Catching up with Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart was straight up not having a good time making Charlie’s Angels

Kristen Stewart to make her feature directorial debut with The Chronology Of Water

Newly christened Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart will now take on her first full-length directorial project, with the adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology Of Water. The Father’s Imogen Poots will lead the film as the renowned author and teacher. Read More

Kristen Stewart almost bit her lip and the dust as the “Drew Barrymore” of Scream 4

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Kristen Stewart says she’s only made “five really good films” throughout her career

Ahead of the U.S. debut of her enthralling and Oscar-worthy performance as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s biopic Spencer, Kristen Stewart is acknowledging the elephant in the room: her career hasn’t really been filled with critically acclaimed features, to say the least. Read More

Kristen Stewart is yet another Princess Diana in the trailer for Spencer

Following in the footsteps of The Crown’s two Princess Dianas (played by Emma Corrin in season four and Elizabeth Debicki in the upcoming season five), comes Spencer. From Jackie director Pablo Larrín, Spencer is “an imagining of what might have happened” during the Christmas celebration at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate when Princess Diana weighed divorcing Prince Charles. Coming this November 5th (a date that lives in infamy for the Guy-Fawkes-mask-wearing hackers the world over), Spencer promises to be another look inside the unknowable lives of the monarchy. Read More

Kristen Stewart hopes Happiest Season feels cathartic for queer viewers

In Hulu’s new holiday film Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis play Abby and Harper, a happily cohabitating couple whose relationship is put to the test when Harper invites Abby home for the holidays only to reveal on the drives that—oops!—she hasn’t actually come out to her family. She asks Abby to pose as her straight, orphaned friend who needed a place to go for the holidays, and promises everything will be okay. Read More

Underwater proves Kristen Stewart is more than ready to be a bonafide action star

In some ways, it’s ironic that Sigourney Weaver’s star-making performance as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Alien has become synonymous with “badass heroine.” After all, a big part of what makes Weaver so effective in the role is she’s doing the antithesis of action-star posturing. She makes Ripley unsure of her decisions, unsteady in the execution of her plans, and—perhaps most importantly—absolutely terrified of the unstoppable creature hunting down the crew of the Nostromo. During the climactic showdown aboard the escape ship, Ripley can’t even bring herself to look directly at the Xenomorph, even when it’s mere feet away. And that insecure, vulnerable humanity is precisely what makes her so real, and so relatable. Better still, when Ripley does eventually pull off her save-the-day heroics, it’s that much more meaningful, because it comes from a place of fragile courage; this is a mere person defeating the alien, not some indefatigable fantasy protagonist. Read More

Kristen Stewart is French New Wave icon and FBI target Jean Seberg in Seberg trailer

An icon of the French New Wave, actress Jean Seberg became a target of the FBI after her activism found her associated with the Black Panther Party and Black nationalist Hakim Jamal. What followed was a period of aggressive surveillance and a gruesome smear campaign, the likes of which will be explored in Seberg, a new film from Una’s Benedict Andrews. Read More

Kristen Stewart co-authored research paper about artificial intelligence

Kristen Stewart is quickly becoming one of my favorite people. She’s gone from Twilight to indie darling, picking some amazing films that show us she has way more talent than Bella Swan gave her credit for. And now, she’s a scientist. Read More

Kristen Stewart has a damn good time in new Rolling Stones video

Kristen Stewart retains her status as the queen of giving absolutely no fucks in the best possible way in the video for The Rolling Stones’ song “Ride ‘Em On Down” off their new album Blue & Lonesome. Stewart picks up some supplies—including a blue lollipop for tongue-dying purposes—and goes on a joyride in a metallic car. She breaks traffic laws; she grooves out; she randomly encounters a zebra. Basically, she has a damn good time. Read More

Kristen Stewart shines in the sensitive short story collection Certain Women

Because of their manageable length and tendency to privilege evocative description over intricate plotting, short stories are arguably easier to transport to the screen than novels are. Rather than trying to condense a couple hundred pages into a couple hours, filmmakers can build out from a compact, rock-solid foundation. How many of these adaptations, though, actually capture the spirit of the format—the open-ended mystery and vividness of great short fiction, the sense that you’re being plopped down for a few meaningful minutes into a hyper-specific space? Certain Women comes closer than most. Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves), the film assembles several movie stars for a triptych of minor-key Montana character sketches, each based on a story by award-winning author Malie Meloy. Imagine a version of Robert Altman’s Short Cuts that didn’t weave its individual tales into some ensemble tapestry, instead simply offering a few acute approximations of Raymond Carver’s voice. That’s Certain Women. Read More