Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 31, 2025 Dear Gossips, A sequel to The Social Network is in development, said to be a top priority for the studio. Back in 2010, the first film was nominated for eight Oscars, winning three, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. He has now written the follow-up and will direct it By Lainey • Jul 31, 2025 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos Being the Ricardos, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, takes three things that happened in the lives of legendary entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and compacts them into one fictitious week. While producing an episode of their hit show I Love Lucy, Walter Winchell outs Lucy (Nicole Kidman) as By Sarah • Dec 09, 2021 02:07 pm
Assy Style Here comes Nicole Being The Ricardos comes out next week, and while reviews are still embargoed, Oscar buzz is building momentum for Nicole Kidman. Awards season remains extremely competitive, but Kidman is looking more and more like a solid pick for a nomination (along with Olivia Colman and Kristen Stewart). Here’s Kidman, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s bad Ricardos takes A full trailer for Being the Ricardos has arrived, and it is…still not convincing. Seeing more of Nicole Kidman in motion as Lucille Ball isn’t making me feel better about the casting, it’s just doubling down on the initial impression that she’s the wrong type of By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Molly’s Game Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, but it’s Jessica Chastain’s movie from start to finish. Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir as the mastermind of the world’s most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly’s Game is mostly a series of flashy By Sarah • Sep 11, 2017 11:33 am
Dumbass F-cking Sorkin! “F-cking Sorkin!” is what Duana and I outburst at each other because Aaron Sorkin is impossible. I first wrote about “F-cking Sorkin!” two days after Donald Trump won the US election when Sorkin posted an open letter to his wife and daughter about how bitterly disappointed they were by the By Lainey • Mar 27, 2017 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thanksgiving Idris Idris Elba has been in Toronto shooting Molly’s Game, based on Molly Bloom’s book, and adapted for the screen by Aaron Sorkin, who is also directing. Ready? Say it with me. F-cking Sorkin! Jessica Chastain stars. Not sure what role Idris is playing. But the point is he’ By Lainey • Nov 24, 2016 01:37 pm
Aaron Sorkin Intro for November 10, 2016 Dear Gossips, I am currently making my way through Gilmore Girls. (Currently on the second to last episode of Season 2.) Although she would dispute this characterisation, Duana has taken it upon herself to be my viewing coach. Like, the other night she wouldn’t let me read this Vox By Lainey • Nov 10, 2016 09:12 am
Aaron Sorkin Intro for July 27, 2016 Dear Gossips, Just before 10:30pm last night, while we were texting back and forth during Bill Clinton’s speech at the DNC, Duana messaged me a link, prefaced with “I’m sending you something you’re going to hate me for”. It was Aaron Sorkin’s Reddit AMA. Sorkin By Lainey • Jul 27, 2016 09:59 am
Good for Gossip Aaron Sorkin: Golden Globes Rage God, Aaron Sorkin, I thought you were done making me furious. I say this as someone who, okay, has not yet seen Steve Jobs. From what I understand, I’m not the only one. But I bring this up not to be snarky, but because I don’t know if By Lainey • Jan 11, 2016 03:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs If Michael Fassbender wins an Oscar for playing Steve Jobs in the film of the same name, he has Ashton Kutcher to thank for it. That’s a joke, of course, but it’s one that Fassbender already made himself at the NYFF Steve Jobs press conference on Saturday. He’ By Joanna • Oct 05, 2015 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lucille Ball is getting Sorkinized Yesterday it was announced that Cate Blanchett will star as Lucille Ball in a biopic being written by Aaron Sorkin, which is a confusing sentence. On the one hand, I can easily see The Incomparable Cate as Ball, but on the other…Aaron Sorkin? At first it doesn’t make By Sarah • Sep 03, 2015 12:22 pm
Douchebags Aaron Sorkin on the gender “degree of difficulty” The alarm went off this morning. I dropped my eyes. I picked up my phone. There was a text from Duana: “Can we just have a weekly column called f-ck off Aaron Sorkin?!?” Then I opened my browser. And there it was. Aaron Sorkin’s latest f-ck off moment, this By Lainey • Dec 16, 2014 11:12 am
TV Updates Aaron Sorkin vs a writer on Twitter We were almost done. We were almost through the final, short, exhausting-to-discuss season of The Newsroom. But good things never last and thus we have one final Aaron Sorkin blurting in the press to discuss. So the whole thing is here. Basically, after all the outrage on Sunday over the By Duana • Dec 09, 2014 10:58 am
Media Manipulation Bale quits Jobs Christian Bale has cut ties with the Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and being directed by Danny Boyle—I refuse to make any Bale/bails puns. This is the same project that potentially has Seth Rogen in to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (a really nice piece of By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 02:29 pm
