Maple Leaf Keanu appears If there is one universal truth in this world, something we can all agree on, it’s that everyone loves Keanu Reeves (except maybe Matthew Perry). Keanu turned up at CCXP in Brazil over the weekend to promote both John Wick Chapter 4 and his comic book series, BRZRKR (which By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 11:15 am
TV Updates Intro for December 5, 2022 Dear Gossips, Keke Palmer hosted SNL over the weekend and lost amongst the headlines that she confirmed her pregnancy during her monologue, is that this is one of the best episodes of SNL all year. Keke is funny, Keke can play, Keke also has a delivery that sounds like nothing By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 09:20 am
What Else What Else? It’s a battle of the Most Divorced Men as Elon Musk re-suspends Kanye “Ye” West from Twitter after Ye went on another antisemitic spree. I want to make a “but what about your precious freedom of speech” joke but this was absolutely the right thing to do. Ye doesn’ By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Harbour in Violent Night I love it when movies don’t explain their lore, but simply let us live in their world and absorb details through visual storytelling. This is one of the elements Violent Night has in common with John Wick. Like that movie, Violent Night doesn’t waste time on exposition. There By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sir, you are immortal The first trailer for Indiana Jones 5 dropped yesterday and it is terrible. I know I am deeply cynical about continuing the Indy saga after Indiana Jones and the Cursed Thing That Never Happened broke my heart in 2008, but all I see in this new trailer are the same By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Every Marvel thing is epic now The Comic Con Experience is happening now in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It’s a massive fan event that throws even San Diego Comic Con in the shade. In 2019, Comic Con attracted 135,000 people, while in the same year, CCXP drew 280,000. So CCXP has become a major By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 11:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Lainey wrote about Tom Cruise’s awards season campaign strategy, which so far amounts to “let the movie speak for itself”. Cruise himself has been scarce, but Top Gun: Maverick is coming back to theaters to remind the town how big this movie is, how By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg is saving the world Jesse Eisenberg is having a moment, what with Fleishman Is in Trouble—I’m already behind, what is time, and how do you manage it?—and his upcoming feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World. In 2020, Eisenberg wrote an audio drama of the same name about the By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 01:50 pm
Amazingness Cocaine Bear on a rampage 2023 still doesn’t sound like a real year, but it’s only one month away. Which means it’s time to talk about the films of 2023 we have to look forward to, beginning and ending with Cocaine Bear. The excellently titled film from Elizabeth Banks got a trailer By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will talks to Trevor Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation, comes out in theaters this weekend, before debuting on Apple TV+ on December 9. Smith is, in a limited way, doing press for the movie. Earlier this week, he stopped by The Daily Show for a long conversation with Trevor Noah, one of his By Sarah • Nov 30, 2022 12:40 pm
Dumbass Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Bond? We here at LaineyGossip HQ are firmly “Team Dev Patel For Bond” (by “we” I mean “myself and my cat, Pancake”), but The Sun would like us to believe that one half of Lainey’s obsession, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is currently the latest frontrunner to be the next James Bond after By Sarah • Nov 29, 2022 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell in Bones and All Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet reunite for Bones and All, another young-love romance, though this time, instead of a swoony Italian summer fling, it’s an Americana cannibal feast. Based on Camille DeAngelis’s novel of the same name (adapted for the screen by David Kajganich), Bones and All is By Sarah • Nov 28, 2022 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell is hungry There’s that class of actors who were on the brink of breaking out circa 2019 who had their big moments delayed by the pandemic—like so many other, more important things—but are now enjoying their delayed moments to the fullest in 2022. Ana de Armas is finally having By Sarah • Nov 28, 2022 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell in Devotion In some ways, Devotion is a classic Dad Movie. It’s about a historic war—the Korean War, sometimes referred to as the “forgotten” war because it gets overshadowed in the history books by World War II and the Vietnam War, which bookend it; it features Men Being Men; it’ By Sarah • Nov 25, 2022 12:00 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega in Wednesday Does Wednesday, the new Addams Family-inspired Netflix series, feature the Addams family we first met in Charles Addams’s cartoons? No. Is it the Addams family of the 1960s sitcom? Nope. Is it the Addams family of the beloved 1990s movies starring Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as our horny By Sarah • Nov 23, 2022 12:48 pm
TV Updates Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett in Welcome to Chippendales Welcome to Chippendales starts at a frantic run. Robert Siegel, who also created Pam & Tommy, adapts the book Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders as an eight-part limited series. Kumail Nanjiani stars as Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian-American immigrant who aspires to the high life—he idolizes Hugh Hefner and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2022 01:45 pm
