Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita will visit A Quiet Place, too A Quiet Place is one of the few blockbuster hits of the last several years based on an original idea (which came from writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, not John Krasinski, no matter how Krasinski spins it). In 2018, it made $340 million. A sequel, released in the pandemic By Sarah • Nov 02, 2022 01:44 pm
TV Updates Send in the clowns, Yahya’s doing another superhero thing Earlier this year, Emmy-winning actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II riled up comic book movie nerds when he called acting in superhero movies “clown work”. Abdul-Mateen won his Emmy for playing Dr. Manhattan on Watchmen, and he plays the villain Black Manta in the Aquaman movies, which is what he was specifically By Sarah • Nov 01, 2022 01:12 pm
TV Updates Return to The White Lotus The White Lotus was one of the breakout shows of 2021, a Hawaiian odyssey that was part scathing social satire and part travelogue for a populace longing for escapism after a year of pandemic isolation. In season one, creator Mike White took his audience to Maui and the five-star Four By Sarah • Oct 31, 2022 02:44 pm
TV Updates Miracle Workers is back, baby! One of my favorite television shows of the last few years is Miracle Workers. I love it a lot but I don’t often talk about it because I don’t want it to become work, but Miracle Workers is one of the best damn shows you’re not watching. By Sarah • Oct 31, 2022 12:45 pm
TV Updates Henry Cavill abandons The Witcher The Witcher was Netflix’s big holiday hit in 2019, but the second season came and went relatively quietly during the 2021 holiday season (even though season two is a little bit better than season one). That’s typical for Netflix shows, though, as most of the streamer’s original By Sarah • Oct 31, 2022 10:06 am
BFFs Henry, Millie, and Mariah Last night was the premiere of Enola Holmes 2. It’s one of the more grandiose Netflix premieres, as Enola Holmes is one of their biggest hits. Millie Bobby Brown was on hand, of course, as was Henry Cavill with his little forehead curl. But the event also brought out By Sarah • Oct 28, 2022 11:39 am
TV Updates Taffy conquers TV As Lainey has said, we here at LaineyGossip are Taffy fans. As in, fans of writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Whether it’s one of her masterclass celebrity profiles or her first novel, Taffy is a must-read. That novel, Fleishman Is In Trouble, is now also a limited series starring Jesse Eisenberg, By Sarah • Oct 27, 2022 12:12 pm
Top Reads Angelina and Zahara on campus As we know, Angelina Jolie is a Spelman Mom since her daughter, Zahara, began school at Spelman College, an HBCU, in August. This past weekend was the combined “Spelhouse” homecoming of Spelman College and Moorehouse College in Atlanta (they are not co-ed schools). Angie showed up for Zahara: Angelina Jolie By Sarah • Oct 26, 2022 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Gunn’s surprising new role Werewolf By Night introduced a new thing into the MCU, the “special presentation”, a one-off story that can just be 50-60 minutes of a good time without worrying about the rest of the MCU, and it was good largely because of that unburdened, light-touch storytelling. The next special presentation is By Sarah • Oct 26, 2022 11:19 am
What Else What Else? Talent agency CAA has dropped Kanye West, and so has Adidas (finally). It’s estimated losing Adidas will cost Ye about $250 million this year alone. I’m sure we’re T-minus seven seconds from him crying about cancel culture, but he’s been on a non-stop hate bender for By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 04:15 pm
BFFs Will Smith & Friends Almost seven months to the day and ninety billion takes after The Slap disrupted the Oscars, Will Smith is on the comeback trail, sort of. He has a new film coming out in early December, Emancipation, screening in a limited theatrical run before debuting on Apple TV+ a week later. By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ant-Man has his hands full We’re on the brink of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but the Marvel machine doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even what is essentially a cinematic moment of silence for Chadwick Boseman. The trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dropped yesterday, it’s Marvel’s next big By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 02:10 pm
Quiveration Timothy Olyphant on set It’s been just over a month since we last saw Timothy Olyphant. Two sightings in less than two months! Olyphantians, we are FEASTING! This is Olyphant on the set of Full Circle in New York City. It’s a miniseries from Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon (one of the By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine chills out Now that Don’t Worry Darling is over (it is over…right?), Chris Pine can move on from spit and all that, which is what he is doing, chilling in Los Angeles after a yoga class. I must confess, I miss the shaggy wolfman look Pine was rocking earlier this By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 11:25 am
Equality Issues Intro for October 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Mary J. Blige joined Dr. Jill Biden and members of the American Cancer Society at the White House to announce a series of national meetings on breast and cervical cancer, aimed at raising awareness for early detection and treatment of cancer in women. This is part of By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie is Pablo Larraín’s latest haunted woman You don’t have to be perfect. You have to be unforgettable. Like Callas. A writing professor said that to us, once. It’s stuck with me for nearly 20 years. Not only because it’s great advice—striving for perfection in art is a waste of time, it is By Sarah • Oct 24, 2022 01:55 pm
