QUIZ: Can You Find Scarlett Johansson, Mistress of Disguise?
Kelly Conaboy · 07/16/15 10:12AMAmber Heard Is Taking the Fall for Johnny Depp's Dog Smuggling Operation
Gabrielle Bluestone · 07/16/15 07:26AMMichael Douglas Says He Has a Big Dick; I Wanna See the Receipts
Rich Juzwiak · 07/15/15 05:01PMTalking About Monsters, Children, and Movies with Takashi Murakami
Rich Juzwiak · 07/15/15 03:24PM
Who do you look at when you’re conducting an interview with someone who speaks in a foreign language—the subject or the translator? That remained unclear throughout my 30-minute discussion with Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami and his translator Yuko Sakata earlier this week at the Criterion offices in New York. Close Criterion associate Janus Film is distributing Murakami’s first movie, Jellyfish Eyes, which Murakami was in town to promote. My eyes mostly darted back and forth between Murakami and Sakata as I asked questions about his work and movie, an ‘80s-esque tale about a boy and his fantastical pet that he uses to battle his classmates’ similarly fantastical pets in Pokemon fashion. To do so, they use controllers (“Devices”) issued by a local research center that’s actually run by an ominous bunch (the Black-Cloaked Four) who are stealing the children’s negative energy. Jellyfish Eyes is at once conventional by owing much of its plot and spirit to countless films and shows that came before it, and utterly insane. It’s by no means perfect, and often rests on cute—a fact of which Murakami himself seems to be aware. “Although the theatrical version may appear somewhat rough on the edges, I believe, for a first film, I have managed to create something with a solid structure,” he says in an interview provided in the movie’s press notes.
500 Days of Kristin, Day 171: Apparently Camden Is a Popular Name!
Allie Jones · 07/15/15 02:50PMIt's Time for Broadway Actors to Shut Up
Kelly Conaboy · 07/15/15 02:00PMHeather Thomson Quitting Real Housewives; Come Back, Heather--Hollaaaa!!
Allie Jones · 07/15/15 12:35PMOh Hell Yeah Ben Affleck Just Bought a $90,000 Hot Rod
Allie Jones · 07/15/15 09:45AM
Nigh three weeks ago now, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced that after three kids and 10 years of marriage, they’re getting divorced. Why? Well no one knows exactly, but names like Margot Robbie, J.Lo, Blackjack, and Blake Lively have been thrown around in the tabloids as reasons the Afflecks could no longer make it work.
Trainwreck Is the RomCom Amy Schumer Made, Not the Movie She Deserves
Rich Juzwiak · 07/15/15 09:30AM
At first blush, you might think that Trainwreck is not your average romantic comedy. At its center is a female protagonist whose habits include getting drunk, getting high, fucking, and breaking hearts. She’s surrounded by feminized males who enjoy tea-party settings, Downton Abbey, and cuddling. That it’s all been thought up by and stars Amy Schumer may be all you need to believe that Trainwreck has the potential to be something truly special. Well, it isn’t.
The Divergent Set Almost Ran Red With the Blood of Children
Gabrielle Bluestone · 07/15/15 07:35AMExcuse Me Mr. The Rock I Don't Think Fingers Are Meant to Bend Like That
Jay Hathaway · 07/14/15 05:10PMOne Direction's Louis Tomlinson Is Going to Be a Dad Yaaaaaaaay?
Kelly Conaboy · 07/14/15 04:50PM500 Days of Kristin, Day 170: Kristin's Beach Day
Allie Jones · 07/14/15 04:14PM
Twenty days of Kristin ago, Kristin Cavallari chose to forsake her followers in pursuit of cold, hard cash by making the once free-to-access Official Kristin Cavallari App for iPhone and Android cost $2.99. Per month. Readers (?) of the app revolted, and so seven days later, Kristin quietly expressed a change of heart.
Kristin Chenoweth Likes Her Boyfriend
Kelly Conaboy · 07/14/15 02:48PMSinead on Kim: "What Is This Cunt Doing on the Cover of Rolling Stone?"
Rich Juzwiak · 07/14/15 01:10PMModel-Free Leo DiCaprio Donates $15 Million to Environmental Groups
Kelly Conaboy · 07/14/15 12:58PMReal Housewife Bethenny Denies Dating Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet
Allie Jones · 07/14/15 12:23PM
According to E! News, reality TV star and lite alcohol tycoon Bethenny Frankel has been dating Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet “casually for a few months now.” They were spotted last week at a Dodgers game and at the CAA upfronts in May, where the above photo was taken. What does Frankel have to say about this report?
The Marvelous Tale of Ben Affleck's Disappearing and Reappearing Ring
Kelly Conaboy · 07/14/15 11:05AM
Since Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their long-rumored divorce on June 30th, 2015, the world has been fixated on a singular issue: the Greek debt crisis. Also: whether, at any given moment, Ben Affleck is wearing his wedding ring or not. Let’s take a closer look at Ben’s tortuous love affair—with his ring.
Trans Sex Work Comedy Tangerine Is the Most Overrated Movie of the Year
Rich Juzwiak · 07/14/15 10:53AM
Sean Baker’s Sundance hit Tangerine was shot on iPhones, and it looks like it. Its colors are nauseatingly saturated and its angles are often strange and unflattering. It stars non-professional actors and it shows. Leads Kitana Kiki Rodriguez (she plays Sin-Dee) and Mya Taylor (Alexandra) recite their lines in a stilted manner, frequently pausing too long between cues to seem natural. Its primary plot is so simplistic it’s insulting: Sin-Dee searches for and then abducts Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan), the biological woman (“real fish”) with whom Sin-Dee’s pimp/fiance Chester (James Ransone) had sex while Sin-Dee was in jail.