Where My Men At

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Into my inbox yesterday was delivered a grand statement of some sort on the state of Modern Masculinity in the form of two posters for two very very different movies, and I figured this is just the kind of thing I am here to share, gaze upon, discuss. Above is the poster for Creed II, with Michael B. Jordan (but not director Ryan Coogler) returning to his hit Rocky spin-off franchise. The trailer was also dropped yesterday and here's that:

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I find it fascinating how hard they're selling this franchise via the strength of MBJ's well-oiled pecs - I suppose the same stuff was done with Sly back in the 80s (he was a big star because of his Reagan-era action-hero frame) but somehow it seemed then like it came with less of a leer? Anyway even if the Creed folks are leering they've got nothing on the folks behind the queer cotton-candy-colored Portuguese soccer fantasia called Diamantino, which premiered at Cannes to lots of, "Whaaat"'s and is playing NYFF as part of their "Projections" series next week...

That is, how they say, you sell a movie. The film won the Critic's Week Grand Prize at Cannes so it's got some heft to it, just like those drawers seen on the actor Carloto Cotta seem to, I'd say. Heft. Anyway I'm seeing Diamantino tomorrow so stay tuned for what I have to say on that soon but for now here's the trailer from when it screened at TIFF earlier this month (where it was reviewed by our pal Chris at TFE, read that here)...
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