Ben Affleck Plays Himself

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2778 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Becoming a tabloid star gave the actor his best role ever. America Runs on Ben A handful of stories about our collective obsession with J. Lo’s favorite Bostonian. Smoking a cigarette in 2016. Photo: AKIF/BACKGRID America Runs on Ben A handful of stories about our collective obsession with J. Lo’s favorite Bostonian. Smoking a cigarette in 2016. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. [Read More]

Ben Is Back Is Superbly Effective

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1107 words  |  Sherie Connelly

However admirable, movies that center on people struggling with addiction tend to be more alike than unalike, especially when 12 Step programs rear their inevitable heads. So, I’m tempted to praise Peter Hedges’s taut Ben Is Back for taking a hard turn halfway through in a different direction, even if that direction is toward cheesy melodrama. The odd thing is that the movie’s first half — the part that’s familiar from such recent addiction dramas as Beautiful Boy — is superbly effective. [Read More]

Ben Schwartz - Vulture

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  44 words  |  Zora Stowers

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Ben Schwartz Talks to Paul F. Tompkins“To me, the making each other laugh is the by-product of it. But the main thing is, how can this get sillier and funnier?” 

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Benny Safdie Is Really Proud of How His Eyebrows Shined in Oppenheimer

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2544 words  |  Sherie Connelly

“Every once in a while I have a straggler that I’ll just pluck out, ’cause it looks a little too crazy. But Chris said, ‘Don’t do that. Let’s just let it go crazy.’” Benny Safdie is an acclaimed director in his own right, but over the past couple of years he’s been recognized for terrific supporting turns in films like Licorice Pizza, The Stars at Noon, and Are You There, God? [Read More]

Beyonc Announces Surprise Formation World Tour After Super Bowl Appearance

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  462 words  |  Zora Stowers

Beyoncé. Just one day after surprise-releasing “Formation,” Beyoncé informed her fans there would be a corresponding world tour. The announcement came at the end of her Super Bowl halftime showdown in the form of an elemental, black-and-white TV spot. The most urgent message here is that pre-sale for tickets begin February 9, and tickets actually go on sale February 16. The performances begin in North America in late-April, spanning myriad venues in Canada and the States, before switching to a European stretch to close out the summer. [Read More]

Big Little Lies Is Indulging Us With Sexy Surfer Character for Season Two

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  129 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Douglas Smith. Hang ten for this casting news, folks! Per Deadline, Douglas Smith has been added as a recurring cast member for season two of Big Little Lies, where he will be playing a newbie named Corey Brockfield who’s an “off-beat surfer, aspiring marine biologist, and Jane’s co-worker.” You may remember Smith as a young man with polygamist tendencies on HBO’s Big Love, or most recently as a detective sergeant on TNT’s The Alienist. [Read More]

Billie Eilish Is the Future

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1113 words  |  Aldo Pusey

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is frequently stunning and doubly so for a debut album by someone not even old enough to vote. I worry about people born in the 21st century. There’s something deep and dark stirring in our collective consciousness. They’re seeing it firsthand. The last generation grew up with at least the pretense of decency, with a sense that “the arc of history bends toward justice. [Read More]

Billie Eilish Sings About Overturning Roe v. Wade on New Song TV

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  207 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Billie Eilish is sharing some Guitar Songs she wrote. The pop star surprise-released a two-track EP, including the song “TV,” which she previously debuted live in Manchester in June. “This is one we just wrote,” she told the crowd at the time, before singing a song that referenced the United States Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Depp v. Heard trial. Eilish told Apple Music that she wrote the Roe line weeks before the Supreme Court’s decision came down as “a placeholder of doom. [Read More]

Blown Away Is a Cozy Blanket Made of Hot, Molten Glass

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  942 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Nao Yamamoto, generating heat in Blown Away season two. The first season of Blown Away dropped on Netflix in July of 2019. At the time, I characterized it as ideal summer viewing, but I was wrong. Blown Away, whose second season arrives on Netflix today, is a winter show, always has been, and that should have been obvious to me two years ago. The series is structured like pretty much every other competition show that has ever existed: Ten contestants engage in a different challenge during each episode, with one person getting knocked out in every installment until, in the finale, a champion is named. [Read More]

Blue Ivy Carter Narrates Hair Love Audiobook, Stays Booked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  317 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Future Grammy winner Blue Ivy Carter. Blue Ivy Carter is begging you to pick up a book. The illustrious 8-year-old mogul has scored yet another bag and added yet another legacy to her name. This time, she’s narrating the audiobook adaptation of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, the animated short you may recall winning at this year’s Academy Awards — if you can remember pre-lockdown at all. Cherry announced the news himself with a wordless Beyoncé self-titled-esque drop on Twitter. [Read More]