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
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 series. 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 as a middle-aged woman 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 inner 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 a 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), sometimes in 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s in? It is finally Oscar nomination morning, so we are officially 50% of the way through awards season (the Oscars aren’t until MARCH). The nominations this morning are largely as expected, featuring a lot of movies we’ve been talking about for months now. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Gael Garcia Bernal in Cassandro Gael García Bernal has always had a boyish charm, but in Cassandro, starring as the titular lucha libre and LGBTQ+ icon, he turns that charm into a playful performance that walks the line of camp in just the right places to evoke the flamboyance at the intersection of professional wrestling By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Jonathan Majors in Magazine Dreams Warm halogen lights gild a human body so perfectly sculpted, every muscle bulges with singular presence, as if an anatomy poster has come to life. Here is Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), an aspiring bodybuilder competing for a place at nationals, and a chance to go pro. But though his body By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Tronin’ time Today in I’m Sure This Will Work Out news, Jared Leto is set to star in Tron: Ares, a threequel in the Tron franchise, following 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Leto will play a new character, Ares, and right now, it doesn’t sound like Jeff Bridges or anyone from By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 03:22 pm
Gorgessity Two Jennifers and a Ben The premiere of Shotgun Wedding, starring Jennifer Lopez, happened last night in Hollywood. JLo wore Valentino… and I love it. It’s a nude bodysuit with a yellow sash tied around her waist, and then over top of it a sparkly sheer voluminous dress. Basically a really, really fancy sheet. By Lainey • Jan 19, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum has no chill Those are Channing Tatum’s words, to Vanity Fair, in his cover interview for the February 2023 issue of the magazine. The quote comes out of the part of the article where he talks about how he tries too hard, especially in relationships, and he’s currently in a relationship By Lainey • Jan 17, 2023 12:20 pm
BFFs What is your Friend Style? Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin… That’s it. I could just end the post right there and it would be enough. These four women, together, all that’s required is for us to stop and appreciate all they’ve given us. It’s more than enough – but By Lainey • Jan 16, 2023 01:11 pm
