Style Tiffany’s warmup party We are one week away from the Met Gala, the Super Bowl of fashion. To mark the countdown, the Tiffany Blue Book “Sea of Wonder” launch was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the weekend—you could call it the Pro Bowl to the Met Gala’s Super By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sinners: A stunning second weekend Ryan Coogler’s Sinners just passed its second weekend at the box office. Opening weekend is a big deal because the economics of Hollywood have been gutted to the point that a film lives or dies by that frame, there is no grace given if a film opens “soft”. Sinners, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions about The Accountant 2 What is The Accountant 2? The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck as a neurodivergent assassin/accountant. Like the 2016 film, The Accountant 2 is directed by Gavin O’Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. Ben Affleck returns as Math Man the By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 12:58 pm
TV Updates Wednesday’s return Back in 2022, Wednesday took Jenna Ortega from scream queen to breakout stardom. The Addams Family spin-off series centered on the adventures of Wednesday Addams was a big hit three years ago, but that was then, this is now. Wednesday is one of the culprits in the streaming phenomenon of By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan: Leading Man While we’ve been watching Sebastian Stan a long time (shoutout Carter Baizen!), in the last few years, he has really levelled up. He was early on the Marvel train, getting in the door during Phase 1 playing Captain America’s childhood pal turned brainwashed super-assassin, and in between franchise By Sarah • Apr 23, 2025 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan in Sinners Growing up in the American South, something I find missing in most Southern-flavored media is the heaviness of the air. It is challenging to communicate in removed mediums like cinema because the viewer can never physically feel the weight of the air pressing down on them, so the burden is By Sarah • Apr 21, 2025 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hijinks and tomfoolery in The Wedding Banquet Ang Lee’s classic romantic dramedy The Wedding Banquet is now 32 years old, and besides being old enough for a mortgage, the film also straddles a significant cultural divide—the legalization of gay marriage. Lee’s 1993 rom-dramedy of manners centers on a queer couple who must hide their By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Roses at war (again) When a remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s pitch black 1989 divorce “comedy”—quotes because the film is emotionally and literally violent—was announced last year, I thought why. I mean, besides the fact that you almost can’t get a script greenlit without it stemming By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 12:56 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant turned up for Ramy One of the central principles of LaineyGossip is that if Timothy Olyphant emerges, I must write about him, so behold, here is Timothy at the premiere of the new Prime Video animated show, #1 Happy Family USA, which is from comedian Ramy Youssef. Olyphant voices a character in the show, By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 10:11 am
Style The Wedding Banquet party did not coordinate The Wedding Banquet opens this weekend, which means Lily Gladstone is back in our lives, and this time she’s in a rom-com. I love it when actors known for heavy work get to cut loose—which is why I am currently plotting The Pitt spin-off Dr. Robby’s Relaxing By Sarah • Apr 15, 2025 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Little Murder Mystery If it was at all possible for me to be more seated for Another Simple Favor, I am. I liked the teaser, but the full trailer is here, and it looks like Paul Feig & Co are taking on the fun little murder mystery in the way the first movie By Sarah • Apr 15, 2025 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Warfare is hell on film Alex Garland’s previous film, Civil War, culminated in a pulse-pounding ground assault on the White House that instantly became one of the best combat sequences put to film. That film benefitted from the expertise of its military advisor Ray Mendoza, a retired Navy SEAL and veteran of the Iraq By Sarah • Apr 11, 2025 12:01 pm
Top Reads At long last, an Oscar for stunts A year after announcing the addition of a new Oscar category to honor casting directors, the Academy has announced they are, finally, adding a category to recognize stunts. The category will officially recognize “stunt design” at the 100th Academy Awards to be held in 2028, honoring the films of 2027. By Sarah • Apr 11, 2025 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hang with your buds in Sacramento Two old friends, one introverted and nervous, the other dynamic and domineering, go on a trip together, confronting the deteriorating state of their relationship and the state of their respective lives as they creep toward middle age. No, it’s not A Real Pain, it’s Sacramento, Michael Angarano’s By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 01:59 pm
TV Updates Is this Alexander Skarsgård’s next big thing? Alexander Skarsgård is one of those actors who is, by any metric, having a great career—he’s been on numerous great TV shows, he’s won a bunch of awards, he’s a fun cameo in a bunch of other great TV shows, he’s been in more great By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 10:21 am
TV Updates The Pitt is hell itself There are several contemporary television shows running in the “is this really hell” stakes, from Severance (is Lumon hell?), to Doctor Odyssey (is the Odyssey ferrying the dead to the afterlife?), to The White Lotus (is the White Lotus where the rich go to have their hearts weighed against feather, By Sarah • Apr 09, 2025 11:50 am
