Comeback Still Comin' Back

I actually don't want to know too much about the forthcoming season of the world's funniest television series The Comeback, and so I'm a little annoyed this article at Variety gave up some big information about the season's plot -- if you're like me let me save you from their flappy lips and give you the little details that won't ruin anything for you: one, Andrew Scott has joined the cast! Let's be real, that's why we're here posting. Because otherwise I haven't even posted any of the funny clips that have been dropped, even though they seem to exist outside the show itself. I don't wanna see that! That said we've only only got a few more months to try and dodge all of the information that'll be swerving towards us -- the other big news drop is that HBO will be premiering the third season in March! Four months! We can survive that right? Sigh, who knows these days. And here's the first official image of our lady Cherish:

Good Morning, Dead Man

Hello and happy Monday -- when I posted about noted dreamy Irishman and actor Daryl McCormack being cast in Tom Ford's next movie (along with a bevy of hotties) last week I said to myself (and also Bluesky), "Hmm why don't I post more Daryl McCormack?" I think the dude caught all our eyes and other parts and then some with his star-making turn opposite Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande a couple of years ago -- then when he popped up in the latest Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man, which as an aside just got a new trailer this very morning...

... and I really realized I best get on it. Thankfully today we've got a photoshoot of him to share and do just that -- he's in the new issue of Hero magazine (I haven't read it yet but his chat is with his WUDM co-star Cailee Spaeny) looking typically handsome as hell. As for WUDM (which yes obviously given what I just said I have seen) that is very much Josh O'Connor's movie (as much if not more than it is Daniel Craig's movie, if you can believe it) but what we get of Daryl is good. That's out in "select theaters" on Thanksgiving (yeah you know what Netflix means when they say "select theaters" by now right) and then on the streamer December 12th. And without giving away my review of it let's just say it's probably my favorite of the franchise to date. I digress! Let's show you all of them Daryl pics after the jump...

Do Dump or Marry: Three Hot Gays

In honor of Russell Tovey's birthday today we will toss him into a heap with two of the internet's favorite homosexuals and force them to wrestle it out for our enjoyment. Our gay gladiators! He and Andrew Scott and Sexiest Man Alive Jonathan Bailey were all photographed at... oh I don't care, some party this week. I can't be bothered to look up what it was. But it seems the right moment to "Do Dump or Marry" the three of them. Do do that in the comments and also wish a Happy birthday to Mr. Tovey! From you and from me and more importantly (like way more importantly) from these two:

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Just a little something to cheer us up.

To make us gay(er)! The Bette shirt, I mean.

A Place in Andy

I wanted to like Chloe Domont's 2023 movie Fair Play a lot because it was sold as an erotic thriller starring Alden Ehrenreich and who doesn't want that? But I ended up being pretty meh on the movie in the end, finding it neither erotic nor thrilling. It was a load of straight nonsense. But that's not stopping me from being excited about Domont's next movie because how can I not be when it stars Michelle Williams, Andrew Scott, and Daisy Edgar-Jones? It's titled A Place in Hell and Neon just picked up the rights for it -- it's already been filmed and they're calling it a “thriller following two women at a high-profile criminal law firm.” Not sure where our man Andy fits into that dynamic but I hope it involves a lack of sleeves. 

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While I heard it was controversial I actually quite liked Andrew Scott's cotton-candy-colored suit last night at the Met Gala (see below) -- however I like it better that he tore it off once he got inside and showed off his guns, because of course he did. We'd also be remiss if we didn't mention that this photo (via) appears to be shoingw a suddenly half-undressed Andrew and Jeremy Allen White coming out of the bathroom at the Met, together. Just saying! Let them filthy minds of yours flow freely...

I would never ever in a million lifetimes have thought to put these colors together but the longer I look at it the more I adore it

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM

Hug It Out For A Not Half Day

I was just about to tell y'all that it was going to be a half day here at MNPP because I thought I had a press screening of the upcoming queer flick On Swift Horses starring Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, and Diego Calva to head to -- watch the trailer here -- but I fucked up my calendar and the screening was actually this morning! Damn damn damn. I am so daft. Anyway I'll probably be able to sneak into another press screening soon so it's not the absolute end of the world, but I was really looking forward to running free and gay for an afternoon -- sigh. Come comfort me with a hug and our pant-fronts pressed tightly together, Jacob Elordi. Anyway I am seeing Andrew Scott live on stage doing Vanya tonight thanks to a generous friend so at least I do have some proximity to gayness on tap -- I need my fix or I'll turn blue, I tells ya.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Pride (2014)

Bromley: They called us perverts.

Mark: Bromley, it's time for an
important part of your education.

Hands up, in this room, if you've ever
been called a name like that.

Now, there is a long and honorable
tradition in the gay community

and it has stood us in good stead for a very long time. 

When somebody calls you a name... am I right Jonathan?

Jonathan: Dead right.

Mark: You take it and own it.

A happy 33 to George MacKay today! He's certainly come

a very long way from Pride, but I gotta go re-watch Pride.

What a wonderful movie it is. Happy day, Georgie boy!

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Harry: You are queer, right?

Adam: Yeah.

Harry: That's good.

Adam: Well, 'gay'. I can't get used to calling 

myself 'queer'. It was always such an insult.

Harry: It's probably why we hate 'gay' so much now. 

'Gay' meant lame and shit. Those trainers are gay. 

That haircut's gay. This sofa is gay. Your school bag's gay. 

'Queer' does feel polite somehow though. 

Like all the dick-sucking's been taken out.

A happy 52 to the great Andrew Haigh today!

Now a Warning

There is a nice photo of Andrew Scott. Isn't that nice? Ahhh. Nice. Well now that nice is out of the way something less nice -- don't know if you've noticed but there's an election happening in the United States tomorrow. A very very important election. And I'm not going to tell you to vote -- you should fucking well know to vote, and to vote for Kamala Harris; I am generously assuming my readership isn't full of repugnant assholes and that you already understand all of that. But I am going to say that the election has my head in a tizzy so I don't expect to have much of substance to say for the next oh let's be kind to us and say the next 48 hours. My fantasy is that I go to the voting booth tomorrow morning and after insert my Kamala ballot into the machine a little mist-gun pops out and sprays a fine sleeping mist over me and the poll workers then cart us all into a back-room where we sleep until the second the election has been called. And then we all go dance in the streets because the evil shit-ass Republican fuckers have been banished forever, huzzah! That is my fantasy and my wish. But I don't foresee that happening -- meaning the sleeping-mist part; I am honestly optimistic about the election results going our way right now, although due to lasting 2016 PTSD I'm hesitant to say that out loud. So instead I will probably just be off violently refreshing news-sites to stress myself out and curling into a ball and eating everything within reach and probably popping three of four Xanax. Point being -- I don't know that I have a point. At this point I am basically just typing so I don't go back to curling up in a ball. If anybody has anything nice to share, tell me about it in the comments. And if nice stories come into my view and I find the wherewithal to share them I will do so, so maybe I can return the favor and momentarily take y'all's minds off the very real anxiety we're all experiencing. Like -- here's a gif of Jonathan Bailey. Enjoy it. We can do this! (Vote.)

Good Morning, World

I enjoyed last week's Andrew Scott sex-a-palooza too much to let it go without a fight -- or perhaps we'll call it an epilogue. It's a little early on a Monday for fights. Anyway to make up for the absence of any more new photos here is an old one that I don't believe I have ever posted on here before. look at that little babe! I wonder what year this was taken? If anybody knows -- Andy do you hear me? -- share the info in the comments. 

In other very important business -- NYFF is really in the thick of it this week so I'm technically not here this morning? I'm not posting from the great beyond or anything -- I just planned ahead, and I will forgive you for that blowing your mind so much since I know I'm a lifelong practicer of being shit at planning ahead. But every single morning this week I will be in press screenings, and Wednesday and Friday I am off entirely. So cherish whatever bits I throw you this week is my point. Bits and butts, my speciality...

Good Morning, World

I probably don't have to tell you, after the wild week we've had with this Andrew Scott photo-shoot, how happy I was when I opened Instagram this morning and two more photos were sitting there waiting to greet me so we could end the week properly -- fully fed! A truly delicious way to spend a whole week, seeing Andy's bright and shining mustache et cetera to greet the day with. Thanks to Diaries99 magazine for making this happen -- I sound like I am giving an Oscar speech and I tell ya, I feel like it too. Happy Friday!

Andrew Scott Four Times

Of course right after I posted pictures of Sebastian Stan lamenting there were no new Andrew Scott photos to post, some new Andrew Scott photos to post appeared. So it goes, and we're fine -- double our pleasure, double our fun, and all. While I was kinda hoping we'd see some more of yesterday's jockstrap (like... a lot more) we're back to leather queen posturing and I'm in the tank for that too. Down, in, on top of. Hit the jump for the new ones...

Good Morning Sir Redux

Yesterday a harness and leather on Andrew Scott was one thing. But today they're coming at us with Andrew Scott showing off a jockstrap under jeans and a white tee -- and still rocking that sexy stache, no less! -- and it's just like... what am I supposed to do with this information? This is too much information for me this early in the morning. Why not just sneak into my room as I am sleeping and slap me across the face several times? That would wake me up the same way. I am awake, dammit! Very very alert and awake now. My eyes have been opened. I can now see. Halleluiah!

Good Morning, Sir

Yeah okay this new photo-shoot of Andrew Scott (via) isn't exactly "morning" related -- not sure how many of us are rocking our leather harnesses and caps at 8am, but y'all do y'all -- but I do not care. I want to look at them and the first thing I saw this morning was a second shot (down below), so that's what we're doing. (Leather aside he needs to keep that trim Classic-Hollywood-esque mustache -- he is really, really working that thing.) I am sure there are more to come too, so check back for this post to be updated. Happy Tuesday!

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Mum: They say it's a very lonely kind of life.

Adam: They don't say that anymore.

Mum: So you're not lonely?

Adam: If I am it's not because I'm gay. Not really.

My number one movie of last year Andrew Haigh's masterpiece All of Us Strangers is now out on 4K blu-ray today thanks to the wonderful wonderful folks over at Criterion -- pick up your copy here (as if y'all didn't already have it pre-ordered from when I first announced it was coming out). Here is my review of the movie, where I said of it "an epic of intimacy with a staggering open wound of a performance from Andrew Scott in its lead, All of Us Strangers is so brave in its honesty we’re all left naked babes wailing in its wake." 

(Heyyy Paul.) It's a movie that hit me harder with every re-watch -- every single actor in this film should have been nominated for an Oscar, along with all of the people behind the scenes in every single category, and it's total lack of nominations stands as further proof the Oscars are total shit. TOTAL SHIT. Anyway that's hardly news -- I'm just so glad that Criterion's giving it a proper physical-media release. Since it was a streamer's film and it made no money there was no gaurantee that it would get this. So go shower your money on Criterion in appreciation!

Morning ☕ 💙 pic.twitter.com/U2Gi8eQmWo

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) September 10, 2024

Andrew Scott Six Times

Happy day, Andrew Scott new photoshoot! Here is our All of Us Strangers and Ripley fella for Netflix's Queue magazine -- clearly given the source this is mainly for Ripley press, given he's currently nominated for an Emmy for it. (At least the Emmys knew what's what, unlike the Oscars with Strangers -- bastards.) Anyway not that I haven't spent the last 12 months or so on an Andy high but I did just see the recorded version of his performance in Noel Coward's play Present Laughter this past weekend as well, in which he was tremendous, and so my high is even higher right now -- hell, highest even. So these photos are hittin' the spot. Yes, that spot. The spot. So y'all hit the jump and hit your spots maybe too...

Donald Glover Two Times

Congrats to this sexy beast on his Emmy nomination for his series Mr & Mrs Smith, alongside our beloved PEN15 forever gal-pal Maya Erskine -- I don't remember writing anything about the series here, forgive me if I did and my hole-riddled-brain's simply forgotten that, but I very much liked that show. Did you? Anyway Emmy-wise I'm also psyched for the love for my Fellow Travelers boys, for Andrew Scott in Ripley, and for Jonn Hamm's terrific work in Fargo, which I actually wrote at length about at Mashable while the series was airing. Any Emmy nominations making y'all especially happy today? I don't usually pay awards much mind (as I make a point of saying every time I do, lol) but for some reason these Emmy ones made me glad today. Also... I just wanted to look at Donald in some short-shorts, of course. And so we shall!

Happiness Is a Stranger's Apocalypse

Apologies but y'all are going to have to scrape me off the floor before I can write this post with Criterion's September announcements -- this is the most aimed-straight-at-me batch of titles imaginable. It was like one slap with a brick across the face after another as I scanned down through the email announcement -- I couldn't even believe my eyes. I ran to Twitter to immediately scream about the title seen above (which we'll get to in a second) and then when I went back to the email I saw what else was in store and was like, "Momma get me my pills." This is just three simultaneous (wet) dreams coming true at once. I am in a state of happy shock. Allow me a moment to luxuriate in this pleasure...

Okay. Let's get to it. First up! If I went back and tried to find the first time I screamed at Criterion to release a box-set of Gregg Araki's "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy" it would be impossible because it was many many many moons ago and I have done it approximately ten million times since. I probably brought it up two to three times a year. Seeing it finally come to fruition is something I'd almost given up on! But then the movies got remastered last year and I began to think it might be a real possibility... and here we are. Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere, given the proper love they have long deserved. We won! You can see all of the special features over at Criterion, where you can also buy the set -- and do that, buy one for everyone you know, because we need to let them know how happy this has made us. Just know the set is loaded with extras -- they even got the rare bird of Nathan Bexton to be on one of the commentaries! 

My insides are screaming, crying, throwing up, throwing gay ass 

confetti. I could end this post there and be ecstatic, but then...

... it turns out that Criterion is releasing Andrew Haigh's 2023 masterpiece All of Us Strangers on 4K in September too! My favorite movie of last year (here is my original review), which we'd been worried wasn't getting any kind of physical media release here in the U.S. (there is a U.K. blu-ray scheduled) because it was an Amazon movie and that cruel rumor had been going around. I had not a single inkling this was going to happen and every part of me is right now tingling. What a gorgeous surprise! And yet that wasn't even the biggest surprise of all, because...

... Todd Solondz's Happiness is also hitting 4K! HOLY SHIT!!! Do you understand now why my entire self is vibrating? This movie hasn't gotten a proper release since the age of DVD, and those DVDs have been out of print and fetching good sums of money for years now. And now suddenly we're moving right on up to 4K! This is one of my favorite movies of all time, I've seen it more times than I could count -- if you've somehow never managed to see it before (because it really has been a pain to see) my god are you in for a deranged dark treat. I quote this movie at least once a week...

... it's basically everything I want from the movies. And I'm also over the moon that they used Daniel Clowes' fantastic original art-work for the set's cover because how do you top that slice of perfection? It's iconic. Anyway with those three sets (containing five movies total) September 2024 is now etched into the fabric of time and reality as Peak Criterion. My gods. My stars! Oh and I should mention that as seen below they're also dropping 4Ks of both The Long Good Friday and Repo Man which are great and all, too. But let's be honest and obvious -- I am all about the above fireworks show of awesomeness. So, so, so all about! Today is a great day, my friends! Slip something in your tuna sandwich and celebrate! 

Who Wore It Best?

No sooner did I write my post about Josh O'Connor joining the third Knives Out movie than did Andrew Scott also join the cast -- if ever there was news to force me to post twice about the same damned unmade movie in one day this is it. Andrew Scott and Daniel Craig have faced off before -- Scott was in the 007 movie Spectre...

... not that I remember anything about Spectre or who he played in Spectre or what happened in Spectre, but I know he was in it. I think he was a bad guy? Anyway I'm sure Daniel Craig has leverage when it comes to casting these movies now so I'm glad to see he's up for reuniting with Andrew! And yes obviously now I am mentally updating my post about Josh O'Connor being Benoit's love interest to this being a love triangle. Let's make it the gayest Knives Out movie ever! Come on, Rian! In summation, I must of course now ask:

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