BFFs Ashton and Reese: More Friendly on the Carpet In the previous post about Bennifer, I mentioned Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon’s red carpet energy at their promotional events for their new rom-com Your Place or Mine. People have been commenting about how distanced they seem and whether or not it means anything and when asked about it By Lainey • Feb 07, 2023 03:06 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Majors is busy The world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was last night in Los Angeles. The film comes out in less than two weeks. Which means Jonathan Majors is EVERYWHERE. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are the stars, but as we saw with Devotion and Glen Powell, when Majors is By Sarah • Feb 07, 2023 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Pelphrey in American Murderer Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Evan Peters’ subsequent Golden Globes win for Best Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Motion Picture kicked the conversation about the role of true crime in pop culture into high gear. As I always insist, it is right and good to By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is your murder friend? We cannot get enough of the friendship between Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and it seems they can’t, either, as they have yet another new project together. After 9 to 5, after seven seasons of Grace and Frankie, after 80 For Brady, there is now Moving On, from writer/ By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G is on thin ice Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Jake Gyllenhaal filming his first scripted TV series—as a leading actor and not just a kid guest starring in a case of the week—and mentioned a trailer for Jake G’s new movie with Guy Ritchie was imminent. Well, it’s here now, and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 11:48 am
TV Updates Jake’s First Series Jake Gyllenhaal was on set yesterday in LA – he is shooting David E Kelley’s Presumed Innocent for Apple TV+ which will mark his first time doing scripted television for a streaming service. Jake’s been on TV before, nearly 30 years ago, in Homicide: Life on the Street. But By Lainey • Feb 02, 2023 11:31 am
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 make 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 quiet 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 the same name, 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 feature 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 acting 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
