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Pop Go the Girls
When I finally got around to watching Michaela Coel's series I May Destroy You, fairly late into its awards-run a couple of years back, I totally got it -- it deserved all of the praise. Coel's got an incredible voice, and she should be getting all of the opportunities that Phoebe Waller-Bridge got in the wake of Fleabag. The clock's ticking on that but this is good news we're excited about that hit yesterday -- Coel will co-star opposite Anne Hathaway in the new movie from The Green Knight director David Lowery! After Knight and especially A Ghost Story I will follow Lowery to the ends of the earth, so it's his involvement that really tips the scales for me here, although I will admit I fell back in love with Annie after we took a little bit of a break thanks to her work in the fantastically trashy fun lesbian-thriller Eileen that played Sundance (here is my review).
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Specifics-wise what we know is that the movie is titled Mother Mary and Lowery himself wrote the script, which they say is "an epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer (Coel)." So more lesbian antics! Yeehaw, baby. Nothing but gay stories from here to forever, please. People on social media seem to be excited that the pop music being written for the film is being written by Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX but those names mean very little to me since I am desperately unhip when it comes to pop music. Antonoff is the cute hipster who dated Lena Dunham back during Girls right? But far more important to me is the orchestral score for the movie will be written by Lowery's frequent collaborator Daniel Hart, whose scores for A Ghost Story and The Green Knight rank among my favorites of the past decade. Christ that was all so nerdy. Oh well.
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Pics of the Day
It's been about three weeks since Creed III hit theaters but thankfully we're not done getting to stare at fresh photos of Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan being sexy glistening boxing beasts in it -- the photographer Eli Joshua was kind enough today to share a big batch of set photos he took via his Instagram (thx Mac) and they are everything the last three weeks have been missing. (Jonathan Majors' oiled-up pecs, is what I mean specifically.) Ahhhh I can breathe again. They are all of just Jonathan save the above photo, but that one got top placement for obvious, homoerotic reasons. Hit the jump for the rest...
ETA oh wait, here are some of Michael too!
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Which is Hotter?
Ben Aldridge's shoot for Attitude mag is the gift that keeps on gifting! Gifting short shorts, that is. (See the rest here.) This spangly out-take was today brought to my attention, and opens up an opportunity to ask a question that's been bugging me since seeing Ben in M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin earlier this year. (And PS for the thousandth time here is my piece on the movie.) If you've seen the movie (and this in itself isn't really a spoiler so don't avert your eyes if you haven't) you know that it offers us both flashbacks and flash-forwards. Which in turn also offers us a look at Young Twink Curly-Haired Ben, as well as Gray-Bearded Daddy Ben. So my question to you inevitably is....
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Stroke That Beard, Jake
Hey look it's a new photo of Jake Gyllenhaal in Guy Ritchie's forthcoming film The Covenant (via). If you missed the trailer for this movie, which is out on April 21st, watch it here. And related to exactly nothing that I just said (because I really have very little to say about this movie) -- now that Alexander Skarsgard has fallen and gone and had himself a baby do we think Jake is next? I am thinking such thoughts, and they are depressing me. Stop making me think you're actually heterosexuals, hot dudes! It's too depressing. There's no reason for being straight anymore! Literally none. Heterosexuality is dead! Long live the gay flesh!
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Good Morning, World
Lord almighty! Thanks to our pal Kayleigh on Twitter for sharing this 1995 photo of Daniel Day-Lewis in Vanity Fair magazine, which had never before graced these eyes of mine, but which has now permanently etched itself upon this brain. Those are some short-shorts that make Colin Farrell look like a goddamned prude! God I hope DDL hasn't really retired for good. I miss him a whole lot.
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Miguel Ángel Silvestre Eleven Times
Good lord almighty, what the hell goodness did we do in this world to be blessed with this new photoshoot of Miguel Angel Silvestre for Esquire Spain today??? And we're not talking half-assed -- well maybe we are given the above photo shows literally half his ass. What I mean is that this shoot goes all out -- he's even naked on the cover! (And speaking of, never have I hated type more.) But I'd be freaking out over any of the photos contained therein (and sidenote: if anybody speaks Spanish please let us know what's being said in the interview, if there's anything of interest of course) so hit the jump and let's luxuriate in the magnificence of this man together...
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They Call Him Young Mungo
This news has nothing to do with the great God's Own Country except it reminded me of that film, and since we like to look at Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu we're using an image from it. Anyway, onto the news --A24 is going to make a TV series from a book called Young Mungo written by Douglas Stuart, which is described thus:
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I think you'll understand why that made me think about God's Own Country. Anyway have any of you read the book? Per usual I have not, but it sounds like I might want to order a copy... which will probably then sit on my shelf and gather dust until the series happens. Just how I roll, baby. Anyway it sounds like the sort of thing we all will enjoy and hopefully this movies forward with some speed. Stay tuned!
"The series, about the dangerous first love of two working class men in Glasgow... the story follows Protestant Mungo and Catholic James who live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons.
As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future."
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Rain (1932)
Sadie: Music and a nip of liquor --that's what a rainy day is for, says I.
Today is generally agreed upon to be Joan Crawford's birthday but that iconic scamp changed the year she was born in several times, so we don't know if she was born in 1905, 1906, or 1908. I think we should all work under the assumption that the oldest one is the one, though. That seems a fairly safe bet! Anyway this is one of my favorite of Joan's early performances -- have you seen it? There's a really great quality blu-ray of it you can get if not -- it's a gorgeously filmed movie even besides Joan getting to play her speciality: a trampy trash hooker with a heart of iron, aka exactly who we should all aspire to be. Icon!
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Wild Things At 25
It only seems in keeping with the moment that I use the sleaziest possible gif from the movie to introduce my piece upon it (and yes this moment is even sleazier than Kevin Bacon's dong, if you ask me) -- John McNaughton's sleazeterpiece Wild Things turned 25 this week and I wrote up some thoughts on the movie for Mashable -- click here to read them!I love this movie more than I love champagne on my titties. It has everything. Champagne on titties! Kevin Bacon's dong! Theresa fuckin' Russell! That is literally my definition of everything. Anyway I need to add that if you can you should watch this movie via the 4K disc that Arrow dropped last year -- it looks amazing. I'm not 100% one of those film-over-digital people but movies like this look tremendously elevated thanks to being shot on film. I mean LOOK at this drop-dead gorgeous title card:
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Good Morning, World
I am making a new rule. If you're going to refer to Avatar and Scream 6 actor Jack Champion (seen here for Behind the Blinds magazine) you may only do so by using his full name, Jack Champion. I mean why go to the bother of being called Jack Champion -- Jack Champion!!! -- if you're not going to use Jack Champion at every given moment? And I really hope this is a rule that Jack Champion has instituted in his own life already. Jack Champion should speak only in the third person. When Jack Champion wants to go get a coffee, he tells his significant other, "Jack Champion is going to get a coffee." When Jack Champion is going to bed, Jack Champion says, "Jack Champion is going to bed." None of this "I" shit. You're Jack Fucking Champion! (PS "Jack Fucking Champion" will also accepted.) Hit the jump for the rest of the photos...
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I'd Really Love To Touch You
One of the greatest cult movies of all the cult movies in all the land, Paul Verhoeven's 1995 masterpiece d' sleaze Showgirls, is getting the fancy 4K treatment! This is courtesy of the ever fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome, and they've opened up the pre-orders for the disc right here as part of their "Halfway to Black Friday" flash sale, which is happening all weekend. Don't worry if you can't buy it right this minute -- they'll have it for sale again soon down the line. But if you order it now you get it much faster. Being the Physical Media Obsessive that I am I've ordered from VS a lot over the past couple of years and they rock; they're really one of the premiere sites in the boutique blu-ray business -- they haven't announced all of the extras yet but I'm sure they'll be stacked. I'm surprised they got their hands on a movie this big, honestly! I guess when they also got Road House in 4K recently we should've seen bigger things ahead. God, what a killer double-feature those two would make for. I have to force myself to hold off until I get my 4K Showgirls in the mail but I wanna double-feature that this weekend now!
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Good Morning, World
So apparently Joshua Jackson saw how positively we all responded to him wearing tighty-whities on Little Fires Everywhere back in 2020 and he said, "You know what? I'm gonna give the gays..." et cetera, etc cetera y'all know that meme. And so anyway there he is in tighty-whities again on that Fatal Attraction series he is on opposite Lizzy Caplan. Yeah that same Fatal Attraction series that reportedly kept her off of the new season of Party Down episodes. Which had me pissed off at Fatal Attraction. But I am willing to accept Joshua Jackson in tighty-whities as a make-up gift. I guess I will watch it when it airs in April, then. Voila, that easy. Anyway happy Monday yadda yadda let's just get on with it already. Oh, one note that you should scribble in your mind's calendar -- an unexpected day-job thing will have me off-blog for Thursday and Friday of this week. So just a brief three-day MNPP week ahead! Prepare your bodies!
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RRR (2022)
Alluri Sitarama Raju: Bheem, how long dowe fight these Jackals? Let's hunt down the Lion.
A happy 38 to Ram Charan today!
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Kieran Culkin Sixteen Times
Please don't waste any breath in the comments trying to convince me how much I need to watch Succession since I do not -- I tried, it was not for me. That said Kieran Culkin is looking mighty fine in this new Esquire shoot, and I will set aside some time for that! You can read the chat with him over there. I'm not bothering as I'm sure it's a lot of Succession gobbledegook I have no interest in. But you, you feel free. Or just hit the jump for the photoshoot...
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Happy Belated, Lee Pace
Actor Lee Pace celebrated his 44th birthday over the weekend, and the 6'5" gentlemen and former pie-slinger was kind enough to share with us wee peons some photos of his typically outdoorsy celebration with partner Matthew Foley (including one snap that I'm fairly certain includes his birthday suit!) -- what a giver! And for you, Lee Pace, we would all be takers. And since I'm just sitting here staring at the wall like a Monday dullard I'll share said photos with y'all now, in lieu of making with the "clever." I got no clever today. You can hit the jump for what I do have, however...
That is a naked person right?
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Good Morning, World
Okay okay okay Claybourne Elder -- you win! You have now earned yourself a tag here on the site with this new batch of photos (via). This one here makes our fifth post ogling you, and even though all I've seen you in was your role as the Hot Gay Side-Hunk on The Gilded Age I can fight this tidal wave of hotness no longer. You washed me away in wetness! Let's all hit the jump for the rest...
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