Pics of the Day

A new staging of a little something called The Rocky Horror Picture Show is hitting NYC imminently (as in two days from now) and Vogue has the first pictures of its big sexy cast, led by the one and only noted Luke Evans in the fishnets as Dr. Frank N. Furter. For those of you who only know Luke from his action-hero roles in movies like The Hobbitses and that Furious movie he was in -- or from his greatest role as "The guy who got his dick cut by Ma in Ma" -- our man Luke got his start singing on the stage in that Boy George musical in London (indeed that was where he gave the interview talking about being gay that he then tried to bury for several years as he tried to do the action-hero thing in Hollywood until finally coming out properly, again) -- point being no need to worry, he can sing. I guess those of you who saw the live-action Beauty and the Beast movie knew that too -- I only made it about 20 minutes into that abomination before I had to turn it off. Anyway! Luke's not the only hottie in this thing...

... as the dream man of the title is being played by West Side Story hunk Josh Rivera, fitting the role of "dream man" to a tee. Lord almighty, just look at him. Anyway I've never been huge on Rocky Horror, which isn;'t to say I don't like it -- as far as musicals go it's one I can and have watched several times and enjoyed.I just continue being a person who doesn't go seeking out musicals to watch when I need something to watch, it just can't be helped. But if somebody needs a plus one I'd go see this. It also stars the wonderful Harvey Guillén and Rachel Dratch and  Stephanie Hsu and Juliette Lewis and on and on, it's quite the cast y'all. Hit the jump for a couple more photos of them...

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Juliette Binoche, the world's greatest living actress according to me (sorry Isabelle Huppert, I do go back and forth, but Juli is love), was in NYC last evening at MoMA to show off her directorial debut In-I In Motion, a documentary she and her sister made about a dance performance that Juli created and performed in 2007 with the choreographer Akram Khan, and I was there because she's Juliette fucking Binoche and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Above are some photos and videos I took from the Q&A. I thought the doc was terrific but then I cannot be trusted as I could literally just stare at Binoche's face for ten hours straight and never get bored -- she remains utterly transfixing. The first question my boyfriend asked when I got home afterwards was if she cried, and SHE DID -- she knows her audience. She teared up several times during the Q&A because her emotions really are just like Right There at all times and I don't know how exhausting that must be for her but we are all the richer for it. Incredibly this was Binoche's first time ever being on stage at MoMA, a fact that blows my mind -- I have been in her holy presence before at NYFF but this was special all the same. A legend. 

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Good Morning, World

Who's up for a morning dip with Dylan O'Brien? I am, I am. And today's your day too because Sam Raimi's absolutely terrific thriller Send Help starring this man here and a tremendsouly bonkers Rachel McAdams (in the "Bruce Campbell in a Sam Raimi Movie" role) is now out on VOD -- and even better it's also available to pre-order on 4K physical media. That lands on April 21st -- not even a month away! Why you could practically bounce a quarter off of that, uhhh, amount of time. Sorry my own gifs were distracting me. It's just this movie proposes one hell of a situation -- Blue Lagooning it with this boy? One's bound to get distracted. Hit the jump for an extra gif to perk up your morning...

One Month Til Half Man

Half Man is Richard Gadd's upcoming follow-up to Baby Reindeer and it's hitting HBO one month from today, to the day -- I shared some photos and the plot synopsis et cetera from it when it all first dropped last August but the gist is they play estranged brothers whose relationship is followed across decades. And since Gadd's all beefed-up and all the headlines I've seen lately from him have been about "masculinity" I have a feeling that's what it's dealing with. Anyway I am very much looking forward to this, and that just-dropped poster above only underlined that feeling -- I very much wanna watch those two rassle. In all seriousness Jamie Bell is so freaking under-appreciated it's annoying so I'm hoping some of Gadd's golden boy magic rubs off on our favorite tiny dancer man. 

Today's Mood

You can just assume this is every day's

 mood for the foreseeable future, actually.

RIP Valerie Perrine

I hadn't planned on doing an entire post about this but then I saw the above photo of the great and always wildly under-appreciated Valerie Perrine standing with Prime Christopher Reeve Sans Shirt and I said to myself, "Self, you're doing it, you're under-appreciating her!" Because you KNOW that she saw Chris walking around the set like that and she grabbed her assistant roughly by their arm and rushed right over and she made sure this photo happened, that this moment was documented, for posterity. The woman who gave us Can't Stop the Music and Miss Teschmacher in the first two Superman movies would demand no less. May her memory be forever a blessing, we love her.

LEGEND. Honestly don't understand how anyone survived the making of CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC...

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from: 

Amour (2012)

Georges: In the courtyard of the house where grandma lived, there was a young guy at the window who asked me where I'd been. He was a couple of years older than me, a braggart who really impressed me. "To the movies," I said, because I was proud that my grandma had given me the money to go all alone to the cinema. "What did you see?" I started to tell him the story of the movie, and as I did, all the emotion came back. I didn't want to cry in front of the boy, but it was impossible; there I was, crying out loud in the courtyard, and I told him the whole drama to the bitter end. 

Anne: So? How did he react? 

Georges: No idea. He probably found it amusing. I don't remember. I don't remember the film either. But I remember the feeling. That I was ashamed of crying, but that telling him the story made all my feelings and tears come back, almost more powerfully than when I was actually watching the film, and that I just couldn't stop.

A happy 84th birthday to the legendary director Michael Haneke today. In the spirit of Amour, a film about death, I'll admit here (and hopfully writing this out won't be some sort of horrible jinx) that I've come to terms with the assumption, over the course of the nine years since Haneke's previous film Happy End was released, that Michael Haneke probably isn't making any more movies. I might have kept holding out hope but then that great big boxed-set of his movies got released last year -- I pre-ordered the minute it was announced, only to get an email a few months later that the set was being delayed because Haneke, who was being very hands on with it, was insisting that the previously-missing Happy End make it onto the set.  That immediately read to me that he was seeing the set as a culmination -- a finality. I'd love to be proven wrong but it's been nine years and the man is 84. And also Isabelle Huppert said as much a couple of years ago. Truth be told the one-two punch of Amour and Happy End is a killer way to cap off his career. But if he wants to come back swinging, we're ready and we'll shoot through the moon with enthusiasm about it. For now I just hope he's enjoying life. Thanks for the movies, good sir. 

Good Morning, World

Far be it from me to seize hard onto a "Jake Gyllenhaal naked in Jarhead" moment gifted (gif-fed) outta the blue -- I was listening to my pals Chris Feil and Joe Reid's podcast This Had Oscar Buzz on my way to work this morning and they were talking Jarhead and whose name should pop up? My very own name. Am I suprised to've become gay-internet synonymous with "Jake Gyllenhaal naked in Jarhead" gifs? I am not. It might be my proudest lifetime acheivement. Anyway go listen to THOB, and enjoy these remastered gifs of Jake swinging about in all his 4K glory from the recently released 4K blu-ray of Jarhead. I tell you, lives were changed in that year of 2005.

Timmy Walks Into the Sea

Now that all of the ridiculous fake controversies have completely slid off of Timothée Chalamet and everyone has become sane and sober and fallen back in love with him (lol) I'm glad we're getting news on what our boy (if no one else's) is up to next -- besides Dune Part Three of course, which dropped its new trailer earlier this week. Although he's not attached to star yet Chalamet has signed on to produce an adaptation of the 2024 book Playground by Richard Powers, which has to do with A.I. and Climate Change and floating cities and I don't even know, it sounds like a lot. Obviously I haven't read it. Have you? 

Anyway Deadline says that he's got first option to star so don't be surprised if this is his next project -- besides the third Dune and the probable Wonka sequel our Forever Elio doesn't have any projects announced. I wonder if he was holding off for the Oscar win that didn't happen to push up his price? Oh well he's still a big star, thankfully! Says me! I'll share the plot synopsis after the jump and you can tell me if it makes any sense to you...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Living Out Loud (1998)

Judith: It's amazing, isn't it? 

The things you find yourself agreeing to?

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.

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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...

Pics of the Day

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. 

Call Me By Your Johnson

Well this sure is a neat-o news announcement -- Netflix is turning Call 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...

To Infinity and... More Infinity

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!

Taron Egerton Seven More Times

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...

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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?