The Fourgy of Our Forever Dreams

My schedule today ended up being a bit more bonkers than I anticipated so I'm hopping online later than I'd wagered (I mentioned my tardiness in this morning's post) -- point being I'm just now seeing that the devils at Vanity Fair threw Jonathan Bailey, Riz Ahmed, Harris Dickinson, and Andrew Garfield on a couch in coordinating little outfits and delivered us a video for our everlasting spank bank eternal. I haven't had the chance to actually watch the video properly yet so I have no idea what they're discussing but...

... there it is, it should be documented. Studied. Frame by frame. Thanks to the commenter who alerted me to its existence this morning -- you will be showered in the afterlife with chocolate truffles and oral sex whenever you like. Dear lord!

To Be Bold and Naked At Your Side

Did Harris grab your attention? I feel as if Harris might've grabbed your attention. How useful! Thanks, Harris -- now I can get to my point which is that I didn't get a lot done this past weekend but I did get one thing I'd been meaning to get done for awhile done, and that is go through my overflowing vinyl collection and sort out an enormous heap to sell off on eBay. So that's mostly what I've been doing today -- if yiou're in the market for what's 99% movie soundtracks keep checking this link here and I'll continue listing more this week. I've got like 40 of them I'm putting up for sale (and there were already a ton listed) so it's a real blow-out! Kind of like how Harris Dickinson in Babygirl could've blown out our backs. Ahem. Point being that yes the Babygirl vinyl is one of the ones listed for sale. You know you want it! You know Harris wants you to want it...

Harris Dickinson Five Times

I should be working on reviews today since I'm screening-less but my brain's just kind of begging me for a day of durring it for awhile and accomplishing nothing, so here we are. Thankfully these lovely photos of lovely Harris Dickinson appeared, thereby making my job (or you know my "job") that much easier. I like the shaggy hair on him? Right? He looks lovely. Yes I used "lovely" a third time. Can you tell my brain needs a rest now? Hit the jump for the rest of these yes I said it again lovely photos...

I Quit Smoking 17 Years Ago Today

I keep doing these posts every May 5th -- marking the anniversary of when I quit smoking cigarettes back in 2008 with a constantly ballooning collection of photos and gifs of actors and the like smoking their sexy asses off -- even though, well, it's been 17 years yo! What else do I have to say about any of this? I haven't missed a cigarette since then -- that Chantix shit I took really did its job and then some. But then the fact hasn't changed that whenever I see an image like this...

... I swoon. It just looks cool. I can't help the rules. I'm not saying it's good -- people love violent action movies because people look cool killing people too. It just is what it is and I'm not out to rewire the human brain. I'm just here to lay the horn on the pleasure receptors as we all sink into the abyss. So come with me into this sexy smoky netherworld of seventeen smoke-free years after the jump...

Do Dump or Marry: The New Beatles

Last night at CinemaCon Sam Mendes unveiled the four actors he's cast to play The Beatles in four yes four seperate movies, each one focusing on a single member -- there's Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney. Love all these actors -- you'll see Quinn in Warfare soon enough but that was when I finally decided I am a fan of him -- but as I've probably said on this site a few times over the past twenty years I just do not give a shit about The Beatles. And I don't say that to posture myself as Too Cool or above anything; I recognize that they were an earthquake in music and they have some perfectly good songs but JFC I cannot be bothered. Put their music catalogue or Radiohead's in front of me and I think you can guess where I'll wander. Anyway this will probably turn out to be an interesting expiriment -- telling their story from each point of view -- so if for no other reason we'll be watching. But for right now I invite you to "Do Dump or Marry" these four actors (and as always when there's four feel free to double up on one of those choices) in the comments! (And "Do" = spend one night with; "Dump" = spend zero nights with, and "Marry" equals "spend all the nights with" of course.)

Harris Dickinson Thirteen Times

Our Babygirl boy Harris Dickinson might not have landed the Oscar nomination for that movie he deserved -- Nicole also deserved one but I'm more frustrated he got nothing, since she sits atop a throne of statues already -- but he's still on the cover of THR this week smackdab in the middle of awards season and that can only mean good things for him going forward. He's got the golden touch, and I say that without -- regrettably -- ever having been touched by him. But he is very good at choosing jobs and then knocking said jobs out of the park...

...  and as I've said in the past I think he's one of if not The best actor of his generation. We love you, Harris! And we love this photoshoot, which has him dressed in a heap of gorgeous clothes I would kill for -- That yellow cardigan! Those tweed pants! I would murder ten grandmothers for those tweed pants. (And if they're Republican grandmothers make it twenty!) Hit the jump for what I've gathered up which I think is the full shoot...

The Year In Queer

I did very little work over my break -- we're talking very, very little -- but I did accomplish one thing of which I am very proud! Click on over to Pajiba to read my list of The 10 Hottest Queerest Scenes in 2024's Movies. I got to go deep -- well ankle-deep anyway, as they're blurbs -- on some moments in my favorite movies of the year that I haven't heard much discussion of. I was especially happy how I managed to get the year's most hetero movie Babygirl onto the list! 

Harris Dickinson Nine Times

I didn't know why Interview Magazine paired Harris Dickinson with Sam Rockwell as his interviewer for the new interview they dropped today until they mentioned they were in the 2022 caper comedy See How They Run together -- I never saw that. Did any of you see it? Is it worth seeing? Anyway these photos of Harris are worth seeing as ever (Sam calls him "the British Brad Pitt" and yeesh get a room you two) so hit the jump and see them all...

Harris Dickinson Seven Times

For a second I was sad to see that Harris Dickinson didn't nab a Golden Globe nomination this morning for his work in Babygirl -- even though his leading lady Nicole Kidman did -- but then I remembered these are the Golden f'ing Globes we're talking about, so who the fuck cares. (Not a question - a statement.)  They also didn't nominate the best performance by any actor this year -- Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths -- so her and Harris should go paint the town red that night together, take their sexy talented two-some on the road and live it up like the rock stars they are. That'd be a May December romance for the record books! Anyway I'm more enthusiastic about this Harris photo-shoot than I am anything having to do with the Globes so let's celebrate these! Hit the jump for them all...

Harris Dickinson Fourteen Times

Having now seen Babygirl I think -- I hope -- that Harris Dickinson might finally be breaking through. The boy has been deserving for some time (Beach Rats hive rise) and he is ace in the movie; indeed this was my first immediate thought upon walking out of the theater:

(For real though Harris Dickinson is the best actor of his generation maybe?)

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 10, 2024

The movie is mostly The Nicole Kidman Show and as ever she deserves all the praise she's getting but I am situating myself atop my soapbox that Harris' efforts don't get overlooked. His work in the film is funny, sweet, sexy -- every single bit that it needs to be. He really is that good.

Which is to say I'm glad he's getting some attention from GQ's "Men of the Year" -- with Babygirl not hitting theaters until the 17th he's has been absent a lot of end-of-year press but we the people demand more! I don't have a link to an article yet (I'll update when I do) but I do have the photos, so hit the jump for the photos...

Pics of the Day

The new issue of the annual Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is here, which always gives our favorite hot young things a chance to mingle in fun behind-the-scenes snaps.... and which has brought us the above moment between Jonathan Bailey and Josh O'Connor and I'm just about done for the day, how about y'all? Here's the full cover: 

(click to embiggen) And good for Nicole Kidman slamming her way into the center of the front flap (that phrase feels wrong) all these many many decades into her esteemed career -- having now seen Babygirl I get it! Not that I ever stopped loving Nic, but Babygirl has the makings of a hit if they're smart about it. Harris Dickinson's reading of "Good girl" will probably (and should) be the line of the year if they do. (And Harris should've made the cover too dammit.) Anyway! 

These two fucking photos of Glen Powell!

A mesh shirt? That hair and those glasses?

Were they actually actively trying to kill me? 

Whoever took these photos really went for it and we applaud them. You can see them all at this link, which further links to the invidividual interviews, but I've got all the photos of note right here after the jump...

It's Blitz!

I am not sure yet if this is my final NYFF 2024 review or not -- we'll see if inspiration keeps raging over the weekend and into next week or not but I am on a little bit of a roll if I do say so myself -- but today my thoughts on Steve McQueen's upcoming WWII drama Blitz, which closed NYFF this year, landed on Pajiba -- click here to read them. I appear to've dug the movie more than many critics I've read -- it's lean into melodrama suited me just fine, thank you very much -- but it's not without its issues in that it feels like it would've made a better miniseries than movie. I wanted more, basically! Anyway you don't have long to wait for this one -- it's hitting theaters on November 1st and then Apple will drop it on their streaming platform around Thanksgiving. Here is the trailer if you haven't seen it already:

Good Morning, World

Surprise! I know I said in yesterday's single, solitary post that I was off today and wouldn't be posting anything but then I saw this gif of Harris Dickinson dancing shirtless in the Babygirl trailer going around and I was like... yeah, post that. Do it for your people! I'm actually pretty sure most of y'all caught it already but if not -- there is Harris Dickinson dancing shirtless in the Babygirl trailer. It's exactly like I said it would be, right? Babygirl, the new movie from Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn about a dom-sub relationship between Harris and one Nicole Kidman, got stellar reviews when it played Venice and TIFF and I can't wait for it -- wait I will have to though since it's not out until Christmas. Christmas is sure crowded this year though with this, the Robbie Williams biopic starring a CG monkey, Timothee Chalamet's Bob Dylan movie, and Robert Eggers' Nosferatu! Get out of the way, Jesus!

NYFF Ahoy!

Although it seems nuts to be onto the fall festivals already (not that I will miss this hellfire summer in the slightest, mind you) it is indeed the perfect moment for me to take stock of my hometown beloved, the New York Film Festival, since they've officially announced all three of their Gala films now. We'll start with the end, or is that the middle -- today they announced their Centerpiece film screening and it will indeed be Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language full-length film The Room Next Door starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, and Alessandro Nivola. See all my previous posts on this one here -- we've been rather excited about this for some time, because of course we have. 

This will be its U.S. premiere -- it's premiere-premiering in Venice in September. The NYFF screening is October 4th, right in the middle of the fest -- hence it being the "Centerpiece film" duh -- which runs from September 27–October 14. And speaking of those dates -- the Opening Night film that they announced a couple of weeks ago is Nickel Boys from Hale County This Morning, This Evening (a truly spectacular movie, that) director RaMell Ross -- an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel, Nickel Boys stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Daveed Diggs, Fred Hechinger, and two young actors named  Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in the leads; it's about "two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida." Anybody read the book? 

And then there's our Closing Night movie -- Steve McQueen's Blitz! I've been jonesing for this ever since I first heard about it -- the Hunger and Shame and 12 Years a Slave director is tackling the World War II bombings that devastated London from the ground level, with Saiorse Ronan playing a working-class mum who gets seperated from her little boy in the underground. Blitz also stars, among many others, Harris Dickinson, Stephen Graham, and Hayley Squires -- I have been a massive fan of Squires ever since she wowed in Ken Loach's 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, so I hope her role is juicy too. A lot of people think this might be the movie to finally get Saoirse her Best Actress Oscar, but I don't think enough people have actually seen it yet to know that much. (Having seen her in The Outrun at Sundance though I can already tell you that this is going to be a very good fall for her.)

Anyway that's three films down, dozens more to come -- I daren't even conjecture, they always surprise me, but I find myself getting giddy thinking about it already. If you're planning on attending you can buy packages right here right now; single tickets go on sale in the middle of September. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Carl: I love you, you give me fish.

A very happy 28th birthday to Harris Dickinson today! Hard to believe it's been 7 full years since I first saw him in Beach Rats, but he's easily proven himself to be one of the smartest and most capable (and yes hot as hell) actors of his generation in that time. I cannot wait to see what he's got ahead of him. Do make sure you dig deep into our seven years of Dickison archives -- we have been deeply and vigorously swooning this entire time!

Good Morning, World

As I said precisely one week ago at just around this same time -- no I might not be a fan of the movie The Iron Claw but that's still not keeping me from continuing to post set photos dammit. These two come via A24's Insta -- there are a couple more there if you're curious. All I know is that (as I also said elsewhere earlier) the below photo is the 2024 energy that I am going for in a nutshell. Let's make it happen, people!

Pics of the Day

I can't recall if I'm on the record here on MNPP itself about the fact that I was pretty disappointed by Sean Durkin's new movie The Iron Claw (I did tweet about it) -- I was really looking forward to it  given Durkin's fantastic previous movies (Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest, that is) and its exciting cast, plus the trailer showcased its clearly gorgeous cinematography. Well that last part works, at least. And several members of the cast give it their all -- I personally thought Harris Dickinson and Holt McCallany were best in show, but I also thought Zac Efron was legitimately awful and that is not, very much not, a popular opinion among people who've seen the movie (he's getting cover stories about deserving awards attention ffs) -- so whadda I know? Anyway after those Jeremy Allen White photos for Calvin Klein yesterday I kind feel like staring at Jeremy Allen White again today, and I think y'all understand. So here are some gorgeous PR photos for The Iron Claw that've been making the rounds thanks to set photographer Devin Oktar Yalkin. Hit the jump for 'em...

Pic of the Day

Yet another gloriously gratuitous recreation of an original Von Erich family portrait by the actors in the forthcoming bio-pic The Iron Claw -- see the original here -- that proves how the casting of unrelated actors can get around all of those icky incest feelings we might be feeling otherwise in a movie about three wrestling brothers and their pops. I love getting the go-ahead for my pervy thoughts!

Pic of the Day

(click to embiggen) This promotional image of Harris Dickinson, Jeremy Allen White and Zac Efron in Sean Durkin's forthcoming biographical wrestling drama  The Iron Claw is exactly what this Friday needed. (via) Watch the trailer here if you missed it. This sausage fest is out on December 22nd, so we can all stuff our stockings with these three, how joyous.

The Time For Dickinson Is Now

It seems kind of like movie studios are trying to cram all of their events into this here week and a half before Thanksgiving and the holidays kick off proper, so my schedule this week is blazing crazy -- this is me giving you forewarning that I've got a couple of half-days happening and it might be a lil' ghosty round these parts. Anyway it begins tonight with me seeing Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw, the wrestling brothers movie that stars Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White and that beautiful young person Harris Dickinson seen above -- here's the trailer if you missed it, and even more importantly here's the sexy ass photoshoot of those three actors in EW last week. 

And since I love to show off (alongside that I'm always just genuinely surprised that I get to do this kind of thing now) the other movies I'm seeing before Thanksgiving will be (deep breath) Eli Roth's Thanksgiving, Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Um Tae-hwa's South Korean disaster flick Concrete Utopia starring Lee Byung-hun, Wonka with whatshisbutt, The Color Purple musical, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Godzilla Minus One (wooooo!), and J.A. Bayona's retelling of the Alive story called Society of the Snow.  That's a gigantic heap of movies y'all. By the time I'm eating turkey I'm going to be misremembering Fantasia Barrino fighting Godzilla and Joaquin Phoenix becoming a cannibal. 

Surprisingly easy to watch this without sound, huh #theironclaw pic.twitter.com/l9wOsDH3wU

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 13, 2023