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I doubt I'm going to review it at this point but there was a hugely entertaining doc at Sundance called American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez about the activist turned movie-director Luis Valdez that you should keep an eye out for. I didn't know 95% of his story and it's almost Forrest-Gump-ian in the way it weaves through American Latino history... but of course, me being me, my biggest takeaway was a vivid remembering how many times I watched and rewatched his 1987 Ritchie Valens bio-pic La Bamba as a kid because of how extremely hot Lou Diamond Phillips & Esai Morales were in it. Good grief were they a formative pair! (And both of them are interviewed in the doc and they're still, almost 40 years later, hot af.) Anyway I haven't seen La Bamba is decades but as soon as this doc was over I went and grabbed Criterion's recent release and plan on revisiting it, but until then answer me an impossible riddle...

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Actor Lewis Pullman, who can currently be seen in the fantastic film The Testament of Ann Lee (playing gay no less), has a new interview in Interview Magazine -- read it here (thx Mac) -- where the nepo-stud's father and former major movie-star Bill comes up a lot. (I didn't know that Lewis was joining his dad in Spaceballs 2 actually, which is fun!) Anyway that seemed a good impetus to finally pit Dad versus Son in one of our patented polls...

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Alexander Skarsgård, Leather Queen

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As you may or may not have heard (although all signs point to "have") I'm in the middle of New York Film Festival duties right now, and for the most part (save yesterday but don't ask) having a grand old time. You can see what there is of coverage so far right here, with the caveat slash promise that lots more coverage will be coming. Anyway I figured I'd share the above photos and videos that I took over the weekend of Pillion writer-director Harry Lighton with his star Alexander Skarsgard at a non-NYFF-specific screenng of that movie -- which I reviewed here -- because there's never not a right time for the Skarsgård. And speaking of Sir Alex -- we've been deeply enjoying the BDSM-flavored outfits he's been rocking on the red carpets for Pillion so far, and it seems like a poll would be fun. Right? Right. Pick your favorite master...

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As soon as I saw the photo on the left of actor, stuntman, and total babe Cameron Brown in the Xenomorph costume for the Alien: Earth series I thought of the legendary photo on the right of actor, stuntman and total babe Ricou Browning doing the same pose in his Creature costume from 1954's Universal monster movie classic Creature From the Black Lagoon -- and thus this poll was born. I finished watching Alien: Earth last night so if y'all want to share your opinions on the show's first season in the comments go to town! I thought it was fine. It didn't blow my mind, honestly -- it's kinda weird when the only character you give a shit about is an extraterrestrial eyeball ya know? But I'll definitely watch a second season. Anyway I recommend following Cameron Brown on Instagram; if you hit the jump I've chosen a few highlights...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Superman (1978)

Miss Teschmacher: It's too good to be true. 

He's 6' 4", has black hair, blue eyes, doesn't drink, 

doesn't smoke, and tells the truth.

Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher, some people can read 

War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple 

adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a

chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Miss Teschmacher: Lex, what has chewing gum

got to do with the secrets of the universe?

A very happy birthday to the great Valerie Perrine today! It took all my energy not to use a quote of hers legendary performance in the Village People masterpiece Can't Stop the Music but I figured since a new Superman movie just got announced today this was fitting. 

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But speaking of Miss Teschmacher -- what did y'all think of Sara Sampaio's turn in the role in the James Gunn movie? I was worried for most of the film that the whole dimbulb "influencer" stereotype was too much, but I do think the movie flipped it on its head by the end and she was pretty funny. And I know there are a lot of people who'd lose their minds for some of some in-depth Skyler Gisondo reporting. Personally I like my journalism nerds in the form of Marc McClure's Jimmy Olsen... hey! That gives me an idea...

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I'm Just Gonna Leave...

... this photo of David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult (in leather pants!) at the Los Angeles premiere of Superman here for your viewing enjoyment whilst I run off... dare I say like a bird or like a plane? Yeah I'm going to see Superman now. Here is a poll to also help you pass the time until you can hear my thoughts (aka the only thoughts that matter):

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Actor and MNPP fave Austin Nichols recently became a feature film director with a movie called The Salamander King that premiered at the Dallas Film Fest last month, and which stars actor and MNPP fave Justin Chatwin! Not sure where the movie will be seen next -- I'll certainly keep my eyes peeled -- but for the time being the two MNPP faves were caught hanging out together on a boat this past holiday weekend (click the photo to embiggen it) and natch we gotta present you with our poll...

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Actors slash beautiful hunks-o-beef Alan Ritchson and Rodrigo Santoro are right now right this minute down in Australia shooting a movie together that's called Runner, from the director of The Expendables 4 -- it's about "a high-end courier [who] has 3 hours to transport a liver from Brisbane to the Gold Coast" so I think we can expect lots of, you know, running. And a liver! But for this exact moment the two have been caught (via their respective Instagrams) being much more static and lounging around half-naked on a boat together, and we're good with that! Indeed we feel inspired to whip out a fun little poll for y'all...

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I think having expectations on the lower end of expectations is probably a good way to go into this movie, but who knows -- we might have a fun action classic ahead! Optimism! Let's try it on for a second. It feels... funny. Whatever. The world needs more silly action movies not based on video-games or involving Jack Black in any shape, way, or form, so I say bring this on. Livers for everbody! Hit the jump for a few more photos of these fine ass fellas chillaxing in the sun...

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Apropos of nothing save I was currently thinking about Charles Melton after seeing the below batch of photos of him chilling with his Warfare co-stars and that led me to those two photos of him that I'd not seen before, a random poll for y'all! Who doesn't like taking a Melton break now and then?

Taylor John Smith seems to be the WARFARE actor with the Instagram worth following!

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Writer-director Jordan Peele is turning 46 today and we want to take this moment to commend him for his many accomplishments -- a string of great horror movies full of immediately iconic imagery that reflects the state of our world in truly original and unexpected ways... sure, all of that! But also -- have you noticed that the dude has a great eye for gifting us with male eye candy too? Because I sure have. (It's what I do, after all.) There are many more examples -- any time Daniel Kaluuya is on screen; Steven Yeun in his cowboy get-up -- but I've chosen my two personal favorites for today's birthday poll. Above there's Brandon Perea in Nope and down below there's Winston Duke in Us -- now you must choose!

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Happy birthday, Mr. Peele!

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be... 

... porky-pigging with Gus Kenworthy.

Gus calls the wearing of a shirt with nothing else on "Winnie-the-Poohing" it in his Insta-stories but I've always prefered "Porky-Pigging" (see here) because there is a sexier connotation to "pig" then there is "pooh" -- right? You tell me:

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I am always asking the important questions! Anyway he shared this video on his Insta and it's for a good cause so go check it out -- I say this fairly often at these sorts of moments but having out gay celebrities is such a blessing. Such a blessing. Hit the jump for several more images of note from the video...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

No Country For Old Men (2007)

Ed Tom Bell: I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

A wise movie knows that you give Tommy Lee Jones a monologue to deliver and then you just sit back and listen to Tommy Lee Jones deliver it, and No Country For Old Men is a wise movie, perhaps the wisest, because it does this twice -- at start and at finish. I was torn between which speech to quote honestly -- I do love his retelling of his dreams that closes the film -- but the above one, from the film's opening, just feels a little too meaningful to this moment in time not to highlight it here on the day that Criterion has blessed us with the Oscar-winner on 4K blu. 

Anyway I do remain of the mind that Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is the number one movie of 2007, but this masterpiece from the Coens' is just a trifle behind it in my humble -- and I was a bit shocked when I looked back at my 2007 Top Ten list because NCFOM isn't on it at all! (Funny sidenote: 2007 is the first time I tried posting a Top 10 and other assorted year-end awards and it's amusing, in a semi-mortifying way, to look back at that link to see the state of my still relatively early blogging efforts. Phew. We've come a long way baby.) Then I noticed that I do give a note there why it's not included -- I wanted to see it a second time before deciding where I came down on it. Well I've seen it ten more times by now and baby, it's second. Which one tops for you?

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John Krasinski was named People's "Sexiest Man Alive" today and actual real live people seemed to be like, "... Huh?" Myself included. While I think the man has had his moments over the years I've soured on him since his shitty overrated and deeply conservative Quiet Place movies came out and, in their wake, so too did some stories about him being a shitty egomaniac. Anyway I now have a hit tweet...

Vanity Fair coming out the same day and making an absolute mockery of People's always terrible Sexiest Man Alive game pic.twitter.com/vkQkQ4ibDj

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 13, 2024

... pointing out that Vanity Fair totally stole People's thunder today with their incredibly hot batch of menfolk prancing about for the annual "Hollywood Issue" and so a path forward seem to've presented itself! There are actually rumors going around that one of those VF men, the probable most likely alternative choice,  Mr. Glen Powell of the film Twisters, smartly turned People's title down. So let's slap the two of them in the face with our big poll and see who comes on top, then!

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A batch of five character posters for Robert Eggers upcoming remake of Nosferatu dropped this morning -- notably twas none included for the titular role, as they have so far kept Bill Skarsgård's vampire look deliciously out of sight (and I hope it stays that way until the movie is out). But since I will take any measly excuse to post about this movie, by leaps and bounds my most anticipated for the remainder of the year, let's put Nicholas Hoult's look up against Aaron Taylor-Johnson's this here Halloween afternoon!

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Nosferatu is out on Christmas damn day!

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Turns out that October 14th is a very gay day as both Udo Kier and Ben Whishaw were born today. Udo is celebrating a milestone -- 80! -- but we already tweeted him birthday greetings, so we turn our happy gay eyes todward Ben now. Or as I've long dubbed him, "The Great Gay Hope" because I've long thought he'll be the first out gay actor to win an Oscar. I will admit that I'm not so sure about that now that Colman Domingo is giving him a hard run for his money -- and now I am trying to picture a movie starring Colman & Ben and what that might be? maybe a Thelma & Louise type thing? Who wouldn't watch that? Only shitheels, that's who. Anyway until then we're gonna face down two of our favorite Bens -- Ben playing adorkable Q in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies and Ben as the stand-in for all of us painfully in love with Franz Rogowski in Ira Sachs' Passages. Two dependable and wispy Ben bests. Now pick!

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I don't always take requests -- not because you people have bad ideas, just because I'm lazy -- but when commenter  Spideu137 left the suggestion to pit Josh Hartnett's evil sexiness in Trap against James McAvoy's evil sexiness in this weekend's Speak No Evil remake, well, that's a good idea! Crazy difficult choice! So pit them against one another I shall!

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That said if they want to make a sequel where the two of them wrestle one another for dominance, I think we'd all accept that offer. Anyway I haven't seen SNE yet -- I had to miss the press screening Monday so I will see it (and review it) over the weekend. I will try to be impartial given what a masterpiece the original is but James sure is making it hard (heh)...

Every time I want to get angry about the SPEAK NO EVIL remake they disarm me with a photo of James McAvoy GET IT "DISARM" BECAUSE HOLY F'ING CHRIST LOOK AT HIS ARMS pic.twitter.com/rORDmc3IUQ

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 12, 2024

The Forever Alien / Aliens Debate

As I mentioned last evening yes I have seen the new Alien movie and yes you will hear my thoughts on it soon enough -- but before we get there I have a question, an utterly impossible question. I cannot answer this question myself, because whenever I try my body litterally splits itself in half and my innnards and skin sacks flop to the floor, halved. Nobody wants that. So I ask you people out there in the great beyond...

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I'm no great fan of Ridley Scott nowadays, but I concede that he earned his rep as a master filmmaker once upon a time with his first few films and Alien is I think his crown jewel -- it's a perfect horror film with the series' greatest cast of characters. That said James Cameron's sequel is every inch as good to my eye, just scratching a very different kick-ass action movie itch. Anyway these two movies and the Giger-fueled nightmare worlds they built are the reason why this franchise will always rank among my favorites, and I am entirely incapacitated when asked to choose. So I am making you choose. And feel free to make your case in the comments.

People who defend Ridley Scott as still being a good filmmaker are... just not right

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 14, 2024

On a related note I re-watched Prometheus and half of Alien: Covenant last night and lord what slop they are. Beautiful looking slop, but good grief Ridley can't string together a coherent experience anymore. I do love staring at the utterly gorgeous cast of Prometheus though, and the scene where the snake thing kills Rafe Spall & Sean Harris is absolutely top tier horror.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson took to his Instagram this morning to show off a recent transformation, from the bearded hipster you see above...

... to the bulging bald-faced gym bro you see here. And it only seems right (although I suspect I know the answer) to ask y'all...

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Happy 51, Patrick Wilson

There is something just right about Patrick Wilson being born on the third of July -- for as long as he's been acting he's been the suburban dream of the American Suburban Dad, for good or evil -- whether it be fighting demons in the Insidious and Conjuring movies or surreptitiously slamming Kate Winslet against the downstairs dryer in Little Children. The latter role was his breakout and with good reason -- something tells me clandestine affairs across the country found some sweaty inspiration from it, even if the movie was, you, know, a bit of a downer (when it wasn't being hot as hell). Anyway thinking about that role always makes me then think about the spin he did on a similar thing five years later in Diablo Cody's viciously funny Young Adult -- those two characters are basically the yin and yang of Suburban Dad-ness. Which brings us to today's birthday poll for the beautiful and talented fella...

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Such Ungentlemanly Monkeys!

Two perfectly entertaining action movies starring way more than two perfectly hot men are hitting blu-ray today -- there is Guy Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which stocks the majority of the hot men (what's new when it comes to Guy Ritchie) and there's Monkey Man, which was written and directed by and stars one Dev Patel, who is as seen above a factory of hotness unto himself within it. I don't think I properly reviewed either of these movies at length when they came out, but they're both good times worth watching and not just to stare at the hunks. But since we're here! Let's make a dumb poll out of staring at the hunks.

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