We Named the Dog Indiana

Okay baby -- tonight's Indy 5 night! Spin that dastardly Dial of Destiny because this is really happening. Whatever the hell a "dial of destiny" is. I guess I will know tonight. And I'm not sure if I am excited, terrified, indifferent -- we'll see what the movie delivers and decide then. Which is the way it should be, I suppose -- I just wish I could go in anticipating more. I tried to re-watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a few weeks ago and, uhh, didn't make it too far. I think I have tried to re-watch that movie like four times since its release and I never make it all the way through? I definitely haven't seen the ending with the spinning alien nonsense since the first watch, even though that shit's burned into my brain. And not in a good way. Anyway stay tuned for my opinion next week, I will be reviewing this one. I'll be off for the rest of the week for Tribeca stuff -- more reviews will be appearing soon enough! Until then have a good weekend...

From Yellowjackets To Yorick We Go

I have to big important and exciting trailers to share with you and you today! Above is the first (clearly), for the forthcoming Showtime series called Yellowjackets. What is Yellowjackets, you ask? I am glad you asked, here's what Yellowjackets is -- Yellowjackets is a series that stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Christina Ricci, with a pilot directed by Karyn Kusama. What, you need other information? Fuck your other information. Watch the trailer, that'll give you your precious "other information" -- me, I know what I need to know to rearrange my entire life around that thing, thank you very much. Yellowjackets premieres on Showtime sometime this fall.

And then we have the first trailer for the long and I do mean long gestating Y: The Last Man adaptation, which I have been documenting basically since I began posting on this site 15 years ago. (Chart all of our coverage at this link.) It's been some time in the making! It was supposed to be a movie, or two, at one point -- it almost got made with Shia LaBeouf. But now, eighteen years after comics writer Brian K. Vaughn first introduced Yorick Brown, the sexy regular-guy last male on Earth after a plague wiped out all of the menfolk leaving a world of pissed-off and free women to pick up the pieces, we've got an FX series. And it premieres soon! On September 12th! I gotta go see about screeners, yo.

Pieces of a LaBeouf

This is a couple of days old and I didn't think I was bother going to do a post about it but... well, here we are. A post! The "this" I speak of is the trailer for Kornél Mundruczó's film Pieces of a Woman, which wowed some folks at Venice & Toronto earlier this year -- specifically the performances by leading lady Vanessa Kirby, leading penis excuse me actor Shia LaBeouf...

I really didn’t ever expect to have so darn much of Shia LaBeouf’s penis in my life

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 13, 2020

... and supporting phenom Ellen Burstyn, who gets a tailor-made Oscar Clip Speech at the film's mid-point-ish that will have her in the running, if not the surefire win, for that prize.

Good, you can just give Ellen Burstyn the damn Oscar you bastards stole from her now #piecesofawoman pic.twitter.com/3noLKxiOfq

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 13, 2020

(As an aside the actress Frances Fisher -- Scary Mom from Titanic! -- liked the above tweet a few days ago, and nearly blew my knickers off.) Not that I know things! I make comments like that and must immediately backtrack them because I pay about 0.025% attention to Oscar-prognostications and just don't tend to care. Like I could click over to The Film Experience where my pal Nat ranks who's who in the race and get a clue, but that'd be pretending, and I'd forget it all within an hour. My main point is Ellen Burstyn is typically fantabulous and when such things are assessed, awards-wise, they'd be fools to forget her.

Pieces of a Woman is getting a theatrical release (supposedly) at the tail-end of December, and then hitting Netflix on January 7th. Not sure if I'll ever review it properly but it's better than I expected it to be -- that is I had zero expectations besides the actors would be good and they are, they're all great, but on top of that it's actually gorgeously filmed and edited too, which felt like a bonus. Also you'll be hearing a lot about that opening sequence and you totally should, because it's a stunner.

Aaron Will Do What You Want Him To Do

Although I'd begun to think of them as a forgotten art-form it's sure been a big couple of days for music videos! Yesterday Shia LaBeouf did a sad naked dance with Margaret Qualley for a Rainsford video, and today comes the new one for Rhye, which stars our favorite kickin' ass Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who stands center-frame doing some shirtless interpretive freak-out moves for the video's full four-plus-minute run-time. And did I mention he's got a mustache while he does it?

Viva Cinema! The video was directed by his wife, the director Sam Taylor-Johnson -- it's a constant battle, fighting off my jealousy of her, because she has been so generous with her husband all these years. I mean, to look at what she gifted us of him in A Million Little Pieces is to feel your rage subside... 

... well until you remember that she gets to take home what you are looking at and then you're angry again.  It's such an exhausting cycle! Anyway more blessing to us from them, here's the video:

Honestly it's difficult for me not to make gifs from this entire video but I'd be here all day doing that and, believe it or not, I do have other things to do. Still... okay I did a couple more. Who am I kidding? Of course I made a bunch. Hit the jump for them...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... naked dance emoting with Shia.

That there is the new NSFW music video for a song called "Love Me Like You Hate Me" by the musician Rainsford, aka actress Margaret Qualley's sister, and the video stars Margaret and Mr. LaBeouf in a state of several compromising and intimate situations with one another. That is one way to get your damn music heard! (It's also not the first time Shia's gotten Little Shia out for a music video.) Anyway feel free to watch the video in whole or just hit the jump for a few NSFW Shia-centric gifs I made, your choice, whatevs...

Quote of the Day

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“I had met with Derek [Simonds, creator of The Sinner TV series) years ago when he was involved in Call Me by Your Name, and we’d hit it off creatively and had a great conversation..." Simonds and Bomer discussed the possibility of the actor playing Oliver. “I obviously loved the material; I loved talking with him about it. I thought it had real potential. Then he went on to do other things and I went on to do other things.”

That there is the openly gay actor Matthew Bomer saying on Variety's podcast this week that he'd once been considered for the role of "Oliver" in CMBYN way back in the day, pre-Luca. Considering there were ten years between when Andre Aciman's book was published in 2007 and when the film was released I imagine there are plenty of people who were in the mix over the years -- we know that Shia LaBeouf was real close to playing Oliver too. 

Anyway I think things worked out great the way they worked out -- uhh obviously -- so I'm not too torn up about Bomer not playing the role; having one or hell both of the actors in the movie actually be gay might have added something -- not that I think it needs anything added, mind you! -- sort of intangible, we'll never know. 

But also keep in mind that when the book was released in 2007 Matt Bomer was already 30 years old and still in the closet (he didn't come out until 2012) so depending on when his version would've been made he probably would've been even older than Armie was (Armie was 30 when they filmed the movie, which is a sticking point for some people) and as far as we knew through 2012 Bomer was still heterosexual. But yes, Matt Bomer would've looked real good in Oliver's short-shorts as well, that's true. 

"What did you do?" pic.twitter.com/lyVb33MuPq

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 7, 2020

Pantys 19: The Gratuities

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Well it wouldn't be MNPP without some ogling of the menfolk, now would it? We've already taken stock of our favorite male and our favorite female performers of the year, but what about their butts? Butts, bits, in betweens. What's the movies without sex? Even David Cronenberg knows that. That said some years I've gone way overboard with listing the year's Gratuities -- I mean look how I went all out in 2010 and in 2011 -- but this year I'm keeping it, like the rest of this year's Pantys, somewhat under control. My 13 faves (I couldn't narrow it down to 10, I just couldn't) and then 10 runners-up. It's still a lot of naked guys, y'all. And let's get on 'em!

My 13 Favorite Gratuities of 2019

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, A Million Little Pieces

-- see more here --

Juan Barberini and Ramon Pujol,

End of the Century

Tom Mercier, Synonyms

Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse

Jack Reynor, Midsommar

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There is life before seeing this picture of Chris Evans & Alessandro Nivola & Michiel Huisman on the set of Red Sea Diving Resort, and there is life after, and I never want to go back to that horrible Before place ever ever again (pic via https://t.co/QbwjXcQNW2) pic.twitter.com/TpFxcQhv8w

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 30, 2019

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Chris Evans, Michiel Huisman and 

Alessandro Nivola, Red Sea Diving Resort

-- see more here -- 

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Felix Maritaud, Sauvage / Wild

Naoki Kobayashi, Earthquake Bird

-- see more here --

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Andrew Garfield, Under the Silver Lake

-- see more here --

Jake Gyllenhaal, Velvet Buzzsaw

-- more here and here --

César Vicente, Pain and Glory

Kelvin Harrison Jr, Waves

Florian David Fitz and Matthias Schweighöfer, 

100 Things -- see lots more here --

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10 Runners-up

Taron Egerton & Richard Madden, Rocketman

Christopher Abbott, Piercing 

Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang

CM Punk, Girl on the Third Floor

Zac Efron, Extremely Wicked...
Shia LaBeouf, Peanut Butter Falcon

Carloto Cotta, Diamantino

Juan Pablo Olyslager, Temblores

Matthew McConaughey, Serenity

Vincent Lacoste and Pierre Deladonchamps, Sorry Angel

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What were some of your faves in 2019?

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Good Morning, World

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A happy 23rd birthday to everybody's favorite sad boy Lucas Hedges today -- I don't know about you but if I'd worked with Kenneth Lonergan and Greta Gerwig and Wes Anderson and Martin McDonagh and Jason Reitman and Terry Gilliam and Trey Edward Shults and Joel Edgerton and Steven Soderbergh by the tender age of 23 I might take a day off and celebrate!

Lucas can currently be seen in two of the year's best movies -- there's Schults' film Waves, which I sorta reviewed here; in my review I didn't mention Lucas by name but I usually don't mention people by name in my reviews so that was nothing personal, especially since he's one of the best parts of the movie. His scenes with Taylor Russell are the film's life blood. The other film he's in is the excellent Honey Boy opposite Shia LaBeouf, and...

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When is The Discourse getting around to Lucas Hedges Butt In Honey Boy, that's when I wanna jump in pic.twitter.com/3qgxJquwrt

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 5, 2019

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... if that scene was online that's what I'd be sharing this morning, but it's not, so we're lucky I stumbled upon this photo-shoot you see here. I wish I could've found a higher res version of this photo-shoot, but I did what I could with it. Hit the jump for the rest...

Quote of the Day

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I'm about to run out the door for another NYFF screening, but instead of leaving y'all high and dry all afternoon I will instead leave you, uhh... low and wet. Yeah, that. Last week Shia LaBeouf told a story about a night-time naked rasslin' match he had with his Lawless co-star Tom Hardy (thx Mac) and far be it from me not to do my part to make sure as many people visualize this moment as humanly possible. 

"We used to wrestle all the time and he was just a big f—ing person, especially then. He was getting ready for Bane.” LaBeouf goes on to describe how one time, after they saw each other outside, the actor with his girlfriend and Hardy with his trainer, Hardy snuck into his house to surprise attack him. “He runs into my room, and the girl I was with at the time was terrified. And she’s like ‘aah’ and she covered up and she ran into the kitchen and he picked me up, I didn’t have nothing on, so now I’m naked on his shoulder." As chaos ensues, LaBeouf says Hardy had him in “some weird twisty naked position, and as he was making an escape, “We wound up inching over to where the stairs were, and he fell down the stairs, and he wound up hurting his back.” Hardy went on to spread the rumor around town that LaBeouf knocked him out, but as LaBeouf tells it, “that wasn’t the case. We were having a cutie wrestling match.”

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... capturing Shia.

At this point I think it's best not to ask why the hell Shia went jogging around his neighborhood in just his underpants -- why wouldn't he is the better question. And all the better to take photos with fans...? I don't know. It's fine. Everything is fine. We just heard yesterday that Amazon is releasing his semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy with Lucas Hedges in November for awards attention -- what better time to go bouncing around your neighborhood in your sweaty boxer briefs, I ask you? Hit the jump for more...

Good Morning, Yorick

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11 years ago in 2008 when I posted my first post on Brian K. Vaughn's magnificent graphic novel Y: The Last Man getting turned into a movie (which then was set to star Shia LaBeouf) the actor Barry Keoghan was 15 years old. He wouldn't even act in anything for three more years. And here we are and it's 2019 and Barry is going to star in a Y: The Last Man series for FX -- titled simply Y -- what a world, y'all. We already knew Barry had been cast last summer, but last night came word that FX is moving ahead with the series, which means we're actually going to see this thing! It's had more failed starts than Jack Nicholson's ED Medication, so this is something... 

... to celebrate! With some naked Barry, obviously. Nudity is important, after all! Not just for prurient reasons (although we like them reasons just fine) but because penis is a plot point in Y: The Last Man and we need an un-shy actor. They found one. These gifs are from a 2016 movie called Mammal (meaning he was 23 when he filmed this so don't give me that look) co-starring Rachel Griffiths (anybody seen it?) and the rest are after the jump...

Oh Wait I Spoke Too Soon

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I just called the shirtless picture of Shia LaBeouf in The Tax Collector today's "Pic of the Day" but then about five seconds after I posted that I saw this new picture of TIlda Swinton in costume in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake and uh I need to reassess. Hopefully this means that the Academy might see fit to right last year's snub for costume designer Giulia Piersanti, whose Call Me By Your Name short-shorts should've strutted off with that statue - throwing Tilda in an orange goddess caftan is eye-catching in the big sort of ways they appreciate. Oh and speaking of eye-catching then there's the other new image released this weekend...
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Give your soul to the dance. #Suspiria pic.twitter.com/EIvfDKljJ0

— Suspiria (@suspiriamovie) August 10, 2018

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Pic of the Day

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First things first I just want to point out that my issues are between me and my religious advisers (read: the alcoholic "paranormal investigator" I dated for thirty-six excruciatingly awesome hours in college) and y'all without sin can stick those stones right up your butts before you even thinking about throwing 'em. That's my religious advice. That said! That right there is the first image of Shia LaBeouf in character for director David Ayer's next movie called The Tax Collector, and... I am so into it I'm gonna need a moment. Click the image, it embiggens, just like my therapy bills are gonna be doing real soon. Read more about the movie here.

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Barry Keoghan is Your Yorick, Yours & Mine

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Barry Keoghan gave last year's greatest performance not given by a person named Timothée Chalamet in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and we've been smitten ever since - hell he even makes us look back at Dunkirk askance and we fucking hated Dunkirk. So needless to say when I read this afternoon's news that Barry's been cast as Yorick Brown, the lead in the forthcoming Y: The Last Man series -- a series I have been covering every up and down in production for almost exactly a decade (seriously my first post, titled "Shia's Pecker Is Of Dire Importance" was in July of 2008!) -- well, I met the news with a buoyant jig. A jig, people!

Don't look at me like that, Barry. Anyway after going through several iterations the Y: The Last Man series (which started as a comic book written by Brian K. Vaughn that I deeply recommend) is now being shepherded to FX by Michael Green, aka the dude who gave us the first season of American Gods alongside Bryan Fuller. Of course making a pilot isn't the same as going to series, so they've got to film this thing first. But Barry is a big heck-yes in the right direction.

Other names have been cast too, including Diane Lane as Yorick's mother and Imogen Poots as his sister - you can read through them all here (Thanks Mac). A couple of weeks ago there was a rumor that Jodie Foster was going to play the major character of "Dr. Allison Mann" but that casting hasn't been officially announced yet so we'll have to see if the rumor's true. For now though we're just gonna keep jigging over our boy Barry. Most excellent!

Good Morning, Shia

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For all of Nymphomaniac's explicitness I always thought this demure shot of Shia LaBeouf (who turns 32 today) standing naked behind a dresser covered with books was the sexiest shot in the film... but then there are piles of books and y'all know how I feel about piles of books. Hubba hubba. In all seriousness I think Shia is good in this movie (which I've never actually finished watching all of - I've never made it to Jamie Bell's scenes!) and along with American Honey, well, I hope he figures his shit out. He's got two films in the pipeline that seem pretty risky on paper - there's a modern spin on Huckleberry Finn with Shia opposite an actor with Downs Syndrome called The Peanut Butter Falcon...

... that is Shia with its writer-director Tyler Nilson on set. That also stars Dakota Johnson and John Hawkes and Jon Bernthal and Bruce Dern and Thomas Haden Church, which is quite the cast. And then there's Honey Boy, which is an autobiographical retelling of his own childhood that's got him playing his own father. All the names have been changed and I imagine it's going to be fictionalized to a degree, but still. The movie is coming from Israeli director Alma Har'el, who directed that Sigur Rós music video Shia got naked for in 2012...

Sverrir Gudnason Ten Times

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It's been an awfully long drawn out release for the Borg vs McEnroe movie that's got our boy Sverrir here facing down Shia LaBeouf in tennis whites - just call it Battle of the Sexies! (Oh god never call it that, you'll be slapped immediately, and deservedly, if you call it that.) But it's finally out this weekend, and given the options - what, are you gonna spend money on Rampage? - you could do worse. 

We've posted some shots from the film and its trailer previously that make the movie's case. (And some shots of Sverrir himself that further the case along.) Anyway even without this Sverrir has got the Claire Foy led Girl in the Spider's Web coming out soon enough, so he's gonna be okay. You can read an interview with him here, and then you can hit the jump for the rest of this photo-shoot...
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