Movie Reviews and Previews Warner Brothers shelves Batgirl, WTH is going on? Today in Holy Sh-tcan Batman News, Warner Brothers has decided to shelve Batgirl, a feature film centered on Barbara Gordon, which was supposed to be released this year on HBO Max. The film stars Leslie Grace as Barbara, alongside J.K. Simmons reprising his role as Commissioner Gordon, Brendan Fraser By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 12:54 pm
TV Updates The Reservation Dogs in NYC Reservation Dogs returns for season two tonight on Hulu (technically, “FX on Hulu”, which is just a confusing entity), and on Disney+’s Star platform internationally. Ahead of the second season premiere, some of the cast was in New York doing press, including D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, and Lane By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 10:59 am
Dumbass You have CROSSED the LINE, Jake! If you have been reading LaineyGossip for a while, you know Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my forever loves, and that after years of ugly revelations about people like Johnny Depp, Jake G and Timothy Olyphant are basically my only forever loves left standing. But now, I fear, Jake Gyllenhaal By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 09:51 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, When we last met, we discussed the state of the visual effects industry off the back of an expose from Vulture about how terrible it is to work VFX on a Marvel movie. This week, the pile-on continues as Defector’s Drew Magary documents the “VFX crisis” in By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 09:09 am
TV Updates Andor is “old school” We’re just under two months away from Andor debuting on Disney+, and a new trailer dropped yesterday, showing off more of what looks like about as genuine a spy thriller as we’re going to get in the Star Wars universe. It looks like Andor is going to deal By Sarah • Aug 02, 2022 03:10 pm
What Else What Else? PROGRAMMING UPDATE: Monday, August 1 is a holiday in many parts of Canada. We are dark and will return to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday, August 2. Will Smith offers a second apology for The Slap. Starting to believe those rumors Apple is going to try and release his film, By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews B.J. Novak and Boyd Holbrook in Vengeance Vengeance is one of my favorite films of the year so far, an increasingly dark, genuinely funny film about, well, vengeance, but also stories. The stories we tell each other and more importantly, the stories we tell ourselves. B.J. Novak, who writes and directs the film, stars as Ben, By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer will test Christopher Nolan’s appeal We are one month away from the fall festivals throwing us headlong into awards season 2022, but one movie is already planting its flag for 2023: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s historical drama about the inventor of the atom bomb. The teaser was released online (after playing exclusively in theaters in By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for The Blonde Discourse Buckle up, folks, because The Blonde Discourse is going to be messy. As Lainey noted when the teaser came out last month, people are really hung up on the NC-17 rating and what that means for sex scenes, nudity, et cetera. If you’ve read Joyce Carol Oates’ book, then By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 12:10 pm
Ben Affleck Batfleck’s back (alright) Yesterday evening, Jason Momoa took to Instagram to announce Ben Affleck’s return as Batman in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. That’s right, Batfleck’s back, ALRIGHT. Well, I guess that explains JLo-sans-Affleck on Benny Medina’s yacht in Italy yesterday. Affleck—excuse me, BATFLECK—was in Los Angeles, By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 10:34 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Beyoncé Day, I know that is all anyone cares about. I mean, even as I write this, Act One: Renaissance is playing in the background. Like, this is the sh-t I have to finish so I can devote all my attention to Queen Bey. There will By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in The Gray Man The Gray Man is Netflix’s latest $200 million boondoggle, a plea for your time and your subscriber dollars that only partially justifies its existence. Co-written by Joe Russo, who also directs with his brother Anthony, and Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus (the co-writers of the Captain America movies and By Sarah • Jul 26, 2022 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get out the tissues for Wakanda Forever The big finale of Marvel’s three-year plan presentation was the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever panel and the teaser for the movie. The overwhelming sentiment after the first look landed on the internet was “already crying”, and there’s no doubt everything around and about this movie is going to By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 04:03 pm
TV Updates Marvel’s terrifying three-year plan In the binary winner/loser parlance that has overtaken the Comic-Con discourse, Marvel “won” Comic-Con, hands down. No one came CLOSE to the level of in-room hype or social media dominance as Marvel did Saturday night. Most of what was announced was just titles and dates, only two actual trailers By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves’ Comic Con surprise On Friday afternoon at Comic-Con, Keanu Reeves stepped into Hall H for a panel about his comic book, BRZRKR, which has a pending live-action adaptation and anime spin-off in the works. Footage from those projects does not exist yet, though, so Reeves surprised the trailer-happy crowd with a teaser for By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 11:36 am
What Else What Else? The January 6 hearings are slowly driving us all mad. Exhibit A: Twitter went nuts for a mildly cute white dude in the audience who looks like Clark Kent, if the criteria for looking like Clark Kent is just “wears glasses”. (DListed) Zac Efron adds fuel to the fire that By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 04:00 pm
