Kayleigh Hughes

People turn to all sorts of different comforts when they just need to totally zone out. My very favorite thing to do is watch food and cooking documentaries that feature a very strong focus on soothing music, rhythmic food sourcing and preparation,…

An adaptation of Nicola Yoon's young adult novel Everything, Everything is coming to theaters soon, starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson as teens who fall in love, despite Stenberg's character Maddy having an immune deficiency disorder that…

There have been many steamy, iconic sex scenes in films, and much of the time there's been a lot of emphasis on the female body. What there has historically been less emphasis on in these movies, however, is the female viewpoint. It turns out that…

It's a really good time for fans of young adult novels, which are being adapted in Hollywood left and right. The latest of these is Everything, Everything, adapted from a 2015 YA novel of the same name, which comes out in theaters May 19. The sweet,…

Aziz Ansari's acclaimed comedy-romance series Master of None returns to Netflix on May 12, and it's one of the most anticipated second seasons on TV this year. The first season knocked it out of the park, fusing deep sincerity, sharp societal and…

Amy Schumer is back on the big screen with her second starring role, and she's accompanied by Goldie Hawn, who is also making a long-awaited return to film after starring in 2002's The Banger Sisters. Their new movie is Snatched, is about a mother…

The new trailer for Season 5 of Orange is the New Black dropped Tuesday morning, and it's a much darker trailer than those for a lot of the past seasons of the show, which makes sense given how much of a devastating and compelling note the most…

The tale of King Arthur is once again being explored in a new film, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, starring Charlie Hunnam and directed by Guy Ritchie. Hunnam is playing the famed King himself, and though it's a period film, separating fact from…

One of the great but equally frustrating qualities of Netflix's design is that all movies are presented fairly equally. There is a loose organization based on, I am assuming, algorithms and the weather, but for the most part, you'll find…

There are a lot of layers to the new wrestling biopic Chuck. The film tells the story of Chuck Wepner, who was well-known for boxing Muhammed Ali and was the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone's character in Rocky. In Chuck, the focus is squarely on…

It's hard to watch The Handmaid's Tale, but it's also just as hard to look away once you start, equally because it's freaking fantastic and because the world it depicts is horrifically relevant to our contemporary times. As of this week, four…

The May 3 release of I Am Heath Ledger, the new documentary about the life of talented actor and filmmaker Heath Ledger, who died in 2008, has brought the actor back into the public conversation once again. The film celebrates his incredible talent…

Many films about trans people have been based on real individuals: Eddie Redmayne played Einar Wegene in The Danish Girl, for instance, and Hillary Swank portrayed Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry. Yet Elle Fanning's Ray in 3 Generations is not based…

A lot of times, thinking back on movies from older generations means grappling with just how problematic they are. Tons of "classics" from decades past, if you watch them now, turn out to be pretty sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic,…

The trailer for I Am: Heath Ledger, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on April 23 and in select theaters May 3, opens with a slow zoom out of Ledger holding a camera to his face, taking photos. He's focused on his work, but smiling in a way…

It was a shock to many of us when actor Bill Paxton passed away in February due to complications from surgery. He was 61, and had a new film coming out. That movie, The Circle, starring Paxton alongside Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, opens April 28 and…

The most comforting thing in the world is curling up and watching a teen movie from the '90s that you used to love. That era feels simultaneously like it was ages ago and also yesterday, and there's something so perfectly familiar and nostalgic…

Now that '90s kids are more like '90s "adults who have jobs and are wondering what happened to our weird beautiful fleeting youth," there is one pretty fantastic benefit: we get to let our nostalgia and reminiscences guide today's popular media.…

There's a new shootout movie in town, and it's got the Martin Scorsese seal of approval. Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, which opens April 21, was produced by Scorsese, and tells the story of two teams of criminals in 1970s Boston that meet up in a…