Jenny Slate
Win Tickets to an Advance Screening of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
If you’re itching to watch A24’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On but can’t wait until its general release on June 24th, today might be your lucky day. It’s been over ten years since our favorite stop-motion shell came along and stole our hearts. Directed by Dean Flesicher-Camp and co-written and voiced by Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On the short film follows a little troublemaking shell named Marcel, and now has over 32 million views on YouTube. Piggybacking off of Marcel’s success, Fleischer-Camp and Slate decided to give the guy his very own feature film. Released by A24, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a mockumentary-style film that follows Marcel searching for his family with the help of a documentarian. Advertisement Related Video Slate reprises her role as Marcel, and t...
Marcel Searches for Other Shells in Trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Watch
Marcel the Shell is going from short film marvel to A24 star. The production company just shared the first trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which you can watch below. Over a decade after starring as the shell with a face in Dean Fleischer-Camp’s stop-motion short film, Jenny Slate reprises her role as Marcel in a Finding Nemo-type quest to find his family. Even though “it’s pretty much common knowledge that it takes at least 20 shells to have a community,” Marcel finds himself alone with his grandma, Connie, and their pet lint, Alan. After a documentary filmmaker finds the family while doing some spring cleaning, he documents their journey to reunite with their community. Much like real life, the trailer sees Marcel go viral, with Leslie Stahl, Conan O’Brien, Brian Wil...
Charlie Day and Jenny Slate Sabotage Their Exes in Trailer for I Want You Back: Watch
The protagonists of the forthcoming rom-com I Want You Back know that nothing brings two perfect strangers together quite like the mutual anguish of a breakup. Before it hits streaming on February 11th, Amazon Prime Studios has shared the film’s official trailer, starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate. II Want You Back centers around thirty-somethings Peter (Day) and Emma (Slate), who thought their lives were right on track until they were both dumped by their respective partners during the same weekend. To make matters worse, Peter and Emma have also both discovered that their exes have swiftly moved on to new relationships. In response, the new friends then decide to conspire in an effort to win back the potential loves of their lives, engaging in a slew of hilarious hijinks — like taking ...
Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks Finds Bill Murray on a Pure Charm Offensive: NYFF Review
This review is part of our coverage of the 2020 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Laura (Rashida Jones) is in crisis. From the outside, it might not seem so: She’s a published author with another book deal on lock, she’s got a handsome husband named Dean (Marlon Wayans) and two beautiful girls, and they live in the kind of well-furnished Manhattan apartment you only see in sitcoms. But Dean’s started to spend more time outside of the home, ostensibly to work on his social media startup with his tall, gorgeous colleague Fiona (Iron Fist‘s Jessica Henwick), and his excuses for his absence have grown increasingly flimsy. Hence, the crisis: She can’t concentrate on her book, she’s increasingly aloof to her school pickup mom-partner Vanessa (Jenny Slate), and she can’t quite get Dean to c...
Jenny Slate Leaves Big Mouth so a Black Actor Can Voice Her Character Instead
Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth is experiencing a new growth spurt. After spending three seasons voicing the role of Missy, a biracial tween, Jenny Slate has stepped down from the role so that a Black voice actor can have it instead. Slate revealed her decision earlier today in a lengthy statement posted to Instagram. In the post, she explains that she initially believed it was “permissible” to voice Missy in the Emmy-nominated series because the character’s mother is Jewish and white, which Slate herself is in real life. “But Missy is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,” her statement reads. Slate then acknowledges that she was “engaging in an act of erasure of Black people” and that both her receiving the role and her decision to acc...
