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Monday, September 08, 2025

Did anybody watch the premiere of Mark Ruffalo's new HBO series Task last night? From the creator of Mare of Eastwood, or so I'm told. I did not because I'm in the middle of a Foundation binge and everything's on hold while I catch up on that show (just started the second season and saw Lee Pace's naked fight!) but I have ever intention of jumping on this show once that's done -- anyway Mark's promoting the thing by busting out ye ol' reliable man-fur for Flaunt magazine today and we sure as hell say huzzah over that! Hit the jump for the full shoot...

When Aaron Taylor-Johnson showed up at Venice last week looking like a hairy beast I wasn't sure what the fuck he was doing -- I mean we're clearly not getting a Kraven sequel. I'm embarrassed to admit it took this new Esquire interview for me to realize that DUHHH he's all bearded up to reunite with his Nosferatu director Robert Eggers on his werewolf movie! According to him he's already started working on Werwulf, although the official beginning of filming is TODAY -- here's what else ATJ's got to say on the project (don't get too excited, it's fairly insubstantial PR speak stuff he's saying):

"Other than being a phenomenal filmmaker and a strong visionary for these genre movies, I really loved being in his presence. He’s a strong filmmaker, he knows exactly what he wants, and he's very much in control. I like being an actor that is under the influence of a strong director. There are just limitations and boundaries within that, and it allows you to then differentiate between the other things you do, because he's so strong and bold in his style. I felt very honoured and privileged that he asked me to do something else with him. And Willem Dafoe also, and Lily Rose Depp. The company he keeps is just extraordinarily talented people. Same heads of department, same costume. And Jaren, our cinematographer who did Nosferatu and every other movie he's done. I mean, he's got a very strong, distinctive voice. As an actor, you just feel very lucky and privileged to be a part of it, really."

Behold the Dust Bunny Trailer!

A long long long awaited happy day here at MNPP HQ as Pushing Daisies and Hannibal creator and friend-of-MNPP Bryan Fuller's feature-film directing-debut Dust Bunny is premiering at TIFF tonight! No as I just said in my previous post I'm not in Toronto so I'm not there to see the movie yet but I'm still psyched for our friend and can't wait to see this myself. Starring Mads Mikkelsen as a contract killer who's hired by a little girl named Aurora (Sophie Sloan) to murder the monster that lives under her bed, we all don't have to feel as if we're missing out on seeing the movie tonight in Canada -- they just dropped the first trailer! Watch:

Goosebumps! It looks fuckin' incredible. Pushing Daisies meets The Matrix! Even better we-ve got a release date too and it's so much sooner than I expected -- it's out December 5th! Holy shit! It all looks spectacular but most of all I cannot wait to see what the monster that Bryan created looks like. This man's imagination is unparalleled. Also -- hey Sigourney...

Three Hot Men For the Price of None

I'm not in Toronto right now with all of the other critics but that's okay because the actors on the scene are giving the rest of us a real fucking show -- this weekend it was one hot sexy snap of our faves after another. The menfolk are demanding attention! And we're ready to give it! Even though I shared all three of these pictures on Bluesky already they need to be documented here at MNPP proper. Most especially the above photo of James McAvoy manspreading in a kilt -- that's a look for the record books. You know that line in Clueless about an "unequivocal sex invite"? It's very much that. God damn James, you devil.

Not that this photo of Chris Evans inviting us to the gun (and pec) show is any sorta slouch! Chris is looking good! (What's new?) Not that I have any idea what movie either him or James are at TIFF for -- I thought for a second that Chris might be reprising his role from the first one in the new Benoit Blanc mystery that premiered at the same time this photo dropped but no, we're not that lucky. (Word on the new Knives Out is semi-ecstatic though so I'm extremely excited.) Anyway finally that brings us to longtime crush Wagner Moura, and we do know what movie he's at TIFF for -- he's there for The Secret Agent, the extremely buzzy new movie from Bacurau director Kleber Mendonça Filho. As a massive Bacurau-head (yes that's a thing) I'm practically foaming at the mouth for this one -- thankfully I only have to foam for a little over week since I'll be seeing it for NYFF next Thursday. Look at that sweet smile! Aww.

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Good Morning, World

French actor Arnaud Valois has been feeding us lately (see also Friday's post) and given I'm aa glutton for gratuity I'm eating every drop! Gobble gobble gobble et cetera. Over the weekend he shared a few photos of himself at the Deauville Film Fest in France and rewarded those of us not there on his arm with a few choice morsels. Hit the jump to you know, eat some breakfast...

Happy Friday

I had a screening this morning, hence it being a little quiet around here, so let's make it loud with this video of Jason Momoa smacking Oscar Isaac's chunky bum hard on the red carpet in Venice yesterday (thx Mac). This was at their premiere for Julian Schnabel's new movie In the Hand of Dante. I want to be Jason Momoa's friend. He's so blessedly handsy. Get handsy with me, Jason!

Jason Momoa and Oscar Isaac caught CANOODLING

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Good Morning, World

Very kind and generous of French actor Arnaud Valois

to offer us this stiff wake-up call. (click to embiggen, via)

Thursday, September 04, 2025

Papa Pedro All Up on Lil Danny's Back

A week ago I told you that Pedro Pascal might be taking over Joaquin Phoenix's last-second-abandoned role in Todd Haynes' next movie, which would see him making sweet sweet love to Danny Ramirez. And now we have this photo (via) of Pedro and Danny together? WHAT COULD IT MEAN???? I mean obviously we know what it means -- they're fucking. Cinematically! Cinematically of course. I would never insinuate otherwise. Not without photos. And whoever has those photos you can find my email address in the profile section of the sidebar!

Manny Jacinto Five Times

I considered doing this post as one of our "Fanboy Delusions" posts where I would offer up some vulgar pun about office sex with our dear boy Manny -- here photographed for Harper's Bazaar (via, thx Mac) -- but... well to be honest I couldn't think of a good one. Any suggestions? Let's brainstorm some work-place filthiness in the comments! What, you have something better to do than that? Like what, watch the news? Now that's perverse. Anyway hit the jump for the rest of the photos of the hottest copy-boy ever...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Sisters (1972)

Grace: I want to write about the apathy in the police force,
about where the heroin goes after a bust,
about the fat political cats!
Mrs. Collier: You don't have to shout right here on the street.
What's the matter with you? I've never seen you like this.
Grace: I'm on to something big!
Mrs. Collier: Are you on diet pills again?

A happy 81 to actress Jennifer Salt, who's the lead in this incredible early De Palma movie and yet always gets overshadowed -- for obvious reasons, but still -- by Margot Kidder's deranged double performance as killer twins. I'm as guilty of it as anybody -- every time I sit down to re-watch the movie I'm like, "Oh right, her!" Which is mean of me because she's a lot of fun in the movie -- just in the not-quite-so-showy part. (Her and Kidder were roommates before they made it big.) Salt hasn't acted since 1990 but when she was acting she did lots of notable stuff, from Play It Again Sam to Brewster McCloud to Midnight f'ing Cowboy. (Her father won an Oscar for writing the latter's screenplay.) And here's something you might not know -- she's spent the past twenty-plus years being a producer on several Ryan Murphy projects including Nip/Tuck, Ratched, and American Horror Story! How great is that? She also co-wrote the script for Eat Pray Love! We love this for her.

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Pics of the Day

A pair of new photos from Pillion, the forthcoming gay biker "romance" starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling, have been dug up by some internet sleuths today (via) -- not the finest quality just yet (you can no doubt clock the blackened edges fading out in the corners) but since we're obsessed with this movie we'll post them until we do have better copies! I'm seeing this in two and a half weeks for NYFF so if we can just make it until then all will be okay. But lord knows every day is a goddamned struggle in 2025 so I'm not taking anything for granted...

Good Morning, World

Mason Gooding says good day, sir.

Wednesday, September 03, 2025

The Universe Would Turn to a Mighty Stranger

I know a lot of people find Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell's provocations hollow and obnoxious but, as anybody who was around here during Saltburn-mania 2023 knows well, I'm not one of those people. I find her movies and her provocations delightful -- people take it all way too seriously when it comes to her. She's just making black comedies about privileged assholes, but the fact that she comes from the world of privileged assholes keeps confusing people. Perfectly reasonable people get very precious all of a sudden. I don't get it. Saltburn is one of the funniest movies of the decade dammit. Anyway people are already for a dozen reasons up in arms about her adaptation of Wuthering Heights which stars Jacob Elordi...

... (as you can plainly see) opposite Margot Robbie, and judging by this teaser just dropped today she's turned it into a full-scale bodice-ripper with heaving cleavage and, well, even more heaving cleavage. And I cannot fucking wait! Bodice-rippings, swarthy stable-boys, technocolor heaving cleavage -- this thing is one Fabio short of a romance novel cover brought to life and I'm so very here for it. I mean I also love Andrea Arnold's extremely beautiful and restrained adaptation too -- why can't we have both?? Anyway watch:

This isn't out until Valentine's Day 2026 so we've got several months to wait, and probably listen to a bunch of people find something else to be annoyed about before they've seen it -- personally I just mostly want to know what the fuck is happening in this second-long shot from that teaser:

Like... what the fuck am I looking at? Do I even want to know? I do! Oh I do totally want to know! Anyway if you've got thoughts or feelings feel free to shate them with me in the commnets... i fo you can pull yourself away from these gifs anyway!

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Superman (1978)

Miss Teschmacher: It's too good to be true.
He's 6' 4", has black hair, blue eyes, doesn't drink,
doesn't smoke, and tells the truth.
Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher, some people can read
War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple
adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a
chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Miss Teschmacher: Lex, what has chewing gum
got to do with the secrets of the universe?

A very happy birthday to the great Valerie Perrine today! It took all my energy not to use a quote of hers legendary performance in the Village People masterpiece Can't Stop the Music but I figured since a new Superman movie just got announced today this was fitting.

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But speaking of Miss Teschmacher -- what did y'all think of Sara Sampaio's turn in the role in the James Gunn movie? I was worried for most of the film that the whole dimbulb "influencer" stereotype was too much, but I do think the movie flipped it on its head by the end and she was pretty funny. And I know there are a lot of people who'd lose their minds for some of some in-depth Skyler Gisondo reporting. Personally I like my journalism nerds in the form of Marc McClure's Jimmy Olsen... hey! That gives me an idea...