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Castle Rock returns to Hulu on October 23rd.
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Monday, September 30, 2019
Annie Get Your Gun, Etc.
Daniel Grao Three More Times
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I shared two perfectly great shots from this photo-shoot just last week but Daniel Grao has now shared with us via his Instagram these three more and who am I to turn away from such bounty?
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Kate: Maybe there's something wrong with me.
Dr. Elliott: There's nothing wrong with you.
Kate: Do you find me attractive?
Dr. Elliott: Of course.
Kate: Would you want to sleep with me?
Dr. Elliott: Yes.
Kate: Then why don't you?
Dr. Elliott: Because I love my wife, and sleeping with you
isn't worth jeopardizing my marriage. Is it worth it to you?
Kate: I don't know.
A very happy 88 to Angie Dickinson today!
She's so insanely great in this movie.
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Meet Your New Rock
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A couple of weeks ago I told you about Hollywood, Ryan Murphy's upcoming Netflix series that'll dive into the backstage lives of a bunch of folks in 1940s Tinseltown, including lots of real actual people up to and including the movie star and most famous closet case Rock Hudson. Well now we know who's playing Rock and it ain't the dude I guessed it to be -- it'll be the actor Jake Picking, seen above. Oh and below as well, cuz why the hell are we even here talking about this if not abs?
According to his IMDb page it looks like he's played several (presumably douchey) frat-bro types in his six-year career so far -- including a "Chad," a "Kyler," and three named "Sean" which for some reason I find hysterical -- in movies like Dirty Grandpa and Goat and Blockers and the forthcoming Top Gun sequel. Those all sound right.
Also added to the cast is Jim Parsons, who'll play Rock's infamous agent Henry Willson -- there's an awesomely sleazy book devoted to Willson called The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson that I very much recommend -- we don't know a ton about what Ryan Murphy's intentions are with Hollywood but if Henry Willson is a character I think we can start to hazard a guess where he's going. I've brought that book up a few times before -- how could I not, it's so in my wheel-house -- when discussing the rumors surrounding Rory Calhoun and Guy Madison...
... who were both "discoveries" of Willson's and long-rumored to be more than just pals. And now I really need this rumor to be brought to life via Netflix, please. Don't do us wrong, Ryan Murphy! Other "discoveries" of Willson's include Robert Wagner, Troy Donahue, Tab Hunter, John Derek... the list goes on and on. Willson is mentioned a bunch in Tab Hunter's book and I think he's in Scotty Bower's infamous memoir about his prostitution business at the time as well, although it's been awhile since I read that.
I've posted that shot of Willson smiling away with half-naked Rock before but one really must post it every time Willson comes up, for obvious reasons. Anyway I don't know if Jake Picking is a good pick(ing) (sorry) for Rock or not as he's never left any impression on me in the several things I've apparently seen him in before, and I'm not entirely convinced looks-wise -- I mean he is clearly attractive...
... but is he Rock Hudson? We'll have to wait and see. Until then you can follow Mr. Picking on Instagram here if you so desire, and I assume you desire at this point. Bonus: he appears to be plenty good friends with Archie aka KJ Apa...
Also added to the cast is Jim Parsons, who'll play Rock's infamous agent Henry Willson -- there's an awesomely sleazy book devoted to Willson called The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson that I very much recommend -- we don't know a ton about what Ryan Murphy's intentions are with Hollywood but if Henry Willson is a character I think we can start to hazard a guess where he's going. I've brought that book up a few times before -- how could I not, it's so in my wheel-house -- when discussing the rumors surrounding Rory Calhoun and Guy Madison...
A Man For All Kingsmen
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I always feel as if I'm letting on a horrible secret about myself when I admit I love the Kingsman movies -- as if loving watching Taron Egerton flounce about in tight suits is a sin or something! -- but I do, I love every absurd ounce of them and I don't care who knows it! And so even if the prequel The King's Man won't have Taron I'm still excited... I mean let's be honest, it's not like Beach Rats star Harris Dickinson isn't going to look just fine standing in for him. And hello Djimon Hounsou while we're at it...
Casual reminder that Djimon is 55 fucking years old, y'all. Anyway the movie, which co-stars Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Aterton and Matthew Goode and Stanley Tucci and Daniel Brühl and Tom Hollander and supposedly Aaron Taylor-Johnson although we don't see him anywhere in the trailer...
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... isn't out until Valentine's Day 2020, so we've got a bit of a wait on this one. Just think by then we'll have seen all of the Oscar movies and be so sick of talking about them -- the Oscars will have aired 5 days previous, on February 9th -- that this will feel like sweet goofy relief. In that vein, of sweet relief, hit the jump for a couple more gifs of Harris & Djimon duking it out in just their high-pants...
Freedom Ain't Free
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That there poster for director Albert Serra's new film Liberté does an excellent job getting the movie it's advertising across -- it sells both its strange beauty and the languid depravity therein. The film's screening at NYFF this week and my review went up this morning -- check it out over at The Film Experience right now if you like.
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Paperhouse In Your House
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This is a heads-up so huge it's giving me goose-pimples this here Monday morning -- I don't know how long that Amazon has has Bernard Rose's 1988 film Paperhouse available for streaming but they have it available for streaming right now and I'm just seeing it's there and I really, really, really cannot recommend it highly enough. I've talked about this movie on here before, it even has its own tag! But this film is foundational for me -- one of the most terrifying and engrossing movies Little Jason ever experienced. It's been maybe a few years since I've re-watched it -- I got to see it on a big screen back in 2015, which blew my mind, but mostly it's been ignored when it's come to the home market; I can't speak to the quality but it did get a weird double-feature DVD release back in March, but mostly this movie's been hard to get your hands on, which is why it's one of the few VHS tapes I've kept.
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AHHH also just found my PAPERHOUSE vhs in a box!!! pic.twitter.com/duotFIVJWK— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 20, 2019
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The film stars Glenne Headly and Charlotte Burke as a mother and daughter -- it's mainly Burke's film though. She plays the feverishly imaginative and deeply lonely only child Anna who's been abandoned by her father -- gosh, why did I love this movie again? -- who sinks into the weird world of her day-dreams, which become scarier and scarier the more she unearths. Again, all me. Anyway there's a moment in the film that still to this day terrifies me so much that I shudder -- whether this works on an adult person watching it for the first time I cannot say; this film's too tied up to that scared little kid inside me to be able to tell. But you should watch it anyway. ETA I just had to keep talking about this movie some more so I did just that with this week's "Great Moments in Horror Actressing" over at The Film Experience, check it out at this link.
Good Morning, World
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Somebody needs to volunteer to show the Chinese actor Hu Ge how to put on his tank top correctly -- any volunteers? I think there are probably some volunteers. Anyway Hu is the star of The Wild Goose Lake, which I just dubbed " a Neon-Noir" on Twitter (I like that term and will be using it again) and which I just reviewed over at The Film Experience yesterday. It's screening at NYFF this week and I very much recommend it, especially on a big screen -- it is visually resplendent, and not just because Hu himself is visually resplendent.
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Saturday, September 28, 2019
On The Irishman, and Other Things
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Just a heads-up that my review -- well if you want to call it a "review," a word which several commenters have already disputed! -- of Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman went up at The Film Experience last evening -- click here to read that, if you dare.
As I've had to do here on MNPP on occasion I was coerced into defending my writing style in the comments of the piece -- demystifying intent is one of my least favorite pastimes when it comes to my writing, but let me add a little to what I said in the comments there since what I said there started growing large and unwieldy. (That said maybe go read what I said in the comments there before reading the rest of this.)
I'm a creative writer. I double majored in both Film Studies and in Poetry in college, and every time I write about film I'm trying to (improbably, perhaps foolishly) bridge the two. The very first things I remember writing as a kid, and this is no put-on, were poems that strung together nothing but movie titles. Truly horrible little things they were, with lines like "Pretty Woman Dressed to Kill / Dream a Little Dream and Stand By Me." But this fascination seems to have always been there -- of engaging with other people's work in an, uhh, atypical fashion.
I think of my reviews as a conversation. Well... I do when I'm inspired to speak with the piece of art in front of me anyway -- you can always tell I wasn't inspired when the review's a lot of plot and "this and that were good or not good." But when something moves me I want to move it back -- I want to talk to it. I want to take it up in my hands and look it over, dig around in it, and describe the thing I'm holding to you, and to myself. What the thing feels like, and what it made me feel like.
I want to engage with that Big Idea. With why they're telling this story, and what this story said to me. We've got months and months and months to dissect the pros and cons of the crafts and place them in context to other movies that have rushed to come out before the Valhalla of the Oscar Stage swallows up everything's worth. I'm just trying to engage one on one with what all of those people came together to give me, as a collaborative whole. We can, and will, work backwards from there.
The most depressing discovery I’ve made off writing on the internet for as long as I have is how desperate people are to just be told what to think— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 28, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Punching Out with Jai Courtney
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Do you guys think Jai Courtney gets free Bonds underwear for life
after doing that ad campaign a couple of years ago?
(via)
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Pics of the Day
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The rumors are true, a bunch of us movie critics at NYFF were the first bunch to see Martin Scorsese's The Irishman this morning, and I have the proof. I also have a review of the film that I somehow against all the odds both pounded out real fast and am sort of proud of that will be going up at some point in the next twenty-four hours at The Film Experience -- don't worry, I'll let you know when it's there. I promise! Follow me on Twitter if you don't believe me, and if you dare.
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How Now First Cow
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It's good to see John Magaro in a leading man role here and now at last with Kelly Reichardt's new film First Cow, you guys -- he's always been memorable whenever I've seen him in anything, from his role on Orange is the New Black to playing Therese's drinking buddy in Carol. And Reichardt really lets him shine, as she always does with every actor she puts under her microscope -- click on over to The Film Experience to read my review of First Cow, my first review out of this year's just opened New York Film Festival. And stay tuned for a lot more from NYFF coming shortly! And oh right also before that you can hit the jump if you want a few more John Magaro pictures to get you in the mood...
Good Morning, World
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I dare you to look at the above photo and realize that Noah Centineo has a bleached blond beard in it -- takes ya a minute, or thirty, right? You can see it better in the below pictures but by the point you notice that who even cares anymore? Not me. But like yesterday this is all yesterday's news anyway, since I'm posting this FROM YESTERDAY -- today, as in Friday morning, I am at another NYFF screening. I'll be around come this afternoon -- you'll just have to make due with the half-naked weird beard boy until then. Best of luck!
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Dante's Peak (1997)
Rachel: A man who looks at a rock
must have a lot on his mind.
Everything I know about life I learned via the dialogue from terrible disaster movies, which explains why my brains are mush I guess. A happy birthday to Linda Hamilton today! While the somewhat terrible trailers for the new Terminator movie have me a little bit worried I'm still psyched to see her back up on the big screen, kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. That said I must now ask a very important question...
bike tracks
Daniel Grao Two Times
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I skipped the NYFF press screening of Pedro Almodovar's new film Pain & Glory this afternoon because's baby's got reviews he should be writing and also I've already seen the movie once -- I hate not being there to see Pedro & Antonio at the Q&A but you can't do everything. But in the sexy spirit of Almodovar here's a pair of new photos of the star of Pedro's previous film Julieta, via his Instagram. Viva Pedro et al!
Good Morning, World
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Matthias Schoenaerts gifted us with this picture yesterday afternoon and I tweeted it immediately, but since I'm not here this morning due to another NYFF screening (I'll be back this afternoon) I figured I'd share it again now because there's never not a right time for a bearded Matthias Schoenaerts half-naked on repeat. I think he's filming the new Terrence Malick movie right now, the one that has him playing Saint Peter, which probably explains the beard. The biceps though, those are all his.
Anyway for some wonderful reason Matty was listing off what I assume were some of his favorite movies on his Instagram Stories yesterday and I grabbed images of a few of the titles because what a perfectly lovely thing to obsess over for us obsessives. I didn't grab everything, this is just a selection, but a selection that proves Matthias Schoenaerts is worth the obsession y'all. He loves Lynch and Almodovar and Jodorowsky and Fassbinder and Andrea Arnold. (Andrea Arnold really needs to put him in her next movie, y'all.) He is perfect. And now I dream of the day I might lay on a couch watching Eastern Boys with Matthias Schoenaerts. SIGH. I also love that he included one of his own films -- as well he should, since Bullhead is perfect.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The Talented Mr Scott
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I VOLUNTEER TO PLAY HOT PRIEST'S DICKIE— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 25, 2019
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... the point is that the openly gay Andrew Scott aka Hot Priest has just signed on to play Tom Ripley in a Showtime adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley books -- specifically of The Talented Mr Ripley, it seems -- and I say bring that the heck on. I love Minghella's film as much as the next guy but if they can make a new West Side Story with racially appropriate actors then we can get a Tom Ripley who's actually had a dick in his mouth. Now y'all do some dream casting in the comments! Who should play Dickie, and Marge, and Dickie, and Freddie, and Dickie...
When Dern & So's Ruled the Earth
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— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 25, 2019
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This will be the first time all three will return at once, although they have each played the roles again here and there in the franchise's many sequels. I saw somebody say that upon announcing the news they also said that their characters will have actual things to do and it won't be like the last Jurassic World movie which sold us Jeff Goldblum in the trailers and then gave us like two minutes of him sitting in a courtroom.
We'll see. I haven't liked Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic movies at all, not even that last one that got better notices, so I'm a little wary. But I can't pretend I didn't get goosebumps picturing my trio back together. When I met Laura Dern that one time I embarrassingly gushed about JP at her even though I could've gone into any more respectable corner of her filmography -- it's not like I don't worship her David Lynch work! But Jurassic is my Bible. When I was home a few weeks ago I dug up my box of memorabilia, take a look:
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You Driver Me Crazy (Ooh Ooh)
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As promised at the start of this week we're really in the thick of NYFF screenings now, hence the quietude -- I'm just popping my head in here quick for a little bit to say howdy, and what better boy howdy than Adam "Boy Howdy" Driver, I says. These pictures (via) are a couple of years old, but who isn't? A week from now I'll be seeing what's supposed to be this person's best performance to date in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story -- if you had to name Adam Driver's best performance as of this minute, pre-Marriage-Story, what would you name?
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