Movie Reviews and Previews An Extremely Scientific Economic Breakdown of the MCU The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier features one of the best single scenes Marvel has ever put to film as Sam Wilson tries to get a loan to save his family business and home and is denied. Even though he is an Avenger, and famous enough By Sarah • Mar 26, 2021 10:24 am
TV Updates Marvel is already spinning off Hawkeye Hawkeye, the Marvel series featuring nobody’s favorite Avenger, is due on Disney+ sometime later this year (it’s filming now). The show must already be generating some good vibes at Marvel HQ, though, because a spin-off featuring Echo is already in development. Echo, real name Maya Lopez, is By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 02:45 pm
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy and the New Celebrity 2020 was such a weird f-cking year for pop culture, but I feel like we can all agree Anya Taylor-Joy was one of the breakout stars of the year, yes? She began the year with Autumn de Wilde’s sexy, stylish adaptation, Emma., the last movie many people By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow moves (for the last time?) A year ago, we started the blockbuster shuffle when No Time to Die vacated April 2020 due to the then-burgeoning pandemic. Now, one year on, we have potentially, probably, our last step in the blockbuster shuffle. Disney has pushed a group of seven films out of spring/early summer, By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emerald Fennell goes to DC It feels like a draft, doesn’t it? A filmmaker has an indie breakout hit, and then they get drafted by one of three teams: Marvel, DC, or Lucasfilm. The latest draftee is Emerald Fennell, fresh off her triple Oscar-nomination and Writers’ Guild Awards win for Promising Young Woman. By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WarnerMedia CEO addresses fan toxicity As I have mentioned many times over the years, writing about DC Films and the Snyder Cut can be loaded, because it comes attached to a very toxic fandom. There were plenty of instances over the years where I passed on writing about some new wrinkle in the Snyder drama By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 10:43 am
TV Updates The Falcon and the Winter Soldier set up a broken world The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the second Marvel show to come to Disney+ with the first episode, “New World Order”, introducing us to a more mundane aspect of the world after the Avengers brought everyone back from the blip. Set a few months down the line from the By Sarah • Mar 22, 2021 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy Scout Loki With The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropping on Disney+ today—review of episode one coming Monday—the Marvel machine now turns to promoting Loki, which will premiere on June 11. That seems a long way away, but the marketing department must be bored since they are holding off on By Sarah • Mar 19, 2021 10:37 am
Justified Raylan Givens returns (maybe) Justified has been off the air for six years next month, but I still talk about it constantly because it is my favorite TV show of all time and I MISS IT FOREVER. Even though Justified has been off the air for so long, it remains part of My Brand™ By Sarah • Mar 18, 2021 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews At last: Zack Snyder’s Justice League After all the sturm und drang to get to this point, Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official name of the “Snyder Cut”—is here to give Zack Snyder a mulligan on Justice League after he had to leave the project in 2016 before completing it. One thing can be By Sarah • Mar 17, 2021 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao makes history Infuriating snubs aside, there are some feel-good stories among this year’s Oscars nominees, and Chloe Zhao’s historic year is one of them. Zhao and Emerald Fennell mark the first time two women have been nominated at the same time for Best Director, and Zhao is the first By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscars 2021: Return of the Snubs I generally don’t like using the word “snub” to describe awards nominations because frequently it is not a case of willful exclusion but there being too many worthy films to include when there are a limited number of nominations to hand out. But THIS year? When MANK is the By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Oscars got Manked The Oscar nominations for the weirdest year in cinema are here, and they are a Mank of Chicago 7s. There are some big inclusions worth noting—and we will—but the most nominated film of 2020 is MANK, which is so on-the-nose for 2020 it feels satirical. Mank By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the 2021 Oscar nominations Somehow, amazingly, in my whole history at LaineyGossip, I’ve never done a full Oscars prognostication. Well, no more! In this, the weirdest of all years, here’s my extremely scientific prediction of the Oscars nominations, which are set to be announced Monday morning. I shall attempt to guess the By Sarah • Mar 12, 2021 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More creepy neighbors From WandaVision to Lovecraft Country to Us, nothing is hotter in cinema trends this spring than creepy neighbors! Yes, it’s creepy neighbors, all the rage as we sit in our homes for thirteen months in a row and stare out the back window like Jimmy Stewart ignoring Grace Kelly. By Sarah • Mar 10, 2021 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America Well poop. This one is disappointing guys. I guess it’s not surprising that a years-later sequel to a wildly beloved comedy doesn’t deliver—they rarely do—but it feels especially egregious with Coming 2 America because Eddie Murphy seems to be having SUCH a good time in By Sarah • Mar 08, 2021 02:34 pm
