Cosmo Jarvis Plays the Other Man of Steel

Somehow I totally missed this news that dropped a couple of weeks back -- Variety reported that our talented boy Cosmo Jarvis is going to play Joseph Stalin in a movie called Young Stalin, directed by Georgian director Géla Babluani and based on the bestseller by author Simon Sebag Montefiore. You can see a photo of what Stalin looked like in his earlier days down below -- I'd say Cosmo's pretty good casting, especially once he slaps on that stache. Apparently Little Joe got himself into all sorts of criminal shenanigans involving bank robberies and that's what this story's about -- I don't know why they'd feel the need to draw a throughline from a life of criminality to dictatorships these days. So weird. Just coming out of nowhere, that one! (As a more pleasant aside if you'd like a couple more photos of Cosmo from the shoot seen up top, click here.)

Good Morning, World

Let's start today off with a little Kit Connor since Alex Garland's war film Warfare has dropped onto VOD today. (You can also pre-order the 4K and blu-ray right here.) And no this gif isn't from Warfare, which unfortunately doesn't feature a group shower scene before the ridiculous cast oif hotties (also including Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Henrique Zaga, and on and on and on) heads out to battle -- although we do get Joseph Quinn insinuating group masturbation for a moment, and yes I have written out that whole deleted scene mentally-speaking several times over. No that gif is from Heartstopper, the show that introduced Kit to the world and turned him into a thing. (A thing!) And yes that's the gay show, the beloved gay show that I haven't watched yet. Leave me be, I'm busy dammit. (Busy mentally writing war-time circle-jerks apparently.) Anyway here is my review of Warfare over at Pajiba -- a mixed one but I still think the movie's worth seeing, even if I have some issues. (Issue number one -- no circle jerk...)

Warfare Boys Gone Wild

As you well know -- as you no doubt have scratched into your flesh with a shard of glass! -- I wasn't here on Friday. And so I wasn't able to post a link (from here anyway) to my review of Warfare, Alex Garland's new war movie starring a cast of a thousand hotties that included Charles Melton, Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Joseph Quinn, Henrique Zaga, and our boy Noah Centineo seen above in yet another photo from his truly endless Behind the Blinds photoshoot. (See more here, and that post includes a link to three previous posts from the same shoot.) I also wasn't able to share...

... that video of Kit Connor and Charles Melton digging around in the backside of Will Poulter's trousers from the cast's ridiculously baity press run (which I did previously touch upon here) and that won't stand either. But I should definitely now link to my review, which you can read right here. Did any of you go see the movie this weekend? If so let me know in the comments if you agree or don't with what I had to say. If you don't agree it's okay! It's okay to be wrong! That said there are more Noah photos to share so let's get to that (PS if I had one wish -- sorry, orphans of the world! -- it would be to have Noah's perfect mop of hair) and hit the jump for those...

Wrap Me in Reynor

Florence Pugh (because she is very good, mind you!) has a tendency to swallow up her male co-stars' deserved attention. We saw it with Lady Macbeth and how long it took the world to cotton to her co-star in that, Cosmo Jarvis. And it seems to've happened again with Jack Reynor, Pugh's Midsommar leading man -- he ran around with his willy out (as did Cosmo actually) and for what? Bupkis for years, while she's off starring in Avengers movies. Feminism run amok! In all seriousness I think Jarvis and Reynor stood every bit her equal in those movies so I was very happy when Cosmo started getting attention thanks to Shogun, as I am very happy now to see that Reynor's booked a big leading man gig -- he is going to star in a new version of The Mummy for Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin. I don't think I mentioned it on here but I finally got around to seeing Wolf Man, the Christopher Abbott reboot of that Universal Monster, and I liked it way more than its reputation suggested? I loved its single night structure and I found the dissolving relationship of the family unit surprisingly moving! That movie got a bum rap. (Anyway it's on blu-ray now so you should give it a chance if you missed it.) And Cronin is maybe an even better director than Leigh Whannell -- Cronin's 2019 horror flick The Hole in the Ground is tremendously fine (here is my review). So I'm curious to see what they do with the Mummy mythology and I think Jack will look good covered in sand -- count me in! And since we're here I unearthed something of my own -- an attractive Jack Reynor photoshoot from 2022 that I apparently never posted. So hit the jump for it... 

Cosmo Jarvis Three Times

Big day for Cosmo-stans as not only was he featured in that Warfare clip I shared earlier but we've also got news of his next project, and it's a biggun -- he's just joined the vast cast of Chris Nolan's upcoming epic take on The Odyssey (thx Mac). No idea who he's playing in it but he's got a face for skirts and he joins the already announced (the movie is actually already filming) cast of (deep breath) Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Benny Safdie, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, Shiloh Fernandez, Himesh Patel, Elliott Page, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee and Corey Hawkins. We have of course been in the Cosmo-corner ever since we first saw him opposite Florence Pugh in Lady Macbeth -- it took Shōgun for the rest of the world to catch up but that's fine because Shōgun is ace. And I know I should know better than to expect anything homosexual from Nolan but my god with this cast of actors and Ancient Greece as your setting... I mean we all know what Achilles and Patroclus were getting up to dammit!

Boys in Uniform

We've been keeping our eye on Alex Garland's upcoming war movie Warfare because its cast is a who's-who of do-me -- Noah Centineo and Kit Connor (seen above) plus Joseph Quinn, Henrique Zaga, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Charles Melton, Finn Bennett, and several more young actors of note. But also Alex Garland's an interesting director and we look forward to his movies even when they don't star the line-up for our filthiest dreams. Anyway the film's out in about five weeks, landing on April 11th, and we've just landed our first look at it via the below video. Watch:

The film was co-directed and co-written by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza, who's telling the story of his own experiences, so expect a real immersive verite thing -- if you can call something as gorgeous looking as the footage contained in that clip "verite" anyway. The film was shot again by Garland's Civil War DP David J. Thompson, who made combat exquisite in that film --  looks like he'll be continuing that streak. In summation after the jump are four pictures of Noah Centineo at one of the Oscars after parties this past weekend because his hair looks so so pretty y'all (what, I get distracted easily)...

Happy InDePlaidPants Day 2024!

It's time for that goofiest of MNPP-specific holidays -- every July 4th I post photos of dudes wearing plaid pants, because why not. WHY NOT??? Really though -- if any of you can come up with a good reason why I shouldn't do this ricidulous thing every year let's hear it; it'll save me gathering up these photos all year long. I welcome one less thing to worry about in this worry-full world!

But until that happens here we are, and here they be -- dudes wearing plaid pants. It's been so long since I've owned or wore a proper pair of plaid pants. That seems a shame. You'd think I'd capitalize on the site's name and brand myself like a proper "influencer" with a look (or is that "lewk") all my own so I could become a pop culture character and perhaps then pay my bills on time. LOL. Wouldn't that shock the world. Anyway, celebration! Hit the jump for the year in plaid pants photos...

An Excellent Cosmo

I spent my Sunday binging all ten episodes of Shōgun on Hulu (which stars out boy Cosmo Jarvis, seen above and also in these gifs I made a couple weeks ago of his nude scene on the series before watching any of it) -- have any of you watched it yet? It gets thirteen samurai swords up from me -- go watch it if you haven't. I have never seen the original miniseries with Richard Chamberlain, nor I have ever read the book, but watching this series felt like devouring an entire novel and once I was all in I couldn't quit. Stayed up way past my bedtime last night finishing the show. Fantastic television that had my jaw dropping more than once an episode -- that earthquake scene! -- and riveted by all of the intricate political maneuvering in between. Plus Hiroyuki Sanada AND Tadanobu Asano? Are you kidding me? Don't miss it!

Spent all day binging #Shōgun which has been fantastic and not just because it knew well enough to give us this perfect moment with my long time beloved Tadanobu Asano pic.twitter.com/7TgavbApYl

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 29, 2024

Noah Is Going To War

I posted about Ex Machina (and this weekend's Civil War) director Alex Garland's next movie Warfare back in February when Charles Melton was cast in it, but since then there has been an onslaught of pretty young things cast in the movie and today's news that Noah Centineo is one of them finally tipped me into must-post-again territory. (As did stumbling upon these photos of Noah from 2019 which I don't believe I've ever seen much less posted before.) I didn't have a heap of info on the movie before but when Reservation Dogs actor D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai was cast this load of information was dropped:

"Woon-A-Tai will portray Ray Mendoza, sources close to production tell Deadline. Mendoza joined the Navy in 1997 and served for over 16 years as a Member of Seal Team 5 and a Land Warfare Training Detachment and BUD/s instructor. He was awarded a Silver Star “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as Lead Communicator, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi, in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on November 19, 2006,” according to Military Times.   

Warfare is the second collaboration for Garland and Mendoza, who served as the military supervisor for Garland’s latest film Civil War set for release on April 12. The pair wrote and will co-direct the film. Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA and Peter Rice will produce. A24 will handle the global release of the film."

But back to the most important issue of this movie's hot cast -- besides Melton, Centineo, and Woon-A-Tai, the cast already has Cosmo Jarvis (our boy from Lady Macbeth and the currently airing Shogun series), Joseph Quinn (from Stranger Things and the future Johnny Storm), Kit Connor (the hottie from Heartbreaker), Will Poulter (he of the blown up MCU muscles), and Finn Bennett, last seen cleaning up blood in his tighty-whities on the most recent season of True Detective. 

Now that's a cast! And I've no doubt more will be cast -- so it goes with these military movies. War is good for one thing and that thing is hot casts of war movies. We'll obviously be keeping our eye on this one -- and stay tuned for our thoughts on Civil War, dropping soon-ish. Now hit the jump for two more of these vintage (is five years old "vintage"?) Noah snaps...

Good Morning, Cosmo

Given it's been three years since I last reported on this I think you'll excuse me for forgetting it was a thing, but the adaptation of Shōgun starring Lady Macbeth hunk Cosmo Jarvis here that I told you about way back in spring of 2021 is apparently out now? It's an FX slash Hulu thing. Upu can watch the trailer at this link. It looks like first four episodes are out now. It also stars the legend Hiroyuki Sanada and the eyelash-legend Néstor Carbonell. Oh and Takehiro Hira from Takashi Miike's killer American Psycho riff Lesson of the Evil! Love that movie. Anyway I have not watched any of the show yet myself (if you have let me know how it is) but when I learned that my beloved Cosmo got good and naked in the first episode I obviously had to watch that much (as in "just that scene") and now I have gifs for you. Hit the jump...

Pics of the Day

Netflix has just dropped three more photos from the forthcoming Persuasion movie which I have mentioned once or twice or thrice here upon this very website -- because it stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, and Henry Golding, and because I love all three of those actors very much. (See the first two photos they released of Cosmo and of Henry here.) And they have also dropped the film's premiere date, which is July the 15th. What else is July the 15th? That's my birthday, baby! This movie was officially made just for it, it turns out! I wouldn't be surprised if we get a trailer soon, but for now let's just enjoy staring at Cosmo & Co after the jump...

Quote of the Day

"I want to work with Andrea Arnold, Lynne Ramsay, and Celine Sciamma, who did Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Those three ladies are at the top of my list. Their films have such strong stories; Celine’s Girlhood has stuck with me since 2014. The performances are so raw that I thought it was real. It let me in so much, and I always find that fascinating, how a director can get actors and actresses to trust them like that."

This quote from Eternals and Green Knight actor Barry Keoghan is actually a year and a half old, from an interview he gave to NME last March when his movie Calm With Horses (a good movie which also starred MNPP fave Cosmo Jarvis and which you should seek out -- here's that trailer) was coming out, but it's making the rounds on Twitter this week thanks to Eternals' release and everybody being like, "Oh right Barry Keoghan kicks ass." But such sentiments must be shared now once they're seen, because... right, Barry kicks ass. If you look at the directors Barry's already worked with at all his twenty-nine years of age -- Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, David Lowery, Chloé Zhao, with Matt Reeves (in The Batman) and Cary Fukunaga (for Masters of the Air, which I posted about here) and Martin McDonagh (for The Banshees of Inisherin) on tap -- it's clear the boy's got taste. But his wanting to work with Arnold especially tickles all of my fancies -- all of 'em! -- because how damn easy is that to picture? They seem like peas in a pod, a perfect match, and I really hope that one happens.

Brand New Cosmo Jarvis Joint

Heads up that there's a new movie out starring one of our favorites, Lady Macbeth's Cosmo Jarvis (seen above making me feel a whole lot of feelings, via here and thanks to Tim for the link) -- the movie is called The Evening Hour, it is on Prime right now, and there is a trailer for it down below. I haven't seen the film and the lead appears to actually be First Reformed actor Philip Ettinger (who was very very good in First Reformed -- easily my favorite performance in that movie) with Cosmo in a supporting role, but we'll take Cosmo any which way we can get our Cosmo. Here's the trailer:

This movie actually has a hell of a cast -- there's also Halt and Catch Fire's Kerry Bishé (we love love love her), there's also Nymphomaniac's own Stacy Martin, there's also Lily f'ing Taylor. I imagine somebody out of these people is making this movie worthwhile! I mean I have yet to see Cosmo gives an uninteresting performance; I'm really surprised bigger directors haven't snatched him up yet. Hopefully he catches the attention of the right person soon -- maybe the new Persuasion movie with Dakota Johnson & Henry Golding will be the one -- but until then we will watch him in everything. Including this new photoshoot (swoon) after the jump...

HAPPY INDEPLAIDPANTS DAY!

Last year we birthed a new tradition here at MNPP -- it was actually a reader's idea (shout-out to The Futurist!) but I liked it enough that I snatched it up and ran with it. Every year for the 4th of July I shall here henceforth post a gallery of men wearing Plaid Pants, in honor of this website's Dada-esque nonsense title. In case you're unaware -- I've been asked over the years, "What's with the site's name?" And the answer is, "Nonsense." It means nothing. I'd randomly bought a pair of plaid pants the day I started this site, I was trying to figure out something to call the little Blogger blog I was beginning to ramble my thoughts on movies to I assumed an audience of absolutely no one -- I looked down, I saw the pants, a name was born. 

It really was genuinely meant to be Dada-esque, as that's my favorite school of Art -- telling that story ascribes more meaning to it than it actually deserves. I wanted to pick a name that meant absolutely nothing. Now that more than "an audience of absolutely no one" have shown up to read my nonsense though I will admit that I sometimes wish I'd picked something actually Movie-related -- I have ended up on lots of PR lists for fashion emails somehow, as if this site was actually about Plaid Pants, haha. And the site's title, WTF & goofy as it is, makes me doubt many Movie PR people will ever put it on a trailer or movie poster. ("Schindlers List is Devastating," says My New Plaid Pants.) Oh well! It is what it is at this point, 15 full years on, we embrace it. With a gallery of actors wearing Plaid Pants for the American Holiday of July 4th, apparently! Keeping things nonsensical, right on after the jump...

Pics of the Day

I have been keeping close tabs on 2022's adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion because hot damn do I love that cast, and today Netflix released the first three images of said beloveds -- above is Cosmo Jarvis playing Captain Frederick Wentworth, below is Henry Golding playing Mr. Elliott, and at this link where the photos came from is a look at our leading lady Dakota Johnson playing the one and only Anne. As previously mentioned I have no idea what that means, since I've never read Persuasion or seen a single film adaptation, but judging by the ways people seem real protective of this material I will go with "one and only." I guess we'll see! Other people I love in the cast -- Richard E. Grant and Killing Eve's Edward Bluemel, who's definitely gotten some attention here on the site in the past...

Pic of the Day

Well speak of the tight-panted devil! On Monday I was talking about the new movie version of Jane Austen's book Persuasion that will star Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, and Henry Golding here, and I guess they've just started filming! I pieced that together by Henry Golding posting this picture on his Instagram from beside his trailer with his character's name and the word "Persuasion" hanging on its side, along with him mentioning ll of these things and his director in the photo's caption. I'm a real Sherlock! Now Henry go find Cosmo and bump them britches together!

Shō Me Your Guns, Cosmo Jarvis

Happy news for us Cosmo-heads, as the Lady Macbeth actor Cosmo Jarvis has just lined up an interesting sounding role -- he's playing the co-lead opposite the great and sexy Hiroyuki Sanada in a new miniseries adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun for FX. There was a miniseries made of this book in 1980 that starred Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune (mmm) that I have vague childhood memories of but which I haven't thought of since...

... anyone seen it lately? I can't imagine it holding up given the way these kind of white savior narratives have long been told -- stories where the white guy shows up in a different culture and masters the culture better than the people who've built the culture a la The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. But we seem far more aware of that destructive story-arc now, so I have hopes this will be an updated take. Here's how Deadline describes Shōgun:

"Sanada and Jarvis will play the male leads, Yoshii Toranaga and John Blackthorne, respectively, in the project, which tells the story from both a Western and Japanese perspective... Written by Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, Shōgun is set in feudal Japan. It charts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne (Jarvis), a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties who must prove her value and allegiance. 

... Sanada’s Yoshii Toranaga is a living legend. He is a powerful daimyo from a feared lineage, isolated and outnumbered by his enemies in Osaka Castle when the story begins. But little does anyone realize that Toranaga is a brilliant strategist, a master of the long game, and the holder of Japan’s ultimate fate. Jarvis’ John Blackthorne is a restless English pilot in search of a destiny far from the world he was born into. His mission is to forge a path into the Pacific islands and disrupt Portuguese and Spanish interests in Japan. But Blackthorne finds more than he bargained for when his ship washes ashore within the territory of Toranaga, a deadly warlord who becomes his captor and spiritual mentor."

They haven't cast the third role, for the female character; the head-writer Justin Marks has credits on the live-action Jungle Book movies and the forthcoming Top Gun sequel so, uhh... we'll withhold judgement. He also did a TV program I've never heard of, something called Counterpart that starred JK Simmons and Olivia Williams? There is so much TV now, you guys. I have no idea. 

Anyway if you're not familiar with Cosmo Jarvis yet it's okay since he hasn't done a ton, but what he has done has made me very curious about what he might be capable of. I already mentioned Lady Macbeth -- Florence Pugh got all of the attention and she deserved it but I wish we'd thrown some of it Jarvis' way too, since I think he one hundred percent holds his own against her there. Since then he's been pretty choosy but in the past year we got to watch him do his fine beefy-weirdo thing in Calm With Horses opposite Barry Keoghan and then again in the eensy little thriller Funny Face, which I wrote about here and which genuinely proved to me that he's the real deal. He does a lot of capital-A Acting in the latter but I kinda loved it? 

I should add in "News I Missed" I see on his IMDb page that Cosmo also has been cast in that forthcoming modernized adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion that will star Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, posted previously about here -- as admitted in that earlier post I have never read Persuasion so I'd just assumed Henry Golding was playing the romantic male lead, named "Captain Frederick Wentworth," but no! It turns out it'll be Cosmo in that role! Okay! I'll enjoy staring at all of these people. On that note there are a few more shots of Cosmo from this photo-shoot I've been sharing above (via) and I will now let us just happily stare at him after the jump...

Hello April, Hello Movies, Hello April Movies

I used to on the semi-regular do rounds-ups of what was out on a Friday and tell you what I thought about them, if I had seen them. But it's so confounding to me now, what is out when and where and all that jazz, I really haven't done that so much in the past fourteen months. But I'm gonna try now! I seem to have a decent enough grasp on this weekend, and there's enough good worth seeing for me to try. So, uhh, let's start with the one I don't know about -- Concrete Cowboys, starring Idris Elba, is out on Netflix today. I haven't seen this! But...

... clearly I will see this. I did share some more images from this movie back around the time it was set to in Toronto last year, by the way. Moving on to better-known-by-me things, a little something called Godzilla vs Kong is already in theaters and on HBO Max and has been for a couple of days, so I am guessing some of you've already seen it? But maybe you missed my review at Pajiba -- that is right here. I gave it a solidly positive review but I gotta say the film lingers nice, and I've been wanting to re-watch it all week. That's a good sign! It doesn't feel totally disposable! It's also been a fun meme-maker on Twitter all week, which helps.

Next up there's the movie I literally linked to in the post right before this post you're reading right this minute, and that's the director's cut of the bio-pic Mapplethorpe, which I also reviewed this week for Pajiba -- I was far less kind to this one, and with good reason. It's a movie about artists that feels like it hates artists? Like, I get it, Robert Mapplethorpe was an asshole. But he was a compelling asshole! He compelled that bull-whip right on up his asshole, for starters! 

Anyway. Me and that movie are done. Moving on. In much happier news Shiva Baby, the anxiety-inducing new claustrophobi-comedy that I reviewed at NewFest last fall, is out online this weekend as well, and that'll give you a much better, sharper, even gayer time. Love that one -- I also posted the trailer right here. It's available for rental on Amazon and probably other places. Recommended highly!

And lastly but also finally there's a flick called Funny Face, also available for rental on Amazon, that I'm also recommending. I don't know if y'all saw the film Dark Night in 2016 about a movie-theater shooting (that movie is on Amazon Prime if you haven't) but Funny Face is from the same director Tim Sutton, and he's proving himself a somebody to watch. He's pretty clearly heavily influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn, but then everyone should be influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn if you ask me. So good on ya, Tim!

Funny Face stars Lady Macbeth's Cosmo Jarvis -- who we've posted about quite regularly -- as a not-quite-right dude who keeps wearing an unsettling mask around his Coney Island neighborhood at night, making everybody uncomfortable. He makes friends with an orphaned young woman (Dela Meskienyar) and silently vows revenge against the wealthy real-estate scion (Jonny Lee Miller) who's bulldozing his childhood home and all of this wanders off into unexpected and weird directions, maybe not always hitting its marks one hundred percent, but remaining fascinating throughout. 

Cannot believe I never saw this before, I guess it took this specific hair, but the bf just pointed out how much Cosmo Jarvis looks like James Caan and now I will never ever un-see it -- it's friggin uncanny at moments pic.twitter.com/7yYs7N01EE

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 31, 2021

Cosmo goes hard on a lot of tics in his performance yet I didn't hate it like I often do with that kind of thing; I found and find him immensely watchable. He's proven time and again to be a talented guy, and this is an odd, memorable performance in an odd, memorable film. It's got stellar atmosphere, also -- nothing has made me want to get out of the local neighborhood I've been trapped in for a year now thanks to COVID harder than this movie did. Funny Face has got NYC vibes bursting out its eye-sockets. It's a slow-boil, but I think you'll dig it if you're in the right mood. Here's the trailer:

Wolf Boy Becomes Wolf Man

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1917 star George Mackay, aka the cream that rose to the top of this past awards season -- that works in the sense that he's a terrific actor finally getting some attention after several years of great work and in the sense that dude is real pasty -- has just lined up a new gig, and it sounds possibly pretty interesting. He's going to star in Wolf, playing a young man who has "species dysphoria" and actually thinks he's a wolf. (So basically he's playing Sheila the She-Wolf on GLOW.) His family sends him to a clinic for brain treatment, as one does, and there he meets a young lady (to be played by Lily-Rose Depp) who thinks herself a wildcat. One assumes an interspecies romance then ensues.

What this actually most reminds me of is Park Chan-wook's criminally under-rated 2006 romance I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, which had the singer Rain romancing Soo-jung Lim, who believes herself to be half-robot and has elaborate fantasies -- or are they? -- where her mechanics take over at great moments of stress and the like. The tension between one person's belief in another and how that feeds the increasingly dangerous fantasies becomes, in Park's hands, the perfect engine to explore What Love Means. Let's hope it's like that!

On an interesting side-note the original star of this movie was apparently supposed to be our favorite spritely lil' weirdo Barry Keoghan, making this the second project in the past month -- alongside the Y: The Last Man series -- that Barry's either dropped out of or been booted from, not sure which in either case. We're giving him the benefit of the doubt that his big Marvel movie Eternals has swallowed up his time, but if another project drops we might begin to worry. Funnily enough in a weird bit of overlap the director of Wolf is Nathalie Biancheri, whose last movie Nocturnal starred Cosmo Jarvis, aka Barry's co-star (and MNPP crush) in Calm With Horses, which we just posted a trailer for the other day.

A Man For All Horses

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So many trailers today! Next up we've got the trailer for Calm With Horses, which stars the other person in Lady Macbeth, the one not named Florence Pugh, the one named Cosmo Jarvis. (See our previous gratuitous post on him here for some reasons why we care.) Cosmo, as I have mentioned previously, is looking mighty Tom Hardy Jr in this flick, which is about an ex-boxer with rage issues who keeps getting pulled into violent situations, especially thanks...

... to the ever bad influence of Barry Keoghan. Oh Barry! You're terrible. Anyway I thought Cosmo was very good in Lady Macbeth, even as that dastardly Pugh woman stole all of the accolades, and I'm glad he's lined something up since I haven't seen him around much. (I don't watch Peaky Blinders -- did him and Tom Hardy make out on Peaky Blinders? I'll watch it if that happened.)

Anyway I've posted about this film a few times before, including some photos and a clip, you can see all that back here. It's been floating around since premiering at fests last year. I haven't read any of the reviews because they kind of don't matter, not before I see it anyway -- I wanna have some Cosmo in my life. Here's the trailer:
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Don't know when we'll get this in the US 

but it's out in the UK on March 6th.