Matthew Jacobs

Few names in Hollywood are more polarizing than Gwyneth Paltrow, which was the case even before she sold a $75 candle called This Smells Like My Vagina. Paltrow began her career with a baked-in narrative: Here came a well-traveled 17-year-old with famous ... See more

Role Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Sissy Spacek was 27 when she shot 3 Women , but she may as well have been 17. That’s how credible she is as P... See more

Role Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. On her first mother-daughter pairing with Laura Dern, why Blue Velvet made her “angry,” and what went through... See more

Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Mary Bronstein’s first movie, the acerbic 2008 comedy Yeast, co-starring Greta Gerwig, came and went with little fanfare. In her eyes, it was a wrong-time situation: No one was eager to... See more