Self Care TV Recommendations What not to watch during self-quarantine I’ve made a couple rounds of recommendations of things to watch while self-quarantined, but with several more weeks of lockdown to go—at least—I’m starting to worry about our screen time. As in, I cannot possibly be the only person who’s had to shut off By Sarah • Apr 20, 2020 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s would-be dream project is here Dolittle came out THIS YEAR. It feels like I saw it forever and a day ago, but no, it was just January. Just three months ago. Dolittle is recent. It’s also bad, which is why I bring it up. I want you to remember Dolittle, remember that it is By Sarah • Apr 17, 2020 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember Tom Hardy?! This was Lainey’s email subject to me after the first trailer for Capone, starring Tom Hardy, dropped yesterday. It’s a been a minute since we’ve seen Hardy, he was last on cinema screens in Venom in 2018, and his only 2019 credit is one episode of Peaky By Sarah • Apr 16, 2020 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Sam Raimi officially returns to Marvel Marvel director drama has become somewhat commonplace. Marvel does try to satisfy the filmmakers that work with them, but Marvel is also a big corporate machine, and sometimes those interests outweigh the filmmaker’s interests. Most recently, this happened with Scott Derrickson and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. By Sarah • Apr 15, 2020 03:03 pm
TV Updates Hannah Gadsby returns Hannah Gadsby’s extraordinary not-comedy special, Nanette, was one of the stand-out pop cultural moments of 2018. Now, two years after “quitting” comedy via Nanette, Gadsby returns with another one-woman show, this time titled Douglas (after her dog). Douglas ran off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater By Sarah • Apr 14, 2020 03:27 pm
Business of Hollywood Bob Iger is back in charge In February, Bob Iger, then-CEO of Disney, dropped a bombshell on the business and entertainment worlds when he announced he was stepping down from his post at Disney. He would be the “Executive Chairman” while Bob Chapek, formerly head of parks—insert Succession joke here—became CEO. Well now, By Sarah • Apr 14, 2020 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney is finally remaking Robin Hood It was inevitable, really. With the success of the live-action (“live-action”) remakes, of course Disney would eventually get around to remaking Robin Hood. It’s not as widely beloved as past hits like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella, but Robin Hood has a solid By Sarah • Apr 13, 2020 03:22 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations The friend-com we want and need Over the last few years, Netflix has almost single-handedly fueled the rom-com rebound with films like Always Be My Maybe, Set It Up, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Their latest rom-com, The Half of It, is a different kind of romance. It might By Sarah • Apr 10, 2020 12:40 pm
Long Reads Doing #AloneTogether alone (This is the latest entry in our “Long Reads” list. Previous posts can be found here.) Last week, Lainey mentioned quarantining with a partner and how, no matter how strong and good the relationship, being with someone constantly, literally constantly, can be a lot. The other side of the coin, By Sarah • Apr 08, 2020 03:00 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations Re-View: The Vampire Diaries As I mentioned in my self-quarantine binge-watching recommendations, I am currently bingeing The Vampire Diaries. I am now almost at the end of season three, and guys, I HAVE to talk about this show. I know I’m years late to the party, but this show is so By Sarah • Apr 07, 2020 03:09 pm
TV Updates Chris Evans has reached the defensive stage In the ten years(!!) I have been writing about celebrity, Chris Evans has undergone an evolution. At the beginning of my tenure with LaineyGossip, I wondered about his ability to make Captain America, a fuddy-duddy B-list superhero, work for modern audiences. Around that time, he was going through By Sarah • Apr 06, 2020 12:03 pm
Avengers in quarantine I am back on my bullsh-t, pondering which fictional characters would or would not thrive in lockdown. We’ve examined the Roy family and the characters of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, so now it is time to turn our attention to the Avengers. For this scenario to work, By Sarah • Apr 03, 2020 11:29 am
TV Live Blog What you can watch on Quibi Quibi, the long awaited and much-mocked streaming platform dedicated to short-form entertainment, finally launches on April 6. (That is, assuming a lawsuit doesn’t derail the launch.) I don’t think anything they have on tap will top Daniel Spencer’s TikTok, but I also think a short- By Sarah • Apr 02, 2020 03:34 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations The best underappreciated comedy specials on Netflix There are many great stand-up specials on Netflix—so many, in fact, they are throwing their own self-congratulatory comedy festival which has been postponed along with every public social event in the near future. Since there is no live comedy to enjoy right now, why not curate your By Sarah • Apr 01, 2020 02:05 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations Which Star Wars sequel trilogy characters would thrive (or not) in quarantine? Last week, we examined the self-quarantine fates of Succession’s Roy family. This week, we continue our exploration into how fictional characters are handling self-distancing—which probably says something about how I’m handling it—by looking at the characters of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. How do By Sarah • Apr 01, 2020 11:31 am
Self Care TV Recommendations Re-View: John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch On Christmas Eve, John Mulaney dropped a surprise comedy special, John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch. We didn’t talk about it then, but now is a great time to come back around to it, because Sack Lunch Bunch is about the gentle art of coping with anxiety, brought By Sarah • Mar 31, 2020 04:09 pm
