Zoe Saldana Gossip

Did Zoe Saldana look good last night? Of course. The rust-coloured, one arm sequined dress with the neck tie and matching stole fit her beautifully. Her hair was great. The giant purple flower was great. And at any other event, she’d be a contender. At this event, though? When we’ve already featured Ciara and Lupita and Gigi and even Katy Perry…  I just don’t see the 6th gear. Full Story

SPOILER FREE Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 picks up an indistinct amount of time after the events of the first movie, and one very smart thing writer/director James Gunn does is not bog us down with timeline and other continuity details. He’s freed from the Avengers continuity and doesn’t take his own too seriously, either—you definitely do not have to do “homework” to watch Vol. Full Story

Unlike The Accountant, which is dumb in a coked-up Eighties action movie way, Live By Night is dumb in a self-important Oscar bait kind of way. Ben Affleck Full Story

Ben Affleck was on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Kimmel teased him about not being thanked by Casey Affleck at the Golden Globes when Casey won Best Actor in a Drama. Ben thanked Casey when he won his first Oscar. Full Story

It’s an obvious title. But I like the obviousness as it relates to Ben Affleck and, you know, the assumed and presumed temptations of Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck was there to promote Live By Night. Full Story

The first full trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped over the weekend—thanks to a Comic Con event in Brazil—and jumping off that brag video from a couple months ago, it’s FANTASTIC. They’re still not giving us anything about the plot and we still haven’t seen the new characters played by Kurt Russell Full Story

Here’s a fun surprise—a movie that was not really on my radar, Star Trek Beyond, turned out to be the most fun and well-made summer action movie since Captain America: Civil War. In 2009, JJ Abrams rebooted Star Trek, but his heavily Star Wars-influenced take on the material displeased classic Trek fans (they’ve asked not to be called Trekkies anymore). Full Story

My problem with Zoe Saldana is that she is so goddamn likeable. She’s on the cover of Allure for a story with the headline, Star Trek's Zoe Saldana Drops the Mic and for the first half of the piece, she comes across as an authentic human being, not a Hollywood robot. Full Story

Zoe Saldana made her first big public appearance at Monday’s MET Gala since the controversy surrounding her role as Nina Simone and the release of the film Nina. When I first saw her gown, I thought “damnnn girl. Full Story

About halfway through the Nina Simone biopic, titled simply Nina, you start to feel really bad for everyone involved because there is a lot of earnestness on display. Zoe Saldana, heavily criticized for her involvement, is obviously trying very hard as Simone, and David Oyelowo Full Story

The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Power Stylists issue is out. Three years ago, in this very issue, it was Zoe Saldana who gave us a quote that I use often, especially when actresses complain about #AskHerMore and having to talk about their clothes on a red carpet: “(My stylist Petra Flannery and I have) managed to convince a lot of directors who now have respect for what we put together and for Petra’s essential place in a huge press tour like Star Trek or Avatar. Full Story