Ryan Gosling's Most Disturbing Roles: A Retrospective

Fuck The fucking Notebook. If you like being emotionally manipulated while looking at Ryan Gosling's chest and sobbing every time Gena Rowlands is on screen, then, fine, that movie is for you. But when it comes to the Gosling oeuvre, there are way better ways to get your jollies. » 2/06/15 2:15pm 2/06/15 2:15pm

An Interview With Céline Sciamma, Director of Girlhood

With Girlhood, filmmaker Céline Sciamma has brought to the screen the delicate, joyful, beautiful coming of age story of Marieme (Karidja Toure), a black French teen girl, who is fed up with her abusive home life. She turns to a group of new friends for comfort, strength and finding her voice. It's a film that … » 2/03/15 12:30pm 2/03/15 12:30pm

Girlhood: Finally, a Film About Black Girls Strengthening Each Other

I met my two teenage best friends at the start of high school, but our affections didn't crystallize and become epochal until two years later, on the very first day of eleventh grade. All three of us had grown up in an ethnically diverse Toronto suburb and chosen to attend a performing arts high school in the… » 1/27/15 3:50pm 1/27/15 3:50pm

Fifty Shades Writer Tried to Make Sure Movie Sucks as Much as the Book

Behind the making of every film is a powerful clash of egos; what makes the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie something of an anomaly is that those egos belong to women. » 1/22/15 11:50am 1/22/15 11:50am

The Weeknd's 50 Shades Video: Burlesque! Bondage! Dakota Johnson!

In keeping with the sexXy movie it was written for, The Weeknd's video for "Earned It," arguably the best song off the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, features dancers in some very interesting underwear and Dakota Johnson tied up wearing nothing but a nude stocking. » 1/21/15 2:50pm 1/21/15 2:50pm

J.Lo, My Queen, Blasts the 'Cougar' Double Standard on Ellen

Jennifer Lopez is on the stump for her new film The Boy Next Door, and currently rumors abound that the divine 45-year-old is dating her 27-year-old costar, Ryan Guzman. On Ellen, she denied it, but went on to lodge a brilliant complaint against the dumbass notion that an older woman dating a much younger man is a… » 1/21/15 11:50am 1/21/15 11:50am

American Sniper Promotes Unrealistic Beauty Standards for Babies

Much has been made of American Sniper, the Oscar-nominated, Clint Eastwood smash about a Navy SEAL with boy-band good looks and the cunning mind of a serial killer. But thus far obscured in the meditative pieces from media thought leaders about "the thrilling anticipation of gunplay" and how it is "doing amazing… » 1/19/15 11:34am 1/19/15 11:34am

Hello, Kit Harington in This Jimmy Choo Ad, You Exceptional Human You

Male actor Kit Harington has been tapped to model for a vaguely confusing but ultimately highly satisfying Jimmy Choo ad, in which the indubitably fly Harington is perched, Spider-manlike, atop a car windshield. It is beautiful, and it is essentially a parody of what many people consider high fashion to be. » 1/15/15 2:30pm 1/15/15 2:30pm

Gillian Flynn May Not Be Done Writing About Gone Girl's Nick and Amy

Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn dropped the smallest hint ever about a possible sequel to her hit book and film of the same name, saying she would do it— if the original collaborators were on board as well. » 1/13/15 1:15pm 1/13/15 1:15pm

White Dudes Still Get Majority of Entry-Level TV Directing Jobs

In what's likely some unsurprising news, a study released Friday by the Director's Guild of America found that white men are still overwhelmingly hired for entry-level directing jobs. » 1/10/15 3:15pm 1/10/15 3:15pm

Uzo Aduba Lands the Lead Role in a Race Drama Based on Roots

Jezebel Shero Uzo Aduba just landed a project starring with Maggie Grace in a Southern drama set in 1977. Yes, Crazy Eyes! » 1/06/15 5:00pm 1/06/15 5:00pm

The Annie Remake Was Not Nearly As Bad As You've Heard

While it might feel like the bro-farce The Interview was the only movie that came out in December 2014, Christmas week also saw the release of another high-profile film made for actual children: the Jay Z/Will Smith-produced remake of Annie, the musical about a gutsy 10-year-old orphan adopted by a billionaire… » 12/30/14 3:30pm 12/30/14 3:30pm

Selma Is the Film We Need Now

Selma, Ava DuVernay's Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, follows Dr. King through the 54-mile Selma to Montgomery marches that helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The events in the film transpired fifty years ago, but the topicality feels almost eerie, with demonstrations against police brutality taking place… » 12/29/14 2:00pm 12/29/14 2:00pm

Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman Get Lusty on Close-Up Latina Cover

Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman cover Latina's February 2015 issue to promote The Boy Next Door, a 2015 film about a woman who falls for a younger man who eventually reveals himself to be a maniacal stalker. Fun! » 12/26/14 12:30pm 12/26/14 12:30pm

Nobody Cares About the 75th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind

Terrible news if you're all dressed up in your drapes with nowhere to go: It's the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Gone with the Wind, and there's little fuss being raised besides a flurry of think pieces. Thank God. » 12/15/14 5:00pm 12/15/14 5:00pm

Sexiest Man Alive and Viola Davis Will Save You from Cyberterrorists

The world's sexiest man alive (according to a magazine that is probably paid by publicists to bestow that title) is going to save us all from a super scary cyberterrorist attack. » 12/15/14 9:30am 12/15/14 9:30am

Here's Anna Kendrick Singing 'Steps of the Palace' from Into the Woods

FINALLY, the first full-length song from Disney's Into the Woods is here. » 12/05/14 9:50am 12/05/14 9:50am

Here's What It's Like Being a Sex Scene Stunt Double

Ever wonder what it's like to knock boots with Brad Pitt or Lou Diamond Phillips (the latter, yes, many times)? Laura Grady's done it...or at least she did it with their body doubles, during her long career of having sex as a stand-in. » 12/04/14 10:40pm 12/04/14 10:40pm

RIP, Mike Nichols: An Ode to Working Girl

On Thursday, the world lost a brilliant director, comedian, writer, producer, and EGOT-acclaimed talent when Mike Nichols passed. He did a lot of really important iconic film work, like The Graduate, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? So how about let's talk about Working Girl! » 11/22/14 2:00pm 11/22/14 2:00pm

Bitter Honey Tackles Polygamy in Indonesia From Women's Perspective

American pop culture has recently framed polygamy as the domain of Mormons (think Kody Brown of TLC's creepy Sister Wives) and Chloe Sevigny going plain-Jane prairie-style in HBO's Big Love. But a new documentary, Bitter Honey, set in Bali, examines the Indonesian tradition of men having multiple spouses—a practice… » 11/07/14 4:30pm 11/07/14 4:30pm

Fact: Parents Are Begging to Be Lied to Every Single Day

Someone Gets 'The Dress' Tattooed, Doesn't Understand Ephemera

The Hunting Ground Pulls Back the Curtain on Campus Sexual Assault