It’s last call at Paul’s, the dive bar down the block from Benny’s Burritos on the corner of 6th and Ave. A, and folks are getting rowdy. The year is 1998. The place is New York’s Lower East Side, before the danger was fully leached out of the boho-hipster paradise; …
Read More »Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz Talk 'Caught Stealing' While Finding the Weirdest VHS Tapes to Reboot
In an era where Hollywood is always looking for the next big reboot, what better place to find a piece of brilliant undiscovered IP than a store stuffed with some of the most obscure VHS tapes ever made? That’s not exactly what brought Caught Stealing co-stars Austin Butler and Zoë …
Read More »The Real Story Behind Pearl Jam's Name May Surprise Even Longtime Fans
“I have a question,” Zoë Kravitz posed to her Caught Stealing co-star Austin Butler and Rolling Stone film critic David Fear while playing a Nineties trivia challenge game recently. “How old you were when you when you realized what Pearl Jam means? It’s jizz, dude.” “I’ve also heard that it …
Read More »Zoë Kravitz Tells Austin Butler What Pearl Jam's Name Really Means: 'It's Jizz, Dude'
In every young man’s life, there comes a time when he must learn what Pearl Jam’s name means. For Oscar-nominated actor Austin Butler, that time was during a Nineties trivia drinking game with his Caught Stealing co-star Zoë Kravitz. “It’s jizz, dude,” Kravitz bluntly explains in a new video for …
Read More »Zoë Kravitz Says 'Life of a Showgirl' Has 'No Skips' as Taylor Swift Unveils New Vinyl Variants
Two things are for sure with every Taylor Swift album release: her friends are going to love it, and she’s going to give fans multiple vinyl variants to choose from. On Sunday, Zoë Kravitz gave Swift’s album her seal of approval, telling Extra she’s already obsessed with it. During the …
Read More »Zoë Kravitz Says Her Mom, Lisa Bonet, Let a Snake Loose in Taylor Swift's House
Zoë Kravitz almost got a bad reputation as Taylor Swift‘s house guest. During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the actress described staying with her mom, Lisa Bonet, in Swift’s home after evacuating during the Los Angeles wildfires in January. “She was kind enough to let me stay …
Read More »Austin Butler Gets Swept Up Into a Life of Crime in 'Caught Stealing' Trailer
Wrong time, wrong place? The trailer for Darren Aronofsky‘s latest film, Caught Stealing, dropped on Wednesday, following Austin Butler as he gets swept up in a criminal enterprise. Butler stars as Hank Thompson, a former baseball player who lands himself in trouble after agreeing to house-sit for a neighbor, who …
Read More »'Blink Twice' Gives Tech Bros the Full 'Get Out' Treatment
There are a few cardinal rules that every screen character should live by: Don’t go in the basement. Never get off the boat. Never go against the family. And for fuck’s sake, never, ever go to a private island where a tech bro and his toxic buddies like to chill …
Read More »'Blink Twice' Star Naomi Ackie Says the Film Is a 'Warrior Cry' for Women
Naomi Ackie fondly remembers filming late-night dance montages with her Blink Twice castmates in Yucatán, Mexico. As the Dixie Cups’ island-inflected version of “Iko Iko” blared, the actors, covered in glitter, frolicked, squealed, and cheesed into the camera. But in this nightmarish thriller (out Aug. 23), which marks Zoë Kravitz’s …
Read More »Channing Tatum's Private Fantasy Island Turns Nightmarish in 'Blink Twice' Trailer
Rule Number One: Never go on a private island with a billionaire you don’t know. On Tuesday, Amazon MGM Studios released the trailer for Blink Twice, the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz out Aug. 23, starring Channing Tatum as tech billionaire Slater King, who lures women to a creepy private …
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