Good Morning, World

What do you say we tear this Friday a new one.

Watch the whole video here. Thanks, Alan.

Good Morning, World

I usually ignore the captions on celebrity beefcake photos because they're usually inane but the devil help me I laughed at what Alan Ritchson wrote under this picture yesterday:

"Whenever I begin to question where my other eleven abs went, I take a deep breath and remind myself… I gave birth to three children. #grandpabod"

Which is Hotter?

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...

How Ungentlemanly of Me

Guy Ritchie's testosterone caper The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is out in theaters today -- watch the trailer here if you missed it. Starring Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson and Henry Golding and Alex Pettyfer and Hero Fiennes Tiffin plus that lady from Ambulance the movie is basically just a beefed-up (literally -- I mean look at Alan Ritchson there) version of every men-on-a-mission war movie that Hollywood's been churning out since the 1950s at least. I suppose there are earlier examples than that but they really seemed to come into their own in the '50s, when we decided we really needed to solidify our post-WWII savoir complex. Anyway this one isn't American propoganda, given the British director and international cast -- it's sort of Winston Churchill Propoganda but really it's not anybody propoganda. It's just a goof. And as such it's fine enough, although I really think when people have been calling it "Guy Ritchie's Inglourious Basterds" they've been underselling just how thoroughly this movie is xeroxing Tarantino at times, beat for beat and character for character. Basterds actor Til Schweiger has to play the Chistoph-Waltz-ish colorful Nazi this time instead of playing the over-indulgent Nazi killer that he did previously -- it's Ritchson now who plays that part. The lady from Ambulance puts on a shiny dress for the last act a la Diane Kruger, all for the big party slash showdown. It's remixed enough to be different enough but Tarantino should still probably toss a pie at Ritchie the next time they're in the same room. Anyway yesterday I posted some photos from the movie's premiere where I also mentioned that I got violently sick from food poisoning in the middle of watching this movie so you should obviously take my opinion with a great big grain of salt! I was clearly somewhat distracted! It's a fun enough slab of muscular entertainment. Just the way Henry Cavill likes it.

Good Morning, World

I'm actually extremely happy this morning to've been way late to posting the photos of Alan Ritchson for Men's Health that dropped several days ago, because I have got a killer headache this morning and wasn't looking forward to scrounging something up. Voila I remembered, I had something gathering dust. That said, although Alan Ritchson has a whole lot of nooks and crannies where dust could settle -- far more than most humans given the three-dimensional swell of each individual muscle of his body -- I don't think he gathers much dust. This is a man who keeps moving. Do any of you people watch Reacher? I do not. Please do tell me whether that's a mistake or not in the comments. And he doesn't have a tag yet (I haven't ever actually seen him act in anything except his teeny role in that one Hunger Games movie!) but you can see our previous Alan Ritchson posts here. 

Go On 'n Goon Out, Henry Cavill

As twas foretold by yesterday's post of Henry Cavill pictures, the trailer for Guy Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavill, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Ritchson, Eiza Gonzalez, and Henry Golding has indeed arrived this morning -- it feels like a Kingsman movie meets Inglourious Basterds (right down to the presence Til Schweiger) but I don't really mean that to dismiss it; I actually think it looks fun? Dumb but fun and if Guy Ritchie can perfect "dumb but fun" he'll be doing better than he normlaly does. 

Ungentlemanly is out on April 19th.

Swash Me Buckle, Henry Cavill

While we've already gawped at Henry Cavill's lotta-look on the set of Guy Ritchie's upcoming movie The Ministtry of Ungentlemanly Warfare it's good to have an update via the man himself -- Henry shared these two official photos of him in character on his Insta today, along with the info that a trailer will appear tommorow. I was surprised when I checked -- it's out on April 19th! That's not too far away now. This movie is a veritable who's-who of beefcakery, also starring Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding, Til Schweiger, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, plus Dunkirk twink Freddie Fox is apparently playing James Bond author Ian Fleming? I have no idea what nonsense to expect from this thing but biceps will be served. 

Pic of the Day

(click to embiggen) Guy Ritchie has been very busy, and by "busy" I mean he has been rounding up all of the hot dudes I post about all the time and stuffing them into about half a dozen movies that he's working on all at once. That's really the only explanation for how we've gotten to the point of filming this one and checking my archives I realize I never posted about it before today. "This one" is called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and it stars (deep breath) Henry Cavill, Alex Pettyfer (somebody hired him!), Alan Ritchson, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, and last but hardly hardly least Henry Golding. And despite how old-timey this photo that Henry Cavill posted looks this movie is set during World War II and is about some rogue soldiers getting gathered up to (what else) fight dem Nazis. I guess it could be less a daguerreotype like I thought it was at first and more like those famous faded photos of sexy WWII sailors like the ones gathered in this book (a personal fave). ETA here are two more photos after the jump...

Alan Ritchson Five Times

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(click to embiggen) We posted another batch of awesome shots from this awesome photo-shoot back at the beginning of the month when Catching Fire was, dare I day it, catching fire. (I dared.) But we could hardly leave this batch of out-takes unloved upon, amirite?

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Alan Ritchson Six Times

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(via) He so shoulda been Finnick.

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Got Gloss

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Finally, somebody joining The Hunger Games that we can properly exploit! Can and have already even - Alan Ritchson, who was once on Smallville and then spent a bunch of time swanning around in a jockstrap on something called Blue Mountain State, has joined Catching Fire - he will play the character called Gloss. That pic up top was from when he modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch (as the complete absence of clothes tells you), and makes me imagine him in the role of Finnick, too. No apparently they're going string-beany and brunette for Finnick, nevermind.

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Good Morning, World

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Ahh, we've all been there. A happy 27th birthday to Alan Ritchson, who's made a career these past few years out of playing a very large very oft naked person. We appreciate it. I've thrown up several shots of him (jockstrap alert) after the jump, but for an excess check out Superherofan's gallery, there;'s more than I could ever hope to post. Alan's been very very kind. Do you think he and Tom Welling ever made out during his time on Smallville? I choose to believe so.