Break Ups Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner’s classic move Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, possibly the most memorable example of the classic Friday dump. They announced their separation on Friday, January 7, 2005, late in the afternoon, when everyone had packed up to go home. Friday at 6pm is a lot less loud than, say, a Wednesday at 10 By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 11:45 am
Bad Style Batman and Superman at CinemaCon As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Warner Bros’ turn to present at CinemaCon. And so they brought out the Justice League, without the superhero we care most about at this point: Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot gave birth recently so she’s not available which is why, I dunno, the whole vibe By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 03:26 pm
Photo Assumption The Afflecks on Sunday Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their kids to church yesterday. And, as you can see from these photos, it’s like the last two years never happened. This shot of them angling their faces towards each other is probably making the cover of at least one weekly tabloid: BEN By Lainey • Mar 27, 2017 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League steps down Last summer at Comic-Con Warner Brothers/DC unveiled the first look at Justice League, and it wasn’t completely awful. But in case you were feeling cautiously optimistic that Warners/DC could fix their sh*t and turn out a good Justice League movie—don’t. The first official By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 09:33 am
Relationship Assumption JLO & ARod: the height factor Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are currently in Miami together. They’ve been going to the gym together. And last night they stepped out for dinner together, making sure not to be photographed in the same frame. JLO knows better. She knows to wait for the perfect time before giving By Lainey • Mar 17, 2017 12:24 pm
Hollywood Drugs Ben Affleck was in treatment Ben Affleck revealed on Facebook late yesterday that he was in treatment for alcohol addiction. You may have known about this already, that he’s been making good decisions. And this was the best decision, made undoubtedly with the support of Jennifer Garner, the person who’s always been a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2017 01:02 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner: divorce on hold PEOPLE reported first thing this morning that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have called off their divorce – for now: Though the actors, both 44 — who announced their separation back in June 2015 — aren’t back together, they have decided to keep working on their marriage after going through a recent By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 11:24 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck’s big brother hug Ben Affleck was very emotional last night when Casey Affleck won the Oscar. He kissed and hugged his little brother. He was teary-eyed in the audience during Casey’s acceptance speech. Ben Affleck gives his brother Casey Affleck a big hug and a kiss for winning Best Actor at By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 04:25 pm
Break Ups A year since the “ashes” It’s been exactly a year since Jennifer Garner covered Vanity Fair and gave the magazine one of the best celebrity magazine interviews of 2016, if not THE best celebrity magazine interview of 2016. One of the best celebrity magazine interviews in years. I just re-read it. And since By Lainey • Feb 17, 2017 01:39 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Beyoncé’s blessing, Ben's admission, and the mothers of superheroes Duana and I had always intended for this week’s episode of Show Your Work to be about Beyoncé, because this weekend was the one year anniversary of Formation. Then, well, Beyoncé released the Beyoncé Pregnancy Package and so, obviously, we had to discuss the rollout of the announcement, and By Lainey • Feb 06, 2017 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck sheds some Bat-responsibility Continuing the “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” trend, Ben Affleck released a statement last night that he will not, after all, direct The Batman, the stand-alone Bat-movie he’s been developing. There were already questions about what is actually going on with this movie, and By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 09:31 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Ben Affleck’s tarnished glow A few days ago Lainey wrote about the luck forecast for Rats this year, and she name-checked Ben Affleck as a Rat who could have a lucky year, if only he can maintain his focus. And he’s going to need to maintain his focus to channel his luck By Sarah • Jan 27, 2017 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in Live By Night 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 tries to make a movie that both pays homage to classic gangster films—The Godfather but for the Irish mob By Sarah • Jan 16, 2017 03:02 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck’s “Tom Brady secrets” 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. Somehow the conversation ended up at Tom Brady. And then this By Lainey • Jan 10, 2017 04:40 pm
Bad Style Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller: the Globes threesome 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. He kept a pretty low profile all evening. I guess it was his way By Lainey • Jan 09, 2017 03:46 am
Ben Affleck Ben Affleck’s blonde “date” Many of you have emailed today about the new photos of Ben Affleck in the Daily Mail. Apparently he was out yesterday with an unidentified blonde woman for most of the day. There are some disputes about when this actually happened though because of the date on the sign in By Lainey • Jan 06, 2017 01:27 pm
