Despite all of the weird release delays I'm still so happy that A24 was the company that snapped up Harry Lighton's "dom-com" Pillion y'all. They're the best at ridiculous marketing gimmicks and without them selling this movie I'd never have gotten to own an orgy commemorative plate (see below) or a "Good Boys" candle as seen above, which they've just dropped the pre-order for on their site. And where would my life be without these things??? Anyway that delightful doggie candle is in honor of the movie hitting VOD today at last -- you can rent it right here. And if you happened to miss my review of my fourth favorite movie of 2025 one of the ten thousand other times that I posted it since seeing it at NYFF last fall, click here. In the email where A24 announced the VOD drop they also mention that the blu-ray for Pillion is coming soon -- I do hope they consider a 4K disc! -- and surely I'll scream about that when the time comes, too. I been Pillion-pilled!!!
PILLION ORGY COMMEMORATIVE PLATE IN DA HOUSE!!!! @a24movies.bsky.social
Well Disney definitely knows who they're courting with tonight's new episode of Daredevil! They released a handful of new images from the second episode today and uhh obviously we're fixated on this one of Charlie Cox here -- I really can't imagine why. If you care about the others, none of which feature a half-naked Charlie Cox, you can see them at this link, but why bother? You're sold, right? You're already sold. So just sit and stare at this one until the new episode is on. And I guess I should boot up the old gif-maker for tomorrow...
We have all lost our damn fool minds, but what I have for you today is one of the good -- heck one of the best -- responses to the madness I've seen. Use art for good not evil! Candyman and Hedda and The Bone Temple director Nia DaCosta just directed a four-plus-minute horror short film for Verizon that stars Heated Rivalry hunk-and-a-half Connor Storrie... and his magnificent ass. (Talk about a bone temple.) And yes I admit that I got the punchline five seconds into this thing but it was a joy, a pleasure, to behold anyway, so without spoiling it myself I will just let you discover it for yourself below. If we have to be crazy then let us be crazy this way.
Contunuing the sometimes-successful trend of late of movies made from books getting now stretched out to multi-episode prestige miniseries' length -- think Dead Ringers, Presumed Innocent, Ripley et cetera -- we now have a third filmed version of John D. MacDonald's 1957 novel The Executioners coming our way... which we all know better by its adapted title of Cape Fear. Previously there's been the 1962 movie with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and then of course there is Martin Scorsese's 1992 remake with Nick Nolte and Robert De Niro -- and now, landing on June 5th, we have Patrick Wilson and Javier Bardem tackling the roles of the good family man lawyer and the evil criminal who comes back to torment him. Plot twist, though -- in 2026 it's not just one but two prosecutors in the family, and so the wife character (previously played by Polly Bergen and Jessica Lange) is now co-responsible for the bad dude's imprisonment. All the better to give Amy Adams something to do in the role. Here, just watch the trailer:
The excellent news about this series is it's coming to us -- well yes it was executive produced by both Scorsese and one Steven Spielberg. That's sort of a big deal. But the actual person running this show is Nick Antosca, and we LOVE Nick Antosca thanks to a couple of series he ran several years back -- specifically the horror anthology Channel Zero as well as the too-too-short-lived series Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix. Channel Zero in particular is my beloved, and cemented Antosca as a person I will follow forever. That said -- hypocrisy alert -- I still haven't gotten around to watching his last project A Friend of the Family starring Jake Lacy. I kept forgetting it existed -- repeat with me my favorite refrain, "There are too many damn shows."
Anyway. I'm a really over-the-top fan of Scorsese's film Cape Fear -- it's for real a Top 5 Scorsese movie for me, even while he himself isn't really a fan of it. It barely figured into his recent career-retrospective documentary, which irritated me. I adore how operatic and purple it goes -- I find it riveting, with Lange fluttering her hands in every direction madly and De Niro literally chomping chunks out of the scenery. This 2026 version seems to be aping a lot of that film visually -- there are shots taken straight from it in this trailer. I guess we'll see. I know I'll be watching. And I have to say I wouldn't be angry if Bardem's terrifying flirtations landed on Patrick Wilson this time. Just a thought!
I assume that some of you might be young enough to have not experienced in real time the sex-quake that resulted from this shot of Brad Pitt in Fight Club in 1999 -- the walls of every movie theater across the land shook with the revelation of this ab-splosion! It was a glorious moment in male exploitation, lemme tell ya. Anyway David Fincher has slowly been remastering his movies in 4K as of late and now it's Fight Club's turn and I don't know about you but I definitely feel the need to re-experience this moment in cinematic history in glorious 4K -- you can pre-order the disc here. It's out on May 12th. I actually haven't re-watched Fight Club in years but it's been on a mind a whole lot what with anarchic thoughts of fucking the system up becoming an every-minute-occurance in 2026, so I look forward to this revisit. It won't just be about the abs this time. But the abs help. They're a great delivery system.
Yesterday I was trying to figure out if Jamie Dornan did any bits on SNL UK (which he hosted this past weekend) where he took his clothes off, but instead of figuring that out what I found was this vintage photo of baby Jamie from his modeling days. What year do we think this is? I'm guessing early Aughts since he's definitely younger here than he was in Marie Antoinette in 2006. Anyway -- did anybody watch Jamie host the new UK edition of SNL? I saw one skit posted on social media and it was an excellent reminder that Jamie is a great comedian and he should be getting roles in comedies more. Hell he should be getting roles more, period. The people demand more Dornan dammit!
F1 actor Damson Idris is on the cover of ICON America this month but so far all they've released is this photo and the actual cover (seen here) -- I'm hoping the shoot tends more toward the one seen here than it does the cover shot where he is cruelly completely clothed. Anyway I don't have time to wait and see if they drop the entire shoot today because -- plot twist!! -- I am leaving early today for a couple of screenings. "Early" meaning "right this minute." I've got a double-feature of Robert Pattinson and Princess Peach to tumble through today, sorry! Today's the only day this week like this though, so we'll be back spouting our nonsense at you full-time come tomorrow. Until then hold onto your butts...
Bulworth: Yo, everybody gonna get sick someday / But nobody knows how they gonna pay / Health care, managed care, HMOs / Ain't gonna work, no sir, not those / 'Cause the thing that's the same in every one of these / Is these motherfuckers there, the insurance companies!
Tanya: Insurance! Insurance!
Bulworth: Yeah, yeah / You can call it single-payer or Canadian way / Only socialized medicine will ever save the day! Come on now, lemme hear that dirty word - SOCIALISM!
Up front I have to admit that I have never seen Bulworth -- I guess I was into what the kids call "cringe" before the kids were calling it "cringe" because the sight of Warren Beatty rapping in the trailers for this movie in 1998 made all of my insides recoil right up into my insides and I never got over it. But I have heard good things about Bulworth -- any fans of it out there? I was going to say that it's a shame it was the last movie Warren Beatty ever directed, but it's not actually that at all -- I think I can be forgiven for forgetting 2016's Rules Don't Apply exists though. (Sorry Alden Ehrenreich.) Anyway it's Warren's birthday today and we wish him a good one, where ever it is that he's been squirreled away by Annette Bening -- there's a really ridiculously long rap quoted on this movie's IMDb page that I came really close to using as our quote in this post but chickened out; it's kind of terrifying how much of what he was saying in 1998 remains true / has only worsened with time, though. We're falling apart. Happy Monday!
I'm completely forgotten that Michael Fassbender is starring in a Netflix miniseries about the Kennedy clan -- the old-timey pre-President one -- called simply Kennedy. But here's the first photo of him in character on the set as Joe Kennedy Sr. (via, thx Mac) -- this means very little to me since I have no idea what Joe Kennedy looked like nor do I particularly care; and while I'm at it I'll admit I know and care very little about the Kennedy family from then. (I can tell you right now they're never gonna be as fascinating as the Bouvier-Beales were, that's for damn sure.) Anyway I will watch the series and believe whatever it tells me since on top of Fassy it co-stars Wyatt Russell, Cole Doman, Nick Robinson, Imogen Poots, Denis O'Hare, Toby Huss and Eddie Marsan among others -- if you wanna know who they're all playing click that link up above. I imagine they're timing this photo drop to the finale of Love Story about JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette, which dropped (like a pilot plane plummeting into the Atlantic) last night -- and before you tell me anything wait to do that until tomorrow, because I'm watching the finale tonight. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
I don't know if you guys have been paying attention or scrolling down but that post of Charles Melton photos for L'Officiel Hommes that I posted on Wednesday has been getting bigger and bigger by the day -- you might say it's been swelling, engorging even -- as, predicatably, more photos have landed. I'd said that would probably happen, and it did, and once again I have proven my worth. Not that anyone notices! Ahem. Anyway even more landed last night but it didn't feel right to toss these off into the bottom of that ever expanding post anymore -- especially since these shots somehow, inexplicably, keep getting...
... hotter and hotter by the day. And if they're going to be this generous than I will too. So here, a second post! You've earned it, Charles. No but really, though -- I can't say much about it because I'm embargoed but I got the screeners for the second season of Beef this week, which is what Charles is promoting with this photoshoot (it lands on April 16th) and... believe me, you guys, Charles earns it. Charles earns everything. Beef season two is a veritable smorgasbord of Charles Melton in short shorts, and less. I'm only two episodes in and... heaven. Anyway! Don't tell anybody I said that. And as your silence's reward hit the jump...
Because I never watched Ted Lasso all I picture when I see Phil Dunster is him getting pounded by Julian Morris in the miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt back in 2017 -- ahhh sweet sweet memories. I didn't even know who Dunster was when that aired but in the time since I have come, with that newfound recognition, to appreciate the scene even more. Anyway all that is to say that because of that -- and because of this Ted Lasso scene I was very aware of even if I didn't watch the show -- Dunster's always been an ass-first kinda guy for me, and I'm glad to see the photographer for Schön! magazine clearly agreed with me, given the above photo. Make sure to get his good side! Anyway blessedly big-bottomed Phil is on a show called Rooster (the joke's write themselves) now -- anybody watching? Tell me about it in the comments if you are, but first please hit the jump for these photos...
I feel like one day the world will get The Matrix Ressurections for the deconstructionist masterpiece that it is, but that day doesn't seem to be today (although I know I'm not alone on this island, so cheers to those of you who agree) -- anyway a happy 41st birthday to our boy Jonny Groff today! This is kind of a weird choice of a quote to celebrate him with -- something from Looking or Mindhunter probably would've made more sense, but I actually love watching our sweet boy get to play villainous in this flick. Great fun was had! But speaking of Looking -- anybody done a re-watch lately? I have very much been feeling a re-watch coming on. In summation, this photo of a Baby Groff that I have never seen before:
A brief update to Tuesday's post about the Heated Rivalry soundtrack getting a physical media release -- it's released! Well the pre-order, anyway. Click here and the vinyl can be yours on July 10th. That's just a couple of days before my birthday -- it's like they knew. And if they did know then I expect my vinyl to arrive in a ridiculously too large box, one which any one of the show's four male breakout stars -- Storrie, Williams, Arnaud and Robbie G.K. -- will then pop out of to wish me a happy birthday in whatever way they see fit. Well whatever way I see fit. It's my birthday, I make the rules! What was I talking about? Oh right, a record or whatever. Gotta run, got thoughts to think, bye...
I was going to say that I really wasn't sure why Netflix's in-house magazine Tudum was doing a feature on Charlie Hunnam here in March of 2026 when the show they're talking about (his Ed Gein series) is six months old now -- but then I realized this is probably an Emmy thing, right? I pay zero point zero percent attention to the Emmys so I have even less awareness of their schedule than I do the Oscars but I do believe Charlie still has the opportunity to be nominated for that series for the Emmys. Right? Whatever. It gave us this new photoshoot of my beloved Queer boy and...
... I'll never stamp a "no" on that. And he deserves all the praise because he's giving a great damned performance as Ed Gein -- I know a lot of people found the show to be more tasteless true-crime exploitation from Ryan Murphy but I am not one of those people. I think it's the best work Charlie's done and I hope he gets that Emmy nomination, whenever the hell those happen, and I can see him looking pretty on that red carpet whenever the hell that is. But for right now we'll just see him looking pretty (photographed by our fave Carter Smith!) after the jump...
"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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