December 16, 2021, 8:22 am
The trailer for
The Lost City -- formerly titled
The Lost City of D (IMDb even still has it listed that way) but I guess they work-shopped their dick joke right on out of there -- starring Sandy Bullock and Channy Tatum as a bickering romance novelist and her pretty-boy Fabio-type cover-boy respectively, is here, and it's exactly what you expected, if what you expected was a riff on
Romancing the Stone with a lot of Channing's muscles on display. There's a shot of him shirtless in the trailer but he's covered with leeches and it grosses me out, so...
... let's just stare at this perfectly lovely and leech-free gif of his arms instead. To paraphrase that famous pig, "Some arms!"The Lost City, which was directed by Adam and Aaron Nee (who are supposed to be making the He-Man movie next but we've heard about a He-Man movie for so many years we're taking that one with a grain of Eternian salt) is out on March 25th. Here's the trailer!
Tell me what you think in the comments.
And okay yeah fine here's leechy shirtless Chan:
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December 16, 2021, 9:06 am
I tried really hard to figure out the original source of these photos I found on Tumblr so I could get better quality copies, but the one-two-punch of shelves and short-shorts couldn't be denied even when I could not. If anybody has an idea, leave a comment! I can't even tell if these are recent or not, but I'm guessing yes because we've only recently come back around to the blessed phenomenon of adorable straight dudes like Jason here deigning to wear shorts this short. You can see a few more photos
over here.
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December 16, 2021, 1:25 pm
... you can learn from:
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Johan: The old ones called it the "hour of the wolf." It
is the hour when most people die, when most children are born.
Now is when nightmares come to us. And if we are awake...
Alma: We're afraid.
Johan: We're afraid.
A very happy birthday to the legend Liv Ullmann today.
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December 17, 2021, 6:54 am
These gifs of
Charlie Cox are the reason why shaky cams need to get the law dropped down on them immediately -- I demand a ban of shaky cams from here until forever! Because gifs suck from shaky cams. They are, and I don't use this word lightly, shaky. And yet this is the only footage that exists of Charlie Cox in 2009 wearing nothing but a pair of gray sweat-shorts, and so we deal. We deal!
This is from a short film he did for the
New York Times at the time (you can
watch it on their website still) and I remember seeing it but i guess 2009 was before I could make gifs, so we don't have gifs of this... not until today obviously. I don't know why I am thinking about Charlie Cox today -- hmmm. I just can't put my finger on it. Must be no reason! No reason at all! There is nothing coming out in the world that has anything to do with Charlie Cox whatsoever! It's a mystery!
Hit the jump for the rest of the gifs...
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December 17, 2021, 7:11 am
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December 17, 2021, 7:52 am
you can learn from:
Jon: All I know is if I don't take a shower and
brush my teeth in about two minutes, I'm gonna...
I'm gonna fucking kill myself...
I'm a fag, okay? I can't stand being dirty.
A happy 62nd birthday to writer-director and MNPP icon
Gregg Araki today! Yesterday I was
saying that I should maybe watch a bunch of Bergman films over the holidays because the world has that Bergman feeling about it -- you know, grim and devastating -- but maybe I should watch Gregg's "Teenage Apocalypse" trilogy instead? (That includes his next three movies --
Totally F***ed Up,
The Doom Generation, and
Nowhere.) They're at least gay and goofy to go along with the grim and devastating. And the signs of Plague and Death that Bergman loves so much are played by, like, dudes wearing giant Lizard Alien suits in Araki-World.
Is anybody else on the internet connecting Bergman and
Araki like this? This is why y'all keep coming back right?
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December 17, 2021, 8:48 am
Oh Russell Tovey we love you get up!
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December 17, 2021, 11:20 am
Going with a surprise theme, I guess -- I already marked
director Gregg Araki's birthday earlier so let's share this brand new photoshoot of his
Now Apocalypse leading man
Avan Jogia while we're at it, huh? Not that Avan is even somewhat recognizable in these photos for
Schön! magazine -- he's gone full Billy Idol, and while I probably prefer
Avan original Flavor I'm not mad at any of this. There are more photos and an interview
at this link, or just
hit the jump for my fave snaps of the bunch...
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December 17, 2021, 12:47 pm
It's been awhile since I've had the opportunity to post about Charlie Cox twice in one day, and I'm taking advantage. (You hear me, Charlie? I am taking advantage.)
Deadline's reporting he's doing a new limited series for Netflix -- called
Treason it's a spy-series from the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of
Bridges of Spies (on a sidenote,
Bridge of Spies remains really underrated -- I dug that flick) that will co-star former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and
Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin. It'll see Charlie playing an MI-6 agent who gets all tangled up in a spy-triangle involving a former flame (Kurylenko) and his current wife (Chaplin). Sounds possibly sexy and exciting -- let's hope those possibilites are taken full advantage of! (Hear me, Charlie? Taken full advantage of.)
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December 20, 2021, 7:35 am
It is a personal attack that they dropped the trailer for Robert Eggers' Viking movie
The Northman (aka my most anticipated movie of literally forever) while I was commuting to work so I get to it way later than when everyone else has seen it, but I'll try not to hold a grudge. There's enough of beast-master Alexander Skarsgard tearing through the thing half-naked to calM me down. Well...
... to calm me down in one respect, whilst getting me all worked up in others. Thankfully those "others" are more beneficial to the filmmaker's bottom line. Anyway, The Northman! Starring Skarsgard, WIllem Dafoe, Cales Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicole Kidman! The director of The VVitch and The Lighthouse takes on the Vikings. Watch:
Wow pretty cool, right?
Same, Alex. Same!
The Northman is out on April 22nd, 2022.
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December 20, 2021, 8:09 am
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December 20, 2021, 9:06 am
Paul Bettany is working 50-years-old pretty well, wouldn't you say? Here he is on the cover of
The Rake magazine (
via) looking as they say "Sharp AF" -- may we all age so well. I dunno what he's promoting here -- I guess himself! Which is fine!
Hit the jumpfor the rest...
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December 20, 2021, 11:23 am
"We have to have this physical agreement with each other, and this trust with each other – we’re gonna get a little bruised, and we’re gonna make mistakes, and that’s okay."
That's Jonathan Groff talking about doing fight-scenes with Keanu Reeves in the new Matrix movie to GQ, but taken out of context I think it's alright for us to contemplate Jonathan & Keanu talking that way toward each other about many things. Or several, anyway. I didn't think I'd read the whole GQ interview with Groff (I tend to skim) but a majority of it was spent talking about how much he likes working out now and so natch, I got sucked in. Let's hope he's got a project lined up where he gets to show off this gym-bunny phase then, since I doubt his role in the Matrix gets him out of his black suit. (I wouldn't scoff at a third season of Looking, for instance!) Hit the jump for three more GQ pictures...
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December 21, 2021, 7:03 am
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My assumption is that this photo of
Jon Bernthal was taken on the set of his forthcoming update of
American Gigolo because -- and this took some real hardcore detective work on my part -- he looks exactly like he looked in
that footage from the set of that show that I posted last February. From the handlebar 'stache down to those gray sweats, and every tat in between. (For those of you wondering about this look matching with your image of Richard Gere in the 1980 film, Bernthal is supposed to be playing the same character once he's getting out of prison for the death at the end of the film -- and uhh spoiler alert for a 40-year-old movie.) Anyway I don't actually know where this image came from (I got it off a random Tumblr) and I still don't have any update on when this show will air but I felt the need to share the photo for obvious reasons -- if you know where it came from original do tell! I am especially curious because it looks to me like it could be a frame taken from an Insta-story and who wouldn't want to see this moment in motion?
Good morning!
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December 21, 2021, 7:31 am
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December 21, 2021, 7:49 am
...you can learn from:
Klute (1971)
Bree: Don't feel bad about losing your virtue.
I sort of knew you would. Everybody always does.
You ever have a movie where you can't get what everybody's swooning about for the longest time, and then you rewatch it years on and wham, it's like a freight train clobbering your heart? Klute is probably the best example of that from my year point five of pandemic watching -- I thought I didn't like it for a long time but then suddenly I fell totally in love with it on a watch a few months back. Now it seems nutty that I ever thought it wasn't for me. All those inky 70s blacks and browns, creepy pervert killers, Donald Sutherland. Jane Fonda saying "button freak." This shit was made for me! Anyway a happy 84 to Miss Fonda today.
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December 21, 2021, 1:42 pm
Are your bodies prepared?
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December 21, 2021, 2:25 pm
Just in time for all this annual religious shit, a gift! Paul Verhoeven's blaspheme-licious (TM Me)
Benedetta is rentable on all your online renting services --
here is a link to Amazon where the film can be purchased for such purposes as you see fit, presumably of the eyeball sort, but who am I to judge. I reviewed the movie
right here when it screened at NYFF in September, and having re-watched it last week I can tell you my opinion has not changed. I want every single one of you to be watching this over the holidays, and if you've gone home to visit relatives I want every single one of you to force your relatives to watch it. Paul Verhoeven is as ever the showman, incapable of boring for a single solitary second even as he makes caustic commentary on institutional hypocrisy of every sort. My god!
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December 22, 2021, 6:54 am
Gia Coppola's film
Mainstream from earlier this year has mostly been forgotten here by the end of the year, and not without cause -- it's just an okay movie, not nearly the cutting social media critique it thinks it is. But I would say that it was the spark that lit the great year that Andrew Garfield has been having -- he gave his all and then ten more people's all in
Mainstream (see
my April post about the trailer if you don't know what I speak of), and then he gave it all again but
with a better movie on hand in
Tick Tick Boom, and then, this past week, [spoiler alert]. Anyway it makes sense that the photo up top -- which was taken on the set of
Mainstream (
via) -- would come roaring back to life this week, where it's been making the rounds on Twitter. We're celebrating a year of Andy and this was part of that! Oh and so was the moment in
Mainstream captured below (click to embiggen):
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December 22, 2021, 7:23 am
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