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Another day now where the Tribeca fest has officially ended yet I'm busy pounding out reviews from it that you're not seeing just yet -- just know I'm doing the work! And you'll see fruit from it soon enough. Anyway here's a good quick thing to share -- a pair of new photos of the boys from my beloved Leviticus, writer-director Adrian Chiarella's new queer horror classic (says me) that's out on Friday. (thx Mac) Yes this very Friday of this very week! I hope you are excited -- you should be excited. Here is my review from a couple of weeks back when it screened at NewFest. Check Neon's website to see if it's opening near you -- they tend to be helpful with getting that knowledge out there and this one's getting a surprisingly robust theatrical count for its opening weekend. Pessimist that I am I won't pretend I don't think its box office will pale in comparison to much-lesser movies like Backrooms and Obsession -- it's emphatically a film about queerness, as opposed to you know men hating women or pirates. But I love that Neon is pushing the movie so hard -- give them your money! This movie's so worth it.

I Want Your Poster

Behold the first official poster for Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex, which hits theaters on July 31st -- also they're saying the trailer lands tomorrow so surely we'll cover that when that happens. I suppose, after Pillion, you can say that we've got our second dom-com of the year here! For now just enjoy your first but hardly last sight of adorable Cooper Hoffman all strapped up and loving it. And yes I have seen this and no I have not reviewed it yet -- I saw it at NewFest but I think there's a good chance I might wait to review it closer to its release, what with Tribeca weighing down heavy on me right now. I am watching so many movies right now! I think I have watched like 30 movies since I saw this movie ffs. I have already booked another press screening of IWYS so I can refresh my brain -- don't cry, is my point! You will hear from me on this movie, have no worries whatsoever.  About that, or about the movie. (Yes that is me hinting that I liked the damn thing.) (poster via)

I WANT YOUR SEX is Gregg Araki’s TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! — a fucking hysterical and sexy blast

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM

The Love That Dare Not...

Well here's one that I've been promising for ages and ages now -- I first saw Australian director Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror film Leviticus a few months ago when it screened at the "New Directors New Films" festival here in NYC and I shared a moving message from its director at that time, promising a review shortly. Although I also admitted I'd been having a hard go of it, writing-wise... cut to June! The movie played a second time here in New York at NewFest last week, and I'm glad I waited -- I'm glad I saw it a second time and I am glad I let my brain sort itself out ever, ever, ever so slightly, so I could get out of the film's way and try to do it some justice in my review. Because I found the film tremendously moving -- as a gay man almost fully ostracized from his religious family now of course I did. It was made for me. Literally for once. It's nice to be seen. Anyway my review went up today is my point, so click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts. The film is out in theaters very soon -- June 19th! So you don't have long to wait. As much trauma as the film deals in I do think it finds hope and love by its end, and makes for a great Pride Month release. You should all go see it. I'm not sharing the trailer because I'm sure it gives away too much. Just trust me for once, dammit. 

All Araki All the Time

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I mentioned in passing last week that over the weekend I would be seeing Gregg Araki not once but twie in person over the weekend thanks to 1) a screening of the new 4K restoration of Mysterious Skin at IFC Center, and 2) a screening of his new movie I Want Your Sex at NewFest. Saying this happened "over the weekend" doesn't even cut it -- it all happened within the span of a few hours on Saturday. (And that doesn't even count the few minutes I spent standing directly next to him outside the venue for the latter -- we was all up in each other's business that day! Anyway I took a couple of videos of all of this business that I posted on Instagram but hell, I should share them here too. Right? Right. Above that's Gregg and actor (turned Oscar-nominated director) Brady Corbet talking about the making of Mysterious Skin for a few minutes; below is Araki introducing I Want Your Sex. And P.S. yes I will be reviewing IWYS soon enough, but for now feel free to enjoy this spoiler-free gay goodness...

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Baby Got Backrooms

Hooray, this interminable three day work week has ended! I'm free! And it's a heckuva weekend ahead! Not because Backrooms starring the above hotness that is Chiwetel Ejiofor is out in theaters (no that picture is not from Backrooms, I actually have no idea what it's from, but who the hell cares look at him), because I already shared some of my mixed thoughts on Backrooms earlier today right here. No this is a heckuva weekend ahead because NewFest 2026 Pride Edition kicks off today! I already told you about its fantastic line-up at this link but basically I'm freaking out with excitement over one movie, and that movie is Gregg Araki's new movie I Want Your Sex. 

(P.S. That is I believe a new picture from the film there.) I am seeing a new Gregg Araki movie this weekend y'all! I have not been able to type out that sentence in twelve years. TWELVE YEARS. That's cruelty, utter cruelty, finally coming to an end. And awesomely enough I'll be making a whole day of it, this Araki-ness, because there's also a screening of the new 4K restoration of his movie Mysterious Skin that's screening at IFC Center on Saturday too, which I'll be at -- and not just me, but Araki and actor turned director Brady Corbet as well! Hot damn, what a time will be had. So stay tuned, to my socials and here -- I will surely got stuff to say soon. Have a good weekend, one and all but especially me!

Killer Queens

There's something about the poster for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma -- the new movie from We're All Going To the World's Fair and I Saw the T.V. Glow director Jane Schoenbrun, and P.S. we really should be talking more about how fucking good Jane is at movie titles -- that's been bugging me since it dropped yesterday and I can't quite put my finger on it. I think I would like it more if the square image with our leading ladies in it was more rectangular and there was less empty space with the title and text in it at the bottom? You stretch the top half down so it's like 5/6ths of the full sheet and I think it's a great poster. Those blood-soaked queens should be bigger dammit! I also think the mix of fonts in the title is sloppy -- I love the Friday the 13th font being used of course, but the five words above "Camp Miasma" feel disconnected. Anyway all of this critique is said with love! I would buy this poster if it was the version I have in my head -- as is I'm not totally sold. That's only in regards to the poster though! Having seen this movie... well we'll save that opinion for another day. But yes I have already seen the movie and yes, you should be looking forward to it. It's out in theaters on August 7th (although it is playing this weekend at NewFest here in NYC and it's hitting several other fests around the country before then so keep yer eyes a'peeled) and here's the just -dropped trailer!

Give This Piece a Chance

I'm trying to will the care-free mood seen in this photo of Charles Melton into my own existence today -- spoiler alert: it ain't working. I don't know if my partner was punching me in the side of the head all night long as I slept (no this is not a cry for help) but I woke up feeling like I didn't sleep a single second last night, and I be draggggggging my ass this Thursday. This is pointless information for anyone who isn't "me" I know but it's good that I remind myself that this site is just a stupid fucking blog sometimes and I don't have to feel bad about insubstantial content. Tis my prerogative! Is it weird that typing that word out always makes me want to eat pierogies? In summation -- aren't you glad you just wasted one minute of your life reading this post? You're welcome. Any time. 

ETA Just got word my office is closing tomorrow so I am officially giving up for the long weekend. Hands in air, Jason don't care. I'm headed to a screening in half an hour (Backrooms baby!) and then I'm off until Tuesday. I should add since we're doing Accounting Of My Time here that NewFest and Tribeca Fest stuff start plaguing / entertaining me next week so my schedule's about to get nuts again -- on the positive side Summer Fridays at my day-job also kick off... well tomorrow now, I guess. Which means four-day weeks through Labor Day. Yes I am rambling! Let me ramble! I have half an hour to kill and need to stop fussing over my Tribeca schedule, which is much of what I've been working on this week. Anyway stay tuned -- coverage of those fests and lots more to come! Probably including me choking to death on my own bile! Have a great holiday weekend! Think of me like this (if you think of me at all):

Pretty Pictures For Pride

The line-up for the 2026 Pride Edition of New York's NewFest has been announced today -- they're screening Gregg Araki's new movie! The one called I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman (as well as Mason Gooding whose fine visage I have included above) which I have talked and talked and talked about with great vigor and enthusiasm. No I have not seen it yet, and yes I think this will be my first chance. (It's hitting theaters on July 31st.)  The line-up also includes Leviticus, the queer horror film that I have seen and heartily recommend -- last time I mentioned it here was when I was complaining about my inability to write about it just yet, and as you can see I haven't done that yet. That's out much sooner -- that hits theaters on June 19th. But if you're in NYC NewFest is beating that by a few weeks! Tickets are on sale right this minute so go buy some, New Yorkers! And as a reminder the "Pride Edition" of NewFest that happens at the beginning of June is the smaller version of the festival -- the larger one happens in October. But if you'd like to see everything they are screening besides the two aforementioned titles (including some Heated Rivalry goodness) hit the jump...

Gonna Go Blue, Baby

I guess that I did a lot of posts yesterday that were placeholders for today -- there was the Charlie Cox thing I just shared and now here we have the trailer for Blue Film, which I posted the poster for and said then that we'd be getting this trailer today. And here we are. Full of trailer! Blue Film stars Boots actor Kieron Moore (seen, seen, and seen again for good measure above) as a cam-boy who finds himself spending the night with an older gentlemen (Reed Birney from House of Cards) when... well I only have a vague idea of where the movie goes and I'm keeping it that way, meaning that no, I have not watched thei trailer. I scanned through it for thirty seconds to make the above gif and then stopped. Because I don't wanna know! But here, if you do, said trailer:

Blue Film is out on May 8th. We will be watching. You?

I'm Blue, Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di

I've been fairly whiny about wanting to see Blue Film -- writer-director Elliot Tuttle's thriller-of-sorts about a cam-boy (Boots star Kieron Moore) and the old dude (Reed Birney) who's obsessed with him -- for months now, ever since I missed it at NewFest in the fall. But my whine, on this single solitary subject mind you, has an expiration date -- the movie is out in theaters on May 8th and as seen above we've just gotten the first poster. And it came with a promise that the trailer's dropping tomorrow, which I will surely be posting about when it does.  For now let us just appreciate that poster, and the Kieron in tighty-whities contained therein. 

Newfest Is Calling From inside The House

Yesterday when I shared the line-up for the Brooklyn Horror Fest here in NYC I mentioned that the next several weeks are about to get psycho-nuts on me with that fest, NYFF and NewFest all barreling toward me -- well here we are less than 24 hours later and NewFest has dropped their line-up, proving my point. But thre's no saying no to any of these fests as they cover all sides of me -- fancy-man movie-lover with NYFF, horror hound with BHFF, and fag supreme at NewFest. I am a rich tapestry! Anyway you can check all of NewFest's line-up right here but as I did for BHFF I'm gonna narrow it down, simplify simplify simplify, and give you the titles I personally got ants in my pants about.

5 NewFest Movies To Get My Gay On

Night Stage -- Per usual you'll always get me at "queer erotic thriller." And the last time I saw one was Femme and that worked out great! This one from Brazil is about a rising politician with a penchant for public sex. TELL ME MORE.

The Chronology of Water -- Written and directed by Kristen Stewart! This premiered at Cannes and I didn't hear much about it but then I tend to ignore Cannes as much as possible. It stars the great Imogen Poots (who I just saw in person last night at that Hedda screening) in the true-story of a swimmer who fell in love with literature. Yes, books! It's crazy! (The movie also co-stars Tom Sturridge, yum.)

Blue Film -- I mentioned this movie on Bluesky a couple of weeks ago when I first read about it as it screened in Edinburgh; by all accounts a deeply provocative film about a camboy spending the night with an older man (Reed Birney) with pedophilic fantasies this movie sounds legit dangerous in a way movies (and art) should be more often. Can't wait for this.

Only Good Things -- Another Brazilian movie! Bless the Brazilians. This one's from Dry Wind director Daniel Nolasco, which is all I really needed to know -- Dry Wind was terrific (and very very sexy). This one's a love story set in the 1980s. (And looks very very sexy.) 

Fucktoys -- The only one of these movies that I've posted here at MNPP about already, when back in March I shared the teaser trailer for it because it co-stars François Arnaud looking like that above. It debuted at SXSW then and everything I read about it made it sound very up my alley. John Waters gets name-checked by its director (and lead actor) Annapurna Sriram a lot! 

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NewFest 2025 runs from October 9th through 21st, both here in person in NYC and also online! So make sure you check their website to see what you can see on this here World Wide Web if you're outta town. And there were many many other titles announced today so make sure you check the whole line-up, top to proverbial bottom. You can buy badges right now; individual tickets go on sale September 15th. 

Tom Blyth Two Times

Speaking of more cinematic excellence getting slotted into the fall movie season, we've now got official word on Plainclothes, the 90s-set gay drama starring Tom Blyth as a closeted cop hunting gays in mall restrooms and Russell Tovey as the hot one he catches and immediately starts humping -- it's hitting theaters on September 19th. I reviewed the movie during Sundance -- read that right here. It hit home since it's literally set where and when I grew up, as I get into in that review, but Blyth in particular is excellent and has probably forever won my heart thanks to his charming and conflicted performance. Also proper love must be given to the great and always underappreciated Maria Dizzia who plays his mom. This movie is definitely far too small to eke out big awards attention I think, and that's a shame -- both of their performances will very much be amongst the best of the year according to me. Anyway we don't have a trailer for this yet but I expect we will soon enough so stay tuned.

Cole Doman One Time

Seeing today this adorable sexy photo on Instagram of actor Cole Doman, formerly of the very fine movies Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (hey Stephen Cone whatcha up to?) and Mutt, reminded me of two things -- one, I don't think that his 2024 movie Haze (which co-stars Sense8 hottie Brian J. Smith and which I reviewed out of Fantasia Fest last year right here) has gotten a release yet, which is a damn shame. It's a good movie! Free Haze y'all! It would've been a smart drop for a streaming service during Pride Month but oh well. Hopefully we'll hear something soon. I'll keep my ears peeled. But this also reminds me that Cole is in the cast of Kelly Reichardt's next movie The Mastermind, which stars Josh O'Connor! That'll probably be Cole's most-seen movie to date and we can't help but root for this cute talented and out indie boy who stood in front of me in line waiting for a movie last year. Oh and this also reminds me that we got a new image of Josh in The Mastermind last week (click to embiggen) and god he looks goooood:

NewFest Pride Coming in Hot

Playing catch-up with some terrific news that dropped earlier this week -- the line-up for NewFest's summertime series "NewFest Pride" dropped and the mini-fest (which runs here in NYC from May 29th to June 2nd) will get include my favorite film I saw at Sundance earlier this year, the gay drama Plainclothes starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey! Here is my review of that movie -- granted as I say there this movie was kinda sculpted in my image given it is about being gay in Syracuse in the 1990s and I was all of those things once upon a time. How could I resist? I love it when things are about me, after all! But the entire weekend is stacked with gay goodies -- I missed the Olivia Colman and John Lithgow drama Jimpa when it screened at Sundance and that's the series' opening night film... I do wonder if Lithgow will attend and if he will have to answer for his shitty comments about the whole Harry Potter debacle? He might wanna steer clear of a room full of queers right now. Anyway if you're going to be in town I always recommend going to NewFest events, they're always a great time with an enthusiastic audience and they've got an excellent batch of programmers working for them. And if you wanna see the entire line-up and buy tickets hit that link, or if you just want to see the entire line-up and press release on their own hit the jump for them...

And Speaking of Barry Keoghan...

... his movie with the legendary Andrea Arnold directing, the one called Bird, can now be viewed from the comfort of your couch, or your bathtub, or Jacob Elordi's bathtub even, thanks to the fine folks at Mubi. I love love loved this movie (which also stars our other boyfriend Franz Rogowski) when I saw it last fall -- here is my Pajiba review -- and you should expect to see it on my list of favorite 2024 movies whenever I get around to taking five minutes to write that thing down for y'all. It is magic. (pic via)

Barry Keoghan Flies High

I should have known not to doubt in Andrea Arnold! I went into the Fish Tank director's latest film Bird with a bit of muted anticipation because the reviews I'd seen had been themselves muted, but I ended up love love loving the film when I saw it at NewFest last week -- and now I have written my review and you can read it at Pajiba. Starring both Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski -- talk about catnip to me -- along with newcomer Nykiya Adams, the film isadmittedly a stretch for Arnold, in that it's actually in the end a pretty optimistic movie (imagine that!) and it also wades further out into the realm of magical realism than she ever has before. I mention Alice Rohrwacher's movie Happy As Lazzaro in my review and that movie is very much a sibling to this one; if you've seen that movie then you'll know what I mean. Anyway go read my review and go see this movie when it's out in November! On top of everything else it's got what will inevitably be my favorite scene of the year! Here's the trailer:

It's (Almost) NewFest 2024 Time!

I know I just announced it officially Spooky Season in my previous post, but I don't think I need to differentiate that from Gay Season -- Spooky + Gay is my sweet spot! And it's getting gay now because NYC's premiere queer film festival NewFest has just today announced their full line-up for this year's go-round which runs from October 10th through 22nd. Check it all out right here and pre-order your tickets immediately. A few highlights I will quickly highlight -- the Centerpiece Film is Andrea Arnold's new movie Bird starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski! I've obviously posted about this movie several times already and I was extremely sad to see it wasn't screening at NYFF, so this inclusion made me giddy -- NewFest starts right as NYFF is finishing so I'll switch right on over and get me some Bird there then! They're also screening Emilia Perez,  Jacques Audiard's new film which won a bunch of prizes at Cannes (this one is also screening at NYFF); oh and they are showing a triple-feature of John Waters movies including Female Trouble for its 50th anniversary! But seriously that barely scratches the surface, click on over here to check it all out. Love NewFest every year!

Cole Doman Got Me in a Haze

That is not a photo from the movie I am about to direct you to my review of, but it is a picture of the star of said movie -- it's actor Cole Doman, who you should hopefully recognize from writer-director Stephen Cone's wonderful 2015 film Henry Gamble's Birthday Party, and who stars in the queer thriller called Haze aka the movie I have now reviewed. I mentioned both Haze and Doman back in May when this film screened at NewFest but I wasn't able to catch it then -- thankfully it just screened at the Fantasia Film Fest in Montreal though, and there I did catch it. And if you head over to Pajiba you can read my review of the film, which sees Doman playing a young journalist who heads to his hometown to dig into a shuttered psychiatric hospital that left a trail of suicides in its wake. And if you really need to be sold -- the film also co-stars Sense8's own Brian J. Smith and those two go at it like gangbusters in the movie. Hot stuff!

The Real Gay Cowboys

Before he turned it into a stellar movie starring Charlie Plummer, photographer-turned-director Luke Gilford released a book of photography called National Anthem that set about capturing the queer rodeo scene -- that book's been out of print for awhile, much to my chagrin when I saw the movie and loved it. But now that the movie version is hitting theaters (it's out next Friday, July 12th) the book has been reprinted, hooray! You can pre-order it at this link -- it's out in October. And click here to read my review of National Anthem, the movie, which is really gorgeous and terrific. Or click here to watch the film's trailer. I am very much looking forward to seeing this beautiful movie a second time, and in October getting to see this book for the very first!

Groff Me Off

Jonathan Groff is featured over at Interview Magazine today -- they have a new chat with him about... well whatever they chat with him about, I haven't read it yet. He's doing some Broadway show with Dan Radcliffe right? I suppose it's that then. See I have the time to point you in that direction but not the time to be "specific" or have "particulars" or be especially "useful" about it. I've suddenly realized I am on the edge of a tidal wave of work that I need to get done -- NewFest begins tonight (see my previous post here) and Tribeca starts next week and I have a friend coming into town tomorrow and I have a big day-job-related thing tomorrow and I have a review due tomorrow and I am way way way behind on being prepared for every damned one of these things. Point being! I might take off for the rest of the day to work on that stuff. You understand. You'll see the fruits of my labors later. Speaking of fruits. Jonathan Groff, everybody!