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"I’ve had sex scenes with a lot of really great friends, so I’ve had nothing but good experiences with them. I’ve been lucky to be very friendly with a lot of the people I’ve had the privilege to have a sex scene with."
Lee Pace does the brief answer rat-a-tat with Interview Magazine today and that's his reply when asked his thoughts on sex scenes. He also talks thirst traps, being crazy tall, five-inch seams, Rachel Sennott, Pushing Daisies, and fighting naked, so check it out. And all the words are fun but the other two photos are of him in shorts, so that matters more. Hit the jump for them...
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Pics of the Day
Netflix has today dropped the first batch of photos of Colman Domingo & Co in Rustin, the biopic of the gay black civil rights icon Bayard Rustin coming at us from Ma Rainey director George C. Wolfe in November. Anyone who's known the legacy and import of Bayard Rustin has known this biopic day would eventually come -- it took its damn time getting here but I'm kind of happy it did because I can't imagine anybody else I'd want in the role besides Colman. And coming from me, who could give a shit about Oscar talk, that's some good vibes all on their that are own attached to Domingo -- ones that will surely make a difference in the Best Actor race this year. He's earned this showcase after wowing in Rainey and Zola (ZOLA!!!) and Beale Street and basically everything he's acted in for the past several years, and sight unseen I imagine his name is on everybody's prediction lists already. Anyway these photos are all very "Netflix Aesthetic" (which isn't a compliment) so hopefully the film itself be more interesting to look at than these flat stills are, but Colman will keep me coming either way. Also in the cast: Chris Rock, CCH Pounder, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Bill Irwin, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald, and a ton more. Hit the jump for the rest of the photos...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Starship Troopers(1997)
Rasczak: All right, let's sum up. This year we explored the failure of democracy. How our social scientists brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and established the stability that has lasted for generations since. You know these facts, but have I taught you anything of value this year? You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?Student: It's a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.Rasczak: No. Something given has no value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
I still can't believe that there were lots and lots of people who sat down and watched Starship Troopers in 1997 and didn't get that it was a deeply and hilariously funny anti-fascist satire. It felt like ages before people took this movie seriously! I mean... do people even take it seriously now? Do I just live in a bubble of my own making where this movie is one of the great films of our age? Well people should think that dammit! One day we will realize that Paul Verhoeven...
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... (who's celebrating his 85th motherfucking birthday today!) has been one of The Greats. One of the most important filmmakers of our age. Someone able to make wildly entertaining popcorn flicks that were able to sneak deeply serious thoughts in between all of the great big beautiful tits and gore. A legend! Somebody smack that man on the bare rear and say thanks from us today...
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Somebody tell me I can watch the new Justified episodes
without having seen any old Justified episodes, please.
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"There’s no untangling the film from what it is... It is a film that is very open about the place of sexual experience in our lives. And to shift that now would be to create a very different movie... To make an interesting sex scene is not easy. Each of the sex scenes to me is a chapter in the film. It has a story. And I wanted each one to have its own relevance and have its own details and be interesting to the audience. I think making interesting sex scenes is the hardest thing…What I tried to track here was to not look at sex, but to look at intimacy, not constructed through editing and avoidance... We hunger for movies that are in any proximity to our own experience, and to find a movie like this, which is then shut out, is, to me, depressing and reactionary. It’s really about a form of cultural censorship that is quite dangerous, particularly in a culture which is already battling, in such extreme ways, the possibility of LGBT imagery to exist.”
That is Passages director Ira Sachs talking to the Los Angeles Times on the NC-17 rating the MPA just tried to drop on his movie, which stars Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski as a married couple whose relationship spirals into chaos because Franz runs off to boink Adèle Exarchapoulos a bunch. I saw and reviewed the film out of Sundance, right here -- there is indeed a lot of sex in the movie, and it is all very hot, and I am very happy that Sachs and MUBI are sticking to their guns and releasing the movie unrated. Go subscribe to MUBI, y'all -- cancel Netflix and subscribe to a streamer that gives a shit about its artists! And go see Passages when it hits theaters on August 4th. You can watch the trailer right here.
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Boyd Holbrook Four Times
Didn't expect today to be double-dipping on the Boyd Holbrook content (see him here in his tighty-whities from this morning) but I ain't mad about it! No sir eeeee bob. Interview Magazine is chatting him up (well technically they had Michael Shannon do it) since he's on the new run of Justified episodes (not to mention his turn in the last Indiana Jones a couple of weeks back), and these photos came along for the ride. We've been fans of his for a very long time -- click his name above and behold the splendor of our Boyd archives, but specifically check out this post, this post right here, for the goodest goodies of all, i.e. his salad days as a male model mostly) -- and we expect to continue being along for this ride for as long as he'll have us. Hit the jump for the rest of the photos...
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Pink Fantasia Ahoy
The weekend of the cinematic summer has arrived, as Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer movie -- the great Barbenheiming, as foretold in the old books -- stand imminent. My review of Barbie will be popping up at Pajiba tomorrow I believe, and I will update this post with a link when it has. As for Oppenheimer I have seen it but I haven't figured out what or where or if I am saying something. But stay tuned! I might! And won't that be a thrill for everybody? Until then, as I foretold y'all last week, tomorrow I am leaving for the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, aka the maple syrupy land of Xavier Dolan and, like, mimes? I don't know. Follow me on my socials (probably especially my Instagram) if you want to keep stalkerish track of my every move -- I might post stuff while I'm away since it's technically a "work" trip, but I also might not since I am a lazy piece of shit. I mean I will have several reviews from Fantasia going up over the next couple of weeks, but we'll get to that once we're there. For now y'all just go see some movies this weekend, and support the fine artists who have worked hard to entertain and terrify you. And I will be officially back here in a week!
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(via) Does it sometimes strike you how lucky we are to have openly gay celebrity men in the world now? Specifically ones who look like Cheyenne Jackson? Specifically Cheyenne Jackson? It strikes me sometimes. Specifically times like right now. Specifically right now. I mean JFC. Aaaanyway -- eyes down here, y'all -- hello! I'm back. Sort of. I'll be back this afternoon. I have a screening this morning -- yes that's right, I am back from a film festival and going immediately to a movie screening. That's because I'm a fucking professional. A professional what I don't know -- a leerer? I am leering right now, I tell you what. I'm not even looking at what I am typing, that picture of Cheyenne is too distracting. So enjoy it! Enjoy it for these couple of hours until I insist on posting new things, new things much less interesting, moving it down the page. It can't be helped!
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Valley of the Doll
Okay so I lied last week -- I never updated Wednesday's post with a link to my review of Greta Gerwig's Barbie. So here, here it is, here is my review of Greta Gerwig's Barbie. I had mixed feelings which I made pretty clear, and they remain mixed even here in the wake of Barbie-mania -- did I ever think I would feel mixed feelings about Greta Gerwig helming a massive blockbuster and breaking a bunch of box office records? Well if I had had the wherewithal to even consider such a thing a possibility back when I fell in love with Frances Ha then yes, I think even then I would've known the concessions that would've come with such a feat, and seen such mixed feelings were ahead. Still there are far far far worse movies in the world and I don't be grudge anybody loving Barbie. There is fun to be had within it, and anyway who the fuck cares -- I'm just one person and it wasn't really for me and the news that Mattel has plans for everything from Polly Pocket to a fucking Uno movie now just fills me with preemptive exhaustion, what can I say? Obviously more, since here's a Twitter thread from just this morning:
These past couple weeks of Greta Gerwig keep reminding me of the San Diego passage in FRANCES HA - how under the black + white mumblecore city girl quirk Frances was really a suburban girl who goes to church and gets along with her parents
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 26, 2023
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Lakeith Stanfield is on the cover of the new issue of The Standard's EM magazine talking about his role in Disney's Haunted Mansion movie (god what have we done to cinema) -- I have never been to a Disney theme park (that's some "gold star gay" shit right there) so I know nothing about this ride, and have no desire to, so I skipped all that. But I did like this part of his interview:
"He considers it a ‘beautiful luxury’ to be able to explore different shades of masculinity, and has long since given up worrying what people might think about his more flamboyant fashion choices. ‘I could show up in a suit, I could show up in a cowboy hat, I could show up in fishnet socks, it doesn’t matter — somebody’s gonna have something to say!’ he shrugs. ‘Most of the people who have something to say are nekkid flipping through the channels, or online in their drawers! So what difference does it make? Everybody has an opinion, so you might as well just do whatever feels right.’"
Lakeith has had some of the wildest photo-shoots over the years (check our archives to confirm this truth) so believe it when he says it. Funny enough though this photo-shoot (photographed by Petra Collins) is extremely tame, by his standards -- that's not to say he's not looking fine per usual. Just he's wearing regular button-down shirts and no elaborate wigs. Not a single wig! Hit the jump for it...
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I have no idea if this picture is new or old but I saw it floating around on social media today and it's new to me -- that's Harris Dickinson, Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Stanley Simons in Sean Durkin's next movie The Iron Claw, about a pro-wrestling family of brothers -- I just did a search and apparently I somehow have never posted about this movie here even though I've been very much aware of it for many many months? I don't know. Anyway what got my attention immediately was Durkin -- I will follow the director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest anywhere (and yes I think The Nest, which unfairly fell through the cracks during the early portion of the pandemic, is equally fantastic -- here's my review). Next of importance was Dickenson, who I will also follow anywhere at this point. Then there's Efron -- the important point was the "pro-wrestler" bit with him...
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... of course. Blessings if he surprises us, but I don't look to him for "performances." Anyway when I'd first heard about this movie way back I hadn't watched The Bear yet so I didn't know -- I didn't know! -- how I'd come to feel about Jeremy Allen White. But I have now watched The Bear (well everything except the finale of the 2nd season so no spoilers, I didn't have time to finish it before my trip) and now I know how I feel about Jeremy and it ain't nothing!
Yeesh! As for Stanley Simons I have no idea who he is but I am open to finding out on Christmas, which is when The Iron Claw is set to come out (via A24). But since we're here let's, uhh, share two more pictures of Jeremy out running around L.A. last week:
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“He played Stanley, and there are several moments where he takes off his shirt and it was electric,” she said. “The ladies in the audience were very vocal, and we were like, ‘I think we’ve found our guy.’”
That is Gladiator 2 producer Daria Cercek telling Variety (via) how Paul Mescal got cast without an audition in Ridley Scott's sequel, and I love her for it. Stunning brave honesty! Seriously though -- was it only ladies yelping? I have my doubts. Anyway I'm surprised at how little photographically we got of Mescal in Streetcar -- I posted a few photos right here, which includes the one above, and as far as I know that's it? That's all I have seen. If you've seen more please share in the comments!
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Hunter Doohan Seven Times
I somehow still haven't watched Wednesday, so I don't know anything about actor Hunter Doohan except he was on that show, and now that he just posted these photos of himself modeling for Calvin Klein yesterday. So a total of two things, but that's enough for a post, right? Sure. Of course. It's more reasons than I have for 75% of my posts to be honest. Hit the jump for the photos...
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Too High, High, Hush Hush, Eye To Eye
I kind of hate that they're using that as the promotional image for Talk To Me, A24's new horror flick which I saw -- and reviewed! -- at Sundance earlier this year. That image is such a blatant callback to the 2022 horror flick Smile, which I thought was crap, while Talk To Me is much better. But Smile was inexplicably a hit so I guess they feel the need to latch their horses to that vibe, even though A24 tends to know better. The image of the creepy hand prop that's on the film's posters is much more effective is you ask me. Which you did when you clicked here onto my site, duh. Anyway here also is the trailer if you missed it -- this is a totally solid creepfest! I think some of the praise I've seen the past couple of weeks has gone maaaaybe a whiff overboard, but it's not some Smile level bullshittery so I'll allow it. Ugh Smile. Now I am annoyed again.
Finally caught Smile and it is bad! Bad bad bad! How has this dull derivative It Follows wannabe dreck caught on? Boo
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 16, 2022
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