Daniel Grao Three More Times

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I shared two perfectly great shots from this photo-shoot just last week but Daniel Grao has now shared with us via his Instagram these three more and who am I to turn away from such bounty? 

Daniel Grao Two Times

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I skipped the NYFF press screening of Pedro Almodovar's new film Pain & Glory this afternoon because's baby's got reviews he should be writing and also I've already seen the movie once -- I hate not being there to see Pedro & Antonio at the Q&A but you can't do everything. But in the sexy spirit of Almodovar here's a pair of new photos of the star of Pedro's previous film Julieta, via his Instagram. Viva Pedro et al!

Pics of the Day

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The first and oldest LGBT film festival in Spain called "Mostra Fire!!!" is happening right now and former Almodóvar actor and forever amor Daniel Grao (he was in Julieta) was kind enough to alert us to the fact that he co-stars in a short film called El destello (aka The Flash) opposite male model and sometimes actor Jon Kortajarena that's screening there today. Naturally our interest was grabbed! I don't know if we'll ever have the chance to see it, but I did manage to scrounge up a few images from it -- IMDb say it tells the story of a long-time couple reevaluating their relationship after trading t-shirts, which is the most "gay relationship drama" thing I have ever heard -- and I'll share them after the jump...

Happy Birthday, Daniel Grao

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Pedro Almodovar's latest hunk of man actor Daniel Grao, who scorched up Julieta just plenty, is turning 41 today, and so here are a couple of gifs from videos he has posted on Instagram of himself working out in dangerously short shorts. The ball's in your court, Miguel Angel Silvestre.

Grao Morning, World

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First I went to IMDb to see if I could figure out what "La vida es mas puta en verano," the title of this Spanish show that had actor Daniel Grao strip down, meant - my guess was it was the 2007 show that IMDb has listed as Love in Difficult Times. Then I went to google to make sure and google told me that ""La vida es mas puta en verano" translates to "Life Sucks in Summer," which is a much better title, don't you think? Anyway I assume they are one and the same, but that made me laugh.

Mr. Grao is currently the hot piece du jour in Pedro Almodovar's film Julieta and since we're in the business of encouraging Mr. Almodovar to find a new male muse (I still don't understand why Miguel Angel Silvestre didn't stick) we're gonna take this extra chance to push Mr. Grao. Hit the jump for a couple NSFW pushes...

Viva Pedro & Friends

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PEDRO ALMODOVAR talking JULIETA at #NYFF @filmlinc #almodovar #julieta

A photo posted by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Oct 4, 2016 at 11:21am PDT

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Just got back from a NYFF screening of Pedro Almodovar's latest Julieta a bit earlier and there's a picture of the great man himself during the following Q&A! I expect to see a lot of him very soon since MoMA's doing that complete retrospective in a few weeks, so he should just prepare himself to stare at my ugly mug a bunch, basically. Shades are a good plan, dude. Oh and bonus -- here's a picture of Pedro's  two latest lovely and talented leading ladies, Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte. (I have to admit I was sad that gorgeous Daniel Grao wasn't in the house, but then he probably would've been wearing too many clothes and who wants that?)

Daniel Grao Four Times

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Most of these pictures are via Daniel Grao's Instagram, which has lots more to look at, believe you me! Mr. Grao - who is in Julieta, see some pictures of him in the film here - is the newest addition to The Pedro Almodovar Hall of Hunks, following in the big-footed footsteps of such sweaty Spanish luminaries as Antonio Banderas & Miguel Angel Silvestre. Even though Pedro is supposedly mostly focused on the ladies this time around it does appear he finds time to exploit Daniel a wee bit judging by this shot from the film...

Pics of the Day

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When we first started hearing about Pedro Almodovar's new movie Julieta (at the time called Silencio) we desperately scanned its cast-list to see who he'd have hunking it up this time around - it's one of the many, many pleasures of his movies, always knowing he will have at least a minute or two, given the confines of the material, to make a Spanish man look absolutely breathtaking. We were hoping he'd work with I'm So Excited's Miguel Ángel Silvestre again, given how small (yet stacked) Miguel's role was in that film, but instead Julieta co-stars Daniel Grao - we're not complaining.

The Playlist just dropped a ton of new images from the film, and we went through and grabbed the ones of Mr. Grao, which you see here. This appears to be one of Pedro's woman-centric pictures so we're going into the film assuming Grao's role will be small, but sure enough he looks gorgeous. (Ugh that beard, yes.) Pedro will never let us down. Julieta is out on April 8th in Spain and will probably be out in the US before the end of the year.

I Am Link

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--- The Owls Are Happy - When I got to meet Laura Dern a year and a half ago (I will never tire of bringing that story up) my pal Glenn and I told her that she needed to get David Lynch of the darn phone stat and get herself cast as somebody in that Twin Peaks reboot. I was drunk and quite adamant! I mean obviously she'd not had that thought herself once until I mentioned it. So point being you have me to thank, people, now it's being reported that she is indeed reuniting with her bestest director friend in an unknown role (although they have a theory at that link) on a show she somehow never made it onto the first time around.

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--- Defiant Rimming - Several of these stories are a few days old because the cold has turned my brains into molasses, lay off me - anyway several days ago The Playlist told us two things about Guillermo Del Toro: one, that he is going to direct a remake of Fantastic Voyage, that 1966 intra-human epic about scientists shrunk down and injected into a body. (Dennis Quaid naked in Innerspace, holla.) And two, that Pacific Rim 2 is toe up. Anyway I bring up my laziness because in the span of the several days it's taken me to link to this news GDT took to tweeting that the second item is false and that's he's still very much working on PR2. You think he's letting go of Charlie Hunnam that easy?

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--- Jake Follows - I guess all that hanging out with Harvey Weinstein has rubbed off (let's hope this is all that rubbed off Harvey Weinstein) -- Jake Gyllenhaal is going to start producing! His production company (which is called Nine Stories because of course it is, he's such the eternal English Lit sophomore student) is teaming up with A&E to create an anthology TV series focusing in on cult leaders, with a new flavor o' crazy to be explored each season. First up - Jim Jones and his electric Kool-Aid cult. I hope Jake just casts himself as ALL the cult leaders, that would be so so hot.

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--- Act Scared - Final Girl took to list some of the Great Performances in Horror Movies last week, with several choice turns noted by her (holla Essie Davis) and several dozen more noted by the commenters on said post -- glad to see love for Shelley Duvall in The Shining, as always; the boyfriend's was watching that movie while cooking the other day and it always stops me dead in my tracks, watching her freak out. Endlessly convincing terror.
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--- Tight Spaces - Darren Aronofsky is gearing up to make a low-key thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence (okay I think at this point in J-Law's stratospheric career it's tough for anything involving her to be low-key, but sure) and Javier Bardem about a couple "whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence." As sexy as Javier is I kind of hope he's not playing Jennifer's other half because he is 21 full years older than her. Let her have a dude her own age, Darren.

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--- Rando Oscar Stuff - The Oscar nominations are tomorrow and you might hear some from me, you might not, my interest waxes and wanes and is almost always of the totally irritable sort. Especially this year whit total shit like Spotlight and The Big Short gunning for multiple nominations. Anyway one thing I am rooting for, at least nomination-wise, is Charlie Kaufman's wonderful stop-motion animated Anomolisa, and IndieWire has a lovely piece on why the film matters, specifically to the current state of animation. In related news I dug this piece on watching The Revenant from a female critic's perspective, in relation to all the manly posturing surrounding it. Oh and here's Nathaniel's predictions for the nominations tomorrow over at The Film Experience.
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--- This Year's Pedro - I was tempted to embed this here but since there are still no English subtitles for the first trailer for Pedro Almodovar's next movie, which is called Julieta, I'll just link over and let you figure it out for yourselves. The movie is out in April in Spain, but no word on when we'll get it here in the US; my guess is Fall, especially if it's good, so it can ride the wave to next year's Best Foreign Film race. This movie was previously called Silencio, we posted about it here - gorgeous Daniel Grao appears to be this year's hunk. (Look at him with shelves!!!)
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--- Big Bad Blanchett - When it was announced that Cate Blanchett was going to be in the third Thor movie we all, after cleaning up our ejaculate, figured it would be as a film's villain because obviously. Well Mark Ruffalo went and spilled the beans, telling ET that "She's just one of the best, and to have her play a baddie is going to be really exciting." Indeed it would! It will. There are a couple of theories about who that villain could be right here.
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--- And Finally the third season of my beloved Penny Dreadful will begin on the night of May 1st, and there's now a teaser trailer! There's actually a good amount of footage therein (including Josh Hartnett's big haircut reveal!) so go on and Thrill Chill and Eva fucking Green yourself silly...
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I Am Link

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--- Madding Man - Two posts of interest at The Film Experience - here's Nat's take on the new Far From the Madding Crowd movie, which I personally was curious to read since neither he nor I had ever seen the Julie Christie movie or read the Thomas Hardy book. He liked the new movie with more reservations than I had (here's my review); I loved this though:

"What Bathsheba wants is, in the end, a moot point. The camera knows what it wants and what it wants is the good shepherd played by the greatest movie star Belgium has ever offered us. Schoenearts is irresistible to look at and the camera agrees, continually flattering him with intense closeups..."

Of course I loved that though. Also at TFE is the news that the incredible actress Cara Seymour is going to be taking over the site on June 9th! We have adored Cara Seymour every single day since we watched Christian Bale, naked save a pair of white sneakers, chase her with a chainsaw. I actually right this minute have a goldfish named "Christie" in her honor!

 --- Let's Experiment - Last week we told you that Tony Goldwyn and John Gallagher Jr had joined the cast of Greg McLean's upcoming office-centric horror thriller The Belko Experiment (written by James Gunn) which reads as a kind of "Lord of the Flies meets Office Space" ... well a few more very cool names have since leapt on-board - Michael "Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer" Rooker, for one! Also the terrific and seriously under-appreciated Melonie Diaz.
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--- The Quiet Man - The Playlist shares two pictures of Pedro Almodovar on the set of his next film called Silencio with actress... um is that Adriana Ugarte? She looks different with that hair. They say the film is "the story of the tumultuous life of Juliet, tracking the character across thirty years from 1985 to 2015." Okay. All I know is I'm super sad that Miguel Angel Silvestre doesn't seem to be in this; I was really hoping his small role in I'm So Excited would lead to him becoming Pedro's latest hunk of muse (I guess he's too busy having gay sex for the Wachowskis). Daniel Grao (pictured right) is in Silencio and he is promising, though. I saw him in a 2012 movie called The End and he's gorgeous. (Also gay from what I remember?)
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--- Big League - Last week I was trying to explain Penny Dreadful to a friend of mine who clearly doesn't get out enough (how could anybody have not heard of Penny Dreadful?) and I name-dropped The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie (and why did I think she'd have heard of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen if she hadn't heard of Penny Dreadful?) and here we are less than a week gone and we're hearing that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is getting rebooted? I have powers. Terrible powers. Still that series has no place to go but up; I really love Alan Moore's comics.

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--- Hate 2-0 - Apparently the racial and religious tensions in Europe (France specifically) have got director Matthieu Kassovitz and star Vincent Cassel thinking it's time to revisit their 1995 film La Haine with a sequel. I loooove the original so very much but think this might be a terrible idea. In the twenty years since Kassovitz hasn't approached making anything as great as that movie, and I fear he might be too soft for the subject now.
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--- Witch of the North - Although I feel as if she's being spoilery with what she specifically chooses not to say, here's a nice interview with Melisandre herself the actress Carice Van Houten, who's been an MNPP Icon ever since she dyed her pubes that special shade of golden for the resistance. Fun Fact: She used to date Seth Meyer's twin brother! And Seth is the nerd who convinced her to take the role on Thrones. Thanks, Seth!
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--- Skin Born - I will link to it whenever anybody gives good love to Jonathan Glazer's already-a-masterpiece Under the Skin but I'm especially keen to do so since it's my pal Sean talking up the flick this time around, calling it "one of the most harrowing and singular scary movies you’ll ever see." Word. The way he describes the beach scene (oh you remember the beach scene, don't pretend you don't remember the beach scene) is especially nice.
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--- Never It - We already talked up the news that Cary Fukunaga had dropped out of making Stephen King's It into a movie (or rather a pair of movies) yesterday but now there's more details on what went wrong, and also the news that this pretty much strikes the entire project dead as a little boy who gets his arm ripped off by a killer clown in the gutter. (That is very.)
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