my new plaid pants: December 2022

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Well that is that -- I'm off for the holidays, as forecasted in last evening's mention. MNPP proper will most likely be stock-still quiet til January 3rd... I always say I might post and I am always a big fat dumb liar. I'll surely be active on the social medias all linked in the right-hand column though, and I will have a couple of reviews hitting Pajiba over the next week (you can keep track of me there in particular at this link)...

... like my take on Babylon goes up tomorrow, you won't want to miss that. I asked my editor's permission to swear a lot! And two old reviews for movies I saw at film festivals will be re-upped as the films get released, including Living (with a career best Bill Nighy) right here and Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which hits Netflix next week and which I talked about here. Both of those are terrific and 100% worth seeking out.

Other than that I just wish you all a happy holiday and a happy New Years and let's see if we can make 2023 a year to remember for good reasons. If anybody wants to make a donation to MNPP's coffers out of appreciation for my annual nonsense efforts, you can do so right here -- every penny's and nice comment is appreciated. Hell even the nasty comments are appreciated -- just pay attention to me dammit! In all seriousness I love my readers, y'all rule, thanks for coming back all these many years. I would still do this without you because my brain is chaos but y'all make it easier! Thank you!

Noah Centineo Four Times

Anybody watching The Recruit? I'm not, at least not yet, but Noah Centineo is always a draw, for reasons which these photos make plenty clear. I watched the godawful Black Adam movie for this dude, after all! (That said man that movie was terrible, and I have spent the past week delighted by it's flopping knocking The Rock down a peg -- dude was about to run for President for god's sake.) Anyway Noah was nice to look at when the movie remembered him and these photos from Men's Health are another good holiday gift to us. Hit the jump for the lot...

Sudden Fear (1952)

Normally I would gift us with a holiday-themed "Ways Not To Die" for, you know, the holidays. But I saw Sudden Fear for the first time this week and all set standards and practices flew right out the window the second I saw Joan Crawford's death fantasy after she finds out her new husband (played by Jack Palance) is out to murder her. It was much like the way her car flies down into that ravine, exploding into a fiery ball of Crawfordian flame on impact. I had no choice. I mean I had to do it just for that first gif alone. Let's look at that baby again...

... because I already know I'll never in the entirety of my existence have enough of that one. It's my new reaction to everything. This movie might not be holiday-themed but it's a goddamned gift alright, and there she is wrapped in a great big bow! Don't know how this movie had slipped past me all these years but it's a ton of trashy fun -- classic Noir hokum with some gloriously filmed sequences in the black hills of San Francisco (that final sequence with Jack Palance trying to run her over!) So if you've never seen I recommend you spend some time with it this holiday season. It's streaming for free on Tubi, and I promise you that you will be entertained. Joan Crawford demands it!

Hit the jump for links to the Previous Ways Not To Die...

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

This is as much a happy gift for me as it is for y'all but what better way to celebrate my last day blogging here before the holiday than with the gift of two gratuitous Lucas Bravo (my obsession, my new obsession, you might know him from Emily in Paris or Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and yes, you guessed correctly, he's French) photo-shoots making themselves known to me! The first shoot, the one that these photos before the break here, are from a Vanity Fair photoshoot...

... that's a week or so old -- ashamed I am just now seeing it but it's been a busy couple of weeks. I forgive myself! Anyway I haven't read the interview yet but they shot the hell out of him, right? Yeesh. That said the second photo-shoot -- which is very NSFW -- comes from a magazine modeling shoot he did in 2016 (pretty early in his career) and which, uhh, is not shy. I did not expect to see what you're about to see! Prepare your bodies and hit the jump...

G'Night, Joshy

I've been elsewhere pounding out my Babylon review this afternoon -- I will link to that when it's up, sometime later this week -- so here's an old-ish photo of Josh O'Connor to fill the hole. So to speak. You know what I mean. But as long as we are here for a hot minute I do want to give you my holiday schedule -- which is poof, gone! Per usual. I believe I'll be here all day tomorrow but after that I'll be off until January 3rd. A full ten days of absolutely nothing - what bliss! In reality I'll be catching up on the movies I still have to see before I can properly sort out my favorites of the year -- for some reason lately I have really been feeling like I might post my Top 10 list for 2022 some point soon? Which is weird for me -- I have gotten into the habit of putting that off for months, if not years (I still haven't done a list for 2021, it's true, look it up). But the movies I wanna give love to right now I feel like shouting about them. We'll see! That's later anyway! Bye... until tomorrow... and then bye for ten days... is my point. Pointy!

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Humans (2021)

Erik: It's snowing out there.
Richard: I think someone from a
higher floor just emptied their ashtray.

I hope this movie doesn't end up totally forgotten -- I really loved it but it seemed to entirely slip through the cracks during awards season last year. One of the casualties of late year glut. I say definitely seek it out if you missed it. Anyway a happy birthday to Steven Yeun today!

The former Walking Dead star is turning 39 -- I don't know whether it was his decision to leave TWD or the producers but whoever made it as gross and awful as it was in its moment it ended up being the best decision ever! Because 1) it gave him the freedom to become a movie star, which he's pulled off with great aplomb, and 2) it finally cut the cord with me (and many many other viewers) from that show -- when they killed Glenn I never went back and never missed it for a second. Did any of you stick with it?

Anyway Yeun has several projects lined up after this summer's successful team-up with Jordan Peele and Nope -- the most important one appears to be that he's re-teaming with Okja director Bong Joon-ho for Mickey 17 alongside Robert Pattinson, and I can't believe I hadn't posted that teaser trailer above yet. That's not even out until March of 2024 but listen to the cast -- Yeun and Pattinson and Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie (who's playing Whitney Houston in her biopic out this weekend). It's based on Edward Ashton's sci-fi novel Mickey7 -- wonder why they added ten to the title -- about a clone employee sent to colonize an ice planet. It sounds like Severance meets Edge of Tomorrow.

Leo Woodall Thirteen Times

Well I am glad I exercised restraint for one time in my life and waited until we had The White Lotus actor Leo Woodall's full photo-shoot for Wonderland magazine (via) before posting it, because hot damn twas worth the edging. (And if you want nay need more of Leo, specifically dat ass, click here.) And also... I just still like thinking about The White Lotus' second season, don't you? I'm not over it yet. What a good goddamned season of T.V.. Sad we've got to wait another year (at least) for whatever is next. Until then let Leo help to make you smile after the jump...

What movie is this?

Good Morning, World

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Here are the baseball boy jock actors of Take Me Out on Broadway -- including our beloved Jesse Williams -- answering that age old holiday question of, uhh, "Hot Cocoa or Egg Nog?" I have never thought of those things in competition with one another, to be honest. But then I have never had egg nog in my life -- I will never have egg nog in my life! Never! What a concept, ugh. Anyway they're all in their dressing rooms and some of them are half-naked so it's worth watching! Just like the show, which I've seen twice now. I mean can you blame me...

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Lucien Laviscount Four Times

I don't watch the series Emily in Paris -- I doubt that surprises any of you if you've been here for longer than five minutes and have even an inkling of the things that interest me -- but it sure has been coming up an awful lot in my life lately. Mostly because of my big crush on actor Lucas Bravo, who's on the show and recently sported a mustache at the show's NYC premiere. But here's another instance -- EIP actor Lucien Laviscount was photographed and interviewed for Interview Magazine and... well look at him. Clearly I'm posting this handsome man. Hit the jump for all the photos...