Style Anna Kendrick, Alex Edelman, and a summer sweater Last week Deux Moi acquired the first photos of Anna Kendrick and Alex Edelman together, and this continues today’s theme of new celebrity romances to offset the round of breakups in 2025. In those shots, Anna and Alex were in the car, and PEOPLE confirmed shortly after that the By Lainey • Jul 14, 2025 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Simple Favor is the C-ntiest Movie Have you ever watched a movie and thought “what this needs is 500% more c-nt”? Well, Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Jessica Sharzer sure have, because they’re all back for Another Simple Favor, a sequel to the 2018 dark comedy A Simple Favor. Feig once again directs; By Sarah • May 01, 2025 01:43 pm
Jock Smut Blake and Ryan: Friends, Favours, and the Championship Wrexham FC has been the story for a few weeks now ever since they were able to come down the home stretch in control of their own destiny. We’re talking about English football today, though, because the team is owned by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and the run By Lainey • Apr 28, 2025 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Little Murder Mystery If it was at all possible for me to be more seated for Another Simple Favor, I am. I liked the teaser, but the full trailer is here, and it looks like Paul Feig & Co are taking on the fun little murder mystery in the way the first movie By Sarah • Apr 15, 2025 11:14 am
Style Anna, Blake, and a Very Bad Dress Of all the premieres at SXSW this weekend, Another Simple Favor was the main event. Would it have been if not for all the drama with Blake Lively and her legal mess with Justin Baldoni? Of course not. But this is our current timeline and so it was inevitable that By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s just Another Simple Favor I love A Simple Favor. It’s a movie that totally surprised me on first watch and only got better with time. It’s a black comedy that excels at being both dark and funny, it’s a pitch-perfect satire of true crime and mass-market murder mystery publishing, it features By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 02:47 pm
Dumbass Another Simple Favor ends another dumb rumour I mean, the dumb rumour should have ended as soon as it was birthed but you know how the internet works now and how people are increasingly incapable of detecting bullsh-t. Sarah addressed this nonsense a few weeks ago when a totally unqualified random on Twitter claimed that Amazon had By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 10:26 am
Style Ladies outside at LACMA The 13th annual LACMA Art + Film Gala was held in Los Angeles over the weekend. The turnout was good, but maybe not as starry as in recent years? It definitely doesn’t feel like there were as many A-listers this year. Still, the event, which was co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Favor x 365 Days Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are currently in Capri shooting the sequel to A Simple Favor. Is it fair to call A Simple Favor a cult favourite? Or is it just generally accepted to be a fun and subversive film that does actually merit a sequel and I’m looking By Lainey • Apr 08, 2024 02:54 pm
Anna Kendrick The Most Dangerous Game as a rom-com Jake Johnson is a lowkey fave, always and forever appreciated for his perfect performance as Nick Miller on New Girl but also appreciated for his great taste in projects outside of the hit sitcom that made him famous. He spent the hiatuses of his New Girl years wisely, often collaborating By Sarah • Dec 06, 2023 02:11 pm
Amazingness A Fo Shizz Fo Shizz Movie Premiere There was a special screening for the new Trolls movie last night in LA attended by the cast including Anna Kendrick, Camila Cabello, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and of course Justin Timberlake who was joined by his *NSYNC bandmates Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick. This, of course, is By Lainey • Nov 16, 2023 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Woman of the Hour Which one of you will hurt me? That is the “question under the question” of the cheesy game show, The Dating Game. How will you hurt me? That is the question at the heart of Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour. The film, arguably the best piece By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Worry anew, darling! Just when we thought we were done, a new darling to worry about appears! The trailer for Alice, Darling, starring Anna Kendrick, dropped yesterday and I am NERVOUS. The film centers on Alice (Kendrick), a young woman trapped in an emotionally and psychologically abusive relationship. The trailer has big “they’ By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Favor is back! I love A Simple Favor so much. I loved it when it came out, I named it one of the best movies of the 2010s, and I talk about it constantly. It’s so funny and dark and smart and sexy and a little bit bleak, and every time I By Sarah • May 12, 2022 10:25 am
Hook Ups Bill & Anna: Yep, that makes sense It was a PEOPLE exclusive late yesterday: Bill Hader and Anna Kendrick have been “quietly dating” for a year. This, in my professional gossip opinion, is a sanctioned confirmation. PEOPLE is a celebrity-friendly publication. And PEOPLE doesn’t usually run a story without giving a heads-up to celebrities and their By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in A Simple Favor Do not let the misleading trailers fool you—A Simple Favor is not a cheesy thriller about lady murder. It is, however, a PARODY of those things. Why on earth A Simple Favor wasn’t marketed as the black comedy it is I will never understand (and they are paying By Sarah • Sep 20, 2018 04:58 pm
