Since Project Hail Mary just had the biggest opening weekend among the 2026 movie releases so far, of course there’s an uptick in love for Ryan Gosling and interest in seeing the actor’s other great movies from over the years. One of his most hilarious films is currently available to stream with a Netflix subscription, but only for a short time.

A Hilarious Ryan Gosling Movie Is On Netflix, But Not For Long

The movie I’m talking about is 2011’s Crazy, Stupid, Love. It also stars Steve Carell, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon. It’s one of the best rom-coms of all time that I’ve honestly watched so many times, but if you haven’t seen it and have Netflix, now is a good time to check it out.

Steve Carell’s Cal Weaver is the movie's main character, who is freshly going through a divorce and trying to get back out there. (It’s pretty accurate to that whole experience, too). While hanging out at a bar one night, he meets Ryan Gosling’s character, Jacob Palmer, who is pretty much a pro at picking up women and has a very healthy, unattached sex life. Jacob decides to take Cal under his wing to teach him hisways, and the whole ride is so, so funny!

If you go on Netflix right now, you’ll see that the last day to watch Crazy, Stupid, Love is March 31. So if you want to stream it on the platform, hurry up and do so! However, if you do have HBO Max, you may be in luck. It’s currently on that platform as well, and we don’t have any indication that it’s leaving at the moment.

Where To Watch The Project Hail Mary Star’s Other Best Comedies

If you’re looking for other funny Ryan Gosling movies to check out at home now that Project Hail Mary warmed your heart, check out where to watch five of his best comedies.

Of all of Ryan Gosling’s comedies, Crazy, Stupid, Love, is probably the most obvious of them. La La Land, for example is a musical, and has some dramatic elements, The Nice Guys is a funny crime film, and Barbie, well, is Barbie. The Fall Guy is a stylish action comedy, and Lars and the Real Girl is a dark comedy that actually gets really emotional.

Anyways, no matter what you decide to watch, all this is a great reminder of how talented Ryan Gosling is. He really brings a lot of goofiness to Project Hail Mary, especially for a movie about a man in a suicide mission in space to help reverse the apocalypse. Hey, that’s not easy to do! Well, see you at the movies (whether it’s at home or on the big screen).

The time is finally upon us. The 98th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, are this Sunday, and here at CinemaBlend, we’ve made our picks on who we think will take home the top eight categories of the night. Three of the categories (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress) have clear-cut favorites amongst our staff. The remaining five (both screenplay awards, both supporting actor awards, and the award for Best Actor) are, quite honestly, very tricky to guess, because our opinions vary quite a bit.

The ceremony will be live on March 15th at 7pm ET on ABC, and available to stream live with a Hulu subscription. There are sure to be some surprises, but we’ve done our best to predict what we think will happen (though not necessarily our personal choices). We’ll start with the Best Screenplay Awards and work our way towards our pick for Best Picture, hitting all the acting awards and Best Director along the way. Each of our picks will be in bold among the list of nominees.

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Will Tracy for Bugonia
• Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein
• Maggie O'Farrell and Chloe Zhao for Hamnet
• Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another – Our Predicted Winner
• Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar for Train Dreams

In our staff poll, the Best Adapted Screenplay choice is perhaps the most divisive. All five nominees were favored by at least one writer, and it was quite close between Hamnet, Frankenstein, and One Battle After Another. This highlights just how tricky this task can be, because it’s easy to make a case for any of the five. Ultimately, in a very tight poll, Paul Thomas Anderson came out on top for One Battle After Another.

Best Original Screenplay

• Robert Kaplow for Blue Moon
• Jafar Panahi and Nader Saivar for It Was Just An Accident
• Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein for Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt for Sentimental Value
• Ryan Coogler for Sinners – Our Predicted Winner

Sinners set the record this year for the most Oscar nominations for a film ever, with 16, including this nomination for writer Ryan Coogler. The momentum for Sinners has only been growing as this very long awards season has gone on (thanks, Olympics). While the staff pick wasn’t as close as it was for Adapted, there was quite a bit of support for Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value, but in the end, Sinners came out on top. This isn’t quite a slam dunk, but it’s the most definitive of the five awards that weren’t easy picks for us.

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro for One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein
• Sean Penn for One Battle After Another
• Delroy Lindo for Sinners – Our Predicted Winner
• Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value

This race has been truly all over the place. Del Toro started the season strong with a string of critics' awards, Elordi won at the Critics' Choice, Skarsgård won the Golden Globe, and Penn has come on strong late with wins at BAFTA and the Actor Awards (formerly The SAG Awards). Four of the five nominees were picked by at least two writers each, and though Lindo hasn’t really been in the conversation until very late, on the strength of Sinners and his amazing performance, he is a real contender now. In fact, he is now the frontrunner, in our opinion.

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan for Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners
• Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another – Our Predicted Winner

Like Best Supporting Actor, the race for Best Supporting Actress has been a wild ride, but it seems to have come down to three: Madigan, Mosaku, and Taylor. Each of the three has taken home awards this season, and while our choice ultimately had quite a bit of support, it’s impossible to rule out one of the other two women winning. Two months ago, it seemed like Taylor was going to sweep the season, but Madigan and Mosaku clearly have a lot of momentum as we get to the end here. We still think Taylor is the favorite for One Battle After Another, but just barely. Madigan and Mosaku are considered the favorites by quite a few folks around here.

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme – Our Predicted Winner
• Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon
• Michael B. Jordan for Sinners
• Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent

Now this is a fascinating race, and CinemaBlend’s poll reflects that. We asked the staff to name both who they would vote for and who they think will win. While the majority of staff have predicted Chalamet to win, a huge majority picked Michael B. Jordan as who they would have voted for, personally. It’s safe to say the race is between these two, and, in full disclosure, much of our polling took place before Jordan won at the Actor Awards. There seems to be a late surge happening in favor of the Sinners star. It would not surprise anyone if he takes home the Oscar, but we predict that Chalamet will win in what could be a historic victory.

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley for Hamnet – Our Predicted Winner
• Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
• Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue
• Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone for Bugonia

Here’s where we’re getting to the Oscars that everyone on staff is most confident about in our predictions. In fact, in the Best Actress race, there haven’t been any surprises at all leading up to the Oscars. Jessie Buckley has completely swept the awards leading up to this Sunday, and there is no reason at all to think that will change at the Academy Awards. Buckley’s performance in Hamnet is incredible, and it’s hard to imagine anyone sneaking in and winning this over her. Stone and Byrne did receive some support from the CinemaBlend staff, but an overwhelming majority picked Buckley to win Best Actress.

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another – Our Predicted Winner
• Ryan Coogler for Sinners
• Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value
• Chloe Zhao for Hamnet

Like Best Actor, the race for Best Director comes down to two men, Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson. All season long, the general consensus is that this is PTA’s time and he’s going to walk away with the win. Our prediction is no different, as a huge majority of our staff believe that this is Anderson’s award to lose. Could he, though? Well, interestingly, yeah, he could. As with Michael B. Jordan, when we ask the staff for their favorite, most picked Coogler as their personal choice, even if almost everyone still predicted PTA to win.

Best Picture

• Bugonia
• F1: The Movie
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another – Our Predicted Winner
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams
• The Secret Agent

It has gotten trickier and trickier to predict Best Picture over the years. Sure, there are times like two years ago when everyone pretty much knew that Oppenheimer was going to take home the biggest prize of the night. But then there are ones like last year when Anora came on very strong at the end of awards season, but was a little bit of a dark horse on Oscar night. This year could be either.

The strong consensus of the CinemaBlend staff is that One Battle After Another will win Best Picture, but as in a couple of categories, a majority of the staff picked Sinners as their personal favorite. This isn’t surprising, after all, Sinners was our choice for the best movie of 2025. The late momentum for Sinners has turned this award into a real nail-biter, and it wouldn’t be shocking to see Ryan Coogler on stage accepting the award at the end of the night. However, as a group, we have to stick with our prediction, given that all but three staff members picked One Battle to win (interestingly, the other votes all went to Hamnet).

You can go to our list of the 98th Academy Awards nominees to see who could win in every category, including all the technical ones, and everything else. Other than KPop Demon Hunters winning Best Animated Feature and “Golden” from that movie winning Best Song (sorry again, Diane Warren) being pretty much foregone conclusions, there are close races in every single category.

Keep an eye out for our live blog as well, as we will be reacting along with everyone else when the winners are announced.

Disney never met a franchise it didn’t love, and one of the most consistently successful corners of Disney’s domination of the global box office has been its live-action remakes. While we’ve occasionally seen movies falter like Snow White or Dumbo, when the movies are successful (like The Lion King and Lilo & Stitch) they tend to win really big, more than making up for the ones that fall short.

And like any big movie, success can frequently mean sequels. However, one sequel that we’ve been told we were getting has yet to materialize. 2021’s Cruella starred Emma Stone as the classic 101 Dalmatians villain in a live-action origin story with a punk rock aesthetic. A sequel was announced shortly after the movie’s release. But almost five years later, nothing seems to have happened with it. However, The DisInsider says seeing the movie in the next couple of years is likely, as everybody involved still wants to make it. The site claims…

The announcement that Cruella 2 was in development was something of a shock when it happened. The first movie came out when movie theaters were still largely closed, and it dropped as a Disney+ Premiere Access movie, which meant it required an additional fee on top of a Disney+ subscription to watch it. Disney never released numbers on how those movies did, so it was unclear how successful Cruella was from a financial perspective, but the studio must have seen something there

It’s honestly a bit surprising that Cruella 2 is apparently still an active project, considering that another announced sequel to a movie from that era, Jungle Cruise 2, appears to be dead in the water. That movie saw a quick turnaround on a sequel greenlight just like Cruella, and has been equally radio silent since. At this point, seeing Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt reunite for a follow-up seems unlikely.

What’s unclear is if there’s really anybody actively working on a script for Cruella 2, since there apparently isn't one yet. The first film was co-written by Dana Fox, who co-wrote the Wicked movies, and Tony McNamara, who wrote Emma Stone’s The Favourite and Poor Things. It was directed by Craig Gilespie, who might have some free time to work on pre-production for Cruella 2 once Supergirl comes out later this year.

As somebody who loves Cruella more than most Disney live-action remakes, i certainl;y hope this rumor turns out to be accurate, because if we’re going to get more of these movies, I’d rather they be more than simply retellings of movies I’ve already seen. Cruella had a vibe that was unlike the original animated movie, and while a potential sequel might essentially be a 101 Dalmatians remake, if it keeps the same tone, it could still be a lot of fun.

As one of the greatest actors of the 21st century, Emma Stone has become a regular fixture on awards show red carpets, channeling her Poor Things character one year and Kinds of Kindness the next in sheer black perfection. She’s not slowing things down this year, either, as she attended the BAFTAs in London on Sunday night. Stone was nominated in the Best Leading Actress category for Bugonia, and her elegant halter gown may have stolen the whole show.

The British Academy Film Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars in the U.S., so you know everyone was dressed to the nines for the event whose highlights included Prince William and Kate Middleton making an appearance and Paddington Bear presenting an award. In the celebrity fashion department, there were some great looks, and Emma Stone was at the top of the list in a black ribcage-baring gown that was elegant in its simplicity.

The custom Louis Vuitton dress bared a lot of skin but did so tastefully, with her halter top forming a keyhole cutout that left most of her torso exposed, nearly down to her belly button. The gown fell all the way to the ground and featured a short train, under which you could catch a glimpse of her strappy black sandals. Unfortunately for the actress, there appeared to be no pockets in which to stuff any popcorn.

You simply can’t go wrong with a classic black dress, and even though we’ve seen Emma Stone show off plenty of color in her ensembles (and cutouts far more risqué). The fact that she was so stunning even in the gown’s simplicity is one of the things that elevated it to one of the evening’s top looks.

The actress wore her red hair in an up-do — and was certainly happy to have enough hair to do so, after enduring some head-shaving panic for her role in Bugonia — with a couple of locks left free to frame her face. Her jewelry, like the dress itself, was simple and elegant as she sported diamond stud earrings and a diamond bracelet.

Emma Stone ultimately did not walk away with the BAFTA on Sunday, as Jessie Buckley took the Best Actress award for Hamnet. However, Stone has won the category twice in the past for her roles in La La Land and Poor Things.

Those were the same movies she won her two Academy Awards for, and she is also nominated for an Oscar this year for Bugonia. The dark comedy — which CinemaBlend named one of the best movies of 2025 — is already considered one of Emma Stone’s greatest roles, as she teamed up again with director Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemmons in what has become quite the Hollywood dream team. CinemaBlend’s review of Bugonia awarded it 4 stars out of 5.

The Academy Awards will air on the 2026 TV schedule on Sunday, March 15, so we’ll have to tune in to see if she can nab another trophy — and, of course, to see what look she sports on the red carpet. Tune into ABC at 7 p.m. ET.

Emma Stone hit a new category of beloved by Hollywood this week when she earned two 2026 Oscar nominations for Bugonia. Her new nods officially broke the record for the youngest woman to have seven nominations at 37 – surpassing Meryl Streep, who previously held the record. Funny enough, in the same week, the internet has been cackling over a resurfaced iCarly clip from when she guest-starred on the Nickelodeon comedy.

Yes, Emma Stone was on iCarly back in 2012 (around the same time she was making The Amazing Spider-Man). Check out the moment below:

What a random clip to go viral as she gets Oscars love! Stone was in Season 6, Episode 9 of the series as a superfan of the titular web series who invades all personal space of the main characters to get a selfie with each of them during her freakout. In one especially LOL moment, she yells for Gibby, who they say is in the bathroom, and she runs in to meet him, too. Then, she dives right onto their table before security takes her away.

The hilarious scene was posted on X this week when one account asked about TV fans’ "favorite celebrity cameo”. The throwback clip has already amassed over 5 million views in just a few days on the social media platform, with tons of comments discussing Stone’s funny appearance. Check out some of the reactions below:

• “this was my introduction to emma stone” - @nertball
• “The way she acted her butt off for ICARLY LOL” - @RunnerEyeYT
• “that’s when yorgos lanthimos knew” - @luuider
• “And people said Emma Stone started taking on weird acting roles recently” - @GlazedHamBoy2
• “One thing I love about Emma stone is her freak out acting 😭” - @shannyretro
• “i could watch this a million times and never get bored. emma really is a tour de force” - @ecl_wn

Oh, sometimes I love the internet. As of late, Emma Stone has been known for taking a lot of “weird” roles, especially alongside filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, but a lot of people commented on how it kind of all started with iCarly. Listen, Emma Stone has always been funny, and started in comedy with early movies like Superbad and Easy A. So, I don’t think this side of Stone should surprise anyone, but it’s still so much fun to see her in this cameo after she’s been doing so many critically acclaimed movies as of late.

Emma Stone is up for Best Actress at the Oscars this year for the dark comedy Bugonia, which she totally shaved her head for. The movie is a remake of a South Korean film, but Stone’s character was gender swapped in the Hollywood version.

Her fellow nominees are Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue and Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value. Her movie Bugonia was also nominated for Best Picture (which counts for her second nomination this year since she’s a producer on the film).

The movie is also competing for Best Score and Best Adapted Screenplay. However, ever since the nominations came out, people have been pointing out how her co-star Jesse Plemons was snubbed for Best Actor. You can catch the Oscars on Sunday, March 15.

Meanwhile, I'll be watching this unhinged clip from iCarly again.

The latest film by Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia has just racked up four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. A remake of Korean director Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 film Save The Green Planet!, it follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the CEO of a pharmaceutical company (played by Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien out to destroy humanity.

SFX’s reviewer called the film a “funny, moody and emotionally satisfying farce”, adding that it is “that rare remake which actually finds new things to say rather than simply pumping out a carbon copy of the original”.

Bugonia is available to buy on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD from 2 February. Bonus-wise, you get “The Birth Of The Bees”, a 23-minute Making Of. We have five Blu-rays to give away. To put your name in the hat for the chance to win one, simply answer the question below. PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION IS OPEN TO UK ENTRANTS ONLY.

I want to try out a new type of movie quiz this week. Rather than answering questions or solving clues, for this one, we're asking you to put each actor's movies in order. Don't worry, it's just four movies per actor, but it might be challenging, depending on how good you are at remembering when films came out.

I tried not to get too tricky with the actors or their movies, so hopefully even a casual movie fan will have fun with this one. I think the earliest titles referenced go back to the '80s and '90s, and they should be films that most movie fans will know well. Without any further ado, let's get to it!

The Real Housewives franchise has grown into a behemoth one over the years, with multiple cities airing at any given point on Bravo (and streaming with a Peacock subscription). Some shows are more popular than others, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is arguably one of the best reality shows on the air. Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone would likely agree, and she went to wild lengths to see Jen Shah in person after her arrest.

I started watching RHOSLC largely thanks to Jen Shah's arrest, which basically happened on camera and resulted in her being sentenced to six years in prison. While Shah was released early, Emma Stone actually was there when she was sentenced. While speaking with W Magazine, the superfan explained how this went down, sharing:

She wasn't kidding about that investment. While I never miss an episode of Salt Lake City, I haven't gone to seek out the women IRL. But that's exactly what Stone did, walking from her home in New York over to the courthouse where Shah was being sentenced back in 2023. Someone let her make a cameo in the reunion, already! After all, Nicki Minaj got to appear on Potomac back in the day.

A big reason why RHOSLC became a hit back in Season 2 was when the feds came to arrest Jen Shah outside of Beauty Lab + Laser. While she fled filming prior to their arrival, the episode was riveting TV, especially the rest of the cast's reaction on the sprinter van. After years of maintaining her innocence Shah eventually plead guilty for charges including defrauding the elderly.

Of course, Emma Stone is a fan of the show as a whole, and not just due to the saga of Jen Shah's legal issues. In the same interview, she went on to give two-season Salt Lake City star Bronwyn Newport a shoutout for her bold fashion choices. She said:

She's not wrong. On top of her wild fashion, Bronwyn has been bringing the drama this season, particularly her conflict with Meredith Marks in the season finale. What's more, the trailer for the three-part reunion showed her admitting she and her husband are officially separated. I have to wonder what Emma Stone has to think about that!

New episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City air Tuesdays on Bravo as part of the 2026 TV schedule, and stream the next day on Peacock. As for Emma Stone, she's got serious Awards Season buzz for Bugonia, recently getting a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.

Spoiler Warning: The following article contains some major spoilers for the Bugonia ending. If you haven’t watched the new Emma Stone movie, please check it out with a Peacock subscription and then return.

Like a lot of people I know, I spent much of my holiday break working my way through the backlog of great 2025 movies I never got around to watching the first 51 weeks of the year. The 138th and final new cinematic adventure before the stroke of midnight was Bugonia, the latest (and perhaps best) collaboration between Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos. Though I knew critics called this quirky thriller a “mesmerizing riot,” I went into it blind, not knowing about any twists or turns that awaited.

I’m glad I knew next to nothing about the movie going in, as my ignorance made an already hilarious and painfully realistic scene early on into the movie into something deeper and far more terrifying by the time it was all said and done. Allow me to explain…

At First, I Saw Bugonia’s ‘The 5:30 Thing’ Scene As A Hilarious Critique Of Corporate America

Early on in Bugonia, shortly before Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) is abducted and held captive by two conspiracy theorists (played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who are convinced she’s an alien, the Auxolith CEO has an awkward and hilarious conversation with her assistant regarding “The 5:30 Thing.”

At first, I thought this scene, which follows Michelle as she explains that employees can leave at 5:30 p.m. each day in a way that is both hard to follow and full of coded messages, was some critique of corporate America. With phrases like “let your conscience guide you,” “of course, it’s not compulsory,” this whole conversation sounds like it’s from some HR director at a massive corporation, making it all too realistic.

However, now that I’ve finished this outrageously weird movie, I look at this scene in a completely different way.

After Watching The Movie’s Big Twist, I Think It Offers Some Foreshadowing

I had a spoiler warning at the top of this, but seriously, don’t proceed unless you’ve watched it already. Okay, with that out of the way…

In the final moments of Bugonia, Michelle Fuller reveals that no, Teddy and Don weren’t crazy, and that she is actually an alien and the leader of the Andromedans. This leads to one of the most fascinating sequences of the movie, and perhaps all of 2025, before Michelle escapes and is transported back to her world, and decides the Earth experiment has failed, ultimately ending with her killing every human being.

After the movie ended, I found myself looking for clues hinting at the big twist. It didn’t take too long before I started thinking about the “5:30 Thing” all over again. Only this time, I was looking at it less as commentary on work/life balance in a corporate setting and more of a situation where Michelle’s mask began to slip. Her lack of humanity isn’t just a caricature of a corporate executive not knowing how the common man lives and works (that’s very much something), but also an alien failing to understand humans and their need for time off. If that is Yorgos Lanthimos’ plan all along, then more power to him!

No matter how you look at it, Bugonia is a bonkers dark comedy that is truly out of this world (in more ways than one). This Golden Globe-nominated film is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences I’ve had in some time, and I can’t wait to watch it again.

If there’s one thing Emma Stone excels at outside of acting, it’s answering an unexpected question. That talent was on full display when the Oscar-winning actress was asked whether she or Jennifer Lawrence would be playing Miss Piggy in the recently announced movie centered on the iconic Muppet. What followed was a response so sharp, funny, and so oddly respectful that it can only be described as perfection.

The exchange comes from a recent feature in W Magazine, where Stone spoke candidly about everything from shaving her head for Bugonia (for a pact apparently) to ghosts, reality TV, and, yep, you guess it, Miss Piggy. Stone’s answer didn’t just shut down the idea of taking on the role of the iconic puppet, but reframed the question into a pitch-perfect defense of one of pop culture’s most iconic characters. She replied:

The clarification comes as interest continues to build around the Miss Piggy project that Lawrence first revealed late last year. As previously reported, Stone and Lawrence are executive producing a standalone film written by Cole Escola, the Tony Award-winning writer and performer behind Oh, Mary!. While details about the plot remain under wraps, one thing is now crystal clear, and that is Miss Piggy will remain Miss Piggy.

Lawrence first announced the film during a guest appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. At the time, Lawrence casually dropped the news. A few days later, she expanded on the idea during an appearance on The Tonight Show, explaining that early conversations around the film began during the pandemic, sparked by discussions about cancel culture and Miss Piggy’s status as a feminist icon.

While the Hunger Games star has said she’d like to appear in the movie in some capacity, she’s been equally clear that she wouldn’t be playing Miss Piggy either. Stone’s comments now suggest the creative team is more interested in preserving what makes the character iconic than grafting star power onto her, which makes a lot of sense. Because at this point, Piggy is as big a star as they come, so to imply anyone but she would be stepping into the spotlight is admittedly pretty disrespectful. Luckily, Emma Stone had her back.

Stone, a two-time Academy Award winner best known for films like Poor Things, La La Land, and Kinds of Kindness, has built a career on unexpected choices. But in this case, her most unexpected move might be knowing when not to step in front of the camera. And If her comments are any indication, the Miss Piggy movie won’t be about who gets to play the character. It’ll be about giving the karate chopping diva the spotlight she already believes she deserves. And, honestly, doesn't that just feel perfectly right?

The standalone film centered on the beloved Miss Pigathius “Piggy” Lee is still in early development, making a 2026 movie calendar release unlikely. That said, fans won’t have to wait long to see her back on screen. Miss Piggy is set to appear in the newly relaunched The Muppet Show, which premieres February 4 as part of the 2026 television lineup, timed to celebrate the original series’ 50th anniversary. The revival will be available to watch on ABC and then streaming for anyone with a Disney+ subscription.

Emma Stone has demonstrated her outstanding abilities as an actor for years on the big screen, so it was a lot of fun to dive into her body of work for this week's movie quiz. If you're a fan of the Academy Award winner's body of work, you should be able to solve the clues in this crossword puzzle, which focuses entirely on Emma Stone movies. How many clues can you solve?

I have been personally shaving my head for a few years, and while I'm now completely used to the process, it took me a long time to build up the nerve to do it. Even after sporting a buzz cut for a while, I couldn't be totally sure what it would look like with my hair totally gone – either in terms of my skull shape or with my scalp. This in mind, I love the revelation that Emma Stone wasn't alone in chopping off all her hair for the making of Bugonia, as doing so was part of a solidarity pact that she made with director Yorgos Lanthimos.

In an interview with People about the making of the new science-fiction thriller/dark comedy, Emma Stone spoke about the conditions she put on the table when it came to the discussion of her shaving her head, and part of the deal was that she wouldn't be alone in losing her locks. If the two-time Academy Award winner was going to expose her scalp to the world, she wanted her director and frequent collaborator to do it also. She explained,

In Bugonia, Emma Stone's head is shaved on screen by co-stars Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, but when it came time for Yorgos Lanthimos' special haircut, Stone was the one wielding the clippers. The one problem? Because the filmmaker's hair was far shorter than Stone's, she didn't get quite the satisfaction out of the experience that she had hopped. She added,

I suppose it would have been more satisfying for Stone if the film was made by a female director... but that would mean Bugonia not being the latest collaboration between the actress and Lanthimos, and I'm of the opinion that given their track record (including The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds Of Kindness) they should continue making movies together forever.

The 2025 film, of course, doesn't just have Emma Stone shave her head as a stunt – it's an important part of the movie. In Bugonia, the aforementioned Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis play a pair of conspiracy theorists who believe that Stone's character is an extraterrestrial who has been manipulating society on Earth. Part of their belief is that her hair is used as a means of communication with her people, hence why they feel the need to shave her head. It's quite (purposefully) ridiculous, and it's really just the starting line for the feature's madness.

Following its debut in theaters this fall, Bugonia is now available for home viewing via digital rental/purchase, and the physical media release is coming just before Christmas (with the 4K UHD and Blu-ray dated for December 23). If you haven't seen it, you absolutely should: for one, you should avoid spoilers while you can, and also, you're missing out on some of the best performances of the year.

I thought Seth Rogen's upcoming Disney+ special celebrating The Muppet Show's 50th anniversary would be the most glorious Muppet-related news to come out of 2025, but that's somehow NOT the case. (It's still super freaking exciting, though.) Rather, that distinction belongs to a new Miss Piggy project that was revealed by current It Entertainer Jennifer Lawrence.

I already can't wait for Lawrence and Robert Pattinson's upcoming psychological drama Die My Love, whose trailer had me feeling uncomfortably on edge for a while after watching. But this new project sounds like it'll bring about the exact opposite feelings, as she'll be teaming with two all-stars on a standalone movie devoted entirely to the living legend herself, Miss Piggy.

Here's how Lawrence dropped the huge news during a guest spot on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers' podcast Las Culturistas:

The "Cole" that Jennifer Lawrence refers to is the almighty Cole Escola, who ascended to the upper echelon upon earning a Tony Award and myriad other honors for writing and starring in the initially off-Broadway play Oh Mary!, a comedic take on the life of famed first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In full costume, Escola even got to pre-tape a full category of related clues for Jeopardy! last season, and it was fabulous.

Escola has been putting their comedic brand on everything for years now, with breakout live-action roles in Difficult People, At Home with Amy Sedaris and Search Party. On the animated side, their voice has been utilized for The Simpsons, Big Mouth and Human Resources, Digman!, What We Do in the Shadows and many more shows.

Jennifer Lawrence and Cole Escola would be a glorious enough tag team all on their own, but adding Emma Stone into the mix somehow takes it up another notch. The actress, who's currently wowing audiences with her work in Yorgos Lanthismos' conspiratorial thriller Bugonia, previously worked with Seth Rogen in her feature debut Superbad, so there's even connective tissue between this Miss Piggy project and the TV special. (Stone is also an EP on the HBO comedy series Fantasmas, and appeared with Escola for a guest appearance as faux reality TV stars.

Speaking of guest stars, the number of amazing celebs who could appear in a Miss Piggy movie is all but endless, and I can envision everyone from Taylor Swift to Donatella Versace to Meghan Markle popping up, but the aforementioned Amy Sedaris also sounds heavenly. I guess I'll wait until this project is off the ground before writing to my local CongressMuppet.

It's not likely that this project will get put together quickly enough to premiere alongside other 2026 movie releases, but I'd be inclined to wait patiently for this one until the point when pigs are vetted as astronauts. (Because Pigs in Space.) Now what about all the other Muppets who deserve more attention?

There is no questioning at this point that Emma Stone is a household name. Between her two Academy Awards, popular titles ranging from Superbad to Amazing Spider-Man, and hosting Saturday Night Live five times, she is one of the world's most popular and recognizable stars. And yet, it's not an uncommon experience in the slightest for people to come up to her in public and confuse her for Harry Potter star Emma Watson.

Lookalike confusion isn't a rare thing, as people have frequently compared the looks of Jesse Plemons and Matt Damon, as an example, but this is kind of a strange one. Stone was recently a guest on the Happy.Sad.Confused. podcast, and when she was asked about the person she was last mistaken for, she explained that, "It's always Emma Watson."

But why? The two actresses are about the same age, but they don't really look anything alike, and it's not as though they have ever starred in a movie together. Could it be that people just look at her, know that her name is Emma, and then just make a faulty connection in their brain that links her with the last name Watson instead of Stone? It's quite odd.

Odd as it is, though, it isn't actually the strangest fan mistake that Emma Stone has experienced. While the Harry Potter star might be the most common error that people make, the Poor Things star recalled a time that someone else made an even wilder blunder. Said Stone,

Yup: they thought she was Debra Messing. I suppose it was perhaps a bit of redhead confusion, but Stone also happens to be 20 years younger than the popular sitcom star. Laughing, Stone added,

What will it take to finally stop people from making these kinds of mistakes? It's probably impossible – but a third Oscar certainly couldn't hurt, and that may very well be in the cards for Emma Stone. Her latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dark comedy Bugonia, features another absolutely outstanding turn from the actress, and it's all but guaranteed that we'll be hearing her name plenty during the upcoming awards season. And should you be curious about seeing the new 2025 movie yourself, it's expanding into wide release this weekend – just in time for Halloween.

Bugonia marks the fourth feature that Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos have made together… but that’s only because of a vital change that was made during the film’s development. The 2025 movie is a remake of the 2003’s Save The Green Planet! from Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan, and among the deviations from the original is a gender-swapped antagonist – which is the character played by Stone. It’s a fascinating choice that ends up having significant consequences on the storytelling, and it was one the filmmakers opted to make for a multitude of reasons.

In the film, a pair of conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis) execute a plan to kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO (Stone) whom they believe is an alien in disguise. The fact that it’s two men abducting a woman impacts both the relationships between the characters and external perspectives on the circumstance – meaning that sexual dynamics are in play, and the door is open for the conversation about misogyny that’s frequently mixed into conspiracy thinking in the modern age. I brought this up while virtually interviewing screenwriter Will Tracy and Yorgos Lanthimos earlier this month during the Bugonia press day, noting the fact that the male leads decide to chemically castrate themselves, and Tracy discussed the impact of the gender swap:

In terms of perspectives on sexuality, Bugonia and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things actually feature some interesting contrasts. In the 2023 film, Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter is liberated by her sexuality, and it leads her to explore the grandness of humanity and our world. In Bugonia, Jesse Plemons’ Teddy Gatz understands himself as a slave to sexual urges, and he makes the decision to chemically castrate both himself and Aidan Delbis’ Don so that they aren’t at “risk” of seduction during their mission.

But sexuality is only one part of it. Without giving too much away, one of the primary reasons that Teddy is doing what he is doing is because of his relationship with his mother (Alicia Silverstone), and that colors the crime in its own way. Will Tracy also brought up the “optics” of the situation, as the world is obviously going to look at the abduction of a woman by two male kidnappers differently than they would the abduction of a man. He continued,

That’s a lot… but there is even more to it as well. “CEO of a pharmaceutical company” is a job disproportionately (albeit not exclusively) held by men, and Will Tracy liked the idea of not making what could be perceived as the most obvious choice for the character. He added,

Care to find out? After earning critical acclaim from its festival debuts this fall, Bugonia arrived in limited theaters this past weekend, but it is expanding to wide release just in time for Halloween this Friday (and it’s a fitting screening option, if you’re curious).

As one of the most recognizable actresses on the planet, Emma Stone is more than a little used to being smack dab in the public eye. So when it comes to avoiding immediate spoilers involving big changes to her features, some effort is required. So it went for her latest team-up with director Yorgos Lanthismos, the trippy paranoia fest Bugonia that’s been winning over critics since premiering earlier in the 2025 movie schedule. Her performance didn’t end on the screen, either, thanks to her then-newly shaved head.

Following the production of Bugonia, Stone took it upon herself to keep her new ‘do, or lack there of, hidden from public knowledge, as not to give away the drastic alteration too soon. Speaking with People, the Oscar-winning actress says because there were “no pictures or candids” were taken on the set of the film, she was inspired to hide her bald look for as long as possible, thinking, “Why not keep this up for a little bit?”

She explained how her and Lanthimos’ previous collaboration Poor Things helped inspire her desire to keep audiences from seeing her specific look ahead of the trailer’s release, saying:

Bella's look was indeed a distinct one for the Superbad vet, but I think most would agree that her scalpy look in Bugonia is even more startlingly distinct. The change is made all the more effective by the director actually having filmed her head being shaved, a process that had Stone going into panic mode.

Part of the hide-the-head effort included wearing beanies for three months straight, and I can understand why that wasn’t the most comfortable way to avoid fessing up. Especially during the earlier period when she wasn’t necessarily loving how the look felt. That feeling thankfully dissipated though, and Stone grew more accustomed to her lighter than usual locks.

Of course, beanies weren't the only way that she kept her head from making headlines. As she told Stephen Colbert during her recent visit to The Late Show (where she awkwardly forgot it was canceled), she did attempt to make a wig work for a premiere event, but essentially sabotaged herself in the process. As she put it:

Pro tip: if you don't want anyone to know you're wearing a wig, it's best not to even say the word wig, even in other contexts such as "wigging out because you can't stop talking about your wig."

With stellar performances from Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, Bugonia is worth watching for way more than just seeing Emma Stone without any of her usual hair. It's a twisty and twisted story about what happens when conspiracy theorists go too far. It hits theaters on Friday, October 31.

Movie magic seems to happen when filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone come together — as proven by the Academy Awards and other critical acclaim earned by Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and The Favourite. Coming soon to the 2025 film calendar is their fourth collaboration, Bugonia. Critics have seen the absurdist comedy, and they are singing the praises of the lead actress.

Emma Stone stars as Michelle Fuller, the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, who gets kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who shave her head because they’re convinced she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth. Some of our CinemaBlend movie experts attended early screenings, and they’re calling Bugonia just as weird as they hoped while fully recommending this bonkers dark comedy.

Meanwhile, Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting gives the movie 4 out of 5 skulls, praising the update of the 2003 South Korean flick Save the Green Planet! from Jang Joon-Hwan as “timely.” Yorgos Lanthimos’ version gives an even more cynical prognosis about humanity’s future, Navarro says, writing:

Nick Schager of Daily Beast also calls out the timeliness of the movie amid present-day irrationality and dishonesty, and gives high praise to Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. With both delivering year-best performances, according to the critic, Stone continues her remarkable run as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Schager says:

Ross Bonaime of Collider rates Bugonia an 8 out of 10, saying you’ll need a rewatch to fully appreciate Emma Stone’s performance. Jesse Plemons is the perfect addition to what the critic says is one of the best director-actress combos possibly ever, resulting in “one of the strangest, absurd, and darkest comedies you'll see this year.” Bonaime continues:

Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com says Bugonia is an enraged picture, but the scope of that anger is deliberately revealed throughout the movie’s 118 minutes. It’s not a perfect movie, but it leaves its mark, the critic says. He gives it 2.5 out of 4 stars, writing:

Matt Donato of IGN gives it a “Mediocre” 5 out of 10, acknowledging its stellar cast, but saying in a film that tries to balance barbed sci-fi themes and conspiracy looniness funneled through Lanthimos’ trademark quirks, Bugonia fails to stick the landing. Donato writes:

Whether or not this will go down as one of Emma Stone’s best movies remains to be seen, but it sounds pretty universally agreed upon that she and Yorgos Lanthimos are a powerhouse combo — with Jesse Plemons welcome anytime.

Bugonia will see a limited release that begins today, October 24, before opening wide on Friday, October 31.

When it comes to upcoming horror movies hitting theaters this month, I’ll be honest, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed by the choices, especially if you consider the only big release from the genre is The Black Phone 2. So many great horror movies have already come out pre-Halloween among the 2025 movie releases. However, I just got to see Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie with Emma Stone Bugonia, and I can’t recommend making it your Halloween movie outing.

Why I Think You Should Add Bugonia To Your Spooky Season Watchlist

If you’ve followed Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos ongoing movie partnership, you probably expect something offkilter out of Bugonia already. However, I think there’s a fine line when it comes to “weird” movies for me, because I don’t want to be transported so much into a wild plotline that it loses me. I’m happy to report that Bugonia is absolutely the right kind of weird. While it’s more of a dark comedy than a horror movie, I totally want to revisit it for Halloween, and suggest fellow movie fans opt for the same.

I don’t want to get too into the weeds about the movie because it was fun for me to sort of go into blind, but I do want to pitch you on why I liked it so much. The basic premise of Bugonia is that Emma Stone plays the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company who gets kidnapped by one of the low-ranking employees of her business because he suspects her to be an alien who is causing the everyday calamity on Earth. Jesse Plemons beautifully plays the conspiracy theorist who has abducted her and made sure her head is shaved (yes, Stone shaved her head for real) so she can’t contact her race.

Obviously there’s a certain amount of ridiculousness to the plot as is, but I was really impressed about how Bugonia balances being this grounded movie about the current state of humanity with providing plenty of comedic moments. It’s one of those WTF movies, as I expected, but I was particularly impressed by how it’s a lot more accessible to audiences than other Lanthimos movies, like let’s say the director’s last movie, Kinds Of Kindness.

And for the horror fans out there. It’s definitely horrifying enough to satisfy your wants to be haunted during the spooky season. It was just as effective and actually felt like a thriller a lot more than I expected it might.

I Saw Bugonia At Focus Features’ Inaugural Fan-Centric Film Festival

I saw Bugonia when CinemaBlend was invited to attend the first-ever FocusFest at the Universal Backlot in Los Angeles, California. The all-day event allowed cinephiles to feel like they were in a film festival with retrospective viewings of The Big Lebowski and Promising Young Woman, along with advanced screenings for Bugonia and Obsession. As a huge movie fan myself, I was impressed with what the new festival had to offer, which included complementary themed food, refreshments, activations and a custom bowling shirt a la The Big Lebowski.

Focus Features is behind a lot of modern classics, like Dazed And Confused, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, Brokeback Mountain and Pride & Prejudice, so I can definitely see how FocusFest could continue to happen yearly in Los Angeles and draw the city in by showing more of its beloved titles alongside their new releases. It was so much fun to see this movie alongside other movie fans for the first time, and early! You can check out Bugonia in theaters on October 31 (or during its limited release the week before).

Emma Stone is one of the more relatable celebrities walking the earth, in that she's never really attempted to present herself as the most suave, glamorous and put-together person. She's a goofball who embraces her innate dorkiness, and we love her for it, even when she accidentally sticks her foot in her mouth while forgetting that the show she's on has a specific expiration date. Such was her latest sit-down with The Late Show's Stephen Colbert.

As many are already aware, CBS announced The Late Show's cancellation last summer, sparking waves of support for the comedian host and his late night crew. Of course, it can be easy to forget such details when one is sitting in the stage lights, which gives us the moment shared below, in which Stone addresses her hypothetical "next" appearance and then immediately realizes it may not happen. Check it out!

For those unable to watch the video, the host and guest are discussing the latter's placement in Saturday Night Live's Five Timers Club, as well as how's been a life-long fan of the sketch series thanks to her parents being fans. When asked if she took her mother to the set at any point, Stone said she had, and then set up her own downfall with the exchange below:

• EMMA STONE: "It's so incredible. SNL is like my favorite place in the entire world."
• STEPHEN COLBERT: "Well, thanks for stopping by the Ed Sullivan."
• EMMA STONE: "This is good, too. I like it here...as well. Could we do a sketch?"
• STEPHEN COLBERT: "A hundred percent."
• EMMA STONE: "Okay next time. [Immediately realizes her error.] Waiiiit."
• STEPHEN COLBERT: "Wait, hey..."
• EMMA STONE: "NOOOOO."

Obviously those words in text form can't convey the palpable spur-of-the-moment emotions that bubbled up to the surface on Stone's face as she realized what she'd said.

That's a rough moment to be in, since nobody likes making other people feel uncomfortable about losing a job, even in the world of celebrities. Fortunately, Colbert is a consummate pro and gave Stone grace while letting the comment slide off of his back. As he responded:

So while this might have initially been considered the final time Emma Stone would be invited as a Late Show guest, Colbert & Co. may indeed find a way to bring her back for a big surprise sketch before the late night show officially bows out in May 2026. The way he chuckled through the above comments made me think he will indeed stick to that not-quite-a-promise. She probably won't shave her head again on the air or anything, but one can hope.

To be expected, the comment section on The Late Show's Instagram video is filled with supportive fans saying this shouldn't be the final season, and that CBS should reverse its prior decision. Other reactions were more heartbreakingly amused by Emma Stone's faux pas.

• That might be the most realest moments of realness that has ever been realed! Nooooooooo 😂 - @danisuewho
• How can this be sad and hilarious at the same time 🥲😅 - @shevasun
• Oh there will be a next time, it’ll just be something else! - @hansforddd
• I mean, there just needs to be an epic sketch in the final episode 😍 - @brenferatu

Let's all bow our heads in Col-prayer, hoping for CBS to one day reverse its cancellation decision, although the host could find more follow-up jobs

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs Mon-Thurs nights on CBS at 11:35 p.m. ET, and streams the next day via Paramount+ subscription. Meanwhile, Bugonia is hitting the 2025 movie schedule on Friday, October 31.

As many fans of Saturday Night Live know, the historic sketch show hit a monumental landmark in the 2025 TV schedule. Of course, I’m talking about the series’ 50th season and the huge star-studded reunion that drew in seemingly all of Hollywood, including Emma Stone. The Five Timers Club member showed up in an incredible red Louis Vuitton structured gown, complete with popcorn in the pockets. She shared why she accessorized the gown with the tasty treat, even though it was messy.

Though Season 51's guest list is growing by the week, Stone reminisced about the big SNL event from the spring. While in conversation with Vogue, she shared more insight into the Nicolas Ghesquière-designed outfit and how Lorne Michael’s favorite cinematic snack became the star of the show. Though the Poor Things star did recognize that the statement accent piece was a hit, it was ultimately rude because of the trail she left behind her:

Stone’s red showstopper certainly was a memorable style moment and a sweet way to liven up the SNL 50th anniversary celebration (still available with a Peacock subscription). But, as you’ll see, there is a literal trail of popcorn behind her. Still, it seems worth the rudeness, and at least it wasn’t anything messier like M&Ms or other movie theater treats. Check out the quirky accessory to Emma Stone’s stunning Louis Vuitton dress:

From the sounds of it, the stressful but spectacular celebration of 50 years proved to be quite the show for everyone. With generations of Studio 8H alumni working together as well as celebrity encounters like Jason Momoa meeting Meryl Streep, I’m sure many who passed the La La Land actor’s popcorn pockets couldn’t help but take a beat with her. I know I’d be passing her at least a couple times over to just take in the room.

As we’ve come to know Stone over the years, her offscreen presence is as entertaining as she is on screen. Her movies in the 2025 movie schedule that follow her peppy popcorn look are just as satiating. Earlier this year, she was in Ari Aster’s comedy western Eddington, and has Bugonia, a comedy sci-fi film, right around the corner on October 31. I think it's a safe bet that a box of popcorn is the perfect pick for both flicks!

There are a few things we can learn from Emma Stone’s Louis Vuitton popcorn dress. First, a good show needs popcorn to make the event even better. Second, people love free popcorn. And third, maybe hire a small cleanup crew if your gown happens having falling parts. But overall, Stone’s ability to have fun and pay homage where it’s due is next level.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is known for constantly expanding, both in theaters and streaming with a Disney+ subscription. Fans who spent years watching the Marvel movies in order know that security is notoriously tight, even for those who are within the universe. Case in point: Andrew Garfield lying about his return as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home. And now Emma Stone has reacted to him lying to her as well. How cold!

There have been a ton of Spider-Man movies over the years, with Garfield and Stone starring in the two Amazing Spider-Man films. While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Stone was asked about her co-star's famous fibs, offering:

Talk about taking your job seriously. Because while Garfield and Stone dated and remain friends, he wasn't willing to give the Poor Things star the tea about his No Way Home role. Instead she was kept in the dark until the three Peter Parkers were revealed to crossing over for the multiversal blockbuster. Clearly the Social Network actor takes his responsibilities seriously.

Theaters erupted when Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire entered in No Way Home, and the studio's tight security is at least partly to blame for keeping spoilers under wraps. Later in her same interview, Stone was asked about her character Gwen Stacy being honored in the movie, specifically when Garfield's Peter saved MJ the way he failed in Amazing Spider-Man 2. When asked if she'd seen the threequel, she said:

Well, at least she was honest. While Stone thinks she'll eventually see Spider-Man: No Way Home, she hasn't gotten the chance yet. Maybe she's waiting or it to finally hit Disney+, which it has not at the point of writing this story. Either way, it seems like she might be interesting in seeing how the Amazing Spider-Man franchise is honored throughout its runtime.

Now that both Garfield and Maguire returned to their roles as Spider-Man, fans are curious if/when they'll one again appear in upcoming Marvel movies. Specifically the next two Avengers movies, which are expected to span the multiverse. For his part, Andrew Garfield cryptically responded to chatter he'll suit back up, although he hasn't been confirmed yet via the Doomsday cast announcement.

All will be revealed when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18th of next year as part of the 2026 movie release list, and Secret Wars which will follow suit December 17th, 2027. Fingers crossed we get to see Garfield appear in at least one of those titles.

As someone who has seen almost all of Yorgos Lanthimos’s movies, I have come to expect and appreciate his special brand of weirdness. It’s a strangeness that I find charming and exciting. Therefore, I was extremely excited to get to see his latest film, Bugonia, early at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival. It met and exceeded my expectations.

I think it may be one of my favorite Lanthimos movies and one of his best. I know some may find that statement controversial, but I really enjoyed how it was more grounded (somewhat) in reality than many of his previous films. It was also less ambiguous than some of my other favorites from the director. I also really enjoy a good movie where the two leads are equally terrible.

Warning: Bugonia spoilers are ahead. Proceed with caution.

I Thought Of Bugonia As A Villain Vs. Villain Story

Some may classify the leads of Bugonia as antiheroes, and they may have some of the same characteristics as iconic antiheroes, but I see Michelle (Emma Stone) and Teddy (Jesse Plemons) as standard villains. They may not necessarily be evil, but their deeds and intentions are not really rooted in goodness.

Michelle runs a corporation that has benefited from the deaths of others. She barely shows remorse for her pursuit of wealth and for who and what she has hurt because of her company. Teddy thinks he’s doing good by trying to expose Michelle and save the planet. However, he has killed innocent people and seems to be on a vengeance quest. These are not good people.

Now, I do think they possess all the traits that make villains fascinating, but also some that make them heroic. They’re likable at times, break your heart, and you understand both of their motives. Michelle and Teddy believe they’re the heroes of this story; they’re bad guys with a point. I found them extremely intriguing because, based on my definition of a villain, they’re both incredible ones for how believable they feel. They’re the type of villains that leave an impression and are realistic.

Michelle and Teddy could easily be people I meet one day, and that makes them scary as heck. The best villains are ones grounded in reality; you can see how life creates them. They represent the villains of everyday life.

However, I Could Sympathize With Both Characters At Times

Michelle is kidnapped and held captive by a madman who thinks she’s an alien. Whether she is or isn’t doesn’t matter because Teddy is still a threat to her survival either way. In general, as a woman, it’s also even scarier to be held captive by two men. There is the threat of death and other torture. You can’t help but sympathize and fear for Michelle.

There is a reason for Teddy's madness. He has been traumatized by the situation, and his mother’s own misguided decisions and beliefs. He then gets consumed by the world of conspiracy theorists. He’s impressionable, vulnerable, and in pain. Though you may not agree with the type of people Teddy represents, it’s easy to feel bad for him. He was lost and went down the wrong path.

I think the best villains are the ones that are undeniably human. You could be one bad day away from becoming a Teddy, or if you grew up with a little more privilege, you could have become a Michelle. It’s easy to see yourself in them at times. If you love your parents, you can understand how Teddy could go this far to help or get revenge for his mother. If you were once a dreamer who thought you were going to save the world but ended up hurting it, then you understand Michelle.

You can be villains and still be very sympathetic.

Michelle And Teddy Are Both Complex And Dark, And That Really Ties Into One Of Bugonia's Main Topics

Once again, you understand both of their motivations. They can be villains and still have reasonable motives. I think Michelle and Teddy are trying to save the world, but doing it in terrible ways. They are also using and sacrificing others in the pursuit of the greater good. The greater good in question may look different to each, but both are grounded in the idea that the world needs saving.

Bugonia has a very bleak and cynical take on life and the world. In short, the movie thinks Earth and the world are doomed. Neither Michelle nor Teddy can save it. No one can save it, despite their best intentions. Their attempts will just continue to cause more problems. Bugonia is almost the opposite of a movie about hope. It’s about accepting that the world cannot be saved. It’s not necessarily freeing, but an interesting take.

I Didn't Know Who To Root For Or Against

I found myself saying at times that Michelle has to be taken down, then I would change to seeing Teddy as the bigger problem. I rooted for and against each throughout Bugonia. However, eventually, I accepted that this isn’t a movie where we should root against or for either of them. They’re not people to root for, and rooting against them seems pointless. It’s just a take-the-journey type of film.

Once I accepted that they’re not characters worthy of supporting, it made the Bugonia experience even more entertaining. I could just watch their antics with amusement.

Bugonia Really Made Me Think About The Concept Of The Monsters Made, Not Born

I don’t think Teddy or Michelle are inherently evil or villains. I think life and society turned them that way. I have seen a couple of the highly anticipated upcoming movies of 2025 so far, and that seems to be a running theme: the world turning people into monsters. Michelle became one because of her corporate greed and maybe losing sight of her initial goals and mission.

Teddy has been wronged by Michelle’s company. He’s also just a worker bee, so he's always going to be insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Michelle and Teddy are monsters because the world turns them into monsters. They are both doomed from the start, especially Teddy with his upbringing and life.

Bugonia is a really fascinating character study along with having one crazy plot. It’s definitely worth seeing, even if to see Emma Stone rock a great shaved head. I may also need to watch Save the Green Planet! to compare.

Bugonia is playing nationwide.

Emma Stone has quickly grown into one of the most revered actresses of this century, and while her acting chops are a huge part of it, it’s also her commitment to the roles she takes on. She’s dyed her hair brunette, blonde, and back to red, but she’s never actually been bald. For her role in Bugonia, the Superbad actress shaved her head for the first time, and let’s just say it wasn’t an easy A.

The Help actress is once again teaming up with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos to star in his upcoming release Bugonia, set to premiere this fall on the 2025 movie schedule. This will be the director and actress’s fourth collaboration, following Kinds of Kindness, the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite. This time, though, the Cruella actress said via IndieWire that Lanthimos’ project included a huge change to her appearance that couldn't be avoided:

Yet even knowing it was gonna happen, and that her frequent collaborator Jesse Plemons would be handling the clippers, Stone said it still wasn’t easy to do when the time came. She explained that she had a moment of doubt right before “action,” saying:

Stone is not the first actor to shave their head for a film or TV show (I see you, Millie Bobby Brown), but doing it on camera is less common. This meant they only had one take to get it right, and there was no room for panic once the cameras were rolling.

The Eddington actress said she found solace in the fact that her mom once had no choice but to be bald, either, but because she was battling cancer as opposed to doing it for something she loves. So ever the professional, the Zombieland actress managed to stay in character with a straight face as Plemons buzzed away.

In this Will Tracy homage to Save The Green Planet, the Civil War actor and his accomplice, played by Aidan Delbis, kidnap a high-powered CEO (Stone) they believe is really an alien sent to destroy Earth. In the trailer, Plemons' character Teddy justifies shaving Michelle’s hair to prevent her from contacting her mothership.

I know the Crazy Stupid Love actress was hesitant about the complete chop, but I think she pulls it off, even if I can’t stop seeing Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange.

However, as Stone has realized, it’s just hair. It grows back. She’s currently rocking the pixie cut again, which I personally think is one of her best looks. I can’t wait to see her on the red carpet for this movie, but I’m even more excited to see the actual film, as I can already tell from the trailer that it will be up there with her best performances.

Be sure to catch Bugonia when it releases in theaters worldwide on Friday, October 31st.

When you’ve been in Hollywood as long as Emma Stone, fans tend to think they know just about everything about you. But even two-time Oscar winners have little quirks and stories that pop up in interviews. When her Poor Things co-star Mark Ruffalo slipped and called Emma “Emily” in a joint interview, it led to some laughter. However, it also sparked a surprisingly sweet exchange about her real name and how much she’d love for folks to call her by it.

The moment happened while the pair were playing LADbible’s Agree to Disagree game. The conversation had already gone delightfully offbeat, with the two debating their favorite Spice Girl and revealing their go-to McDonald’s orders. Yet it was Ruffalo calling her “Emily” that really stood out in the clip, which you can watch in the Instagram video below:

As seen above, the two laughed about their mutual love of McDonald’s, the Zodiac actor recalled buying his costar a few late-night meals and McFlurries before blurting out: “You’re my best friend, Emily…Emma.” The La La Land star immediately grinned and set the record straight for the crew watching. She quipped:

The crew burst into laughter, and Stone leaned into the moment with her signature comedic timing. She added:

Ruffalo kept the bit going: “People are like, ‘Her name’s not Emily.’”Stone playfully finished the thought, “You’re like, ‘Oh, buddy, if you only saw her birth certificate.’”

The Cruella lead, who has been going by “Emma” professionally since her teens, was born Emily Jean Stone. She initially tried to join the Screen Actors Guild under that name, but it was already taken. That’s when she adopted “Emma” as her stage name — though in past interviews, she’s admitted she sometimes still misses being called Emily.

That interview moment highlights how Ruffalo and Stone balance humor with honesty in press interviews, which is part of why fans eat these clips up. Whether they’re joking about McDonald’s orders, trading quips about their co-stars, or, in this case, accidentally pulling back the curtain on something as simple as a stage name, it makes them feel more relatable. For two actors with Oscars, Marvel blockbusters, and critical darlings under their belts, it’s refreshing to see them break out of promo-speak and just have a real conversation.

What started as a slip of the tongue turned into a genuinely sweet moment, giving fans a glimpse of just how natural the chemistry is between The Hulk actor and The Easy A breakout. Watching the two laugh their way through it only reinforces why their on-screen dynamic works so well, because they clearly just enjoy being around each other.

Emma Stone’s 2025 movie schedule is busier than ever. She recently sparked plenty of debate with Ari Aster’s Eddington , and her next project, Bugonia, a dark comedy–sci-fi thriller that reunites her with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos on October 31. Mark Ruffalo, meanwhile, has been reportedly returning as Bruce Banner in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Comic book projects have been dominating the entertainment world for years now, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Fans who spent years watching the Marvel movies in order will recall how before Tom Holland suited up as Peter Parker we were treated to two Amazing Spider-Man movies (which are streaming now with a Disney+ subscription). Emma Stone starred as Gwen Stacy and recently recalled feeling "psychotic" while promoting those blockbusters.

Spider-Man movies have never been far from theaters, and the Amazing Spider-Man flicks have been getting love ever since Andrew Garfield appeared in No Way Home. While speaking with Vogue about her fashion choices throughout the years Stone spoke about her time as Gwen, offering:

How sweet is that? While Amazing Spider-Man 3 was cancelled, it sounds like Stone really loved her time playing Gwen Stacy on the big screen. If anything thanks to the people she met. That includes Andrew Garfield, as the co-stars dated in real life. Of course, there was a downside to her time in the genre.

While reminiscing about the fashion she wore during Amazing Spider-Man's time on the big screen, Stone got honest about what might be the most challenging aspect of the gig: the long, exhausting press tours. As she put it:

Honestly, can you blame her? Travel and jet lag take its toll on all of us, but traveling to nine different countries and multiple time zones in just a few weeks must be disorienting. It certainly sounds like it made Emma Stone feel a little bit crazy.

Moviegoers have seen how long Marvel's press tours are, with cast members sometimes getting a bit loopy as a result. That's definitely was Stone was describing here, something she experience twice while starring in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Luckily she loved the gig enough to make it worth it.

While a third Amazing Spider-Man movie never came to fruition, I have to wonder how much Stone could have possible factored into the action of that scrapped blockbuster. After all, Gwen Stacy famously died in the sequel, despite Peter's attempt to save her.

While Stone hasn't played that role in years, Gwen's fate was recently addressed on the big screen. Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker saved MJ in No Way Home in a way that he failed his girlfriend, which created a very emotional sequence. We'll just have to see if the Social Network actor reprises that role in upcoming Marvel movies.

The Amazing Spider-Man movies are streaming on Disney+. The next MCU movie hitting theaters is actually Tom Holland's Brand New Day on July 31st of next year as part of the 2026 movie release list.

Ari Aster, the director behind some of the best A24 movies like Midsommar and Hereditary, is back with a new film on the 2025 movie calendar. Eddington, which hits theaters on July 18, is a step away from horror, as Aster tackles the neo-Western genre. People had a lot of thoughts about Beau Is Afraid, Aster’s last film, and it sounds like Eddington is equally divisive.

Eddington reunites Ari Aster with Beau Is Afraid star Joaquin Phoenix, who plays small-town sheriff Joe Cross in this tense 2020-era dark comedy. Pedro Pascal co-stars as Mayor Ted Garcia, and they’ll be joined in the upcoming A24 movie by Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes. David Ehrlich of IndieWire gives it an A-, praising the director for his exploration of the pandemic as the moment that forever tore a hole in the fabric of American society. He says:

Lindsey Bahr of the Associated Press gives the movie 2 stars out of 4, writing that no side is spared as the town spirals into chaos and gruesome violence over mask mandates, conspiracy theories and TikTok trends. Revisiting 2020 again so soon in such a way just might break your brain, Bahr says, writing:

Aaron Neuwirth of We Live Entertainment says Ari Aster’s Eddington is sure to trigger certain emotions in the audience, but is also quite funny, playing up comedic tension to balance the more violent portions of the movie. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal are excellent, Neuwirth says, continuing:

Travis Hopsin of Punch Drunk Critics says the fear surrounding the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests that’s depicted in Eddington is “designed to enrage us,” but the most terrifying part of Ari Aster’s film is how accurate it is. The critic says:

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting gives Eddington 2 out of 5 skulls, however, calling it “empty provocation.” Ari Aster gets too ambitious, the critic says, trying to recapture every point of contention from 2020, which makes the movie increasingly convoluted over time. It’s well-directed, and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is “riveting,” but overall, Navarro finds it lacking:

It sounds like Ari Aster is dealing with some pretty heavy material from a time we remember all too well and that we haven’t exactly gotten past as a society. If you want to go on this ride with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and the rest, Eddington will be available to catch on the big screen starting Friday, July 17.

They say that seeing is believing... but we also can't always believe what we see. Case in point: a recent video that went viral from the Eddington red carpet during the Cannes Film Festival, which saw stars Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal temporarily harassed by a bee. Watching the clip, one might get the impression that Butler is using his breath to blow the bee toward his co-star's face, but that is a take on the situation that Stone has amusingly and vehemently denied.

With Eddington (the latest film from filmmaker Ari Aster) set to be released by A24 on July 18, Emma Stone popped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week for a sit down with guest host Diego Luna, and among the subjects discussed was the aforementioned viral video. The Andor star suggested to the actress that Austin Butler was making a specific effort to get the buzzing insect to fly into her face by blowing it in her direction, but Stone refused that idea because she doesn't believe that action fits Butler's disposition. Said the two-time Oscar winner,

From the Charles Manson cultist Tex in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to the ready-to-rumble Benny in The Bikeriders to the sadistic Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Part II, Austin Butler has a history of playing dark and shady characters on the big screen at this point in his career – but Emma Stone's thoughts suggest that his performances don't represent his personality. He play be able to play dark and evil well, but he isn't the kind of guy who would intentionally try and get someone stung by an insect.

Doubling down, Diego Luna comedically suggested that Austin Butler not only tried to blow the bee in Emma Stone's direction, but that he even brought it with him to the carpet. Not only did Stone refute that idea, but she even went as far as to suggest that there was someone else present far more likely to unleash that kind of nefarious plot: Pedro Pascal. Said Stone,

Pedro Pascal got a lot of nice attention from seeming to help protect Emma Stone from the bee... but could it all have been a setup for a taste of internet glory?!?! Conspiracy theorists: perhaps you should look into this.

If you haven't seen the video for yourself, you can check it out in the Instagram post down below:

On a more serious note, audiences will soon get to see Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler on the big screen together in Eddington – part of a terrific ensemble cast that also includes Joaquin Phoenix, Deirdre O'Connell, and Luke Grimes. The movie, the third feature from the director of Hereditary, Midsommar and Beau Is Afraid, is set during the summer of 2020 and focuses on a small town in New Mexico where the local sheriff (Phoenix) decides that he is going to run against the mayor (Pascal) in an upcoming election.

You'll be able to catch it in theaters this July – and stay tuned here on CinemaBlend for our interviews with Ari Aster and the cast. In the meantime, as the warm weather continues, be sure to look out for buzzing bees.

It truly is the summer of Pedro Pascal. The Last of Us star is a leading man in multiple A24 flicks releasing this summer on the 2025 movie schedule, including Celine Song’s Materialists and the next film from director Ari Aster. Additionally, he’s making his debut in the MCU on July 25, stepping into the role of Mr. Fantastic in Fantastic Four: First Steps . The Gladiator II actor is everywhere all at once, and his Eddington co-star Emma Stone is here to explain why.

Aster’s fourth feature film Eddington follows a political standoff between the mayor and sheriff of a small New Mexico town, amidst the Covid 19 Pandemic. Based on the trailer, things escalate to an extreme level quickly in this fictional modern western. Eddington features an A-list cast, including Joaquin Phoenix, Austin Butler, Emma Stone, and Luke Grimes, but all anyone can talk about right now is Pedro Pascal. He’s the “internet’s daddy”, and The Favourite actress’ explanation given to Entertainment Tonight as to the viral obsession with the Mandalorian actor is just perfect.

I couldn’t agree more with this statement, but I have to admit, I was a little distracted watching this video. We need to address the elephant in the room, and its name is Emma Stone’s pixie cut. Check out the video in question below:

It suits her so well, and I’m glad she’s hopping on the pixie train instead of the bob bandwagon this summer. Apparently I wasn’t the only one lost in this look on her, with many of the comments on this TikTok video voicing exactly what I am thinking:

• The short hair on her is ethereal–got dayum. -@kmrawr
• Wow she looks gorg with short hair. -@totallychillin
• That’s HER haircut! -@mpc337
• Legend alert (Emma not Pedro) -@spyderlink

The reactions were pretty evenly split between fawning over Stone’s haircut and a similar vibe to the last comment on this list–frustration over asking this stunning, masterclass actress what is so great about her male co-star. Listen, I get the hype around the Game of Thrones actor, I do, especially after his recent Vanity Fair photoshoot. All I’m saying is let’s throw some of that attention Emma Stone’s way because she always eats.

To be fair, she really is channeling her best Ethel Cain for Eddington, which is not her sexiest look, but this is what I love about her. She’s so versatile and can do it all, something she needs reminding of apparently. After she gushed all those nice things about the Narcos actor, ET added that all the same could be said about herself, and she quickly shut down the comment:

Now, Ms. Stone, let’s not sell ourselves short here. The Kinds of Kindness actress was ranked the #2 on The Independent’s Best Actors of The 21st Century list last year, and her film Poor Things swept the 2024 Oscars, even earning her the Academy Award for Best Actress. I do appreciate her humble response though, which is just another reason to love her.

I honestly can’t wait until the La La Land actress’ next appearance just so I can get another glimpse of her. Thankfully, I won’t have to wait very long, as her third collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, just dropped a trailer yesterday. The film, which once again features Stone and Jesse Plemmons, is currently slated to hit theaters November 7, 2025. Here’s to hoping the Cruella actress likes her pixie cut enough to keep it through the fall.

Movie-making is a wild business. Every actor has countless stories of the strange confluence of art and commerce that creating film and television in Hollywood creates. Creative people try to make entertainment while the studio executives behind them try to make it as successful as possible. It’s led to some strange situations, including Seth Rogen having to convince people to let him cast the likes of Emma Stone.

Seth Rogen plays a studio head in his new series, The Studio, available with an Apple TV+ subscription. In doing so, he becomes the guy who finds himself giving the dreaded studio notes that so many filmmakers hate. Speaking with THR, Rogen admits he’s had some bad notes over the years, including having to convince somebody to let him cast certain actors, including two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone. Rogen said:

While Rogen doesn’t mention any movie by name here, back in 2007, Seth Rogen wrote and produced Superbad. The raunchy comedy was one of Rogen’s earliest efforts, and it was also the first major film role for Emma Stone. Being largely unknown at the time, it’s perhaps understandable why some might have had reservations about casting her.

Except that, you know, basically the entire cast of Superbad was unknown at the time, including the other actors Rogen mentions here.

In retrospect, it absolutely is shocking that somebody would take issue with casting Emma Stone. She’s as funny as anybody in Superbad, and that honestly should have been obvious to anybody paying attention. One can only imagine if Rogen had acquiesced to the request and not cast Stone. She certainly would have still gone on to be a major star, and the fact that somebody fought against casting her might have been quite a career stain.

Rogen admits that today, he largely doesn’t acknowledge studio notes. To be fair, there have been times when studio notes improved movies. It's been known to happen. Having said that, it doesn't sound like Seth rogen will be giving them much attention.

The Academy Award for Best Actress has been handed out every year since 1929 — it was initially awarded to star Janet Gaynor for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans — and in the near-century since, it's been presented 97 times to 79 actresses. Winning that coveted statuette is unsurprisingly a dream come true for many a big-screen performer, but the award does come with added attention on the actress's next projects. Will whatever they work on next be as critically acclaimed or commercially successful? Here are 32 films that Oscar-winning actresses did after taking home the Academy Award, and how they were received.

Emma Stone

The whole La La Land Oscars brouhaha at the 2018 ceremony was quite memorable, but clearly so was star Emma Stone's performance as aspiring actress Mia Dolen opposite Ryan Gosling's jazz pianist Seb Wilder. One of Stone's best movies, the role earned the star her first Best Actress win (she would strike gold yet again with her 2024 victory for Poor Things). Her next performance also stirred up awards buzz: she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award for portraying tennis legend Billie Jean King in the sports drama Battle of the Sexes.

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep's history with the Academy Awards is long and legendary: over her decades-spanning career, she's been nominated for a record 21 Oscar nominations, winning thrice. After taking home the Supporting Actress statuette for Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep got her first big Best Actress win for one of her most iconic performances: as the titular character of the devastating 1982 drama Sophie's Choice. Her next role was just as haunting: as Karen Silkwood in the 1983 thriller Silkwood, for which she earned yet another Best Actress nod.

Michelle Yeoh

Along with kicking major butt, Michelle Yeoh made history with her starring role as Evelyn Quan Wang in the 2022 action-dramedy Everything Everywhere All at Once, for she became the first Asian performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. Following that notable win in 2023, the Wicked star lent her voice to the sci-fi flick Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Airazor, a Maximal warrior who transforms into a peregrine falcon. That title earned largely mixed reviews, and it currently sports a 51% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Jessica Chastain

After losing out on the Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty, Jessica Chastain took the Best Actress trophy home for her transformative role as televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in the 2022 bio-drama The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Her next project was far less successful with awards bodies — the action-spy thriller The 355 was both a critical and commercial bomb, reportedly losing Universal an estimated $93 million. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote: "Despite the strong cast, this is the film equivalent of a corn-syrup-based fizzy drink being passed off as chic in taller, slimmer cans."

Frances McDormand

Three-time Best Actress winner Frances McDormand took home her first Oscar in 1997 for her instantly iconic performance as Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson in the classic Coen Brothers dark comedy Fargo. Later that year, the acclaimed performer joined a heavyweight lineup of actresses — including Glenn Close, Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Ehle — in the World War II drama Paradise Road. However, despite that acting clout, the film received mixed reviews, with its approval rating at a lowly 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Brie Larson

Child actor turned Marvel superhero Brie Larson took her career to a whole new level with her performance as kidnapping victim Joy "Ma" Newsome in the 2015 survival drama Room, for which she swept the subsequent awards season and took home the Best Actress Oscar. In 2016, the Lessons in Chemistry lead starred in another survival drama, this time the Ben Wheatley-directed action-comedy Free Fire. CinemaBlend's own Gregory Wakeman wrote of the film: "Free Fire has enough gun blasts and violence to entertain, but ultimately lacks the requisite surprises or savvy to be anything more than a frivolous diversion."

Olivia Colman

Olivia Colman's Best Actress win for her portrayal of Queen Anne in the black-comedy period piece The Favourite was a deserved yet delightfully shocking moment at the 2019 Oscars. Her next role was equally strange, but less acclaimed: she appeared alongside Kaitlyn Dever, Jim Gaffigan and Walton Goggins as snake-handling fundamentalists in the horror mystery Them That Follow. Though it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it earned mixed reviews from critics.

Cate Blanchett

One of the most versatile actors in the industry — she's played Queen Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan, for crying out loud! — eight-time Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett secured her first Best Actress win in 2014 playing a neurotic former socialite in the Woody Allen-directed dramedy Blue Jasmine. And speaking of versatility, the Aussie star followed that awards win with a voice role in the animated fantasy sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2, which got its own Oscar nod for Best Animated Feature.

Sandra Bullock

Rom-com queen Sandra Bullock received her first Best Actress nomination and win in 2010 for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical football drama The Blind Side. Her next film credit was the Stephen Daldry-directed 2011 drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, which did manage to score a Best Picture nod but not without controversy. Chris Krapek of The Huffington Post called the film "not only the worst reviewed Best Picture nominee of the last 10 years, [but] easily the worst film of 2011."

Katharine Hepburn

Hollywood icon Katherine Hepburn earned four Academy Awards for Best Actress out of 12 nominations across her illustrious film career—a record for any performer. The leading lady's first Oscar win was in 1934 for the Pre-Code drama Morning Glory (the rest would come later in the star's life), which she followed up with John Cromwell's Spitfire. Some viewers found Hepburn miscast as "hillbilly" faith healer Trigger Hicks — the film has a 35% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman didn't win the Best Actress Oscar for one of her most beloved performances, as cabaret star Satine in Moulin Rouge! but she instead secured the big win only a year later for playing English writer Virginia Woolf in The Hours. The Babygirl star's first post-award project was the 2003 avant-garde thriller Dogville, written and directed by Lars von Trier. Though the film prompted quite a polarizing response from critics at the time of release, it did end up on several best-of-the-decade roundups, including The Guardian and Paste.

Jennifer Lawrence

If they didn't already love her from her work in the David O. Russell dramedy Silver Linings Playbook, the world certainly fell for Jennifer Lawrence when she charmingly tripped up the stairs to accept her Best Actress statuette in 2013. That fall, she would reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in the second Mockingjay movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which is widely considered the best installment of The Hunger Games film series (it's got a solid 90% Rotten Tomatoes rating) and earned Lawrence a Critics' Choice nod.

Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren is a regal onscreen presence no matter what the role, but her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 docudrama The Queen welcomed her among the Hollywood royalty known as Oscar winners. However, despite the film title, she didn't strike gold with her next project: the Nicolas Cage-led adventure flick National Treasure: Book of Secrets, alongside Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris and Diane Kruger. Per Rotten Tomatoes, critic consensus said of the 35% "Rotten" movie: "A talented cast goes to waste in the improbable National Treasure: Book of Secrets."

Jodie Foster

One of Hollywood's most acclaimed child stars — she was only 12 years old when she starred opposite Robert De Niro in the Martin Scorsese masterpiece Taxi Driver, earning her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress — Jodie Foster successfully segued into more adult fare with the 1988 legal drama The Accused. As an assault survivor Sarah Tobias, Foster received a Best Actress win—it wouldn't be her last, with the star winning the same award for her next film release, one of the greatest horror movies of all time, The Silence of the Lambs.

Halle Berry

Halle Berry made Oscar history when she became the first African-American woman ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performance as a struggling widow in 2001's Monster's Ball. After becoming an Oscar winner, Berry became a Bond Girl — bikini-sporting NSA agent Jinx, to be exact — in the 2002 spy flick Die Another Day, opposite Pierce Brosnan as 007. However, the latter is widely considered to be the worst entry in James Bond's canon.

Julie Andrews

A legendary performer across both screen and stage, Julie Andrews won her Best Actress Oscar in 1964 for a truly iconic role: as the titular nanny extraordinaire in Mary Poppins. And she didn't stop there — the very next year, she would get yet another Academy Award nomination for an equally beloved character, as The Sound of Music's Maria, the sweet, singing governess to the Von Trapp family. Talk about an epic filmography!

Kathy Bates

One of the best Kathy Bates performances, as obsessive superfan Annie Wilkes in the 1990 Stephen King thriller Misery, earned the talented actress her first Academy Award nomination and win. (She would have three more Oscar nods across her decades-spanning career.) Bates' next film role was in the South African drama The Road to Mecca, based on the Athol Fugard play of the same name — the performer was praised for both her acting and her accent work.

Hilary Swank

Before there were transgender characters like Emilia Pérez (Emilia Pérez), Sin-Dee Rella (Tangerine), or Raymond Rayon (Dallas Buyers Club), there was Brandon Teena, the real-life trans man at the center of the 1999 drama Boys Don't Cry. Hilary Swank's harrowing, career-making performance as Teena earned the star her first Best Actress award, with critics like Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman calling the actress a "revelation" in the film. Reactions to her next movie, the 2000 supernatural thriller The Gift, were far more mixed. A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "The picture is saved from mediocrity by [director Sam] Raimi's smooth competence, and by the unusually high quality of the acting."

Renée Zellweger

After prior Best Actress nominations for two of her best movies, Bridget Jones' Diary and Chicago — plus a Best Supporting Actress win for Cold Mountain — Renée Zellweger finally got her big Best Actress win for her portrayal of Judy Garland in Rupert Goold's Judy. After taking a multi-year break from acting, Zellweger's much-anticipated next film credit will be a return to a beloved role, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman was so convincing as a troubled ballerina in the 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan that she thought the film was a docudrama while making it. So, it's no surprise, then, that her tour-de-force performance garnered the star an Academy Award for Best Actress. Ever one to keep you guessing genre-wise, Portman's next role was in the 2011 stoner fantasy-comedy Your Highness, which sadly was a box office bomb and received largely negative reviews from critics.

Cher

The "Goddess of Pop" Cher officially added the title of "Oscar winner" to her already legendary showbiz career with her 1988 Best Actress triumph for one of her best movies, the acclaimed rom-com Moonstruck. Her next movie role came two years later as Rachel Flax, the saucy single mom to young Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci in the 1990 dramedy Mermaids. The heartfelt title has been dubbed an "underappreciated 1990s coming-of-age gem" by The Guardian, which singled out Cher's performance as "nothing short of magical."

Kate Winslet

One of the greatest performers of her generation, it took Kate Winslet a whopping six Oscar nominations before she finally took home the Academy Award for Best Actress, for playing a former Nazi camp guard in 2008's The Reader. Her next onscreen role was in the 2011 black comedy Carnage, by disgraced director Roman Polanski. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the performances of the cast, including Winslet's — she earned a Golden Globe nod for Best Actress in a Motional Picture Musical or Comedy.

Julia Roberts

After a decade that solidified her as rom-com royalty, Julia Roberts proved her dramatic bonafides by winning the Best Actress Oscar for playing the title role in the 2000 legal drama Erin Brockovich, one of her best movies. America's Sweetheart returned to her romantic comedy roots with her next film, fittingly entitled America's Sweethearts, though critics weren't too sweet on the movie. It only holds a 33% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus reading: "Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts."

Susan Sarandon

After Oscar nominations for Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil and The Client, Susan Sarandon was finally named Best Actress by the Academy for playing Sister Helen Prejean in 1995's Dead Man Walking. Her next film was the decidedly lighter kids' flick James and the Giant Peach, in which Sarandon voiced the character of Miss Spider. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with Randy Newman's score earning an Oscar nod; however, the film was a box office failure, grossing $300,000 less than its budget.

Marion Cotillard

French movie star Marion Cotillard became the first actor to win an Academy Award for a French-language performance for her transformative turn as legendary singer Édith Piaf in the 2007 music biopic La Vie en Rose. Her next film credit was another biographical drama — this time, the Michael Mann-directed gangster film Public Enemies, alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Though many critics praised the leading performances, reviews were mixed, with the title holding a 68% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin's acting debut in 1986's Children of a Lesser God saw the actress making Oscar history not once but twice: she became the first deaf performer to ever win an Academy Award, as well as the youngest winner in the Best Actress category. The CODA star followed up that momentous victory with the 1987 Western Walker, starring Ed Harris, Richard Masur and Peter Boyle. The historical drama was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival but received very polarized reviews and was a failure at the box office.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Fun fact: Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't initially supposed to star as Viola de Lesseps in the 1998 Bard-inspired romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love — Julia Roberts was. But Gwyn is no doubt grateful the latter ultimately left the production, as the role won her a Best Actress Oscar. Her next project was equally acclaimed: 1999's Anthony Minghella-helmed thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley scored five Academy Award nominations.

Audrey Hepburn

Screen legend Audrey Hepburn won her first Oscar in 1953 for her debut starring role, as Princess Ann in the classic black-and-white comedy Roman Holiday. The British beauty would later be nominated four more times for films like her first post-award project, the 1954 Billy Wilder-directed dramedy Sabrina, as well as The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Wait Until Dark.

Sally Field

The Academy likes her, they really like her — yes, Sally Field has won not one but two Best Actress statuettes, the first being for her inspiring performance in 1979's Norma Rae and the second five years later for another one of her best films, Places in the Heart. Following her first win, Field reprised her role as Carrie, or "Frog," in 1980's Smoky and the Bandit II opposite her real-life love Burt Reynolds. Though the sequel was a box office success, prompting a third film, it received almost entirely negative reviews from critics.

Charlize Theron

One of the best Charlize Theron roles was also the star's most remarkably unrecognizable: the South African-born actress earned a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of real-life prostitute and serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 crime drama Monster. Her next big-screen performance was the 2004 war drama Head in the Clouds, which saw Theron acting opposite her then-romantic partner Stuart Townsend. The film was a critical and box office failure; in the San Francisco Chronicle, Walter Addiego wrote: "If not for the presence of Charlize Theron, it's hard to imagine this film would have attracted anywhere near the kind of attention it's gotten."

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon proved she was more than just a musical sidekick with her Oscar-winning performance as June Carter Cash in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. The Legally Blonde star was next seen in the harrowing 2007 political thriller Rendition opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep and Peter Sarsgaard. However, "the impressive cast cannot rescue Rendition, which explores complex issues in woefully simplified terms," reads the critics' consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, with the film at a paltry 47% approval rating.

Elizabeth Taylor

Through much of the mid-20th century, celluloid icon Elizabeth Taylor was one of MGM's most bankable stars. In fact, her final film for the studio — 1960's Butterfield 8, playing glamorous call girl Gloria Wandrous — earned the movie star her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Her next performance was just as iconic: as the titular Egyptian queen in the 1963 historical epic Cleopatra, which received nine Oscar nominations and four wins, though, alas, none for Taylor specifically.

A Real Pain was an underdog movie-turned-indie sensation and it's thanks to the writer, director and costar Jesse Eisenberg creating the story. It’s his costar Kieran Culkin’s amazing performance post-hit TV series Succession that made it Golden Globe worthy. The Home Alone alum almost turned it down, but thanks to Emma Stone, Culkin had a change of heart.

The Eisenberg-directed film was the saddest and funniest movie last year, according to our own Riley Utley. While it didn’t rank officially as one of the best movies of 2024, it became something much more special to its fans. Culkin chatted with Entertainment Tonight at the Palm Springs International Film Society carpet for its award show about how he almost turned the role down, but didn’t because of Poor Things star Emma Stone. He said this of how she convinced him not to jump ship:

Stone was one of the movie’s producers and thankfully backed him out of leaving the award-winning role. I don’t know if the Social Network actor could’ve found someone as good as Culkin to play Benji Kaplan, so it’s great to hear that it was more than just his costar trying to get him to stay. Stone has had a great couple of years, including, helping produce the familial comedy-drama, multiple Yorgos Lanthimos movies and ranking pretty high on the 21st-century best performers list (although, people have a lot to say about where she sits on the list). This movie seems like a real team effort from the beginning to accepting awards.

Kieran Culkin actor explained why he originally thought he may step down from the film, noting wanting to spend time with his family, saying:

The Father of the Bride actor has a pretty great reason for his potential exit. I don’t know if there would be a more valid reason that would be worth considering backing out for except for major life-changing reasons. Regardless, it’s great to know that the whole team, including the La La Land star, was vying for the famous child star.

One thing is for sure: A Real Pain wouldn’t be what it is today without Kieran Culkin. Fans like myself need to praise Emma Stone for swaying the She’s All That actor to change his mind. And the award-winning role may not have snagged the attention if Jesse Eisenberg had to go with another actor. Stream the Eisenberg-written movie with a Hulu subscription.

The 21st century has brought us some of the best movies to date, from Gladiator to Interstellar to Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. With so many formidable actors who have uniquely contributed to this century’s cinema, it's incredibly hard to try and rank only 60 of them. Yet that is what one outlet decided to do. With that, celebrated actress Emma Stone received a high ranking, even above stars like Christian Bale and Denzel Washington. With that, fans aren't holding back their thoughts.

Just recently, The Independent shared its 60 Best Actors of 21-Century Cinema list. The No. 1 spot was bestowed upon the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, while Emma Stone was behind him at No. 2. That not only put her above Bale (No. 14) and Washington (No. 4) but also in front of the likes of Viola Davis (No. 39), Frances McDormand (No. 32), Joaquin Phoenix (No. 26) and more.

It shouldn't be all that surprising that people took to social media to weigh in on the rankings. And, while some declared their love for the Cruella star, they simultaneously couldn't accept the standings. Check out what user @LucaGuadagnegro had to say:

Some commenters were a bit more blunt when sharing their thoughts on the matter. For instance, @sewelankoana shared a brief assessment that was particularly blunt:

For the most part, people’s qualm was not in regards to Emma Stone being included on the list but rather her being placed in the second highest spot. Many X users even stated who they thought should be above the Amazing Spider-Man actress. Check out some more responses:

• Love me some Emma Stone and Florence Pugh, but i think even they agreed that to put them top 10 above Viola Davis, Amy Adams or Kate Winslet is a bit too much recent bias -@Lyta232323
• How tf is Emma Stone higher than DDL?!?!? -@davesteele71
• Emma Stone being above Isabelle HUPPERT, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett is a joke - @kalatozov
• Emma Stone?! Go home, you’re drunk. 🙄 - @Archimusik

While I don’t think we need to outright dismiss the entire list based on one ranking, I think the line of questioning is valid. It certainly is a tough decision to make, to say the least. That's especially true when you have an actor like Christian Bale finding his stride in some of the best movies of the 2000s, with performances as Batman, Patrick Bateman and more.

Then, of course, there's Denzel Washington, who has the uncanny ability to steal a scene. Washington's best films more than convey his range as an actor. Malcolm X, Training Day, Flight and Gladiator II represent just a few of the strong performances he's put in. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that he's within the Top 5 of the list.

It’s important to emphasize that the majority of people are not questioning her talent. In my opinion, and I’d bet most people would agree that Emma Stone deserves to be on this list. Stone's catalog of films convey her impressive range in acting, from her impeccable comedic timing in movies like Easy A and Zombieland to her ability to deliver raw emotional moments like in Birdman and The Favourite. The Battle of the Sexes actress has certainly proved she has longevity in this biz, and of course, she has two Oscars to her name. With that, she won Best Actress for La La Land and earned the same award for Poor Things.

Ultimately, no online ranking is ever going to be able to please everyone who reads it. People have inherently different tastes from one another, which The Independent even acknowledged in the intro of its list, alongside their ranking criteria: only films, not TV, released post-2000 could be taken into consideration for an actor’s spot on the list. Most likely, this is why certain celebrated actors like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks were ranked lower on the list, having experienced their prime years in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

At the end of the day, do I think the list is perfect? No, I don’t. I have my own opinions just like everyone else. However, I respect the folks who made this list simply because it reignites healthy debate and conversation around cinema, which I love to take part in. And, of course, I also love Emma Stone, who deserves to be mentioned alongside the best actors working today.

You can stream Emma Stone's latest film, Kinds of Kindness, which is currently streamable with a Hulu subscription. Be sure that you also keep your eyes peeled on the 2025 movie schedule, as she has films set for release on it.

There is nothing more iconic than a good looking leather jacket on a movie star. There are as many styles of jacket as there are stars, which makes looking good easy. From Marlon Brando to Keanu Reeves, leather jackets have been a part of some of the most incredible looking costumes ever. So, here is our list of some of the most iconic leather coats and jackets in Hollywood history.

Marlon Brando In The Wild One

This list wouldn't be complete without including the O.G. leather look on Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The 1953 film about a biker gang was not only a big hit in theaters, but it was a huge influence on society. From the outlaw biker gangs who took inspiration from the look to regular folks who saw the leather jackets as the coolest of cool.

Wesley Snipes In Blade

Wesley Snipes is the coolest-looking superhero in Blade with his iconic look in leather and sunglasses. Everything about the costume and the character oozes cool and defines Blade's renegade nature.

Arnold Schwarzenegger In The Terminator Movies

Leather jackets definitely provide a look for someone to say "Don't mess with me," and nowhere is this more true in Hollywood than when Arnold Schwarzenegger wears one in the Terminator movies. Starting with the first movie, he's usually seen in one and you definitely don't want to mess with him.

Rooney Mara In The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Leather jackets have always been a symbol of rebelliousness in Hollywood. In The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it's the perfect look for Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) to portray both her anti-social nature and her tough exterior. You can't imagine wearing anything else.

John Travolta In Saturday Night Fever

In the 1970s, no one was cooler than John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. The strut, the hair, the dancing, and the leather jacket all made that possible. The look is so iconic that people are still imitating it today, five decades later.

Carrie-Anne Moss In The Matrix Movies

It's safe to say that The Matrix movies would not be the same if the characters were dressed in anything but the coolest and toughest-looking leather jackets and coats. From Neo to Morpheus to, of course, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) in her amazing looking long leather coat. It's just such an amazing bit of costume.

Brad Pitt In Fight Club

Not every leather jacket has to be black to look completely awesome. Tyler Durden's reddish-brown jacket in Fight Club has become one of the most famous looks in Hollywood. Of course, it's easy for Brad Pitt to pull off almost any look, but he might just look his coolest in Fight Club.

Hugh Jackman In The X-Men Films

Leather jackets have been used a lot over the years to depict both heroes and anti-heroes. Nowhere is this more clear than on Logan aka Wolverine, as depicted by Hugh Jackman in the X-Men and now in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Logan is anti-social to an extreme and his leather jacket definitely indicates that you don't want to pick a fight with him.

Olivia Newton-John In Grease

The costumes in Grease are amazing. Of course, the T-Birds' jackets are fantastic, but it's the leather jacket that Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) dons in the last act that looks the most amazing. She completely changes her look and the jacket is what inspires the whole thing.

Keanu Reaves In The John Wick Movies

Keanu Reaves loves to wear leather in his movies, but the brown leather jacket in the first John Wick movie is probably the coolest. It's great because it's cool as heck, but it's not too over the top for the retired assassin. It makes John Wick seem normal, yet completely cool and ready for anything.

Eddie Murphy In Raw

In his standup movie Raw, Eddie Murphy takes the cool leather look to the next level. Not only does he have an amazing purple leather jacket, he compliments it with matching leather pants. It wasn't the first time he wore a leather outfit on stage, he wore a similar red one in his first standup movie, Delirious, but the purple one in Raw tops the red one in every way.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds isn't the best movie in Michelle Pfeiffer's filmography, despite having an amazing soundtrack, but for an actress who had a whole bunch of iconic looks in the '80s and '90s, her jeans and leather jacket look in the movie is one of the most memorable. It's a costume that tells you so much about the character without saying a word.

Steve McQueen In The Great Escape

It's hard to argue that Steve McQueen isn't one of the coolest stars in Hollywood history. Of course, you can earn that kind of praise without at least one leather jacket. In The Great Escape, McQueen's brown leather bomber jacket is the epitome of cool. Even when he is covered in dirt, he looks great, but it's when he's wearing the jacket that he looks his best.

Tom Cruise In Top Gun

In the '80s, there was no movie cooler than Top Gun and there was no cooler character than Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise. The leather bomber jacket Cruise wore in the movie became so iconic and such a key characteristic of the role that when Top Gun: Maverick released its first teaser, the jacket was a big part of it.

Harrison Ford In Raiders Of The Lost Ark

There is something about a distressed leather jacket that brings authenticity to a character that few other costume pieces can. Nowhere in film history is this more true than with Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in all of the Indiana Jones movies. The jacket, along with the hat and the whip, completely define the character in every way. Is there any other kind of jacket you could ever see Indy wearing? Of course not.

Uma Thurman In Kill Bill

There are a lot things that make Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill cool, but Uma Thurman's yellow leather motorcycle jacket tops the list. It's become an iconic costume over the years, and while not everyone could pull off the look, Thurman certainly does and everyone loves it.

Mel Gibson In The Mad Max Movies

As distressed leather jackets go, Mel Gibson's in the Mad Max movies is among the best looking. Looking into a dystopian future, it makes complete sense that leather jackets would still be part of the fashion. They are almost indestructible and have that classic look that almost no other piece of clothing has.

Joey Lauren Adams In Chasing Amy

This one flies a little bit under the radar, but it's an amazing look and deserves to be on this list. Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams) in Chasing Amy has a lot of "rock and roll" to her style and nothing says rock star like leather.

Samuel L. Jackson In The MCU

As Deadpool asks in the post-credits scene in the original Deadpool movie, "Did you expect Samuel L. Jackson in a saucy leather number?" Well, yes, frankly we might have, since Jackson, playing the cooler-than-cool Nick Fury often shows up in a fantastic-looking leather jacket in the MCU. It is something we expect (even if Deadpool wasn't in the MCU at the time).

Tom Hardy In The Dark Knight Rises

Great Villains are often in leather. In The Dark Knight Rises Bane wears one of the greatest leather coats ever. The fur-lined brown leather number is perfect for his character and it's a look that not every villain could pull off, but Bane (Tom Hardy) certainly does.

Halle Berry In Die Another Day

Halle Berry has a few iconic outfits in the Pierce Brosnan-led James Bond film Die Another Day and while her bikini may be the most famous, the red leather jacket she wears for a lot of the movie is one heck of a look too. Sure, the movie isn't the best Brosnan-era Bond film, but you can't deny how great Berry looks in her costumes.

James Dean In Rebel Without A Cause

Seven decades after his death in 1955, James Dean is still the epitome of cool. Though he only starred in three movies, his impact on pop culture is immense. His red leather jacket in Rebel Without A Cause is one reason why. Because Dean's career was so brief, we don't have a lot of "looks" from him, making the jacket that much more iconic.

Kurt Russell In Escape From New York

If you want to look cool and look like you just don't care about anything, a distressed leather jacket can tell a lot of people just how you feel without saying a word. Take the look of Snake Pilsson (Kurt Russell) in Escape From New York. Has anyone ever looked tougher, cooler, and more aloof in an action film? No, not really.

Sigourney Weaver In Aliens

Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is one of the most amazing characters in action movie history. Of course, that means she must look cool as heck in leather, and she does in Aliens. It's not her most iconic look, but come on, you can't deny how awesome it is.

Tom Cruise In Mission: Impossible

Let's be honest, Tom Cruise always looks good in a nice leather jacket, but if you're ranking his costumes by how good looking they are, the jacket he wears in the first Mission: Impossible is at the top. When he is doing his sleight of hand with the disc with the NOC list on it while wearing the jacket is one of the best non-action scenes in the whole series.

Peter Fonda And Dennis Hopper In Easy Rider

If you wanted to be a rebellious hippie in the late 1960s, a leather jacket was a good place to start with your look. Especially if you were on a motorcycle like Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. Fonda has a more traditional biker look with his black leather jacket, but Hopper's character goes for a sweet suede jacket with some awesome fringe. Both look amazing.

Anne Hathaway In Get Smart

Get Smart might not be the best movie that Anne Hathaway has ever been in, but her white leather coat looks fantastic in it. It's not the only time Hathaway has shown up in an iconic leather look, who could ever forget her look in The Dark Knight Rises, it is a unique look that you don't see in a lot of movies. Of course, she completely pulls it off.

Matt Dillon In The Outsiders

The greasers in The Outsiders are mostly known for their jean jackets, but one greaser, Dally (Matt Dillion) wears a leather jacket and he looks exactly the part in it. It's not the cleanest jacket in the world, we wouldn't expect it to be, but man it looks so cool!

Laurence Fishburne In The Matrix

Like many of the characters in The Matrix, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) looks totally iconic in his leather duster. Sure it's not a "jacket," but there was no way we could leave it off of this list!

Jon Voight In Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a little bit of a forgotten movie these days, but it was a massive hit when it was released. Those who know, know. Jon Voight's suede jacket with the long fringe isn't a look everyone can pull off, and even in the movie it's not always the best look, but looking back, it's safe to say it belongs on this list as one of the best in Hollywood history.

Jason Momoa In Fast X

It's not hard for Jason Momoa to look cool, I think we can all agree. Still, in Fast X, that black and white snakeskin-looking leather jacket is simply amazing. It's not a look that anyone can pull off, in fact, many would look ridiculous in it, but not Momoa, not by a longshot.

Emma Stone In La La Land

Red leather is a fantastic look, though not everyone looks good in it. Emma Stone in La La Land isn't just anyone though. Stone just looks fantastic in the jacket and it, along with all the others on this list, has become iconic.

Nowadays, Emma Stone is well-known as being one of the best actresses of our generation with two Academy Awards to show for it, but there was a time when she was a gem of a talent waiting to be discovered. Her Zombieland co-star Jesse Eisenberg got to see this firsthand when she auditioned for what’s considered one of Emma Stone’s best films and among great zombie movies these days, and effectively blew him away.

After Emma Stone crushed it with her first role in Superbad at the age of 19, the actress popped up in comedies all over the place, from The House Bunny to Easy A. One of those early roles was, of course, Zombieland, where she played a survivor of the zombie apocalypse who goes by Wichita. Jesse Eisenberg recently spoke about his first time crossing paths with the co-star of the 2009 movie starting with these words:

Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone recently worked together on one of the latest 2024 movies, A Real Pain. Eisenberg wrote, directed and stars in the dramedy and had the assistance of Stone as a producer. While speaking on Sirius XM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw (via People), he shared that he got cast in Zombieland before Emma Stone and watched a lot of other actresses try out for Wichita. However, here’s how Stone stood out according to Eisenberg:

Now, that’s how you make an impression! As Jesse Eisenberg spoke about, Stone was really different from all the other hopeful actresses because of her magnetic personality, and barraging insults toward his character of Columbus. A lot of the other actresses were “really polite,” but when it comes to a biting comedy like Zombieland, Stone is exactly what the movie needed, and thus a star was born. Zombieland also became a hit in theaters and among critics when the comedy also starring Woody Harrelson and Abigail Breslin came out in the fall of 2009, and all four reprised their roles in 2019 for Zombieland: Double Tap.

Fifteen years later, it’s a given that Emma Stone is practically a “genius” when it comes to her acting ability. She just came off a second Best Actress win for Poor Things earlier this year after previously dazzling us with her first Best Actress win with song, dance and sass in La La Land. It’s no wonder Eisenberg and Stone have remained filmmaking collaborators. Stone (along with her husband Dave McCary) also produced Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When You Finish Saving The World, before working together again on A Real Pain.

A Real Pain is currently in theaters. It’s one of the best movies we’ve seen this year. Oh, and if you want to relive Zombieland, it’s streaming now with a Netflix subscription.

Sometimes an actor just explodes on the scene with their first movie. Many of the people on this list have even been nominated and won awards for their first roles. Most, of course, have gone on to have long, successful careers, so let's look back at these actors who absolutely crushed it in their first roles. 

Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years A Slave

It didn't take long for Kenyan native Lupita Nyong'o to make a huge splash in Hollywood. After a little time working on movie sets behind the camera, she studied acting at Yale and landed her seminal role in 12 Years A Slave almost immediately after graduating. The performance speaks for itself, and Nyong'o deservingly took home an Oscar for it. Amazingly, three years later, she won a Tony in her Broadway debut in Eclipsed.

Sean Penn - Taps

Sean Penn has had a long, storied career and while many may assume his breakout role came as the stoner Spicoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, but a year before cracking up audiences in that cult classic, he played a very different role as a would-be soldier at a military academy in Taps. Notably, Tom Cruise also made his breakthrough role in the movie alongside Penn. 

Reese Witherspoon - The Man In The Moon

Over the last 4 decades or so, Reese Witherspoon has not only become one of the most acclaimed actresses in Hollywood, but a major force behind the scenes as a producer. It all started for the Nashville native with her debut in The Man In The Moon in 1991. It's always impressive when a newcomer can lead a personal film like this, and Witherspoon showed early how good she is by doing so. 

Natalie Portman - Leon: The Professional

There are a few actors in Hollywood who broke big when they were very young. From the moment you see Natalie Portman on screen in her first role as Mathilda in Leon: The Professional, you know she's going to be big. Yeah, it's an uncomfortable movie to watch for obvious reasons - Portman was just 13 - but seeing how brave she was to take on a complicated role like that, it was clear she was destined for greatness. 

Edward Norton - Primal Fear

Has there ever been a more terrifying and convincing debut performance from an actor than Edward Norton in Primal Fear? It's one of the all-time great grifter films and Norton's performance is the major reason why. He's scary, both in character and in talent. 

Florence Pugh - The Falling

It's hard to believe Florence Pugh made her debut in The Falling in 2014. It seems like the actress has been around forever as she keeps picking amazing roles and crushing the performances, just like her first. 

Kevin Bacon - National Lampoon's Animal House

Every actor in Hollywood is connected to Kevin Bacon, as the game claims, and that's because for more than five decades he's been giving amazing performance and amazing performance. His first movie, the classic comedy National Lampoon's Animal House is certainly no exception as he plays a snobby, snarky, frat boy to perfection. There is nothing he can't do.  

Halle Berry - Jungle Fever

In 2001 Halle Berry became the first African-American woman to win the Best Picture Oscar for Monster's Ball. That was just 10 short years after she made he incredible debut in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. The former beauty pageant contestant has been one of the most reliably great stars in the years since, starring in some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood including the X-Men, James Bond, John Wick, and much more. 

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

After finishing seventh in the third season of American Idol, we all knew Jennifer Hudson could sing. When she was cast as Aretha Frankin-like Effie White in Dreamgirls, it didn't surprise anyone. At least, we weren't surprised until we all saw just how her powerful voice was matched by her powerful acting. She took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her big-screen debut. 

Eddie Murphy - 48 Hrs.

By the time Eddie Murphy starred in 48 Hrs. alongside Nick Nolte in 1982, he was already a bonafide TV star from his time on SNL. Known for his great characters and hilarious lines on SNL, it wasn't clear if he could carry a movie. 48 Hrs. settled that, he definitely could and he's been leading them ever since. 

Marlee Matlin - Children Of A Lesser God

Marlee Matlin has been breaking down barriers since the very beginning of her career. Deaf from the time she was a small child, there must have been many people who told her she could pursue her dreams. Instead, she became not only the deaf actor to win an Oscar in his debut movie, Children Of A Lesser God, but the youngest woman to take home the statue as well. 

Anne Hathaway - The Princess Diaries

From the very beginning, Anne Hathaway has been wowing audiences. Her first movie is still one of her most beloved, The Princess Diaries. She even got to star alongside true film royalty. Julie Andrews. She didn't seem intimidated then, and she never has been since. 

Tim Curry - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry's first movie has become the dictionary definition of a cult classic. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a flop when it was released, but in the decades since, it's become one of the most popular movies of all time with a fanbase that is not just dedicated, but rabid in its love for the movie and for Curry's character, Frank-N-Furter.

Emma Stone - Superbad

Superbad is one of those comedies that very really gets old, especially if you grew up with it as a staple of your DVD rotation. Emma Stone's character Jules is not the kind of character you'd expect to be as funny as she is, which makes Stone pretty much perfect for the role, as she is as effortlessly funny as she is effortlessly beautiful. She's gone on to tackle some characters with incredible depth, but she set the foundation in Superbad. 

Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple

There is really nothing Oprah Winfrey can't accomplish. She was already on her way to becoming the biggest daytime talk show in history by the time she landed a role in Steven Speilberg's classic The Color Purple. It turns out Winfrey can do a whole more than coax the most out of guests on her talk show, she can act really act, earning an Oscar nomination in her film debut. 

Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

It's really hard to believe that Julie Andrews didn't make her true film debut until she was nearly 30 years old, when she appeared as the legendary Mary Poppins in the film of the same name. Of course, Andrews was well-established as a stage actor at that point, but still, it was the golden age of Hollywood, you'd think she would have been cast in something well before Mary Poppins. At least we can be grateful she was cast here. 

Alan Rickman - Die Hard

Hans Gruber in Die Hard is, without a doubt, one of the greatest villains of the 1980s. Knowing that it was the film debut of the incredible Alan Rickman makes it all that more impressive. He plays the role with such confidence and panache, that it's almost too much to believe it was his first movie role, but it was. 

Anna Paquin - The Piano

Anna Paquin won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Piano. She was just 11 years old! Anyone who does that deserves a spot on any list like that. She's the second youngest ever to win an Oscar and in the years since she's continued to wow us with her work. 

Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis basically invented the modern scream queen in horror movies in her debut in Halloween. It's a genre she's only returned to a few times in her long, impressive career, but we're sure glad it's where she got her start. 

Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit

It's a little remarkable how many young girls pop up on a list like this. One of the most recent examples of a teenager just crushing her film debut is Hailee Steinfeld. Not only did she have the pressure of playing a beloved literary character like Mattie Ross in True Grit, but she also had to act alongside legends like Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. She doesn't just hold her own, either, she steals the movie. She rightly received an Oscar nomination for her work.  

Glenn Close - The World According To Garp

Glenn Close burst on the scene with award-winning performances on Broadway before transitioning to film with her debut on the silver screen in The World According To Garp where she picked up where she left off on the stage, getting nominated for an Oscar. She would earn Oscar nominations (but sadly no wins) for her next two movies as well, The Big Chill and The Natural. 

Robert Duvall - To Kill A Mockingbird

Robert Duvall's career goes all the way back to the 1950s, when he first appeared as Boo Radley in one of the most beloved movies about the American South, To Kill A Mockingbird. He only has a small role, as the character with an outsized effect on the plot who is only seen at the end, but he embodies the character so many kids learn to love when they first read the book in high school. 

John Malkovich - Places In The Heart

There is no question that John Malkovich is one of the finest actors of his generation. He's completely fearless in all the roles he plays and that's true going all the way back to his first role as a blind World War I vet in the Depression-era film Places in the Heart alongside Sally Field, Danny Glover, and Ed Harris. 

Lily Tomlin - Nashville

Though she was already a comedic legend on TV, having appeared on Laugh-In and The Carol Burnett Show, Lily Tomlin showed what range she really had as a gospel singer and mother to two in Nashville. She's continued to show those skills over and over in the decades since. 

Gal Gadot - Fast & Furious

Gal Gadot is best known as Wonder Woman these days, but she made her debut in another giant Hollywood franchise when she appeared in Fast & Furious, the fourth installment of the Fast And Furious series. The ex-Israeli army veteran has impressed fans of the movies in each of her 3 appearances by performing most of her own stunts.  

Kerry Washington - Our Song

Our Song is an underrated movie that is everything great about independent filmmaking. It's an intensely personal story about a unique moment in time for the characters and the audience. Kerry Washington simply blows audiences out of the water with her powerful and heartfelt performance. It's incredible how good she was in her first movie. 

Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

So, technically Dustin Hoffman had already had a small role in a film before The Graduate (a movie called The Tiger Makes Out). For all intents and purposes, he introduced himself to the world with an Oscar-nominated performance in one of the most iconic movies in Hollywood history, The Graduate. It's a movie people still love talking about and lauding, even nearly 60 years later. 

John Cazale - The Godfather

The incredible and tragic story of actor John Cazale is well-known among movie buffs. Cazale only starred in five movies before he died of cancer at just age 42. All five of those movies won the Oscar for Best Picture The first, his first, was, of course, The Godfather. Though his character, Fredo, would play a larger role in the sequel, he still established himself as one of the greatest of his generation before we all lost him too soon.  

Gabrielle Union - She's All That

Actor Gabrielle Union has definitely made her mark not only on Hollywood but on the world with her stellar performances and her charity work outside of film. HE burst onto the scene in She's All That and she's never slowed down since. 

James Dean - East Of Eden

The great James Dean is one of the biggest "what ifs" in Hollywood history. Though he did have some uncredited roles in a few movies, the young actor starred in just three movies, including his first East Of Eden. For that role, he would receive an Oscar nomination, though he wouldn't live to see it, as he was killed in a car crash before being nominated. A feat that would be repeated the next year with Giant.

Jason Schwartzman - Rushmore

Though Jason Schwartzman comes from a prominent Hollywood family, that didn't guarantee success. Instead, he went out in his first movie role, in Rushmore, and absolutely embodied his character of Max. It's every bit as impressive as anything his mom Talia Shire has done, and that is no small feat. 

Keisha Castle-Hughes - The Whale Rider

When Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for an Oscar at just 12 years old for The Whale Rider, you knew she was one to watch for. She was, at the time, the second-youngest person nominated for an Oscar and not only was the nomination well-deserved, but she's continued to justify the voters' confidence in her with her roles over the last couple of decades. 

The 2010s were a transformative decade for movies as directors like Damien Chazelle, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele hit the mainstream, and many actors exploded into stardom or gave career-defining performances in movies like theirs. Now, it’s time to celebrate some of the best films of this decade and the performers who starred in them. 

Emma Stone – La La Land 

This ode to Old Hollywood and modern romance from Damien Chazelle is widely beloved in part because of Emma Stone's performance. If you go back to reviews for La La Land, you’ll see Stone and Ryan Gosling praised for their work as they played Mia and Sebastian, two aspiring artists who fall in love with each other. Notably, Emma Stone won her first Oscar for the film because of the wonderful performance she gave as the up-and-coming actress. 

Kristen Wiig – Bridesmaids

When it comes to Bridesmaids and all its hilarious lines and gags, we all need to say a collective thank you to Kristen Wiig. Not only did the Saturday Night Live alum lead the stellar ensemble cast of this 2011 flick, but she also wrote the movie with Annie Mumolo, and they got an Oscar nomination for it. 

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight

Moonlight, which famously won Best Picture in 2017, is a coming-of-age film that follows Chiron through three stages of his life, focusing on him exploring his sexuality and identity. In it, Mahershala Ali plays Juan, a man who has a pivotal role in Chiron’s early life. Famously, Ali won his first Oscar for his moving performance in this film. 

Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out

Get Out is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time, and it marked the directorial debut of Jordan Peele. While this film about the deeply dark turn a trip takes after a white woman brings her Black boyfriend home to meet her family is career-defining for its director – as he’s gone on to become quite the name in the genre – it also marked a major breakout for Daniel Kaluuya who played the film’s lead, Chris. 

Amy Adams – Arrival 

Arrival is unquestionably one of Amy Adams’ best movies, and to this day, folks are still livid that she wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for it. She plays Louise, a linguist assigned to decipher and translate an alien language. However, as Arrival’s ending makes abundantly clear, there’s way more to it than that, and one of the major reasons this movie works is because of Adams’ masterful, emotional and nuanced performance. 

J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

In Whiplash, one of J.K. Simmons’ best films, he plays a brilliant and brutal jazz conductor and instructor named Terence Fletcher. During the film, Miles Teller plays a young drummer named Andrew who is determined to become great, and his intense relationship with Terence and the notion of being the best is what makes Damien Chazelle’s film magnificent. On top of its overall acclaim, Simmons also won an Oscar for his performance.

Hugh Jackman – Logan 

Logan was Hugh Jackman’s last ride as the Wolverine, and it was basically perfect. While he’s returned to the role since in Deadpool and Wolverine, Logan still serves as a wonderful conclusion to the iconic X-Man’s story. It was also a game-changing Marvel film, as it brought a level of grit and intrigue that we hadn’t really seen in a movie from this universe before. 

Ben Affleck – Argo 

Much like Good Will Hunting, Argo marked a major milestone in Ben Affleck’s career. It was one of the films that solidified him as a top-tier director, and on top of that, he also starred in the film about a CIA agent disguised as a producer who goes into Tehran on a mission to save a group of Americans. Oh, also, the film went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars too. 

Jesse Eisenberg — The Social Network

The Social Network cast is stacked, however, it wouldn’t be what it is without Jesse Eisenberg’s performance as Mark Zuckerberg at its center. His nuanced performance which is somehow both collected and chaotic compliments Aaron Sorkin’s fast-talking script perfectly, and he expertly helped build up tension in the film that director David Fincher is known for. All around, that made for a perfect, heart-pounding drama about the rise of Facebook.

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf Of Wall Street  

While Leonardo DiCaprio has a long list of career-defining performances, and he and Martin Scorsese have made many great movies together, you can’t deny that his portrayal of Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street tops that list. 

Brie Larson – Room

The film Room, which is about a mother and her son escaping captivity, is masterfully led by Brie Larson, who plays Ma. Both she and Jacob Tremblay, who played her son Jack, were praised for their performances, and in 2016, the actress won an Oscar for her work. 

Daniel Craig – Knives Out

Now, I know that Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond was still happening in the 2010s. However, an equally important and brilliant role he took on was as detective Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s first whodunnit Knives Out. Now, after leading the cast of Knives Out, Craig has gone on to reprise his role as the Southern detective on multiple occasions, because he loves it and so do we. 

Ryan Gosling – Drive

If you look over Ryan Gosling’s best movies, on one side you’ll find his brilliant comedic films – like Barbie and The Nice Guys – and on the other side, you’ll find his stoic and dramatic performance, like the one he gives in Drive. Put simply, Drive wouldn’t work without the actor’s lead performance, because the entire film hinges on him and his abilities. 

Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

After years of working to get it made and some well-timed leaked footage, finally, in 2016, Deadpool came out and we got to see Ryan Reynolds in his element as the Merc with a Mouth. 

Casey Affleck – Manchester By The Sea 

In a film about a man returning home to reckon with his past and grief after losing his brother, Casey Affleck gives an emotional and commanding performance. Not only did he win an Oscar for his work in this drama, but it’s also one of the big defining roles of his career. 

Chris Evans – Captain America: The Winter Soldier 

Chris Evans began and ended his tenure as Steve Rogers in the 2010s. While all his outings as the star-spangled man with a plan were excellent, nothing tops his performance as Cap in the political thriller that is the Russo brothers’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is easily one of the best Marvel movies ever made. 

Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Under Wes Anderson’s precise direction, Ralph Fiennes occupied the pastel world of the Grand Budapest Hotel with grace and style. His fast-talking M. Gustave went on quite the adventure in this film, and he won over the hearts of audiences with his quick wit, smooth charm and impeccable work ethic. 

Natalie Portman – Black Swan 

Throwing it back to the beginning of the decade, Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan showed us Natalie Portman’s talents in a new light. While she had been on the scene and in big movies for years, this film marked a major milestone in her career as her performance as a tortured ballerina got her an Academy Award. 

Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buys Club

Obviously, for a couple of decades before this, Matthew McConaughey was known and beloved for fun movies like Dazed and Confused and How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. However, in 2013, Dallas Buyers Club marked a notable shift in his career. Not only did he win an Oscar for this dramatic turn as a man who finds out he has AIDS, but he also went on to star in acclaimed projects like Interstellar and True Detective one year later, cementing himself as a magnificent dramatic actor with serious range. 

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

Yes, Jennifer Lawrence leading The Hunger Games cast is one of the biggest triumphs of her career. However, amid all of that, she starred in the beloved dramedy Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper, and that’s the film for which she won her Oscar. This magnificent film about two people learning to live and thrive through grief and mental illness, is a thoughtful and funny film that Lawrence steals with her amazing performance. 

Brad Pitt – Moneyball 

Moneyball is the story about the general manager of the Oakland A’s using his business savvy and what little money his team had to assemble a rag-tag team of MLB players. Brad Pitt plays said manager, Billy Beane, and I mean it when I say the movie really wouldn’t work without him. He’s at the center of it, and he carries it to victory just like his character did with the A’s.  

Chadwick Boseman – Black Panther 

We sadly lost Chadwick Boseman way too early, however, his legacy will live on forever. This is in part because of his performance as the King of Wakanda, T’Challa. Black Panther was a historic moment in modern movie history, and his incredible take on the titular hero is a big reason why. 

Margot Robbie – I, Tonya 

Before I, Tonya, Margot Robbie was beloved for her supporting and ensemble roles in films like The Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad. However, one of the movies that helped solidify her as both a leading lady and super producer was I, Tonya. She played Tonya Harding and produced the film under the banner of her company LuckyChap – which went on to make films like Barbie and Promising Young Woman. 

Florence Pugh – Midsommar

Florence Pugh exploded onto the scene with the haunting Ari Aster film Midsommar. The movie is now considered one of the best horror movies of all time, and a big reason why is Pugh’s performance. 

Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Talk about a dynamic duo. Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan are a match made in heaven, and that was solidified into fact when the actress played the titular Lady Bird in the director’s breakout film. Not only did fans fall in love with Ronan’s performance as the defiant teenage gal, but she also received wide acclaim and an Oscar nomination for it. Plus, it was the beginning of a glorious partnership between her and Greta Gerwig as they then went on to make Little Women together. 

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name

These days, when people think of Timothée Chalamet, they likely think of him as Paul Atreides, the leader of the Dune cast. However, before that (and in a different decade) the film that sprung him into the mainstream was Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. The deeply romantic and tender coming-of-age drama was led beautifully by Chalamet, and since then he’s taken on more roles that have helped cement him as one of the top-leading men of his generation. 

Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect

If you were a kid in 2012 (like I was), odds are you learned the “Cups” song. The movie about college acapella was a phenomenon in the early 2010s, and it served as a big breakout leading role for Anna Kendrick. Not only was she funny as Becca, but everyone also became aware that she had the singing voice of an angel.  

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years A Slave

Lupita Nyong’o’s first feature film was 12 Years A Slave. Her performance in the movie by Steve McQueen won her an Oscar in 2012 and solidified her as a top-tier dramatic performer. Since then, she’s gone on to star in massive blockbusters like Black Panther and A Quiet Place: Day One. 

Joaquin Phoenix – Joker

There have been many amazing takes on the Joker, and Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck was a totally new one. In Joker, we see the villain’s origin story, and it’s a film that’s unlike any other DC project. The haunting performance ultimately won the actor an Oscar, and he reprised the part again in Joker: Folie à Deux.

Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

The movie is named after Mad Max, and he’s great, don’t get me wrong, but Furiosa steals the show. Charlize Theron’s performance as the driver in Mad Max: Fury Road is fierce and jaw-dropping, and she’s one of many reasons why George Miller’s movie is considered one of the best action films. 

Michael Cera – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

You can’t have Scott Pilgrim vs. The World without a perfect Scott Pilgrim and that’s who Michael Cera is. He perfectly played the awkward yet heroic protagonist in Edgar Wright’s beloved film, and to this day, it's considered some of his best work.

Matt Damon – The Martian

This Ridley Scott movie is literally about one man who is stuck on Mars. Yes, there are other people in the film trying to save him. However, overall, The Martian is Matt Damon’s movie. He plays the stranded astronaut and scientist, and the heart, charisma, intelligence and even humor he brings to the space drama is unforgettable. 

All around, the 2010s were full of films that are on their way to becoming all-time classics, and it’s in part thanks to the brilliant actors who starred in them. 

Sometimes, all it takes is one joint appearance in a movie or television show for two popular actors to become known as an acting duo, and sometimes they prove to work so well together that they go on to star in even more projects together. We’ve come up with a list of 32 acting duos who have worked together multiple times, so you can see if you’ve watched all of the times these talented stars have been on screen with each other.

Tina Fey And Amy Poehler

Obviously, this funny duo began their most famed time together while starring on Saturday Night Live, but Tina Fey and Amy Poehler didn’t let the good times end there. The women were both in Mean Girls, starred in the movies Baby Mama and Sisters, and used their talents to great effect when co-hosting the Golden Globe Awards for several years.

Robert De Niro And Al Pacino

Two legendary actors make for a legendary acting duo, and while Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are frequently mentioned in the same breath, they’ve only been featured in four films together. Two of those movies, however, are absolutely the reason people often talk about them together as they count The Godfather Part II, Heat, Righteous Kill and The Irishman as their joint efforts.

Julia Roberts And George Clooney

Now, these two actually have made quite a few movies with one another, and largely with both in on-screen roles. Of course, it’s hard to forget that George Clooney and Julia Roberts are in all three of the Ocean’s Eleven films, but they’ve also starred in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (which Clooney also directed), Money Monster and the 2022 rom-com Ticket to Paradise. The erstwhile Danny Ocean also produced August: Osage County, while Roberts starred.

Jane Fonda And Lily Tomlin

Frequently we see an acting duo together multiple times because they really are buddies in real life, and that’s true for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. After first starring together in the 1980 hit 9 to 5 (with Dolly Parton, of course) they eventually re-teamed for the Netflix series Grace and Frankie (which ran for seven seasons), as well as the dark comedy Moving On and 80 for Brady.

Emma Stone And Ryan Gosling

This duo has produced some well-known and beloved comedies and dramas over the years, as Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling first starred together in Crazy, Stupid, Love in 2011, moving on to Gangster Squad in 2013 and the Oscar-winning musical La La Land in 2016. Stone even once said she couldn’t “imagine” her life without Gosling, so these two will probably be friends forever.

Salma Hayek And Antonio Banderas

Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas sharing the screen in Desperado caused considerable heat, along with igniting a very real friendship, so it’s no surprise that they’ve now worked together a number of times. They’ve also been in the casts of Four Rooms, Frida, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids 3: Game Over, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and both Puss in Boots animated movies. That’s a lot!

Dwayne Johnson And Kevin Hart

We’ve already born witness to a rather lengthy history of Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart ripping on each other during their (apparently) laugh and roast-filled friendship, and the two megastars have, indeed, brought that chemistry to the big screen multiple times. The duo counts Central Intelligence, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and its sequel, Hobbs & Shaw and DC League of Super-Pets as the titles they’ve appeared in together.

Matt Damon And Ben Affleck

If this isn’t a classic acting duo by now, there are none. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been “bizarrely close” friends since childhood, and they first joined forces to great effect by penning and starring in Good Will Hunting (after having both appeared in School Ties), which won them the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. They also worked on Dogma in the 1990s, then, after nearly 25 years, they joined forces again to write and star in The Last Duel, and since then have also worked together on Air and the upcoming RIP for Netflix.

Denzel Washington And Don Cheadle

If only these two powerhouse stars had already been in more movies together…Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle’s first pairing was as P.I. Easy Rawlins and his loyal but unpredictable friend, Mouse, in 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress. While their work in the film garnered critical acclaim, it would be over 15 years before they teamed again for Flight.

Sanaa Lathan And Taye Diggs

We should never underestimate the power of a franchise when it comes to popular on-screen pairings. Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs appeared in The Wood together in 1999 and then went on to star in The Best Man, its sequel and the Peacock mini-series, The Best Man: The Final Chapters. The duo also played the lead couple in the rom-com, Brown Sugar in 2002.

Scarlett Johansson And Chris Evans

Co-starring in a franchise with the same people will take an acting duo far, but Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans have surpassed even the typical standard where that’s concerned. Thanks to their joint time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they’ve appeared in a whopping seven movies together (including their mid-end credits cameo in Captain Marvel), and prior to their time as blockbuster movie-making superheroes they starred in The Perfect Score and The Nanny Diaries, bringing their current total to nine.

Anthony Mackie And Chris Evans

If you did enjoy many of those MCU movies, then you know that Chris Evans rubbed elbows with Anthony Mackie quite a bit there. But, did you also know that the two have been in XX non-Marvel movies together? Playing It Cool, What’s Your Number, and Ghosted also star/feature both actors and if you add in all their shared time in tights on screen, their total is also at nine.

Emily Blunt And Dwayne Johnson

The first time was a hit, so why not join forces again, right? Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson famously delivered winning chemistry in Jungle Cruise, and are coming back together for the upcoming drama The Smashing Machine. The two are also said to be willing to return for Jungle Cruise 2, whenever that can finally get off the ground.

Chris Pine And Ben Foster

The third time has been the charm so far for Chris Pine and Ben Foster. The duo famously portrayed bank-robbing brothers in Hell or High Water, joined up for The Finest Hours, and made it a three-peat in 2022 for The Contractor.

Margot Robbie And Will Smith

If it seemed that there could have been a little something extra going on between Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Will Smith’s Deadshot when you watched 2016’s Suicide Squad, then it might have been because you picked up on the chemistry the duo first built in Focus from the year before.

Margot Robbie And Brad Pitt

This big screen coupling made quite a showing for themselves across less than a decade, as Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt have starred in The Big Short, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood and Babylon. 

Margot Robbie And Leonardo DiCaprio

Just imagine, had it not been for this pairing, we might not have the megastar who is Barbie actor/producer Margot Robbie right now. Her role in Wolf of Wall Street as the second wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s corrupt fraudster propelled her career, and by the time they starred in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood together Robbie was a major star.

Halle Berry And Hugh Jackman

We, again, have a superhero franchise to thank for bringing two great talents together, as Oscar winner Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman both have four of the X-Men movies among their credits. The duo also starred in Swordfish and Movie 43.

Awkwafina And Michelle Yeoh

This duo counts two megahits in their joint credits, with Awkwafina and Everything Everywhere All At Once Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh both having starred in Crazy Rich Asians (and we’re still waiting for that rom-com sequel) and the MCU entry Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Michelle Yeoh And Jackie Chan

Michelle Yeoh has been a star for several decades, and part of that reason is because of her breakout role in the 1992’s Supercop, which also starred Jackie Chan. But, they’ve made a number of other films with each other, including Supercop 2, and Hong Kong action films Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars, Project S, and both voiced characters in Kung Fu Panda 2, along with having starred in a 1984 watch commercial together.

Angela Bassett And Laurence Fishburne

While Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne were famously nominated for Oscars for their lead roles as Tina Turner and Ike Turner in 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It?, the duo was actually first together on screen for Boyz n the Hood in ‘91. They then later teamed up for Akeela and the Bee in 2006.

Julia Roberts And Richard Gere

If this isn’t a famous acting duo, then none are, despite their only making two movies with each other. Of course, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere starred in the mega-hit classic rom-com Pretty Woman and teamed up again for Runaway Bride in 1999.

Jennifer Aniston And Jason Bateman

For a while there, Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, who are friends in real life, were kinda on a roll. Their first joint film was The Break-Up in 2006, and since then they’ve filmed four additional movies with one another: The Switch, Horrible Bosses and its sequel, and 2016’s Office Christmas Party.

Kate Hudson And Matthew McConaughey

Who can forget the glorious chemistry created by Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days? No one, that’s who! This is why they made a second rom-com, Fool’s Gold, just five years later.

Kirsten Dunst And Jesse Plemons

It’s not unusual for an acting duo to become friends in real life, but Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons took that a few steps further after working on the TV series Fargo together. Not only have they since starred in the film The Power of the Dog (which netted each their first Oscar nomination) and the A24 drama Civil War, but they married in 2022 and have two sons.

Meg Ryan And Tom Hanks

We could hardly leave Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks off of this list, as the famed actors have co-starred in two of the biggest romantic comedies of all time. Everyone knows them for making Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail hits, but before all of that, they led one of the weirder rom-coms made with Joe Versus the Volcano, and reunited for the 2016 drama Ithaca, which Ryan directed.

Drew Barrymore And Adam Sandler

People often mention Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler as an acting duo they want to see more of and with good reason. The two have made magic in the classics The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates and Blended.

Adam Sandler And Chris Rock

This pairing goes back decades, to the time when Adam Sandler and Chris Rock starred on Saturday Night Live together in the ‘90s. Since then, the real-life buddies have appeared in seven movies together, with The Longest Yard, Grown Ups and its sequel, The Week Of and Top Five counted among that number.

George Clooney And Brad Pitt

Of course, George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped to make the Ocean’s Eleven franchise a hit, but the friends additionally teamed up for the live TV movie 8, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (which Clooney directed), Burn After Reading and the 2024 films If and Wolfs.

Keegan-Michael Key And Jordan Peele

The duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who first became recognizable during their time on MadTV, eventually went on to their own acclaimed sketch comedy series, Key and Peele. But, while making names for themselves on other series and in a number of movies, they continue to work with one another on projects like Keanu, Toy Story 4 and Wendell & Wild.

Awkwafina And Simu Liu

It was the MCU that first brought Awkwafina and Simu Liu together in the hit film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and while we’re still waiting to see when that franchise will bring them back together, 2024 saw them team up again for the action comedy, Jackpot!.

Jane Fonda And Robert Redford

Dedicated film fans probably know that legends Jane Fonda and Robert Redford starred together in Barefoot in the Park and The Electric Horseman, but their joint movie appearances do go beyond that. They also starred in The Chase in ‘66 and reunited for Our Souls at Night in 2017, and both had their film debuts in 1960’s Tall Story.

As you can see, film history is packed with acting duos who’ve worked together more than once, and that will probably always be the case.

August comes to a close this week and September begins. At the end of this week, we’ll get our monthly content shuffle, but that doesn’t mean that any of the best streaming services are waiting until next month to release some good stuff. There’s plenty new on Netflix and upcoming on Hulu for streaming fans to enjoy before the month is out.

This week sees a couple of popular streaming services bring back new seasons of their most popular shows, while a couple more series debut, in hopes they’ll get the audience's attention enough to get future seasons. A pair of noteworthy theatrical films will also be making their streaming debut, including one that will give those who saw it in theaters a reason to go back and give it another look.

Only Murders In The Building, Season 4 - August 27 (Hulu) 

If there’s a single reason to have a Hulu subscription, it may be Only Murders in the Building. The crime drama/comedy starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez has been near perfect for all three of its previous seasons and fans waiting for the new season are about to be rewarded.

The new season of Only Murders in the Building will see the trio investigate/podcast the death of Jane Lynch’s Roz, who got shot at the end of last season. Was she the intended target, or was the killer trying to get to Steve Martin’s Charles? And how will the fact that Hollywood has now entered the picture impact the friendship?

After Baywatch: Moment In The Sun - August 28 (Hulu)

Even decades later, it still feels weird to say this, but there was a time when Baywatch was the most popular TV show in the world. Maybe it’s the simple fact that pretty people in swimsuits are universal, but one cannot undersell just what a phenomenon the show was.

In a new documentary series many of the Baywatch cast, including Pamela Anderson, will talk about their time on the show and what it was like being part of the world-changing series. We know that Baywatch wasn't a wonderful experience for everybody.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, Season 2 - August 29 (Prime Video)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 ending left fans with a significant reveal at the end that many have probably continued to think about since then. With Sauron now in the picture, the real battle for Middle-Earth can begin.

Season 2 promises to justify the series name, as the Rings of Power will truly take center stage as Sauron attempts to consolidate his power.

Terminator: Zero, Season 1 - August 29 (Netflix)

Decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger first said “I’ll be back” the Terminator franchise is still quite popular. This is even though few would argue that since Terminator 2: Judgment Day, none of the entries in the series have been particularly special. But if you’re looking for a fresh take on The Terminator and have a Netflix subscription, you'll want to check out Terminator: Zero.

Terminator: Zero is a Japanese anime adaptation of the franchise and it certainly gives Terminator a new look. The story looks to be very similar to what we've seen before. Somebody is trying to stop the future from happening and SkyNet enlists cyborg killing machines to stop them. However, the look and feel of the series are distinctly anime, and that may be enough to set this one apart, and above, other recent attempts.

Cookie Monster’s Bake Sale: Back to School - August 29 (Max)

Two types of series that tend to do well on streaming are kids’ shows and baking competitions. Cookie Monster’s Bake Sale isn’t even the only attempt to bring these two concepts together, but it’s one of the few to get more than one season so it must be doing something right.

Cookie Monster’s Bake Sale: Back to School will see teams of kids compete to raise money for their local libraries by putting on bake sales. Yvette Nicole Brown co-hosts with Cookie Monster in what is guaranteed to be a heartwarming time, and probably the best way to get your kid to watch The Great British Baking Show with you.

Kaos, Season 1 - August 29 (Netflix)

Some actors are so great at what they do, that it’s just fun to watch them do it, under any circumstances. Jeff Goldblum is one of those who has a distinctive style all his own, and if you enjoy his work, you’ll want to see what he’s doing next.

Kaos sees Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. he’s the king of the gods in a modern world that doesn’t believe and doesn’t care about him, and he’s really unhappy about it. It’s hard to guess how much more there is going on in the series than Goldblum simply being Goldblum, but honestly, that might be enough.

The Fall Guy Extended Cut - August 30 (Peacock)

The Fall Guy was one of those movies that critics seemed to enjoy, as did the theatrical audience that went to see it, but unfortunately, the film still struggled to find that audience at the box office. If you’re one of those people who skipped the movie in theaters but were curious about it, you’ll have a chance to see what others enjoyed so much as long as you have a Peacock subscription.

And even if you are somebody who saw The Fall Guy in theaters, you may still want to check the movie out streaming. Peacock is releasing both a theatrical cut and an extended cut so there will be a new version with 20 minutes of additional footage that may make the movie even better.

Kinds of Kindness- August 30 (Hulu)

The last time that director Yorhos Lathimos and actress Emma Stone got together they created Poor Things a movie had a pretty impressive night at the 2024 Academy Awards, especially for Stone who took home her second Best Actress Oscar.

In Kinds of Kindness Stone will just be part of the story, one member of an ensemble telling multiple stories. The movie makes its streaming debut on Hulu this week and is absolutely worth your time if you have the chance to give it your attention.

September is already looking like a strong month for streaming. Disney+ will debut Agatha: All Along. Apple TV+ will be the home for Wolfs starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt. There’s a lot of great content on the way as we say goodbye to summer.

Saturday Night Live is preparing for its milestone 50th season this fall on the 2024 TV schedule, and it’s still baffling to me what happens behind the scenes. Since the variety sketch series is of course live, anything can happen. That also accounts for what goes on when it comes to quick changes and getting ready for the next sketch, as an SNL creative shared a story from when Emma Stone hosted.

The Poor Things actress marked a major milestone with her most recent guest hosting gig, joining the elite Five-Timers Club last December. Hair department head Jodi Mancuso and makeup department head Louie Zakarian spoke to Variety about some of the behind-the-scenes secrets for Season 49 of SNL, including one particular sketch involving Stone.

In this particular sketch, Stone portrayed a record producer, and the performance included an outfit involving a salt and pepper wig with a mini-mustache and cigarette in hand. Mancuso explained that while Stone originally had a darker wig, they wanted to age her up after seeing one rehearsal. Additionally, Stone “wanted to be balding and have more facial hair,” according to Zakarian, but it wasn’t possible because of the quick changes.

After three failed attempts to have more facial hair, they settled on a thin mustache. Explains Mancuso:

When watching SNL, you don’t may not think about what goes on behind-the-scenes. Since each sketch follows so closely behind the one before (with the exception of commercial breaks), it makes sense that the wardrobe has to be easy to take off and on, especially for the guest host. It proves that there’s a lot that goes on with the quick changes and it helps that the adrenaline gives everyone a rush, as Mancuso shared:

With 49 seasons and counting, SNL delivers quick changes in order to make a sketch work and flow well into the next one. It’s always exciting to see what sketch is next and how the cast members and host do with the challenges and the comedy. There’s no telling what Season 50 will bring, but there will surely be many more incredible quick changes.

Hosts for Season 50 of SNL have yet to be announced, but with the first episode premiering in September, it shouldn’t be long. Fans will have to tune in on Saturday, September 28 on NBC for SNL’s new season. Those with a Peacock subscription can watch all 49 seasons of SNL and really appreciate the BTS madness, along with the upcoming Saturday Night film.

As one of the most celebrated actresses of her generation and beyond, Emma Stone has proven she can't be bound by genre restrictions, while also proving time and again that she's most at home in the comedy realm. She's following up her Oscar-winning Poor Things performance with the "upsetting and great" Kinds of Kindness, and it seems plausible that fans will see her popping up on Saturday Night Live for what would be her first hosting gig after being welcomed by fellow icons into the sketch series’ esteemed Five Timers Club.

While on the promotional trail for her second team-up with director Yorgos Lanthimos, Stone appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and chatted up its SNL veteran host about her December 2023 induction, saying during the interview that hosting the show has been among the most important experiences she can have. She also talked about a specific rule that celebs are apparently meant to stick to when it comes to their Five Timers Club apparel, which fans might not be aware of. In her words:

While it's possible Lorne Michaels & Co. provide Saturday Night Live's more seasoned hosts with some kind of additional recognition behind the scenes in the form of champagne or a cake, the Five Timers Club jacket has been a part of the festivities for years. Though at the time when the Club was first addressed on the air during Tom Hanks' December 1990 episode, it was slightly different, and was referred to as a club robe.

Regardless of what it’s referred to as, the Five Timers jacket seems like the kind of honor that those who earned it should be allowed to take home to add to their Wearable Trophy collections. And no doubt many viewers believe that to be the case, such as yours truly, though both Emma Stone and Jimmy Fallon make it quite clear that’s not the case. The Tonight Show host even went so far as to refer to the jacket-focused monologue as a “sketch” in and of itself.

As it turns out, Emma Stone did indeed take the jacket to wear out to one of Saturday Night Live's famed afterparties, and The Curse co-star says she didn't return it after that, either. As she put it:

It's almost a sketch-worthy idea to consider Lorne Michaels sending some SNL enforcers to Emma Stone's home to try and re-acquire the Five Timers Club jacket. But assuming that the show's wardrobe department isn't THAT meticulous about maintaining every single piece of clothing, Stone may have gotten away with it. Though that might be her fee for being allowed back to host a sixth time.

For what it's worth, it's not like Saturday Night Live only has a single jacket that gets brought out for each and every new member. Had that been the case, then Kristen Wiig's induction in April 2024 would have looked quite different, for instance, seeing as how it featured jacketed appearances from Paul Rudd (the only actual other member), Matt Damon, Fred Armisen, Will Forte and more, where the whole joke of the bit was that the jackets are essentially worthless at this point.

But nothing about Emma Stone's induction was worthless, as seen in the SNL clip below!

The Tonight Show airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC, with episodes streaming the next day with a Peacock subscription. Check out the 2024 movie schedule to see what else is available to watch on the big screen after seeing Kinds of Kindness.

As you’ll quickly learn if you read our review of Kinds of Kindness or see the Yorgos Lanthimos project on the 2024 movie schedule for yourself, this movie is quirky, odd and wildly creative. So, of course, its star, Emma Stone, attended the premiere of the film dressed to the nines and on theme as she rocked a gorgeous black sheer dress with epic cutouts. 

Emma Stone – who plays an integral role in the triptych of stories in Lanthimos’ film Kinds of Kindness – attended the premiere of the project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City with her co-stars Jesse Plemons, Joe Alwyn, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and their director, in a lovely black sheer dress. The look is fabulous and a work of modern art, just like the film and the works in the museum where the event happened, take a look:

According to Stone’s stylist Petra Flannery’s Instagram post about the look, the dress is by Louis Vuitton. I love the black paneling featured around her chest and waist because it juxtaposes the black sheer fabric with black polka dots that are featured across the entire dress. She paired the dress with simple black heels, and overall, it is a truly epic fit. 

Much like how Florence Pugh has reinvented the sheer trend over and over again, Stone’s take on it is totally unique, which I adore. 

This look is also another great example of Stone pairing her outfits with the vibe of the project she’s working on. While on the awards circuit for Poor Things – which cleaned up at the Oscars and got the actress her second Academy Award – Stone dressed kind of like her character Bella. Stars like Zendaya and Margot Robbie are well-known for method dressing on press tours, and the La La Land star seems to do it too.

Her lovely black dress fits the unique and unconventional vibe of Kinds of Kindness perfectly. As you can see in the Kinds of Kindness trailer, this movie is not like Stone’s other collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos, as it’s a contemporary tale rather than a period or fantasy piece and it's an anthology rather than one singular story. 

Unlike the pastels Stone rocked during the Poor Things premieres (which was her last film with Lanthimos), she’s going for a darker color palette for this film that reminds me of the modern, contemporary setting and the dark tone that runs through all three parts of the project. 

Overall, Emma Stone’s epic black sheer dress is perfect for this premiere, and I can’t wait to see what else she wears as she continues to promote the critically acclaimed Kinds of Kindness. 

To see her latest movie with Yorgos Lanthimos for yourself, you can catch it in theaters now. 

When I first had the opportunity to watch Dogtooth in 2010, I instantly recognized writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos as a filmmaker with fascinating sensibilities and style, and I committed to keeping an eye on his work in the years ahead… but I never had even the slightest inkling that he would find what can be called “mainstream” success. And yet, that’s exactly what has happened in the last 14 years. His 2015 movie The Lobster and 2017’s The Killing Of A Sacred Deer saw him start collaborating with notable Hollywood stars like Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Nicole Kidman, and he is now widely recognized as the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind 2018’s The Favourite and 2023’s Poor Things.

Part of what makes The Favourite and Poor Things such interesting titles in Lanthimos’ filmography, however, is that there is a complex aesthetic paired with the director’s surrealistic approach to story, characters, and dialogue. The protagonists and antagonists alike are strange, but they also live outlandish and foreign existences (with the fantastical world of the latter obviously being a bit more outlandish and foreign than 18th century Great Britain in the former). These heightened environments arguably made Lanthimos’ auteur voice more palatable – but with Kinds Of Kindness, he’s made a return to his bread and butter, and it’s a mind-boggling, dark pleasure that feels made to be divisive in the best way.

An anthology that foregoes having a wraparound story, the film is a triptych of shorts featuring a common ensemble cast, with the main common thread between them being bizarre relationships with emphasis on control and obedience. Each is introduced with a title relating to a mysterious and silent character named R.M.F. (Yorgos Stefanakos), who has small but significant parts to play.

“The Death Of R.M.F.” centers on a man named Robert Fletcher (Jesse Plemons), who has an agreement with a man named Raymond (Willem Dafoe) to have his entire life dictated and scheduled – but he is conflicted when he is instructed to commit an extreme albeit planned crime. In “R.M.F. Is Flying,” a police officer (Plemons) starts emotionally slipping when his wife (Emma Stone) mysteriously disappears at sea, but upon her return, he isn’t sure she is who she says she is. And finally, in “R.M. F. Eats A Sandwich,” two agents (Stone, Plemons) are dispatched by a cult to follow up on leads to try and find a woman whom they are told has the ability to bring the dead back to life.

It oxymoronically balances bluntness and subtly in such a way that you’re constantly surprised and working to grapple with what the work is throwing at you. An uncanny valley-esque atmosphere floats through the near-three-hour feature as a familiar world clashes with extreme and alien behavior, and it pelts you with oddity in such a way that equally inspires both laughter and deep thought about what Yorgos Lanthimos and co-writer Efthimis Filippou are trying to say with the trio of narratives.

Each segment in Kinds Of Kindness builds like a puzzle, And it’s wild to see the full picture come together.

From Dogtooth’s exploration of language to Poor Things examining sexual liberation, Yorgos Lanthimos’ works take eccentric angles on fascinating areas of life, and part of what makes Kinds Of Kindness so compelling is the satisfaction of putting together what he is trying to say – as nothing in the film is casual or dumbed down. With each story, you slowly grasp the rules of the world and marvel as the characters both follow and break them (and deal with the consequences). And just when you think you have everything figured out, things take an unexpected left turn, and you are still left chewing on what you witnessed a week after your screening.

The nature of the movie makes it a spoiler minefield, as it’s really best to let each twist and turn in the segments rock you and drop your jaw as they unfold, but to provide a vague example, “R.M.F. Is Flying” finds a way to stir grief, a Capgras delusion, and a dog society into one exceptionally weird stew that has to be consumed to be understood.

Yorgos Lanthimos presents a clean-yet-dirty world and never flinches from anything.

There is a special kind of directness that is present in all of Yorgos Lanthimos’ work, with characters taking matter-of-fact tones even when making outlandish and claims or demands, and that voice is unfiltered in Kinds Of Kindness. If it’s not a sensibility you can get onboard with, you’re in for a long and uncomfortable 164 minutes, but movie-goers who can tune into its frequency will be dazzled. In one breath, the film takes you from a giggle-worthy celebratory dance in a parking lot to shocking, deadly tragedy, and it leaves you dizzy in the best way – with an aesthetic consistency throughout accentuating the acute tonal changes.

As unexpected developments continue to unfold, Lanthimos makes no effort in any way to “protect” the audience: this is the world he designed, and you are going to look at it. There is a rawness in the way in which the characters behave, and it would be a betrayal of that voice to shy away from sex and instances of violence. The experience oscillates between shocking and hilarious and deeply upsetting, and it’s beautifully bold.

Kinds Of Kindness has a tonal consistency through its chapters, but it’s a blast to see the range demonstrated by the film’s stars.

Obviously, nothing is hurt by Kinds Of Kindness employing some of the best actors currently working today. While there is commonality between the three stories in aesthetics and tone, all of the performers get to show off different colors in each of their roles, and it’s a credit to their skills how they stand apart. Following up what can be described as one of the best performances of the 21st century in Poor Things, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos again prove to be a perfect collaborative match, the actress shining in “R.M. F. Eats A Sandwich” – and Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley in particular are standouts in their various supporting roles.

Continuing a 2024 streak that started with Alex Garland’s Civil War, it’s Jesse Plemons who emerges as the work’s MVP, however,  from the lost and confused Robert in “The Death Of R.M.F.,” the spiraling Daniel “R.M.F. Is Flying,” or the devout Andrew in “R.M. F. Eats A Sandwich.” While the characters aren’t individually wildly different people, Plemons provides a unique energy to each one that has them stand apart even as the stories unfurl back-to-back-to-back.

Arriving at a fascinating point in Yorgos Lanthimos’ career. Kinds Of Kindness will be a litmus test for some movie-goers as they discover where they stand in appreciation for the writer/director. It’s certainly not a film for neophytes when it comes to Lanthimos’ work. But in contrast, those who already know and love his work are going to be deeply satisfied by this epic weird-fest.

Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos wowed audiences in 2023 with the help of Emma Stone in Poor Things, and the duo are back sooner than many expected for their third overall collaboration. Kinds of Kindness premieres June 21, and it sounds like moviegoers are in for a truly unique theatrical experience. Critics have had the opportunity to screen the absurdist comedy, and while the responses are mostly positive, the film promises to be polarizing with its bleak humor and exploration of human perversion.

Kinds of Kindness is a triptych anthology, featuring its stars — who include Emma Stone’s Poor Things co-stars Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, as well as Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and others — playing different characters in three separate but loosely connected stories. Let’s see what critics are saying.

Aaron Neuwirth of We Live Entertainment gives it a user rating of 8 out of 10, noting the director’s return to pitch-black humor as he shines a light on the complexities of human relationships and varying forms of perversions through shocking and funny payoffs. The critic writes: 

Clint Worthington of Consequence grades the movie a B-, agreeing with the above opinion that fans craving the dirtier, nastier side of Yorgos Lanthimos will likely be satisfied by Kinds of Kindness, a “celebration of the ways we degrade ourselves/each other and enjoy it.” Worthington concludes: 

Nick Schager of The Daily Beast recommends audiences “See This” one-of-a-kind film that lets Emma Stone’s freak flag fly. The two-time Oscar winner and Jesse Plemons are Kinds of Kindness’ standouts throughout the genuine and consistently surprising triptych that is so thrillingly bizarre, you won’t want to miss it. Schager continues: 

It's already polarizing some critics as not everyone is as game for the experience as those above. Anna Smith of GamesRadar rates the movie 2 out of 5 stars, calling it “hollow” and saying the project feels misanthropic and at times misogynistic. Critics largely seem to be on board with the film, Smith says, but mainstream audiences may be a harder sell. In her words: 

Ryan Coleman of Slant echoes the above thoughts, calling Yorgos Lanthimos “anchored in the shallows,” as Kinds of Kindness contains the seeds for several good movies if Lanthimos had the patience to cultivate them. Coleman rates the movie just 1.5 stars out of 4, writing: 

Despite a nearly three-hour runtime and what sounds like some tough subject matter and bleak humor, more critics are leaving the movie with positive impressions than negative, and Kinds of Kindness so far has a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. How will audiences react? We’ll find out soon, as the film hits theaters on Friday, June 21. Be sure to check out our 2024 movie calendar to see what else is coming soon. 

You know her as Emma Stone, who graced us with her presence most recently by winning the Oscar for her Poor Things performance. But fans of the award-winning actress like myself know that the star’s real name is actually Emily Stone. Funnily enough, a reporter at Cannes ended up calling Stone by her real name, and she had such a sweet reaction to that.

There are a number of huge stars who don’t use their real names. It could be that they either want a cool name, or there’s just someone else in the union with that same name already. At the Cannes press conference of Emma Stone’s Poor Things follow-up Kinds of Kindness, a reporter accidentally referred to the Easy A actress as “Emily,” only for another reporter to correct him with “Emma.” But there are no hard feelings to be had here, as the talented actress had a sweet reaction to the mistake which you can see in this Instagram video below:

Technically, the reporter didn’t make a mistake, as one of the many reasons to love Emma Stone is her real name actually is Emily. In fact, she said she’d love it if people called her by her real name. This is especially true if these are people who have gotten to know The Amazing Spider-Man actress and have worked closely with her. I can't say I blame her, as I'm sure celebrities don't want people calling them by a stage name 24/7 compared to their genuine given name.

The reason why Emma Stone changed her name in the first place was because there was another SAG actress with the name Emily Stone. By keeping her birth name, it would violate the union’s rule that no two actors can have the same working name. When it came to thinking of a new name at the age of 16, the Golden Globe winner loved the idea of having any name she wanted. During a guest spot on Malcolm in the Middle, she originally leaned toward “Riley” until she had no idea who was talking to her when people would try to get her attention. After that, Stone decided to stick with what we know her by and what her mom calls her - Emma.

Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ third movie together, Kinds of Kindness is, an anthology film covering three storylines with the actors playing different characters in each story. One plot will follow a man trying to take back control of his life, another will follow a policeman’s missing wife coming back as a seemingly “new person,” and a third will follow a woman who is seeking out a “spiritual leader” in her life.

Emma Stone reunites with her Poor Things co-star Willem Dafoe, as well as co-stars with Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and more. As anthology works like Black Mirror seem to hit the right notes with fans, this will be a great opportunity to see the versatile acting chops of the cast as well as Lanthimos continuing to stretch out his creativity.

Based on Emma Stone’s seemingly complimented expression when a reporter called her by her real name “Emily,” I think now we know how she likes to be called. I’m sure calling an actress by her real name is much more personal compared to always being referred to by their professional name. It also must be music to their ears if they've been hearing their given name less often because of their career.

Make sure to watch the 2024 movie release of Kinds of Kindness coming to theaters on June 21st.

The concept of the stage name is nothing new in entertainment. Since the beginning, some people would change their name if they thought their given name might make them sound less appealing. Keanu Reeves has said changing his name was suggested to him, though he declined. Today, actors also change their names to align with the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, which is why the actress we know as Emma Stone is actually Emily Stone. And if you ever get a chance to meet her, she’d love it if you’d call her by her given name.

SAG rules require that no two members may have the same working name. For many, this might mean adding a middle initial to their credited name, as with Michael J. Fox, or it might mean completely changing their first or last name. Michael Keaton had to change his name to prevent confusion with another star. Speaking with THR, Emma Stone says she only changed her name to comply with the rule when she started working. And recently she started asking people, especially friends like her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder, to call her by her actual name. She explained…

As somebody who also goes by a first name that is not their own professionally, I know the experience of having people who call you by a name that is not your own, and how strange that can be. However, I find it an even stranger experience when different people call you different names. At this point, there are certainly more people who call Ms. Stone Emma than Emily. But Stone likes her actual name, and says that she would prefer being called Emily, even by fans asking for selfies. Fielder responds that he’ll use both her names…

• STONE: "No. That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily."
• FIELDER "I’ll switch it up. I’m going to go back and forth."

Many actors become so known by their chosen names that they end up legally changing their names, as Carmen Electra has done, and becoming the person they created for their careers. Emma Stone is not one of those people. She responds to Emma but it sounds like if she could just go back to being Emily Stone all the time, she would do so. So if you happen to meet her somewhere, I guess feel free to call her Emily or Emma.

If the 2024 Academy Awards proved anything, it was that movies are back! It's taken a while following the COVID-19 pandemic for Hollywood to feel “normal” again, yet the ceremony showed that feature films are not only hot again but better than ever. The ceremony honored this year's Oscar winners like Robert Downey Jr., and Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer, as well as Emma Stone, who won Best Actress for her performance in Poor Things. And that wasn’t her only shining moment from the night. Stone was singled out during pal Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance, which felt like a sweet improvised moment. However, it turns out this was all part of a choreographed number that was thoroughly planned. 

Highlights from the “I’m Just Ken” Oscars performance were broken down by Variety, and it turns out, everything was very thought out by the Drive star. The trade reveals that, for months, the Academy had been speaking to the comedic actor, who worked with choreographer Mandy Moore to make the number as iconic as possible. A significant amount of the number was the leading man's idea, including opening the number sitting behind co-star Margot Robbie. It seems it was also his idea to go over to the Easy A icon and have her sing into the mic as well, and he knew exactly what line he would approach her with. 

For context, during the performance the Ken actor turns the mics onto some of his fellow nominees in the crowd. He first goes over to Barbie's Margot Robbie, America Ferrera and director Greta Gerwig to sing with him. This is a great moment, as it highlights the women involved in the production and the true architects of the box office sensation that was Barbie. He then moves over to Emma Stone, who is standing in the front row. He turns the microphone over to her after singing the line "I'm just Ken" and she enthusiastically sings the line “And so am I,” before Gosling guides the steady-cam operator up the staircase to the stage. Gosling also kisses the hand of the cameraman, a move that was also planned by the actor.

It was definitely fitting for Ryan Gosling to involve Emma Stone in the Oscars moment. While she was not involved in Barbie, she has been a major part of Gosling’s film career. They have done three movies together, including Crazy, Stupid, Love, Gangster Squad and La La Land. The two were both Oscar nominees this year, and the previous time they were both nominated was for their work on the aforementioned musical together in 2017. 

Emma Stone also won her first Oscar for La La Land, and the movie showcased Ryan Gosling’s musical ability, which he utilized again for Greta Gerwig's fantasy film. Gosling used this moment in the performance not only to highlight the women behind the pink-tinted film, but the women that played a significant role in his career, making it even more special. 

On the surface, the song is somewhat ridiculous, acting as a big comedic moment in the hit 2023 film. However, with his Oscars performance, the Half Nelson made it more than this. He meticulously planned out the number, taking great care and inflicting meaning into something that could just be surface level. The performance of “I’m Just Ken” even references Marilyn Monroe, has meaningful cameos by major stars, and dishes out meta-commentary of Ryan Gosling’s career and the women like Emma Stone and Greta Gerwig who have lifted him up over the years. There's definitely more to this Academy Awards performance than meets the eye, and I hope we learn even more BTS details on it as time goes on.

For those who may have missed it, you can check out the Oscars performance of “I’m Just Ken” on YouTube now. You can also see the song performed in Barbie, which is now streamable with a Max subscription. Fans additionally can revisit the actor's previous musical cinematic performance alongside Emma Stone in La La Land, which you can rent now on Amazon. 

In a just world, I should just be able to tell you that Kinds of Kindness is the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos and his mise, Emma Stone, and you would line up to buy tickets. They’ve done The Favourite together, and took the awards season by storm last year with Poor Things, for which Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar. Any collaboration should be on your radar. But this is 2024, and potential audience members need teasers and trailers, so fine… here you go. It looks amazing!

This is the ideal type of teaser. It gives us a hint of what Kinds of Kindness might be, without spoiling much of anything. And just based on the images alone, we can tell this is something totally different from the fantasy/sci-fi/horror world of Bella Baxter and her sojourn into the real world as part of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things. Everything about Poor Things was hyper-stylized, from the costumes and sets to even the dialogue and performance. It led to the movie becoming one of the best Emma Stone movies ever made. As of right now, Kinds of Kindness looks more like a Coen Brothers crime thriller, though even that might be deceiving. 

WIth the trailer came a press release that tells us this much about the plot:

Sure, that works! And it primarily works because that cast looks exquisite. As you see in the teaser, Yorgos Lanthimos has recruited Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer for Kinds of Kindness. Now, can someone tell me what Hong Chao is licking in this scene? 

The best part about this trailer isn’t the cast, it’s the release date. Kinds of Kindness will be reaching theaters on June 21, with several film critics on social media predicting (wisely) that the movie will have a splashy premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Safe bet. Could it be possible that Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are back in the awards conversation next year? Or is this a system purge for them, a palette cleanser that allows them to let their hair down and just have fun with a genre exercise? They’ve certainly earned the right to do whatever they want, and I know I’ll be there front and center to see the results. 

The Oscars are not just all about the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, as they're also a time for honoring some of the greatest achievements in cinema during the year. Celebrities also take the opportunity to catch up with fellow 2024 Oscar winners and hang out with former co-stars and friends from the industry. Emma Stone did just that while celebrating her film Poor Things at the Academy Awards. The movie star was seen mingling with everyone and seemed to be having a great time. Of course, she never forgot why she was at the awards ceremony in the first place. With that, a hilarious video captured her running to support the Poor Things crew while in the middle of chatting with her husband, Dave McCary, and Kirsten Dunst. 

Oppenheimer was the biggest winner of the night, but Poor Things also cleaned up at the Oscars. The whimsical film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos won a number of below the line achievements like production design, costume design, and makeup and hairstyling. And, of course, Emma Stone won the award for Best Actress. While other prizes were being given out, she realized it was happening while she and her husband were talking to Kirsten Dunst, and immediately scurried off to go support her crew that were receiving Academy Awards. You can see a video from Refinery29's Instagram of the moment below:

If I didn’t already love the starlet enough, this video really takes the cake. She is so frantic when she realizes an award is being given out and immediately runs towards the theater. What makes it even funnier is that the shape of her dress constricts her ability to run, so it results in a hilarious swift waddle that is just incredible to watch. It takes Kristen Dunst and Dave McCrary a moment to realize what's going on but, when they do, McCary is quick to follow behind his wife, who seems to have made her way into the main auditorium.

While most people may not have known Emma Stone’s husband prior to his appearances by her side this awards season, their love was a real highlight of the Academy Awards. He followed the Easy A star around during the evening and  chatted with many of her friends. He also watched adoringly as Stone accepted her second Academy Award for Best Actress, courtesy of her work in Poor Things. He's also an accomplished creative in his own right, as he's a triple Emmy nominee for his writing contributions on Saturday Night Live. Their romance is everything, and he clearly knows his wife well, considering he seems unfazed when she essentially runs away from him in the video.

The confinements of the dress may not have stopped her from running, but it later posed a problem when she got on stage to receive her Oscar. The dress broke in the back, which the La La Land actress was quick to point out during her speech. It made the whole moment funnier, especially considering how flustered and surprised she was to be accepting the award. She claimed the dress may have broken during the iconic “I’m Just Ken” performance from her former co-star, Ryan Gosling. However, video evidence like this one shows that Stone gave that dress quite a workout throughout the night, so it could’ve happened at any time. On the whole, I'd like to think this was an evening that neither she -- nor her hubby or Kirsten Dunst -- will ever forget.

You can see Emma Stone and the various other Oscar-winning elements of Poor Things, which is currently available to stream for Hulu subscribers. The actress is also set to collaborate with Yorgos Lanthimos again for Kinds of Kindness, which is set to hit theaters later this year. You can also see Kirsten Dunst when A24's Civil War opens on April 12. For more information on flicks heading to the big screen in the near future, make sure to consult our 2024 movie release schedule.

The Oscars were something to be experienced, and the stars all came out for Hollywood’s biggest night. It seemed like everyone was having a great time, but few were embracing the fun like Charlize Theron, who presented the Best Actress award along with other fellow Oscar winners. She looked beautiful and took the opportunity to do some photobombing of Emma Stone, before hanging out with old friend Vin Diesel at the after party. 

The Atomic Blonde star arrived at the Academy Awards wearing a Dior Haute Couture silver gown and was adorned with Boucheron jewels. The look was classic Hollywood glamor, perfect for the Oscars and the award she was about to present. The Oscars can be a stuffy event, but that is not the vibe Theron brought. She photobombed Emma Stone putting on lipstick, posed with other stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Sally Field, and of course met up with Fast and Furious co-star Vin Diesel. She posted an Instagram carousel showing moments from the night, which you can see below. 

Charlize Theron was a part of one of the most sentimental parts of the ceremony. Former winners introduced the 2024 Oscar nominees for acting individually, listing their accomplishments and how their performance was impactful. Theron was chosen to speak on Annette Bening, who was nominated for her performance in Nyad. The presenter previously received her own gold statue back in 2004 for Monster, and has been nominated twice more since the honor. It was great to see her take the stage once again with other winners, and I hope this presentation style becomes a tradition at the Oscars. 

Many of the photos Theron posted from the night included Stone, and I can’t help but love this unexpected duo. The actresses have never appeared on the silver screen together but all of these adorable moments from the Oscars makes me want to see them take on a project together. Both stars are pretty busy, with Stone set to star in another Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Kinds of Kindness this year, and Theron teaming up with Daniel Craig for an upcoming heist flick, Two For the Money. But these two seem to get along great, and I’d love for them to find a way to star alongside each other sometime in the future. 

When Theron wasn’t palling around with the Poor Things star, she found her way back to “family” member Vin Diesel. Those Fast and Furious movies are always emphasizing the importance of the family, and I love that this extends to real life. Even though it seems Theron is moving away from the franchise, the bond with Diesel remains strong, and they posed together at the Universal party. Theron was truly the life of the party, bonding with new friends, as well as old. 

Emma Stone took home the little gold man this year, but fans can revisit Charlize Theron’s own Oscar winning performance in Monster, which is streaming now for Amazon Prime subscribers. You can also catch her alongside Vin Diesel in F9, which is also streaming on the platform. For information on upcoming films featuring big stars like these ones, make sure to consult our 2024 movie release schedule. 

This past weekend, Poor Things did quite well for itself among the 2024 Academy Award winners. In addition taking home the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Bella Baxter, the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed feature also emerged victorious in the Best Production Design and Best Costume Design categories. But now that awards season is behind us and you’ve read our Poor Things review (spoiler alert, we awarded it 4.5 out of 5 stars), it’s time for us to start preparing for Stone and Lanthimos’ next collaboration, because it’s debuting way sooner than we thought. To be more specific, it’s only a few months away on the 2024 movies schedule.

Kinds of Kindness, the third of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ feature-length movies together following the aforementioned adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel and 2018’s The Favourite, is officially due out in theaters on June 21, 2024. Searchlight Pictures announced this release date, so now we can can look forward to the movie, which was originally called And, opening the same day as The Bikeriders, It Ends with Us and Thelma. Kinds of Kindness will be Searchlight’s third movie of the year, following February’s Suncoast and April’s The Greatest Hits.

So for those of you who enjoyed watching Poor Things and/or The Favourite, both of which can be streamed with a Hulu subscription, mark down June 21 on your calendar. Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos have quickly proven themselves to be an effective actor/director duo, as The Favourite also earned numerous accolades, including Stone for Best Supporting Actress, while Olivia Colman won Best Actress that year. While nothing’s certain just yet, there’s a good chance we could be talking about Kinds of Kindness frequently during the next awards season.

Unfortunately, what we can specifically expect from Kinds of Kindness remains shrouded in mystery. At the end of 2023, Lanthimos described the movie to The Guardian as “a contemporary film, set in the US – three different stories, with four or five actors who play one part in each story, so they all play three different parts.” That’s the extent of the plot information that’s been revealed, though the filmmaker added that working on Kinds of Kindness was “almost like making three films, really.”

As far as the cast goes, Stone will be joined by her Poor Things costar Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. In addition to his directorial duties, Lanthimos co-wrote Kinds of Kindness’ script with Efthimis Filippou, with the two of them having previously worked together on Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The movie was filmed in New Orleans in late 2022.

CinemaBlend will have more Kinds of Kindness coverage lined up in the months ahead, so be on the lookout for that. Also, remember that after its release, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are planning to work on yet another movie together, a remake of the South Korean fantasy comedy Save the Green Planet.