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A random little Skarsgård-off for our Hump Day.

Today's Mood

Same, Tahar Rahim, same. At about four this afternoon my brain just trailed off and it ain't never done come back. Oh well! In the legendary, iconic words of Miss Nomi Malone, "Shit happens." I got what I needed to get done today done before that, so I'm 100% free, I give myself permission, to go stare at butts and other gay ass stuff now. So that's what I am gonna do dammit! Bye until tomorrow....

Hey remember when this happened pic.twitter.com/yOnWl7J1o9

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 3, 2022

Alex Going Above & Beyond Infinity Again

Alexander Skarsgård has made some hella fine choices career-wise as of late. He's in Robert Eggers' big Viking movie The Northman which is the biggie for me of course, but he's also got a small but important role in Rebecca Hall's masterful flick Passing (which I reviewed at Sundance right here) coming out later this year. And from there one glance back at his filmography shows several already-classics under his belt (yes let's all take a pause since I just talked about being under Alexander Skarsgård's belt........ okay, moving on) -- he's worked with Park Chan-wook on The Little Dummer Girl; he's worked with Lars von Trier on Melancholia; he made Diary of a Teenage Girl with Marielle Heller and Hold the Dark with Jeremy Saulnier and Mute with Duncan Jones and The East with Zal Batmanglij. No not all of those worked, but he keeps jumping on interesting filmmakers and picking interesting projects. Somebody who looks like Alexander Skarsgård doesn't have to do this!

Maybe that's the bare minimum to ask but I appreciate it, anyway. I appreciate not having to watch dreck just so I can stare at him, is my point! Thank you, Alex! Anyway that brings me to today's terrific news about his next next thing, which will be a film (thx Mac) with Brandon "Son of David" Cronenberg, who's fresh off his killer flick Possessor. It's gonna be called Infinity Pool and here is how Deadline describes the plot:

"Infinity Pool follows James and Em, who are young, rich, in love, and on vacation. Their all-inclusive resort boasts island tours and gleaming beaches. But outside of the hotel gates waits something much more dangerous and seductive, beyond the edge of paradise."

The studio Neon, who distributed Cronenberg's Possessor for him last year, already snatched up the rights to this one so they're clearly in the him business. The film will begin shooting in September -- no word on who his leading lady will be -- I'd love to see him reunite with one of his formers like Florence Pugh or Riley Keough, wouldn't y'all? Or, ooh ooh ooh ooh, what about Anna Paquin! We don't see nearly enough Anna Paquin these days!

Corn in the U.S.A.

I always hesitate to write about how my worst fear in the world is suffocation, because I have this image in my head of some Jigsaw motherfucker out here on the wilds of the internet noting that down in their torture spiral-notebook for when they inevitably decide to kidnap and torture me. I mean, that's the only way this blogging thing can end right? Well I've said it enough times now that I might as well just say it again...

Watching a movie right now that’s giving me flashbacks to the horrific twist in The Dressmaker and having a miniature panic attack all over again (that cute fashion romance had no right containing that trauma within it NO RIGHT) pic.twitter.com/BPROAYDvZD

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 21, 2021

... movies scenes where characters are suffocated by [fill in the blank] traumatize me every fucking time. Always works. And it was with that headspace that I went into Silo, out today, a movie about a young dude working on a farm who gets stuck in a corn quicksand. This movie isn't explicitly a horror film -- it's more like an elongated countryfied episode of one of those Fireman TV programs that all the Boomers love. But I spent a lot of it covering my eyes and having a miniature panic attack all the same, because these situations make me a big ol' baby. Here's the trailer:

If you'd like to see Silo it's in theaters and streaming right now -- you can find out where on both counts on the movie's website. I'll add that the film has Jim Parrack from True Blood in a small role and gosh I missed him! Where has he been keeping himself anyway?

Good Morning, World

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I really miss Ryan Kwanten, you guys. I mean his IMDB page makes it look like he's worked pretty steadily since True Blood ended three years ago but looks to me like it's all remained mostly Down Under. I always want to make a dirty joke when I use that phrase and that urge is quadrupled when it's Ryan I'm talking about, but I'll refrain just this once, as a birthday present. Ryan is 41 today so happy birthday to him - y'all can click back through our archives for more.
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... getting arm blasted with Joe.

I don't know what the hell an "Arm Blaster" is but that is what Joe's trainer calls that harness thing that Joe's fetishisitcally strapped up in in this video he posted to Instagram, and if it's anything like getting "finger blasted" I'm totally down.

Joe's on the cover of the new issue of Men's Health UK by the way - I just posted a pair of pictures of that on the Tumblr. Bonus -- here's one more shot of Joe from his trainer's Instagram, which is probably worth the follow if you care about such things...

Good Morning, Alexander Skarsgard Sunshine

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Every year I dread summer - I hate sunshine, I hate heat, I hate descending into the swampland of the subways. And every year I am reminded - there are benefits. There are benefits like this tweet I tweeted yesterday, and there are benefits like the spectacle of Alexander Skarsgard hitting up the pool and/or hanging out half-naked on a yacht. (pics via)

These almost make up for the rashes and the smells, dear god the smells. But what am I doing? Going on and on about the thing that died in my train station when I should just be making us feel nice and fuzzy with pictures of Alex pulling his shorts down to nigh obscenity? Hit the jump for a couple dozen more...

Alexander Skarsgård Seven Times

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Which Is Hotter?

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Beautiful and perfect, twenty feet tall and blond and sculpted from marble, Swedish with talent and teeth and muscles poking out of every crevice... but you are older than me, Alexander Skarsgard! You are older than me! Hahahahaha I win! (Sigh. I win nothing.) Today is Alex's 40th birthday so if he's not hanging out in the woods with strange men anymore (ahem) I hope he's celebrating well. Or maybe hanging out in the woods with strange men is his celebration, in which case I say -- I AM STRANGE, ALEXANDER. I am a strange man! I should have been invited. Anyway...

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Quote of the Day

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Alexander Skarsgard has been making the good-natured rounds with Tarzan this week, keeping a lovely smile on his face for what's probably gonna be a bit of a flop - he's a pro and as a pro he does what pros do, which is keep selling selling selling that ass. I've read a few of these interviews and he keeps batting around questions about the lack of a loincloth in the film but this interview over at PrideSource (leave it to the gays) is the first time I've seen him admit that "the lack of a loincloth" translates to, in flashbacks, total nakedness. Which makes sense, given the case he's been making! And this being a PG-13 family tent-pole (ha ha I said tent-pole) I doubt we're gonna get full-on cock shots. Still, it's a selling point. (thx Mac) But that bit's not the quote to take away from that interview - the keeper is at the very end, right after he and the interviewer talk about prepping for gay sex with Ryan Kwanten:

PrideSource: When can we expect you to do
something as gay as True Blood again?
Skarsgard: (Laughs) Well, I mean,
next time I get drunk probably.

And he ain't teasing us either, seeing as how we've got several on-the-record examples (see here and especially see here... and he was probably drunk when he did this too) of just that happening!

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Quote of the Day

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"Out of the three I've got to say Ryan Kwanten is surprisingly a good kisser, actually. He's very tender.... You wouldn't think it because he's kind of a tough guy but very soft, gentle, tender touch."

-- That's Alexander Skarsgard answering the question of whose kiss was best between his True Blood co-star Ryan Kwanten, his Tarzan co-star Margot Robbie, or Nicole Kidman, who he's starring opposite in Big Little Lies which I believe is filming right now. (thanks Boyd) Anyway sorry ladies! Alex is all about the Kwanten and so say we all. For our big time recappery of their kissing seen click right here. S'good, s'very very very good, y'all. And it's now our civic duty to ask Ryan Kwanten to kiss us to test out the tenderness if we ever cross paths, so thanks for handing us this lofty responsibility, Alex.

Good Morning, World

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The only reason we're staring at Alexander Skarsgard this morning is I am exhausted and the little bit of brain energy I tried to expend on figuring out a decent excuse for this post - no birthdays of note, no TV scenes jumping out at me - went nowhere quick. But I think we're alright with some random Skarsgard. Especially when I managed to find (via) a few old shots I don't think I have ever seen before. That one up top (how old d'ya think he is there anyway?) is a keeper for sure. As are the rest, after the jump, hit it...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... hanging eleven with Ryan Kwanten.

Thing I just learned: "Hanging Eleven" is what you call it when a man goes surfing naked. Cuz there's one more thing "hanging" than there is when you "Hang Ten" ya see? Yeah you see. Anyway I am shocked these pictures of Ryan slipping out of his wet-suit in Malibu haven't already made the rounds - they're almost two weeks old! You're slipping, internet. (I have to pretend it's not us forgetting about Ryan Kwanten since True Blood ended, because no don't do that, world!)

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Fourteen Days, Fourteen Joes

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There are 14 days until Pee-wee's Big Holiday hits Netflix - click here if you missed the trailer for it - and so in celebration of that... and also you know just so we can stare at Joe Manganiello... hit the jump for 14 recent-to-new pictures of Joe (most of them from this month's issue of Men's Health UK). Goddamn I am jealous of his beard. Okay I am jealous of Joe Manganiello's literal everything, but that beard is something...

Alexander Skarsgard Coming Up From Behind

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We have a late breaking entry in the 

January Sexy Beast Beach Sweepstakes! 

Not content to let Jon Snow & Jason Statham steal all his thunder down under Tarzan himself has swung onto the scene, nips on fire.

And as I gathered these up I just now discovered that these 

are all actually stills from a video! There is video!

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Good Morning, Tarzan

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The first two images of Alexander Skarsgard (and some Margot Robbie person I guess is somewhere in there underneath that pile, that mountain, of abdominal muscles) in David Yates upcoming Tarzan movie have been revealed and holy shit, hole lee shite, somebody's been hitting the gym. The movie's out in July -- hopefully we'll get a trailer soo and it will be nothing but bending and flexing, bending and flexing. What's with the pants, though? I demand a goddamned loincloth!

I Am Link

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--- Top Bureau - A thriller called Imperium which stars Daniel Radcliffe as an FBI agent is gathering up a nice little supporting cast - Variety reports it's just added Toni Collette, Tracy Letts and Sam Trammell to its roster. Doesn't "Imperium" sound like a wand curse from Harry Potter? Anyway what I most hope is I hope that Daniel gets to motorboat Trammell on-screene. Those jugs of his should never go to waste.

--- Dead Things - I'm sad to see that Freeheld, the lesbian drama with Ellen Page and Julianne Moore, has done poorly box-office-wise; I too have been too busy to see it. Any of you recommend making time for it? Anyway Ellen's lining up her next thing and it's apparently a remake of Flatliners of all things? I said all I have to say about that on Twitter. I wish Prime Billy had done more stuff.

--- Matt Bomer's Butt Boy - Yesterday after I posted all of them gifs of Matt Bomer's Buttocks in the season premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel, I tweeted out a query asking who the actor was that joined Matt in the fourgy, and I was told his name is Nathan Peterson. Turns out I wasn't the only person wondering -- here's a morning-after interview with the actor, including a few choice beefcake shots for good measure. He's goin' places!

--- House of Horrors - We just wished Guillermo Del Toro a happy birthday but we missed this (thanks Mac) -- his home, which we knew already to be full of amazing horror movie props, was profiled in the New York Times and they've got a great gallery of his cabinets of wonders. I am so fuckin' jealous of him for the lot of it. Bastard!

--- Uniformed Frenzy - Reading that both Henry Cavill and Luke Evans have signed on to star in an Army action-drama opposite Nicholas Hoult kinda makes me wanna pull Nicholas Hoult close (as if I didn't already wanna pull Nicholas Hoult close) and protect him... and part of me wants to grab Nicky by the shoulders and throw him to the sexy noted homosexual wolves -- as long as there are cameras pointed at it all. Devour him, boys! Anyway I am not surprised that Henry & Luke are working together again, they have so much in common.

--- Top Bird - There's a lovely long chat with Tippi Hedren in The Detroit News (thanks Mac) -- no I don't know why, but it's lovely. She talks about her friendship with her Birds co-star Rod Taylo (who just passed away recently) and like any sane person would she seems to light up when mentioning she got to work opposite Marlon Brando. And she tells the Hitch stories o' woe again, which she must be sick to death of by now.

--- Cary's Song - This was apparently first talked about several years ago so forgive me if I have forgotten it completely (if I bothered to do a search I'd probably find a mention here on the blog) but I guess Cary Fukunaga's been working on making a musical with Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy and a member of Arcade Fire) and Zack Condon (aka Beirut, who I just saw perform at Radio City several days ago!) for ages, and he says he thinks it will be on stage first, before being a movie. But it all sounds still rather fetal. In related news, just a week to go for Beasts of No Nation!

--- Big Bite - I can't remember if I mentioned that the great Anne-Marie over at The Film Experience is devoting her "Woman's Pictures" series about female directors to horror movies all month long -- here's her take on the great (and only) Civil War Cannibal Movie Ravenous, directed by Priest director Antonia Bird. I love this movie like a third leg.

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Who Wore It Best?

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Sometimes my mind wanders off and I remember that scene on True Blood where they finally had Alexander Skarsgard and Ryan Kwanten go at it and all the shit that show heaped our way falls away and I think it all was worth it, all of it.

Good Morning, World

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I wish that I had access to the footage of Alexander Skarsgard being a sexy beast (literally) in The Diary of a Teenage Girl but that's still in theaters (and you need to go see it!) so here are a couple of older shots of him nude in The East which I don't think we've posted before. For a movie starring my nemesis Brit Marling I thought The East was pretty good, but then it has Alex so, you know, I'll forgive a lot. Just ask the last like five seasons of True Blood.

In related news I was going to link to this later but I might as well share it now so everybody can read it along with their morning coffee -- you should very much read this wonderful interview with Diary author Phoebe Gloeckner over at ThinkProgress, she says everything she needs to say about everything that needs to be said. Choice bit:

"I think that the fact that the lack of judgment from the point of view, I’m so glad that carried over from the book to the film. That really is the one thing that takes women out of their sense of victimhood, whether they are victims or not. The fact is, the experience is what Minnie has been given, and that makes her more human, and it’s not a morality tale. It’s a tale of someone discovering, or beginning to discover who they are. And boys and men have had a zillion opportunities to go through this transition with confusion and lack of judgment and everything else. And girls need that, too."

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Joe Manganiello Five Times

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(click to embiggen) On top of the one I posted last night and the couple I posted over at the Tumblr yesterday afternoon there's what we've got from Joe's issue of Details, via their site. I know this is probably a strange thing to say given all his other fine attributes but I envy his hair. His hair is so nice! He's got a great part, and the coloring, the black and gray, makes me swoon.

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