Space Fassys

Imagine my delight when I went looking for a recent photo of Michael Fassbender and stumbled upon this gem of him posing with a fan on vacation a couple of weeks ago! He's all but quit doing press over the past several years -- if only we'd understood how good we had it back during his slutty photoshoot heyday. (Actually I did -- I understood how good we were having it then.) Anyway that made me happy to see -- are any of you watching The Agency? I have been and think the show really came into its own in its second season -- I really kind of love it now. With a cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, and Harriet Sansom Harris, well how the hell could I not? Anyway y'all should give a shot if you haven't, with the understanding that its second season is when it really picks up. 

Oh my god I had totally forgotten about this Michael Fassbender / Charlize Theron photoshoot circa Prometheus. GOOD LORDDDDDD THE 🔥🔥🔥 (more here www.mynewplaidpants.com/2012/07/they...

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM

But that's not why we're here! We're here because Sir Ridley Scott has a new movie coming out this week (The Dog Stars with that other whippet-shaped-man Jacob Elordi) so he's doing interviews and in one he just said that he's working on a third Alien prequel film to round out his Prometheus / Alien: Covenant trilogy, which would follow the further wackadoo exploits of Fassbender's David character. Even though I think both of these movies are hot messes to various degrees (ones I can nevertheless watch over and over again) I'm all for it -- because hopefully Sir Scott makes the Michael Fassbender Clone Throuple of our dreams a reality this go! Third movie -- three gay Fassys! That's the rule!

Breeder Me

Are any of you watching the show The Shards, Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' book? I am watching it but it's sort of a hate-watch -- I think all of the young actors who make up the main cast are fairly awful. (How is that nepo-baby supposed to be Richard Gere's son??? I refuse to believe they are even related.) That said the older actors playing the adults on the show are pretty much the exact opposite, a delight to watch to a tee; I would much rather be watching a show about them. And when Glee actor Dot-Marie Jones showed up in an episode that I watched this past weekend playing a porn director that went triply true. So much fun. And seeing her also reminded me that I saw and loved a horror movie called Breeder earlier this year at Tribeca that she's the villain in -- and well whaddya know the trailer for Breeder just dropped today and who do you think...

... was quoted? Me, that's who! And that my quote drops over DMJ getting her face absolutely tongue-wrecked by one of her adorable doggies is very very funny to me because that's one of my boyfriend's triggers -- he finds it absolutely repulsive when people let dogs lick their face haha. That gif's for you, sweetums! Anyway Breeder is extremely fucked up and has far more disgusting things in store for y'all than some face-licking, but you can find out all about that when it lands in theaters on October 16th. Here's the full trailer:

Pedro Pascal and Such For Sale

I feel like I'm doing one of these posts every other week now but heads-up that I piled another round of goodies onto eBay for sale over the weekend -- this weekend was really Criterion heavy because I was rearranging those specific shelves so you'll see a couple dozen Criterion discs for sale there! And as always everything is open to offers so make me an offer, and if you buy more than one thing I ill ship it together and refund you the extra -- pinky swear. You can trust me -- you know where to find me otherwise, wink wink. There's also a copy of the sold out issue of Fantastic Man magazine that features this slutty ass photoshoot of Pedro Pascal in it -- a prize to put in your hope chest obviously for when you and Pedro get married. Buy my shit here. Besides that...

... there's also piles of movie posters, and a heap of fancy photography and art books that've gone up recently... and really when it comes down to it this is my birthday week so this is great way to celebrate me. We all win! Alternately there's always the option of a PayPal donation! Feed your favorite needy writer on his birthday week. You know you want to.

Good Morning, World

How good is it to see Michael Fassbender bare backside again? Granted it's no Shame but we'll take what we can get these days, given his years-long disappearing act. Let's be encouraging to our Fassy as he sneaks his way back out of his (Harry) Hole. These gifs are from his new Showtime series The Agency -- I shared the trailer for this series (which is a remake of a French show) with you back in October; it's got quite the cast! On top of Fassy! (I will just let you luxuriate in that sentiment for a moment. You good? I good.) Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, JOHN MAGARO, Richard f'ing Gere, HARRIET FUCKING SANSOM HARRIS. The first two episodes went up this past weekend and every time another amazing face showed up I retired to my fainting couch anew. (Which is actually just my couch and I was already there but you get my point. The show isn't anything we haven't seen before so far but I'll keep coming back for this group of people. And for promises of Fassy flesh. Speaking of, hit the jump...

Another Buy My Shit On eBay Post

If dropping a shot of Richard Gere is Days of Heaven won't grab your immediate attention I don't know what could -- a quick heads-up that one of the ways I have been coping this week, and will continue coping over the weekend, is listing shit for sale on eBay. Including lots and lots of movies (especially Criterion titles!) and vinyl and books and all sorts of good movie-related stuff. Here is a link to my eBay page. Like I said -- expect lots more dumped on there over the weekend as I'll be going through my movies once again to weed out redundancies (i.e. lots of 4K upgrading has happened.) With who knows maybe the last holidays ahead that we'll ever celebrate why not buy yourself and your loved ones all the presents?? And help me clear space for my panic room at the same time! Everybody wins when everybody loses! Sigh.

Oh Jacob, Oh Richard, Oh Canada

Paul Schrader's new film Oh Canada stars Richard Gere as a feted documentary filmmaker at the end of his life who's asked to reminisce on camera by some former students -- this involves lots of flashbacks where he is played by an astonishingly hot Jacob Elordi, who proves once again my thesis that:

Paul Schrader remains the gayest supposedly straight man on earth

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) October 2, 2024

No but for real though. 

I don't think even Emerald Fennell leered at Jacob in Saltburn as much as Paul does here. (And I am fairly certain the above shot in the movie has less sheet covering Jacob's bum than what is shown above -- that's either another take or a CG sheet for the trailer's sake!) Anyway that's why we love slash are confounded by Paul -- I mean I haven't even gotten to the jockstrap scene. But yes I saw this at NYFF and didn't get around to reviewing it but I liked it -- more than a lot of people seemed to, actually. I need to give it a second view because film festivals are so brutal and this is a slow, meditative, talky movie. But I think it's worth a watch. Here's the trailer:

Oh Canada is out on December 6th. 

Speaking Of Physical Media...

... and why would we speak of anything else... the unbelivable has happened! The fine folks over at Vinegar Syndrome have finally, finally, FINALLY, got the rights to release Richard Brooks' 1977 film Looking For Mr. Goodbar  -- and on 4K no less! This film contains my favorite Diane Keaton performance -- which is saying a lot since I'm a huge fan -- plus peak Richard Gere. It also has one of the most disturbing endings ever put on-screen so, you know, that's fun. Anyway this hasn't gotten a release since VHS way back in the day -- the story was that the rights to the music in the film made a new release cost prohibitive, but it would appear they got that sorted out! Pre-order the disc right here -- they won't ship until sometime in December but do expect to use up your pateince waiting, VS tends to be kind of slow on that front. Especially when it comes to these big sales. I cannot believe we're finally going to get Richard Gere doing push-ups in a jockstrap in 4K!! Just think how much better this gif will be:

That's not all Vinegar Syndrome has of import this month, though -- they're also releasing Red Rooms, the Quebecois serial killer thriller that I reviewed at Fantasia Fest last year and which I just re-watched a week or so ago and loved even more with a second view. This movie is fantastic. And they're releasing Bent, the searing gay holocaust drama that stars Clive Owen and which features Clive & Nikolaj Coster-Waldau memorably going at it in its opening scenes... 

Fassy's on the Hunt

I slid through my archives and came up empty-handed on The Agency -- I guess I forgot to post about it when it was announced? Anyway it's a new limited series for Paramount+ that stars our boy Michael Fassbender as a CIA agent and Richard Gere as his minder or whatever, along with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston (Alien Covenant reunion holla!), and as featured heavily in the just dropped trailer the queen the iucon the eternal legend Harriet Sansom Harris! Killer cast -- the show itself looks stylish but not like anything we haven't seen a thousand times before to be honest -- it's a remake of a French series, even -- but I'll still be there for this cast alone. And two episodes were directed by Joe Wright so that's something! Here's that trailer:

The Agency drops on November 29th.

Jake Takes Tribeca

Remember that scene in Pretty Woman where Richard Gere bangs Julia Roberts on the piano in the hotel bar? I hadn't thought of that scene in eons but looking at that photo of Jake Gyllenhaal brought it all flooding right back for some reason. Huh, wonder why? Aaanyway that photo is one I missed from his THR shoot last week -- see the rest here. I come bearing (and baring!) a few other Jake-flavored things, too -- most importantly the word that... 

Yeah so #PresumedInnocent is now streaming on Apple+ https://t.co/E6RZaeDTpG pic.twitter.com/dvCJojRflO

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 13, 2024

... yes, his Apple+ series Presumed Innocent is now streaming on Apple+. I think it's just the first two episodes? I don't know, I haven't checked, but I do believe this series is a weekly thing not a binge-it-all-at-once thing. I got to see the first two episodes at Tribeca this past week, which you might already know if you saw me shrieking on Twitter about stumbling into Jake in person -- in the flesh, as they say -- right before the screening. I posted a couple of photos on Twitter but why would I not share more if I have more? Indeed -- there is no coherent reason why I would not do that. So let's hit the jump for Jake's flesh in the vicinity of my flesh (including a video from the Q&A following the screening!)...

Pic of the Day

Similar to what I just said in my previous post about Franz Rogowski, one does have to wonder at what point Jacob Elordi will sell out -- I think he's got to be getting soooo much pressure from his people to make some generic well-paid crap (and I said "well paid" so don't come at me with those Kissing Booth movies he got famous with). And yet here we are with our first look at him in his next role in Oh, Canada! from iconoclast filmmaker Paul Schrader. There are more photos at that link -- the film also reunites Schrader with his American Gigolo star Richard Gere, and is an adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel Foregone about a documentarian who famously fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft  and agrees, as he nears death from cancer, to give an interview on his life. Gere plays the dying dude, and Uma Thurman plays his wife. I'm guessing Jacob Elordi holds the camera, since that is a picture of him holding a camera.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from: 

Days of Heaven (1978) 

Linda: Why are you doing this?

Abby: When I was your age, I was all by myself in the world. 

I used to sit and wrap cigars - until after dark. 

My skin was as white as paper. 

I never saw the daylight. This is not so bad.

Happy 75 to the great Brooke Adams today!

Have you bought the 4K of this movie from Criterion yet?

Getting the Gigolos Back Together

What's that, you say? An opportunity to use an image of Richard Gere in American Gigolo? Yes, I will bite. And it didn't need to be this good of news but it did anyway -- writer-director Paul Schrader is going to reunite with Gere on his next movie! They haven't worked together since that 1980 film, so this is a reunion four plus decades in the making -- it's apparently an adaptation of Russell Banks' 2021 book Foregone, which Amazon describes thusly:

"At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life. The interview is filmed by his acolyte and ex–star student, Malcolm MacLeod, in the presence of Fife’s wife and alongside Malcolm’s producer, cinematographer, and sound technician, all of whom have long admired Fife but who must now absorb the meaning of his astonishing, dark confession.

Imaginatively structured around Fife’s secret memories and alternating between the experiences of the characters who are filming his confession, the novel challenges our assumptions and understanding about a significant lost chapter in American history and the nature of memory itself. Russell Banks gives us a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past."

Sounds like something Schrader could make a real meal of, and it'd be swell for Gere to have a meaty role -- he's been doing terrific work for the past decade or so in movies that have flown under the radar but maybe this one, with this specific reunion, will make some noise. Also in that original link is word that Schrader wrote a script for Elisabeth Moss to star in and direct -- no word on what it's about but Moss has proven a solid director on The Handmaid's Tale and we of course (her awful religion aside) think she's one of the greatest actresses working today. So we'll follow this news too!

Good Morning, World

I've been too busy with other things to start watching the American Gigolo series but it looks like this week's fourth episode finally gave us some of what we were hoping for those many years back when we first posted about this project -- Jon Bernthal starring in a re-do of American Gigolo demands (at least) butt, it demands pull-ups and jumping rope in underwear... it demands some damned gratuitousness! And looks like they delivered some. Anybody watching? I have only heard bad things, which is why I haven't prioritized it. Hit the jump for all the gifs...

Pics of the Day

It is premiere day for the reboot of American Gigolo starring Jon Bernthal, and EW was kind enough to share that image to entice us all. "Entice" doesn't even begin to get that quite right -- bewitch is more like it! I haven't seen any of the series yet -- I decided not to nag at them about screeners since I have had about fifteen million other things on my plate recently -- so I'll be watching it with you fine people this weekend. I don't even know -- is this one episode a week? I could check but I'm feeling lazy. I'm just here for the pictures right now. 

Thankfully so is Tumblr, as its full of such sights right this moment. Maybe I'll just go stare at the gifs and forego the show altogether? The reviews, which I've admittedly only glanced at tweet-length, don't seem too kind? Bahh who am I kidding, I'll watch the whole damn thing at some point. I've been covering this series since it was just a glimmer in Jon Bernthal's slicked-back hair. Anyway if y'all watch it over the weekend do tell me about your experience with it in the comments. And in exchange I'll give you some more of those gifs I was talking about after the jump...

Oh I See You, Jon Bernthal

What I imagine is the final full trailer for the forthcoming American Gigolo series starring Jon Bernthal has dropped (thx Mac) -- the series premieres on Showtime on September 9th, so this will probably be it I am guessing until then. Here was our first glimpse, and you can see plenty of other earlier coverage further back in our archives -- like a horny maniac (what's new) I have been covering this one since it was very very first announced, simply a whisper of a maybe dream. Watch:

So how are we all feeling on this at this point? As expected slash worried it's reading super straight... not that Paul Schrader's original film wasn't super straight but it at least flirted with gayness -- in the way it ogled Richard Gere and in those later scenes that explicitly talked about his character's gay hustling history. But I'm not sure if this show will even go to those places? Which seems like a strange step backward? There are thankfully a couple of gratuitous flashes of Bernthal seen, but he's obviously a much butcher presence than Gere ever was. And like the series Hung did before I think it's a mistake to pretend male prostitutes can support themselves through exclusively hetero means. I just don't think that scenario is believable. But I don't know -- all I have seen is what y'all have seen. We'll see for real come September. I just hope they have some secret gay up their designer sleeves.

Jiggle Them Gigolos, Jon Bernthal

Our first official look at Jon Bernthal in the American Gigolo series that I have been going on and on and on about ever since we first heard about it has arrived via EW today -- not only are there several photos of the show's cast (which includes people who aren't Jon Bernthal, apparently, who cares), but there's also a teaser trailer, and...

... it's filled with shots like that that are doing the convincing for us, that this should exist. Obviously I don't know that Jon can approximate the effortless suave cool sleazy fuck-boy energy that Richard Gere did in Paul Schrader's 1980 movie, but I will sure watch him try! Here's the trailer:

I still don't see a release date for the series (Showtime just keeps saying "Coming Soon") but I'll keep you notified. For now hit the jump for a couple more gifs from the trailer of note...

I Quit Smoking Fourteen Years Ago Today

Cue up your best cancer cough and prepare for imminent arousal, as it's our favorite smoke-tastic time of year again -- May 5th, when I annually celebrate the day I stopped smoking cigarettes with a massive collection of photographs of celebrity actor people posing with butts in hand. The smoking kind of butts! Not the other kind -- after all we post the other kind of butts being handled 364 days a year. Today's for the simple smoking sort.

Anyway it's kinda nuts I've been doing these posts for fourteen (!!!!) full years now (click here for the entire archive) and I still haven't come anywhere near to running out of photographs -- I do keep a folder of these all year long to build up to the moment, but still, this is the easiest job I assign myself. And that's probably why I've managed to keep it up! 

But disastrously deadly health side-effects aside nobody's stopped taking these photos in the slightest. And there's something kind of horribly reassuring about that to me? Don't get me incorrect, I am incredibly glad I qui, and I don't recommend anybody start and/or continue smoking... but it remains the second sexiest damn thing I can see beautiful men doing. I'm sorry! It just is and does and I have the proof of it! Now hit the jump for dozens...

Good Morning, World

My assumption is that this photo of Jon Bernthal was taken on the set of his forthcoming update of American Gigolo because -- and this took some real hardcore detective work on my part -- he looks exactly like he looked in that footage from the set of that show that I posted last February. From the handlebar 'stache down to those gray sweats, and every tat in between. (For those of you wondering about this look matching with your image of Richard Gere in the 1980 film, Bernthal is supposed to be playing the same character once he's getting out of prison for the death at the end of the film -- and uhh spoiler alert for a 40-year-old movie.) Anyway I don't actually know where this image came from (I got it off a random Tumblr) and I still don't have any update on when this show will air but I felt the need to share the photo for obvious reasons -- if you know where it came from original do tell! I am especially curious because it looks to me like it could be a frame taken from an Insta-story and who wouldn't want to see this moment in motion? 

Good morning!

Good Morning, World

I cannot in wholly good faith recommend you watch Ivan Passer's 1981 "neo-noir" Cutter's Way, which is now streaming as part of Criterion's "Neo-Noir" series -- which has proved to be an excellent series on there, one of their best -- because Cutter's Way ain't great. Oh its leading man Jeff Bridges certainly looks phenomenal, as you can see there -- indeed I'd say that alongside Richard Gere in American Gigolo in 1980 and William Hurt in Body Heat, also in 1981, that Bridges fills out the trinity of sweaty sorta-sleazy WASPishly sharp-dressed early-80s men.

bike trails

And that might be enough reason to watch the movie on its own -- it got me through it! But other than the noted pleasure of Bridges, his mustache, his beach sweaters, there's not much to recommend... more of recommendation's opposite. For example, and primarily, John Heard gives one of the screen's most irritating performances as Bridges' bestie, the titular Cutter. The character is supposed to be a mess who ruins everybody's lives but Heard forgot to give us anything else and instead dialed "dickhead" up to fourteen. Absolutely exhausting to watch, and you actively recoil from the screen when he pops up. Which is constantly.

And I say that as someone who has found Heard extremely charming in numerous roles before. (I will always think of him as the sleepy theater-director who Bette Midler croons to from a bunny suit in Beaches.) But back to Bridges -- ogling him at his near-peak (which I'd say he reached three years after this in another bad movie, Against All Odds -- but perhaps you've got another pick?) isn't a negligible past-time, so maybe the movie will work for you on that alone. In that spirit let's do some more (and these gifs are from just the opening scene -- there's a lot more Jeff to be ogled later in the film), after the jump...

Mapplethorpe Got Stuck on Gere

Did you know that Robert Mapplethorpe photographed Richard Gere for Playgirl magazine? I did not until just now but that photo above is apparently the proof - Mapplethorpe apparently shot Gere a couple of times, and you can see two other examples down below. Anyway I bring this up because the brand new "Director's Cut" of Mapplethorpe, the 2018 film starring Doctor Who star Matt Smith as the legendary provocateur photographer, is being dropped on a bunch of streaming services today and so I went back and revisited the film for Pajiba; go read my review right here. I'll just say up-front that I'm not a fan (and I think Smith was bad casting from the start) but this here new cut of the film is slightly better than the first one I saw. Slightly. I'd rather watch a behind-the-scenes video of this Richard Gere shoot though, if I'm being honest. Like, way rather. Hit the jump for the rest...