Books I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I have been in a funk lately (EVERYBODY: Who hasn’t?!), which has meant that other than for work, I have not been able to process new content. I often eat dinner with my kids while we re-watch (and re-re-watch) Bob’s Burgers episodes, and my bedtime routine currently includes By Violeta • Feb 25, 2021 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2021 The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue has a spectacular but controversial past, much like Hollywood itself. To be honest, there are some classic VF Hollywood issues that I look back on and still get excited about. Like certain ones from the 90s featuring people who would become Mega Celebrities – who, of By Lainey • Feb 23, 2021 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Heughan and The OTHER Red Notice One of the big movies we’re guaranteed to see this year, because it’s coming to Netflix which doesn’t care about theaters, is Red Notice starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson. This morning, site manager Emily emailed me a trailer for a movie called “Red Notice” By Sarah • Feb 22, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s New Look Ben Affleck’s kept a pretty low profile this year, ever since it was confirmed in January that he and Ana de Armas are no longer dating. When it was first reported that the two had ended their relationship, the Love Story of 2020, there were some suggestions that it By Lainey • Feb 22, 2021 01:09 pm
Maple Leaf Are You There, Judy? Thanks! I’ve made a point of reading Judy Blume books to my kid. That wouldn’t have even been worthy of writing down 20 years ago, but now that there’s been an explosion of kid and YA- lit, these books are somehow not seen as essential extracurricular texts, never By Duana • Feb 19, 2021 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in French Exit French Exit stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a disaffected, broke widow who flees to Paris after losing it all in New York. This is the best role and performance Pfeiffer has had in years, and French Exit SHOULD be a genuine pleasure to watch just to see Pfeiffer do her thing, By Sarah • Feb 18, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regé -Jean Page wastes no time The undisputed breakout of Bridgerton season one is Regé-Jean Page, the duke himself. With all the momentum of being the breakout star of Netflix’s biggest original show to date, Page is wasting no time. He has booked his first major role post-Bridgerton and will co-star with Chris Pine in By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Punk Rock Cruella The first trailer for Cruella, Disney’s villain origin story for Cruella De Vil, has arrived and it is fine. I mean, it LOOKS great. Can’t argue with Emma Stone and Emma Thompson vamping it up in fabulous Jenny Beavan costumes in 1970s London. I like that the basic By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 11:52 am
Relationship Assumption Olivia Praises Harry After a couple of delays due to COVID, Olivia Wilde’s sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, has wrapped principle photography. She marked the occasion by praising some members of her team, starting with the star of the film, Florence Pugh: And the Oscar-nominated cinematographer, Matthew Libatique: The PAs By Lainey • Feb 16, 2021 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is an instant comedy classic One unexpected facet of the COVID-year awards season is that because so many films vacated 2020 eligibility, we’re left with a crop of almost uniformly sad ass dramas, with no big studio crowd-pleasers to alleviate the field. It’s not that the films are bad—many of them are By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Snyder Cut lives in a SOCIETY The official trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official title of the “Snyder Cut”—arrived yesterday and it is largely the same trailer we saw for the Justice League three years ago. This has been one of my central issues with the Snyder Cut all along: that it By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone, take two One of the most memorable breakout performances of the last few years was Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 film, Certain Women. She is quietly devastating in that film, and I have not forgotten her since. Gladstone is one of a handful of actors whose IMDB pages I check By Sarah • Feb 12, 2021 10:46 am
Dumbass More like Cara DONE Over the last decade, Gina Carano successfully segued from a career as an MMA fighter to a career as an actor, finding mainstream success in action movies before hitting the jackpot by landing a role in The Mandalorian, as ex-Rebel soldier Cara Dune. Carano had it made. She was on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robin Wright’s Land Robin Wright makes her feature directorial debut with Land, a film centered on Edee (Wright), a woman in obvious pain. She begins the film in therapy and very quickly exits modern life in Chicago for a remote one-room cabin in Wyoming on the border of the Shoshone National Forest. Her By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo Felt the Sting Jennifer Lopez covers the new issue of Allure and I’m surprised at the cover look they chose for this issue for their 30th anniversary. Maybe that was the point – to surprise. Because even though JLo changes her hair all the time, it’s usually a familiar rotation: topknot, voluminous By Lainey • Feb 10, 2021 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah One of the great films of the 21st century is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a film that unpicks a major piece of American folklore by focusing on the grubworm who betrayed a beloved but largely fictionalized figure in Americana. Shaka King’s Judas and By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 12:33 pm
