TV Live Blog Henry Cavill’s luxurious mane Last month we learned that Henry Cavill will star in a Netflix series based on The Witcher, a fantasy book series and even more popular fantasy video game series. Thanks to the games, we have a visualization of the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, as a grizzled, scarred man. But now, By Sarah • Oct 31, 2018 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Sometimes Back when she was campaigning for her Black Swan Oscar, I dubbed Natalie Portman “Natalie Never” because I couldn’t handle her cloying campaign persona. Over the years, though, I’ve mellowed toward Portman, and in the last year I’ve actually kind of liked her. It’s mostly thanks By Sarah • Oct 31, 2018 11:29 am
TV Updates Nicholas Scratch is absolutely the devil in Sabrina Whenever I watch a television show I am always on the lookout for the devil. There is always one character who is obviously the devil, it’s just a matter of whether or not the show is willing to admit that character is the devil. Ross Geller? The devil. Jim By Sarah • Oct 31, 2018 09:31 am
TV Updates Kiernan Shipka in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina In some ways, Netflix’s new Riverdale spin-off, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, is similar to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, both being inspired by the same Archie Comics book. Sabrina Spellman is still a high school student living with her spinster aunts, she is half-witch, half-mortal, she has an adorable mortal By Sarah • Oct 30, 2018 09:51 am
TV Updates Richard Madden in Bodyguard First of all, in this household we only recognize one bodyguard and that is Frank Farmer. But recognized as one stressful motherf-cker is David Budd, protagonist of the BBC/Netflix show Bodyguard. Portrayed by Richard Madden in a life-after-Game-of-Thrones role, David Budd is a PTSD-afflicted veteran working as a private By Sarah • Oct 29, 2018 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Hunter Killer Before a screening of Gerard Butler’s new submarine thriller, Hunter Killer, I tried to guess which Gerard Butler clichés would make an appearance. I made the following guesses: • Gerard Butler will have an opportunity to kill someone but will not, proving his superior morality • Everyone will love and admire By Sarah • Oct 26, 2018 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Vox Lux Builds The Oscar machine for A Star is Born would have you believe that award season is over and they are going to walk away with everything, but it’s just October—award season is a little helpless baby at this point. We’re still solidifying the December release slate! We By Sarah • Oct 25, 2018 03:58 pm
Style Rami Malek’s Oscar odds I have seen Bohemian Rhapsody. I loathe it. I’ll have a full review as soon as I can wrangle my incoherent fuming into something more orderly, but I need a minute to just be in my feelings about how much I hate this movie. There’s a new trailer By Sarah • Oct 25, 2018 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock’s in A Quiet Place but with eyes What a great day to be trying to go about your normal routine like nothing is happening or anything is wrong! Totally typical Wednesday over here, how about you? Everything is fine, why do you ask! Hey you know what would be great? An anxiety-inducing trailer about a movie where By Sarah • Oct 24, 2018 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Time has no meaning, so just reboot Pirates We are currently living in a nightmare vortex where every day feels like a week, a week feels like a year, and it seems like our dystopian present has always been and will always be. Time has lost all meaning, so the news that Disney is considering rebooting Pirates of By Sarah • Oct 24, 2018 10:13 am
TV Updates Steve Carell also returns to “television” Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s TV show about a morning show is an item of excitement around the virtual LaineyGossip office. Like this might actually get me to subscribe to Apple TV, as Apple’s plan to be, basically, broadcast television for streaming sounds boring as f-ck. BUT. Reese By Sarah • Oct 23, 2018 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 2020 Today in “But we might not live that long!” news, Wonder Woman 1984 has been kicked back seven months, from November 1, 2019 to June 5, 2020. The shuffle comes as Warner Brothers dropped Mark Wahlberg’s Six Billion Dollar Man from their slate (that beleaguered film was acquired last By Sarah • Oct 23, 2018 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy at her best in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy is best known as a comedienne, but really she’s a good actress with a talent for playing cranks and borderline unpleasant, blunt characters. She excels when she’s playing someone who says and does as she pleases, so Can You Ever Forgive Me? is right up her By Sarah • Oct 19, 2018 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Lee Curtis returns to Halloween Director David Gordon Green continues his hopscotch through genre with a sequel to Halloween, John Carpenter’s 1978 horror flick that basically launched the slasher sub-genre. Forty years later, the baton passes to Green who, along with collaborators Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, brings back the craft and careful compositions By Sarah • Oct 19, 2018 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Times at the El Royale: a kitschy Lynchian dream Bad Times at the El Royale, Drew Goddard’s follow-up to The Cabin in the Woods is at once completely like that movie and nothing like that movie. Getting into the specifics of how El Royale works would spoil it, but one important thing to know is that despite the By Sarah • Oct 18, 2018 03:14 pm
Douchebags Bryan Singer’s preemptive strike Last year Bryan Singer’s name emerged from the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar when he was sued for allegedly assaulting a minor. Many of us were not surprised, having expected something from that quarter as soon as the scandal moved past Harvey Weinstein and into deeper, industry-wide waters. It happened By Sarah • Oct 17, 2018 10:26 am
