The first trailer for Boy Erased follows Jared Sykes (Lucas Hedges) as his parents Victor (Russell Crowe) and Nancy (Nicole Kidman) enroll him in a gay conversion therapy program. In it, we see Crowe, who plays a Southern Baptist preacher, address his son with the heartbreaking: “I love you, but we cannot see a way…
The first trailer for The Miseducation of Cameron Post has arrived! The film won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, and Forrest Goodluck, all of whom play teens who are sent to a gay conversion therapy camp. It’s directed by Desiree Akhavan and based on a novel…
For years now, the romcom has been missing in action, on a steady decline from its former glory in the 1990s, when no year was complete without a contribution by Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts to the canon. There have been isolated hits like The Big Sick, but in recent years a former genre staple has been weirdly absent.…
At its world premiere on Monday in Cannes, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman was reportedly received by a 10-minute standing ovation, after several points during the film when audiences erupted in applause. More precisely, via the Hollywood Reporter: “four minutes of applause during the credits and a six-minute standing…
Nia DaCosta has known she’s wanted to be a director since she was 16 years old, because, as she put it in our interview, “I realized they’re the ones doing all the ‘stuff.’”
The French government will reportedly assist the Cannes Film Festival in creating a hotline for attendees to report sexual assault and harassment during the festival, which kicks off May 8.
Pedro Almodovar, the genius behind Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Bad Education, and Volver, has announced his next project, which sounds like a late-career return to form after 2016's underwhelming Julieta and the critical disaster, I’m So Excited (which I never even saw and sort…
The past year has been cold and full of sorrow, days strung together like popcorn balls on a forgotten garland, each pierced with a needle wielded by an enormous, collicky idiot of a child; same with my heart. What will fill the yawning void where my happy spirit once was? Only one thing: the trailer for Louise…
Amy Poehler will direct, produce, and star in a comedic Netflix feature film about pals who attend a 50th birthday celebration together in Napa Valley, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be conservatively titled Wine Country.
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers, and sex workers.
As the stars descend on the red carpet and some even have pointedly delayed conversations with alleged abuser Ryan Seacrest, The Rally Against Rape Culture/#OscarsSoComplicit protest is going down on Hollywood and LaBrea. If we have learned one thing this awards season, it’s that it’s difficult to turn an…
Matt Damon loves an opportunity to save the day. Ever notice? In movies like We Bought a Zoo (he buys a zoo and proceeds to save it) and 2017's Downsizing (in which he miniaturizes himself and saves a Vietnamese refugee), Damon is always helping, healing, and protecting the world from harm on screen, or simply…
For Fifty Shades Freed, the final installment of the Fifty Shades franchise, 11 members of the Jezebel staff ceremoniously filed into a 19th Street theater and girded our loins with stealth. As with the last two films in this series of great sensual weight and heft, each staffer was assigned an aspect to critically…
The Post is the story of Katharine Graham, the first-ever woman publisher of a national American newspaper*, whose tenure happened to land during the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971—when journalists were able to expose the lies the US government was feeding the public about the Vietnam War. Further, it’s a…
Former The Help co-stars Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain are teaming up for a new holiday comedy, Variety reports, which will be produced by Chastain’s company Freckle Films.
This review may or may not contain spoilers. I’m not sure.
The organization Women in Film is launching a hotline to help women and men in Hollywood report sexual harassment.
On Tuesday, supermodel and cookie entrepreneur with an alliterative name, Karlie Kloss, announced that her next venture will be to star in a six-part TV series called Movie Night with Karlie Kloss.
Congratulations—you’ve lived 20 years since Spice World (1997), the gehl powah-centric Spice Girls vanity film that permanently changed how the public viewed tour buses and what they are capable of.
On Tuesday the CEO and founder of Alamo Drafthouse, Tim League, confirmed in a public statement that he had re-employed Devin Faraci, the former Editor-in-Chief of Alamo’s film site Birth.Movies.Death, who left the company after accusations of sexual assault.
