A Big Bulging Sound

I don't think it will surprise many of you, given all the posting that I've done about it, that the gay biker BDSM romance (or "dom-com" as it's come to be known) Pillion will be one of my favorite movies of 2025. (And yeah I personally will be counting it as a 2025 release because it's being considered that way for awards attention even though it's really not hitting U.S. theaters until February.) Here is my review of the movie from when it screened at NYFF -- I've been relentlessly delighted by the film's press run, and done the posting to prove it. Anyway one thing I haven't mentioned is the music for the film from musician Oliver Coates, and that's a darn shame because I like the music a lot -- so let me seize onto this news that tumbled into my inbox today and do just that. The film's score is getting a digital release this Friday -- presumably you'll be able to listen to it at all the usual places you listen to music. But the even better news if you ask me is A24 is promising a physical release of the score (presumably that means my beloved vinyl) to sync with the film's official theatrical release in February! I don't know if the above art-work (which is for the digital) will be actually the vinyl's cover, but I sure hope it is. It's serving The Rolling Stones' infamous album Sticky Fingers, for real. (Which was photographed by Warhol -- I always thought it was supposed to be Joe Dallesandro but Wikipedia says there are several bulges vying for the esteemed honor.)

Good Morning, Udo

As I'm sure most if not all of you are aware two terrible things happened this weekend -- one we lost Udo Kier. The gay legend who starred in half of my favorite movies of all time -- movies from Dario Argento, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lars Von Trier, Paul Morrissey, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog, Rob Zombie, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, John Carpenter, E. Elias Merhige, Amanda Kramer, Walerian Borowczyk and Andy fuckin' Warhol, to name but a few! -- and was the most memorable thing in a full 95% of them. He was a freak legend, an icon, a king, and we adored him very much. You can roll through our archives here -- I should do a Top 5 performances of his when I get a chance, but two late roles worth mentioning are his one-scene showstopper in The Secret Agent, which is rolling out this fall, and of course the incredible showcase for him that was 2021's Swan Song, reviewed right here. Cruel that Covid robbed that movie of a bigger rollout, but catch it now if you haven't yet. 

Udo Kier lives forever! He simply ascended to his true form which is too fucking fabulous for us peons to even see anymore. We’re lucky he ever let us look at him in the first place. Here’s some video I took of him two years ago — icon legend king

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM

I could go on and on about King Udo, but this brings me to the second terrible thing that happened this weekend -- I fell down some stairs and twisted my ankle a full 90 degrees and I'm laid up as fuck. I'm hopefully getting an X-ray today so we'll see what happens, but I can't imagine it will be too noisy here today given I'm a shell of a human being right this moment. It's not broken -- I can hobble around alright -- but it's also robbed me of what little will I was already barely working with. So talk to me about Udo in the comments, or don't, I'm around-ish. Udo forever! Jason for never!

Good Morning, Coop

The magazine known as V Man is really coming through for their next issue -- just yesterday I shared that new Theo James photoshoot from it, and now they have what they're calling a "preview" of the magazine's cover, which will apparently star buzzy gay boy Cooper Koch of Monsters and Swallowed fame. The four photos they've  shared here so far from photographer Alvaro Cortes are extremely reminiscent (that's me being generous) of Andy Warhol's famed polaroid series -- coincidentally the book of those polaroids was what Gus Kenworthy was "advertising" with his striptease last week. Everything's coming up Andy but then what's new. (That is a really terrific coffee table book though, I recommend it.) Anyway Cooper wants to wake us up, consider us woken. Hit the jump for the rest...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be... 

... porky-pigging with Gus Kenworthy.

Gus calls the wearing of a shirt with nothing else on "Winnie-the-Poohing" it in his Insta-stories but I've always prefered "Porky-Pigging" (see here) because there is a sexier connotation to "pig" then there is "pooh" -- right? You tell me:

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I am always asking the important questions! Anyway he shared this video on his Insta and it's for a good cause so go check it out -- I say this fairly often at these sorts of moments but having out gay celebrities is such a blessing. Such a blessing. Hit the jump for several more images of note from the video...

Yura To Warhol & Everything Criterion Between

I was just literally thinking, "Hey I get paid today," when an email arrived in my inbox (not a euphimism) that reminded me the smackdab middle of the month also indicates something even better -- it's Criterion Announcement Day! And it turns out that the drop for the forthcoming April is a hefty one -- seven titles strong! The big one being Sean Baker's extremely popular 2024 film Anora, which will assuredly get a bank of Oscar nominations come Oscar nomination morning (whenever that happens, since they keep moving it due to the wildfires). I have my issues with Anora (which I've mostly gotten into on social media) but I think it's a fun, fine piece of entertainment for the most part, and the three leads (Madison, Eydelshteyn, and especially our boy Yura Borisov) are all pretty excellent. Anora hits 4K on April 239th and the disc is loaded with special features, check them all at that link. Also being released from Criterion that same day -- Baker's 2008 film Prince of Broadway, which I've never seen. Any fans of that one? It's actually streaming on Criterion Channel right now so maybe I'll watch it this weekend.

The other big titles from the April releases that I haven't seen are Claude Berri's 1986 double-feature Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, which adapts Marcel Pagnol's book into two grand and grandly expensive movies starring an incredible French cast including Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, and Emmanuelle Béart. Nor have I somehow ever seen Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 film Ugetsu, a wartime-set ghost story that stars  Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō (this one's also on Criterion Channel right now which I know because I've had it on my list for years and never yet gotten to it -- sighhhh). 

Then there are the usual 4K upgrades, which include Won Kar-Wei's masterful Chungking Express -- I have the WKW box-set already so I don't know if I'll get this but it is a masterpiece so we'll see. Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro in 4K is awful hard to resist! Also getting the 4K upgrade is Billy Wilder's comic classic Some Like It Hot. Which, like,  what can I say about Some Like It Hot? It doesn't get better. It's, like, hot.

But wait -- there is one more! And this is my number one pick for the month. We're talking Julian Schnabel's 1996 film Basquiat, starring a maybe-never-better Jeffrey Wright as the famed painter making his way through the NYC art scene in the 1980s. I haven't seen this in literal decades but I remember really loving it, and it's been a difficult movie to get one's hands on for a good long while, making this upgrade extremely overdue. I mean -- David Bowie playing Andy Warhol! Come on now!

Good Morning, World

I am waiting for my man and his name is Arnaud Valois! 

Good goddamn Arnaud what you doing to us??? (via)

RIP Paul Morrissey

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Heat (1972)

Sally: And you're NOT a lesbian. 

I mean, everybody has girlfriends. 

Men have friends, women have friends. 

That doesn't make you a lesbian. 

Do you sleep in the same room with her?

Jessica: Sure. How else can I be a lesbian?

Sally: Where does Mark sleep?

Jessica: With us.

Sally: In the same bed?

Jessica: In the same bed.

Sally: Is that a way to bring up a boy? 

He'll be a lesbian!

Today is the 100th anniversary of the one-of-a-kind Sylvia Miles! I just saw Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse at MoMA a few weeks ago and my god she walks away with that entire film in her two scenes. What a goddamned treasure she was. The movies lost one of its brightest and most shining stars when she passed in 2019. If you've got any tell me your favorite Sylvia Miles movie moments in the comments!

Little Joe Goes Deep

Well here's a perfectly nice Monday surprise -- there's a chat between Warhol legend Joe "Little Joe" Dallesandro and director Bruce LaBruce in the new issue of Interview Magazine and you can read it right here. Bruce goes out of his way to ask Joe about a lot of his roles in forgotten movies so notsomuch the Paul Morrissey movies we all remember him from and it makes for a good unexpected conversation. Although Dallesandro is per usual not the most verbose of figures. I like that he comes off exactly as he did fifty years ago in those movies though -- you can hear every answer in that voice of his. Interview was also generous enough to share these photos seen here of Joe which I have never seen before, and I figured I'd seen them all at this point. 

All Hail King Udo

I checked a bucket-list thingy off this past weekend when the Anthology Film Archives here in NYC hosted a retrospective of Udo Kier cinema (it's ongoing actually through June 4th -- check the schedule here) and I got to breathe the same air with him as they had the legend himself there in person for an extended Q&A following the Paul Morrissey flick Blood For Dracula on Friday night. You maybe saw my Twitter thread...

Let me tell you what y’all, Udo Kier does not fucking disappoint as a Q&A — wow wow wow we got all the stories, all the names dropped, all the coke on tits and a full reenactment of the birthing scene from The Kingdom to boot y’all pic.twitter.com/LkKHFJyAwX

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 20, 2023

... wherein I highlighted a few (emphasis on "few") of the best stories that spilled out of his mouth. But the man talked and talked and he soaked up every millisecond of the spotlight and I could never dream to come close to capturing the magic of it all in words. He was EXACTLY who I wanted him to be. It was a tip-top star-fucking experience.

Anyway before the moderator told the audience we weren't allowed to take video I managed to do exactly that of Udo's first few minutes in front of us, and I think the below video gets across what a trip the whole night was. The man LED the night by enthusiastically quoting his most famous lines from Dracula and Frankenstein, and it only got wilder and more colorful from there. What a joy! This was the first time since the pandemic began where I really remembered why I live in this city -- what absolute magic it can drop right into my lap when I let it. Udo, you're a real one.

Boys Licking Boys

Whoops I saw this over the weekend, last weekend, and then forgot to post it come Monday -- the first poster for François Ozon's forthcoming Fassbinder-riff called Peter Von Kant has arrived, itself a very obvious riff on Andy Warhol's famous poster art for Querelle, which I'll share down below in case somebody's never seen it before. PVK stars hot French bear Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, and actual legendary Fassbinder collaborator Hanna Schygulla, and is being sold as a sort of gay-male version of RWF's film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, just with Ménochet playing a version of Fassbinder himself? I know people have seen and have reviewed the film already since it premiered at the Berlin Film Fest back in February but I have avoided all of that, I just don't want to know until it's sitting in front of me. We need to have things to look forward to! 

World Warhol

As a person who's spent many a curious and happy moment over the past twenty-plus years of my life flipping to a random page in my copy of The Andy Warhol Diaries (which span from 1976 until his death in 1987) and reading a passage to just see what ol' Andy was doing on any given day, the fact that Netflix has just announced a six-hour documentary series based off the diaries has me thrilled! Although there's been tons of Warhol documentary work done in the decades since his death I do think he's a figure that's earned this sort of treatment -- there's so much to cover and I can't wait to dive in. You add on the fact that one of the people interviewed is John Waters and you're just teasing me now. Anyway Netflix is dropping the series on March 9th, super soon, and we've got a trailer!

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Trash (1970)

Holly: Just because people throw it out and don't 

have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Holly Woodlawn was born 75 years ago today!

Pics of the Day

I was just wondering what was going on with Ewan McGregor's Halston miniseries for Netflix about a month ago when I shared a magazine photoshoot of the actor wherein he discussed playing the famed designer -- today we have news! Netflix just dropped a batch of "polaroids" of the cast in character as well as the release date, which is May 14th! Yes, May 14th as in three weeks from now. My, people come and go so quickly here!

Seems apt to quote Judy as Dorothy since we've got a person playing Liza Minnelli here -- the actress is named Krysta Rodriguez and I'm unfamiliar but she's done a ton of TV before this -- she looks the part in these snaps, anyway! More than Ewan, honestly, but I love Ewan enough to overlook (for now) the fact that he really looks absolutely nothing like Halston. I am sure he will be good -- he always is. Of course I'd be remiss...

... if I didn't share that photo of the actor Gian Franco Rodriguez playing Halston's partner Victor Hugo (yes like the author of Les Mis), who was also an artist and a window dresser (he was also an assistant to Andy Warhol at The Factory). It's pretty clear why he was so popular, at least as portrayed by Gian Franco there! This series was of course executive-produced by Ryan Murphy (who else) while long-time TV director Daniel Minahan directed it; we'll probably be getting a trailer shortly! Oh and I almost forgot to mention -- Rory Culkin as Joel Schumacher!

10 Off My Head: Deep in the Dreamlanders

Tis a high holy -- or if you prefer, a down and dirty -- holiday today, as it marks the 75th birthday of his fetid holiness, his princely puke, the polluted Sultan of Sleaze himself, Mr. John Waters. We are fans, in case that wasn't clear already! I consider JW part of my Unholy Trinity, alongside Vincent Price and Paul Reubens -- the be-all end-alls on who I hope to be -- and it's only right we take a big ol' bite out of this Thursday in celebration of my Mother Mary. I'm not even Catholic but John makes me wish I was an ex-one! 

First things first The Film Experience is doing a week-long-ish John Waters retrospective, and last night my piece on my favorite JW flick of them all, 1974's Female Trouble, went live -- grab some chips, lady, and read it here! It's also John's favorite of his films! And he is correct, per usual. Thing is, the piece I wrote came out more serious than I expected -- it's a lot about the film's debts and indignities with regards to Andy Warhol. 

And I think every word I say there is true! But I also just sorta wanna have some fun with Female Trouble, as long as we're here. It's the single most quoted-by-me movie of all-time -- there isn't a week that passes without one of this script's many outrageous bon-mots passing my lips. Back in 2009 I already did a list of five favorite exchanges from the movie, but I feel as if I can continue on in that vein, given I don't think there's a single unfunny line in the entire movie. But I'll broaden the scope a little, and give you...

10 Favorite Supporting Characters in Female Trouble

Margie Skidmore as School Snitch

"Now they're threatening me, these awful cheap girls. 

My mother told me to report this kind of thing. 

I'm trying to get an education."

Susan Walsh as Chicklette

"It's just a skirt and sweater."

Roland Hertz as Mr. Davenport

"Is it a fishing rod???"

Bob Adams as Ernie

"I'm sure, Miss Thing, I'm sure.

 Pretzels give you plaque."

George Figgs and Sally Albaugh as Dribbles and Sally 

Dribbles : How's your little girl? 

Why don't you bring her in here more often?

Sally : Why? So you can undress her with your eyes? 

For Christ's sake she's only six years old. 

Dribbles : I know, but I just like to play with her. 

I wish I was a little girl. 

Sally: Well throw a goddamn penny in a fountain and 

make a goddamn wish and maybe it'll come true.

Cookie Mueller as Concetta

"Just cuz we're pretty everybody's jealous."

Michael Potter as Gater

"She has a face of an old woman."

Divine as Earl Peterson

"Just cuz you got them big udders 

don't mean you're somethin' special."

Ed Peranio as Wink

Wink: I'm getting a hard-on! Beauty always gives me a hard-on! 

Donna Dasher : Aim it the other way then, Wink. You know how I detest organs. Beauty has absolutely nothing to do with that word, that thing you have hanging there like an 

obscene pickle. Spare me your anatomy.

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As made patently clear by that last exchange, not including quotes from the characters I consider more than "Supporting" in Female Trouble -- Divine as Dawn Davenport obviously, along with her daughter Taffy (Mink Stole), her neighbor Aunt Ida (Edith Massey), and her benefactors Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivien Pierce) -- proved a challenge! But one this movie proved more than up to. That said when it comes to the Major Characters I could do a list of ten favorite lines from each and every single one of them, individually. 

"Krishna is love, Mother."

But I won't, because I want y'all to scream your faves at me in the comments! There's nothing I like better than being told to come suck your daddy's dick, hearing one extol the horrors of the heterosexual lifestyle, or rarely eating any form of noodle. So please have at it in the comments, and Happy 75, John Waters!

Which Is Hotter?

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One of my last In Theater Experiences before all this shit went down was in February seeing a collection of short films called "Queer Before Stonewall" at MoMA, which included Andy Warhol's 1965 flick My Hustler, which isn't technically a short at 76 minutes... but in spirit it is, since per Andy's usual nothing really happens. The plot description is short! Two homosexual men and one straight woman leer at Paul America (seen above) for a long time on the beach, and then they leer at him inside, the end. 

He's worth the time spent leering! Anyway since today would have been Andy Warhol's 92nd birthday it seemed an opportune moment to revisit that and drag Joe Dallesandro into the mess while we're at it because I don't know about you but I can't talk about Andy without also wanting to talk about (or leer at anyway) Little Joe...

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Time To Strap Our Tom of Finland On

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I try to keep MNPP mainstream-ish legits (give or take all my gratuitous gay nonsense) and so I always get a little tense when forced to talk Actual Porn here -- it's a thin line to walk. But the line between Pornography and The Cinema has always been fluid (ha, see what I did there) and it's about to get real moist indeed as Men.com (I know you know them, don't pretend) has teamed up with the Tom of Finland Foundation to create several episodes around their brand, including one by -- and now you'll see why I'm here talking about this -- Bruce La Bruce. BLB is the one that's always forcing my hand on this subject! So to speak.
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(Sidenote: I didn't realize the above, BLB's filthy hysterical tribute to Andy Warhol -- and make sure you have your volume turned WAY WAY UP for it -- had made its way online; I'd just mentioned that last week.) But as with any gay man of I think any age Tom of Finland holds a place in my heart -- is that my heart; I am always getting my parts confused -- and I was terrifically disappointed by the weirdly sexless 2017 biopic about the famed erotic artist. A short film of pornographic proportions by Bruce La Bruce will surely right that wrong! BLB isn't the only filmmaker on hand -- he's just the only one of some renown. Others on hand include Cory Krueckeberg, Terry Miller (aka Dan Savage's husband), Matt Lambert, and Casey Spooner formerly of Fischerspooner and that recent feud with Madonna over a songwriting credit. (This is the gayest paragraph I have ever written on this site and lord knows I have written some gay shit.)

The first episode stars Instagram Star turned Adult Performer Matthew Camp (that's him in costume to the right) and it will hit on December 13th -- new episodes will be released once a month from there on. I'm not sure when Bruce La Bruce's specific episode airs, the press release doesn't specify, but I'll try to keep everyone informed... if I can manage to use my hands for typing at that point, I mean.
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Pic of the Day

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Portrait of John Waters walking by me in the MOMA lobby #johnwaters #film #nyc

A post shared by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Nov 25, 2019 at 5:26pm PST

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I've had my picture taken with John Waters before but I'm almost more thrilled by that photo I took of him at MoMA last night because one senses half a sneer in it, as if he's thinking, "Who's this fucker taking my picture without permission?" And to be genuinely sneered at by John Waters is TO LIVE. I have LIVED. If a bus runs me over this afternoon tell everyone you know, HE FUCKING LIVED. 

John and I were at MoMA hate-fucking each other with our eyes for a screening of 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing, which is a collection of 30 short films by prominent filmmakers who've worked with the Strand Releasing film distributor, who I'm sure you're aware of, especially if you're a gay man. I mean...

... how many of us came of age thanks to that little poof of smoke? Strand turns 30 this year and they celebrated with this collection, which included shorts by Mr. Waters, Gregg Araki, Cindy fucking Sherman, Bruce La Bruce -- whose short was called "Homage to Blowjob" and was a static shot of some guy's face as BLB himself (or presumably since he was credited) loudly, and I do mean loudly, choked on the guy's dick out of frame; for anyone who's enjoying the arty simplicity of Warhol's original "Blowjob" Bruce's valiantly obscene update was a terrific in-joke. The list goes on and on, see all the filmmakers included here, and below's a photo of some of the ones who showed up to the screening last night.

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Now THAT’s a Fam! Lulu, John, Ira, Roddy, Elizabeth, JCM, Tom, Brian, Rose, Lynn, Brady, Aggie!! And of course - Marcus and Jon. Happy 30th @strandreleasing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Pics of the Day

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If you follow me on Instagram then you know I spend all my time that's not used up seeing movies hitting up art museums and exhibitions here in New York -- it's my other psycho passion -- and I've got a couple of things to recommend if you're in or coming around this way any time soon. (These are besides that show of hand-drawn 80s action-movie posters from Ghana that I already told you about -- and you can see more pictures from that show, since I've actually been to it since I wrote that post, right here.) First off if you're not aware MoMA just reopened after a massive six months remodeling, adding approximately three billion square miles of space to their galleries... well it's something like that anyway; I've been there three times now since they reopened and I don't think I've come anywhere near seeing everything new. But one thing I have come upon is that they have happily...

... integrated film stuffs into the wide collection, instead of keeping it isolated to the lower levels where their screening rooms are, and right now they've got a gorgeous collection of stills from some silent classics on display, including the ones posted above from Nosferatu and Metropolis. (click to embiggen) And speaking of you can also find an original Metropolis poster in one of the galleries, which is really hard not to just start licking, believe you me. Other film stuff on display right now: they're constantly projecting the office scene from Jacques Tati's masterpiece Playtime in one gallery (I keep wishing they'd just project the entire film start to finish, personally, but I guess they don't want layabouts like me camping out all day long) and...

... they've got an entire little theater devoted to Andy Warhol's shorts, including my beloved "Blowjob" seen above. I never grow tired of "Blowjob." (I also never grow tired of saying "I never grow tired of 'Blowjob.'") And then down on the lower levels where the screening rooms are they've got a fantastic series of home movies on display -- of non-famous people but also ones from classic Hollywood mega-stars like Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. And that's just the stuff I've stumbled upon so far. 

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New show of DAVID LYNCH art at Sperone Westwater #art #painting #davidlynch #sculpture #surrealism

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The other film-related NYC thing I highly recommend seeking out is only related to film by the artist who made it -- you probably already know that David Lynch is a painter and a sculptor besides being The Greatest Living Film-maker, but maybe you don't know that his stuff is actually fantastic? I love it anyway -- it's as surreal and funny and sweet and terrifying as anything he's ever directed. Well he's got a show up of new works here in New York at the Sperone Westwater Gallery on Bowery -- it's on display until December 21st and you should probably go check it out and be as cool as me is, is my point. But not as cool as my boyfriend is, since that'd just be totally obnoxious...
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My boyfriend just hung out with this fella tonight without me — anybody got a couch I can sleep on? pic.twitter.com/238wgXcsuS

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 6, 2019