Jesse's Girl

December 5, 2018, 10:52 am

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I should've known that aiming for a hotness height of Nicholas Hoult when it comes to the male lead in a Charlie Kaufman movie was a fool's wish... but I'm a fool for Hoult, what can I say? And I mean this as no slight to actor Jesse Plemons, who it was announced today is in talks for the lead dude opposite leading lady Brie Larson for I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie's new movie that Netflix is financing - I find Jesse Plemons terribly talented, and I look forward to him starring in a Charlie Kaufman movie. It's just Charlie is like the art-house version of King of Queens sometimes - a crowd of Impossibly Hot Ladies (Brie Larson! Catherine Keener! Michelle Williams!) surrounding a schlub (Phillip Seymour Hoffman! Doughy Pockmarked Nicholas Cage!). It'd be nice if Charlie thought about subverting this once, is all. But a leading role for Jesse is exciting, so whatever! Don't listen to me, I'm terrifically stupid.
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Look Who's Instagramming

December 5, 2018, 12:13 pm

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I just realized I’m not playing Spider-Man.

A post shared by Jake Gyllenhaal (@jakegyllenhaal) on Dec 5, 2018 at 12:03pm PST

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Jake can slide into my DMs anytime.

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Good Morning, World

December 6, 2018, 7:11 am

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Me realizing I still haven't watched Outlaw King on Netflix yet -- have any of you? There is, like, a movie around that penis, right?

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Five Frames From ?

December 6, 2018, 7:39 am

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5 Off My Head: Globes Gotta Globe

December 6, 2018, 8:13 am

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I totally forgot that the Golden Globes nominations were being announced this morning, but perhaps that's for the best - reading through them over at The Film Experience just now left me wishing for a cocktail or ten and its a little bit early for that. Love for desperate dreck like A Star is Born is expected this season so I'm not letting that actually bother me, but a Best Picture (Drama) nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody is some real bullshit, as is a snub for all things Hereditary, and then this...

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I am personally affronted by a nomination for the music for A QUIET PLACE for anything, unless there is a category for "Best Ruiner Of The Entire Concept Of The Movie"

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 6, 2018

... actually gives me stomach pains. What a bad, bad decision that is! Especially when you've got Thom Yorke making gorgeous haunting music right over there in Suspiria! Ugh, Globes. But that's just it - it's the Globes, they gonna Globe, there's no point working one's self up into a froth. So let's look for happy things... which are all, weirdly, among the TV stuff. Here are a few of my favorite things...

5 of My Favorite Globe Nominations

Supporting Actor, TV

Ben Whishaw for A Very British Scandal

Actress in a Limited TV Series

Laura Dern for The Tale

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Very much here for scenes of Daniel Brühl barking boot-lacing commands at a submissive Luke Evans on #TheAlienistpic.twitter.com/xlwt9QV2vo

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 4, 2018

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Actor in a Limited TV Series

Daniel Brühl for The Alienist

Best Actress & Supporting Actor, Movie Drama

Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant 

for Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Limited TV Series

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Runners-up: Timothee Chalamet in Beautiful Boy, 

Stephan James in Homecoming, 

all of the ladies in The Favourite, 

anything ROMA

So what are your favorite nominations?

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Dance Toni Toni Dance

December 6, 2018, 8:42 am

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Ever year the New York Times does a series of videos showcasing the Performers of the Year as they decree them - last year they did Scary Movie Shorts, which were right up my alley (remember Jake Gyllenhaal's dirty t-shirt and Timothee Chalamet's little goth mustache?) - moreso than this year where they have done Dance Shorts (choreographed by "Friend of Sufjan" Justin Peck) anyway. But they bridged the gap with their video featuring my beloved Toni Collette, who busted a groove to spooky moves for her short which you can watch right here:

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Watch all of the videos, which include Glenn Close, Julia Roberts, all of the ladies from The Favourite together, and Lakeith Stanfield wearing suspenders, right here.

Doctor Feels Good

December 6, 2018, 11:03 am

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I was going to say the last time that Ryan Reynolds starred in a horror movie was 13 years ago when he looked like this and made the Amityville Horror remake, which is only remembered because he looked like that. But then I remembered he made that outer-space horror-movie Life with Jake Gyllenhaal just last year (memorable, notsomuch, it turns out) and he also made that "Ryan Reynolds is trapped in a box!" movie called Buried in 2010, which counts.

So anyway he's no stranger to the genre, which he's about to revisit with the just-announced The Patient Who Nearly Drove Me Out of Medicine, which is quite the title. We'll see if they keep the title (I hope they do, I like long weirdly specific titles), which comes from a novella by Jasper DeWitt that was published via Reddit No Sleep - it's about, and I quote, "an idealistic young doctor who tries to solve a mystery and heal its most difficult patient." Dr. Ryan Reynolds! Sign me up, cough, cough. (thx Mac)
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

December 6, 2018, 11:46 am

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Today I'd rather be...

... stuck in traffic with Chris Hemsworth.

I haven't a clue what the original source of that video is -- I found it off Tumblr, and I guess I can say goodbye to that experience thanks to their draconian new measures meant to murder their own platform. Oh well. You guys can always come here to MNPP for a perfectly pleasant curation of gratuities, says me. 

Speaking of! There are new pictures of Chris at the beach, ones that go along with those pictures from about a week ago! And I have them! After the jump we go...

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

December 6, 2018, 1:41 pm

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... you can learn from:

Death in Venice(1971)

Gustav: You know sometimes I think that artists are rather like hunters aiming in the dark. They don't know what their target is, and they don't know if they've hit it. But you can't expect life to illuminate the target and steady your aim. The creation of beauty and purity is a spiritual act.
Alfred: No Gustav, no. Beauty belongs
to the senses. Only to the senses.

A few weeks ago I told you about how Criterion is releasing a 4K restoration of Visconti's deeply breathtaking Death in Venice onto blu-ray in February -- well if you're in New York you can get the restoration into your eyeballs even quicker because the ever illustrious Quad Cinema will be premiering it next weekend, running for a week starting on December 14th. What a time to be alive! I mean everything is garbage but the movies are giving us some quality escape, at least...

More Globes & Me

December 7, 2018, 8:07 am

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I got a way late start to the day today and I was already planning on trying to get some other stuff done off-blog so, point being, today might be brief. But for now you should head over to The Film Experience for a few thoughts from me and several few more from my TFE compatriots on yesterday's Golden Globe nominations. And that's the first part of two, so stay tuned for more.

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Ralph Fiennes Two Times

December 7, 2018, 8:51 am

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

December 7, 2018, 9:37 am

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... you can learn from:

Warm Bodies (2013)

R: There's a lot of ways to get to know a person.
Eating her dead boyfriend's brains is one
of the more unorthodox methods, but...

A happy 29 to Nicholas Hoult today!

Go see him in The Favourite, in which he rules.

I Can See Cheyenne For Miles

December 7, 2018, 12:10 pm

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All of the great Cheyenne Jackson photoshoots - see here and see here and see here but most especially see right here - have had one thing in common and that thing is his legs.  His great big gorgeous gams. And so this brand new one for Attitude (via) as you see there above and there below has immediately situated itself among the greats. (Just as I dream to one day situate myself between, well, you know.) Hit the jump for seven more... 

I Called the Heroin Hot Line on Abby Hoffman

December 7, 2018, 5:06 pm

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Alrighty as it was spoken I was off-blog for most of the day, prepping last-minute plans for a weekend in Baltimore to see the John Waters art show called "Indecent Exposure" at the Baltimore Museum of Art - I already asked this on Twitter and got some great replies but if anybody has advice on Baltimore Stuff To Do please do share in the comments! And I'll see you Monday! If rats don't come out and bite my new nylons, that is...

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Good Morning, World

December 10, 2018, 7:23 am

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Happy Monday to one and all with what will probably be my last post on German actors Matthias Schweighöfer and  Florian David Fitz's latest bromoerotic film called 100 Dinge (aka 100 Things) until it's out for American Consumption, by whatever means necessary - it opened in Germany this past weekend I believe, so now we'll just have to wait n' see what happens with it, distribution-wise, down the road. We had a good run! Click here for the several posts I have done.  The above gif comes from a video Matthias shared. All that said hi everybody, and let's try to get ourselves going this morning...

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Five Frames From ?

December 10, 2018, 7:52 am

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King of the Posters

December 10, 2018, 8:26 am

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I know we're getting the new Godzilla: King of the Monsters trailer some time today and I should wait for that but eff it, this movie's gonna be worth two posts in one day, and this new poster (via) is pretty enough to have its own moment. I've watched the first trailer for this movie dozens of times since it was dropped a few months ago - I could probably play-act it out from memory at this point. Needless to say my enthusiasm is up Mothra tall, y'all.

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Wham Bam Thank You Hunnam

December 10, 2018, 9:16 am

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The trailer for Triple Frontier arrived online yesterday and it's got everything! Pedro Pascal and Charlie Hunnam hanging out in a locker-room. Like I said. Everything! This is the movie whose shoot in Hawaii we documented extensively, or at least the portions of the shoot that involved Charlie and his BFF and finally now co-star Garrett Hedlund rolling around wrestling half-naked in the surf, anyway. Did I mention Oscar Isaac was also there? 

You know things are out of hand, in the best of ways, when Oscar Isaac is an "also." (Things are routine when Ben Affleck is an "unmentionable" on the other hand.) That said the trailer shows none of that beach footage - it's all very butch. No romping! Triple Frontier was directed by JC Chandor, who remains in the Oscar Isaac Business after last making A Most Violent Year in 2014. This hits Netflix in March. 

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The Poet Doth Protest Too Much

December 10, 2018, 10:28 am

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Shakespeare in Love is turning 20 tomorrow and in its honor I'm re-pitting it against its age old foe, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" at The Film Experience. Click on over to vote! I love both films but have come to prefer the former, since the hysteria that met Shakespeare's Oscar win over the years has been a wee bit much, quite honestly. 

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Beside the Still Waters of Baltimore

December 10, 2018, 12:14 pm

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ME AND DIVINE #divine #johnwaters #pinkflamingos #femaletrouble #film

A post shared by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Dec 8, 2018 at 2:58pm PST

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My quick weekend jaunt to Baltimore, Maryland was an unheralded success -- I booked it down for 36 hours in order to see John Waters' art show titled "Indecent Exposure" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which runs through January 6th and I definitely, definitely recommend. I mean...

... one of the first thing you see when you walk into the exhibit is a Michael Jackson Baby hanging out with a Charles Manson Baby, and it only gets nuttier (by which I mean more brilliant) from there. And even besides his cunning ruminations on our world of trash there are some stunning shots of his Dreamlanders scattered about...

Oh Cookie, my beloved. If you'd like more photos that I took of the show check 'em out on my Instagram. As you can see up top I also wandered the streets of Baltimore doing a brief JW-inspired tour -- I found the four-story tall mural of Divine, which is located at 106. E. Preston St., and I also managed to find the most stretch where Divine ate dog shit in Pink Flamingos too. I also saw a woman on a deserted nighttime street downtown scream, "Rats! Rats!!!" as she ran off through some billowing steam, so Baltimore truly lived up to the hype.