Monday, June 30, 2025
Hoults Have More Fun
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.
Good Morning, World
Thursday, June 26, 2025
6 Off My Head: A 2025 Peek Ahead
My Top 6 Anticipated Movies of 2025
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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)...
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What movies are y'all most looking forward to?
Save the Green Yorgos
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
Double Oh Whatever
Good Morning, World
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Diego Calva Eight Times
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!
Also justice for Linda Cardellini who never gets talked about giving one of the great performances in this movie but surely does
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The Chan-dy Man
Good Morning, World
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Say Good Night, Aaron
Pics of the Day
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Sorceror (1977)
Nilo: When the money's up,I'm just as good as any of you.
Great Moments In Movie Staches
Pedro Pascal Thirty Times
"As we wait for the check, we talk about some of the realities of fame. For instance, the internet’s real-time dissection of his coffee order, his vacation reading, and—since, as [Chelsea] Handler said, people of every kind are horny for him—why he doesn’t talk about his own personal life in the press. “I always feel perplexed when I’m identified in whatever form of media as a ‘highly private person,’ because that’s the opposite of me,” he says. “I’m very unprivate in my private life. I just know that personal relationships are such a complex thing to navigate even without having this enormous lens on them.” "