Busy Philipps: Quentin Tarantino you are f-ing canceled
9 years ago Lily GarnerBusy Philipps has no problem saying what’s on her mind and right now, it’s Quentin Tarantino. As Kaiser reported yesterday, audio of Tarantino claiming Roman Polanski’s victim “wanted to have it” resurfaced after Uma Thurman revealed he had spit on her, choked her with a chain, and had her do a dang..
The low-key musical ‘Becks’ is messy but authentic and compelling
9 years ago Lily GarnerThough the low-key musical “Becks” packs a lot into its first four minutes — including a cross-country move, a breakup and a drive halfway back across the States — it spends the rest of its time leisurely exploring the titular character’s return to her hometown of St. Louis. It’s all set to an...
‘The 15:17 to Paris’ turns a headline grabbing true story into a lackluster Hollywood movie
9 years ago Lily GarnerIn 1921, Louis Sonney, having single-handedly captured bandit Roy Gardner, "the most hunted man in Pacific Coast history," played himself in a film called “Crime Doesn’t Pay” and toured the nation with it on the Pantages vaudeville circuit.
In 1955, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy,..
Alicia Vikander is ‘more happy & content’ now that she’s married to Michael Fassbender
9 years ago Lily GarnerAlicia Vikander covers the March issue of Vogue – you can see the full cover package here. I don’t really care for the photos, but at least the interview is somewhat noteworthy. This is probably the quid-pro-quo of agreeing to a Vogue cover: you get the Vogue cover to promote Tom Raider, but you hav..
Bollywood-style ‘Basmati Blues’ with Brie Larson is a big miss
9 years ago Lily GarnerBollywood meets “La La Land,” not in a fortuitous way, via “Basmati Blues,” a broadly played though vibrantly photographed musical romantic-comedy that fails to find a happy medium between cute-and-clever and simply cloying.
A spirited Brie Larson plays Linda Watt, an accomplished but naïve New...
Quincy Jones dated Ivanka Trump: ‘She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw’
9 years ago Lily GarnerFresh off of giving a completely bonkers interview to GQ a few weeks ago, Quincy Jones has given another bonkers interview to Vulture. At first I was like “Oh, he talked more sh-t in the GQ piece,” but no – this Vulture interview is completely wacky too, but it’s a good kind of wacky. It’s IDGAF-wac..
The fight to save Boyle Heights’ Casa 0101 Theater, founded by ‘Real Women Have Curves’ playwright
9 years ago Lily GarnerXavi Moreno remembers the exact moment he encountered Casa 0101 Theater. He was 18, riding his bike along East First Street in Boyle Heights, when he passed by a small storefront that was hosting a public event.
“People were reading plays and doing spoken word,” he recalls. Intrigued, he went in...
Kristen Bell: husband Dax had to nurse my breast when I got mastitis
9 years ago Lily GarnerKristen Bell has that new YouTube series with advice for moms, Momsplaining. If I cared more I would watch it, but the one episode I just watched was enough. I can only take her in small doses. A lot of you love The Good Place and it gets very positive reviews so she’s got that going for her. (I tri..