Family is Stranger

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If you're looking forward to Ira Sachs new movie Frankie you're sure not alone -- the film, which premieres at Cannes, has his most talent-heavy cast to date with Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei, Jérémie Renier, Jérémie Renier's mustache, and Pascal Greggory playing Huppert's homosexual ex-husband. But Sachs talent is enough to put us in the theater on its own after Keep the Lights On, Love is Strange, and Little Men. Frankie is about a family vacation in Portugal, you can read the whole new synopsis and see a few more pictures over here. Looks lush and lovely already. Not sure when it's coming out here in the States but it hits France in late August. (Thx Mac)

Great Moments In Movie Staches

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They were showing a few pre-code films on TCM this weekend and I caught a little of 1931's gangster flick Little Caesar starring Edward G. Robinson and a young and very handsome Douglas Fairbanks Jr, which naturally sent me down a rabbit hole regarding the latter, and before you knew it I was all up in this clip from 1933's The Narrow Corner, which has him washed ashore after a yachting disaster sans  any and all of his clothes. 

Most of the clip is of Fairbanks chatting with Patricia Ellis (a very blonde woman who is hysterically supposed to be playing a native islander) but if you stick it out you'll see Ralph Bellamy come along and save the day with sandwiches and his own little strip-tease. I thought he was maybe offering Douglas some clothes but no, they just head out into the surf with each other naked. 

Gotta love pre-code!

Have any of you seen this movie?

Pics of the Day

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Cary Fukunaga began filming the still-untitled new 007 film down in Jamaica this week, and folks on Twitter have been snapping photos of the gang left right and center -- DH was kind enough to gather up several of the threads to click on over there to see 'em all. Spotted so far are... 

... Craig Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright returning for the third time as the CIA agent Felix Leiter, and then there's our boy Billy Magnussen, who got himself cast in the flick back in February as another CIA agent supposedly. Funny enough I just spotted Billy on the sidewalk a few days ago (see tweet) which must've been right before he left for the set. I should've stalked him and climbed into his luggage.

Mena Massoud Eleven Times

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Listen, I'm not going to pretend that the live-action re-do of Aladdin from Guy Ritchie is anything I am ever going to see willingly. Ever. But if you were to tell me that Mena Massoud, the actor playing Mister Aladdin Sir seen here photographed for Vulcan magazine, and Marwan Kenzari, the hot-to-death dude playing the villain Jafar, have some homoerotic tension between them like their cartoon counterparts did in the original Disney film, well, you might get me to watch a YouTube compilation of their scenes together. That's really the best we can hope for at this point, but it might be enough. Hit the jump for the rest of these photos...

Here Be Tribeca Reviews

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Have I ever been anywhere except inside of this movie theater? I don’t remember the time.... #tribecafilmfestival

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While I have been eyelids-deep in Tribeca screenings over the past several days a few of my reviews went up over at The Film Experience that I haven't had the opportunity to link to properly, so let's rectify that! Firstly click here to read my review of the Lynchian teen murder mystery called Knives and Skin from director Jennifer Reeder, which is the sort of movie that burrows itself right into your brain with its strangeness.

Secondly I reviewed the documentary Ask Dr. Ruth right here, which takes a look at the life of famed sexologist Ruth Westheimer, who it should be noted lives in the same neighborhood I do in Manhattan, and it's been taking all my energy not to stalk her for a selfie ever since I found that out.

And finally you can read my review of the film called This is Not Berlin right at this link -- until yesterday (more on that one later) TINB was my favorite thing seen at the fest so far; it's a terrific queer coming of age tale following two teen boy best friends who slip into the New Wave art scene of mid-80s Mexico City. It's totally fab.

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Good Morning, World

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It is the great Jane Campion's 65th birthday today, so why not celebrate that with some Mark Ruffalo in In the Cut? I mean technically I could say "It is not Jane Campion's birthday today, it's some random Thursday afternoon though, so why not celebrate Mark Ruffalo in In the Cut?" and still be correct, since there is never a not right moment to celebrate Mark Ruffalo in In the Cut. Stache heaven. Everything heaven. One of the all-timers. But we do specifically owe Jane for this, (not to mention, you know, all the great films and TV that she's made) so thank you Jane and a happy birthday. Now let's hit the jump for the full remainder...

I Got Yer Avengers Right Here

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I'm off to see the new Avengers now! I imagine several of you might be doing the same thing this weekend? Possibly? By the way that photo of Chris Evans -- THAT PHOTO OF CHRIS EVANS -- is via Men's Journal, you can see the whole story with photos on their site. Alright okay, bye now!

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I Got Good Wood Last Night

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That there is Elijah Wood and his co-star Stephen McHattie (Pontypool holla) during last night's Come to Daddy world premiere at the Tribeca Film Fest -- my review of that horror film just went up over at The Film Experience so click on over to read that. It's worth seeing! There will be more reviews popping up over the weekend so stay tuned over there. I'm in screenings all day Monday but don't forget you can follow me on Twitter for random excited sightings and such...

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Just realized it was ANGELA FUCKING BASSETT sitting next to me watching an Isabelle Huppert movie

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 25, 2019

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... and also to follow me on Instagram for more photos of me glaring with mad-eyed lust at all the famous pretty people I can catch over the course of the next week or so when I'm not right here...

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Don’t know what he’s talking about but there’s the man of the hour #elijahwood #cometodaddy #tribeca2019 #film

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Who Wore It Best?

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Quote of the Day

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"I felt Richard’s penis on my leg. We shot a scene where we are both naked on a bed and we are rolling around. I don’t really know how much further we could have gone.”

-- It's inevitable that Taron Egerton will be asked about the Rocketman censorship hullaballoo about his sex scene with Richard Madden over and over and over again by all of the gay press, and perhaps the straight press too, but as long as he keeps giving us sentences like, "I felt Richard's penis on my leg" I'm sure not gonna complain. That's via Attitude Magazine, who also just gave us a hell of a photo-shoot, all of which I will share after the jump... 

History By the Hoard

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Alrighty we're a go, my first review from this year's Tribeca Film Festival has gone live at The Film Experience -- click on over to read my thoughts on the documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, which tells the fascinating true-life tale of a woman from Philadelphia who video-taped 35 years of news footage, amassing tens of thousands of tapes in the process. It spoke deeply to my own hoarding instincts, it did.

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Twinks in Space

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You know a casting person has done their job when I don't even have room to use a picture of Colin Farrell -- a movie called Voyagers was just announced, which is describe as "Lord of the Flies in space!" (I added the exclamation point, but really, it earned that), and it will star Farrell alongside Tye Sheridan, Fionn Whitehead, Keean Johnson, Kelvin Harrison, and Isaac Hempstead Wright (BRAN!) among others. Johnson (middle below) was in Alita: Battle Angel while Harrison (left below) you should know from Mudbound. And of course our boy Fionn from Dunkirk and Bandersnatch. There are also actresses listed but well you know, whatever -- you can read their names at the link. I have my own priorities of coverage.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Written on the Wind (1956)

Kyle Hadley: To beauty, to truth
which is anything but beautiful.

The great Douglas Sirk was born 122 years ago today.

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Julian Morris One Time

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I don't know what good energy I have put into the world lately to deserve the recent run of photo-shoots that Julian's been gifting us with but amid dark days these have been a definite light.

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Good Morning, World

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I think I must have posted this picture of Channing Tatum and Adam Driver back when Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky came out in 2017 but I don't explicitly remember posting it and I don't feel like looking it up and it's Chan's birthday today so whatever, there it is for the first time or again. Now if you'll excuse me I'm just gonna crawl through my computer screen and snuggle myself right up in between them two and go straight back to sleep, see ya.

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Pic of the Day / Week / Month / Year

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I've got a couple of hours in between Tribeca screenings, which should be just long enough to burn a hole straight through this brand new picture of Tom Holland & Jake Gyllenhaal in Spider-Man: Far From Home with my eyeballs. I mean...
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I can't believe I didn't automatically see this pic.twitter.com/4rZlIJcySm

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 25, 2019

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I'm Gonna Watch Me Some Movies

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First official screening of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival — lets do this thing! #tribecafilmfestival #tff2019

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Hey everybody, a heads-up I should headed ya up on a'yesterday -- the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival has officially opened its doors and for the next week and a half or so things'll be spotty rounds these parts as I'll be in and out and in and out and in and out et cetera of screenings. I'll be posting reviews over at The Film Experience over that time (and perhaps some here too) but you'll know that when that happens, I'll make sure of that don't worry. Today is a full, full day -- I just saw Jamie Bell's Skinhead Movie, and in a bit I'm hitting up Isabelle Huppert's Lesbian Snow White, and after that it's some Spooky Elijah Wood Goodness. I'll try to keep you appraised of my wherebaouts n' what-abouts -- stay tuned! Lotsa goodness to come.

Avenging Dominic Cooper

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Since everything is all about the Avengers this week I think there is probably some joke about Dom putting the Infinity Pool into the Infinity Wars with this half-naked swimming video off his Instagram today, but then I just get depressed about Agent Carter being an after-thought in the Marvel-verse... sigh. If Endgame doesn't end with Peggy sweeping Steve off his feet (or at least Howard Stark feeling up Steve's abs one more time) I'll riot! 

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Tom Holland Two Times

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(via) Any of you seeing Avengers tomorrow night? I'm not seeing it until Friday (or possibly Saturday if I feel like waiting -- because of all the technical difficulties surrounding ticket buying I ended up with tickets to both nights, lol) so if you do happen to see it please, for the love of pleases, say nothing spoilery. I've made it this far -- we can do this! (And I have no doubt immediately jinxed myself.) To distract ourselves go vote on this week's "Beauty vs Beast" poll a second time, why don't ya?
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... taking Armie's pulse.

Thanks to Mrs. Hammer for 'gramming this footage of the hubby taking a shirtless stress test for his "next film" -- unclear whether it's the remake of Death on the Nile from director Kenneth Branagh or the remake of Rebecca from director Ben Wheatley that'll be testing his heart-limits like this but it's good to know he remains, you know, the picture of manly health. (PS look, shelvvvves!)

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Insanity is Contagious

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George Clooney trolled us with the first batch of hyper-gay images from his Catch-22 adaptation for Hulu and he's trolled us some more with the first trailer -- starring Christopher Abbott as Heller's artful dodger himself alongside a starry cast including Clooney himself and Hugh Laurie and Giancarlo Giannini and Kyle Chandler and a bunch of real clean-cut good-looking young men in uniform, Catch-22 is a six-episode limited-series that drops in its entirety on May 17th onto the service. Watch the trailer...

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... and then hit the jump for a few

gifs of its gayer moments...

Devil May Care

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It's all about wrongness. Establishing a bad place. Shirley Jackson famously set up the wrongness of Hill House in that book's exquisite opening paragraph -- "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality," and so on. Or think on Clarice Starling's first visit to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, as she descends into red-lit tombs -- of course there'd be a Hannibal Lecter waiting in that place, among the cobwebs, waiting, looking right at her. Every dank angle said so before we even saw him.

If I Trapped the Devil does anything well -- and it does several somethings well -- it is that it establishes a sense of horror inside its limited space. Matt (AJ Bowen) goes to visit his brother Scott (Scott Poythress) who's been holed up inside their family home for a spell too long, bringing his well-meaning wife Karen (Susan Burke) along with to lighten the mood. The whole film takes place inside this house, and writer-director Josh Lobo does ace work corrupting its corners, with a black stain emanating from the basement where we quickly learn Scott has, well, gone a little mad sometimes.

And Amity-style Scott's madness has infected the walls of this place -- I Trapped the Devil is delightfully a Christmas film, and Lobo borrows a page from the Black Christmas playbook, making the usually delightful holiday colors sick-inducing, gaudy and overdone. The festive bulbs are as thick as blood, wreathed around our throats, and the only carols sung in this place are poison, venomous whispers creeping up the staircase.

The film feels small but in a claustrophobic sense, ultimately working to its benefit -- at only 82 minutes long it never really allows itself to let up, and alongside Matt and Karen we feel infected by this place's badness, its rot. I found myself on the sunny afternoon as I watched this thing while lying in bed corrupted -- like I had to go wash my hands when it was finished. I Trapped the Devil might put the devil right inside you.
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I Trapped the Devil opens this weekend!

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A Good Time To Be Murdered

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When I first read this news I thought it said that Luca Guadagnino was directing this but he's not, so know that up front -- Luca Guadagnino is producing this! "This" being a new film titled Born To Be Murdered, which will star a top-heavy cast of up-n-comers including John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps (yay Vicky Krieps!) and be directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino. 

Filomarino directed the 2015 film Antonia about the poet Antonia Pozzi (Pozzi is actually name-checked in Call Me By Your Name; she's the author of the book of poetry that Elio gives to Marzia) but possibly more notably Filomarino is Guadagnino's partner (Guadagnino called him his "sentimental partner" in an interview, which is one way to get around "lover" I guess).

So basically Luca got his boyfriend a bunch of movie stars for his new movie -- I am not judging; good for everybody involved! I'd like everyone involved with Call Me By Your Name (as well as Suspiria -- Filomarino was Assistant Director on that) to make all of the movies from now on. I'd be fine with that! Basically everybody from CMBYN is working on Born To Be Murdered -- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is doing the cinematography, Ryuichi Sakamoto is doing the composing, and the great Walter Fasano is editing. And I guess this puts together a piece of why Luca shot that sexy-ass Zegna commercial starring Boyd Holbrook recently.

Anyway Born To Be Murdered "is set in Athens and the Epirus region of Greece, where a vacationing couple, played by Washington and Vikander, fall trap to a violent conspiracy with tragic consequences." I'm picturing something like Oscar Isaac and Kristen Dunst in the Patricia Highsmith vacation-porn thriller The Two Faces of January, where you get beautiful people in beautiful costumes behaving badly in eye-wateringly gorgeous scenery. Bought my ticket already!
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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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