Little Green Men, Big Fancy Package

I was tempted to just post that photo as one of our "Today's Mood" posts because I can't imagine a better fit for how eird I feel today, but let's elaborate a bit since this is information worth sharing -- that is a still from William Cameron Menzies' 1953 sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars, which 1) I have somehow never seen, (sidenote: I don't think I have ever seen Tobe Hooper's 1986 remake either!) and which 2) is getting an ultra-fancy 4K blu-ray release on September 26th! No i don't know how I've never seen this movie before either but here's an excellent excuse to fix that if ever there was. It's coming from the fine folks at Ignite Films and you can pre-order it right here. I mean take a gander at the trailer and see what wondrous work they did making this thing look spiffy:

That looks like a big blast of old-fashioned fun, don't it? 

I've got the press release with all the details after the jump...

Quote of the Day

Yesterday I shared five photos from Jonathan Majors' cover-story for the NYT Magazine with you -- well photographer Ryan Pfluger coughed up six outtakes from the shoot just now and lo, here are those! But first -- I hadn't had the chance to read the interview attached to those photos yesterday but now I have (thx Mac), and it's all fascinating, I really recommend you guys sit down with it. Majors is a massive oddball but I love that about him -- he is serious and thoughtful and basically everything I hoped he would be when I first saw and fell for him in The Last Black Man in San Francisco. I's cemented the impression for me that he's the real deal. The interview also cements some details about his future role in the MCU (stuff I'm surprised I haven't seen all over Twitter already) but what I feel like quoting is the bit when they get into his godly physique, because duh...

"My body is my instrument, and I work hard to have it...

I don’t believe in showing it off for free."

Cut to me waving a stack of twenties. 

Ahem. Hit the jump for the photos...

That Boy is All Bones!

Timmy is in Venice posting bulge selfies in bathrooms so that must mean that his new Luca Guadagnino joint is dropping! I am too irritated to make sure but I think Bones and All premieres on Friday, and with that they have just dropped the first clip from the film, and I have it for you below. (The first trailer is here if you missed it, and here is the first poster.) Watch:

Bones and All is playing NYFF next

and then it hits theaters on November 23rd!

Manu Rios Eight Times

If you follow me on Twitter then you have probably seen that I have a thread of Manu Rios photos going now -- it's really picked up ever since Manu got announced as co-star in Pedro Almodovar's gay cowboy short film opposite Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, as happens with such things. Pedro Almodovar Gay Cowboy Movies don't happen all the time, after all!

Anyway Manu -- who made a name for himself as one of the adventurous homosexuals on the Spanish series called Elite that's on Netflix (and no I haven't watched the show, so that's just my vague impression of what he is up to on that show) -- made it into Interview Magazine this month because of course he did, and I have the photos for you here. Hit the jump for the entire batch...

The Monsters Are Taking Brooklyn Again!

First things first -- that might be the most gorgeous artwork for the Brooklyn Horror Fest to date? Totally gorgeous. Anyway this fest, one of my faves, is up to its seventh year now, and yes I have been covering it all seven. And today they announced the first round of titles for their 2022 spectacular -- you can see them all right here but the things that leapt right out at me (beside the fact that the fest has been officially taken over by Shudder, which is not a surprise in the slightest) are this. One, they are doing a retrospective of Lucio Fulci movies! It's eight films long and it will include the new 4K restoration of The Beyond that the master musician Fabio Frizzi created an entirely new score for. 

And two -- the Opening Night movie stars Eva Green! Called Nocebo it's from director Lorcan Finnegan (who made Vivarium) and it has Eva playing a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, who starts taking folk remedies that a Filipino caretaker (who just...shows up one day... dun dun dun), which leads to a rift with her husband (played by Mark Strong). I am sure this will all work out well for everybody involved! Anyway I'm intrigued (slash nervous) to see how the racial aspects play out here, but Eva Green anything is always welcome.

And third -- they've got Joko Anwar's new movie! The Indonesian master has made a sequel to his 2017 film Satan's Slaves and it's been out in his home country for several weeks now and I have watched in absolute raw jealousy as raves for it over there have passed by my eyes -- I wasn't sure when we'd get to see it here in the US, so this is welcome news indeed! 

Anyway there are several more titles of note in this, just the first announcement -- they've got the new V/H/S anthology film, they've got Benson & Moorehead's latest, they've got a doc about Stephen King movies and they've got Kyle Gallner and they've got the very fine movie The Harbinger, which I reviewed at Fantasia last month right here. The fest runs from October 13th through 20th and you can buy your fest badges right now at this link. Click on over and check it all out! Or else...

The Reign of Queen Harriet the First

Mind you this is just a rumor at this point, and one whose source is totally obscure to me, but some dude is saying (via DH) that the great character actress queen Harriet Sansom Harris (best known for her work in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza and Phantom Thread, and also the series Frasier!) is playing the lead villain in Werewolf By Night, the MCU special that we told you about way back when that Gael Garcia Bernal is starring in. WBN is at this point being billed as a "Halloween Special" but we don't know much beyond that. The rumor is that Harris is playing "Verrusa, [who] will reportedly lead a cult from the house of Bloodstone." I don't know or care what the fuck that means -- all I care is Harriet Sansom Harris might be part of the MCU! That's awesome and hilarious all at once. Should we be past the point where an actor playing a small role in the MCU becomes news, what with there being ten thousand series and movies piling up? Maybe! But Harriet is special, dammit!

Say Something To Timmy

He's in some Venetian bathroom

and he's looking for attention.

Nice To Meat You

Timmy himself just shared that there the meaty first poster for Luca Guadagnino's film Bones and All this morning on Twitter -- the so-called (by me) cannibal romance premieres in a couple of days in Venice, and then heads over to the New York Film Fest in early October which is where I plan on putting in straight into my eyeballs. Here is the movie's trailer. Anyway... that poster, huh? It's like the artier painterly version of that infamous meat poster for the second Hostel film (which coincidentally I have hanging up in my bedroom right beside my head, haha):

Nothing Comes Between Me and My Yahya

(via)

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

At the start of August I shared six photos of actor Cooper Koch (of the horror flicks They/Them and Carter Smith's forthcoming Swallowed) that I thought might be the pinnacle of hot from him -- little did I know that long-time noted heat-bringer the photographer Joseph Lally (via) would be getting ahold of Cooper in just a few short weeks! Hell if I had known that I would have laid down some plastic sheets! For real though Lally's been one of my favorite photographers of the homoerotica since I saw his 1998 book Fun? Game (which was a foundational text for me but which has weirdly seems to have been scrubbed off the internet) and his Insta is very much worth a follow -- these photos of Cooper do not disappoint in the slightest. Hit the jump for several more...

Jonathan Majors Five Times

Just a couple of weeks until the fighter-pilot drama Devotion opens at Toronto Fest and its leading man and MNPP beloved Jonathan Majors is out there doing the work already -- specifically he's the cover-guy for this past weekend's issue of the New York Times magazine, which you can read here if NYT will let you (thx Mac). I'm as ever past my allotted free reads so I cannot, alas. If he says anything interesting therein let me know. I did manage through my wily means to scrounge up the five photos of Mr. Majors though, which were taken by the ever-reliable Ryan Pfluger, and those I have for you (for free and everything!) right on after the jump...

 

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

Who doesn't want to wake-n-bake with Raúl Castillo here on the occasion of his 45th birthday today? These gifs of the Looking star are from the Netflix series Atypical -- they must be from the second season because I watched the first season of that and I do not remember this scene. And I would remember this scene. I'm not at all a stoner but stoners can be sexy and Raúl here is making that look easy. (See also Lou Taylor Pucci on Physical.) Anyway we love Raúl unconditionally and forever after his turn on Looking so we wish him the happiest day! Hit the jump for several more gifs of this exquisite sexy nonsense...

Edward Bluemel Six Times

The reviews were so bad that I haven't yet brought myself to watch the new Persuasion movie, despite it having such a me-cast -- Dakota Johnson! Henry Golding! Cosmo Jarvis! And this adorable boy here Edward Bluemel, who we were already plenty familiar with thanks to his previous roles on the shows Killing Eve and Sex Education -- indeed he's already gotten several posts here, up to and including a hefty gratuitous one of his own back in 2019. Here Eddie is seen as the star of a new-ish photoshoot for Photobook Magazine, alongside a chat with him at this link; if you want words click over there, if you want photos you can see 'em after the jump...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... finding a good crack to slip into
with Austin Nichols. (via)

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Cruising (1980)

Loren: I hate cigarettes.

Stuart: Oh, really?

Loren: I think they're disgusting.

Stuart: Well I enjoy them.

Loren: All it is is anal regressive. If you want to quit

I suggest you try another form of childhood stroking.

Stuart: I don't want to quit.

Loren: I suggest you try an ostrich feather

along the small of your back, up your

spine up to the nape of your neck.

Stuart: Sounds addictive.

A happy 87th birthday to director William Friedkin today!

Smells Like Yankovic

Lo what we have all been waiting for! The trailer has arrived for WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, the bio-pic starring Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe as the man who once rhymed "treat me right" with "cellulite" -- the king, the legend, the et cetera. This movie purports to tell the story of the polka-man turned superstar with all of the typical "Behind the Music" pit- and pratfalls along the way. Including a long scene where Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood) hops on that surprisingly tight bod of his? Sure, why not. Watch:

WEIRD is playing at TIFF and then hits The Roku Channel

(and I guess The Roku Channel is a thing) on November 4th.

Five Frames From ?

What movie is this?

 

Good Morning, World

(click to embiggen) Send all of your appreciative words and bouquets of flowers to KJ Apa's girlfriend and babymomma Clara Berry, who apparently posted this photo of her boyfriend and babydaddy on her Insta over the weekend. (I say "apparently" because it's not there now and that's not where I personally got the image through.) Also send your ire about that goddamned ass-blocking star her direction though, while you're at it. So close! Yet so far away. I'll zoom in a bit below, how about that? A happy Monday, people. 

Watch This Swinton Space

 

Tomorrow (as in Friday) I will update this post with a link to my review of George Miller's fantastical new movie Three Thousand Years of Longing, a movie which stars Tilda and Idris Elba and you've no doubt seen something about it by now and I do not have to prattle on about what it's about. (Here is the trailer though, to truly cover my bases.) For now I simply want to stare at that photo of Tilda, which is both cool as hell and summarizing my mood, which is one of absolute dissolution. I need this three day weekend, I do. Bye until later, then!

ETA And as promised here is my review at Pajiba!
Go read it, go see the movie... just go do something! Damn.

Pic of the Day

Via BD comes our first look at Evan Peters playing Jeffrey Dahmer in Ryan Murphy's limited series about the infamous gay cannibal serial killer -- I guess they have changed the title of it from Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story to simply Dahmer. As I said when he was first cast last March Evan Peters makes super sense for this role -- it felt preordained, especially given Murphy's involvement. The show was only shepherded by Murphy though -- otherwise it seems as if it's being run by Ian Brennan, the writer behind Scream Queens and Ratched. And all of the directors currently listed -- Paris Barclay, Carl Franklin, and Pose showrunner Janet Mock -- are people of color, which seems important because the show supposedly focuses on Dahmer's victims, who were mainly young men of color, instead of the serial killer himself. Still looking through the cast list right now the thing that really jumps out is that the show has actor (and friend-of-MNPP) Dominic Burgess cast as the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, as well as an actor named Shane Kerwin playing the O.G. Ed Gein??? What oh what is this show gonna be? This is reminding me of the perhaps overly exploitative serial-killer gatherings that happened on American Horror Story -- indeed the great John Carroll Lynch played Gacy on that: