Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Favourite (2018)

Queen Anne: Some wounds do not close; 

I have many such. One just walks around with them 

and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood.

A happy 53rd birthday to the great Yorgos Lanthimos! Our favorite Greek pervert (director edition) is supposedly off recharging his batteries post-Bugonia -- we can't say we blame him since he'd been working at one hell of a clip since The Lobster -- six movies in ten years is a feat! And even more impressive -- every single one of them rules. As do all of the ones before The Lobster. Basically -- our man earned a break. But let's hope it's not too too long. We'll give him til next year to announce something. If it gets into 2028 territory and we still haven't heard anything we're gonna get real antsy. I mean -- he's one of the great documentarians of our current mad era. We need his voice. Not to mention his sexy bearish presence. 

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I wasn't going to post Colman Domingo's new photoshoot for Flaunt magazine because I'm not a fan of most of the clothes they have him swaddled in -- but then I saw the above photo and decides I really like that outfit at least, and then there's Colman himself, so okay. I will post it. Well part of it. I could not with a few of the pictures, the clothes are too bad. But the acceptable stuff (aka the other shots where he's not wearing a shirt), that I brought. Hit the jump for them to jump-start your Tuesday...

Good Morning, World

It's a good time to be Colman Domingo -- he just got two Emmy nominations (for Euphoria and The Four Seasons), he's running around in Italy with his cute husband, he's Colman Domingo. Our man has reason to smile. I'm starting to think Colman here might end up being our first out Oscar winning actor? If Soderbergh's The Christophers had landed harder I'd be holding out hope for the seriously overdue Ian McKellen... but it didn't. (He is great in that movie though.) I am just praying Colman doesn't win this year for Michael -- no I haven't seen it, nor do I have any desire to see it, but come on. Awarding that pedo-celebrating nightmare would be a stain on what should be a celebration. But I suppose that's adding to his good mood -- that movie becoming a massive hit against all... odds, sanity, reason. Aww I didn't make to turn this post into bad thoughts. I am such a Debbie Downer. Sorry, Colman! Go back to your perfect life and ignore lil' ol' me...

Beam Me Up, Joshie

How nice to watch in real time a truly talented and handsome young man like Josh O'Connor go from bum-fucking in the mud to starring in an outer space alien epic by the one and only Steven Spielberg. It's been a true pleasure. I know some people knew who he was before God's Own Country but there's when I hopped on the Joshie train, and it's been nothing but choo-choo-choosing him ever since. I'm not a betting man but I do see the appeal of choo-choo-choosing a winner dammit. Anyway I have gone and reviewed said "space alien epic" Disclosure Day today, so click on over to Pajiba to read that -- it's a very weird movie, not really a "space alien epic" at all. But I found it thoughtful and surprisingly moving, especially in the ways it's having a conversation not just with Spielberg's stamp on cinema but with our current lived reality. I mean it's got lots of action scenes too, and nobody does 'em like Spielberg, but it's really... well I'll let you discover for yourself. Just give it a chance, says me. It's a surprise in a lot of ways. 

Happy Pride Month

Although it's only three posts deep to date -- and one of them are of the above same gif of Colman Domingo planting a big one on Josh O'Connor while doing press for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, out this week (and which, wink wink, a certain somebody is dropping a review of shortly) -- I have got a "Happy Pride Month" thread started on Bluesky and I will hopefully continue to share personal highlights of faggotry from now til the end of the month. Stay tuned! Bookmark it! Please feel free to reply to it with your own! It's our month now, wha ha ha ha!!! We own the world!

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Well blessings be upon us this Tuesday morning -- Mr. Colman Domingo has gone and covered Men's Health this week and granted us a photoshoot for the ages. This man is 56 y'all. FIFTY-SIX. I don't even have words. I will add this feels significant though because we've got an out gay black man on the cover of Men's Health -- granted I think, given all the coverage I've given this magazine for its slutty shoots over the past few years, this magazine skews gayer than it did when I was a wee gayling sneaking glances in the grocery-store checkout line. But still. Go on, Colman. He's proved himself a legend, an icon, by now, I think. So hit the jump for an iconic(ally sexy) shoot...

Nicholas Hoult Wants To Play Master

I don't know if you kept checking back on my post of photos of Nicholas Hoult rocking this leather ensemble at the Met Gala the other week but if you only saw it the one time I recommend going back and scanning down as I went off. And with good reason! And I'm extremely thankful to've found even more photos from that blessed event today because we've got Nicky News to share and I wouldn't want to share it with any other photos. And it's super duper incredible Nicky News too. Hhe is teaming up with God's Own Country filmmaker Francis Lee -- right??? We're already excited -- to remake the 1963 Joseph Losey classic of homoerotic domination The Servant! (thx Mac) I only saw The Servant (which stars Dirk Bogarde and a delicious James Fox) this past year for the first time when Criterion released it and it is already hot hot hot stuff in that very restrained and coded way of its time -- wondering how Lee will update this all has me... 

... feeling things. The same sort of things these pictures of Nicky wearing leather makes me feel, actually. Anyway I'm not even done with all the incredible news here -- Hoult (who's playing the Fox role of course) will be starring opposite Colman Domingo in the Bogarde role of the man-servant who flips the script on his boss-man. Lee's version will relocate the story from the Swinging 60s in London of the original movie to 1950s New York -- and the fact that race has entered the chat due to Colman's casting will surely add some wrinkles when it comes to the power dynamics between the two men. Anyway as if all of THAT wasn't enough (and it was!) Hamnet hottie Noah Jupe (click here, click here) is also in the cast. This is unfathomably awesome movie news to end the week with! 

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I keep thinking that The Four Seasons is a T.V. show about the music group... which I guess just makes me look old. It's not -- it's a relationship dramedy on Netflix from producer Tina Fey about three couples who are close friends whose lives are upended when one dude (played by Steve Carell) leaves his wife for a younger woman. Anyway Out magazine cover hunks Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani play another one of the couples on the series and you can read how that all happened in their chat at the link -- I didn't know that Calvani is married to Brazilian actor and also-hot-as-hell fucker Marco Pigossi (seen in the films Bone Lake and High Tide recently). I love the story involves all of these hot gay people "hanging out" -- I know how to read between the lines! (Orgies. I am picturing orgies.) Anybody watching this show?

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Close Enounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Roy Neary: Just close your eyes

and hold your breath

and everything will turn real pretty.

A very happy 79th birthday to the one the only Steven "Stevie" Spielberg! 79's not exactly the world's most interesting number -- although given how exhausting a single year feels these days making it through seven-nine of these bitches is an accomplishment, I'll give him that -- so why am I picking him among the list of celebrity birthdays today to celebrate in particular? Because it gives me an excuse to post the teaser trailer for Disclosure Day, his next movie -- yes this dropped two days ago and surely if you've wanted to watch it by now but since it stars Josh O'Connor AND Colman Domingo I feel as if it needs to have its spot here at MNPP. 

What do we think? I think for one I want to see absolute nothing else about this -- I want to maintain all the rest of the mystery; I wanna go in with all the questions that two minutes of footage posits. I will say that if I had to guess this is a "good" alien movie a la Close Enocounters and E.T. though -- a forceful reclamation of optimism in the face of so much not-optimism in the world right now feels very Spielberg to me, and this movie is based on an "original idea" from Spielberg himself. Thoughts?

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Yesterday I shared with you a couple of shots from the set of Edgar Wright's The Running Man where Glen Powell was seen running (heh) around in just a skimpy towel -- well I didn't think they'd give up these goods so quickly but in a set video on the film's Instagram account they show the moment where the towel drops and yup, it's just as meaty and delicious as I remembered it being.

For the record I'm not reviewing this movie so all I'll say is it's not great unfortunately -- as a big fan of the original movie who's also aware that it's not a great movie either, a proper re-working really could've been something. This movie's a big mess tonally, and the third act is absolutely butchered to the point where I had no idea what was even happening. It's really too bad. We deserve a nasty black-hearted satire about a game-show host ruining the world dammit! Haven't we earned that much in 2025 dammit? Anyway at least all of the supporting actors are having fun (Colman especially) -- and this isn't meant as any slight to Glen who obviously I enjoy looking at, but it's just a bad move to waste Katy O'Brian the way she's wasted here. You see her on-screen and you just want to follow her off on her story immediately. Alas. Here's that full video:

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Two very important photos from the set of Edgar Wright's The Running Man were dropped online (via) -- having seen the film last evening let me just say that the towel sequence highlighted in the film's trailers are highlighted for good reason. Highlight reel (not to mention spank bank) material! Anyway if you haven't given me your opinion on yesterday's THR throuple poll click here and do that! (And click the images to embiggen a bunch!)

Do Dump or Marry: The Running Men

I'm not being show-offy when I tell you that I'm leaving the MNPP HQ desk early this evening so I can run off (get it) to see Edgar Wright's The Running Man remake (now you do) -- I am merely stating a fact, a statement of truth. This is just what is going to happen. I know how crushed this makes you many Schwarzenegger-heads and I apologize. Y'all can see it Friday! If we make it to Friday. Who knows. We all might be performing in life-or-death game shows by then the way things are going. But until then let's play a life-or-death game of our own by "Do Dump or Marry"ing the three hunks at the heart of Wright's re-do who stunned on the red carpet premiere as seen in these photos -- that'd be Colman Domingo, Lee Pace, Lee Pace's Mustache, and Glen Powell. Now [in my best Richard Dawson voice]  RUN... to the comments and choose! (pics via)

I Wanna Run To Glen Powell

The trailer for Edgar Wright's remake of The Running Man -- okay I suppose we can call it a new adaptation of Stephen King's story, whatever -- has arrived and it looks like an absolute blast. I knew I was in for something special the second we saw Glen Powell smacking his tighty-whities-clad ass two times. We kept a running tally of people who got cast in this last year and the names were wild -- Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Katy O'Brian, Lee Pace, Karl Glusman, Sean Hayes, and William H. Macy just to name the bigger names -- but the trailer mainly focuses on Glenn, Michael, Josh and of course Colman in the greatest showman role previously made iconic by Richard Dawson. And is it just me or...

... is Colman going to get a lot of comparisons to Tramell Tillman's showstopping work in the TV series Severance? That's all I could see. But lord knows I love Colman and he seems to be having a helluva time so bring it on. Everything looks hella fun actually -- this is definitely Wright bringing that sweet sweet Scott Pilgrim energy. (And the presence of Cera obviously underlines that.)  I don't think I spotted Glusman or Pace though -- do you think one of them is that masked man with the grenade? I'll have to go back and listen to the voice. Anyway watch:  

The Running Man (2025 edition) is out on November 7th.
How the hell is this not a summer movie???

Good Morning, World

Colman Domingo, a gay black man, is on the cover of Time magazine -- I'd say that is a beautiful way to begin a day, wouldn't you? Gorgeous, even! Lord knows I'm not religious but this is a hallelujah moment if ever there was one. Congrats to him, you can read the interview with him right here. Y'all know I'm rooting for Ralph Fiennes for a long long overdue Best Actor win but I'll jump right out of my seat with a Fuck Yeah if Colman takes it too. Hit the jump for all the photos...

Colman Domingo Two Times

You Can Run But You Can't Hide From Colman

There are moments -- not often, but more than once -- where I wonder if I might Jekyll out sometimes and sneak off under the guise of a different personality to be a casting director. Some movies just have such Me Casts that I can't imagine anyone else being responsible. Maybe I have a twin I was seperated from at birth and we're communicating telepathically? Anyway that's where I am at today with the news that Colman Domingo has now joined the cast of Edgar Wright's remake of The Running Man -- Colman being perfectly, exquisitely, cast as the evil game show host character that Richard Dawson played in Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 (classic as far as I'm concerned) version of the movie. How great is that casting though? Colman has got Game Show Voice and Showman Swag for dayssssss. Anyway he's joining a cast that already includes Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian (our queen from Love Lies Bleeding), Lee Pace, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, William H. Macy, and my beloved weirdo Karl Glusman. Put this movie down my mouth please!

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... man-spreading with Paul Mescal.

I've pointed out before that W Magazine seems to alternate their "Performances of the Year" photoshoots by the year between classy boring images and then really psychotic garbage -- well we're in a classy year as the above photo of Paul proves... not that he isn't giving me dirty thoughts all the same. Such is his power! I do find it weird that all of the men are over-dressed in full suits while 95% of the women are in their underwear though. And this is coming from a gay photographer! WTF Judas. Anyway a good place to find links to all their shoots for this issue is this link via their Instagram -- I gathered up the classy ass images of Paul, Daniel Craig, and Colman Domingo though, as those ones naturally interested me the most. So hit the jump for those...

Colman Domingo Thirty-Two Times

I really wanted to be a little more enraptured with the movie Sing Sing than I ended up being -- it really hasn't stuck with me (although yesterday's news that one of its fine actors finally got exonerated was very cool). But I'll be happy if Colman Domingo manages to score another Oscar nomination for Best Actor anyway, just on the principle of getting more openly gay actors overdue recognition at that backwards instutition. And Colman is terrific in the film, which I suppose is a thing that matters to them as well. (More or less.) Anyway I shared a few photos from Colman's hella fine cover shoot for Variety a couple of weeks ago but now that I have seen there are more photos (via) I obviously feel the need to share them too. So here we are! And there the photos are after the jump...

Colman Domingo is the Spice of Life

See what I did there? He is the "spice of life" like variety is the spice of life because he's on the cover of Variety? God what a wordsmith. Put me in the Smithsonian, I am on fire. Actually okay it is Colman who is on fire in this photoshoot -- you can read the interview here but we all know what you're here for. Hit the jump for the entire fiery photoshoot...

Big Things For Our Boy

God's Own Country and Challengers actor Josh O'Connor is set to star in Steven Spielberg's next movie! I had to google it to make sure he wasn't in War Hose because doesn't it feel like he could've been in War Horse? (Full disclosure - I have never seen War Horse. It's one of I think three Spielberg movies I haven't seen.) Anyway this will be Josh's first movie with the biggest man in Hollywood history -- we don't know much about this movie yet except it's a science-fiction "event film" so this will be Spielberg in blockbuster mode. Four other people also joined the cast -- Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson (aka Bono's daughter who co-starred in The Knick!), Colin Firth, and Colman f'ing Domingo! Yes Colman too! Save Colman this is a very British cast though so I am assuming this will be a British-set science0-fiction picture. Wouldn't it be kind of cool if he made a new Day of the Triffids? I love Day of the Triffids. Those killer plants freak me the fuck out. And it's a timely ecological angle. If it gets announced that this is a Day of the Triffids movie I want my flowers dammit cuz I called it!