I was listening to my friends Chris & Joe on their "This Had Oscar Buzz" podcast a couple of weeks ago talk the movies of TIFF and laughed very hard when they got to Club Kid, Jordan Firstman's extremely buzzy movie out of Cannes -- they both liked it but they both were wary of the "Jordan Firstman" of it, explaining that gay men have a very different and oh-let's-say complex relationship to Firstman's whole schtick than the rest of society. I think gays have all known assholes like the one Firstman had positioned himself as all too well -- if you go watch Sebastian Silva's very funny and meanspirited Rotting in the Sun and see who Firstman's playing there you'll get it. That seemed to be his whole persona and it was never clear if that was really him or if that was a character he was playing. Anyway I get into all of this in my own Club Kid review which just dropped on Pajiba over the weekend, as the film premiered to much fanfare at NYFF -- read that here. I think the movie does prove it was more of a put-on than it had seemed. I did laugh at the comments on my review though because someone seemed confused by me saying he'd put the whole "Jordan Firstman" thing behind him -- isn't that still his name, they asked? The point was the scare quotes, hun! Anyway Club Kid is a little broad but very good, a total crowd-pleaser, and I'm real curious to see if A24 can make a hit out of it. It's real gay!
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Showing posts with label Queer Creeps. Show all posts
Monday, October 05, 2026
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Space Fassys
Imagine my delight when I went looking for a recent photo of Michael Fassbender and stumbled upon this gem of him posing with a fan on vacation a couple of weeks ago! He's all but quit doing press over the past several years -- if only we'd understood how good we had it back during his slutty photoshoot heyday. (Actually I did -- I understood how good we were having it then.) Anyway that made me happy to see -- are any of you watching The Agency? I have been and think the show really came into its own in its second season -- I really kind of love it now. With a cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, and Harriet Sansom Harris, well how the hell could I not? Anyway y'all should give a shot if you haven't, with the understanding that its second season is when it really picks up.
Oh my god I had totally forgotten about this Michael Fassbender / Charlize Theron photoshoot circa Prometheus. GOOD LORDDDDDD THE 🔥🔥🔥 (more here www.mynewplaidpants.com/2012/07/they...
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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But that's not why we're here! We're here because Sir Ridley Scott has a new movie coming out this week (The Dog Stars with that other whippet-shaped-man Jacob Elordi) so he's doing interviews and in one he just said that he's working on a third Alien prequel film to round out his Prometheus / Alien: Covenant trilogy, which would follow the further wackadoo exploits of Fassbender's David character. Even though I think both of these movies are hot messes to various degrees (ones I can nevertheless watch over and over again) I'm all for it -- because hopefully Sir Scott makes the Michael Fassbender Clone Throuple of our dreams a reality this go! Third movie -- three gay Fassys! That's the rule!
Breeder Me
Are any of you watching the show The Shards, Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' book? I am watching it but it's sort of a hate-watch -- I think all of the young actors who make up the main cast are fairly awful. (How is that nepo-baby supposed to be Richard Gere's son??? I refuse to believe they are even related.) That said the older actors playing the adults on the show are pretty much the exact opposite, a delight to watch to a tee; I would much rather be watching a show about them. And when Glee actor Dot-Marie Jones showed up in an episode that I watched this past weekend playing a porn director that went triply true. So much fun. And seeing her also reminded me that I saw and loved a horror movie called Breeder earlier this year at Tribeca that she's the villain in -- and well whaddya know the trailer for Breeder just dropped today and who do you think...
... was quoted? Me, that's who! And that my quote drops over DMJ getting her face absolutely tongue-wrecked by one of her adorable doggies is very very funny to me because that's one of my boyfriend's triggers -- he finds it absolutely repulsive when people let dogs lick their face haha. That gif's for you, sweetums! Anyway Breeder is extremely fucked up and has far more disgusting things in store for y'all than some face-licking, but you can find out all about that when it lands in theaters on October 16th. Here's the full trailer:
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Monday, August 17, 2026
Love the Way You Turn Me On, Criterion
Criterion went and pulled a fast one on me by dropping their November line-up announcement on a Friday, a Summer Friday -- I was too busy being the exact opposite of busy then, so here we are. Three days behind! Somebody slap me to the side of a rocket and shoot me into the future, baby, and yes that's me drawing an oh-so-subtle bridge to the first title we're talking -- Philip Kaufman's beloved 1983 NASA epic The Right Stuff. Finally hitting 4k on November 24th -- two days before Thanksgiving so you know the cool dads are gonna be slipping into their Tryptophan slumbers to the smooth sounds of Sam Sheperd. This movie apparently tells the story of the the original Mercury crew who kicked off the "Space Race" and yes I said "apprently" because somehow, no shit, I have never seen this movie. What? How? I don't know. There are thankfully at this point cinematic bigguns that have still slipped through my fingers, is all I can say, and I look forward to my time ahead watching the aformentioned Sam Shepherd as well as Scott Glenn and Ed Harris and MY HUSBAND FRED WARD rock some tight jumpsuits.
Next up we've got the opposite problem -- I have seen both of these critically-lauded movies, but I wasn't enraptured by either. As for K-Pop Demon Hunters, who the fuck cares that I wasn't enraptured -- I am not the audience for that movie, and the people who were loved it and that is nice for them. The only thing that I enjoyed were the boy bond weaponizing their sexiness and I am sure that shocks less than zero people reading this. Anyway Criterion will make so so much money dropping this disc right ahead of holiday shopping and Criterion making money is good! Physical media is good! This will be some little nerd's first 4K disc and a new obsessive will be born. As for Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron I'd been hearing extremely good things for a long while but when I finally saw it it left me cold. Which is weird because, having been the kid in the 1980s whose anger and isolation probably made everybody else in my family nervous, this was a story I could supposedly relate to. Didn't! Oh well, can't win 'em all. It might work for one of you people.
Our next flavor of twosome is cut down the middle -- there's Sergei Parajanov's 1965 Soviet stunner Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors -- "stunner" or so they say as I have not seen this one. Indeed this is one of those Criterion picks that I'd never even heard of. But it certainly sounds up my alley as they're selling it thus: "modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention" I find all of those words interesting! Then landing on 4K on November 10th is a movie I've seen a dozen times by now -- Sofia Coppola's 2006 masterpiece Marie Antoinette. And I'm not going to say...
... that every single one of those viewings was to see Jamie Dornan play the military fuckboi rocking a tri-corn hat over a come-fuck-me pout, but probably half of them were to watch that. Can you blame me? Anyway this release isn't a surprise as Sofia Coppola was just screening the 4K restoration here in NYC within the past few weeks. But if any a movie was pretty enough (not just Jamie, the entire frosting-coated shebang) to demand the premium format, it's this one. As are the other two 4K upgrades landing in November -- Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and (just one of my favorite movies of all-time) Hal Asby's Harold and Maude. The latter has been out of print so this makes me wanna dance!
Yes I dance just like that. But wait! Hold up! Stop shaking ya tail-feather, Ruth Gordon! As ever with blessed Criterion that's not all she wrote -- also landing in November (and speaking of out-of-print movies) is none other than David Lynch's 1990 film Wild at Heart making its 4K debut. Hey -- I was just talking about this movie the other day:
A straight man could not make Wild at Heart
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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I felt a quiver in the air, I guess. Maybe David Lynch's bisexual ghost blew in my ear. I love the thought that I could be haunted by David Lynch. Come haunt me, man! Make me have dreams every night about frog-locusts and Audrey Horne. Anyway -- Wild at Heart. For a movie supposedly so horny and heterosexual I'd argue that Wild at Heart actually rivals Mulholland Drive as Lynch's queerest movie, but really I would also argue that there's queerness in everything he touched over the years when you start looking. For one the gaze in this thing is deeply bisexual, and for another don't even get me started on the Wizard of Oz stuff. (And no need for it anyway when somebody already made that documentary.) That said I find WAH more a collection of interesting scenes and ideas and performances than I do one of Lynch's greatest accomplishments -- I've given it so many tries and I love so much about it but it never really fully coheres for me. But Criterion won't be beating the claim that they're leading up to dropping a full David Lynch box-set with this news, will they? Let's wish that into existence! That and David Lynch's Bisexual Ghost haunting me. Both of those things.
Monday, August 10, 2026
It's a Miasma-piece
Hey weirdos, my beloved weirdos, have I got a movie for you -- well a movie review actually. I reviewed Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this past Friday and you can read it right here. We're playing catch-up, you see, in more ways than one -- I saw this the first time at NewFest and the third time at Fantasia Fest (with a press screening sandwiched in between there) but only just got around to writing about it as it hit theaters this past Friday. But only a few theaters -- NY and LA I believe? It spreads out this week and further after that (you can keep track of that at this link) so I imagine most of you haven't yet had the chance. Anyway I bust out the "m" word in my review -- "masterpiece" that is, which if you know me you know I don't break that word out lightly when a movie is this new. Having seen it three times now though, with it only getting funnier and weirder with every watch, I feel pretty compelled toward that word. It is most definitely one of the year's highlights and not to be missed.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2026
Flesh, Fantasy, and Michael Vlamis
Did you know there was a reboot of the Y2K classic series Roswell that ran for fifty-two episodes beginning in 2019? I had no freaking idea. Looking up actor Michael Vlamis here was the first I'd ever heard of it. Why was I looking up actor Michael Vlamis, you might ask? (If you're asking that you probably didn't look at these pictures though as I am but a simple man.) I was looking up Mikey boy because he's in a queer horror movie I just reviewed out of Fantasia Fest -- it's called Corpus and you can read my review right here. And here's another picture of Michael Vlamis for your trouble:
it's a good movie! But of course Michael plays the straight guy in what is otherwise a very queer movie -- I say "of course" because that just about fits my pattern. Makes sense! I mean I have no idea what he does in his private life, but in the movie he is obnoxiously heterosexual and extremely hot while doing that. (Just wait for the gifs!) I even posted about him on Bluesky like right after watching the movie a few weeks back lol:
Watched a movie co-starring this guy named Michael Vlamis over the weekend and I don't think any of you should be surprised if I start posting about him a lot in the future is all I am saying
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) June 29, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Monday, July 27, 2026
Smile My Fangbangers
I never really got into Anne Rice that much -- when the original Interview With the Vampire movie came out in 1994 Teen-Me gave those books a little spin and I remember thinking the gay stuff was hot (which was why I went to read the book in the first place, hearing how skittish Jordan's movie was towards that stuff that actually existed on the page) but other than that it just never became my cuppa. But as stated previously on this here website I'm a big fan of the ongoing T.V. series adaptation starring Jacob Anderson (P.S. more of this photoshoot over here) as our sweet lil' Louis alongside an incomparable Sam Reid devouring the screen and our immortal souls as Lestat.
All of that is to say that some very happy-making news broke this weekend -- the show is getting a fourth season! Huzzah! It will be re-titled once again -- now it will be called Queen of the Damned, meaning one assumes it'll be an adaption of that book, and that only makes sense since we met that character (played by the great Sheila Atim of Dust Bunny fame) this past round of episodes. (And now I am lol'ing remembering that one of you got very angry at me the last time I posted about how the show changing its title to The Vampire Lestat irritated me and how I'd continue calling it Interview With the Vampire anyway -- lol and no further comment.) I vaguely remember seeing the film of Queen of the Damned with the great Aaliyah (RIP queen) when it came out -- weirdly I was just talking about its long disappeared leading man Stuart Townsend last week when my boyfriend asked if Charlize Theron is gay and I pointed to her forgotten marriage to him as proof of... well, she married a dude once. I guess that's all that proved. Right, Louis? He gets it.
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Bad Boys Bad Boys
I was not at all surprised to learn upon my first googling of actor Egor Venned, the leading man in the brand new queer folk-horror film No Rest For the Wicked, that he's also a model -- half of the movie just hangs on the cut of his cheekbones. The camera is completely in love with him. So it's not so surprising when the character played by Game of Thrones actor Pilou Asbæk (himself a dish) rolls into town that he's immediately drawn beauty-ward... anyway I saw this movie at Fantasia and it's the second review that dropped while I was out of town, so click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts. I also shared the film's first trailer there (it's down at the bottom of the review) so you can see in motion how ridiculously pretty Venned is. Which isn't the only reason to see the movie -- it's a beautiful and haunting little thing -- but the palpable heat between Venned & Asbæk (seen below being his gorgeous self) is in itself on its own worth the price of admission. (Also the sweaters. The sweaters! Oh my god I love a sweater movie.)
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
The Damned Do Dance
Well it's somehow that time again -- the place where Thursday evening meets Monday morning since I have every Friday in the summer off. So that's that for the week! And good riddance, I say -- not that this week was particularly more awful than any of the other ones these days; 2026 is all just a steady hum of awfulness really. But because... hey, a good thing? I'm going out of town for the three-day weekend! I am headed north-ward into the woods to levitate naked around a fire-pit while cursing the patriarchy et cetera, whatever it is that one does in the woods. Breathe air, I suppose? Anyway this city can suck it, I deserve a break for at least three damn days. But no worries -- I will be back Monday. (Actually if you pay attention to Pajiba I'll have another Tribeca review going up at some point in the next day or so, so it'll be like I'm here anyway! What a thrill!)
All of that said the most important thing about this weekend though has absolutely nothing to do with me scribbling my name in blood into Black Phillip's big black book of delicious living -- the most important thing is that the queer horror movie Leviticus is coming out tomorrow and you need to go throw your money at it guldurnit. The three pictures seen here (via) are of one of the film's young leading fellas, Stacy Clausen (I recently posted some more of him here) -- once you've gone and seen the film then go read my review at Pajiba. Or read my review first. Do what you want really, who the hell am I to tell you? Well except for the part about going to see the movie -- you really should do that so a really good movie about gay people has a sliver of success in this shitty world. Then we'll have two good things! My trip and a successful gay movie. Next stop the world! Have a good one, everybody.
The Poodle Breeder Horror Movie
Another Tribeca review from yours truly for y'all to consume this afternoon -- this time we're talking Breeder, the horror movie about a... poodle breeder? Yes, a poodle breeder. It sells itself really. That said I did overall like this movie while also having some issues with it that I get into -- read my review right here. I know I'm beginning to sound like a semi-hysteric on this front but there seems to be a lot of straight white men making horror movies right now where they think are dissecting this moment's straight-white-manhood when they are really just falling into tropes of othering people who are not straight white men. And I don't so much like this aspect of horror right now! Call me crazy but that bit's not so cool! Anyway IFC and Shudder snatched this movie as it premiered at Tribeca because "The Poodle Breeder Horror Movie" is the easiest fucking sell in the world, so you'll all get to see this movie this fall. Then you can decide if I am indeed a hysteric. (I am sure most of you already decided "yes" on that but whatever.)
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Pics of the Day
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.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Had a Man Smoke Ya Pole
I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer on whether William Friedkin's 1980 film Cruising was ultimately a "good" or "bad" thing for the gay community -- I think the people on the scene at the time were right to protest it and I think the younger people like myself who are extremely grateful to have this window into the pre-AIDS leather world of NYC are right as well. It's complicated! And thankfully Jeffrey Schwartz's new documentary Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, which just premiered at Tribeca, treats it as such -- click here to read my review. At an extremely tight 84 minutes my only complaint is the movie could've been longer, but I think it does a great job introducing the dozens of perspectives that surround the film, from then and now. Good stuff, perfect for Pride Month! (Although no I do not yet have any idea when it will be out in theaters so don't ask me!)
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Stacy Clausen Six Times
Since my review of the absolutely ace new horror flick Leviticus finally went up at Pajiba yesterday -- read that here if you missed it -- it feels like I can finally start ogling excuse me higlighting one of its handsome leading men, the 21-year-old Aussie actor Stacy Clausen here. If you watched the dumb-but-fun-enough shark-attack flick Thrash on Netflix recently you've seen Stacy already, he had a small role there, but him and his fellow leading man Joe Bird in Leviticus are so wonderful in that movie, and their chemistry is such a big part of why the movie works so well, that I'd be remiss not taking a moment to laser in some. Also... look at him. (via) Why couldn't I have had a high school boyfriend like this? Anyway Leviticus is out on June 19th! It is not to be missed! Hit the jump for more of the young Mr. Clausen...
Monday, June 08, 2026
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.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026
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!
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Good Morning, World
I'll admit that, since I have been running perenially behind on watching new episodes of Richard "Baby Reindeer" Gadd's latest televisual masterpiece Half Man, that I began this post this morning thinking that the final episode was on tonight -- then I double-checked and no, the sixth and final episode drops on Thursday night. Who knew? Probably everyone watching it, save me. Anyway I did finally catch up over the long weekend so I am ready, so so ready, to see how Mr. Gadd lands this extraordinary ship. As with his previous series it's a helluva tonal tighrope he's traversing (alliteration!) but I've found every second of it alive and fiery and dangerous-feeling -- I think it might be even better than the Baby Reindeer program? Gadd and Jamie Bell...
... are giving tremendous performances and I hope that this show proves as popular with the awards bodies as Reindeer did, although its hook of this tortured homo-erotic (homo-deranged?) friendship ("friendship"?) between two extremely damaged boys to men isn't as hooky as that earlier show's was for a wide audience, I don't think. Still it speaks very clearly to me, and I think a lot of queer men -- the self-hatred and abuse we're willing to not just accept but even eroticize... it's a show that's saying a lot very clearly and efficiently and with great humor and I hope that Gadd keeps dropping truth bombs every couple of years on us like this. What a talent. All that and I wanna climb right up and mount him there on that bench-press -- feeling fortunate and thankful for you, good Gadd sir. So what is everybody thinking of Half Man?
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Friday, May 15, 2026
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
North By Northwest (1959)
Phillip Vandamm: Seems to me you fellowscould stand a little less training from the F.B.I.and a little more from the Actor's Studio.
Granted I've seen this movie approximately one thousand times but can't you just hear James Mason purring out that rejoinder? God what a voice that man had. I've already used one of these posts a few years back to expound upon the implied homosexual connection between Mason's character and his favorite side-piece henchman played by Martin Landau, but I could go on about how James Mason is like the paltonic ideal of a Hitchcock Baddie for days. Smooth as hell, a gentleman to the end, unspooling a truly ridiculous plot via ludicrous means -- sure why not send Cary Grant to the middle of nowhere to be shot at by a crop duster? Why not, I say! Anyway Mason was born 117 years ago today -- go watch one of his movies! You will not be disappointed. He was always the man.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The Book of Leviticus
Neon just dropped the above... poster...s... for the upcoming gay horror film Leviticus -- since it's a gif of two images I'm not sure what to call it. I've seen the phrase "motion poster" before so I suppose that fits. Anyway they're both great images, and supposedly we're getting a trailer tomorrow (the movie is out on June 19th) but, unlike the trailer for the new Evil Dead movie that I just posted, I doubt I will share the one for Leviticus. Because I've seen Leviticus -- I posted about it about a month ago, that it was playing the "New Directors" fest here in NYC -- and I am one hundred percent certain y'all should go into this movie as cold as possible, like I did. I've really been wanting to write up my thoughts on the film, which are myriad and emotional, but I've hesitated for a couple of factors.
One is that I'm not sure I can write about it without talking about everything going on with it, but honestly that's not been the main issue. The other is that, and I don't think this will surprise any of you who've been here lately, I've really had some writer's block bogging me down over the past several months. I've felt like it's had to be super obvious to any of you visiting -- I've really been operating on auto-pilot lately, and I need to get myself out of this funk. Especially if I'm going to write about a movie like Leviticus, which moved me in some profound and extremely personal ways. So if anybody has any words of encouragement I wouldn't hate to hear them, is what I'm saying -- the thing is that I'm hardly alone in feeling broken by the world these days, and I guess that's what's sort of kept me clammed up about it. It's been very much the preacher's funeral sermon in Synechdoche New York -- "Maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery because they have their own." It all feels redundant and obvious and in turn pointless and it cycles, and cycles. Hopefully I can dig myself out of this grave and do better! Understatement! Anyway here's some video I took of Leviticus director Adrian Chiarella introducing the movie at MoMA a couple of weeks back; he really speaks beautifully:
Thursday, April 02, 2026
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?
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Great Moments in Movie Staches
Give it up for Rock Hudson serving hard 70s porn coach in Roger Vadim's exceptionally bizarre 1971 movie Pretty Maids All in a Row. Anybody seen this? For some reason its name crossed my social-media a couple of times recently which i took as a sign to watch it. So I did that last night and, uhh -- what the fuck was that? It's basically Porky's as a giallo film... or perhaps a giallo film as Porky's is more apt. It's a broad sexploitation comedy where the high school teachers are fucking and murdering their students. Before you run out thinking, as I did, "Oh my god I have to see this!" please know it's not a "good" movie. For all the WTF-ery going down it's somehow still plodding and pointless and mean. It's 1971 so of course it's profoundly misogynistic but even so, having that expectation going in, it manages to seem extra gross. Angie Dickinson plays a teacher opposite Rock and you can tell she was just bone-deep exhausted having to play this role, which demands she be dumber than hair.
There's a proto-Heathers thing going on -- the movie's one great joke is about the school having a "moment of silence" for the murdered cheerleaders during the big game -- but I think that might be the only time it actually wrung a laugh from me. Probably the most fascinating thing is watching the closet-case Hudson get his Psycho moment, turning a big campus hetero-stud into a figure of menace. But to be honest the movie doesn't seem terribly interested in making his character legitimately scary -- you basically get the feeling that the movie's still on his side after it reveals he's the killer very early on, and that those sluts and bimbos really had it coming. And remember, do keep in mind -- this is all (in theory) being played for wacky laughs! Laughs that never land. Still (in theory) it's interesting, and we do get to see big strapping Rock Hudson walking through a locker-room full of stripping football players, and it co-stars Telly Savalas AND Roddy McDowell, and the movie is deeply obsessed with the unrelenting boner of its main character, who for some insane reason is named "Ponce de Leon Harper" (played by the unconventionally adorable John David Carson). If you're ready to be offended and bored by a nevertheless fascinating mess I suppose I recommend this. But also I warned you.
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