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Today In Bova
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Little Bird's Fallen Out of That Nest Now
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The Hitchcockian score only underlines that Red Sparrow is intended as a modern-day Notorious - where Hitch could only hint at the bedroom seductions and compromises that Ingrid Bergman was being forced to surrender herself to all in the name of "patriotism"Red Sparrow goes full force De Palma with it, pouring magnificent Euro-sleaze over top of everything that Hitchcock could only suggest. So yes there is rape and sexual humiliation and yes it is at times very hard to watch. But I don't disbelieve the truth of that. Not even a smidge. Our governments, ones of every stripe, trade in our humanity every second of every day, churning us through the meat grinder in the name of God and Country (and Men). Red Sparrow makes a helluva Movie out of it. Beautiful and brutal and silly and stomach-churning all at once.
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Let's Cast Leonard Bernstein
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There is a rumor going around that Steven Spielberg is thinking about making a bio-pic of West Side Story composer, sexy beast, and closet-homosexual Leonard Bernstein. I don't know if there is anyone hot enough to play him working in Hollywood today (I have always had a serious crush on LB) but let's try.
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Who would you cast?
Tell us in the comments!
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Good Morning, World
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The trailer for Sorry to Bother You hit the internet yesterday so we shall share it with you here on this Monday morning! We've been looking forward to this one ever since Armie Hammer joining the cast brought it to our attention - it stars Lakeith Stanfield...
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... also a very fine reason for being excited, obviously, as a telemarketer who's great at his job because he does a killer "white person voice" and Tessa Thompson as his Gal Friday while Armie plays his insane seeming (and according to reviews cocaine and orgy fueled) boss...
Armie is doing "Chris Pine" there right? That outfit and the beard couldn't be more "Chris Pine" if it emanated out from inside a tesseract with Oprah Winfrey attached to it.
(Yes I saw A Wrinkle in Time and yes I clearly left it with no idea what the science of it was supposed to be.) Anyway the reviews of this movie from Sundance made it sound crazy (in the way I dig "crazy") and the trailer is giving me some serious Spike Lee meets Michel Gondry vibes, so I'm there. But then...
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Here's the trailer:
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Sorry To Bother You is out on June 6th.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Another Year (2010)
Mary: I'm very much a glass-half-full kind of girl. But it's tricky, because... I meet these older men who want somebody younger, and that's great, because I fit the bill. But... when they find out that... you know, I'm not as young as they thought, they don't want to know. My looks work against me.
A very happy 62nd birthday to Lesley Manville and yes I am as astonished as you are that the woman we just watched being flawlessly fabulous in Phantom Thread is 62 years old. My god. Anyway I wouldn't have given her the Oscar (not with Laurie Metcalf sitting there) but she was certainly my runner-up - let's hope this masterful actress keeps getting parts worthy of her mad skills.
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"Don't pick a fight with me, you certainly won't come out alive. I'll go right through you and it'll be you who ends up on the floor."#PhantomThreadpic.twitter.com/l8TCUT7Bh4— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 22, 2018
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Five Frames From ?
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What movie is this?
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Pics of the Day
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Y'all already know this if you follow me on Twitter where I tweeted the entire two-day long experience over the weekend but I won the online lottery for tickets to see Angels in America on Broadway this weekend - Quite unexpectedly! It was my very first time trying and I entered as a fluke and it kind of threw a wrench in my plans for the weekend... not that I am complaining! - and a few of you asked for the link to where the lottery is -- HERE YOU GO.
I actually stuck around and had the entire cast (except Nathan Lane who bolted as quick as he could) sign my Playbill afterwards because when in Rome - I posted a picture of that on Instagram. I don't have any interesting stories about that because I didn't interact with any of them beyond saying "Thanks." They all smiled. Lee Pace is an utter (un-shy) dreamboat in person. The end.
I'd seen the National Theater Live screenings of the London show here in New York last fall but seeing the show in person (and oh did I mention that winning the lottery put me in the FRONT ROW) was a whole other ball of something - not to lean into a pun but this show is a religious experience, and if you're at all able, be able. It's the single most important piece of Gay Art of Modern Times, full stop, and this production is really spectacular, and all of the actors - shout-out to Nathan Lane & James McArdle specifically - are tremendous. And now for somebody else's picture...
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Couldn't resist snapping these three wonderful guys tonight! For Angels in America fans: Joe, Joe, and Joe. That's Lee Pace (Bway, right now), Patrick Wilson (HBO, 2003), and Bill Heck (Signature, 2010). pic.twitter.com/0H7QeMXXbq— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) March 12, 2018
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Art Muse
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Jake Gyllenhaal & Rene Russo are re-teaming with “Nightcrawler” director Dan Gilroy for his next project — an “elevated horror” movie set in the art world co-starring Toni Collette, Daveed Diggs, and John Malkovich. Premiering on Netflix this year! pic.twitter.com/cc1KOeSRhf— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) March 12, 2018
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Jarett hits all the purple notes needed in the news right there to fully consummate our explosive desire (yes it's true this news has turned me into a lurid romance novel, there's no going back) but here's a couple extra details via the full story at Variety:
"British actress Zawe Ashton, “Stranger Things” breakout Natalia Dyer, Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge, Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs, Academy Award nominee Toni Collette, and Academy Award nominee John Malkovich have signed on to join Gyllenhaal and Russo in upcoming horror-thriller.... The plot follows big-money artists and mega-collectors who pay a high price when art collides with commerce."
Well this sounds up my alley! Actually this sounds like somebody turned my brain into a Bingo Cage and rolled it around for a bit and plucked out, one by one, little balls of my brain and screamed BINGO once all the right ones were in order. The movie (as of now untitled) is filming in L.A. right now apparently... hopefully there will be set pictures. For now we're making do with these circa-Brokeback shots of Jake (via IHJM) that we've never seen before; hit the jump for five more...
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Quote of the Day
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"I thought maybe he had picked Baltimore because
most people I know here, myself included,
have had sex with a monster once in their life too."
-- John Waters on why Guillermo Del Toro might
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Semper Finn
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I'm not sure if Semper Fi is still shooting right now but it was as of a few days ago (according to jai Courtney's Instagram) and that has seemed like kind of a long shoot, no? It was January when we shared the first pictures of Jai Courtney and Finn Wittrock and Beau Knapp and Arturo Castro on the set and those were already a little dated when we found them. As are these pictures (two weeks old now!) of Finn scampering around half-naked with the rest of the boys watching him scamper half-naked around. Hit the jump for a dozen or so shots of said scampering...
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Call Me By Your Tomorrow
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It didn't feel real until Amazon just sent me the shipping notice but it's real -- Call Me By Your Name hits blu-ray TOMORROW, you guys! Say your goodbyes, you're never hearing from me again! I kid, I kid, the movie's been online for a bit now and I'm still finding things to prattle about - I'm just excited to finally get my eyeballs + ear-holes on some of those extras. And speaking of eyeballs + ear-holes...
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... Angels in America wasn't the only awesome (gay) thing I got done this weekend; I also got to see CMBYN author André Aciman do a reading/Q&A and that was quite the night itself. It was my second time seeing him talk (previously I saw him & Luca Guadagnino at an event together) and he seems as overjoyed with the past year's business as ever. He only did a few minutes of reading - he really wanted to answer questions, and he did for a very long time.
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He didn't have anything to say about the sequel, which was the very first question - he said it will be a few years before they've ironed that out. But he did tell a delightful story about how the title and the idea behind it came about (which is something I tried to dive into one time); I didn't take video of it but he apparently repeated the story at a different Q&A so here that is (thx Mac):
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I'm not surprised that it was something so practical - that's how these things usually work out. Life's greatest mysteries usually present themselves when we display just the slightest bit of curiosity towards our surroundings. On that note, A NEW VINTAGE TIMMY RAPPING VIDEO HAS SURFACED!!!
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... Angels in America wasn't the only awesome (gay) thing I got done this weekend; I also got to see CMBYN author André Aciman do a reading/Q&A and that was quite the night itself. It was my second time seeing him talk (previously I saw him & Luca Guadagnino at an event together) and he seems as overjoyed with the past year's business as ever. He only did a few minutes of reading - he really wanted to answer questions, and he did for a very long time.
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I'm not surprised that it was something so practical - that's how these things usually work out. Life's greatest mysteries usually present themselves when we display just the slightest bit of curiosity towards our surroundings. On that note, A NEW VINTAGE TIMMY RAPPING VIDEO HAS SURFACED!!!
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Good Morning, World
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Shamefully I never reviewed Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool here on the site but I liked the movie quite a bit and mainly because Jamie Bell -- besides playing a bisexual (admittedly in word only) while having the nerve to look like that in his (period inappropriate) boxer briefs -- gives a tremendously effective performance. Bening is good too but she's outshone by 1) her better work last year in 20th Century Women and 2) Jamie in a less showy role somehow stealing the whole movie from her. Anyway it's out on blu-ray in late April and I recommend seeking it out if you missed its small run in theaters, it's worth a couple of hours for sure. Hit the jump for more of a taste of the superficial reasons...
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Meet the Hems-stache
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Chris Hemsworth grew a mustache & now a fire-truck has to follow him because everyone who sees him bursts into sex flames (aka the flames of sex) pic.twitter.com/e3g8iGNZoK— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 12, 2018
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When pictures of Chris Hemsworth with his brand new handlebar mustache popped up on the internet yesterday, right after I dumped a bottle of water over my head I asked myself what role might this sex-stache be for? Well now we know - Chris posted a video of The Stache-ening...
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... on his Instagram and there alongside (once your eyesight returned) he said the stache is for his upcoming movie called Bad Times at the El Royale, which was written and is being directed by his ol' Cabin in the Woods pal Drew Goddard. Goddard is a name that should be familiar to y'all round these parts and not just for Cabin - he's an acolyte o' Joss Whedon and worked on a bunch of those TV shows including some of the best episodes of Late Buffy. As of late Goddard had been trying to get a bunch of Spider-man spin-offs made for awhile, and also worked on Daredevil and The Defenders.
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(And oh yes he is freakishly tall.) Anyway I hadn't heard hide nor tail of El Royale until Chris mentioned it - turns out it also stars Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, and Jeff Bridges, and according to IMDB "is set in the 1960s in a dilapidated hotel in the Lake Tahoe region in California." Sign me up!
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Five Frames From ?
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Nick Robinson Three Times
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Did any of you go see Love, Simonat this past weekend's sneak preview that I told you about? If not (or if you just want to see it again, which I wouldn't blame you for) it's out for real on Friday! It sure would be nice if the very first mainstream rom-com about a gay teenager made some money, so maybe clear a spot for it on your calendar. And as I said in my review the movie's as sweet as can be so this ain't exactly homework.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Pride (2014)
Bromley: They called us perverts.Mark: Bromley, it's time for an important partof your education. Hands up, in this room, if you've everbeen called a name like that. [all the guys raise their hands]Mark: There is a long and honorable tradition in the gaycommunity + it has stood us in good stead for a very long time.When somebody calls you a name... am I right Jonathan?Jonathan: Dead right.Mark: You take it and own it.
Today is the 26th birthday of the actor George MacKay (he played "Bromley" in Pride and he was the oldest son in Captain Fantastic too) - I just saw MacKay in the horror flick called Marrowbone a couple of weeks back (which I reviewed right here) and got to thinking about Pride and what a lovely nice little movie it is and how we need to enshrine that sucker - not let it fall through the cracks like it kind of seems to be doing. So go buy a copy of Pride, people. Support good gay cinema. And a happy birthday to George!
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More Like Dumble-Buns Amirite
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I don't know that the folks behind cutting the Fantastic Beasts sequel really intended to introduce their "gay" character ass first (and second) but that's what they did with Jude Law's Young Gay Dumbledore. Fine by me!
Honestly... I recognized Jude immediately.
Anyway I don't know about this movie
but they're certainly speaking my language.
Anyway I don't know about this movie
but they're certainly speaking my language.
Here's the trailer:
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In summation:
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In summation:
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First shot of Jude Law as Dumbledore is clearly playing to a certain audience. #FantasticBeastspic.twitter.com/jhr16cjhA2— Stacy Lambe (@sllambe) March 13, 2018
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Shot of me furiously raising my hand.
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Elio & Oliver Are Coming From Inside the House
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I'm having a difficult time focusing here at my office now that I've gotten confirmation that the blu-ray of Call Me By Your Name has been delivered to my home - it's just sitting there, being ignored! What if it thinks I don't love it? What if its fragile tender little heart breaks of loneliness???
I'll be there soon, mon amour!
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Eight Hours Don't Make a Sun Dogs
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I've got a pair of new trailers to share with y'all today and I am not above (hahahaha) using naked men in the shower to stop you in your tracks to watch them. Nope. Not above that in the slightest. First up we've got the trailer for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly remastered 1972 miniseries Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, which is premiering at the Film Forum here in New York tomorrow. Watch:
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See our previous posts on Eight Hoursright here. That trailer only gives you a couple of quick glimpses of my working-class crush from the series named Wolfgang Zerlett...
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... but their glimpses that get the crush across, I think. I don't know how RWF found these guys - they all look the same but what a look. Anyway speaking of atypical beefcake onto our #2 trailer...
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... which is for a movie called Sun Dogs, starring the always surprisingly appealing Michael Angarano as "a young man determined to be a military hero [who] ends up on a misguided adventure." The trailer makes his adventure look very misguided! Watch:
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It co-stars newly-minted Oscar lady Allison Janney as his momma, and it hits Netflix on April 6th. I never really paid Angarano much mind until that filthy scene he did in that movie called The Brass Teapot a couple of years back and now I always take notice. So, you know, take notice, Young Actors - get yourselves butt whipped by Juno Temple in half-off tighty-whities and you'll make fans for life.
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It co-stars newly-minted Oscar lady Allison Janney as his momma, and it hits Netflix on April 6th. I never really paid Angarano much mind until that filthy scene he did in that movie called The Brass Teapot a couple of years back and now I always take notice. So, you know, take notice, Young Actors - get yourselves butt whipped by Juno Temple in half-off tighty-whities and you'll make fans for life.
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Good Morning, World
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No offense Ansel Elgort but you'd be my third pick to wish a happy birthday today but I shot my wad too soon on birthday boy Jamie Bell yesterday with our post about Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool and there's somehow nothing I haven't posted before for other birthday boy Corey Stoll (although you might want to look back at his stint on Girls now that we're mentioning it) and so it's you, Ansel. Ansel who I still haven't made up my mind on. I didn't like Baby Driver, an anomaly when it comes to Edgar Wright Movies that I don't entirely not blame on your performance. And in the competition between LaGuardia High alums of Mr. Shifman I certainly come out Team Timmy. I guess we''l see what we think of you in that movie you're making with Nicole Kidman and decide then. Until then let's hit the jump for some more of Ansel in last year's November Criminals (and the shelves are a touch in the right direction)...
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