Met Gala 2024 Sleeping Boy Beauties with a side of chips Sebastian Stan showed up at the Met Gala and a bunch of us gasped because he has us locked in his tractor beam of hotness despite being deep into his scumbag era. He showed up with slicked-back hair, sunglasses, and flower decals on his black duster, looking like the villain By Sarah • May 07, 2024 01:41 pm
Douchebags The Flash hype train is now boarding CinemaCon is ongoing in Las Vegas, and The Flash was the centerpiece of the Warner Bros. Discovery presentation yesterday, dropping a new trailer—which was released online—and screening the whole film for an audience of press and theater owners. The Flash hype train is officially leaving the station, and By Sarah • Apr 26, 2023 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two tickets for Bullet Train, please Last week, we saw a faux-mercial themed teaser for Brad Pitt’s summer action movie, Bullet Train. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I will take two tickets, please. Bullet Train comes from director David Leitch, who is touted here as the director of Deadpool 2, but is By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 11:52 am
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s cult from hell Nicole Kidman is really flourishing in the current television landscape. She’s been in great films over the last decade, stuff like Paddington, The Beguiled, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Destroyer, the upcoming The Northman. But she’s also had a slew of killer television work, from Top of the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2021 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the stars in Knives Out Pre-Star Wars, Rian Johnson made his name as a director on twisty-turny genre pieces Brick, The Brothers Bloom (vastly underappreciated), and Looper. Then he went off and made a Star War and a very vocal fragment of the fandom pooped their Pampers over The Last Jedi, an argument which continues By Sarah • Jul 03, 2019 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan burns everything down First he was the Human Torch, then he burned the garden of the heart-shaped herb, now he’s burning all the books—Michael B. Jordan seems to like movies where he gets to burn sh*t on screen. Kathleen calls him Michael Bae Jordan but maybe we should call him By Sarah • Feb 26, 2018 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in 12 Strong In what is hopefully the last gasp of his typical Hollywood action career, before he fully embraces his destiny as a comedy grunt, Chris Hemsworth stars in 12 Strong, a movie so patriotic and mediocre you’d think it was directed by late-era Clint Eastwood. But it’s not, it’ By Sarah • Jan 19, 2018 03:05 pm
Amazingness Michael Shannon taking selfies Here are some photos I wanted to post yesterday that I never got around to. But they make me cry. With happiness. Like, the minute I came across this set of pictures, my morning got better. It’s Michael Shannon and he was in New York at AOL Live, presumably By Lainey • Jan 18, 2018 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie The Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie is a real thing that exists. It is a movie starring real people who say real words and you can pay real human money to see it. The official title is Pottersville, but it is destined to be known as the Michael Shannon Christmas By Sarah • Nov 17, 2017 02:50 pm
TV Updates Taylor Kitsch: Waco Intense A new trailer for the upcoming miniseries Waco has been released, and damn if this doesn’t really feel like the moment Taylor Kitsch breaks out at long last. Like the first trailer, he is the focus with Michael Shannon riding shotgun, and Kitsch is so compelling as David Koresh By Sarah • Nov 15, 2017 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Kitsch steps We’ve been a little worried about Taylor Kitsch around the LaineyGossip offices. I wonder what the hell he’s doing in cut-rate action movies, and Kathleen wonders if, like Samson, his hair is the secret to his power. We’re all a little bummed True Detective season 2 didn’ By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Current War The Current War is about Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) scrambling to build the electrical grid that will power a nation. When the movie begins, Edison is already a famous “inventor”, known most recently for the invention of the lightbulb, and Westinghouse has made an enormous By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 08:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Shape of Water If you ask me to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the short answer is: Amelie f*cks a fish monster. The long answer, though, is that The Shape of Water is a beautiful, tender, sweet, sincere, sorta funny, definitely weird, deeply romantic film about love and By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin makes Deadpool 2 less magical The last we heard from Deadpool 2, Michael Shannon was the frontrunner to play fan favorite Cable. Yesterday, though, it was announced that Josh Brolin will be playing Cable, agreeing to a four-film deal. This means that not only is Brolin double-dipping with Marvel—he plays the big bad, Thanos, By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon + Deadpool = Magic Deadpool 2 doesn’t have a set release date—a minor miracle these days, when movies are slated years in advance and rushed to meet predetermined deadlines—but it’s aiming for a 2018 release, which means it’s casting up right now. Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz is on tap By Sarah • Mar 22, 2017 04:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Michael Shannon’s work pays off As you know, I love Nocturnal Animals and am perpetually salty that it’s not getting enough attention this award season. It only got one Oscar nomination, although at least the Academy got this right: Michael Shannon was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. I’m still stung that the film By Sarah • Jan 24, 2017 01:44 pm
