Movie Reviews and Previews Extraction 2: Sure, why not Do you remember Extraction? It’s that Netflix action movie starring Chris Hemsworth as a frowny mercenary. It wasn’t even bad, and I have a hard time recalling anything about it beyond Golshifteh Farahani, who I recall being WAY better than her under-written character deserved. Well, it was whatever By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 09:22 am
TV Updates Stranger Things Dream Home Netflix’s “Tudum” preview continues with a new teaser for Stranger Things season four, which is now titled Stranger Things 4 in the style of a movie franchise. The teaser shows off the “Creel House”, an obviously haunted Victorian mansion in the woods. It’s my dream home! When can By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio The first teaser for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up gave us a glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio in rare comedy mode, and the new “Tudum” teaser doubles down, giving us even more of comedy Leo D in action. He’s sweaty, nervous, he has a stupid haircut and an By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 03:58 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton season two first look: Kate dismantles Anthony On Saturday, Netflix hosted a three-hour virtual fan event called “Tudum”, which is supposed to be onomatopoeia for the sound that plays when you start a program on Netflix. It’s more of a “da-dum” sound than a “tu-dum” sound, but whatever. Here’s something to put in your pocket: By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 02:32 pm
What Else What Else? The Brangelina divorce drags on over issues of assets and custody. In the latest development, Angelina Jolie has been granted permission to sell her shares of their winery, Miraval. But Brad Pitt is unhappy because he once sold Angelina a 10% stake in the company for €1. He did this By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superstar Super Mario Bros. Given the success of Sonic the Hedgehog, which defied the gods and all decency to become one of the top-ten highest grossing films of 2020, it’s no surprise that more video game movies are coming. Next on the block is Nintendo making another run at Super Mario Bros., this By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 03:09 pm
TV Updates Owen Wilson finally hosts SNL I don’t know if I would say that Owen Wilson is having a comeback, because his popularity has never really waned, and certainly public affection for him has only grown over the last twenty-plus years, not lessened. But he definitely slowed down his work pace in the mid-2010s, even By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dear Evan Hansen is PSYCHOTIC In many ways, Dear Evan Hansen is “better than Cats”, mainly because Evan isn’t physically painful to look at—I don’t want to pluck out my eyeballs and run screaming into the sea—and because the musical is not sung through. But in all the ways that count, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 12:04 pm
Top Reads Cary Fukunaga spills the tea Theoretically, No Time To Die is slated to premiere next week before opening in North America on October 8. I sort of won’t believe it’s happening until I am actually watching it, but it seems the time for Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie has come at last. By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart speaks as Diana With freedom-craving royals on the mind, let us turn to the new trailer for Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Diana, Princess of Wales. With the teaser, we considered Kristen Stewart’s look as Diana, but this trailer gives us more of her speaking as Diana, so let’s examine By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 10:19 am
Top Reads Harry & Meghan on the move Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s New York takeover continued yesterday at the World Health Organization’s New York office, where the Sussexes met with global leaders and health experts about vaccine equity, and on Saturday, they’ll be at Central Park for Global Citizen Live, continuing to raise awareness By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 09:39 am
Jodie Turner-Smith Intro for September 24, 2021 Dear Gossips, I am excited to write to you today, my first day as deputy editor here at LaineyGossip. Thank you all for the kind words yesterday, and for reading and gossiping all these years. It really does mean a lot. I started writing for Lainey eleven years ago, and By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews PTA is here with Licorice Pizza Licorice Pizza sounds terrible. Not as a film, but as a thing. Licorice is one of those flavors, very strong and sometimes medicinal, that not everyone likes. Pizza, however, is universal. Everyone has their own idea about what goes on pizza, but pizza itself is widely adored. I wonder what By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders is a Phenomenal First Feature We are wrapping up TIFF 2021 with Danis Goulet’s feature directorial debut, Night Raiders, a future-set dystopia with YA undertones and an Indigenous bent. Written and directed by Goulet, Night Raiders is set in a near future in which it is implied that America has conquered Canada for resources By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Macbeth Needs No Introduction One of the surefire heavy hitters of awards season is The Tragedy of Macbeth, a new adaptation of the Scottish play from Joel Coen (working for the first time in his career without his brother, Ethan). Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, we now have our first, brief, look at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 01:07 pm
