Pillion Reaching Completion

It's been a long hard ride for Pillion and the people who love it -- the dom-com starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling edged us all fall awards season long (I saw and reviewed it at NYFF in October) only to wait until February to give us a U.S. theatrical release proper. The Oscars ignored it (because of course they did, they're lame) and I put it in my top five movies of the year, and now after all this time, it's finally coming... out on blu-ray! A24 dropped the pre-order earlier today -- grab it at this link. I don't really understand why it's not 4K but at least they're promising the "unrated  theatrical cut" which... I have no idea what that means to be honest. I saw it like three times but they were all in the fall during festival and awards screenings -- I never could really suss out what cut was what after that. I guess I'll know when I sit down and watch this after it ships out in July. Just in time for my birthday! Bend me over a picnic table and give me my present, Alex! 

Who's a Good Boys

Despite all of the weird release delays I'm still so happy that A24 was the company that snapped up Harry Lighton's "dom-com" Pillion y'all. They're the best at ridiculous marketing gimmicks and without them selling this movie I'd never have gotten to own an orgy commemorative plate (see below) or a "Good Boys" candle as seen above, which they've just dropped the pre-order for on their site. And where would my life be without these things??? Anyway that delightful doggie candle is in honor of the movie hitting VOD today at last -- you can rent it right here. And if you happened to miss my review of my fourth favorite movie of 2025 one of the ten thousand other times that I posted it since seeing it at NYFF last fall, click here. In the email where A24 announced the VOD drop they also mention that the blu-ray for Pillion is coming soon -- I do hope they consider a 4K disc! -- and surely I'll scream about that when the time comes, too. I been Pillion-pilled!!!

PILLION ORGY COMMEMORATIVE PLATE IN DA HOUSE!!!! @a24movies.bsky.social

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 7:24 PM

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Please Baby Please (2022)

Arthur: Heart in ribs like bird in cage. 

When it flutters, set it free.

I have now done quotes from this movie for Harry Melling's birthday three out of the past four years -- see 2023 right here and see 2024 right here (that second one includes lots of Harry on Karl Glusman sexiness and I do recommend) -- not sure what the hell I was doing on March 13th of last year that I missed this ocassion, but I'm making it up to you today, Harry! And then some since I also just realized that even with all the past year's Pillion-ness I hadn't given Harry his own tag here on the site yet -- shame the fuck on me. So that's now fixed. Harry Melling's on the side-bar now -- well earned. 

Also I suppose from now on for his birthdays we'll probably try quoting his other "Harry Melling gets gay subjugated by a hot biker" movie, the aforementioned masterpiece Pillion. My #4 movie of 2025! There's lots to celebrate in that movie too. But here today as an additional birthday treat I'll share Harry's recent photo-shoot for Behind The Blinds magazine (via) -- I hadn't shared it yet because it's wasn't nearly slutty enough to my liking; people need to realize that we are hot for Harry and respect and indulge our desires. Anyway it's what we got for now so hit the jump for it...

Hey Pillion Wanting People!

I promised y'all I'd try to keep an eye out for news on the release of Harry Lighton's "dom-com" Pillion as A24 has slowly, slowly, slowly drizzled it into theaters, and so here, an update -- they posted on the social-media-site-that-shall-not-be-named today that the film will be going "nationwide" on February 20th. Whatever "nationwide" means but one assumes it means "in lots more theaters than it's in now." I don't have a list of theaters but hopefully this means you can see it then! You should! It's great -- yes that's my cue to link to my review for the five-hundredth time. Now enjoy these Harry Melling photos -- and on that note over at Pajiba our pal Kayleigh wrote about Harry Melling yesterday and it's a good read. He's a keeper. 

Good Morning, Melling

I'd whinged previously that while I love a good slutty Alexander Skarsgård photoshoot (do I!) I didn't feel as if his extremely talented Pillion co-star Harry Melling should be left out even if he is, you know, less conventionally attractive. So seeing these photos last night made me happy!  I know they're not "slutty" per se but we'll take what we can get. Anyway it's true, the rumors are true, Pillion is out in U.S. theaters TOMORROW. Hard to believe the day's finally come after all the excruiating edging that A24 has put us through for months and months but your day has arrived, folks. Read my review of the movie from NYFF right here. Pillion was also #4 on my favorite movies of 2025 list, even if A24 made me extremely confused whether I should count it as 2025 or 2026 -- I figured by a year from now... well who fucking knows where we'll be a year from now. So tell the people that you love that you love them while you can, and do the same things with the movies! That's my Thursday morning heap of wisdom for you. 

Shut Up The Gays Are Talking!

The time has come for the queers to take it away! (When isn't it that time...) The queer critics guild GALECA (of which yours truly is a member) has announced the nominations for our annual Dorian Awards today, and per usual we did good, better, best than most. As ever, because I'm an old crank, I could take issue with some of the people who did get nominated -- I loathe Ethan Hawke's performance in Blue Moon, for instance -- and I could take issue with some of the people who didn't get nominated -- I can't believe we, a group of queer people, didn't have love in our hearts for the best animated movie oif the year by leaps and bounds Boys Go To Jupiter -- but I'll just shut my yap and clap my paws because overall...

... we did very good. A couple of nominations for Pillion! (Even though as I stated earlier today who could be sure which year A24 wants that movie to fall under with their weird release strategy,) A couple of nominations for Hedda, a movie which should be getting much more attention by the big guys -- I can't believe that Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss probably won't get Oscar nominations whilst steaming crap like the Wicked sequel will. What a world, what a world, indeed. Anyway congrats to all of the nominees (except Ethan Hawke) and if you want to hit the jump I will share our press release with all of the nominations...

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Just in case staring at beautiful and talented men being funny and thoughtful and charming whilst speaking about a wonderful piece of exceptionally horny gay art they created together is your thing (and I am assuming here at MNPP that it would be) there above are some photos and videos from last night's special Pillion screening here in NYC last night. Disgustingly handsome writer-director Harry Lighton is seen there sandwiched between his two stars, Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, just as we all would be so fortunate to be. What a trio! What a movie! Read my review here if you have not done so yet. And thus went my daily Pillion post.

Good Morning, World

I know, I know, it's like Pillion all day every day around here -- and the movie's not even out until February here in the U.S.! But it's out in the U.K. right now so, since we're a global internet, we're also getting inundated with stuff -- not to mention the movie is still gunning for awards attention here Stateside. And is worthy of such! (Here is my review.) 

Anyway I really loved this collection of set photos that photographer Chris Harris posted on his Instagram -- see a lot more at this link. And also it actually is a big Pillion Day for me personally because I'm going to go see it again a third time tonight, and be in the room with director Harry Lighton and one Alexander Skarsgård for a second time this very evening! And hopefully Alex won't be recovering from a stomach bug like he was the last time I saw him (see those photos here). Nobody wants to make out when they're not feeling well, after all.

Today's Mood

This photo of Alexander Skarsgård with his twenty feet of bare gams tossed in the air at the Cannes photoshoot for his BDSM-com Pillion back in May is more of an aspirational mood than an actual one -- no one could ever actually achieve this mood lest you actually be Alexander Skarsgård, I think. But one can dream! Or one can just zoom in and in and up Alex's short shorts -- whatever. I think I can safely promise you that Alex isn't offended. (And these two photos are both very large so yes, click to embiggen and zooming is easy.) Anyway I made note of this outfit at the time (twice actually), as I have with basically everything he's worn on the still-going Pillion campaign, but this precise photo only got dropped in the past 24 hours so obviously the flashback was worth it. If you missed my review of Pillion click here. I'm dying to see it again. And again. And again. And...

Good Morning, New Pillion Poster

(via) I'm almost tempted to zoom in on Harry Melling's face there between Alexander Skarsgard's leather-clad thighs because he so nails the look of goofy satisfaction that such a situation would and should elicit -- I can't wait for you guys to all see this wonderful movie! As I've said a few times the U.K. is getting it first, way first, as in next month, while we've got to wait until February -- I know that's annoying but I'm simultaneously delighted they're angling it as a Valentine's Day movie so I cannot complain. What can I complain about? (You know there's always something.) Well it was brought to my attention a few days ago (thx Mac) that the cut anyone has seen to date at film festivals (including me at NYFF) was basically an NC-17 cut and they're going to have to edit the sex down some to get an R. I can't say I am surprised -- the festival cut was hella raunchy. But it's still annoying -- this movie is for grown-ups and grown-ups can handle some raunch y'all. Puritanical nonsense. So we'll have to see in February how far the cutting goes and just cross our fingers that the eventual physical media release restores the movie to all of its uncut (ahem) glory. 

And Now My Pillion Review is Here

Pillion Week continues! First we got the posters, then we got the trailer, then we got Alexander Skarsgard maybe coming out as bi, and now my review! Click on over to read my thoughts on the film, starring Alexander Skarsgard as the dom to Harry Melling's happy sub, at Pajiba right here. This is my first review of several to come out of NYFF 2025 -- first because twas the easiest to write. This is a movie to just fall in love with! Just so lovely...

Yes It's the Pillion Trailer

Yesterday I shared the first pair of posters for Pillion with you and now -- yes a few hours late but whatever, I'm busy! -- we've got the trailer! The responsible portion of me feels the need to say what Pillion is about every time I post about Pillion but I've posted about Pillion a billion (heh rhymes) times now and I think y'all know that this is the movie where Alexander Skarsgard takes Harry melling on as his sub boy. Anyway as I also said yesterday my review of this from NYFF is incoming and I'll link to that when "incoming" has actually "come" but for now, do watch:

I'm actually surprised A24 already dropped this trailer since the movie's not in theaters until February, but hey -- nobody's gonna complain about some of Alexander's cum-gutters hitting any ol' day, I think. Not here on this website anyway.

A Pair of Pillion Posters

A24 dropped two posters for their forthcoming Gay BDSM Romance Pillion today -- one featuring star Alexander Skarsgård seen above and one featuring star Harry Melling on, you know, the bottom. Heheh see what I did there? Sso clever. So naughty! That's me in a nutshell. Aaaanyway they're also promising the first trailer will drop tomorrow so I imagine you should stay tuned. And you should likewise stay tuned because this movie screens at NYFF this Thursday and Friday and there might just be a review from yours truly dropping shortly. Just saying! Get your nutshells ready. 

Pics of the Day

A pair of new photos from Pillion, the forthcoming gay biker "romance" starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling, have been dug up by some internet sleuths today (via) -- not the finest quality just yet (you can no doubt clock the blackened edges fading out in the corners) but since we're obsessed with this movie we'll post them until we do have better copies! I'm seeing this in two and a half weeks for NYFF so if we can just make it until then all will be okay. But lord knows every day is a goddamned struggle in 2025 so I'm not taking anything for granted...

A Pillion in New York

I always illustrate my Pillion posts with a picture of Alexander Skarsgård so let's shake it up and go with his co-star and leading man Harry Melling today, because we've come to be enormous fans of his over the past few years. Not just the biggun, our beloved Please Baby Please (which is the obvious forerunner to Pillion given that they're both about mousy dudes finding love and lust through leather daddies), but also an extremely underrated turn in The Devil All the Time -- not a perfect movie but he was amazing in it. Really any time Harry shows up we're enthused to watch his riveting face and so Pillion's been on our GIMME THAT FUCKING THING NOW list since it premiered at Cannes -- okay technically well before Cannes because I am On This Sorta Shit and posted about this movie getting made a full year before it premiered at Cannes. Anyway my great wish for NYFF came true -- today they announced that Pillion is indeed in the line-up for next month's fest, huzzah! It's part of their Spotlight Section which also includes the Springsteen biopic with Jeremy Allen White that I mentioned yesterday, along with fresh reveals -- two movies from Richard Linklater, a five-part docuseries about Martin Scorsese, the new one from Paolo Sorrentino and Daniel Day-Lewis' triumphant (one assumes) return to acting in his son's first film. Check the whole list at FLC's site. Let the countdown until Pillion commence!

Quote of the Day

"There’s definitely a raunchier version of this movie … what you’ve seen is the family friendly version… there’s also the Alexander Skarsgard cut.”

I've tried to avoid reviews and/or the specifics of what nudity and gay sex we should expect from Pillion -- the Gay BDSM Biker Movie starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling that just premiered at Cannes -- because the movie will surely get re-cut some before anyone not in France sees it. And sure enough that's also mentioned in this piece at Variety (thx Mac) talking to the actors and director Harry Lighton. Like, Lighton says he's currently working on "de-shining" some ejaculation right now for the MPAA lol. And that he edited out an erection aimed straight at the camera out of the cut before it even screened at Cannes. Anyway we can all mourn what's been lost unto the dust-bins of erotic cinematic history while still appreciating the fact that Alexander Skarsgard calls the raunchier cut of the movie "The Alexander Skarsgard Cut." Does this mean there was more of his body on display? Or does it mean that the kink being cut is a better representation of him as a person? Either way, I know what I'll be thinking about for the rest of today...

Skarsgård & Leather

It's wild that this outfit only dropped yesterday given how many more headline-grabbing outfits Alexander Skarsgård has been photographed in at Cannes since the above one, but the Gay BDSM Biker movie called Pillion that he stars in opposite Please Baby Please sub Harry Melling premiered at the fest then and this outfit did its job -- everybody around the globe stopped dead in their tracks and gawked. I posted several more on Bluesky so check 'em here -- slightly more important that Alex doing Tom of Finland drag though (slightly) is the fact that word of mouth on the movie itself out of the fest is very good! (And very hot too!) So I'm just gonna need this movie sooner rather than months from now. Do you hear me, A24? (And also I expect a positively pervy collection of Pillion-themed swag for sale in your shop as well!) Anyway while making France his bitch Alex has made out with Pedro Pascal and worn thigh-high leather boots and spangled pants as well, but I gotta admit the short-shorts he's been rocking today have been pretty top too! (See more here.) He' might single-handedly rescue 2025 from the shit-heap y'all. May the Pillion press tour save us!

Pic of the Day

Ugh I'm annoyed -- just saw that Pillion, the movie I first told you about EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY (weird) that stars Alexander Skarsgard as a queer biker who keeps Harry Melling (so great in Please Baby Please, working with weirdly similar themes) as a happily submissive sex toy, is playing at Cannes later this month. Boo! Boo I says. Anyway that's the first image seen above (click to embiggen) -- I'm glad they're letting them both be hot. You never know. And yes I know Harry Melling isn't to everybody's taste, but I found his erotic journey toward Karl Glusman's chaps in PBP extremely stimulating, so I've myself a crush I don't see going anywhere soon. Especially if he keeps making movies like this...

Yes Sir Skarsgård

Raise your hand if you'd want to be Alexander Skarsgard's submissive little slave boy. And excuse me while I peel myself off of the wall from the sheer force of all of your hands flying violently into the air at once. Anyway that's the plot of an actual movie that is being made -- titled Pillion, Alexander will play, and I quote, "the impossibly handsome leader of a community of kinky, queer bikers." And that's not all -- the movie will co-star the terrific Harry Melling, last seen being dommed by queer biker gang member Karl Glusman in Please Baby Please...

... Harry! My man! I am sensing a theme!  But I guess if you're gonna get type-cast I think getting type-cast as the sub to a steady stream of hot actors in leather and denim is probably the way to go. The Way. Anyway the movie is from first-time feature director Harry Lighton, who's previously made some award-winning short films. It's set to shoot in London this summer. Let's hope we see a lot of this one filming on the streets -- I need to see Alexander done up in queer-coded biker gear as soon as possible. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Please Baby Please (2022)

Teddy: Caught ya.

Arthur: I, um, I caught you. Following me.

Teddy: Following her. That bunny lives to hop.

Arthur: Yeah. She thinks she's the bug dick 

solving some kind of great whatsit.

Teddy: Yeah, white hot thrills. 

Well, I don't got her keys, though I do have her man.

Arthur: Um, what y'all did to that girl was deranged.

Teddy: What's "dee-ranged"?

Arthur: It's, it's like whacko.

Teddy: Like unzipped. Say, wanna lose control?

Arthur: I'm, I'm, um, I'm, I'm not in control.

Teddy: You know, there's playing it cool... 

... and then there's just... being... cool.

Arthur: Yeah. Um, I, I play the clarinet.

Teddy: Play me. Play with me. See how I wail.

Arthur: Who made you? Angel... or devil?

Teddy: You gotta draw a line.

So you know where the line is... when you cross it. You

ever crossed it, Bean? Maybe with one of those boys in your band? 

Arthur: No, um... I never gave them a second thought.

Teddy: You ever given them a first thought?

Arthur: Teddy, angel, you don't have to be a killer.

Teddy: At least I'm not an artist stiff.

Arthur: I am stiff.

Teddy: You could be my favorite.

Oh my god this scene. Just rewatching it right now y'all (it's currently streaming on Mubi) ... the chemistry between Karl Glusman & Harry Melling is just absolutely off the charts. One billion fire emojis. I love this movie so much! (Here is my review.) And I love you, writer-director Amanda Kramer -- never stop making these incredible movies!!! And (now for the reason we did this post) a very happy birthday to Harry Melling today! We love you as well!