Sam Altman's Twink Terrorist Compound

It's barely 11am the morning after a long holiday weekend and I am already spiralling into chaos -- they're throwing too much at me this morning! Literally seconds after I posted the longer trailer for NYFF World Premiere Godzilla: Minus One my inbox lit up with the teaser trailer for NYFF World Premiere Artificial from Luca Guadagnino! And it's everything I needed it to be, this teaser -- Gay Villain Sam Altman's Twink Terrorist Compound is all I needed to see. Luca has made the movie he needed to make. Now feed it to me! (Also I don't think I knew that Damon Albarn had done the music and to this Ravenous-score-fanatic that's got me extra tingly!)

Artificial opens in theaters on Christmas.
This and Werwulf! What a day!

NYFF Gets Artificial!

If you're in the downtown NYC vicinity I apologize for terrifying you with my yelp of excitement in the past half an hour -- it escaped me before anything could be done once I read the email from the New York Film Fest that they have just added the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino's new film Artificial to this year's line-up! I'd begun to think this might not make it out this year, given the hullaballoo when Amazon dumped it because the tech-bros don't like the big mean movie that makes fun of their stupid A.I. bullshit. Thank the movie gods aka the folks at Neon who picked the movie up and the folks at NYFF who got it onto the slate. This just made my day. I know most opinions were mixed the last time Luca was at NYFF -- i.e. last year with After the Hunt -- but I fucking love that movie, and will not be psyched out by the naysayers. Gimme that sweet sweet "Yura Borisov with hair" movie, baby!

OBSESSED WITH YURA BORISOV'S HAIR

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

After the Hunt (2025)

Alma: I feel like deep inside I always expected this. 

I expected the rottenness in me to be seen by other people 

right before I managed to expunge it.

Hank: Spoken like a true woman... 

I never felt myself be rotten at all.

Alma: Spoken like a true man.

A happiest of happy birthday to the great and legendary Luca Guadagnino, who is turning 55 today! If you've been on this here site for longer than an hour you know our feelings about Luca, who speaks deep to us in a way that not many other filmmakers do these days -- not just in the obvious one (Call me By Your Name, which I wrote about just a little bit back circa 2017) but everything from his superior Suspiria to Bones and All to yes this one here After the Hunt, a movie which really didn't get a fair shake when it came out. (At least I knew it was good though.) I actually just re-watched it a few weeks ago and it's  shown itself to be even wilier about where the world was headed -- like all his films they're ever so slightly ahead of their time. We'll see what happens with his Sam Altman biopic Artificial soon enough -- I remain convinced he'lll be ten steps ahead of the current conversation -- but for today, let's just show the genius some love! My gift to him & us is this Andy Garfield gif:

Pop That Cork Cooper Koch

A happy update to share on last week's annoying news that the cowards at Amazon had dropped Luca Guadagnino's movie Artificial, about Open A.I.'s leading piece-of-shit Sam Altman -- the wonderful folks at Neon have supposedly picked the movie up for distribution! That comes via the in-the-know Matthew Belloni on the Nazi-website (via, thx Mac) who says this will be officially announced later this week and the movie is probably going to be out before the end of this year. Huzzah! Make like the film's co-star Cooper Koch here and drink one in praise of there still being some balls in the film world. Anyway I'd actually forgotten all the people in this cast (not that it's surprising given any actor with even half a brain should want to be filmed by Luca's loving camera) -- besides star Andrew Garifled there's Cooper here, there's Anora bald-beauty Yura Borisov, there's Jason Schwartzman (who basically stole Queer from everyone not named Lesley Manville or "Drew Starkey's Nipples Through That One See-Through Shirt), there's Cooper Hoffman and Billie Lourd and Monica Barbaro and Chris O'Dowd and Zosia Mamet and Nicholas Hamilton (the cute gay who played the bully from the It remakes) and Mark fuckin' Rylance (who definitely stole Bones and All with that fucking scuzzy hair-braid of death). Fingers crossed this lands at NYFF! Cannot wait. In summation -- fuck you, Amazon. 

Fuck the Homo-Traitor Sam Altman

Did y'all see the news that broke over the weekend that Amazon, freshly in bed with homo-traitor Sam Altman's Open A.I. company to the tune of billions of dollars, has dropped Luca Guadagnino's movie about Altman called Artificial? The film stars Andrew Garfield as the tech charlatan and according to people who've read the script it doesn't skimp on showing Altman for the fucking phony he, and his bullshit product, is -- unfortunately we live in a society (I hate how that phrase has been ruined) where these ruinous corporations can toss around billions of dollars to kill anything that criticizes them now. Not that this is a new thing (film has always been polluted by its business side) but it feels particularly naked and brazen these days, what with a psychotic con-man currently smearing shit across our White Hosue walls. Anyway the latest news seems to be that Netflix and A24 (who just announced their own bullshit A.I. deal this week), WB's new label Clockwork, and Focus Features have all also passed on picking up the film, which I do believe isn't even quite finished filming yet. Bunch of chickenshit corporate cucks. Supposedly Mubi and Neon have both shown interest so all is not lost and fingers crossed -- use some of that Obsession money for good, Neon! Neon did just release Boots Riley's anti-capitalist delight I Love Boosters -- which P.S. hit VOD today, go watch it! -- so it seems like somebody over there has some decent politics. Whatever happens, however this movie gets out, we gotta support the shit out of it when the time comes. 

The Fourgy of Our Forever Dreams

My schedule today ended up being a bit more bonkers than I anticipated so I'm hopping online later than I'd wagered (I mentioned my tardiness in this morning's post) -- point being I'm just now seeing that the devils at Vanity Fair threw Jonathan Bailey, Riz Ahmed, Harris Dickinson, and Andrew Garfield on a couch in coordinating little outfits and delivered us a video for our everlasting spank bank eternal. I haven't had the chance to actually watch the video properly yet so I have no idea what they're discussing but...

... there it is, it should be documented. Studied. Frame by frame. Thanks to the commenter who alerted me to its existence this morning -- you will be showered in the afterlife with chocolate truffles and oral sex whenever you like. Dear lord!

Twas Only a Moment For You

Okay yeah that's it, I'm off to NYFF screenings again. As I said last time I scampered off keep an eye on my socials, you'll be able to find me there (especially Bluesky). By the time I'm back... uhh Thursday morning... I'll have seen new movies by Claire Denis, Richard Linklater, Pietro Marcello, Lucretia Martel, Noah Baumbach, Bi Gan, Luca Guadagnino (!!!!) ... and Alexander Skarsgård's gay leather romance Pillion! I love the movies. Oh and as an aside keep an eye on Pajiba because my review of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another will also be dropping soon and that -- the movie and my review -- is not something you're gonna wanna miss. Anyway bye til later! And don't forget to celebrate this:

HAPPY 30 TO SHOWGIRLS

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Whose Hunt, His Hunt

Here is what I believe to be the first poster for Luca Guadagnino's higher education thriller After the Hunt, which is the Opening Night movie of the NYFF on September 28th and then opens in theaters on October 10th in limited release, surely hopping about from there. I shared the trailer here. And no joking -- I thought that was a picture of Luca himself in the upper left corner and not Michael Stuhlbarg at first haha. I was like, "Luca I know you're a director, you've got an ego, but come on." Anyway I'm praying there's a scene where Michael Stuhlbarg  gives his "Our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once" speech to Ayo Edebiri in this and she's just like, "Oooookay, ya weirdo." Make it happen!

Preview of Attractions Coming

Hey everybody! I'm back home but not back back from my trip in the sense that I'm blogging today -- that starts tomorrow. But how could I not hop in here to 1) say hello (Hello!) and 2) share this poster for The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus' forthcoming WWI-era romance starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor? Swoon, yes, but also -- kinda feel like poor Josh got a little sidelined there? I'm reminded of all the stories of movie stars wrangling for poster billing of olde and wondering if Josh gives a shit. I feel like he doesn't. And there's enough of his pretty closed eyes and pouty lips to make me stir anyway. Anyway! The trailer is apparently dropping tomorrow so we'll cover that when we're back at our desk then. Oh and one more important bit of vaguely related news that dropped today -- Luca Guadagnino's film After the Hunt with Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri was announced as the Opening Night Film of this year's NYFF! This is very exciting for me personally! I shared the trailer for this before I headed out for a week -- check that here. I'm always wrangling for the NYFF Opening Night Party invite but I will lay waste to the earth for it this year, best believe!

[RUNNING AROUND THE ROOM SCREAMING CRYING] Luca's new movie is Opening Night at NYFF!!!! @filmlinc.bsky.social

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM

Before the After the Hunt

When I mentioned Luca Guadagnino's next next movie on Monday when Cooper Koch was cast in it I forgot to make any reference to Luca's immediately next movie, his higher education thriller After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edibiri, Chloë Sevigny, and Michael Stuhlbarg. Well now consider it mentioned -- more than mentioned because the trailer's just dropped and it looks absolutely killer. Obviously I was sold on day one but this trailer has me extremely excited. Watch:

After the Hunt is out October 10th 

in limited release, a week later wide.

Luca Wants Koch

It seems as though Luca Guadagnino has finally cleared the deck and chosen what his next movie project will be -- Artificial, his movie about the true life tale of Sam Altman the founder of Open A.I., already had Andrew Garfield and Anora's bald beauty Yura Borisov onboard when we checked in on it last month. But today Deadline reports that Cooper Koch, the great gay up-and-comer from Swallowed and that Menendez Brothers show and those great Calvin Klein ads, has also just joined the cast. No word on who anybody is playing yet but this one really seems set to roll soon by all accounts. And let's hope that Luca keeps casting off of the names in MNPP's sidebar! Anyway it's nice to see Luca hiring actual gay talent since lord knows he's gotten some shit for not doing so very often. And who knows perhaps they'll love each other and this could be a stepping stone toward that American Psycho remake (which Cooper has openly campaigned for), if that ever becomes reality.

6 Off My Head: A 2025 Peek Ahead

Inspired by the Bugonia teaser I just shared (along with the fact that it's Paul Thomas Anderson's birthday today which reminded me he has a new movie out in several weeks) I decided to go ahead and make a list of the movies left to be released in 2025 that I'm most looking forward to. I did this (as with everything I do here) mostly for myself because I've been bad about keeping an eye on what's ahead -- I can be very much in the moment; planning ahead's not my strongest suit! So I will myself probably be referring back to this list often. But perhaps this will help you along the same lines! That'd be nice! So sans further ado I give you...

My Top 6 Anticipated Movies of 2025

Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) -- Oct 24th 

(more here)

One Battle After Another (dir. PT Anderson) -- Sept 26th

The History of Sound (dir. Oliver Hermanus) -- Sept 12th 

(more here)

After the Hunt (dir. Luca Guadagnino) -- Oct 10th 

(more here)

Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier) -- Nov 7th

Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) -- TBD

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(Sidenote: There is no word on Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex and any kind of release date for it yet, otherwise it would very much be listed above.) 

(Sidenote #2 - literally five minutes after I posted this list it was announced that Neon has bought Park Chan-wook's new movie No Other Choice for release and it's premiering at Venice so add that one too!)

Runners-up: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson), Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie), Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao), A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir. Kogonada), It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi), The Roses (dir. Jay Roach), Avatar: Fire & Ash (dir. James Cameron), Together (dir. Michael Shanks)...

... Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger),  Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach), Caught Stealing (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo Del Toro), The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt), Highest 2 Lowest (dir. Spike Lee), A House of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay), The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright)

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What movies are y'all most looking forward to?

Yura Star!

How lovely! An opportunity to post a couple of pictures of Anora breakout star Yura Borisov! And with some helluva news, too. For a quick minute the headline for this news freaked me out -- all I saw was a THR headline with "AI" and "Luca Guadagnino" in it and I was like, "Noooooooo Luca!" I feared he was going the Natasha Lyonne route of disappointment. But no it's not that thankfully -- Luca is attaching his name to a movie called Artificial that is about the true life story of Open AI and its CEO Sam Altman, who was fired and rehired over the course of a couple tumultuous days in 2023.  So a Social Network kinda biopic sitch is what I'm getting from this. Anyway as for casting Yura isn't playing the lead Altman...

... that would be current Luca love Andrew Garfield (who's the star of his already filmed After the Hunt which is out later this year), which makes the Social Network connection feel even more on point. Yura would play "Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder who led the movement to get rid of Altman" while Timmy's A Complete Unknown co-star Monica Barbaro would play another person of interest, chief technology officer Mira Murati. THR says that Amazon is gung-ho on this project and wants it to shoot this very summer, so perhaps our skepticism about Luca's many unmade projects should be set aside on this one. We'll see. 

Jeremy and Tigers and Jude, Oh My

This news is two days old so the world's moved on but here I am, world, here I am, finally reporting that Jude Law and Andrew Garfield are going to play homosexual tiger tamers Seigfried and Roy in a limited series about their lives for Apple. Titled Wild Things (excuse me there is already a campy queer masterpiece called Wild Things) it'll have Jude starring as Siegfried and Andy as Roy, and if you ever knew which one of those weirdos was which I wish you the best. Coming so soon after reporting that Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall will be playing a gay couple I feel as if it's my duty to holler about "where the hell are the gay actors getting cast in gay roles" here, even if I'm not really honestly all that upset about this shit this week -- there's just other stuff to worry about. I can't prioritize who's slipping into spangled leotards to play the Vegas punchlines right now. But since we're here anyway...

... I will also report on (presumably) less gay news that also involves a pair of straight actors that people seem to find attractive (I only find one attractive and I've made that opinion known before) -- Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler are going to star in a "crime saga" film for A24 titled Enemies,  about a contract killer and a detective playing "cat and mouse." The film will be directed by Henry Dunham, who made 2018's Standoff at Sparrow Creek -- I feel as if that title is familiar but I don't think I ever saw that. But good on A24 for continuing to support new filmmakers, and to hook them up with great big stars in the process. Anyway that news is brand new, of today, so we're all caught up now. Hooray!

Garfield's Great Big Globes

Not to overdo it with Andrew Garfield this week (much to my hater boyfriend's chagrin no doubt -- although he did give Andy a compliment last night saying that "the beard makes his face less disgusting" lol; unlike me he's not a fan!) but I loved the green Versace suit he wore to the Globes. And our boy knew he looked good and he was slutting it up like nobody's business...

... with all the extra cleavage emphasis. So we're giving him this little spotlight, our boyfriend be damned! I'm actually really posting now because I forgot to mention the Globes at all in this morning's Andy post, even though I watched the whole damned thing -- did anybody else watch? Winner of the night to my eye was Demi for that truly lovely speech she gave. And our beloved Tadanobu Asano of course!

Tadanobu!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/DxrWSNETJC

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 6, 2025

But Tadanobu always wins, just by being Tadanobu. But I am curious what y'all thought of the show, the winners, the fashion. So if you have any thoughts please toss them my way in the comments. And in return I have an entire gallery of Andy being the bearded belle of the ball (with a couple of bonus guests!) after the jump... 

Good Morning, World

Andrew Garfield's photos for W Magazine's annual "Performances of the Year" issue  dropped on Saturday morning right after I posted 1) his other photoshoot for GQ and 2) several of the other actors in W Magazine, so bad timing (i.e. me never posting on weekends) leads to me sharing these photos now. Weirdly W dropped all of the hottest photos on Saturday...

Oh okay they just saved all the slutty men photos for today! #blessings

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) January 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM

... which is an odd time for photoshoots to drop? I'm really hoping more photos from that Josh O'Connor spread (emphasis on spread) pop up because good goddamn that's a sexy photo. Anyway hello, happy Monday. I've got a few big things going on this week (prepping for Sundance and I am flying to L.A. this upcoming weekend to attend the Critics Choice Awards in person, holy shit!) but I'll be here, posting per usual, too. So grab onto Andy's big beefy biceps and let's get moving...

Farewell To This Short Week

Having a brief two day interlude to ease me back into the sport of desk-sitting has been nice, but I need a damn break -- so a big howdy and an even bigger hello to the weekend! I'd say I did perfectly adequate within this little window of time, posting-wise, so do scroll on down and see the fruits of my labors in the span of these exhausting forty-eight hours. Or just ignore me and stare at this new GQ photoshoot of Andrew Garfield after the jump....

Good Morning, World

A little Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time goodness this Tuesday morn. Have any of you watched this supposed weepie now that it's available at home? I am always down for a tearjerker but I have to admit this movie jerked very few tears out of me, despite good performances from Andy and Flo -- I felt like its nonlinear time-hopping structure damaged my ability to build an emotional connection with the characters like was needed. Too bad but it gave us Andy bum so twasn't all a waste. 

Anyway, now on to the boring part -- an update on my post yesterday re: being sick. First off thanks to everybody for the kind words! They made my rattling larynx calm a little. I'm still fairly feeble but I did end coming into the office today for a few boring reasons I won't bore you with. Anyway I'm at my desk at least for some of today so you might get a couple posts out of me. Like this one! One down. 

Andrew Garfield Pants Pornography Parade

I try not to post new photoshoots back to back like I am posting this Andrew Garfield photoshoot here back to back with the new Franz Rogowski one -- it's nice to have a break with you know words or something so we're not just a "hey look at the pretty man" blog -- but I am so infatuated with all of the pants that Andrew wears in this shoot that I can't control myself. They're all so comfy looking! We went through a period of me hating the way actors were being styled for awhile but right now I am feeling represented. I would happily wear every single item of clothing in these photos. Maybe it's the Fall styles? Give me sweater weather and I'm in my element! Hit the jump for them all...

Blondie Woman

I don't usually monitor the hair color of female movie stars -- that's not my bag, baby -- but seeing as how this is for a movie I care very much about I am making an exception. Lucky y'all. Julia Roberts, famed movie star and former America's Sweetheart, will have blonde hair in Luca Guadagnino's next movie, the college-set morality thriller After the Hunt. The movie just started filming in Cambridge -- see Luca standing with Miss Roberts down below! Or see even more photos over here. And all of my previous posts on the film right here. The film also stars Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Ayo Edibiri. Oh and Chloë Sevigny. It wouldn't be a Luca joint without Chloë Sevigny. Cannot wait!