Good Morning, World

I'll admit that T.V. is not my main focus and especially not shows about sports, but I'm still surprised me seeing this gif of Jay Ellis on Tumblr this morning was literally the first time I'd heard of a Netflix show called Running Point, which stars Kate Hudson as a woman who takes over a basketball team -- to be honest I usually wince when I see Kate Hudson's name (not a fan) so that might've happened. But the rest of the cast includes Justin Theroux, the great Drew Tarver of The Other Two, and adorable Max Greenfield, along with the stunning Mr. Ellis, so... yeah I probably still won't watch this. But at least now I have heard of it and know it exists and can keep my eyes peeled for more from Jay of this sort! And with this Jay Ellis has earned himself a tag on MNPP, everybody wish him congrats! And if you watch the show please tell me why I'm dumb for not watching it in the comments. 

The Ghost With Even More Most

Extremely happy to say that I enjoyed the hell out of Tim Burton's 36-years-in-the-making Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -- head on over to Pajiba now to read my review now or even better after you've gone to see the movie in the theater yourself. I hope it makes a heap of money this weekend because this is a "legacy sequel" done right. Even if I really hate the term "legacy sequel." The movie might be all over the place but that's totally true to the wacky spirit of the original -- people complained the same thing about the original and yet I have watched that movie enough times to have it memorized from start to finish. Bring on the Winona-ssaince!

Say My Name Say My Name

I still don't really know how to feel about a Beetlejuice sequel -- the first movie was formative for me even besides the formative goth content since it was the first movie I went to see in a movie theater without my parents; it holds a very special place in my heart and I have seen it approximately a gazzilion times. But we're getting this so we'd best prepare ourselves and this teaser poster (via) -- which is apaprently telling us the title of it is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (which is practically begging for a third film, right?) -- is a good way to start. We'll probably get a trailer or a teaser at least too soon, I would guess, even though the film itself isn't out until September 6th. It does quiet some of the darker voices in my head that Burton got everybody that matters to return -- meaning Winona and O'Hara and Keaton, oh my -- although I admit I'd love to see at least Geena Davis too. But the additions of Monica Belluci, Justin Theroux, Burn Gorman, Jenna Ortega, and Willem f'ing Dafoe are promising as well. Who knows! Tim Burton is so hit or miss or miss or miss or miss these days. Let's hope he's on his game here.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Coco Lenoix: You know, there was a man that lived here 

once that had a prize-fighting kangaroo. Well, you just

wouldn't believe what that kangaroo did to this courtyard!

A happy 20 to David Lynch's masterpiece (one of them anyway), released in theaters on this day in the year 2001. Given we were all still in a bit of a state of shock at this point in time in the year 2001 it took some time for everybody to glom onto what a masterpiece this TV-show-turned-movie was, but we're there now, baby, are we ever. Mulholland Drive frequently ranks high up on all-time lists from critics, and I don't disagree...

... although as much as I love it it's not my favorite Lynch -- that honor will forever remain enshrined in the tomb of Blue Velvet. But Mulholland's top five for sure, depending on how we're ranking the Twin Peaks stuff. And it says a lot about its respectability quotient that it's one of the first 4K discs that Criterion will be putting out, in just about one month. Where would you rank Mulholland Drive?

Good Morning, World

Happy 50 to Justin Theroux today! Yes, Justin Theroux is what 50 looks like now, so you'd best get your chickens in a line or whatever. Before the roosters come home to hatch! I think I have got my aphorisms screwed sideways -- like Justin there I appear to need some caffeine. Anyway check our Archives for more thorough Theroux coverage -- for this morning I ask ye: What's your favorite Justin Theroux performance? I imagine a lot of you will say The Leftovers, but not me! Mine is by far, by miles...

... the Sea Captain on At Home With Amy Sedaris. Duh.

Admitting she's cut the anti-vaxxers out of her life is still the best thing Jennifer Aniston has done this month, but gifting us with this photo of Justin Theroux on his birthday is now a close second pic.twitter.com/D38UMFxNuw

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 10, 2021

Justin Theroux Tests Positive... For Gay!

There really is no way to make a thriller about pregnancy without having it compared to Rosemary's Baby, so I appreciate False Positive director John Lee not even trying to obscure the Woodhouse-iness here in the first trailer for the Hulu Original hitting that streamer on June 25th. Starring Broad City super-stah Ilana Glazer as a young woman impregnated by her perfect husband... or was she, dun dun dun??? Justin Theroux wearing preppy sweaters let's you know something is wrong right off the bat...

... but damn if he doesn't make you feel as conflicted about Evil Baby Schemes as John Cassavetes did back in the day. Hey maybe just let them have this one? The baby I mean. Babies are a dime a dozen, but hot husbands don't come along every damn day. Unfortunately for Ilana she's also got a hot OB-GYN (played by Pierce Brosnan) who cannot take his eyes off said same hot husband...

 

That gif somehow feels like the dirtiest gif I have ever made in my entire gif-making life, and I have made some dirty doozies. Anyway I don't want to venture too deep into spoiler territory -- maybe some of you don't want to watch the trailer, which gives away a lot, and me shoving gifs in your face is an affront to your delicate nature? To y'all I apologize but I would simply be derelict in my duties if I didn't share the flashes in said trailer of Theroux making out with shirtless (grand) daddy Pierce Brosnan...

I mean seeing an image of that which a kind reader forwarded is what got me to watch this damn trailer even in the first place! There's your reason to watch the movie. Not that I don't love everybody involved -- besides Ilana Glazer's preternaturally comedic presence in the lead we also have director John Lee, who worked with Glazer on Broad City and has a comedy-directing career going back to his work on the classic Wonder Showzen, a personal all-time fave. Oh and he also directed Pee-wee's Big Holiday, which I adore. This is a person working on my wavelength! Here's the trailer:

False Positive hits Hulu on June 25th. Any thoughts, people?

Besides how you'd allow Justin Theroux to steal your baby, I mean.

Good Morning, Justin

Normally I would share the other photos that go along with this new photo-shoot of Justin Theroux for Rolling Stone... but come on. That photo above does all the work. (via) We don't need any more photos after that. Like, we could smash all of the cameras now -- they have done their duty. Thanks for your service, centuries of photography! We're finished here!

I Am Link

I haven't done a link round-up like this for ages! They always end up taking way more energy than they ought to -- I mean the whole idea is to present news in bite-sized portions, but I can never keep myself from rambling. You know me. But also I don't know if, due to the pandemic, we've had a period quite so thick with movie news as  the last several days has been -- aww, nature is healing! (Wear a mask.) Let's get to it.

-- Two Big Ds -- The actor who calls himself Brad Pitt has just joined the cast of Lost City of D, which already has Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum attached. I thought I'd posted about this movie when it was first announced but the archives say no -- anyway it sounds like a broad re-do of Romancing the Stone; Bullock is playing a romance novelist, Tatum is playing the Fabio-type model for her book covers, and the two of them get dragged into a romance and also a kidnapping adventure in the jungle while on one of her book tours. DH says Pitt's role is a cameo, one he did in exchange for Sandy doing a cameo in his forthcoming action-thriller Bullet Train. 

--- Take A Bite Outta -- Even though the news is only a couple of weeks old I'd already forgotten that Evan Peters was going to play Jeffrey Dahmer in an upcoming Ryan-Murphy-produced miniseries, so it's good to have this interview with him in Variety remind me. (thx Mac) He briefly talks about prepping for the part, alongside mostly speaking about his Kate Winslet detective series Mare of Easttown, which is out this weekend. I don't know where that series came from, it really snuck up on me. I only heard about it for the first time like a week ago and now it's here!

--- Leftover Man -- If that Justin Theroux shirtless cover-shoot for Esquire magazine that I shared yesterday wasn't enough for your Theroux-thirst then you can head over to Interview Magazine, where he's also chatted up alongside some fine beard photography -- he's got that Mosquito Coast TV program hitting on Apple soon (already?) and that's what all of the press is for. That said this chat is a good reminder that he is a naturally very funny individual, hotness aside. 

--- Real Thick And Juicy -- I am sure you've all been happily following along with all the talk of Chris Meloni's ass ever since he (and it) popped back up on SVU a couple of weeks ago, but if you missed it Meloni has been milking his ass for all it's worth (god, phrasing) -- EW rounded up some of the fun, bouncy chatter. Jump on it and bounce, baby! (thx Mac)

--- Bad Fish -- I've become sort of a stealth fan of the Danish actor Pilou Asbæk in a few things over the past several years -- Lucy, Ghost in the Shell (in which he had a Lot of Look, seen to the left), Overlord, and of course his welcomed snarky turn on Game of Thrones last few seasons, which really needed the snark, so I'm happy to hear he's just been cast in the Aquaman sequel in an unspecified role. It will probably be a villain, since he's European. This is known as the Mads Mikkelsen rule.  

--- And Finally I was happy to read yesterday that the actor Fabien Frankel had landed a big role in the Dorne-centered Game of Thrones spin-off prequel called House of the Dragon; as seen below Frankel really grabbed my attention opposite Tahar Rahim in the Netflix series The Serpent, which I've mentioned here on the site oh once or twenty times.

Also -- hello Fabien Frankel, please be in lots of things after this, Fabien Frankel pic.twitter.com/GQ5UXiJjzb

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 4, 2021

Good Morning, World

Bearded thesp Justin Theroux is showing off them biceps on the cover of the new issue of Esquire alongside his lucky, lucky dog, who gets to be cradled by them biceps on the daily. I thought I was going to have to share the cover image itself with all of the annoying text slapped across it but the photographer Mark Seliger came through on his Instagram and shared images without text -- hell he even shared a shirtless outtake! Thanks, Mark Seliger! Making my life easy and less triggering. Anyway I haven't read Justin's interview at Esquire yet -- it's right here -- but I did grab all of the photos (along with bonus shots off Seliger's Insta), and those are after thee jump...

Jovan Adepo Nine Times

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Perfectly timed to this week's episode of Watchmen -- which we were just feting this very morning, gratuitously-speaking -- comes Flaunt magazine's brand new photo-shoot and interview with the actor Jovan Adepo, who played Regina King's character's grandfather in flashbacks and who had himself some fun with Jake McDormand on the side. Adepo's looking so growed-up these days that...

... I didn't even realize he was that kid from The Leftovers! My goodness. Anyway he's also about to play "Larry Underwood" on the new miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand, so we should all get real familiar with him at this point. Hit the jump for the rest of this photo-shoot...

Good Morning, Gratuitous Jonathan Tucker

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It has happened before but it's not often that I will have to graduate a post containing a single photo-shoot from being titled "So-and-so Five Times" up to a good and proper "Gratuitous" post, but sometimes, when we're really lucky, the number gets out of control -- I mean I suppose I could have called this post "Jonathan Tucker Thirty Times" since I do indeed...

... have thirty photographs of our favorite Tucker here to share thanks to our favorite Duran (that'd be the photographer Tony, via his website) today. Indeed there are actually about twenty more photos at that link -- I tried to edit the shoot down a little bit but you might not feel so inclined and who the fuck can blame you.

Tucker inspires the extra effort, and devotion. On that note out this weekend is the new Charlie's Angels movie and in the grand tradition of those things -- following Sam Rockwell in the 2000 version and especially especially Justin Theroux in its sequel -- he's appears to be another villain you can't decide whether you wanna kill or fuck, or both simultaneously. I am so down. Hit the jump for the rest of this really very pleasurable shoot...

Good Morning, World

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I wonder if Justin Theroux realizes how fortunate he is to be friends with Amy Sedaris -- whenever he douches out, which is often, I just remind myself that Amy loves him and so I gotta set aside the douche. His new interview with GQ (thx Mac), which comes with these perfectly fine photos, has him douching out over all the secret little hideaways that he loves in Japan, but it does give us this quote at least:

"It's sort of an unhygienic habit to grab people with fists and start pumping away."

Yes I took that totally out of context but it's way better that way, believe me. Anyway it's not all of them, you should click over to GQ for that, but I've got a select few of their perfectly fine photo-shoot of Justin Theroux right here after the jump...

Quote of the Day

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Oh joy, Interview Magazine got a whole slew of Amy Sedaris' famous nut-bag friends to ask her a question or two for their upcoming issue, and there are a couple of choice moments therein that almost made me cause a scene here in my office just now reading them and exploding into violent laughter. (The exchange between her and her brother David, oh my god.) People featured include John Waters, Juliette Lewis, Maya Rudolph, Cole Escola... really, just all the people that matter. All of 'em! I especially loved the exchange between her and her BFF Justin Theroux though:

JUSTIN: Dear Amy, I’m feeling a little down on myself lately. Can you give me five quick tips that will make me feel more “ladylike” overnight? Signed, Sad Sack.
AMY: 1. Put on a transparent pair of panties.
 2. Apply lipstick to your cheekbones.
 3. Remove the lice from your hair.
 4. Make sausage hair curls using real sausage.
 5. Tuck your penis between your ass cheeks.

Okay okay I mostly just wanted to give a second and a third thought to Justin Theroux tucking his penis between his ass cheeks, it's true. Click on over to read the whole thing, and to delight in the high-larious photos taken by Tina Tyrell too. The third season of her deranged crafting show At Home really can't get here soon enough.

Who Wore It Best?

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Happy National Pet Day! I don't currently have a pet since my fish died a few weeks ago (RIP Xarelto) so we'll have to celebrate the next best way -- by putting hot male celebrities hugging their dogs into a battle to the death via gratuitous poll.

survey hosting

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... the lil' dumplin' that came between

Justin Theroux and Paul Dinello. (via)

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... taking in some sights with Justin Theroux.

It's a gorgeous day here in New York today, my favorite kind of weather - it's cloudy, windy, and sixty degrees - and so the thought f traipsing about with Justin as documented in the latest NYT piece on him (thx Mac) sure does seem appetizing. It was probably warmer when these photos were taken but he'd probably, given his proclivity, still wear the sleeveless tee, thank goodness. 

Did anybody watch or start watching at least Cary Fukunaga's Netflix series Maniac this weekend? I forgot to mention it but something tells me that my silence on something keeps exactly zero percent of anyone from knowing about anything, so you probably did. If you didn't you should - I'm only halfway through but I really like it. In spite of, well, its leading man to be honest. I'm pretty over Jonah Hill. But Emma Stone's ace, and I'm really enjoying the ride since I have no idea where it's taking me from scene to scene. If you've watched it give me your thoughts in the comments (keeping in mind I'm only halfway through, of course!) and after the jump some more of Justin (including a Cary Fukunaga cameo)...

Do Dump or Marry: Spies For Dumping (Or Not)

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It's too good to pass up an excuse to play our favorite party game "Do Dump or Marry" when along comes a movie with "Dump" in the title and three hot dudes in the cast, wouldn't ya say? The Spy Who Dumped Me stars Mila Kunis & Kate McKinnon as besties who accidentally get embroiled in espionage shenanigans - starring opposite them in some capacity (I haven't seen the movie so I don't know where they all fit in yet) is the trio of Hasan Minaj (actor and Daily Show correspondent and seriously under-appreciated piece) and Sam Heughan (from Outlander, see more here) and Justin Theroux (former Mr. Jennifer Aniston and wearer of sweatpants, see more here) and y'all know what to do. Don't you? Hit the comments with which one you'd Do, which one you'd Dump, and which one you'd Mary. There, now you know!

Give Us Something To Believe In

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I still haven't managed to see RBG, the documentary on American Hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but I have a feeling some of y'all have given it's had such a stellar run at the box office. And now I'm not sure I should see it before I see On the Basis of Sex, the forthcoming fictionalized bio-pic starring Felicity Jones as the Supreme Court Judge to be and...

... the ever gorgeous Armie Hammer as her faithful mister two steps behind. (Could they have given him a more flattering title card?) The movie, directed by Mimi Leder (most recently of The Leftovers) also stars Justin Theroux and Kathy Bates (hooray) and it out on Christmas Day. Here's the trailer:

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Justin Theroux Five Times

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Justin is covering Men's Health for what, the twentieth time, this month - we're not complaining. Justin looks Healthy. If you'd like to read the interview with him click here, or if you'd just like to stare at his beard & biceps a bunch hit the jump...

Theroux in the Summer

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As an addendum to yesterday's batch of pictures here hey look here are some more pictures of Justin Theroux hanging out at the beach this week. (via here and here and here) HERE!

My favorite thing about these shots (besides abs n' beard) are the off-center sight of Emma Stone who is there with him and her gorgeous creamy alabaster skin smartly hiding off in the shadows...

Justin would be wise to look at how great her complexion looks and quit lathering himself up and baking like he does but... well it's probably a little late for that now. Oh well. He's still looking pretty good for now. Hit the jump for a few dozen more...