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Well we've all got a Most Anticipated Movie to look forward to now -- it's called Mrs Harris Goes To Paris and it stars Phantom Thread queen Lesley Manville in the story of a 1950s British cleaning-lady named Ada Harris who scrubs and starves and saves her every penny in order to buy herself the Dior dress of her dreams. That, on its own, is the sort of 90s-sounding throwback movie we are always here for, so we're already sold -- especially with someone so talented as Manville getting a leading role -- but there's more. More! The film co-stars Isabelle Huppert! 

Deadline doesn't say who Huppert is playing -- something tells me she'll be a French person that Manville's character encounters during her quest for dress, though! -- so I checked IMDb and got confused for a second because they list Huppert's character as "Claudine Colbert" and I was like, wait, is she playing the famous 1930s actress? But that's Claudette Colbert. Not Claudine. Right? I know Claudette Colbert was actually French. Intriguing! Has anybody read Paul Gallico's original 1958 novella on which the film will be based? I guess it's been adapted twice before, in the 1950s and the 1990s. 

Anyway as seen above by that production still the film's already been filmed, and besides those two legends already mentioned the cast includes Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, and saving the hottest-for-last some hottie who's apparently on Emily in Paris (shocker I do not watch Emily in Paris) called Lucas Bravo. And, uhh...

... holy hell, Lucas Bravo! Where has Lucas Bravo been all my life? Why didn't any of you tell me about Lucas Bravo??? Well now I know I guess, and I've got a couple dozen Lucas Bravo photos for us all to share in the wealth of that knowledge right here after the jump...

Pic of the Day

The Scream Queen himself Glen Powell has been pretty active on social media from the set of his next movie called Devotion, the WWII pilots flick he's co-starring in opposite our boyfriend Jonathan Majors -- we told you about that film right here -- so I haven't been able to keep up with everything he's posted, but I could hardly miss today's flight-suit snap. With this and the Top Gun sequel (still) in the pipeline I think it's funny that he's become the go-to guy for pilots -- I guess that playing John Glenn (in Hidden Figures) will do that to a career. I ain't compainin'! He looks terrific in onesies.

Jonathan Bailey Five Times

And with this new photo-shoot for L'Officiel Hommes Italia magazine, openly gay and newly mustachioed Bridgerton actor Jonathan Bailey has earned himself the highest plaudit in the land -- a tag of his own on this very website. Everybody, it's slow clap time! (pics via) And the crowd roared...! Okay I'm in a weird mood, don't mind me. What you should mind is this photo-shoot (oh snap, what a transition), right on after the jump...

5 Off My Head: 50 Off Ewan

Last night I was watching the screener of a movie that's out this upcoming weekend which co-stars Jonny Lee Miller, and it only took about five seconds upon seeing him for my brain to trail off to Trainspotting and his friendship with Ewan McGregor -- speaking of yelling "Make out!" at the screen! I might have strained my larynx the first time I saw those two sitting side by side on a couch. But then that's the sort of energy that Ewan's brought to film-screens opposite every single person, place, and thing, for nearly 30 straight years, isn't it? Well today's his 50th birthday (I know, how even) and so we're gonna celebrate some of those performances now...

My 5 Favorite Ewan Performances

Renton, Trainspotting (1996)

"You see if you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality."

Curt Wild, Velvet Goldmine (1998)

"The world is changed because you are made of 

ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

Christian, Moulin Rouge! (2001)

"... What I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes

I've ever seen"

Phillip Morris, I Love You, Phillip Morris (2009)

"Enough romance. Let's fuck!"

Oliver, Beginners (2010)

"Rabbit. What is real? Does it hurt? Horse. Sometimes Rabbit. Does it happen all at once Horse. It takes a long time. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes dropped out and you get a loose in the joints. But these things don't matter at all, because you are Real and you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand."

Runners-up: The Ghost Writer, The Impossible, 

Fargo, Shallow Grave, Down With Love

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Jack Reynor, Future Marine

When Midsommar actor Jack Reynor popped up opposite Tom Holland in Cherry a few weeks back I thought to myself... well first I thought, "Make out!" But second, after that, I thought, "Man it's nice to see Jack again. I should be seeing Jack more often dammit!" So I greet today's news with a smile on my face -- he's just signed on to be one of the leads in Amazon's forthcoming adaptation of sci-fi legend William Gibson's 2014 novel called The Peripheral, which is being shepherded by the same duo behind Westworld. Here is how DH describes the story:

"The one-hour drama stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Smart, ambitious and doomed, she has no future – until the future comes calling for her. Reynor plays Burton, brother of Flynne and a US Marine Corp veteran who served in the Haptic Recon unit. Gary Carr co-stars as Wilf."

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and get your ass vaccinated! Well, not your ass.

Unless they'll do that. Will they do that? Maaan.

Me & Theo Are Outta Here

Good night only to this photo of Théodore Pellerin.

Big Go Boom

Everybody do a Reverse Marlene Dietrich and strip back into your favorite ape costume, because the clock has officially struck Monkey O'clock and my basically-spoiler-free review of the latest MonsterVerse movie Godzilla vs Kong has just gone up over at Pajiba. Have you picked your side yet? The movie hits HBO Max and movie theaters tomorrow so you'd better pick now...

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Aaron Altaras Two Times

It's been a quiet week for magazine photo-shoots so there for our gratuitous-fix are a pair of photos from German actor Aaron Altaras, via his Instagram. You might recall he first caught our eye in the gay soccer romance Mario in 2018 (reviewed here, and which is streaming on Amazon right now) which led to a deluge of posts (you'll want to click here especially) -- then he showed up on the Netflix series Unorthodox (he was one of the Sexy German Youths that lured leading-lady Esther away from her religion), and another round of posts appeared. Whaddya know. Now it seems he's got something else of interest on the horizon...

... some sort of Fight Club looking series called Wild Republic; all I know of it is these photos that Aaron shared, but... they're enough to know I want it? Plenty, even!

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1948

I'm just gonna say this right off the bat -- I have a terrible batting average with the year that Siri gave me for this week's edition of our "Siri Says" game. Just terrible. I've seen so little! It would make sense if we were talking about the early 1920s here, but today when I asked Siri for a number between 1 and 100 she gave me the number "48" and so we're talking about The Movies of 1948. I have no excuse for seeing so few movies from 1948. I suppose my indifference to Noir, which has come up before, is part of it, as we're in the thick of that genre in 1948. But some of my favorite movie stars are working -- Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck... 

... well okay I've seen both of Stanwyck's films from this year; I'm not a total sociopath. (They both made the "runner-up" list below.) But otherwise it's just a poor, poor showing on my part., so you'll all have to work overtime in the comments to tell me what I should prioritize. (Not that that's unique, exactly.) But first...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1948

The Red Shoes

(dir. Powell & Pressburger)

-- released on September 6th 1948 --

Rope

(dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

-- released on September 25th 1948 --

Red River

(dir. Howard Hawks)

-- released on September 17th 1948 --

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(dir. John Huston)

-- released on January 24th 1948 --

Bicycle Thieves

(dir. Vittorio De Sica)

-- released on November 21st 1948 --

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Runners-up: The Big Clock (dir. John Farrow), The Search (dir. Fred Zinnemann), Key Largo (dir. Huston), They Live By Night (dir. Nicholas Ray), BF's Daughter (dir. Robert Z. Leonard), Sorry Wrong Number (dir. Anatole Litvak)

Never seen: The Snake Pit (dir. Litvak), Johnny Belinda (dir. Jean Negulesco), Joan of Arc (dir. Victor Fleming), I Remember Mama (dir. George Stevens), Drunken Angel (dir. Kurosawa), Moonrise (dir. Borzage), Hamlet (dir. Laurence Olivier)...

... La Terra Trema (dir. Visconti), The Naked City (dir. Jules Dassin), The Pirate (dir. Vincente Minnelli), A Foreign Affair (dir. Billy Wilder), Macbeth (dir. Welles), Letter From an Unknown Woman (dir. Max Ophüls), Oliver Twist (dir. David Lean)

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What are your favorites from 1948?

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Videos of people getting plaster masks applied are a quick hop to Panic Attack for me -- that scene in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere remains one of the scariest scenes I've ever suffered through -- but I'll make a damn exception for Richard Madden somehow making this terrifying process sexy on his Insta today. I'm assuming this is for the miniseries Citadel, which I shared some pipin' hot fireman photos from on Twitter recently, but who knows, it could be an old video for his Marvel movie Eternals too. Not sure why he'd need a full face mask for either, though...

I Love Lacy

This post was almost just a tweet but then I realized I could title a post the above title, and a post was born -- you just know there will be magazine-spreads stealing it when this movie comes out and I wanted to plant my flag first dammit! So, the actual news: Variety's reporting that MNPP-fave Jake Lacy has signed on to play the I Love Lucy head-writer Bob Carroll Jr. in Aaron Sorkin's movie Being the Ricardos, about Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball which already has Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman in the leads. Do I have some confusion about this movie's need to exist? I do! It seems like a minefield right off the bat. But Jake Lacy is always a heck yeah, and...

... I am in love with the look he'll presumably be rocking for this, to boot. (Every picture of Bob Carroll Jr is exactly like that so I have to assume they'll go for that.) Anyway a ton of other cat-members have been announced -- Alia Shawkat will be playing Bob's writing partner Madelyn Pugh; Tony Hale is playing the show's executive producer; J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda are playing William Frawley and Vivian Vance (that is amazing casting); also on board (although we don't know who as) are Clark Gregg and Linda Lavin! Aka Alice! I don't know if this movie's a good idea but it's an idea I will put the hell in front of me.

Who Wore It Best?

Since I was already feeling pretty horn-y today thanks to Lil Nas' new music-video for his song "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" -- which sees the openly gay artist taking the advice of every Christian motherfucker who's ever put us down and going to Hell, only to have a good ass time with it (and you should read this piece at Variety, I agree with every word) -- I'm carrying that Horn-y energy over to wishing the actor Ed Skrein a happy birthday... and you might be all what? Huh? How? And I am here to remind you that Skrein and his co-star Chiwetel Ejiofor already made us wanna strap ourselves onto a giant horned beast back in 2019, in the Maleficent sequel. It was weird, but so goes life.

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