Jack O’Connell you will always be famous

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM

Good Morning, Jack Again

We do love the genre of photo that is "hot actor getting his hair cut whilst shirtless" -- hey remember that really extra gay photo of Jonathan Tucker? -- and so that's why we're back here doing an entirely new post for four new photos of Jack O'Connell for British Vogue when I could've just added them to Monday's post of the same shoot. These deserve better than being dumped at the bottom of that one though, never to be seen or heard from again! Hit the jump for all four of these gems...

Good (Holiday) Morning, World

I think I forgot to mention on Friday that I had a three-day weekend ahead -- typical for most people in the U.S. because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day but this is the first year that my day-job office has closed for it, for some reason. Better late than never, I guess. Anyway that's my way of saying what you see before you is a mirage, I am not really here, in the words of my lord and savior Thom Yorke, this is not really happening. (Did you guys know that those lyrics actually came from Michael Stipe? He saw Yorke freaking out on the tour for OK Computer when Radiohead's popularity was exploding and he gave Thom a mantra to repeat whenever the panic came over him -- "I'm not here, this isn't happening." -- which became the chorus to "How To Disappear Completely" i.e. a top three Radiohead song for me on their next album Kid A. Fun facts, I got em!) Anyway since I didn't mention I wouldn't be here and this wouldn't be happening I figured I'd pop in and say so with these photos of Jack O'Connell I just saw (via) as my peace offering. He is one of the stars of this weekend's horror masterpiece 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple, after all -- did you read my review? It's right here if you didn't. And I hope you went to see the movie although it didn't have a great box office weekend so please, go this week if you can! I am now properly invested in a third, don't let me down! Okay enough yammering, see you tomorrow and hit the jump for more of Jack being sexy-adorable...

The Best Bone's Ahead

I know I will be accused of hyperbole but having seen 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple two times now I really mean it when I say that director Nia Dacosta has delivered with this, the fourth movie in the franchise, the best of the bunch. Yes I do indeed make that claim in my review which just dropped over at Pajiba, read it in full here. And I stand by it. Because, first off, as transformative as Danny Boyle's original film was and remains to the horror genre -- and I don't dispute that! -- I think we've all just accepted that it sorta somewhat falls apart in its last act. And then as for Boyle's film last year, well I wasn't a fan. (Read my review of that one here.) But this new one? Spectacular. Strange. Funny. Terrifying. Gorgeous to look at. Emotionally stirring. Kinda gay. It's got a Radiohead song in it for fuck's sake! I wrote a fuck-ton of words on the movie in my review (it's one of my longer ones) and I didn't even mention it has a Radiohead song in it! So yeah. I said what I said. And I meant it.

Say Good Night Jack

Good Night Jack.

I Am Jack's Big Bone Temple

Heading off-line a little early today for a second viewing of The Bone Temple -- I really prefer nixing the "28 Years Later" portion of this movie's title; it's just more fun this way. Anyway that means this will be it for today, I'm afraid. Not that getting to stare at Jack O'Connell's gorgeous face above could be seen by any person with sight as a negative. You'll be okay. JFC he's pretty. Anyway if you've been paying attention you know that I've already shared the briefest of thoughts on The Bone Temple right here, which are quite a positive switch-up from my thoughts on the first 28 Years Later movie, which I reviewed right here -- but no need to pay attention to those really since my full review of The Bone Temple will be out before the end of the week. But I will say that I re-watched the first film of this new series over the weekend and it did indeed play slightly better going back after The Bone Temple. Maybe by the time this supposed trilogy's through we'll really have something proper to reckon with, as a whole. Anyway y'all stay safe out there -- I know the world's shit so I'm gonna keep trying to bring you mindless distraction for when you need a break. Case in point: 

Jack O'Connell is the most important suspenders actor we have

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM

Jack O'Connell Seven Times

I started this post meaning to say that I wanted to extend an olive branch to the movie Sinners, because I rewatched it this past weekend and have kinda been tearing into it on Bluesky because I think it's a fine and fun but not award-worthy movie. But apparently my wires got crossed while staring at these photos of Jack O'Connell because what I ended up typing the first time through this post was that I wanted to extend a "fig leaf" to the movie -- lol. Oh to see Jack in nothing but a fig leaf!

Not that we're at a loss for Jack in even less than that -- hell I saw him take a long, long, long nude shower on stage in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof back in the day. (Long live the theater.) Anyway -- Sinners. It's good! Ocassionally great. Some of its key performances are lacking though, and what it has to say about race feels really muddled by its end to me. And speaking of -- that third act is a mess. Incoherent at times. I mean I love to see a horror movie get praised but I think people are mistaking several magnificent elements for the full picture of the thing. Anyway, whatever. It could be worse -- it could be Weapons getting too much praise! And we're really just here to star at Jack! So hit the jump and do that then...

Today's Mood

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Sinners (2025)

Remmick: Long ago... the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort. Those men lied to themselves and lied to us. They told stories of a God above and a Devil below. And lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth. We are earth and beast, and god. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I - to everything. You will taste the sweet pain of death. We will make beautiful music together.

I'm seeing this movie on IMAX again tonight!

So it's on my mind. Anybody rewatched it lately?

Rage Against the Hype Machine

It is starting to feel as if I'm destined to be a curmudgeon about the horror movies people are digging this year, but really it's only actually been two at this point -- there was Dangerous Animals a couple of weeks ago and now there's Danny Boyle's long awaited zombie catch-up 28 Years Later, which hits theaters this weekend and which most other critics seem to be loving. Unfortunately I cannot in good conscience agree! Here is my review at Pajiba. I think the movie looks great and I think Ralph Fiennes is having fun and that's really almost all that worked for me? The kid's fine, I guess. My issues aren't to do with him. I just don't understand any of the people calling it "scary" or even "tense" as I found it to be neither of those things. But even more brains-boggling to me are the people thinking there's genuine emotion or any kind of profundity in this thing -- it's no deeper than a hollowed out eye-socket. I cannot fathom the people I heard around me sniffling emotionally during its last act -- I don't consider myself dead inside. I cry real easy most of the time! But not here. These are shallow unrealized duds of characters being moved around willy-nilly without a single thing of purpose to say -- I am good and truly baffled by some of the reviews I'm reading. You can only give something so much credit for trying something different when it thoroughly fails at what it's trying. Oh well! I'm a fan of the first two movies and generally Boyle as a filmmaker so here's to hoping the next one is better. At least Cillian Murphy will supposedly be back.

Pics of the Day

Here are a pair of pleasant set photos of Michael B. Jordan and his big beautiful torso smeared with blood on the Sinners set for your enjoyment -- even though this movie's still making oodles of money in theaters it's hitting VOD next week on June 3rd, and then it drops on blu-ray etc. on July 8th. (If you haven't yet pre-order that right here.) I was hoping to see it again on IMAX but my schedule has not been participating and with Tribeca starting next week looks like that's another dead dream, oh well! Maybe they'll re-release it in autumn for awards attention; fingers crossed. (click to embiggen)

 

Jack O'Connell Seven Times

Wildly I haven't been able to see Sinners yet (I am going this upcoming weekend though) but I have heard from several sources that Jack O'Connell is one of its many highlights and this makes me extremely glad -- talk about a terrific (and yeah let's be honest super beautiful) actor who's gone criminally underutilized for far too long. He's been screaming out for a great director to give him a juicy role for twelve years now since the one-two punch of Starred Up and '71 landed in 2013 (and then there was his breakthrough on Skins before that) -- which isn't to say he hasn't delivered good work in that time. (Go watch Andrew Haigh's miniseres North Water with Colin Farrell and Jack right now.) I'm just glad to hear he's gotten to stand out in a box office hit. More Jack please! Speaking of I have some more from this fresh sexy photoshoot for Hero magazine (read the interview here) for us right on after the jump...

Good Morning, Jack & Friends

Actor Jack O'Connell seems to be one of those actors who has it written into his contract that he has to get naked in everything he does -- that, plus his acting talent, are why we love him! The latest round of the laddy's exhibitionism's taken place on his BBC series Rogue Heroes (from writer Steven Knight, the same man who gave us Tom Hardy naked in Taboo and Viggo Mortensen naked in Eastern Promises - never forget!) and it's not just Jack -- it's an entire pack of (to namecheck yet another Knight opus) Dirty Pretty Things in their altogethers. I made my gifs focus in on Jack mainly so go watch the show if you want the full widescreen spectacle -- but for now hit the jump for a dozen more of said gifs... 

Good Morning, World

I didn't bother seeing the Amy Winehouse bio-pic Back to Black because I heard really, really bad things about it and the trailer looked terrible and I kind of don't give a shit about Amy Winehouse anyway and all of Sam Taylor-Johnson's skills seem to be in the "landing a world-class hot husband" department and not so much the "directing" one. But I don't want to knock her too much because she did put said world-class hot husband on full, and I do mean full, display that one time -- and hey if she was just taunting us, showing us what we'll never have, that's fine, I am fine with that, I can go back to my post full of gifs and pretend. And also hey look it's Jack O'Connell topless in Back to Black! I also appreciate that. So I might not watch your movies, Sam, but I will inevitably post about them at some point at least because you always give us some gratuitous goods. I think we'd get along. We would have things to talk about. In summation -- call me, Sam!

Jack's What's For Dinner

The cast for Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later film -- the third in the 28 Days Later not-zombie universe and supposedly the start of an entirely new trilogy -- has just gotten a wee-laddy hotter with Jack O'Connell joining the already scorching cast. That means dude-wise we're going to be staring at Jack, Charlie Hunnam, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and (supposedly) Cillian Murphy -- and we're supposed to be rooting against the not-zombies? because I am finding their desire to bite into this cast tremendously relatable!  

Jack O'Connell Is Our Immortal Beloved

I keep waiting for Jack O'Connell to have a big break-out role... and waiting, and waiting. He's always been terrific in anything I've seen him in. He has the bone structure of a god. And he's Irish -- I mean aren't Irishmen supposed the It Fellas of the moment? Even Colin Farrell says so, and he's clearly got no stake in such a staement at all! But seriously Jack is really a genuinely talented actor and he should've had a big definitive role by now. So here's to hoping this next one he's "circling" might be it -- Collider is reporting (thx Mac) that he might play the villain opposite Michael B. Jordan in Ryan "Black Panther" Coogler's next movie. Rumors abound that the movie is about vampires in the Antebellum South, but all we know for certain is it's described as "an event film" and it will be filmed in IMAX and it's already got a release date of March 7th 2025.  Not only does all of that sound extremely cool, but this sure sounds like the kind of project that would get a lot of eyes on Jack, too. Win win!

Jack O'Connell Three Times

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Good Morning, World

Happy Monday, gorgeous people. I'm running woefully behind this morning -- this is going to be a busy few weeks for me, as the lead up to the holidays always is -- so I'll just cut to the chase on this post. As I told you on Friday the new take on Lady Chatterly's Lover starring Jack O'Connell and Emma Corrin hit Netflix over the weekend -- well I have a couple more gifs from it to share with you that you won't want to miss, and I also have...

... what I think is the rest of Jack's photo-shoot for Wonderland magazine (via), which I also mentioned on Friday. And Jack is looking good. (When isn't Jack looking good?) So I'll share those two things with you right now right here after the jump...

All the Beautiful Santa Booty

The end of the year is the absolute worst time to have any idea what is coming out when -- movies are hitting streaming, movies are hitting New York and Los Angeles, movies are going wide, and keeping track of that is herculean nonsense that even I, with my face pressed to the fishbowl, can't come anywhere near sussing straight. But I'm going to try to steer you toward a few things that are coming out today anyway, because there are several titles of note dropping somewhere, and you can do the work to figure out how you, in the place you live, can see them, whether today or not today. I can't be everywhere! Unfortunately! Cuz if I could I'd really like to be hiding in Jack O'Connell's shower right now. (That photo above is from the new issue of Wonderland magazine and I have been impatiently awaiting more photos to show up for a week but still nothing, sigh. I will surely post them when they do arrive though because my god, look at him.) 

Speaking of Jack though he is on topic here because the new Lady Chatterly's Lover, starring him and The Crown's Emma Corrin, is on Netflix today! Directed by the phenomenally talented Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (who gifted us with Matthias Schoenaerts in The Mustang previously) this is an absolutely solid and sexy adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic provocation -- it's a shame most people will see it on the small screen because it's a movie rich with texture; flesh and fabrics, mud and sweat. Jack and Emma are very fine (in all senses of that word), the costumes are fabulous (Jack looks so good in all those wools and suspenders, swoon) and I recommend checking it out if you're in the mood for a lush period piece with a thrumming pulse.   



Another movie that I recommend that is out today in several cities (and hitting streaming next Friday) is called Nr. 10 and it's another wild eccentricity from Borgman director Alex van Warmerdam -- in fact I have no idea how to write about it since it's a movie populated with so many sudden turns that I'd hate to spoil anyone's ride with it. I don't think you should even watch that trailer I posted above honestly -- if the incredible Borgman didn't convince you to see everything that van Warmerdam puts out for the rest of time I know I can't do a better job than that. Let me just add though that this movie has the best, funniest, most delightful ending of any movie I have seen in years -- if you're watching it and thinking to yourself, "Where the hell is this thing going?" believe me you will never ever in a million years answer that question correctly. My god, I giggled for a full hour.

Also opening in theaters today -- although I have no idea to what extent -- is 2nd Chance, an absolutely fascinating documentary that's as funny as it is terrifying from Ramin Bahrani (director of 99 Homes and The White Tiger) that tells the only-in-America story of Richard Davis, the inventor of the bulletproof vest. The man shot himself in the chest over and over again to prove his invention's worth, built an empire and changed the world for the worse, and... well you really just need to watch this doc. It is, and I don't say this lightly, unmissable. it is bonkers! And I do say that lightly. What a story.

Then there are a couple of movies I have properly reviewed that are hitting theaters today -- I directed you earlier to my review of the gay tearjerker Spoiler Alert but if you missed that click here. I went into this one with pretty low expectations but was happily surprised to have them surpassed, and not just because it made me cry a bunch since I am the world's easiest crier. It's actually an interestingly structured film that takes a few risks with the formula that I appreciated! And the other movie out today that I have also reviewed is Joanna Hogg's haunted history piece The Eternal Daughter, starring Tilda Swinton twice over as mother and daughter. Here is my NYFF review. I absolutely loved it.

But wait wait wait! There is even more. Can you handle it? I don't think you can! There are also two movies I also saw at NYFF but never got around to reviewing that are hitting limited theaters this weekend, and they're among the very finest films of the year. Only unlike the movies I briefly reviewed up top I won't be briefly reviewing these two because if I do write about them they deserve real, proper, lengthy reviews. I just don't have that brainpower in me today, so I'm just giving you the heads-up that they're out and that they are one hundred thousand percent worth seeing. And those would be Sarah Polley's Women Talking (watch the trailer here) and Laura Poitras' devastating and invigorating doc on photographer Nan Goldin called All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. I have seen both of these films twice now and I haven't had a lot of time for re-watching things -- these are just both so excellent I made the damn time. And so should you.

And finally, one more damned thing. If all of that sounds serious and depressing, with the suicides and overdoses and serial rapes and cancer and such -- sounds like a party to me but what do I know -- there's also the terrifically dumb and silly and fun Santa Claus action-comedy Violent Night out too. Starring (Jack Twist side-piece) David Harbour as the real Kris Kringle pulling the "Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon" routine (aka the "I'm too old for this shit.") there isn't a single Christmas movie this thing doesn't rip off -- from Die Hard to Home Alone to Rare Exports to The Ref to Christmas Vacation and on and on and on every note will feel familiar, but you kinda won't care. Mostly because Harbour's having a blast, and there is some really funny and way over-the-top violence ladled over top. The movie is definitely too long (although its last act is its best) and it very much could've used a stronger cast outside of Harbour (most everybody feels like the D-list version of another more interesting actor) but I also had a lot of fun with it, and nobody needs too much seriousness weighing them down this holiday season. So spike some eggnog and skip a family festivity or two for it, I say. 

The Gang Goes Gobble Gobble

There is very nearly too much out this week for me to even keep a handle on, but lemme try real quick, before I take off for the evening. I always say before a holiday that I might pop back on here to update things and then never do -- of course now that I have said I never do I probably will because there's nothing I love better than proving myself foolish. Well that's not entirely true -- I also really love being lazy. So it's a battle between those two to see which wins out!

Anyway -- lotsa movies is my point! Many of which I have already reviewed or will have reviews going up for sometime this week. But let's start with a movie that falls into neither of those categories -- Rian Johnson's Knives Out sequel Glass Onion, which I saw last night (see down at the bottom of this post for some video of Johnson and a choice friend introducing the movie) but which I have no plans to review. It's hitting some theaters this week and y'all should go, it's fun. I'm not these movies most enthusiastic fan but they're fun enough. I thought the endless cameos in this one were a little much, but I am after all joyless and dead inside so your mileage will probably vary.

Seeing Jack O’Connell’s cock at this point is like having an old friend pop by for a spot of tea

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) October 29, 2022

Oh and another movie out this week that I have seen but don't plan on reviewing is the new Lady Chatterly's Lover with Jack O'Connell -- even though I'm not writing about it doesn't mean it's bad, though. I liked it well enough. And not just because what I tweeted above. Although, you know, that never hurts. Literally never.

As for movies that I have already reviewed that are hitting theaters this week -- most importantly there is Luca Guadagnino's cannibal romance Bones and All, obviously. Here is my review of that. I think it's awesomely good and think you should see it. It got some Indie Spirit nominations today which surprised me -- I really think the film will be too weird for awards. But good for the Spirits. (Also I might have a piece coming on this exact subject hitting some time soon as well.) And then also out this week -- although only here in NYC, I think -- is Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which I reviewed right here. It's also terrific! Greta Gerwig, baby! They dropped a trailer today, too:



As for movies that I have reviews posting later this week -- keep your eyes trained on Pajiba for my takes on the films Devotion with Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell, as well as Steven Spielberg's autobiographical fable called The Fabelmans. Maybe I will pop back in here and share those links this week when the links arrive... maybe not. It's the most exciting thing that will happen all week, this guessing game! Make sure you hold your breath! Even when you're eating mashed potatoes. Especially when eating your mashed potatoes. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! (And don't forget to use MNPP's Amazon link to do your holiday shopping with!)

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