Pics of the Day

I sure can't say that I expected a picture of a shaggy blond be-stached and shirtless David Corenswet to pop up in front of me today, or ever, but that only exposes the lack of my imagination -- because here one is! This is the first look at our current Superman in Jonathan Levine's sports-biopic Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story, which has David playing a football player... god I don't care about the details after typing out what I've written so far. David Corenswet LOOKS LIKE THAT, he will be wearing FOOTBALL GEAR, I don't need to know who this guy is or why this story is being told, I just need to watch this movie now please. It's out on Christmas Day. (And for the actual details of the story beyond my salivating salaciousness click here; thx Mac)

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Personal Shopper (2016)

Maureen: So we made this oath... 

Whoever died first would send the other a sign.

Ingo: A sign? From- from the afterlife?

Maureen: You could call it that; 

you could call it a million things.

Ingo: But... how do you know if it's a sign?

Maureen: I'm a medium. He was- 

he was a medium. I'll just know it.

Ingo: Have you... communicated with spirits before?

Maureen: Um. Lewis thought they were... spirits. 

I'm- I'm less sure. But yes. Uh, somewhat.

I mean there are invisible... presences... around us. 

Always. I mean whether or not they're the souls of the dead, 

I don't know, but... You know when you're a medium 

you just are attuned to some sort of... vibe.

Ingo: What do you mean by- by vibe?

Maureen: It's an intuition thing; it's a feeling. 

You... You see this door... That's only like slightly, ajar.

Ingo: Well... How's within that, that the 

soul... continues to exist... after death?

Maureen: I don't even know if I believe in that.

Can you believe that this movie is turning 10 this year? Time really has ceased having meaning. Anyway we're not here for that -- it didn't premiere at Cannes until May of 2016 -- we are here because actor Lars Eidinger, who played Ingo in the film and of whom we're an enormous fan, is turning 50 today. We previously did a great big gratuitous post on Lars for on his 45th birthday right here, but we're circling back on him because in the five years since then he's only made more of a name for himself -- he can seen briefly in Noah Baumbach's film Jay Kelly right now, but the biggest news of all dropped a few weeks ago -- he's playing the villain Brainiac in the next Superman movie! That is WILD casting. Great, interesting, and surprising casting -- you'd think they'd go with a big name, but they went with a great actor instead. And Lars is also, it must be added with great fondness and appreciation, a massive freak. We approve, James Gunn!

Good Morning, World

Well that oughta wake you right up. I mean no offense to Jonathan Bailey -- the above photo was taken for Variety's "Actors on Actors" interview session that featured Jonny and David Corenswet chatting, which I told you about last week and which you can weatch down below -- but David's people did a better job than Jonny's getting The Photo of the spread. Emphasis on Spread! (Yeah yeah you had to see that one coming.) 

Anyway if you can believe it I haven't watched this video yet!

WTF is wrong with me? Stone me in the town square toot suite! 

THE TIME HAS COME

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Pic of the Day

Variety revealed their annual end-of-year batch of "Actors on Actors" pairings this morning -- see them all here -- but the one we're most excited for, naturally, is the pairing of David Corenswet and Jonathan Bailey. For reasons that are known to them. And you. And to every creature on Earth and outer space probably as well. This chat between the two gets dropped on December 7th. GIMME! 

Jonny! Keep your hands where we can see them (or don't)

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Thursday's Ways Not To Die

It's always a shame when David Corenswet has to go but we do sure like watching him walk away. Hit the jump for the rest...

A Brief Interlude

Okay well that's that for this nearly full day of "content" -- I'm running back into the warm embrace of NYFF press screenings now. Tomorrow is the Opening Night of the fest with Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt opening things up -- my reviews will probably start dropping next week over at Pajiba. See my preview of what I was most looking forward to right here. As for blogging here I'll be offline all day tomorrow, but I'll be back here Monday afternoon. So have a good weekend and if you're in NYC go see something at NYFF! Here's their site! There's a super-mass of incredible international cinema awaiting you. Otherwise -- go see One Battle After Another! Masterpiece, says me!

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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David Corenswet Eleven Times

Maybe it will make some more sense to me why it's Bradley Cooper interviewing David Corenswet for V Man magazine once I read the interview attached to these pictures... oh wait! I just remembered as I typed that sentence that Cooper plays his father in Superman. Nevermind. I get it. And Bradley Cooper probably wants to "get it" too so he's taking any and every chance to be around David and, honestly, we get that too. Anyway David looks sexy as fuck in this shoot (what's new) so let's just set aside my rambling about getting it and get to that instead -- hit the jump for them all...

Good Morning, World

Before any of you ask no, I have no idea where the internet dug up these old photos of baby David Corenswet, fully in thrall to twinkdom, less Superman than "Heroin Chic" Supermodel. I just saw these two pictures making the coail media rounds and I snatched them right up for our rightful consumption. Obviously Corenswet Now (with that back rack) is more my flavor but studying history is important.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... racing Supes to the finish.

Good Morning, World

It only seemed right the Monday after Superman opened to revisit this moment of David Corenswet rocking a pair of tighty-whities in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series Hollywood, which was how I came to love him (no I never watched The Politician because I am allergic to whatshisface). Click here if you missed my review -- generally I enjoyed it! The comments on that review spell another story but I think we can all agree -- David Corenswet in tighty-whities am I right? (Also did you see that blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot in Superman of his enormous super ass in his work suit? Good grief. Cinema!)

Supes of the Day

There's a scene very early on in James Gunn's Superman that is the best scene in the entire movie. And as good as the movie is -- and it's perfectly good! -- one wishes that one scene had been the template for all of the scenes around it. It's the scene where Clark Kent (David Corenswet) and Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) fall into each other's arms in the comfort of her apartment, safe from prying eyes -- we quickly learn that the sarcastic banter the two have perfected at work in the Daily Planet is a cover for their downlow relationship (of three months), and the Lois in this movie is fully aware that Clark is Superman's disguise. She starts ribbing Clark for publishing easy interviews with his alter-ego in their paper, and so he playfully suggests she interview him this time. 

This being Lois f'ing Lane though she chooses to ignore Clark's patronizing tone and snatch at the opportunity to interview the biggest story in the world, relationship or not -- she does warn him, but he's Superman right? We've already seen him at this point take mega-punches from flying monstrosities -- surely he can handle some questions from a mere lady reporter. (That's not me talking -- you can clearly, and to the film's benefit, see Lois bristle at Clark's condescension.)

What follows is a wallop of a scene where we watch two entirely game actors slapping dialogue and actual (can you believe it) ideas back and forth at one another like a verbal Wimbledon -- it's the best action scene in the movie and it's basically two people sitting on chairs the entire time. Corenswet and Brosnahan have mega-chemistry, and what the characters are debating -- the reality of what Superman's god-like powers mean in a complicated world with borders nad laws -- sets the and tone and the story's main thrust for everything that comes after it. Point being: whoever came up with this scene deserves an enormous raise.

If all of Superman had adhered to that emotional and intellectual coherence this film would be a stone-cold insta-classic -- it's sure got a pile of great ingrediants and ideas bouncing around. The cast is pretty much head to toe wonderful -- I'll admit Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder will always be the Clark & Lois I picture when somebody asks me to picture Clark & Lois but the two here are far and away the best iteration of the greatest couple in comic-dom that we've seen since then. 

So it's truly a shame that after this scene the two barely share the screen again for the rest of the film! The Donner films (and a few television series since then) knew that Superman works best as a romance-story --  as much as the villainous Lex Luthor (here played with delightful relish by a spit-flecked Nicholas Hoult) has come to represent Superman's greatest antagonist it's the relationship with Lois, as our cynical but hopeful representative of humanity, that really beats the Big Blue Boy Scout's heart. 

And it's not that Brosnahan doesn't get stuff to do in the meantime. While the hero is off fighting kaiju and slipping into pocket dimensions she's working with what she's got to straighten out the world and it ultimately integral to its saving. And perhaps Gunn didn't want the film to solely define her in relation to Clark & Supes -- I get that. But there's no denying the film feels its most alive and meaningful when all its extra stuff (so much extra stuff) gets swept aside and it focuses on that heart. And one does wish they'd found a way to really anchor the movie around that more consistently.

But still -- a perfectly good time. Whenever the John Williams' theme swept in my tear-ducts spontaneously erupted, and adorable Krypto more than earns his keep. It's not that there's anything absolutely terrible on hand that I can point to here -- well except that maybe a couple of girly girl characters on-screen come off as an eensy bit misogynistic. It's more just a lack of focus that turns out to be Gunn's Kryptonite. How much of that is the no-doubt-suffocating pressure to reboot an entire Cinematic Universe being heaped onto him I'll leave to the business-side pundits -- as for Superman, the movie itself, it's not a fatal glitch in the matrix. But it is a Trojan Horse that splits everything at its seams somewhat. I guess that's just the movies in 2025 though -- nothing can be just itself. Everything's gotta be everything to everybody. Superman most of all.

Who Wore It Best?

I realize that I ended yesterday with a "Which is hotter?" poll between Superman stars David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult so this is getting redundant but whatcha gonna do when Supes himself posts side-by-side photos of himself and Nicky sporting (generally) the same outfit? Yes he did it as a joke but we still have to ask!

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And also, and more importantly, this gives me the perfect excuse I was looking for to post the several more photos of Nicky at the premiere yesterday in his leather pants that dropped. Far be it from me to deny a gallery of such splendor. Hit the jump for them....

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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Good Morning, David Corenswet

Happy Monday or should I say happy four days until Superman comes out -- given the amount of press that WB had dragged David Corenswet and the gang through over the past month and a half I think they've earned that ownership. This latest shoot is all David, for GQ -- I haven't read it yet but you can do so right here. For our purposes this morning though we're more concerned with David looking scrumdiddlyumptious in the pictures! I mean -- a mustache? Be still my Fortress of Solitude. Hit the jump for the full shoot...

Pics of the Day

Whoa ho ho! Nicky Hoult's bleached his hair out! He showed it off for the first time filming Jimmy Kimmel's show yesterday for his Superman duties -- what do we think? He's so pretty I think it's fine, but I'm not gonna lie -- I prefer the dark hair setting off those gorgeous blue eyes of his. But it's not a disaster or anything. If I had to guess I'd guess that this is for his upcoming movie How to Rob a Bank from Atomic Blonde (how appropriate) and Bullet Train director David Leitch -- he likes things bright and poppy and such and this fits into that wheelhouse for sure. Also that's the only unfilmed movie on Nicky's IMDb page right now. I'm a real Sherlock! Anyway I won't force my opinions on y'all -- here's a poll!

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Good Morning, World

What better way to kick off a new week -- maybe our last week on Earth? Hmmmm, something to think about! -- then with some video of David Corenswet getting into Superman shape via his trainer  Paolo Mascitti. If ever we needed to believe in a superhero, am I right? Alas we've just got a very pretty actor flexing his butt. but it's better than not even having that so I say enjoy. Smoke em while ya got em. Hit the jump for our hero...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... in need of rescue. 

Save me, David Corenswet! You're my only hope! My pants have fallen off and only you can do something about it! Pardon me my Superman fan fiction here -- Entertainment Weekly dropped their big Superman issue this week (the movie is out in exactly one month!) and every photo of David Corenswet, in and out (ahem) of costume, was like a slap upside the face with a fistful of kryptonite. 

Sight unseen I hope this movie is good and successful because 

I need to continue staring at David Corenswet for a very long time. 

Two Super Dudes For The Price Of One

I was not at all prepared for the new Wonderland magazine cover photoshoot of our new Superman and his Lex Luthor aka David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult sharing space, knees touching, looking all of this hot at all of this once...

... don't you feel it? It's a lot, man! It's a good thing I only have a three day work-week this week because I am going to need a lot of time to myself now. I haven't read the conversation between the two beauties that accompanies the photos yet because my ability to read's been impacted. I'll get to it. For now hit the jump for the superheroic photos...

The Superman Trailer Made Me Cry

It's true! Three times now! I watched it on my commute this morning and it had me blubbering like an infant on the train. I have no idea if James Gunn will land this when we see the full movie -- July 11th, 2025! Right in time for my birthday! -- but in the two-ish minutes of this trailer he filled me with a sense of Hope like no Superman movie has done since Christopher Reeve. And I don't mean hope for the movie -- hope that it will be good. I mean Hope in the broad, "hope for the world and for decency and kindness" sense. 

Which is a ridiculous thing to take away from a movie trailer but that is the feeling that Superman, at his absolute best, was invented to inspire. So to capture that feeling in two minutes of trailer is something. Granted we're in dark days right now so I am weak and susceptible to emotional swings and neediness! But I've been thinking how weird it is that entertainment hasn't at least tried to ape Depression-era uplift -- maybe we're too cynical now for it. I don't know. I just know this trailer stirred me. When that little kid clutches the flag and prays Superman's name, I absolutely fucking lost my shit. Watch: