Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Good Morning, World

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Did everybody have a happy quarantine holiday?

Get anything trimmed like Jonathan Tucker here? (via)

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Enjoy Your Holiday

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Play some indoor sports.

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Shining (1980)

Wendy: Hey. Wasn't it around here that 

the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy: Oh.

Danny: What was the Donner Party?

Jack: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. 

They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. 

They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy: Jack...

Danny: Don't worry, Mom. I know all 

about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack: See, it's okay. He saw it on the television. 

The Shining turns 40 tomorrow! And since I won't be posting tomorrow, in a brave accordance with my wish to continue observing the former entity known as "weekends," I post this news today, on a Friday. Yes, it is a Friday. Apparently. Anyway I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch The Shining tonight in order to celebrate, maybe you should too. But just for Shelley Duvall. Because she's the real reason for the season. Read my previous piece on her perfect performance over at TFE. Shelley forever.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

...making it to the top with Miguel.

(via) The video that he posted in his Stories is legit terrifying so I'll spare you the bulk of that -- mostly because there are people all around him and I'm not convinced he's entirely paying attention as he takes the video. Don't fall off a mountain for Insta-likes, Miguel!!!

Five Frames From ?

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Some Love For Grandma

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Heads-up about a terrific movie that's out in them so-called "virtual theaters" today -- I saw Sasie Sealy's Lucky Grandma last year at Tribeca and reviewed it here and it (the movie, not necessarily my review) is worth your time. Mainly because of the lead performance from Tsai Chin as, you guessed it, that Lucky Grandma herself -- she's an absolute blast in the story of an ornery Chinatown gambler who gets embroiled in some old-fashioned (as in 1980s, this movie feels very 1980s) shenanigans above her pay-grade. There's a lot of over-the-top antics with gangsters and the like, but Chin really anchors the whole thing with her totally convincing work. It's a nice little movie. You can find where to watch the movie on its website.

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Joel Kinnaman Ten Times

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These shots (via) are apparently outtakes from some shoot that our little Joely did last year, but glancing back through last year's shoots it's like, five thousand of them? So I don't know which one they're from, and I'm not too terrifically concerned with digging up the details. Not when I've got the end result, this end result, staring back. These ends justify my no means. Hit the jump for 'em...

If This Is Old I Must be Ancient

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We've got the first trailer for The Old Guard today -- The Old What, you ask? The Old Guard, I said. I mean damn. I said it five seconds ago. Pay some attention. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood who made the ace flick Beyond the Lights a couple of years back The Old Guard stars Charlize Theron as the leader of a group of slightly-immortal mercenary warriors and KiKi Layne as a new round these immortal parts type, and all that's well and good but the real juice far as I'm concerned comes from the cast of menfolk Theron immortals around with...

... namely my main man Matthias Schoenaerts, "Hot Jafar" Marwen Kenzari (more here) and upcoming Italian actor Luca Marinelli (more here). And supposedly from what I hear those last two, Luca & Marwen, are playing a couple!

Yes please. And as if all that's not plenty (and it is, plenty) 

the bad guy is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor! We heart Chewy!

Netflix is releasing the film on July 10th!
And oh right here's that trailer:

Click here for some previously posted photos from the film,
and click here for our very first post about the flick.
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More Movies Where Women Go WIld

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Dean 2.0 pic.twitter.com/CW9ukovcO9

— Alessandro Nivola (@SandroNivola) May 20, 2020

I'm doing a post about two separate movie things right now, their only connection being that the central people involved are married in real life. But they're one of our best most talented celebrity movie couples, so it's okay! I speak of Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, of course -- first up, as seen above, that's the very first photo I've seen anywhere of Nivola playing the lusty mountain man who sets all the nuns ablaze in the BBC adaptation of Black Narcissus. I told you this was happening last year --checking IMDb this week I was glad to see they're in post-production on it, meaning it got filmed before shutdown & hopefully we'll get it this fall!

And then as for Emily Mortimer, a few weeks back I shared with y'all the first images from the real buzzy horror flick Relic, which IFC Midnight is releasing on July 10th -- well now we've got a creepy-ass teaser-trailer to go along with it. This is probably the last trailer I'm going to watch personally since it seems like plenty -- a longer one will start giving away the film's scares and who needs that? All I know is I'm monstrously jealous of all the critics that are quoted in this thing, because they have seen it. Still they're dropping comparisons to Hereditary and The Babadook so best to prepare your souls.

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

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I had a, uhh, dream about Lil' Papi from Pose last night, and when I woke up I realized I hadn't ever posted this bit from the last season of Pose here on the site. That ain't right. (See what we have previously posted, Papi-wise, at this link.) 

Anyway this got me to wondering, eventually, about what's happening with Pose's third season -- the show usually debuts in the summertime but I doubt they're going to be shooting it anytime soon. A Papi delayed is a Papi denied!

Pics of the Day

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Vanity Fair has our very first look at the new -- And timely! Gotta say timely! -- adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand, which finished filmed this past March right before COVID shut the world down; actually they say they had to stop filming four days early, but still -- how about that timing for a miniseries about a pandemic shutting down the entire world? That's some uncanniness right there. VF has a few more pictures but I grabbed the ones of a seriously bearded Alexander Skarsgard, who's playing the big bad Randall Flagg -- I so would end up following him wouldn't I? Oh well. We all make choices! Speaking of choices -- should I re-read The Stand right now? I haven't read it in twenty years and I feel like there's no time, literally none, like The Present. Sheesh. Anyway CBS plans on premiering this mini-series this fall, so get yourselves ready for that.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Seven Times

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Oh how did they know? How did they know that what I needed today, the exact thing, was seven photos of Nikolaj wearing pretty clothes being pretty? There's the obvious answer -- that's what I want every single day -- and there's the correct answer... which is that same thing. Anyway thank you to Haute Living magazine for this, that, and the other one. (via, thx Mac)

 In related news Nicky's got a new movie hitting soon! It's called Exit Plan and it's from the Danish director of the 2014 arty girl-werewolf horror flick When Animals Dream -- did any of you see that? I did and I recall thinking it fascinating, but my memory's a bit vague at this exact juncture. Exit Plan has Nicky playing an insurance claims investigator who is sent to a secretive medical facility that's known for assisted suicides and dun dun dun scary shit happens. That said the most important thing is...

... Nicky rocks a big ol' mustache in it.

High stache alert! Here's the trailer:

It's sort of reminding me of that Gore Verbinski movie A Cure For Wellness, although hopefully it's less up-its-own-ass than Verbisnki's movie was. In all seriousness I do love a creepy remote medical facility horror movie -- it's a great sub-genre. Also this one appears to have a bunch of gorgeous Danish architecture plus Nicky soaking in a boy's-only hot-tub...

... (that's Robert Aramayo aka "Young Ned" on Game of Thrones that's soaking with him), so consider me in! Exit Plan hits streaming on June 12th (they're also saying it will play theaters but... yeah, let's not count on that). That business aside let's get back to that photo-shoot! See the rest after the jump...

And Man Made Fire

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Have y'all been watching Davd Lynch's "weather reports" on his YouTube channel? I'd be a big fat lying liar if I said I was -- I love that they exist and I am happy to exist alongside them but whenever I think about watching them I just stare at my feet for another ten minutes and suddenly I am standing in traffic. That's nothing against David Lynch, whom I consider to be the world's greatest living filmmaker obviously -- it's more against me and the way my mind has been working lately. That happens with everything! I'm supposed to brush my teeth? Oh whoops I am in traffic again. Anyway today Lynch gifted us with more than one of his "weather reports" -- today he gifted us with a ten-minute short-film called "Fire (Pozar)" and I will totally handcuff myself to the sofa, no traffic, for that. Here tis:

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Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

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Normally I would just add these photos of Mark Ruffalo in the HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True to yesterday's post about Mark Ruffalo in the HBO miniseries I Know This Much is True, but I have actually watched the first two episodes now -- something I mentioned in yesterday's post as having been not the case. You know I watched the episodes because that is how I know about these extra few snippets of Ruffalo skin, scattered about the thing.

Anyway I have to agree with MNPP pal "Aquinas1220" who commented on yesterday's post about the show's total lack of "levity or light" -- I will probably keep watching it because it's well-acted and beautifully shot by Cianfrance, but it's a real difficult sit at this precise moment in time; it's so relentlessly dreary, almost to the point where you start to reflexively laugh at the darknesses being constantly cast down upon on these folks. This is some Book of Job shit. Maybe it'll be easier if I just watch one episode per week. Anybody else have thoughts? Hit the jump for more gifs (although I recommend yesterday's post for the better gratuity)...

Watch Out For That Wax!

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Fay Wray sure knew how to scream! That, as a statement, surprises nobody. Even if a person's never actually seen the original King Kong they know that much. Her screams are quite possibly The Screams -- the screams by which all other screams have been measured. But did you know she screamed a whole bunch in another terrific horror movie made in 1933? It's called Mystery of the Wax Museum and it was directed by the great Michael Curtiz (who also gave us The Adventures of Robin Hood, White Christmas, Mildred Pierce, Captain Blood, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, and oh right just a little thing called Casablanca) and it stars Fay Wray alongside...

... a little minx named Glenda Farrell, and Farrell, Wray's screams aside, is why we're here talking about Mystery of the Wax Museum. There are actually a lot of reasons to talk about the film -- for one the brand new restoration that Warner Archive just released onto blu-ray last week proves the film to be one of the greatest visual statements in early Horror Film, period. The two-color Technicolor process tosses us into an uncanny macaroon nightmare place of pinks and greens and murky blue-blacks -- it's like Caligari on acid; it's truly unlike anything else I have ever seen. 

But beyond that it also contains a performance from Farrell that immediately thrust itself among my all-time faves, and I just wrote up a lot of the reason why over at The Film Experience for this week's edition of "Great Moments in Horror Actressing" so click on over and check that out. She's an absolute firecracker, and the lineage from this performance of hers to an entirely separate but legendary and beloved icon, which I trace over there, makes this flick important even beyond its own pinky-hued greatness.

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

A Single Man (2009)

Carlos: No one has ever picked me up 

and not wanted something.

George: I think you picked me up. 

This is kind of a serious day for me.

Carlos: Come on. What could be 

so serious for a guy like you?

George: I'm just trying to get over 

an old love I guess.

Carlos: My mother says that lovers are like buses. 

You just have to wait a little while 

and another one comes along.

A happy 35 to model turned sometime actor Jon Kortajarena today! Although his IMDb page has more acting credits than I realized he'd have I still think he models more than he acts, and why wouldn't he, with that face, that torso, that... well that everything. (See more photos of him on our Tumblr.)

But the last thing we saw from him was actually an acting thing -- he had a nice (gay again) role on an episode of Tales from the Loop, Amazon's low-fi sci-fi series I recently championed here on the site. Have you watched that yet? God I love it.

Anyway nothing I have to say about Jon's career, whether it be modeling or acting or being paparazzi'd out and about with Luke Evans for several years way back when wink wink, nothing I have to say will sum up all of my feelings quite like the video that Miguel Angel Silvestre posted today for Jon's birthday of the two of them vigorously brushing their teeth together, so I'll let it do the talking for me.

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Happy birthday to my dear friend @kortajarenajon My brother from Bilbao Felicidades teteeeee❗️❗️❗️

A post shared by Miguel Angel Silvestre (@miguelangelsilvestre) on May 19, 2020 at 1:09am PDT