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With a Friend Like Jeff...

April 29, 2017, 5:38 pm
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I don't usually toot my own horn (if I could actually toot my own horn I'd never leave the house, as the old joke goes) but I'm really proud of my review of My Friend Dahmer, the adaptation of the graphic novel about the serial killer that just played Tribeca, so y'all should go read it over at The Film Experience. (Of course, having dressed as Dahmer last year for Halloween, it is a subject near and dear to my heart, so I would put the extra effort in.) But the movie's very finely made and acted and thoughtfully considered (as is the graphic novel, honestly - you should read that too) so it's a hard recommendation - I hope it gets a good and proper release.
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It's 11pm...

April 29, 2017, 7:57 pm
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... do you know where your Mark Ruffalo is?
(via, thanks Mac)
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Ashley Bell is Ringing

May 1, 2017, 8:37 am
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Have we got any fans of Ashley Bell in the house? The actress is still making a name for herself but I know I've got horror fans here at MNPP and she's already made a name for herself in that genre - she wowed with her bedeviled pyrotechnics in The Last Exorcism movie in 2010, and I thought last year's Carnage Park was a surprisingly solid thriller and that got some good critical attention. 

Anyway she's re-teamed with Carnage's writer-director Mickey Keating, who's also been making a name for himself in genre fare, for this year's Psychopaths, which premiered at Tribeca and which I reviewed over at The Film Experience over the weekend. And she is absolutely fantastic in the film. The best thing by far once again. It's a high-wire act of a performance - she's playing a multiple-personality maniac whose personalities all seem to live on a John Waters plane of existence - and you can't take your eyes off of her. And Keating couldn't either - sometimes his camera just stares and stares at her in close-up going gangbusters, and she nails it. I sure hope people are paying attention!
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Mad Love

May 1, 2017, 8:49 am
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And speaking of mad gals in Tribeca movies (it was kind of a theme this year) I should again direct you over to The Film Experience for my review of Thirst Street, which is a psychedelic emotional crack-up starring a terrifyingly committed Lindsay Burdge as an international stalker with cartoon hearts in her eyes where her soul used to be. The film reminded me a lot of Fassbinder in its aggressive dissection of our worst behaviors, and skin conditions.
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Nature Boys

May 1, 2017, 9:21 am
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I think I'm maybe supposed to find the sight of a half-naked Christopher Abbott strapped to a tree by a bearded Joel Edgerton scary, but that's not exactly what I am feeling watching it happen in practice. Still I'm looking forward to It Comes at Night a bunch (and if the entire movie's as homoerotic as this moment then you can expect lots more punning from me on the title for sure) - it's from Krisha director Trey Edward Shults and the first teaser trailer was super spooky. Now we have a full trailer, watch right here:
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The movie is out on June 9th, so just a few weeks to go! They screened the movie at the Overlook Film Festival this weekend andI've avoided reading anything because I don't want to be any more spoiled but you should be reading BuzzFeed Louis Peltzman's take on the first year of the Overlook Fest anyway - click here for that. His thoughts on It Comes at Night are on the third day.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

May 1, 2017, 12:23 pm
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... you can learn from:

Shame (2011)

David: Listen, one more thing. Your hard drive is filthy, all right. We got your computer back. I mean, it is, it is, dirty. I'm talking like hoes, sluts, anal, double anal, penetration, inter racial facial, man. Cream pie. I don't even know what that is. Do you think it was your intern?
Brandon: On my hard drive?
David: Yeah, someone's fucking with your account, man. And we're blowing our wad in cash, you know? It takes a really really sick fuck to spend all day on that shit. 

I like thinking about James Badge Dale & Michael Fassbender saying the words "double anal" to each other and so here on the occasion of Dale's 39th birthday I am doing just that. And now that we're there we might as well go click on this post of him working out in short shorts in 13 Hours because I mean as long as we're here and everything...


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Peekaboo

May 1, 2017, 2:01 pm
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Matt Bomer One More Time

May 1, 2017, 2:09 pm
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Twas Beauty Versus the Beast

May 1, 2017, 3:04 pm
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It's the 86th birthday of the Empire State Building today, and so this week's "Beauty vs Beast" is tackling the movie that made the building a legend -- click on over to The Film Experience to face off the original Blonde Beauty with the Beast that her beauty killed.
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Good Morning, World

May 2, 2017, 6:31 am
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I can't remember - is James Norton playing a priest or a rapist, or a rapist-priest, on Grantchester? That sounds like the start of one of Offred's punchline-less jokes on The Handmaid's Tale, but I'm pretty sure I'm just mixing my James Norton Shows up. I think he's just a priest on Grantchester, but those aren't priest's abs. If these are our choices - priest or rapist - then I'd have to call those rapist's abs. Sexy Rapist Abs... and on that fun note hit the jump for two more...


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Five Frames From ?

May 2, 2017, 7:07 am
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Nothing So Ridiculously Teenage and Desperate

May 2, 2017, 7:34 am
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There have been whispers of something Radiohead related for the past few weeks - some OK-Computer-esque posters have been spied around town here and in London and Amsterdam - and now we know: the band is re-releasing their 1997 masterpiece for its 20th anniversary, and they're pulling out all the stops. It will have three unreleased tracks ("I Promise" and "Man of War" and "Lift" to be specific) and eight b-sides, most of which will already be familiar to anybody who collected every CD single at the time... not naming names. Anyway you can buy a great big fancy limited edition box-set or smaller versions - see them all right here. And on a related note if you missed my great big post where I talked about OK Computer, song by song, click here for it. I am kind of a fan!


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5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1990

May 2, 2017, 8:48 am
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I still have a few reviews from Tribeca to share with you but we're trying to get ourselves back into our old habits, and so I went ahead and asked my phone to give me a number between 1 and 100 this morning so we could do one of these posts, and here we be. Siri gave me 90, so we're taking a look at The Movies of 1990. I was 12 turning 13 that year and it pretty much marks the exact moment I was becoming a Movie Freak - I had definitely started watching the Oscars, and I have a fairly cherished memory of going to see one of my Top 5 movies (the one with the little green monsters) in the theater. So let's get to it! This is a really very weird bunch of movies, but remember we're choosing "Favorite" not "Best"...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1990

(dir. Rob Reiner)
-- released November 30th, 1990 -- 

(dir. Joe Dante)
-- released June 15th 1990 -- 

(dir. Paul Verhoeven)
-- released June 1st 1990 -- 

(dir. David Lynch)
-- released August 17th 1990 -- 

(dir. Frank Henelotter)
-- released June 1st 1990 --

Sidenote: How amazing is it that both Total Recall & Frankenhooker came out in theaters on the same exact day? If only I'd been old enough to experience such a day properly, with all those rubbery fake breasts at once...

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Runners-up: Goodfellas (dir. Scorsese), Home Alone (dir. Columbus), Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton), Pretty Woman (dir. Garry Marshall), The Witches (dir. Nicolas Roeg), Nightbreed (dir. Clive Barker), Stella (dir. John Erman)...

... Cry Baby (dir. John Waters), Quick Change (dir. Howard Franklin), Postcards from the Edge (dir. Mike Nichols), Miller's Crossing (dir. Coens), Troll 2 (dir.  Claudio Fragasso), Mermaids (dir. Richard Benjamin), Alice (dir. Woody Allen), Ju Dou (dir. Zhang Yimou), The Reflecting Skin (dir. Phillip Ridley)

Never seen: Longtime Companion (dir.  Norman René)
Dreams (dir. Kurosawa)
King of New York (dir. Abel Ferrera)
Henry & June (dir. Philip Kaufman)

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What are your favorite movies of 1990?
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Who Wore It Best?

May 2, 2017, 9:53 am
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While the public fingering going on between Alexander Skarsgard and Vanity Fair writer Derek Blasberg was probably the hottest thing going on at the Met Gala last night, there were some good-looking fellas wearing fancy tuxes too, and we do like that. (See a couple more over here.) Lord knows I often take to Twitter to rant whenever a dude flairs up the perfect old-fashioned tuxedo, which is a perfect thing no need for flair dammit, but the Met Gala is the one place where I'll allow it. On that note...

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Get a Hedda Yourself

May 2, 2017, 10:46 am
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Legendary gossip Hedda Hopper was born on this day in the year 1885. Hollywood has been sort of obsessed with Hedda over the past couple of years - she has been played by Helen Mirren in Trumbo, Judy Davis in the Bette vs Joan television series, and Tilda Swinton's double character in Hail Caesar was basically her times two. I'm leaving Mirren out for now because who the hell wants to think about Trumbo (and I say that as someone who didn't actually even hate the movie) but asking...

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Today's Mifune

May 2, 2017, 1:14 pm
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Idris Elba Nine Times

May 2, 2017, 1:42 pm
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Oh my am I glad that I took a momentary break from tweeting big dick jokes at Idris Elba to check and see if there were any pictures from his reality series Fighter that I missed - they released a whole batch of official shots (as opposed to all of the gifs that I made from the show itself, which are also worth seeing) of Idris all tarted up and ridged for our pleasure. Hit the jump for eight more incredible edible shots...






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Somebody's Watching

May 2, 2017, 3:09 pm
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There will be a few more Tribeca reviews coming your way this week, starting here with Nobody's Watching, which stars the Argentinian actor Guillermo Pfening (seen above in a variation of the image used for the movie's poster) as a soap star who escapes bad juju at home to come to NYC and be anonymous. Read my thoughts over at The Film Experience. It's a really good movie.
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Good Morning, World

May 3, 2017, 6:51 am
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Good luck spending the rest of the day looking at anything but that gif of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau running right towards the camera bulge-first - I know that's how I plan to spend the day, anyway. I'm popping popcorn right now. Gonna put my feet up, enlarge the gif to fill my entire screen, and Live. It. Up. (This is from Small Crimes, Nicky's new movie with Cheap Thrills director EL Katz - you can read about the movie and see the trailer right here. The movie's streaming on Netflix right this second.)


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Five Frames From ?

May 3, 2017, 7:19 am
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