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Yes Feelings

June 26, 2023, 8:49 am
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I know the online contingent of Jennifer Lawrence haters is vocal, but I cannot stand with you -- I love Jennifer Lawrence. I have loved her since Winter's Bone, I have loved her through falling on the Oscar stairs and making poop jokes and her stealing Nicholas Hoult away from me. We have been through it! She is a bonafide movie star and we need that shit and I am happy we have her. And I am glad we have her back after a little break with an actual honest-to-goodness comedy -- click here to read my review of No Hard Feelings at Mashable. (This went up on Friday but I wasn't here to link to it on Friday so y'all get it now.) The movie is stupid and cheesy and I laughed my ass off anyway. It is what it is, people!


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Zane Phillips Four Times

June 26, 2023, 9:23 am
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I tried to watch the first episode of Glamorous, the new Netflix series that stars Kim Cattrall (Team Samantha!) and Fire Island co-star  Zane Phillips as a mother and (gay) son who run a make-up empire, but that is not a show for me. I only made it halfway through that first episode before giving up with a very large headache. No amount of Zane running half-naked on a treadmill was going to be enough for me to hang around through all of the other shrill nonsense. But we did get this new photoshoot of Zane out of it (via) so all is not lost. Hit the jump for the rest...




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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

June 26, 2023, 12:44 pm
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Jack: It's like seeing someone for the first time, like you can be passing on the street, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of a recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. And you always remember it because it was there, and you let it go, and you think to yourself, 'What if I had stopped? What if I had said something?' What if, what if... it may only happen a few times in your life.
Karen: Or once.
Jack: Or once.

Every time I write this about a 1998 movie a little piece of my crumbles to dust, but -- a happy 25th birthday to this great Soderbergh flick! Another casualty of my busy-ness as of late was me re-watching this movie for the first time in too long and writing a piece on it for this anniversary; I've just had too many other projects due last and this week to get to this one. But I have an open little window tonight and I bought this movie on 4K recently, so maybe I'll watch it here for its anniversary proper. And maybe I'll remember what it felt like, actually liking George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez! In all seriousness though, I loved this movie and am extremely curious how it'll hold up after all these years. Stay tuned!

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And These Are Your Gay Emmys

June 26, 2023, 1:12 pm
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I yelped several times reading through the winners of the Dorian TV Awards just now -- awarded by the LGBTQ+ critics guild GALECA of which I am a member, we got so much right! And then we gave some awards to Succession, but I guess we can't get everything right. Ahem. Anyway we gave two yes two prizes to Bryan Fuller's horror doc Queer For Fear (read my review of it here), which got the biggest yelp out of me. We gave it both "Best LGBTQ Doc or Doc series" as well as the more general "Best Doc or Doc Series" and dammit it deserved 'em both. We also gave several awards to Somebody Somewhere and The White Lotus AND we gave "Best TV Movie" to Andrew Ahn's Fire Island! We have good taste! Except for Succession. Hit the jump for the press release and list of winners....


‘Succession,''Abbott Elementary,''The Other Two’ Score Big 

in GALECA Dorian TV Awards


LGBTQ entertainment journalists also crown Sarah Snook with best drama performance, love-up Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island and praise Ariana DeBose for doing her thing

Monday, June 26, 2023 – Hollywood, CA - GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics named the winners of its 15th Dorian TV Awards today, with high-profile hits and under-the-radar gems evenly represented. HBO's final season of Succession, showrunner Jesse Armstrong's merciless dissection of modern-day, quasi-fictional American Roy-alty, took best drama—and cast member Sarah Snook secured best drama performance—while best comedy went to ABC's Abbott Elementary, star Quinta Brunson's mockumentary following a clique of idealistic Philadelphia school teachers.

On the scrappy side, Amazon Freevee's novel prank show Jury Duty was deemed Best Reality Show, Max's showbiz satire The Other Two LGBTQ TV Show and HBO comedies Somebody, Somewhere and Los Espookys Unsung TV Show and Non-English Language Show, respectively. Director Andrew Ahn’s cinematic Fire Island, a clever queer spin on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice released on Hulu, scored Best TV Movie or Miniseries.

GALECA members seemed to show a yen for persistent, dryly witty women across most of the performance categories. The journalists chose  Somebody's Bridget Everett as best comedy lead, Jennifer Coolidge for best supporting drama performance for her fateful turn in The White Lotus, and Ayo Edebiri of FX on Hulu’s frenzied sandwich shop comedy The Bear. Taking Best TV Musical Performance? Surprise: Ariana DeBose for her maligned—but perhaps in retrospect, fun and sweet—rap tribute to Angela Bassett and other nominees at the BAFTA Film Awards last March.

More: Satirist Ziwe Fumudoh's recently cancelled Showtime series ZIWE, a mix of commentary, sketch and topical interviews, won the Dorian for Best Current Affairs Show for the third time in a row. HBO Max's puckish female superhero tale Harley Quinn landed as favorite animated program. And GALECA’s special Wilde Wit award, designated for "a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse,” this year went to venerable comedian Wanda Sykes (past winners include Coolidge, Michaela Coel, Dan Levy, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hannah Gadsby, Kate McKinnon, Carrie Fisher, Amy Schumer, John Oliver and Kathy Griffin). 

Sykes is enjoying a banner year, scoring laughs and jabs as jaded record exec Shuli Kucerac on The Other Two, real-life political groundbreaker Shirley Chisholm on Hulu’s History of the World: Part II, a TK on Netflix’s family sitcom The Upshaws, and as one of Velma’s lesbian moms on that new animated mystery-comedy from producer Mindy Kaling. Plus, the star's May Netflix stand-up special, Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer—complete with her takedowns of everyone from Kyrsten Sinema to MAGA conservatives afraid of Critical Race Theory—earned raves. 

Speaking of frightening, Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror, TV mastermind Bryan Fuller's documentary series for Shudder, scared-up two Dorians. Season two of Apple TV+'s cheeky musical Schmigadoon! scored Campiest TV Show, and HBO's apocalyptic miniseries The Last of Us impressed as Most Visually Striking TV Show. 

In the network/streamers race, HBO (including Max) counted a win in half of the 18 programming categories. Hulu (including FX on Hulu) and Shudder each notched two Dorians. 

In other honors, the group named Coolidge a TV Icon (previous recipients include Christine Baranski and Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a Elvira). And Elliot Page, whose superhero character Viktor Hargreeves came out as trans in the most recent installment of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, joins the ranks of Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Jerrod Carmichael as an LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer. The award is given to entertainment figures who create "art that inspires empathy, truth and equity."

Along with TV, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics also honor the best in film and Broadway / Off-Broadway, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. A nonprofit 501 c 6 professional organization founded in 2009, GALECA today consists of over 480 active critics and journalists who work for some of the most popular, revered and enlightening media outlets in the United States and beyond. Via the Dorians, the group endeavors to remind bullies, bigots and society’s currently beleaguered LGBTQ communities that the world has long appreciated the Q+ eye on everything entertainment—not only on hair and clothes. GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in its most underrepresented segments.

This month, GALECA announced the winners of its inaugural Crimson Honors, a public college criticism contest for women or nonbinary students in the QTBIPOC rainbow. The grand prize went to Asha Pruitt, a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Taila Lee, a Berkeley senior, and Ariana Martinez, a senior at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, were named finalists. All received scholarship funds provided by film and TV reviews aggregate Rotten Tomatoes. More information on the scholarship winners and panel of judges can be found at galeca.org/crimson-honors.

To support GALECA’s members and causes, entertainment and media fans can follow @dorianawards on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. For more information, visit GALECA.org.

DORIAN TV AWARDS WINNERS—FULL LIST

BEST TV DRAMA
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
The Last of Us (HBO)
⭐ Succession (HBO)
The White Lotus (HBO)
Yellowjackets (Showtime)

BEST TV COMEDY
⭐ Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX on Hulu)
The Other Two (HBO Max)
Poker Face (Peacock)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)

BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
The Last of Us (HBO)
⭐ The Other Two (HBO Max)

BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Beef (Netflix) 
Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
⭐ Fire Island (Hulu)
Rye Lane (Hulu)

BEST UNSUNG SHOW

A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO)
Derry Girls (Netflix)
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Los Espookys (HBO)
Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)
⭐ Somebody Somewhere (HBO)

BEST NON-ENGLISH SHOW
Elite (Netflix)
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Netflix)
⭐ Los Espookys (HBO)
Smiley (Netflix) 
Young Royals (Netflix)

BEST TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA
Kieran Culkin, Succession (HBO)
Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us (HBO)
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us (HBO)
⭐ Sarah Snook, Succession (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA

Murray Bartlett, The Last of Us (HBO)
⭐ Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus (HBO)
Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus (HBO)
Nick Offerman, The Last of Us (HBO)
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
⭐ Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face (Peacock)
Ali Wong, Beef (Netflix) 

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
⭐ Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX on Hulu)
Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Kaala Bhairava & Rahul Sipligunj, "Naatu Naatu," 95th Academy Awards (ABC)
⭐ Ariana DeBose, “Angela Bassett Did the Thing (Opening Number),” BAFTA Film Awards (Britbox) 
Bridgett Everett, "Gloria," Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Jane Krakowski, "Bells and Whistles," Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)
Nick Offerman, "Long, Long Time," The Last of Us (HBO)

BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Pamela, A Love Story (Netflix)
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu)
⭐ Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (Shudder)
The Rehearsal (HBO)
The 1619 Project (Hulu)

BEST LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
The Book of Queer (Discovery+)
Generation Drag (Discovery+)
Mama’s Boy (HBO)
⭐ Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (Shudder)
We’re Here (HBO)

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW
The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
⭐ ZIWE (Showtime)

BEST ANIMATED SHOW

Big Mouth (Netflix) 
Dead End: Paranormal Park (Netflix)
⭐ Harley Quinn (HBO Max) 
South Park (Comedy Central)
The Simpsons (Fox) 

BEST REALITY SHOW

⭐ Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
Rupaul's Drag Race (MTV)
The Traitors (Peacock)
The Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix) 

MOST VISUALLY STRIKING SHOW

Andor (Disney+)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
⭐ The Last of Us (HBO)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)
The White Lotus (HBO)

CAMPIEST TV SHOW
Dead Ringers (Amazon) 
Eurovision Song Contest (Peacock)
Hocus Pocus 2 (Disney+)
⭐ Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)
Wednesday (Netflix) 

WILDE WIT AWARD
—To a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse
Joel Kim Booster 
Quinta Brunson 
Lizzo 
⭐ Wanda Sykes 
Bowen Yang

GALECA TV Icon Award
—To a uniquely talented star we adore
⭐ Jennifer Coolidge

GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer Award
—For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
⭐ Elliot Page

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Good Afternoon, World

June 27, 2023, 9:15 am
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Hey and howdy and good afternoon, one and all -- busy day here behind the scenes of MNPP (aka My Life), I've got a couple of screenings going on so it's all a bit abbreviated. Online-wise anyway. That said (whatever the hell I just said) I am here for a couple of hours now, so let's see what mischievous nonsense we can get ourselves into, ehh? Sam Claflin says "Huh?" And in return we say, "Happy birthday, Sam Claflin."

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Five Frames From ?

June 27, 2023, 9:35 am
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

June 27, 2023, 10:09 am
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Lai Yiu-fai: I didn't see Chang, but I saw his family.
I finally understood how he could be happy running around
so free. It's because he has a place he can always return to.

A happy 61 to the legend Tony Leung today!

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Don't Pas(olini) This One By!

June 27, 2023, 10:19 am
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As foretold in March, today is the day that Criterion's great big beautiful boxed-set of Pier Paolo Pasolini movies hits store shelves! You can buy it here if you haven't already (or maybe wait a week and buy it in July when Barnes & Noble has their big biannual Criterion sale). This set contains nine of Pasolini's films -- Accattone, Mamma Roma, Love Meetings, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, Teorema, Porcile, and Medea -- and is chockful of extras otherwise. I'll re-share the full details for the set after the jump...


One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.

NINE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION
COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES

Nine feature films: Accattone, Mamma Roma, Love Meetings, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, Teorema, Porcile, and Medea
New 4K digital restorations of seven films and 2K digital restorations of Teorema and Medea, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Two shorts made by director Pier Paolo Pasolini for anthology films: La ricotta (1963) and The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)
Two documentaries made by Pasolini during his travels
New program on Pasolini’s visual style as told through his personal writing, narrated by actor Tilda Swinton and writer Rachel Kushner
Audio commentaries on Accattone and Teorema
Documentaries on Pasolini’s life and career featuring archival interviews with the director and his close collaborators
Episode from 1966 of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps
Interviews with filmmakers and scholars
Trailers
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a 100-page book featuring an essay and notes on the films by critic James Quandt, and writings and drawings by Pasolini


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We Won the Supes Lottery

June 27, 2023, 1:23 pm
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Three and a half years ago I wrote a post wondering if The Politician actor David Corenswet should be cast as our next Superman -- well it only took (checks watch) three and a half years but they finally listened to me! Since that series Corenswet went on to also star in Ryan Murphy's show Hollywood, as well as our beloved Pearl from Ti West, and more recently he got cast in the sexy-crazy cast of the Twister sequel Twisters. But today Deadline reports that Superman is finally his -- and he will co-star opposite Mrs. Maisel herself Rachel Brosnahan as his Lois Lane. James Gunn is directing, and the film's title for the record is Superman: Legacy. You can see a lot and I mean a lot more of David Corenswet in our archives. We are fans!

We also know that the villain is going to be Lex Luthor again (sigh) but that casting hasn't been announced yet -- yesterday there was reporting that both Alexander and Bill Skarsgård are up for the role. Out of those two, as much as I love Alex I say go with Bill but to be honest I'm not sold on either of them? I honestly think...



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Bow Down

June 27, 2023, 2:43 pm
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Good Morning, World

June 28, 2023, 7:27 am
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A happy 51st birthday to one of the best actors working today and an MNPP fave, Alessandro Nivola! Most recently seen being teased as a big bad in the trailer for the superhero (anti-superhero, whatever) flick Kraven the Hunter with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, I'm sure he will be having fun there but if you wanna see what he's really capable of watch the movie this morning's gifs are from, The Many Saints of Newark. Or my personal favorites Disobedience and Junebug. He's always great and we hope where ever he is today somebody's letting him know. Otherwise here we are, saying it! You're great, dude! And you look really good in an undershirt (I am trying to stop using the term "wifebeater" even though it's all I can think when I see these tank tops) and that's what the rest of us are going to hit the jump to celebrate...







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June 28, 2023, 8:01 am
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Meet The I

June 28, 2023, 9:14 am
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Highly recommended new movie out this week -- the revelatory documentary Every Body from Julie Cohen (the director of RBG and Julia) which screened at Tribeca earlier this month. It focuses in on the lives and activism of three intersex people, and tells their stories alongside the long history of their community. I learned so much from this movie that I felt shameful for not knowing beforehand, but it's not only educational -- it's highly entertaining too, and very much worth your time. Here's the trailer:

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

June 28, 2023, 9:37 am
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Beatriz: You think killing is hard? Try healing.
You can break something in two seconds.
But it can take forever to fix it.

It's ridiculous how prescient this movie was about all the conversations we'd be smothering in five years later. I re-watched it a few months ago and if you've never seen it, or if you haven't seen it since it came out, I really recommend a revisit. Just an astonishing piece of work, and Salma Hayek has never been better. The whole cast, top to bottom -- John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Chloë Sevigny, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, David Warshofsky, and several reaction shots from John Early. Just perfect. I know a lot of people see it (and Enlightened) as dry-runs for The White Lotus but -- and I say this adoring The White Lotus -- they're better than The White Lotus. Enlightened obviously, but Beatriz too. Anyway this is all my way of saying -- Happy Birthday, Mike White! Watching him win award after award for Lotus has been one of the few pleasures the past couple of years have given us. A true king.

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Ethan Peck Seven Times

June 28, 2023, 12:22 pm
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Surprised that I still haven't watched any of the Star Trek series Strange New Worlds, given the Ethan Peck factor -- I was posting about him for years before he slapped on the pointy ears and started playing hunky baby Spock. Alas, who has the time. My boyfriend watches it and I think he likes it -- he likes one of the Star Trek series that are on anyway. isn't there another one? I can't keep shit I don't watch straight -- I can hardly keep shit that I do watch straight, for Guinan's sake. Anyway Ethan Peck! He is hot! This photo-shoot for InStyle magazine (read the interview here) is a good reminder of that without pointy ears getting in the way. Hit the jump for it all...






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They Called Him Rock

June 28, 2023, 2:02 pm
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Rock Hudson has finally gotten the proper documentary treatment with All That Heaven Allowed, which just premiered at Tribeca earlier this month and is hitting HBO Max or Max or whatever the hell they're calling it today -- click here to read my Mashable review of the film. While a little bit on the rushed side, I think this doc lays the table pretty well, and it'll serve as a great foundation for the inevitable biopic when the day comes, since it tells the story the way it needed to be told, which is to say it finally talks to all the gay men in his life! What a revolutionary concept! (And Armistead Maupin lays down one of the greatest lines ever spoken about Rock, which I quote in my review.) Below is the trailer -- you need to watch this flick!

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Good Morning, World

June 29, 2023, 4:00 am
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(click to embiggen) Can somebody get a hold of somebody who knows me and have them make sure that I have woken up? I fell over backwards in my chair yesterday afternoon when actor Karl Glusman posted this selfie on Instagram and hit my head, and I am afraid I never woke up this morning. Killed by bulge -- the Jason Adams story! That one's inevitable.

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June 29, 2023, 6:53 am
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The Hottest Harrison Ford of All

June 29, 2023, 7:07 am
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This is a subject I have broached here at MNPP before, but with the new Indiana Jones movie out in theaters this weekend (more on that soon) I was gifted the chance to take this mighty important conversation onto a larger platform -- click over to Mashable to read my investigation on "What was Harrison Ford his hottest?" Very important stuff y'all!

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Kyle Gallner's Your Ride Or Die

June 29, 2023, 11:47 am
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This hit like some happy surprise news yesterday -- The Ruins and Swallowed director Carter Smith has a new movie coming out on August 4th! It's called The Passenger (I suppose the above poster gave that away) and it stars Kyle Gallner and Johnny Berchtold (yup, poster gave that way as well) as co-workers at a fast food joint who are flung together on a violent road-trip from hell. I want to go on a road-trip from hell with Kyle Gallner!

Anyway the trailer (seen down below) maybe gives away too much, so I might recommend skipping it and just waiting for the movie? But I can say just off its vibes alone that Smith's whole thing where he has a good boy get dominated by a bad boy is very much on display here, as it was in Swallowed (review here) and his incredible short film Bugcrush. And that whole thing is a thing I like! I like it a lot! And so I will probably also like it here! 

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