computer from when Zeit Magazine dropped it at the time. Whatever distracted me enough to not post it then is probably better left buried with all of my many, many other buried traumas -- today let's just celebrate that I was finally just reminded of said photo-shoot and I am now giving it the attention it deserved back then. And even better this got me to check Franz's IMDb page to see if there was any news... 

... on him that I'd missed posting about -- and there was! And ridiculous news at that! There's a remake of Cliffhanger happening and he's in it, lol. That said before we laugh too hard about him slipping into the Hollywood Action Movie Villain role that he was pretty much built in a lab to play, let's note the movie is being directed by the extremely-talented-with-junk directer Jaume Collet-Serra, who's given us several pleasurable movie experiences but really all I need to say is "Orphan" to shut up any sayers of nay. The IMDb page doesn't specify that Franz is playing the villain (the film also stars Pierce Brosnan & Lily James) but come on. We're all adults here. We can read the room. Anyway, photos! Hit the jump for more sexy (what else) Franz photos...