Jennifer Lopez's New Movie 'The Mother' Features 4 Callbacks to Her Older Movies, Including a Reference to Vanessa Hudgens!

Jennifer Lopez has another hit on her hands with “The Mother”.

marrying the woman he loves and starring in a Dunkin campaign, he still looks like the brooding star of an Abilify commercial.Last week, he walked the red carpet with wife Jennifer Lopez for her movie “The Mother,” and the pair engaged in what appeared to be a tense back-and-forth (a lip reader assured us that they were not in the throes of a domestic). A day later, paparazzi video emerged of a seemingly agitated Affleck slamming the door of their car after Lopez climbed in.Another day, another Affleck scowl.

Jennifer Lopez just wants to protect her kids.

Kate Bosworth confirmed her engagement to actor Justin Long on Instagram with a series of blurry photos of the two of them cuddling through the years. “Mad Men” star Christina Hendricks announced her engagement to cinematographer George Bianchini with a low-key snap and the caption: “We proposed to each other and we said yes!!!” Allison Williams let her partner Alexander Dreymon quietly drop the news of their upcoming nuptials — the “M3gan” star hasn’t posted on social media in about two years.None of these women posted ring pics.

A family affair! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck kicked off Mother’s Day weekend by watching her new movie, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez appeared on television screens across the U.S. this Mother’s Day weekend.

Jennifer Lopez had a special moment with two important ladies in her life.Over the weekend, the 53-year-old entertainer shared a sweet video of her mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, and her husband, Ben Affleck's mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, hanging out together.«Watching #TheMother with my beautiful mothers!!! @Delola watch party

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated Mother’s Day surrounded by their children. JLo also invited her mother, Guadalupe, while Ben brought his mother and his 14-year-old daughter, Seraphina.JLo’s 15-year-old twins, Emme and Max, also enjoyed the gathering.Ben’s other kids he shares with ex Jennifer Garner, Violet, 17, and son, Samuel, 11, were not part of the celebration, as it is believed they spent the day with their mother.For the outing, the singer, actress, and businesswoman rocked an elevated white and blue springy maxi dress paired with a white handbag and oversized sunglasses.

three children, celebrated Mother's Day with the ultimate : a floral dress and wedges. On Sunday, May 14, the The Mother star was spotted in Los Angeles. Lopez's blue-and-white floral maxi included a tiered skirt and off-the-shoulder neckline with billowy sleeves that cinch at the elbows.

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Jennifer Lopez seems to be an unlikely action star. The actress is mostly known for her rom-com turns in movies like Maid in Manhattan, The Wedding Planner and more recently Marry Me. However, over the last few years, the 53-year-old has been joining more physically demanding movies, and her latest Netflix movie, The Mother, is no exception.

About twenty minutes into the new Netflix thriller “The Mother,” star Jennifer Lopez locks eyes with a snarling, angry wolf in the snowy Alaskan wilderness. Just as Lopez raises her rifle, a bunch of cute wolf babies emerge from their snowy home.

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Jennifer Lopez expressed feeling guilty when she cannot protect her children. During a conversation with Audacy, Lopez opened up on the things she wishes she could protect her children from.“Everything. There’s so many things.

In March, Ben Affleck revealed his and pal Matt Damon’s Artist Equity would be producing Unstoppable, starring none other than Affleck’s wife, Jennifer Lopez. This raises the question: Does the couple that act together, stay together? History doesn’t stand on their side, but with copious side projects in addition to Unstoppable, both Affleck and Lopez are busy enough with their own independent work to avoid on-set tensions: Affleck’s AIR is dropping on Prime Video and Lopez is celebrating the release of The Mother on Netflix on May 12, 2023.

The Mother is a mutha of an intimately scaled action film, a violent female-centric drama about a hardened combat veteran who has great difficulty adapting to being anything other than a tough soldier, and that includes being a mother. Joining Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins, Gina Prince-Blythewood, Mimi Leder and the Wachowski siblings among women responsible for notable action features, Aussie director Niki Caro (Whale Rider, Mulan) has delivered a film that could easily have veered into sentiment at any moment but instead remains tough as nails and doesn’t go soft at the end. The film would surely have an even greater impact on the big screen but, as it is, launched Friday on Netflix.

Lucy Paez is recounting her audition for the role of Jennifer Lopez’s daughter in “The Mother”.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Trace Lysette is in a hotel room on 8th Street in New York City when she jumps on a Zoom video call with Variety to talk about her new movie, “Monica.” In just a couple of hours, she’s set to walk the red carpet at the indie drama’s premiere at the IFC Center. “I used to turn tricks a few blocks from there,” Lysette says. Like so many trans women, Lysette once turned to sex work as a means of survival. “I was a young person alone in New York doing God knows what to survive,” says Lysette, who was raised in Ohio. “Last night we had a screening at The [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community] Center here. That was so heavy for me because I got my gender identity therapy there 20 years ago.”

Jennifer Lopez is an assassin with a plan in her new movie The Mother, which is a true testament to her creative range.

Proud mama! Jennifer Lopez is a triple threat performer but being a mother is her favorite role to date.

About twenty minutes into the new Netflix thriller “The Mother,” star Jennifer Lopez locks eyes with a snarling, angry wolf in the snowy Alaskan wilderness. Just as Lopez raises her rifle, a bunch of cute wolf babies emerge from their snowy home.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's marriage appears to be in hot water yet again, as Hollywood star Ben looked miserable in a newly surfaced clip as he escorted his wife to her car.

Jennifer Lopez plays a deadly assassin in Netflix film The Mother.Directed by Niki Caro (Mulan), the action thriller follows an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her estranged daughter.A synopsis reads: “A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.”Lopez also serves as a producer alongside Benny Medina, Roy Lee and Marc Evans. The film’s script is by Misha Green (Lovecraft Country) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton).Lucy Paez plays 12-year-old Zoe, the daughter of the titular Mother.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In a movie career that stretches back 25 years, Jennifer Lopez has on occasion done flaked-out underworld thriller romance (“Out of Sight”), capery action (“Parker”) and revenge (“Enough”). Yet she has never placed herself at the center of such a down-and-dirty, grimly overwrought, execute-now-and-ask-questions-later B-movie as “The Mother.” I’m tempted to call the film “minimalist,” because if you consider its bare-bones screenplay (by three writers!), its convoluted utilitarian set-up, its 2D villains, and its essential formulaic momentum, it’s a prime example of action filmmaking made basic. Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned broker of underground arms deals turned FBI informant turned savagely cool-headed protector of her 12-year-old daughter, is playing a badass not so far removed from those played by Jason Statham or (in his grade-B prime) Bruce Willis, and she’s up to the task. She shoots, she stabs, she chops windpipes, she motorcycles down stone stairways in one of those chase-through-an-ancient-city action scenes (this one takes place in Havana), she tortures a man by punching him with a fist wrapped in barb wire, she grimaces in muscle-torn agony but mostly looks frozen and implacable. Even more important, she puts her own spin on those familiar motions.

The Mother” is like a lot of Netflix action-dramas of late: A mix of different genres with hints of a darker, possibly richer story, that ended up being excised due to budget and/or time constraints. There is a lot of well-worn inspiration to be found in its familiar plot, from the survivalist parent/daughter relationship found in the 2011 feature “Hanna” to another Jennifer Lopez feature, 2018’s “Second Act” in which Lopez’s character is also at odds with a daughter she gave up at birth named Zoe. All of this is to say a film like “The Mother” shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t completely gel 100 percent.

Some fans were concerned that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were arguing on the red carpet at the premiere of her new movie The Mother on Wednesday night (May 11) in Los Angeles. However, a lip reader knows what they were really talking about and can clear the air.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were seemingly caught in the middle of another public argument this week! But is there actually more to the story?!

Tom Bachik, who previously recreated the style on Margot Robbie for the 2021 Oscars, was in charge of getting Jennifer Lopez’s nails ready for the red carpet premiere of Netflix’s ‘The Mother’ in Los Angeles, California.The actress looked stunning wearing a Brunello Cucinelli ensemble, which included a matching crop top, skirt, and coat. She completed the look with hidden heels, a white clutch, big earrings, and smokey glam makeup.When it came to her nails, Bachik went for what seemed to be a coffin or ballerina shape, painted in beige, which complimented her look for the premiere.

He’s been busy by his wife’s side while she promotes her new film The Mother, which hits Netflix on Friday, May 12, 2023. But fans speculate things may not exactly be peachy between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, whose car video just went viral.

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Family Guy’s Lois Griffin has been voted the nation’s favorite mom – beating Katy Perry, Beyonce and even Michelle Obama.Ahead of this Mother’s Day, the top 50 moms were voted for in a poll of 2,000 adults which found Serena Williams, Morticia Addams and soon-to-be mom-of-two, Rihanna, also making the list.Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore and Goldie Hawn were also among the well-known names which came in top.When asked what makes a good mom, 41% said it was their ability to multi-task while 46% said being supportive was key to successful parenting.Commissioned by brioche brand St Pierre and conducted by OnePoll, it emerged the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie featured in the top 10 most voted when respondents were asked who they would like to be their mom.Meanwhile, Madonna, Kim Kardashian and Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch were voted in the top 20 most iconic moms of all time.When it comes to feeling inspired by famous mothers, sense of humor, general outlook on life and parenting styles were cited as the top reasons for this.With Marge Simpson, Cersei Lannister and Khloe Kardashian landing in the top 20 for those who people have based their own parenting tactics on.“Moms are the most important people in our lives, so ahead of Mother’s Day – which this year coincides with National Brioche Day – we thought it would be interesting to find out who the nation’s favorite moms – both fictional and real – are,” a spokesperson for bakery brand, St Pierre, said. In terms of what makes a memorable famous mom, confidence, likeability and career were cited as the most popular reasons.But 43% even went as far to say it was their name which made them noteworthy, with 40% highlighting famous catchphrases or

Jennifer Lopez and her mom Guadalupe Rodríguez, best known as Lupe. During a recent appearance on a red carpet for the premiere of her new action thriller, The Mother, the singer, actress, and businesswoman reacted to her mom’s remarks regarding how she always wanted Lopez to rekindle her relationship with Ben Affleck.While walking at the event held at the Westwood Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, the lovely couple posed for cameras and even shared some PDA.

Is Ben Affleck miserable? Angry at Jennifer Lopez?? Or is this a case of selection bias..?

get loud — as a lip reading specialist has deduced what Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck reportedly discussed Wednesday on the LA red carpet for her new Netflix movie “The Mother.”The singer/actress, who appeared to be frowning at times during the interaction, asked Affleck, 50, whether her low-cut top was “showing too much.”He told Lopez, 53, that it was fine, the Daily Mail reported, quoting a lip reader.Lopez wore a sequin-covered beige bralette with a matching high-waisted maxi skirt, while Affleck suited up in a black three-piece suit with a white shirt.The newlyweds continued shuffling, trying to nail their poses for the photographers, as the “Let’s Get Loud” singer gestured to the “Air” actor to get into position.Affleck appeared to tell Lopez to come closer to him, leaning into her ear and whispering, “Don’t worry, babe,” per the Daily Mail. Lopez then tells him to “come close to me.”After striking several poses, the “Argo” director wraps it up, saying it’s “done.”Ready to head inside for the premiere, he kisses Lopez and comforts her by asking if she is OK.She responds “yes” and proceeds to say they need to “step over there” for others on the carpet.The couple’s tense body language that evening could be attributed to a viral video of Affleck abruptly shutting the car door in Lopez’s face on Tuesday.The clip, posted by The Hollywood Fix, shows the couple walking toward their car and Affleck opening the door for his wife as she gets settled in.He lightly slams the door closed and glances at the paparazzi with annoyance.Several YouTube users quickly labeled Affleck’s glare as grumpy, sad or miserable.“He looks really sad; he doesn’t like paparazzi attention,” commented one person.“He looks miserable as hell,” agreed