‘Bottoms’ Review: Emma Seligman’s Sophomore Feature Is No ‘Shiva Baby,’ & But Still Delightfully Subversive [SXSW]

Maybelline’s Super Stay 24H Hybrid Powder Foundation, £11.99 here in ten shades, has taken everyone by surprise, not least the brand that makes it.The base wasn’t meant to launch in the UK for ages, but then TikTok momentum took over when US fans began sharing its jaw-dropping one-swipe coverage - and lo, here it is. Our OK! beauty team has tried it for ourselves and we can happily count ourselves as members of the ‘taken aback’ club. Beauty director Lynne even notes that it looked smooth on her dry skin, which isn’t often the case with powder formulas.TikTok make-up mega-influencer Mikayla Nogueira seems to have kickstarted the social media obsession around the product when she branded the foundation “the most magic powder I’ve ever used” in a now-viral video.

The only reason Murder Mystery 2 or even its predecesor exists is as a star vehicle in the most literal sense of the word. The recipe is simple: Sign Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, put them in glamorous locations with lots of action and schtick, and then set it loose on a global platform – Netflix – that can easily sell these kinds of recognizable shenanigans in all points of the world. It worked in 2019, and it works again now, only this time with the action and stunts so ramped up they almost overtake the plot, such as it is. The template and characters were firmly established in the original which had our stars caught up in a murder in which they were suspects, but eventually save the day before the entire cast of characters wind up dead in the process.

EXCLUSIVE: Unlike its predecessor, Dune: Part Two won’t be debuting at the Venice Film Festival, we can reveal.

Police are continuing to investigate the death of a much-loved former teacher and football manager who died after being hit by a lorry. An inquest into the death of John Patrick McCafferty, also known as Paddy, was opened at Rochdale Coroners Court this morning (March 28).

Emma Watson finishes up a lunch trip to Nobu earlier in the week before taking a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada to cheer on Taylor Swift during a performance of her Eras Tour on Friday (March 24).

Bruce Willis’ family is keeping his treasured memories “safe and alive.”

Emma McVey - wife of Geordie Shore alum Gaz Beadle - has spoken out about her fears that she would never wake up again after her recent open heart surgery. The 30-year-old model and influencer worried she was saying her last goodbye as she kissed her husband and their two children before the operation. “That was the hardest bit," she said.

Emma Heming Willis renewed their wedding vows Tuesday to celebrate 10 years of marriage amid the actor’s recent dementia diagnosis.Heming Willis, 44, shared a touching glimpse of the ceremony in an Instagram Reel posted Wednesday, accompanied by the Coldplay song “Fix You.”In the caption, she wrote that the 68-year-old Willis’ ex-wife, Demi Moore, 60, was the couple’s videographer, while Willis and Moore’s daughters Rumer, 34, and Scout, 31, sang accompanied by guitar during the intimate outdoor gathering. Willis and Moore’s third daughter, Tallulah, 29, did not seem to be in attendance, though she has been photographed with her dad recently. Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis’ two daughters, Mabel, 10, and Evelyn, 8, were the flower girls, wearing the same white and floral-patterned dresses as their mother.

Emma Heming Willis is once again letting fans in on her love story with husband Bruce Willis amid his ongoing health struggles.

On her 14th wedding anniversary to husband Bruce Willis, and their first since his dementia diagnosis, Emma Heming chose to reflect.  Heming shared intimate video footage from the couple's vow renewal in 2019 from Turks and Caicos. "On our 10th wedding anniversary we decided to renew our vows in the same place we said ‘I do’ back in 2009.

Popular BBC series The Traitors returned for a hilarious sketch for Red Nose Day, as two iconic contestants joined a a rather star-studded round table.The parody sketch began with Dawn French playing show host Claudia Winkleman, who announced: "I’m actually Claudia Winkleman - half woman, half fringe." Those sat around the table then began to remove their hoods, revealing the famous faces underneath, which included Alison Hammond, Dame Mary Berry, Steve Merchant and Danny Dyer. Actor Ewan McGregor also made an appearance as his Star Wars character Obi Wan Kenobi. As the skit continued, Traitors icon Maddy Smedley was unhooded and accused those around the table of either being traitors or faithfuls.

Rachel Sennott is ideally cast in the leading role of Ally Pankiw’s “I Used to Be Funny” because this is a character who sort of can’t help but make you laugh, even without trying, even in tremendously difficult situations. Her name is Sam, and she’s a stand-up comedienne (“Like a comedian, but a girl!” she explains, cheerfully), and you see why.

The SXSW Film & TV Festival has returned to Austin, and Deadline’s reviewers are watching all the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which last year was the launchpad for newly-minted Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once. The Daniels’ wild sci-fi action comedy is the first pic to debut at SXSW and go on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Bottoms,” a high-school comedy that is brazenly gonzo, scaldingly and at times even dementedly over-the-top, and actually about something, PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) have been best friends since the first grade, but in their senior year at Rock Ridge High they’re at the end of their tether. They’re losers, they’re lonely, they’re lesbians — and in their eyes, that puts them beneath the bottom of the food chain. So they do what anyone in their position might do. They decide to start a fight club! It’s modeled (sort of) on the one in “Fight Club,” though the movie isn’t particularly interested in that film, where the characters staged bare-knuckle brawls out of a kind of self-serious macho romantic doomsday nihilism. In “Bottoms,” PJ and Josie, in the time-honored tradition of teen-movie protagonists out to lose their virginity, are just looking for a way to sleep with the cheerleaders they have crushes on. They build the club around a scurrilous and rather ridiculous lie: that they’ve both spent time in “juvie.” Sitting around in the gym, with a handful of the “normal” girls they’ve roped into joining the club, all of them share stories about the men they’ve had to fend off (stalkers, pervy stepfathers, you name it). And when they get to the fight-club part, letting out their aggression, the jabs are shockingly violent. We laugh, but we also think: What’s going on here?

Directed by Emma Seligman and written by Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms, is a coming of age story about two horny teenage girls kicking, punching, and slamming their way to getting laid. The film has a stacked cast including Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Ruby Cruz, and Miles Fowler. This comedic journey of its young protagonist is not without its issues, but it’s unapologetic in its execution and filled with memorable moments.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Before the LGBTQ teen sex comedy “Bottoms” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on Saturday, festival director Claudette Godfrey told the audience in the Paramount Theater to prepare themselves for an experience that defied description, and that’s largely what they got. The movie stars Rachel Sennott (“Bodies, Bodies, Bodies,” “Shiva Baby”) and Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) as high schoolers who decide to form a girls’ fight club — technically, a self-defense club — in order to convince the two hottest cheerleaders in school to sleep with them. What unfolds isn’t quite like any high school sex comedy before it, which was exactly what director Emma Seligman (“Shiva Baby”) — who wrote the screenplay with Sennott — set out to do.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic There are movies made during the pandemic, and movies made because the pandemic, and though debuting director Jake Johnson had been kicking around the idea for “Self Reliance” for years, it took COVID to motivate him to make it. Why? Because the “New Girl” actor’s absurdist concept — about a sad-sack bored enough with his life that he agrees to risk it in a “Most Dangerous Game”-style reality show — assumed both profundity and relevance as soon as the species went into lockdown. Coming up for connection, Johnson delivers a silly and frequently surprising why-we-need-people parable. The helmer plays Tommy, who’s been a passive bystander in his own life for as long as he can remember, until one day famous dude Andy Samberg (who also happens to be among the film’s producers) randomly pulls up in a stretch limo and offers Tommy a ride. Should he take it? Probably not, but Tommy’s bored enough to accept, agreeing to meet a pair of eccentric producers who inform him that he’s been selected for a chance to win a million dollars. All he has to do is survive for 30 days, while a team of highly trained “hunters” try to take him out.

Kaia Gerber and her boyfriend Austin Butler are both hard at work as awards season comes to a close.

There were so many celebs at the Miu Miu show during Paris Fashion Week, both in the front row and on the runway!

Emma Beadle has hit back after she faced criticism for allegedly using the "wrong" car seat for her kids. Emma, who is married to Geordie Shore star Gary, 34, took to Instagram to showcase Chester, five, and three year old Primrose’s new car seats when her followers expressed concerns that Primrose's seat was too big.The mum-of-two went on to address the backlash, however, insisting that children’s car seats go off a tot’s weight and height. “I was waiting for the messages.