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Thursday, June 19, 2025

As much as I enjoy the photoshoots that Nicky's done alongside his Superman partner David Corenswet (and enjoy them I have) I'm certainly not sad to get a Nothin-But-Nicky shoot too. And this one from Empire magazine feels like the perfect place to leave us soaking for the weekend. Our boy looks good in Kryptonian green, doesn't he? (I'm going to be so torn deciding on who to root for in this movie.) Anyway tomorrow's a Summer Friday for me but there's a good chance I'll drop some Tribeca reviews over the three-day-weekend anyway -- yes the fest's ended, but I do still have more of those coming! I am just as ever running behind, behind, and behind some more. So do stay tuned. And do have a good weekend. And do stay sane, if you can. And as a reward you can hit the jump for the fresh hot Nicky-ness now at hand..

It is starting to feel as if I'm destined to be a curmudgeon about the horror movies people are digging this year, but really it's only actually been two at this point -- there was Dangerous Animals a couple of weeks ago and now there's Danny Boyle's long awaited zombie catch-up 28 Years Later, which hits theaters this weekend and which most other critics seem to be loving. Unfortunately I cannot in good conscience agree! Here is my review at Pajiba. I think the movie looks great and I think Ralph Fiennes is having fun and that's really almost all that worked for me? The kid's fine, I guess. My issues aren't to do with him. I just don't understand any of the people calling it "scary" or even "tense" as I found it to be neither of those things. But even more brains-boggling to me are the people thinking there's genuine emotion or any kind of profundity in this thing -- it's no deeper than a hollowed out eye-socket. I cannot fathom the people I heard around me sniffling emotionally during its last act -- I don't consider myself dead inside. I cry real easy most of the time! But not here. These are shallow unrealized duds of characters being moved around willy-nilly without a single thing of purpose to say -- I am good and truly baffled by some of the reviews I'm reading. You can only give something so much credit for trying something different when it thoroughly fails at what it's trying. Oh well! I'm a fan of the first two movies and generally Boyle as a filmmaker so here's to hoping the next one is better. At least Cillian Murphy will supposedly be back.

Pumpin' With Jai

Believe me -- if I could find a better quality copy of the above photo of Jai Courtney flexing & flashing them abs for Men's Health magazine I would share it -- as of right now it's just the photo they put before his new workout video for them loads and so I couldn't even get a copy without that spinning circle in the middle of it. I feel humiliated, betrayed. What did we do to deserve this treatment, Jai? Is this because I gave your killer shark slash serial killer movie Dangerous Animals a thumbs down in my review? I said YOU were good in it! Sigh. It's hard, being a critic. At least we get this brief moment in the video:

So all's not lost. Actually since it's a several-minute-long video of Jai Courtney working out in a sleeveless tee and shorts lots isn't lost, when it comes right down to it! Naturally I told myself as I watched the video "I ain't giffing all of that! That'd take ages!" And then as I continued to watch it my brain was like, "Well you can at least make a couple gifs..." And then by the end I start making the gifs and next thing you know an hour's passed and I've got several dozen gifs piled up on my desktop. Oh well! My psychosis is to your advantage, per usual. Hit the jump for uhhh yeah 40 or so more gifs (I'm deranged) and also the video itself...

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Nico Greetham and Charles Melton ask

that you to have a very nice Thursday.

Do it for them!

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

A New Queer Action Man

One of the best and most underrated directors working right now is Jeremy Saulnier, the man behind Blue Ruin, Green Room (my favorite), and Rebel Ridge. And so when he gets a new project rolling we sit up -- well we're sitting up twice as fast and twice as high today because Deadline is saying his new thriller will star out gay actor Cory Michael Smith (of May December and Saturday Night fame)! Just say yes to queer leading men! The film is called October and A24 is producing it, and all they'll say about the story is that it's "a fugitive thriller set during Halloween." That's it. And that's all I need. Sold!

Jake News! Jake News!

That there is a picture of Jake giving his final bow at Othello's final performance last week -- and no I never saw it since tickets cost a billion point five billion dollars apiece, marking the first time I missed Jake on stage in NYC. Boo hiss whatever they didn't get any Tony nominations I got my revenge. I'm not here to dance on that bitter grave though -- I'm here because there's Jake News! Jake News! His production company got Amazon to shell out seven figures for the rights to an as-yet unpublished short story called Code Black, which is about a heart surgeon who finds "himself led into a trap where his guile and genius become the only way to stop a plot that threatens both his family and the nation." Mkay. Could be fun! A tight little real-time thriller hopefully -- something a la Red Eye is what I'm picturing. Doesn't sound like a lot of opportunity for Jake to cry in the shower but I'm sure he'll have them write a scene in. He's good like that.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... Jason Momoa's handler.

I've seen enough shows and movies that are about Hollywood movie productions to know that a "handler" doesn't do what I am at this moment insinuating I would do, but that's what keeps y'all coming back here -- oh, the wit! The wordplay! Dorothy Parker whomst? Anyway we got couple of promising pictures from Jason's new Apple+ series Chief of War back in April but seeing him rock that loincloth in magnificent motion? Priceless. Hit the jump for this little tidbit of footage (and more bounteous gifs of course)...

If I thought the hits were coming hard and fast yesterday I can't even keep up today -- it's barely 11am and we've already has Aaron Taylor-Johnson in just a pair of leather pants playing with a knife in bed and Morgan Spector in a sheer tank top talking about bottoming. And now we've got Jonathan Bailey rocking a lot more leather -- I guess leather is 2025's fetish-wear du jour -- for THR where he's talking his big man action role in the new Jurassic Park movie.

Phew! I haven't been this worn out this early in the day since Pride Weekend 2001. Aaaaanyway no I haven't read the interview yet but I'll go do that once I've finished posting the photos -- of course that bit me in the bum on that Morgan Spector post because I only realized he spent a portion of it talking about bottoming after I'd done my post. Oh well! The world moves too fast sometimes, even for Morgan Spector bottoming. How many times can I say that phrase? I just like saying it. "Morgan Spector bottoming." Fuck "Cellar Door." Ahem. We're here for Jonny! Hit the jump for more...

When I posted those sexy photos of Gilded Age star Morgan Spector in Rolling Stone last night I really didn't expect we'd get an even sexier photoshoot first thing the next morning but here we are! GQ saw RS's black tank top and one-upped them with a see-through one! Granted it's only two of several photos that have him wearing this exact outfit, but that exact outfit is enough to win the war. (Until tomorrow when he poses in sheer underwear, I whisper unto heaven.) (As an aside looking at these photos naturally got me thinking about Morgan's old nude scene that I giffed in this post -- good times.) Anyway blessings upon them, us, Morgan, everything. Hit the jump for the full shoot...

When we got the first image of Aaron Taylor-Johnson being Sex for YSL on Monday I figured we'd be getting more this week -- it's probably best they skipped yesterday though because yesterday belonged to Charles Melton jumping rope half-naked. That won Tuesday, and Tuesday belonged to Melton. But now it's Wednesday, it's Hump Day, and here is our humpy Aaron fulfilling his duties as the humpiest of them all, huzzah.

You know it's really a shame that Hollywood doesn't make horny movies anymore because Aaron should be starring in horny movies -- instead they keep sticking him in sexless action things and he keeps not making an impression. But I bet he could kill it as a fuckboy -- excuse me, he's a fuckman now -- in a seedy dangerous erotic thriller kind of movie. Like a Brian De Palma movie but one directed by a woman or a gay man. Alas! Those movies don't exist right now. I guess it's just the stuff of fashion ads. And here we are. Hit the jump for more gifs and the video...

Morgan Spector Six Times

I've got a short day at my desk today because I've only got a handful of hours sandwiched in between two screenings, one this morning and one this evening -- so I'm technically trying to get work done (so many Tribeca reviews still left to write). But photoshoots like this keep jumping onto my face and keeping me from it! What can be done though? Just post Morgan Spector's beautiful curly mop of perfect hair and exceptional biceps in Rolling Stone and carry on, I suppose. That's how that famous saying goes right? Anyway I'm sure you're all aware that The Gilded Age is starting back up -- has it already started? I am not sure since I've been buried in said Tribeca stuff but if I had to guess I'd guess it starts this weekend. Perhaps one of you people can set me straight. But not too straight! Then these photos would do nothing for me and what would even be the point of living if that was the case? Hit the jump for them all...

It was extremely kind of the world to give me a reason to post these photos of Josh O'Connor chilling at the beach beyond just posting photos of Josh O'Connor chilling at the beach -- I have actual Josh O'Connor news to share! It'd have been even nicer if he'd been canoodling on the beach with Paul Mescal instead of some girl, but I'll take what I can get. The History of Sound, the gay romance starring Josh & Paul and directed by Oliver Hermanus -- we've talked about this movie a couple of times, ahem -- just got a release date! It's hitting the streets on September 12th! That's only 87 days away! So if the world could continue turning until September 12th I'd fucking appreciate it, mkay? Thanks. Now with that aisde let's get back to the whole "Josh O'Connor chilling at the beach" thing and hit the jump for more several photos...

Time for another Tribeca 2025 review! I have a feeling that this one will play even better for people who are parents, but forever and proudly childless me really liked the German satire What Marielle Knows, which is about what happens when a teenage girl suddenly gains the supernatural ability to know everything her mom and dad are doing and saying at all times. Click over to Pajiba to read my review. It 100% feels like a movie that will be remade poorly here in the U.S. so try to see this original version first. It gets real dark in a very funny way, which I could see Hollywood really bastardizing and missing the entire point of.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... jumping all over Charles Melton.

The wise wise folks over at Coach decided to hire actor Charles Melton to be the mustachioed face (and body) of their latest sneaker campaign and I know I keep saying this whenever anything positive and good happens lately but -- we deserve this. With all the otherwise general shittiness going on this is truly an actor using their power for good. Think of him as our version of Shirley Temple during the Great Depression. His abs are our Busby Berkeley, baby. Hit the jump for more gifs and the video...

What movie is this?

Good Morning, Gratuitous Michele Morrone

Italian actor Michele Morrone of 365 Days Netflix smut infamy has been doing a very good job raising his beefcake standing lately because this is now my second post on him in as many weeks and I don't feel dirty about it at all. Okay maybe I do feel dirty but just because he's making me think dirty thoughts -- it's not because those movies were trash anymore! More recently he was in paul Feig's A Simple Favor sequel -- playing gay! -- but given I was extremely distracted by Henry Golding's beautiful butt I didn't pay poor Michele much mind there. No more!

He's grabbed the mic back! And he's got plenty of work lined up -- most importantly and surprising nobody he's been hired by gayest-straight-man-working Guy Ritchie for a couple of episodes of the second season of The Gentlemen series opposite Theo James. And that show, despite Guy Ritchie, absolutely rules. And -- also surprising nobody -- other-gayest-straight-man-working Paul Feig booked Michele again for his adaptation of the bestseller The Housemaid with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. (Also sexy Brandon Skelner!)

Point being it's a good time to be an obscenely gorgeous Italian man -- who knew? Who could have guessed? Well to the benefit of us all Dolce & Gabbana did and they hired him for their most advertising, and now they are releasing a fancy hardcover book of the photos and outtakes in September, and some of those images are what you're drooling over here in between my ramblings. Huzzah, everything! What a wonderful world we live in! Nothing bad whatsoever! Hit the jump for a pile more photos so we can keep pretending...