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Any Activity Where Balls Fly At Your Nose
For a brief moment I thought that maybe I should lead this post introducing the trailer for Luca Guadagnino's tennis-threesome movie Challengers with one of the shots of Zendaya flanked by her co-stars Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, all of them kissing on the edge of her bed, since that shot is the truest representation of what this movie will be. But... I mean...
Okay okay Zendaya, you get that one. You can check all of our previous posts on this film Challengersright here -- naturally we've been posting since Day One... hell, Day Minus Fifty more like. Just watching this trailer we understand what Luca meant when he said there would be queerness in here. Just how queer I suppose we'll have to see but this shot...
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... is obviously giving me some extra ideas. Okay so the bsics, in case you need them: Challengers is about three tennis pros who fuck. The end. It stars those three, it is directed by Luca Guadagnino, and it is out on September 15th. And here is the trailer:
What do we think? Tell me in the comments, and I made a gif of
every single shot of Josh & Mike, so hit the jump for those...
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The Flesh Is Strong
The 2023 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival has officially ended, but not my reviews! Because I am very very slow! So today at Pajiba you can read my thoughts on Joe Lynch's Lovecraftian joint Suitable Flesh, starring Heather Graham and Johnathon Schaech as the sexiest married couple ever whose lives get torn, some might say shredded, apart thanks to some sinister body-swapping shenanigans. And the film also stars horror icon Barbara Crampton, because making a Lovecraft movie without Barbara Crampton is punishable by death in every country on Earth, or should be anyway. This will be hitting Shudder later this year so keep your eyes peeled, and since this is Lovecraft I kind of mean that literally. It'll peel yer eyeballs, baby! Okay to make up for that disgusting image I will share with you this video of Mr. Schaech, being insane amounts of hot:
Schaech, rattled, rolled pic.twitter.com/IddHtrzBuC
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 16, 2023
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Keep Coming Kraven
Because one post on how hot Aaron Taylor-Johnson appears to be in his Kraven the Hunter movie isn't nearly enough, I have now done two, two posts, in as many days. Well I suppose if you count this post right here it's three? And we should since I am including the above new photo of Aaron that his wife Sam posted on Insta. Anyway first I posted the poster and the trailer for Kraven here on the site yesterday -- see that here. But that wasn't nearly enough, so I spent several hundred more words on the subject over at Mashable today -- click here for that. I could keep going. I know you know I could keep going. This movie isn't out until October y'all. Expect me to keep going!
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AKA Riley Keough's Grandmother
I was fairly indifferent to Baz Luhrmann's Elvis movie but I am far far far more interested in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla -- that's the first poster above and apparently we're getting a trailer tomorrow. For one Baz's film didn't have squat to say about the fact that Priscilla was fifteen when she and Elvis met, and a film in 2023 that has no opinion on that matter might as well not exist, no matter how many sequins there are on Austin Butler's swinging dick and no matter how many double-chins they put on Tom Hanks. Sofia Coppola's movie though, obviously she's gonna have things to say. Also... she's Sofia Coppola, and that beats Baz any day of the week. (I mean I love Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge too, but come on.) And third -- even though we can barely see anything in it this poster is reminding me really hard of my great-grandparents house, a 60s time-capsule of baby-blues and lemon-yellows; it smelled like powder and everything was satin-lined. That this single image feels so textured is giving me great hope here. Can't wait for the trailer.
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A World Afire
Yeesh this has turned into a much busier day than I was anticipating. But I can't not post the trailer and the poster for one of my favorite films so far this year -- Christian Petzold's Afire is out on July 14th (the day before my birthday, huzzah!) and I now have these things to share with you to show you it's worth watching. That is if my Tribeca review that went up the other day wasn't enough, anyway. But my review...
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... doesn't have cute boys kissing,
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so obviously the trailer wins. Watch:
If you're a fan of Petzold's earlier films -- Barbara and Phoenix and Transit and Undine -- this one feels a little different, I think, but it's still fabulous. What a run for this filmmaker, y'all. One of the greats working today, truly. I do wish he'd reunite with Nina Hoss again, but I suppose she's too busy making out with Cate Blanchett in Tar and, you know, who can blame her? Anyway in summation I have a big crush on Afire actor Langston Uibel now, the end.
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Anthony Ramos Two Times
This is the second time in as many weeks that I've been so put off by the styling of Anthony Ramos in a photo-shoot that I have edited the photos I share down to just a couple -- he is far too pretty to be wearing the junk they have him in for this Numéro Netherlands photoshoot, but you can see the rest here if you're so inclined. But trust. You're better off just staring at his gorgeous face. You have been warned! (PS this was the other photoshoot.)
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Good Morning, World
Hold onto your butts, y'all -- Paul Mescal has shared this video of himself getting his body (so so much of his body) into Gladiator shape for Ridley Scott's forthcoming sequel. (via) And I now retract every shitty thing I have said about every shitty movie Ridley Scott has made in the past two decades. Sir Ridley Scott forever! Get that man all of the Oscars!
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Love Her Tender
Priscilla, the movie, is out in October.
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Franz Fucks Everything (Up)
There we have the poster for Ira Sachs'Passages, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is being released on August 4th. Here is my review of the film, which stars Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski as a married couple who get tossed into upheaval when Rogowski starts having an affair with a woman (played by the always terrific Adèle Exarchopoulos). And down below is the film's trailer in case you missed that. Rogowski is so wildly aggressively unlikeable in this -- he really goes for it, and some people are going to hate this movie because of that, but I find it a pretty brave way to present this story (especially when you know that there's an autobiographical tinge to it coming from Sachs). Anyway "likeability" is seriously overrated in storytelling. Give me complicated monsters! After all I need to see myself reflected by cinema!
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Pic of the Day
Writer, now-director, and friend-of-MNPP Bryan Fuller shared this image of himself with his Hannibal leading man Mads Mikkelsen today, captioning it "Back in the saddle with this guy #dustbunny" -- if that hashtag means nothing to you then let me refer you to this post from November of last year where I told you about Dust Bunny, Bryan's directorial debut about "an eight-year-old girl who enlists the help of her intriguing neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she believes ate her family." Now if you head to the IMDb page an even more intriguing fact if you can believe it reveals itself -- IMDb says that this movie will also co-star Sigourney Weaver? IMDb is the only place I see this reported -- all of the other links when you google it are talking about it being on IMDb. So is this true? I don't know. HEY BRYAN. I know you're directing your first movie right this minute or whatever but come answer my question, please!
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Good Morning, World
(click to embiggen) Well sure why not, let's make three posts in the seven days be Miguel Ángel Silvestre and his already legendary tighty-whities boat photo-shoot. What the hell else have we got that's better to look at? Happy Thursday, people!
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Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... taking a constitutional with Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. (via)
After finishing the new season of The Great last night
I seem to have myself a new crush. (Blame the stache.)
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Viva Wes, Again
Although it's been out in NYC and LA for a week now Wes Anderson's latest Asteroid City is just hitting the broader markets tomorrow, and so I am just sharing my feelings on the movie today. Over at Pajiba, right here. Spoiler alert: I love the fucking movie. I'm a hard yes on Wes though, so your mileage will obviously vary -- I find it inexplicable how divisive his movies are, but then I find so much of the world inexplicable. Find joy in beautiful things, people!
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Happy Pride!
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God Morning, World
Like the caption says that there is a time-lapse video of Jonathan Tucker, eternal stud, getting his tatoos applied for his roles in Nick Cassavetes' film God is a Bullet, which hit theaters this past weekend. I have posted about this movie a lot because it stars, besides Tuck, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Karl Glusman, two long-time MNPP faves. (Also Maika Monroe and we like her too, albeit for different reasons.) So why if I have posted about this movie a million times have I not seen or reviewed this movie? Just busy-ness. There is no good story here. I didn't have the time. I didn't see Nick Cassavetes on the street and scream "NEPOBABY!!!" in his face and get banned or anything. Anyway I would still like to see it, and will probably when it hits streaming. And all of that said -- good morning! I'm running a little late this Monday due to subway issues so let's just jump in. By which I mean y'all hit the jump for a few bonus photos that Karl Glusman shared of his own make-up transformation in God is a Bullet...
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Wait Nicolas What?
If you'd told me right after Nicolas Winding Refn had delivered unto us the masterful Netflix series Copenhagen Cowboy (about prostitutes and criminals and psychopaths and all his usual jazz) that he'd next turn to adapting a series of vintage kid's adventure books, I'd have given birth to a shoe. Right then and there. A shoe would have fallen out of me. From where? Don't ask. But it would have happened. So I am glad they waited a little bit to tell me this news, is my point. I don't need shoes falling out of places. Anyway Deadline is reporting today that Refn is indeed turning Enid Blyton's series of The Famous Five books into a miniseries for the BBC -- are any of you familiar with these books? Because I sure as hell am not.
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They were published from the 1940s until the 1960s (you can buy a reasonably priced box-set of all 22 books right here) and they sound very Hardy Boys -- they're about four children named Julian, Dick, Anne, George, plus their dog Timmy (love that the dog gets included!) who go on big adventures during their school holidays. They've apparently been adapted several times over the years, but I've still never heard of them -- that said I think I have a pretty good idea of what they consist of in my head. That that said I still cannot for the life of me picture what Nicolas Winding Refn taking on this project will look like in the end. I guess he felt like mixing it up!
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