The Fits is a beautiful and true film that analogizes the emotional heft of girls growing up with a real-life physical tug of war between the act of boxing and competitive drill dance. It is the best film I’ve seen all year, and perhaps one of the best I’ve ever seen. Technically a coming of age film as well as a…
Amidst the excitement over Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, the titan of childhood whimsy has also revealed plans for a live-action version of The Little Mermaid—which would then be competing with Universal’s live-action Little Mermaid, starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
When Kristen Stewart last collaborated with director Olivier Assayas as a headliner in Clouds of Sils Maria, she won a coveted César for her performance. She is also being lauded for her performance in Assayas’s most recent production, Personal Shopper, though the film itself has elicited some nasty reactions. In…
In a provocative profile from The Guardian, actress and Love & Friendship star Chloe Sevigny reflects on her past work with controversial figures like photographer Terry Richardson—who has been accused of sexual assault—Larry Clark, and Lars von Trier. Cumulatively, her experiences have left her with “total disdain…
Thirty years ago today, Top Gun debuted with a star-studded premiere in New York City. Back in 1986, the premiere was an entirely different animal—more casual, for one, and without the preponderance of celebrity stylists, you can see it in the candidness of the photographs: Cruise foppish and brooding, Val Kilmer…
AbFab’s classic palette of foibles has found its match in the fashion world, and the much-anticipated film features a host of glamorous cameos: Kate Moss, of course, whose search for a new PR comprises the story’s central dilemma, but also Stella McCartney, Jon Hamm (HAMM!) and Rebel Wilson.
Spanish director Julio Medem’s latest film looks as lush and sensual as Sex and Lucía, his acclaimed 2001 film and the one for which he’s best known stateside; it doesn’t hurt that the exceptional Penélope Cruz helms it. In ma ma, she plays Magda, a woman who meets a troubled man during her struggle with breast…
Here is the second season trailer for HBO’s Ballers and you know what? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson keeps his shirt on the entire one minute and eleven seconds, yet I still want to watch. Who said women who don’t care about (most) sports don’t watch sports shows?
Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for the highly-anticipated Nate Parker vehicle, The Birth of a Nation, which set a record at the Sundance Film Festival when it was sold for $17.5 million.
For film fans, art nerds and anyone even remotely interested in make-up as an art form, Face Off is the best reality competition show on television. Presently at the end of its tenth season on the SyFy network, the show tasks special effects artists with making elaborate creatures in an impossibly short amount of…
With Love True, Israeli director Alma Har’el dove into the myriad ways that wholly loving another person can play out—romantic, platonic, familial—and emerged with what looks to be a dreamstate of a documentary, full of woozy shots set to an original score by Flying Lotus. For some of the scenes, Har’el asked her…
Well, someone tell me, when is it Bab’s turn? Don’t she get a dream for herself Starting now, it’s gonna be Bab’s turn. Gangway, world, Gypsy’s going to the big screen. Starting now, she bats a thousand! This time, boys, she’s taking the bows aaaaaaaaaand...
The 2016 MTV Movie Awards air tonight and, as expected, the red carpet was full of some A-list celebrities and a lot of randos I had to Google. I’ll let you surmise who are the whos, because we’re really here to look at the ensembles; some whos really know what’s up in that realm, thankfully for us all. Above, Cara…
Suburban dirtballs of the 1980s are a lost culture, worthy of academic study, that disappeared abruptly, leaving mysterious artifacts for future generations to work over. Think of them as, say, the ancient Mayans, only with mullets.
Bridget Jones has emerged from the early aughts to give us Bridget Jones’s Baby, wherein our protagonist, played by Renée Zellweger, is pregnant and unsure whether McDreamy or Mr. Darcy is the father. Hilarious, right? Ugh.
Veteran screenwriter and executive producer Marti Noxon—whose credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Mad Men, Glee, and UnREAL—is set to make her directing debut with To the Bone, a dark comedy about having an eating disorder.
It’s basically destiny that freako-king Tim Burton ever discovered Eva Green, the French goth gamine who haunts Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with a ghostly and voracious vulnerability. She is as delicate and fierce as any of his muses through the years—Lisa Marie, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowski—and…
The founder of BET has spoken out in defense of Zoe Saldana’s ill-advised Nina Simone biopic and confirmed that his production company will, in fact, release the film on April 22.
The Bechdel test, as you know, asks whether female characters in a film speak to each other about things other than men; the DuVernay test, newly minted by the New York Times, asks how many times minorities speak about things other than white people. You know, like people of color actually do!
