Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was always going to be an award season contender, being a lavish adaptation of an August Wilson play produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, but as it is now, sadly, Chadwick Boseman’s final performance, the film carries extra weight and expectations. The By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 10:35 am
TV Updates Dominic West might play Prince Charles in The Crown Look, I’m not here to cheer for the end of anyone’s marriage, but can we admit the Dominic West scandal is a good old-fashioned celebrity scandal and gods, how I have MISSED those! The initial story was a one-eyebrow-raise event, but then that bonkers photocall with The Note By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Radha Blank in The 40-Year-Old Version Radha Blank’s autobiographical film The 40-Year-Old Version is her feature film debut as a writer, director, and producer, and she also stars in the film as a fictionalized version of herself. Blank, a playwright, pulls from her New York theater roots for Version, a film about a woman on By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 03:00 pm
Faux Gossip Sadly, Tatiana Maslany is NOT She-Hulk Last month, we heard that Tatiana Maslany would be headlining Marvel’s She-Hulk series on Disney+. But now, in an interview with The Sudbury Star, Maslany is setting the record straight. When asked by the interviewer, Ashley Martin, about everything she has going on including She-Hulk, Maslany replied, “That actually By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meek Mill in Charm City Kings Like Concrete Cowboy, Charmed City Kings is a fairly standard coming-of-age tale given new life thanks to a unique setting. Inspired by Lofty Nathan’s 2013 documentary, 12 O’Clock Boys, Charmed City Kings is set within the world of Baltimore dirt bike riders, renowned for their stunt riding and By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler in Hubie Halloween Last year, while being interviewed by Howard Stern, Adam Sandler said if he didn’t get a Best Actor nomination for Uncut Gems, he would “come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay”. Hubie Halloween is Sandler’s first film By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams and Glenn Close deserve Oscars, but NOT LIKE THIS I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of the welfare By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-men are back Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is set to start filming this month—and may already be picking up shots in Queens, though Tom Holland is still working on the Uncharted movie—and with that comes another round of casting news, though this has not yet been backed up by the trades. By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 09:56 am
TV Updates Diana drama! Previously, I wondered if The Crown season four would really get smutty and dive into the glamour and gossip of the Diana Years. Well, the teaser for season four is out, and it is all drama, all the time. This teaser is HEAVY on Diana, juxtaposing the “fairy tale” of By Sarah • Oct 14, 2020 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is the new Furiosa George Miller is returning to the world of Mad Max with a Fury Road prequel called Furiosa. As the title indicates, it will be the origin story of Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. But Theron will not be reprising the role; instead, Furiosa will By Sarah • Oct 14, 2020 12:32 pm
TV Updates WandaVision resumes Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, and Teyonah Parris are back on set, filming the last episodes of WandaVision. Disney-Marvel has promised they will get this show to Disney+ by the end of the year, but as we can see, they still have some work to do. Given that, WandaVision By Sarah • Oct 13, 2020 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gal Gadot is Cleopatra and people are mad Wonder Woman 1984 may or may not come out this December, but that uncertainty is not getting in the way of Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot reteaming for a third time, for a new biopic of everyone’s favorite Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Jenkins will direct the film which will be By Sarah • Oct 13, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Female Revenge Fantasy for the Holidays One of the most anticipated films of the year around the LaineyGossip internet office is Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman starring Carey Mulligan. This movie looks GREAT, and it got very interesting reviews out of Sundance. It was slated for a spring release, but then came COVID and it By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul for the Holidays In completely unsurprising news, Pixar’s next film, Soul, will skip theaters and premiere on Disney+. It is shifting back one month from its previously COVID-adjusted release date of November 20 to December 25, when it will be available on the streaming service at no additional cost. In international territories By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange joins Spider-Man One of the most adorable moments in Avengers: Infinity War is when Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange. It’s less than thirty seconds but it’s a great character beat for Peter Parker and the “who has time for you” look Strange gives him is loaded with potential which neither Infinity By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher worships at the altar of Mank and Welles David Fincher’s latest film is for Netflix, as is becoming the way for top-tier directors who can’t get the funding they want from traditional studios. Titled Mank, it is a biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who co-wrote Citizen Kane, among other things (including an uncredited draft of By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 03:03 pm
