Aaron Pierre Two Times

Uhh you're gonna wanna click on that photo to embiggen it. It comes to us via Men's Health where Aaron doffed his top -- or perhaps his shirt just shredded to bits Hulk style, or perhaps his shirt became sentient and killed itself and went to heaven, knowing it had reached the height of its existence, being draped upon Aaron Pierre -- and talks his new Netflix movie Rebel Ridge, which believe it or not is actually excellent! An excellent Netflix movie! I know! 

It obviously helps (immeasurably) that the film is from director Jeremy Saulnier, the man behind Green Room and Blue Ruin, two of the best thrillers of the past fifteen years. Rebel Ridge isn't quite up to their level but it far surpasses the usual drivel that gets dropped onto Netflix by the sort of leaps and bounds that only a man of Aaron's shape and form (ahem) could make so easily. In all seriousness I've known ever since I saw Mr. Pierre in Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad that we had a big star on our hands, and it's a pleasure seeing him dominate (ahem) an action picture like this. It's more complicated than just "an action picture" -- I don't want you to think you're sitting down to one of those loud simpleminded Hemsworth or Reynolds hunka junks. The trailers might sell it that way but it's very much more than that. Check it out this weekend! And check Aaron out every goddamned day.