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Good Morning, World

All I have in me today is energy for Mads, stache, and pie. 

So thankfully these two pictures exist or else I'd be shit outta luck.

Garrett Wareing Seven Times

I'd like to extend the most heartfelt of thank yous to young Mr. Wareing here for giving us all something to take our minds off the world for even the briefest of moments -- the only reason it's been relatively quiet in here for the past two days is I've been fairly paralyzed by anxiety due to the state of the world... more so than usual, that is. 

But I know we're all going through it (well the decent ones anyway) so I won't belabor it since we're here to distract ourselves from it. And if you need a slightly longer distaction you can click here and see several posts of Wareing that we've posted previously, even. Or just hit the jump and lose yourself in this fresh cowboy cosplay...

A Place in Andy

I wanted to like Chloe Domont's 2023 movie Fair Play a lot because it was sold as an erotic thriller starring Alden Ehrenreich and who doesn't want that? But I ended up being pretty meh on the movie in the end, finding it neither erotic nor thrilling. It was a load of straight nonsense. But that's not stopping me from being excited about Domont's next movie because how can I not be when it stars Michelle Williams, Andrew Scott, and Daisy Edgar-Jones? It's titled A Place in Hell and Neon just picked up the rights for it -- it's already been filmed and they're calling it a “thriller following two women at a high-profile criminal law firm.” Not sure where our man Andy fits into that dynamic but I hope it involves a lack of sleeves. 

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I Wanna Run To Glen Powell

The trailer for Edgar Wright's remake of The Running Man -- okay I suppose we can call it a new adaptation of Stephen King's story, whatever -- has arrived and it looks like an absolute blast. I knew I was in for something special the second we saw Glen Powell smacking his tighty-whities-clad ass two times. We kept a running tally of people who got cast in this last year and the names were wild -- Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Katy O'Brian, Lee Pace, Karl Glusman, Sean Hayes, and William H. Macy just to name the bigger names -- but the trailer mainly focuses on Glenn, Michael, Josh and of course Colman in the greatest showman role previously made iconic by Richard Dawson. And is it just me or...

... is Colman going to get a lot of comparisons to Tramell Tillman's showstopping work in the TV series Severance? That's all I could see. But lord knows I love Colman and he seems to be having a helluva time so bring it on. Everything looks hella fun actually -- this is definitely Wright bringing that sweet sweet Scott Pilgrim energy. (And the presence of Cera obviously underlines that.)  I don't think I spotted Glusman or Pace though -- do you think one of them is that masked man with the grenade? I'll have to go back and listen to the voice. Anyway watch:  

The Running Man (2025 edition) is out on November 7th.
How the hell is this not a summer movie???

Good Morning, World

Aaaacctually, now that I think about it,

good morning only to Jonathan Bailey's bicep.

Hoults Have More Fun

Although it wasn't a blow-out y'all agreed with me on last week's poll that Nicholas Hoult's new blond hair is by no means a disaster -- in fact he's totally pulling it off and as a fun summer diversion I can't say I'm not enjoying the sight. I think it makes its case as 2025's hair equivalent of Jonathan Bailey's much-memed "slutty little glasses." 

 

They Tried To Make Us See

I will admit that this is a dark way to follow my earlier post saying that we should look for light in dark days, but this one demands our attention -- on the same morning that there's a really fucking upsetting article in the NYT about how our not-esteemed President's healthcare cuts are mucking up the imminent cure for HIV I stumbled upon this video of Russell Tovey doing a reading of a famous letter by John Waters' star and downtown goddess Cookie Mueller. In it she talks about the devastation of AIDS, which would later claim her life as well. If you need a more succinct rundown on the background of Cookie than the many I've given over the years, read this wonderful piece. I think this is really the only note we can end Pride on in 2025. Be furious. We need to be furious. We need to summon the rage of those we lost, and those we will lose. They're coming for every one of us and throwing trans people under the bus isn't going to stop them from shipping a white homosexual like me to a gulag. We're in this together y'all. Make art, make violence, just scream. Scream in the motherfuckers face. Make them uncomfortable. Fucking fight y'all. Things are not okay. So dark days, yes, but we can be the light. Bright violent light if need be -- the sort of light that snuffs out the darkness in a explosion of itself. 

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Good Morning, World

Hello and happy Monday, my favorite fiends -- I am glad we all made it through another weekend I won't say unscathed, but we survived. Embrace it while it continues, I suppose! At least while we're nominally free and not locked in cages, that is. Wow the optimism is off the charts. But really though. To paraphrase Margate Atwood don't let the bastards grind you down. I'm trying! And so here...

... some more of Theo James in his white  speedo to remind us that there is still light, hope, and beauty in the world. A behind-the-scenes clip was dropped last week and I'm running woefully behind so I'm not giffing up the entire thing like I did last time (at least not right this second) but do watch and give yourself a good morning. You deserve it!

6 Off My Head: A 2025 Peek Ahead

Inspired by the Bugonia teaser I just shared (along with the fact that it's Paul Thomas Anderson's birthday today which reminded me he has a new movie out in several weeks) I decided to go ahead and make a list of the movies left to be released in 2025 that I'm most looking forward to. I did this (as with everything I do here) mostly for myself because I've been bad about keeping an eye on what's ahead -- I can be very much in the moment; planning ahead's not my strongest suit! So I will myself probably be referring back to this list often. But perhaps this will help you along the same lines! That'd be nice! So sans further ado I give you...

My Top 6 Anticipated Movies of 2025

Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) -- Oct 24th 

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One Battle After Another (dir. PT Anderson) -- Sept 26th

The History of Sound (dir. Oliver Hermanus) -- Sept 12th 

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After the Hunt (dir. Luca Guadagnino) -- Oct 10th 

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Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier) -- Nov 7th

Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) -- TBD

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(Sidenote: There is no word on Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex and any kind of release date for it yet, otherwise it would very much be listed above.) 

(Sidenote #2 - literally five minutes after I posted this list it was announced that Neon has bought Park Chan-wook's new movie No Other Choice for release and it's premiering at Venice so add that one too!)

Runners-up: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson), Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie), Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao), A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir. Kogonada), It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi), The Roses (dir. Jay Roach), Avatar: Fire & Ash (dir. James Cameron), Together (dir. Michael Shanks)...

... Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger),  Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach), Caught Stealing (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo Del Toro), The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt), Highest 2 Lowest (dir. Spike Lee), A House of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay), The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright)

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What movies are y'all most looking forward to?

Save the Green Yorgos

We are at the half-point of the year so we're already seeing people make lists of their best movies of 2025.5 -- I'm not doing that, at least not right this second. But I have been thinking about what's left for the second half of the year that I'm most looking forward to, and while there are several examples the number one might just be Bugonia from Yorgos Lanthimos. He hasn't done me wrong yet. So what a coincidence that they dropped the teaser trailer for Bugonia today! Watch:

The film reunites the director with Emma Stone because of course, as well as Jesse Plemons who was so terrific in Kinds of Kindness last year. When this movie was announced and I posted about it EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY (how weird is that?) I mentioned it's a remake of a South Korean movie from 2003 called Save the Green Planet! which is about... well exactly the plot laid forth in that teaser. Looks like the only change is the businessman getting kidnapped is now a businesswoman. Feminism! Woke! Anyway this tease made me even more excited -- Bugonia's out on October 24th. I bet it's playing NYFF then! Whee!

Pics of the Day

Whoa ho ho! Nicky Hoult's bleached his hair out! He showed it off for the first time filming Jimmy Kimmel's show yesterday for his Superman duties -- what do we think? He's so pretty I think it's fine, but I'm not gonna lie -- I prefer the dark hair setting off those gorgeous blue eyes of his. But it's not a disaster or anything. If I had to guess I'd guess that this is for his upcoming movie How to Rob a Bank from Atomic Blonde (how appropriate) and Bullet Train director David Leitch -- he likes things bright and poppy and such and this fits into that wheelhouse for sure. Also that's the only unfilmed movie on Nicky's IMDb page right now. I'm a real Sherlock! Anyway I won't force my opinions on y'all -- here's a poll!

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Double Oh Whatever

I'm in no way sharing that image of director Denis Villenueve with Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of their magnificent 2013 film Enemy to imply that Denis should make his former boyfriend Jake his James Bond now that he's been revealed to be directing the first film in the rebooted franchise for Amazon. Although I do find it strange that they hired a French-Canadian to direct this very British franchise I still think they'll get a British person to play the lead. I mean... they have to, right? Anyway if they're announcing a director I feel as if a leading man announcement can't be that far behind so we should probably know soon. And a lot of signs are indeed pointing toward Aaron Taylor-Johnson again. Whatever. I don't have much of a dog in this fight because I'm by no stretch of any person's imagination the world's biggest 007 fan. I enjoyed the Daniel Craig movies because Daniel Craig. I hadn't even seen another Bond movie until Craig was cast! Since then I have gone back and watched the Sean Connery ones and a couple scattered other random ones. They're fine! They're fun. Dr. No is probably a masterpiece but otherwise whatever. All of that said, to circle us around to the start -- Jake could make a great Bond villain. I feel as if the real future of Bond villains is billionaire nerds (and/or perhaps Russians) and that's in Jake's wheelhouse. Just sayin! I'd love for Denis & Jake to work together again. He's been so distracted by Timmy lately...

Good Morning, World

Good morning only to the 6'5" actor and stuntman Chi Lewis-Parry, who played the massive donged Alpha monster in Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later -- I grabbed this video off his Instagram and I think you can tell why I'm sharing it even if I wasn't nuts about the movie itself. (Hehe "nuts.") Here is my review in case you missed it. What a weird life actors have! 

Diego Calva Eight Times

I can't remember if I did a post about this but you can rent the queer drama On Swift Horses from the usual places now -- that's the one that has a lot of Diego here romping about with Jacob Elordi, plus the architectual revelation that is Will Poulter's ass. I mean there's more to the movie obviously but those are the main selling points says me. Here is my review from when it was in theaters. A mixed one for sure, but I'd like to re-watch it sometime -- there's a sweetness and a tenderness to it that will probably make for a nice comfort watch down the line. Anyway these fine new photos of Mr. Calva dropped this week thanks to Behind the Blinds magazine, where you can also read a chat with the actor (lots of sex talk natch). Or just hit the jump for the photos...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Cassie: I don't get you, Ennis del Mar.

Ennis: I'm sorry. Was probably no fun anyway, was I?

Cassie: Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun!

Pretty sure that every gay man who's been closeted for any portion of their life has had some variation on this exact conversation with a girl who had a crush on them -- I remember a couple from high school and oof, those memories are excriutiating. My sincerest apologies to all of those women today. It's a fuck-ton of a situation. 

Anyway that scene is just one of many scenes in Brokeback (every single scene actually) that rings painfully true. And it seems kismet to me that I highlight it today since it's Linda Cardellini's 50th (!!!) birthday today and I was just talking (see below) about what a stunning performance she gives in her handful of scenes in this film the other day, when I saw this on the big screen over the weekend for its 20th anniversary. (There's an entire thread at Bluesky surrounding the below post, if you're so inclined.) 

Also justice for Linda Cardellini who never gets talked about giving one of the great performances in this movie but surely does

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Anyway the movie still stuns but I felt downright lousy I'd forgotten Cardellini's wonderful work entirely since the last time I watched the movie (which was probably about a decade ago -- it's hard to re-watch! It hurts!) -- the main foursome's turns just all loom so large. Or if I start thinking about smaller roles I wander off thinking about Jake & David Harbour eye-fucking each other as Anna Faris hilariously blathers on. Good goddamn the sexual tension in that scene is still off the charts...

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