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I know that sometimes actors have to relearn how to walk in front of a camera so it seems "natural" and not like they're acting the idea of walking -- there's a very funny bit about this in Charlie Kaufman's very funny movie Synecdoche New York (I said what I said -- it's very funny dammit!) -- but I think you must have to re-learn how to walk all over again when you're walking naked in front of a camera and you know said walk will be turned into a gif by your thirsty online admirers.
I wonder if there's a whole science involved to it? Coaching? On how to squeeze and lift the buttocks while walking and finding the light that favors all the right places. Anyway if there is a coaching job for this I hope this post can be considered my application. I think I'd be ace at this gig. In related news -- have we all watched the second season of The Great yet?
I just finished it the night before last, hence why it took me so long to get around to making these gifs of Nicholas Hoult doing the naked butt-clench walk again (see previous instance here), the one that favors him so well. He's a pro! We all should take lessons from him. I really think this could be a lucrative side-gig, Nicky. Call me. I'll handle all the details -- you just bring your... well, you know.
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Bunny's In Hot Water!
Don't think I will hear any news today more exciting than the news Deadline reported a bit earlier -- that queer comics Jeffrey Self and Cole Escola (from Chassie Tucker to the killer twink on Search Party we fucking love Cole) have just gotten a series green-lit for HBO Max! It's called Bunny & Clyde and here's how they sell it:
"In Bunny & Clyde, two lost and codependent souls — Clyde (Self), a broken gay thirtysomething in the midst of an unmedicated bipolar episode, and Bunny (Escola), a non-binary, self-identifying cabaret star – get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reinvent themselves and a second chance at happiness. But not until they first live in a dead man’s house, assume new identities and convince an entire Palm Springs community that the guy is still alive while they sell off his estate."
So basically we're talking Weekend At Bernies but way way gayer. In other words, the way Weekend At Bernies was intended! (I mean come on -- Jonathan Silverman???) Anyway I won't bother to say "this sounds tailor-made to these comedians sensibilities" like I almost did because a-fuckin-duh, they tailor-made this themselves to their own sensibilities. Listen I am tired today. They can't all be gems. My point is I want this right now. So glad we're finally getting real queer projects from real queers!
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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A Little Chaos (2014)
André Le Notre: What if no one person is to blame?And what use is blame? It is enough to have thathappen to you. It is enough to recover from it. Thatis as much as we may ask of ourselves. That is enough.
It's surprisingly difficult to find good quotes from Matthias Schoenaerts characters in films because, as anybody who's seen Matthias Schoenaerts in a film might recognize, he tends towards characters that are, let's say, un-talky. Alan Rickman's 2014 film, which had him playing against type as a romance-cover-ready designer-of-royal-gardens who dukes it out with Kate Winslet's designer-of-same first among the plants and then among the sheets, actually calls on him to be a little bit chattier, and so it was a simple enough feat looking to this movie for today's "Lesson" in honor of Matthias' 44th birthday, which is today. Happy day, Matthias!
Don't believe I ever reviewed this movie and that's probably because my recollection is I didn't love it, but looking back now I'd love to watch it again and give it another try. The thought of Matty and Kate talking quietly in period costumes among beautiful flowers feels like a simple pleasurable happening we didn't properly appreciate quite enough at the time. Seems it'd make a fine afternoon double-feature with his swoony Gabriel Oak in the stellar remake of Far From the Madding Crowd, anyway.
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Which Is Hotter?
This question will be more worthwhile posing to y'all once Steven Spielberg's West Side Story re-do is out this weekend and y'all have actually seen it, but I am bored this afternoon and am thinking about WSS because I just finished writing my review (it'll be up tomorrow) so I am asking now, and can link back to it next week when you'll surely be asking yourselves the same thing. For now just judge by those photos of the two actors on the film's set back in the day. These two are stand-outs among several, believe you me.
This is the most unexpected pandemic side effect of them all
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 30, 2021
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I Sin You Sin We All Sin For Verhoeven
Using an image for this news from the Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film The 4th Man just because I want to look at that image from the Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film The 4th Man -- the news has to do with Verhoeven, not The 4th Man, but I think we're all okay with this. Right? So everybody's favorite dirty Dutch grandpa has announced what he's working on next now that his lesbian nun epic Benedetta (which I reviewed here) is out in theaters -- it's called Young Sinner and it's an erotic thriller set in Washington D.C. and it'll see him re-teaming with Edward Neumeier, the screenwriter of Starship Troopers & Robocop. Says the latter:
"Our heroine, a young staffer who works for a powerful Senator, is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger, and of course there is also a little sex."
Of course! A little, a lot -- let's go with a lot. Anyway you know this makes me realize -- I have been in a lousy mood lately and what I need to do is have myself a little Verhoeven-a-thon. That always cheers me up. Like I haven't seen his movie Soldier of Orange in ages (sidenote: hey Criterion, Soldier of Orange is dying for a good release here in the US) -- a double-feature of that with Black Book? Forget about it! Mood fixed! Anyway back to Young Sinner -- what actress would y'all like to see Verhoeven work with on this? I know who I want...
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Gossip Girl v2.0 star Evan Mock has got a new batch of photos for Calvin Klein underwear out (via) -- in case you missed it (or just wanted to revisit it) I posted a video a couple of weeks ago that went along with these, too. Hit the jump for the whole thing...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Young Adult (2011)
Matt: Look, I don't know what Buddy's doingwith you or what you think he's doing with you,but you need to move on.Mavis: You're one to talk. All you care about issome scuffle that happened 20 years ago.You lean on that crutch and you lean on excusesand you and I both know that you use this wholething as an excuse to do absolutely nothing with your life.Matt : Scuffle. You don't know shit about what happenedto me. Okay? Those jocks you used to blow during lunch,they shattered my legs, bashed in my brains, mangled mycock so that I have to piss and cum sideways for the restof my life. Then they left me for dead. You know, thingsaren't too great down south. I can barely get off bymyself let alone with another person.Mavis: You know, what's done is done.You can't keep dwelling on the past, Matt.
I've felt a little guilty ever since I wrote my (deservedly) scathing Ghostbusters Afterlife takedown last month that I made a nepotism joke about Jason Reitman, because I do think Jason Reitman is talented, and this here movie that's turning 10 years old today is about all the proof I need to exhibit in that claim's defense. If all he'd ever made was Young Adult he'd be a fave. Young Adult is better than anything his father made. Then you add on Juno and Tully and to a lesser extent Thank You For Smoking and he's really one of our great comedy directors -- I guess that's one of the reasons Afterlife annoyed me so much; I really wanted it to be something special and it was decidedly not. Oh well! We'll always have Mavis Gary and her spectacular bullshit!
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Red Light Special
Kind of weird that the first poster for Michael Gay's Ambu-lah-nce (pronounced that way as long as they keep highlighting the "LA" in the middle of the word in their typography) is coming over a full month after the first trailer (which I posted here), but that's what they done did. Also am I nuts or does that look NOTHING like Yahya on the poster? I wouldn't recognize that as him if you asked me sans context. This movie is out in February.
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Smoke On Your Pipe & Put This In!
The weird year that is 20201 (typo on purpose, as 2020 and 2021 are the same year, it's just science) keeps on weirding on with Steven Spielberg's West Side Story -- or that is to say more accurately, my love for Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. Another musical got me! What's happening anymore??? I reviewed WSS for Pajiba today -- read it here -- and it's nothing but heart-eyeball-emojis shooting off my fingers. What a world. I guess I should just go buy myself some white gloves and a bowler hat and start harassing pigeons in the park with my sassy jazz moves -- I am just that guy now.
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Stories are how we make sense of this great big blue nothing called life, and the story I have decided to tell myself today is that Gossip Girl actor Thomas Doherty, seen above, saw my "Good Morning" post on his Gossip Girl co-star Evan Mock yesterday (right here), and Thomas decided he too wanted the honor. And so up with this Instagram post he went. Whatever helps me sleep at night, right?
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Don't Let The Sundance Go Down On You
The line-up for next month's Sundance -- and yes I think we can all agree that it is insane that it's already time for Sundance again -- was released yesterday, and over at The Film Experience I shared ten movies that immediately caught my eye, check out the list here. (The entire line-up is listed there too, in case you missed it.) The photo above is of Sebastian Stan in a movie called Fresh which did not make my list of ten, but why not give that photo some attention anyway? Who doesn't want to stare at Sebastian? Just like: who doesn't want to stare at Jon Bernthal side-naked, as seen below in Lena Dunham's new movie Sharp Stick? Nobody that's who!
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They Call Him Mr. Rex
There are two important and worth-your-time movies out today (as far as I can tell -- it's so damned hard to keep track of that kind of thing anymore), and they are Steven Spielberg's surprisingly spectacular West Side Story re-do (which I reviewed at Pajiba yesterday), and Sean Baker's porn-caper Red Rocket, which stars former VJ and amateur junk-handler Simon Rex in the role of his life. Of ten lives. I'm not going to say much about Red Rocket right now though because I'm going to be reviewing it later this month, but in exchange I will instead share with you Mr. Rex's brand new Interview Magazine photo-shoot, which will put in your the mood. Which mood? I suppose that's up to you, but it's a mood anyway. You can read the chat with him at Interview, or you can just see the photoshoot on my Tumblr. That's it for this week! Have a good safe weekend, everybody!
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Consider my joy -- Consider my joy! Consider it! -- when I found out that in the latest OSS movie in France (it's a whole series of spy films -- their James Bond basically, only comedic) there exists some homoerotic sexual tension between Jean Dujardin (the star of the latest iteration of the series) and our favorite French Gumby himself Pierre Niney?
The joy is impressive to consider, I promise you. Almost as impressive to consider as that prominent package that Pierre's packing downstairs in these gifs. Oh I know those briefs are loaded -- that is to say I know his crotch has been stuffed for the gag (insert "gag me on that crotch" gag here). But if I can't play make-believe with Pierre Niney's bulge then I might as well toss in the towel, baby. Oh and...
... that happens too. Yes, also a gag, but I refer you to the previous paragraph. Maybe we should actually see this OSS movie? (For the record it's called OSS: From Africa With Love.) They've never really been my bag -- they're a little broad -- but these gifs and Pierre Niney in general are doing their work on my will. Anyway happy Monday morning, hit the jump for all the gifs...
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We All Scream For 5-Cream
The new poster for the fifth Scream movie, which is simply titled Scream -- still furious they didn't go with 5cream but we will do our part, continually pronouncing the film that way -- has arrived, with the threat that "The Killer Is On This Poster" as a tagline. And yeah no Shit 5herlock:
I found the killer! Do I get a cookie? I know, me and everyone else who had that thought and tweeted it out last night when this poster first dropped are spoil-sports -- they clearly mean one of the human faces down below. And they've been playing with us that Sydney, Dewey, or Gale could turn out to be the killer(s) since the first sequel but I honestly would be really shocked if they went there, ever... which might be the reason they do that, but I'd hate it, and it would feel like a slap at Wes Craven kind of? Is that a weird feeling to have? Well I have it. I don't know if he ever went on the record that he wouldn't have liked that but the four films he made, where that never happened, seem like "on the record" enough. He kept them alive and he kept them decent, and that always felt purposeful. So I am hoping that the makers of this one respect that, and the killer is one (or two or ten) of those teenaged nobodies skirting the sides. Anyway 5cream is out on January 14th! That's only a month away, you guys!!! Look what I got in the mail this weekend:
Got a surprise in the mail today! #Screampic.twitter.com/FrVKamXoUg
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 11, 2021
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