Aging Gorgessity Paul Rudd doesn’t drop the skincare routine Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a couple weeks away, so the press tour is in high gear now. Accordingly, Paul Rudd is on the cover of Men’s Health. First and most importantly: does he drop the skincare routine? NO. But his ageless looks do come up. I By Sarah • Feb 02, 2023 10:08 am
Sports Tom Brady: A Premiere and (another) Retirement Tom Brady was in LA last night for the premiere of 80 For Brady with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin. I don’t care if this movie gets destroyed by critics; I’m seeing it anyway and I’m pretty sure I’m going to love By Lainey • Feb 01, 2023 11:54 am
TV Updates DC things we may or may not see Yesterday, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the new heads of the new DC Studios of the new Warner Bros. Discovery, announced a new slate of films and TV projects. This is like, the sixth relaunch of DC stuff over the past few years, it’s hard to get excited about By Sarah • Feb 01, 2023 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Lily Gladstone in Fancy Dance Lily Gladstone gives yet another powerhouse performance in Erica Tremblay’s quietly devastating drama, Fancy Dance, in which Gladstone stars as Jax, who is left to look after her niece, Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), when Jax’s sister disappears. Tremblay, making her narrative feature debut, fills her film with the By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The sweet, sweet misery of Succession I recently read something on how there’s too many billionaires on TV and that it whitewashes the harm of hoarding wealth. (Loot was mentioned, as was Succession.) Succession isn’t a satire and no one is getting lifestyle envy from watching this show. They are incalculably rich and go By Maria • Jan 27, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Shortcomings Randall Park makes his directorial debut with Shortcomings, a non-rom-com centered on the kind of misanthropic twenty-something that could have been played by Ethan Hawke in the 1990s, but is now played by Justin H. Min (After Yang’s Yang). Adrian Tomine adapts his graphic novel of By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 09:48 am
Quiveration MBJ on SNL Michael B Jordan is now in New York as he will be guest-hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. It’s his first time – and he’s a big get. MBJ is a big deal. He also has his own big deal coming up: Creed III, opening March 4, his By Lainey • Jan 26, 2023 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Justin Chon’s Jamojaya Justin Chon took whatever juice playing one of the humans in Twilight got him and parlayed it into directing feature films, and I love that for him. His latest is Jamojaya, a father-son tale starring Indonesian star Yayu A.W. Unru and rapper Brian “Rich Brian” Imanuel (making his By Sarah • Jan 26, 2023 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review - Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Brooke Shields occupies a rarified place in pop culture, a place she shares with a limited few women such as Jodie Foster, the Olsen twins, and Britney Spears, as Shields was one of the most sexualized young girls in the world during her childhood. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shields By Sarah • Jan 26, 2023 12:35 pm
Break Ups Nia Long keeps moving Just a few months after enduring a very public cheating scandal with her ex-fiance Ime Udoka, Nia Long is at the top of her game and giving people lots to talk about. Recently, she opened up in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment for an installation of their Role Recall By Stephanie • Jan 26, 2023 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in You Hurt My Feelings Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus reunite ten years after Enough Said, a mid-life rom-com about secrets and things overheard, and in that way, You Hurt My Feelings feels like familiar territory for the filmmaker-star pair. Holofcener once again writes and directs, and JLD once again stars By Sarah • Jan 25, 2023 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun in Cat Person In 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s short story, Cat Person, went viral after it was published in The New Yorker. The story depicts the fraught relationship of Margot, a 20 year old college student, and Robert, her 34 year old maybe-boyfriend. It’s told from Margot’s perspective, revealing her By Sarah • Jan 25, 2023 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying Whomst among us has not dreamed of slowly decomposing in a forest rather than talking to co-workers? This is the question at the heart of Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, a normcore drama that might as well be the dictionary definition of “Sundance movie”. Is there By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Eileen Eileen is the kind of fun bait-and-switch film that comes along frequently but rarely sticks the landing. Usually, films that attempt a twisty narrative with a technical difficulty of ten end up going off the rails, sometimes in just plain dreadful fashion (Collateral Beauty, The Book of Henry) By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s out? Like Lainey said in the intro, Tom Cruise is headed to the Oscars…as a producer. While Top Gun: Maverick earned six nominations, including Best Picture, Cruise was left out of the Best Actor noms, in favor of Aftersun’s Paul Mescal, who, like Andrea Riseborough, started a late charge By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:48 pm
