I will always grab onto it being Holly Hunter's birthday to give a little love to not just her, one of the greats, but this apocalyptically underappreciated movie. It makes me so mad that nobody has given this movie a proper fancy release since the ancient DVD came out! It's a perfect movie, perfect. And now I'm probably gonna have to haul out my copy of the aforementioned ancient DVD and watch it for the 10,000th time tonight. Perfect. All that and Eddie Cibrian in tighty-whities -- what else do you need??? Perfect.
It's Friday and I've spent this entire week in a haze of semi-insomnia and allergy-funk so sure, let's just go with the totally random photoshoot of Jeremy Allen White from Fault magazine in 2022 that I stumbled on this morning. Not sure how I missed this at the time but I might not have been watching The Bear yet then -- I came to that show late. And I might leave that show early as well because fuck my eyes the past two seasons have been nigh unwatchable. It hit a fast high peak and then tumbled precipitously.
At least we got Ayo Edibiri out of it! And I know some people would also say we got Lionel Boyce out of it -- and hey there's a connection to today as Boyce is in this weekend's new release Project Hail Mary -- but I'm one of the few people who find the character of Marcus insufferable. Everybody else is freaking out with work while he's always standing off in his corner, day-dreaming? Do some goddamned work, Marcus! Ahem. Anyway. Just hit the jump for the new-to-me old photos...
Much like his X-Men co-star Michael Fassbender, who also proved he could fill out a race-car-driver jumpsuit and then some on his spare time, Nicholas Hoult's decided to gift the world with images of him indulging in his sexy man pastime -- and he's done it while his hair's still dyed blond to boot. He is such a good boy. I think him and Fassy should tag-team. And.... I couldn't bring myself to write any more words in that sentence. That sentence had to end right there.
Well this sure is a neat-o news announcement -- Netflix is turningCall Me By Your Name author André Aciman's 2017 book Enigma Variations into a limited series, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to star! I read this way back when it came out in 2017, right in the dizzying heights of CMBYN mania, but haven't read it since so my memory is hella hazy -- here is how Variety describes the book:
"The official logline states that the show follows Paul, “a man remade by the lovers who ignite and undo him across ten transformative years. It’s an intimate yet sweeping portrait of masculinity, sexuality, and modern love—and in a world of endless choices, it asks the question: will we know when we’ve found the one?”
I doubt I'll go back and read it again since it'll be nice to be slightly surprised by where the story goes as we watch, but it's about goddamned time ATJ did something directly appealing to his many many gay fans (besides all the nudity, I mean) -- we've been propping you up through many the flop, my man. We have earned this. To anybody who read the book and remembers a damn thing about it -- how much "sexuality" stuff we talking anyway? I really cannot for the life of me remember anything that happens in this. Memory-holed...
I feel as if there is a singularity coming between movies and video-games -- so far movies based on video-games are generally terrible, with a couple of moderate exceptions. But games have managed to become so cinematic over the past few years that... well I'm not really the expert on this since my "gaming" knowledge ended circa the Wii, and all I ever played was Mario Kart anyway. (God I love Mario Kart though.) So I didn't even know that Exit 8-- a forthcoming horror movie from Japan that I have already seen and will have stuff to say about closer to its April 10th release -- was based on a video-game when I saw it. Now that I know that though it makes perfect sense, and without being too revealing regarding my feelings on the film... well the movie's good. Okay? It's definitely one of the few the proud the great video-game movies. And I know that A24's upcoming horror flick Backrooms (see more here) is based on a series of YouTube shorts and not a game but these properties feel very similar -- hence what I was getting at with the "singularity" comment. The people making the movies of the future will generally be people familiar with video-games, and these aesthetics are going to merge in ways that are hopefully fascinating like Exit 8 and Backrooms, are, and less like the shoot-em-up movies (think the Resident Evil or the Doom movies) that we have been getting for years and don't really work as either. Okay I wasn't planning on that diatribe -- point being we just got the Exit 8 poster as seen up top and it rules. Love it. Will buy a copy when I can buy a copy. And here's the trailer. You should seek this movie out!
Impatience's nipped my bottom once again -- I guess I should've waited to see if ICON Magazine was going to drop any more photos of their newest freshest latest Taron Egerton photoshoot yesterday, but ten seemed like a lot -- I thought I was safe. That's what I get for thinking! See if I ever do that again. Today they've gifted us with seven more fine looks at Hot Bald Taron and I can't help but share. Also I just got back from a morning screening and don't have my wherewithal about me yet so this buys me some time. Hit the jump for the photos...
I know it's kinda weird that I have done two Michael B. Jordan posts this week after he beat my boy Timmy at the Oscars on Sunday but the first one saw me being magnaminous while this one... this one's much more basic in its naked thirst. This one's just me seeing a photo from 2015 before the first Creed movie came out, a photo that I'd somehow never seen until yesterday, and which I feel deserves its place here in the hallowed gratuitous archives of MNPP. Don't you agree?
Nick Potter: You know, this reminds me a little of the
palace of Caligula. You remember Caligula, don't you, dear?
Susan Potter: Oh, very well indeed. Whatever became of him?
I usually only post about my beloved Holiday around the, you guessed it, holidays. But what is the 140th anniversary of the comic legend and "lifelong committed bachelor" Edward Everett Horton if not a holiday? One of the great scene stealers there ever was or ever will be, Horton wandered through classics like Arsenic and Old Lace, Top Hat, Trouble in Paradise, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Design For Living, and on and on and on, stealing scenes left right and right off Cary Grant's bumbling lips and bumblingest hips, among many. We love him! That said Holiday is very much my go-to-fave (as it is for every single actor in it) -- but what's yours?
Since the last Matthias Schoenaerts news I'd heard before this morning was decidedly not great -- he got in legal trouble last year for allegedly driving drunk -- we're going to seize onto this more positive news because we're really rooting for the big lug to turn his shit around. This is all Terrence Malick's fault -- if Malick would just finish his damn Jesus movie The Way of the Wind Matty (who's playing Peter) would have some career momentum again. As is it's only been the terrible terrible terrible sequel to The Old Guard (and how fucking bizarre that I have just had to mention that movie two posts in a row) that Schoenaerts has had come out since The Regime, his super-fun and under-appreciated fascism-comedy with Kate Winslet. There are several other projects in his "upcoming" slate -- I talked about a couple last May right here -- but today there's headline-at-Deadline news on another one and we love to see it. Even if... well movies headlined by Halle Berry aren't exactly burning up the box office in 2026. There is a big plus in the plus column on this project though -- it's being written and directed by Ellie Foumbi, who made the fan-fucking-tastic French horror movie Our Father, the Devil in 2021. This would be her follow-up to that. Anyway I should probably get to what "this" is, huh? Here's how Deadline describes it:
"Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone), Makita Samba (Paris, 13th District) and Marton Csokas (The Equalizer) have joined Halle Berry in Fleur as filming begins in Paris this week. Berry stars as a New York housewife who flees the U.S. and her husband of thirty years (Csokas) to reinvent herself in Paris as Fleur, an upscale escort and dominatrix carving out her own power and identity. As her past collides with her new life, the question isn’t just whether she’ll return, but whether she can."
Although I agree with the commenter on my post sharing the trailer for the upcoming Netflix thriller Apex that Charlize Theron should be doing better things than the steady stream of Netflix action movies she's been stuck in for the past several years, I nevertheless find myself excited about Apex -- I just think Charlize Theron fighting a bald deranged Taron Egerton sounds like a hoot, I do. More thrillers like this and fewer like the astonishingly terrible Old Guard sequel -- if she wants to pick yp the mantle from Liam Neeson I wouldn't be angry. Tight little two-handers, full of punching and chasing...
... that sounds fun to me. Anyway Apex is out on Netflix on April 24th and in turn Taron is on the cover of ICON Magazine this month (via) showing off his shaved head from the movie and -- hot. We are hot for the bald on him. He can keep this look, if he wants to. I won't argue. Hit the jump for the rest...
Even though I'm as ever superhero agnostic I'll always share a trailer for a Spider-Man movie --everybody loves Spier-Man and I am not immune to this. Not when they keep finding adorable twinks to fill out the skin-tight spandex and yes, Tom Holland is somehow still falling, against all odds of age, under that metric. Plus it's fun to see Jon Bernthal's sexy-ass Punisher from Daredevil showing up to order him around (and by "fun" I mean "deeply erotic" obviously) -- and speaking of Daredevil, is this him:
I'd love Charlie Cox to come along for the ride! (And feel free to impose all the filthy puns into that phrase as you see fit.) That said this teaser is... a little underwhelming. He's fighting ninjas? Okay. If you say so. Watch:
So who out there saw The Housemaid? I did, I did, although I got to it pretty late -- I didn't see it in theaters, I only got around to it once it'd hit VOD. Anyway it came out on 4K blu-ray yesterday so I'm here to say that it's perfectly fun and twisty trash; I do like this turn that director Paul Feig's made in his career, from straight-up comedies to camp thrillers. He brings his queer-seeming sensibilities (I still don't understand how he's married to a woman but whatever, there's room under the rainbow for him, says me) to movies like this and the Simple Favor series... by which I mean he films Brandon Sklenar as he's seen in these gifs here (or these even nuder ones here) and he films Henry Golding as seen in this older post. Seriously. Nobody's exploiting beautiful dudes like Paul Feig is right now.
(See more photos from this new shoot of Mads Mikkelsen right here) Extremely excellent news today that Pushing Daisies and Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller's deliriously delightful directorial debut Dust Bunny -- the big toothed monster movie starring Mads and Sigourney Weaver -- is indeed getting a physical media release! You never know these days. And it's a 4K disc no less, which drops on April 28th, and which you can pre-order right here. Here's a look at it:
You can read my review of this movie right here -- it's a shame this movie got such a small release because it's so much fun and so inventive and colorful and everythingm we associate with the Pushing Daisies meastro, but now that it'll be available this way I'm hoping, as I said in my review, that it proves to be a cult in the making. It's the perfect gateway horror flick to show your own kids or your nieces and nephews to turn them into psychos and sickos like we are!
I am totally stealing these from @bryanfuller.bsky.social elsewhere but dig these killer photos of Sigourney Weaver bts on DUST BUNNY. Congrats to her on her much deserved Saturn nomination for Best Supporting Actor!
It was just last week that I admitted to my 90s-brain on the sexiness of overalls (because Joe Alwyn rocked a pair) so how'd I miss this photo of Kumail Nanjiani in the last "Sexiest Man Alive" issue then? I guess I was probably still on the floor from the Joanthan Bailey shoot contained therein but still, no excuse. Anyway! Excellent news this mroning as a new batch of names have been droppeed (via Deadline) as The White Lotus' fourth season cast members -- and yes Kumail is right there up front. He's not the only hot piece in the bunch though, because Mike White loves us -- also named (joining the previously announced Chris Messina and Alexander Ludwig and Vincent Cassel among many) are adorable Max Greenfield...
... and The Sex Lives of College Girls actor Charlie Hall, seen down below. He's Julia Louis-Dreyfus' son! I had to look back through Charlie's credits to figure out why I was already following him on Instagram and was reminded he played the police officer on Ryan Murphy's Ed Gein show whose mother (played by an astonishing-as-always Lesley Manville) was murdered by Charlie Hunnam. He was great in that role! I know that series got a lot of shit as exploitative but I really dug it. Fuck the discourse. Anyway speaking of "the discourse" I can't wait to see what psychotic behavior Mike White has all of these hotties getting up to in France. How's he ever gonna top last season's bro-cest? I have many perverted ideas, Mike... MANY. Just hit me up if you need any inspiration.
I've only ever read the first Dune book and I never watched the Children of Dune miniseries, so my knowledge of the weirdnesses that happens down the road in the Dune stories is limited to hearing random things here and there -- some sort of galactic space worm or something? Anyway the teaser for the third Dune movie Dune Messiah has just dropped today (or are they just calling it Dune Part Three now? Yawn) and I am excited! Especially with Robert Pattinson looking like such a freak in it. Freaky Robert Pattinson is always a good sign. This movie isn't out until December 18th though, so let's not let ourselves go too wild. Practice patience! And watch:
Thoughts?
Nothing will ever top Matt Keeslar as Feyd-Rautha in the 2000 miniseries though - the height of Cinema!
"I too quit smoking (2013) AND find this type of pictures cool. Also, PSA: if you're feeling like you want to start smoking again, just remind yourself "I do not want my body and house to stink like stale horseshit", then go drink one more glass of water to entertain your hands and lips. Congrats, btw."
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