BFFs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s phone call Ben Affeck stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday as he continues to promote The Way Back. The film was directed by Gavin O’Connor who did an interview recently with 34th Street, the student-run University of Pennsylvania magazine, about the project and working with Ben. He said that he and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:21 am
Royals Ben Affleck and Janina Gavankar at the premiere It’s been a good year for Janina Gavankar. She has a role in The Morning Show, one of the most talked-about new series of 2019 and they’re working on the second season. And she co-stars with Ben Affleck in The Way Back, playing his ex-wife. And, of course, By Lainey • Mar 02, 2020 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy in Emma. Music video director Autumn de Wilde (GREAT name) makes her feature film directorial debut with a luscious new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. This Emma is lavish, detailed, eye-poppingly gorgeous, and unapologetically sexy. There are butts! Between this and Sanditon, butts are all the rage in Austen adaptations. Emma. By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck is blonde What have I been telling you about this movie?! The movie is The Last Duel, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Adam Driver, directed by Ridley Scott, about a couple of 14th century Frenchmen who fight each other over whether or not the other raped his wife – already a problematic By Lainey • Feb 28, 2020 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Say his name Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at summer By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ villain streak continues Ever since leaving Captain America behind, Chris Evans seems determined to shed the mantle of superhero by playing villains. His first role post-Cap was in Knives Out; sometime this year he has an Apple TV show about a dad whose son maybe killed a classmate, which isn’t exactly a By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu and Alexandra in San Francisco Keanu Reeves has been in San Francisco the last few weeks working on Matrix 4. Not much is known about the next movie in the franchise, only that Neo and Trinity are back, and Neo looks more like John Wick, but we don’t know the timeline. Some are speculating By Lainey • Feb 25, 2020 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford in The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is another movie Disney inherited when they bought Fox, but this one they threw some effort into releasing. A family-friendly revision of Jack London’s novel fits The Call of the Wild into Disney’s wheelhouse, so they did not treat this movie like a By Sarah • Feb 24, 2020 03:54 pm
BFFs First Wives reunite The First Wives Club is superior cinema. On this, we can all agree. I know we can all agree because this morning I was emailing with Lainey and Emily, our site manager, and we’re all different ages, and yet, we all love The First Wives Club. It transcends generations, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2020 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad suited up James Gunn’s not-a-reboot-but-not-really-a-sequel-either Suicide Squad movie is filming in Panama, which means set photos are emerging that show characters old and new suited up for their do-over. There are blurry shots of Margot Robbie sporting a new look as Harley Quinn, and she is joined by David Dastmalchian as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2020 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill Poor Downhill. If ever there was an example of the dangers of remaking a nearly perfect foreign-language film into English, it is the case of Downhill. Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is a pitch-black comedy that is almost pure drama, about a family that crumbles when faced with a staggering By Sarah • Feb 19, 2020 02:55 pm
Amazingness Matt Damon’s mullet As noted in the previous post, Ben Affleck is currently promoting The Way Back. When that’s done, he’ll likely return to production on The Last Duel, alongside Matt Damon. It’s scheduled to be released at Christmas which is ambitious. Because Christmas movies are either for the box By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck comes back with a comeback movie Ben Affleck’s new film, The Way Back, comes out in a month. He plays a former high school basketball player who’s lost everything to addiction and is finding his “way back” by coaching the team from his alma mater. Obviously he knows something about his character, Jack Cunningham. By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Parasite’s good vibes continue No matter how 2020 turns out, this year did something right when Parasite won Best Picture, among other awards, at the Oscars. Parasite’s Oscar wins are the good vibes we need, and the good vibes keep going as Parasite is extending its hit theatrical run in the wake of By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika never stops Taika Waititi, fresh off an Oscar win and with two (2) film projects on the go at the same time, has every excuse to slow down. And yet, he does not. Taika never stops. With Next Goal Wins due out later this year, and Thor: Love and Thunder set for By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Did you love PS I Still Love You? What qualifies as a good rom-com? Well, for starters, you need to care about your central character – that’s a basic, right? (This, by the way, was my central problem with Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl. I was never invested in Serena like I was in Blair. Because, By Lainey • Feb 18, 2020 11:17 am
