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Nicholas Hoult Eight Times

December 22, 2021, 8:52 am
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Nicholas Hoult's people looked at the photoshoot Nicky did for Hero magazine in 2015 and they said, "More of that please!" And for that we're thankful -- they do right by this pretty boy! That said I have a feeling these shots are cropped because Hero hasn't posted them online themselves -- these come via Nicky's Insta, and Instagram crops groupings of photos into the same sized frame even when the originals are different sizes. So maybe I'll have to update this post with the originals, but we ain't waiting!Hit the jump for them... 








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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

December 22, 2021, 9:42 am
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... you can learn from:

Quiz Show (1994)

Dan Enright: How much do they pay 
instructors up at Columbia?
Charles Van Doren: Eighty-six dollars a week.
Dan Enright: Do you have any idea 
how much Bozo the Clown makes?
Charles Van Doren: Well... we... 
we can't all be Bozo the Clown.

A happy 59 to the king, the man, Ralph Fiennes! I was considering doing a list of my five favorite performances of his today but then realized I did just that last year! See them right here. Seeing as how Ralph's one of my favorite actors that list had several runners-up, and one of them was the above performance (as an aside, where the hell is Quiz Show on blu-ray??? Whatchu doin, Criterion?) -- anyway the fact that work like that can live outside a Top 5 only speaks to Ralph's estimable career. Looking ahead for him there's, well, The King's Man is apparently out today? I had no idea until I checked. I missed all the screenings of this so I haven't seen it, but I have seen people tweeting out that Ralph's excellent (what's new). 

Coming down the road there's The Menu, which I'm really looking forward to -- that's the probable-cannibalism thriller that has him playing a fancy chef who invites a hot young couple (played by Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult so yeah, hot) to his private island and, presumably, tries to gobble 'em up. I don't know, I'm just guessing by the brief plot synopsis, the title, and the fact that that sounds like a thing a Ralph Fiennes character would do. Cannot wait to see it!

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Procession in 150 Words or Less

December 22, 2021, 11:00 am
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Usually when we talk about Art improving the world we mean it in an abstract not-immediate sense -- this thing will help us understand humanity, and our empathy will be bigger ever after. And so seeing a film that’s actually actively improved the world by the time its final credits roll takes one aback, and makes one wonder if we’ve been doing this thing right this whole time, or if this movie is showing us a better way. Robert Greene's Procession -- which not only documents the process by which several men who were molested by priests in their childhood turn their pain into art, but is the very art itself that they create -- feels revolutionary in its empathetic substance, in its proactive betterment of the world. In the simplest terms this astonishing movie did the work, and all the blessings be upon it.


Procession is now on Netflix, watch it here.

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Quote of the Day

December 22, 2021, 11:49 am
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"Yeah it’s a really curious genre. It’s a road movie, but it’s also like a Bonnie and Clyde romance. And they happen to be eating people. So it’s got a very thoughtful aspect to it about things that we inherit from our parents. A little bit like Call Me By Your Name, in terms of discovering you are gay, something you didn’t know about yourself. How do you deal with that?"

That is Oscar-winner and Shakespearean powerhouse Mark Rylance talking to GQ magazine about his next project, Luca Guadagnino's forthcoming film Bones and All, which will probably be out next year (I recently heard that Luca is editing it right now) and stars Timothee Chalamet and Waves actress Taylor Russell as star-crossed human-scarfing lovers on the run in the 1980s. I posted the first photo from the film right here, and a snap from the set right here, but the one up top (from the same day) I missed and it gives a definite better look at Timmy's hair-do. Electric orange, baby!

The film happily reunites Luca with his Suspiria writer David Kajganich, which I already knew, but I hadn't looked at the IMDb cast list in awhile and a ton of names are on there now -- besides Rylance there's CMBYN daddy-du-jour Michael Stuhlbarg! Chloë Sevigny (who just gave one of my favorite performances for Luca last year in his HBO series We Are Who We Are)! Also from WAWWA Francesca "daughter of Marty" Scorsese! And did somebody say André f'ing Holland??? Then there's director David Gordon Green??? Huh. Oh and holla, Suspiria (both versions) star Jessica Harper!!! Then there's young actor Jake Horowitz, who in the past year has been in the sci-fi flick The Vast of Night(seen below, reviewed here), the remake of Castle Freak (anybody seen that?), as well as Mickey Reece's nun-tastic horror flick Agnes, which screened at Tribeca this past spring and just came out on the 10th. I saw that at Tribeca but have kinda sorta forgotten the whole thing now, and should give it a re-watch. Anyway quite the cast, cannot wait, et cetera et cetera!



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Say Good Night, Garfield

December 22, 2021, 1:38 pm
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I was going to say my goodbyes for this Hump Day here with a couple of Jonathan Groff photos that I'd tweeted earlier (see them here), but then I saw these Andrew Garfield snaps here and, uhh, I changed my mind. I mean...


... did y'all also see that video going around? So why not end the day the same way we started it? Andrew Garfield got us feel hella versatile. Have a good night, everybody!



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Good Morning, World

December 23, 2021, 7:04 am
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Although I don't endorse Miguel Angel Silvestre's manscaping routine -- I would love to see him just once let that chest hair grow longer than his beard! -- I will still post his new photos off of Instagram where he's hocking an electric razor because what else do I have? It's 10am, I haven't touched my coffee yet, and it's my last day before ten blissful days off -- no subway, no work, no nuthin! Y'all will take these half naked pictures of Miguel Angel Silvestre and you will like them, dang it! (As an aside yes, I'm off after tomorrow, through the New Year. So savor every goddamned drop of nonsense today, yo.)

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Five Frames From ?

December 23, 2021, 7:25 am
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

December 23, 2021, 9:01 am
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... you can learn from:

A Monster Calls (2016)

Conor: Your stories never made sense to me.
The Monster: Because humans are complicated beasts. 
You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well 
the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. 
In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. 
It is only important what you do.
Conor: So what do I do?
The Monster: What you did just now. You speak the truth.
Conor: That's all?
The Monster: You think it's easy? 
You were willing to die rather than speak it.

The wildly under-appreciated tearjerking kids masterpiece A Monster Calls came out five years ago today. Directed by J.A. Bayona -- a stepping stone in between the devastating family dramatics of his film The Impossible in 2012 and the gigantic special-effects spectacle of his Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom film in 2018 -- and scripted by Chaos Walking author Patrick Ness, who was adapting his own book (which I also highly recommend), this movie sort of disappeared into the ether when it got released in 2016 and well there was after all a lot going on in the fall of 2016, so I don't totally blame us for being a little distracted. But I hope it's gained some traction on our brains in the five years since! And if not, let's make a rediscovery of this one. It's devastatingly excellent.

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Waterbeds, Pinball Wizards, and William Holden

December 23, 2021, 11:27 am
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Although Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza has been playing on New York and Los Angeles screens for a few weeks now it's just spreading out to those other places, you know the ones -- maybe they're your places even! -- tomorrow, and so I have written up some thoughts on the movie today over at Pajiba. I dug it, as you'll see when you read the review, but I will admit here that of the three "romances" of PTA's that I name-check in the review -- meaning besides this one Phantom Thread and Punch-Drunk Love -- it's a firm number three. And if I started ranking PTA films overall it'd drop down even further. But then Mr. Anderson (holla Matrix) is a top three filmmaker for me and I don't think he's made a single bad film so let's not take these ranking things too seriously. Terrific flick!

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And Just Like That... The Holidays

December 24, 2021, 12:04 pm
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Hey everybody! Happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate, happy weekend eve to those who don't. I realized I didn't sign off proper last night before heading home for my ten day brain freeze -- I was so ready to run home and collapse I just did that -- so here, a proper send-off. The blog will be probably very quiet between now and January 3rd. You might say not a creature is stirring? I don't know why you'd say that, it's just a thing I have heard before. Anyway I might be quiet here but I'll be found on the social medias, no doubt, especially Twitter since I am an addict -- follow me here if you don't. The rest are linked over in the right-hand column. I've got one more review that will be posted (sometime today I think) so I'll tweet about that, or maybe come back and edit this post or something. I don't know. 
 
Most importantly, if you're feeling generous this holiday season, you can donate to MNPP's dusty coffers right here. (Dusty Coffers is my drag name.) I do all of this really truly awe-inspiring work on this site that blows your minds on a daily basis (really, truly) without getting paid, if you can believe it.I know! Wild. This shit is free. So if you want to now, or want to ever, toss a penny or two my way, you can. I give you permission. Or give your money to real charities -- they need it too. My point is... oh who am I kidding, I have no point. Except I hope all of you have the greatest, loveliest next ten days doing whatever you're doing, until we can meet back here refreshed and ready to face motherfucking 2022. Peace, my loves!



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Good Morning, World

January 3, 2022, 7:08 am
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Welcome to 2022, folks. Feel any different? I personally feel a little more freaked out than I did three days ago since I just had to ride the subway for the first time in ten days in the still ongoing pandemic (screamed at two maskless assholes, natch) -- still ongoing, hell raging. Sorry if I'm dampening your "Good Morning" content! A Monday morning after a long break isn't exactly my most sunshiny moment. On that note I have got a billion things to catch up with this morning, so y'all can enjoy these NSFW gifs of Josh O'Connor flashing his full Josh O'Connor in the movie Mothering Sunday (which I reviewed at TIFF and quite liked, even besides all the O'Connor dong) which already made the rounds over the break (but what, I'm not going to post them here?), after the jump...





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Five Frames From ?

January 3, 2022, 8:17 am
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Here is Moonfall's IMAX Poster

January 3, 2022, 9:00 am
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(via) I'm so excited for this inevitably dumb fucking movie, y'all. If you missed the first trailer for Roland Emmerich's "The Moon be falling on our heads, yo!" disaster movie that is out in one month and one day (that's to say February 4th) watch it here. But wait I think there's a newer trailer I haven't posted yet? There sure is. Here ya go, enjoy, lose a few braincells, who needs 'em...

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

January 3, 2022, 10:05 am
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 Today I'd rather be...

... making my escape with Dick & Froy.

There's all sorts of stuff of note that happened in the ten days I took off for the holidays that I'll probably forget to do a post about, but these photos of Richard Madden and his best buddy Froy Gutierrez and their respective families vacationing in Mexico were never going to fall among the forgotten. Even before the photos of His Royal Froy-ness showed up on the scene this...

... is Peak Richard, looking the best he's ever looked. We were on it! (I did tweet about them when they dropped for whatever little that's worth.) Hit the jump for the whole collection...










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The Bat Abs

January 3, 2022, 11:54 am
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I hadn't planned on watching any more trailers for The Batman, Matt Reeves' forthcoming... well you know. You know what this movie is by now, we've had this movie fifty fucking times. My sarcasm comes packaged with every intention of watching it all over again of course. But there's no need for me to explain any of this. Anyway I wasn't going to watch the new trailer but then I saw the above shot going around on Twitter, and lo, shocker, here we are, la di dah. I still don't really get what this film's going to bring this franchise that we haven't seen before -- and with each passing year the technicolor camp of Joel Schumacher feels more appealing than what they keep feeding us -- but they hired enough actors I adore to get me there to see if there's anything to it. So we'll see! 

The Batman is out on March 3rd. Any thoughts?

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Simon Rex Six Times

January 3, 2022, 12:08 pm
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Just realized that I never updated my post from before the break with a link to my review of Sean Baker's film Red Rocket over at Pajiba, so let's do that! And we'll do it alongside some new-ish photos of Mr. Rex, that movie's star, who I am hoping gets an Oscar nomination for the film come whenever those things happen. He gives one of the year's best, most surprising performances anyway -- I'm sure some people will claim he's just playing a variation on himself and sure, there's truth to that, but I think what he does on-screen is actually much trickier. Anyway read all about my opinion of the film in my review, right here. And these photos come via InStyle, where they also have an entertaining chat with him -- read that here. But first hit the jumpfor this shoot in its entirety...




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Good Morning, World

January 4, 2022, 7:22 am
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The 1992 Brad Pitt flickJohnny Suede was one of Teenage Jason's go-to movies back in the 1990s when I needed, you know, inspiration -- pretty sure I had it on VHS at one point? I never "liked" the movie but I sure did watch it a bunch. Anyway I hadn't seen it in many a year until this weekend when Criterion dropped it as part of their 1992 Sundance series -- it's actually a little better than I remembered? I think what it has going for it now that it didn't have in the 1990s is it's a terrific document of that very specific time period...

... shot in Williamsburg Brooklyn of all places before gentrification had mutilated it beyond recognition it's a time-machine flick for sure. It also co-stars Catherine Keener and Nick Cave (in a white pompadour wielding day-old chicken) and has small roles played by Tina Louise and Samuel L. Jackson? It's kind of begging for some reevaluation. I also think it might have been a little ahead of its time in how thoroughly it demystifies (or at least tries to) the "sensitive artist hipster" and goes out of its way to showcase how toxic his masculinity is... up to a point. But it tries. And Brad Pitt looks like this. Give it a watch! Andhit the jump for more gifs...












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Five Frames From ?

January 4, 2022, 7:59 am
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5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1929

January 4, 2022, 11:15 am
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Somehow six months have passed since I did an entry in my "Siri Says" series -- shame on me! I had been doing pretty well with them last year but late July was right around the time I went into three straight months of film festivals so it's not too big a shock this series fell off right about then. I can't promise I'll keep up with this (Sundance is in just a couple weeks after all!) but for today I have a minute and the voice that lives inside my telephone was kind enough to give me an easy enough year (since I've seen very few movies from it) -- I was given "29" and so we're talking the Movies of 1929. 

This was an interesting moment in Hollywood -- beyond the fact that many of these movies are among the earliest batches of "Talkies" (The Jazz Singer came out at the end of 1927) 1929 was also the first year of the Oscars! On May 16th of that year Hollywood gathered together at a private dinner at Los Angeles' Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and awarded statues to their favorite movies of the previous two years, 1927 and 1928. Has anybody ever written about there being any overlap between sound innovation and the awards system? It feels like there must have been something in the air. Anyway right now we're talking the movies nominated and not nominated for the 2nd Academy Awards -- and now for my five faves!

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1929

(dir. Frank Borzage)
-- released on July 20th 1929 --

(dir. Dziga Vertov)
-- released on January 8th 1929 --

(dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
-- released on October 6th 1929 --

(dir. Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí)
-- released on June 6th 1929 --

(dir. G.W. Pabst)
-- released on January 30th 1929 --

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Runners-up: Wolf Song (dir. Victor Fleming), Sunny Side Up (dir. David Butler), Untamed (dir. Jack Conway), The Manxman (dir. Hitchcock), The Broadway Melody (dir. Harry Beaumont)

Never seen: The Virginian (dir. Victor Fleming), Diary of a Lost Girl (dir. GW Pabst), Eternal Love (dir. Ernst Lubitsch), The Kiss (dir. Jacques Feyder), The Awful Truth (dir. Marshall Neilan)

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What are your favorite movies of 1929?

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Josh Hartnett Two Times

January 4, 2022, 12:05 pm
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Even though Christopher Nolan had already cast my beloved Florence Pugh, one of my favorite actors, in his next movie Oppenheimer (about the scientist who came up with the grand ol' atom bomb), I had successfully avoided talking about it because, well, because I'm basically done with Nolan at this point. I haven't liked anything since The Dark Knight, and that only somewhat -- I love Memento but that's about where the relationship between me and Chris ends. But he got me today because he went and cast Josh Hartnett in Oppenheimer (news via, thx Mac), and I got no fight on that front -- you put Josh in your movie, I see your movie. Dammit all to fuck -- this is a low-blow, Nolan! Also in the cast so far -- Robert Downey Jr, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Cillian Murphy in the titular role. BOOM!


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