Gross Time’s Up on Morgan Freeman This week Jeffrey Tambor and the cast of Arrested Development engaged in a little light gaslighting followed by a round of apologies. Today Harvey Weinstein turned himself into police, and yesterday, CNN published a report alleging a history of harassing behavior by Morgan Freeman. That’s right, the voice of By Sarah • May 25, 2018 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay team up Today in Movie Theaters Are Dying news, it’s been announced that Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay will make a movie for Netflix. It’s called Six Underground, and Bay will direct and Reynolds will star, and it comes from Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It’s an By Sarah • May 23, 2018 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mr. Wick will be seeing Halle Berry John Wick 3 is filming right now, because there is still some good in the world. The movie is still adding to the cast, and yesterday they announced Halle Berry will be joining up as “Sofia”, a character we know nothing about except that she maybe isn’t a villain. By Sarah • May 22, 2018 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G finally goes comic book Jake Gyllenhaal’s name has circled superhero movies since the dawn of time. Way back when Spider-Man was new to the big screen, and Tobey Maguire got into a negotiation spat with producers, Gyllenhaal was reportedly tipped to take over as Peter Parker in case things went south with Maguire. By Sarah • May 22, 2018 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool stagnates Going into the weekend, the projection for Deadpool 2 was $130-150 million. The estimate for its opening weekend, though, is a below-expectations $125 million. Now, that’s hardly a failure. That’s a nice number for anyone, and the Deadpool movies are lower cost than other superhero extravaganzas, so it By Sarah • May 22, 2018 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2 Deadpool 2 picks up sometime after Deadpool, with Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, this time not only the star and producer but also a credited writer, alongside Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick) now a working mercenary, taking out criminals around the world. The opening scene ups the ante on the comic By Sarah • May 22, 2018 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool tweaks Marvel Deadpool 2 opens today. Did you know that? Did you glean that information from the barrage of marketing and Ryan-Reynolds-In-Costume appearances such as his stop at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Seriously, no one markets a blockbuster better than the Deadpool team—although this time their flow keeps getting By Sarah • May 18, 2018 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DiCaprio & Spielberg reunite in some uncertain future Today in your dad’s favorite news, it’s been announced that Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg will reunite to make a biopic of Civil War general and US president Ulysses S. Grant. The movie is being adapted by David James Kelly from Ron Chernow’s biography, Grant. So you By Sarah • May 18, 2018 11:08 am
Issa Rae TOO MANY HANDS Next week is GQ’s comedy issue, and in advance they’ve released the cover which features Kate McKinnon, Sarah Silverman, Issa Rae, and HANDS. SO. MANY. HANDS. It creeps me out. Which is the intent, based on the satirical write up accompanying the cover, calling the plethora of HANDS By Sarah • May 18, 2018 08:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gabrielle Union in Breaking In Breaking In is the kind of movie that can’t stop reminding you that it will, relatively quickly, be over. The plot hinges on a timer counting down ninety minutes, the length of the movie itself, and occasionally characters will draw attention to the ticking clock, as if to assuage By Sarah • May 17, 2018 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Director Kristen Stewart is jurying at Cannes, which means a lot of talking to press for two solid weeks, something she is much better at now than she was at the height of her Twilight teen idoldom. (Dakota Johnson is also more relaxed and engaging when promoting anything other than Fifty By Sarah • May 17, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek nailed it I’ve been writing about the Freddie Mercury movie since my first days at LaineyGossip. Back then, it was a Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle. Then he dropped out, and Rami Malek took over. After that, coverage of this project took a turn as Bryan Singer was named on the Hollywood By Sarah • May 16, 2018 12:14 pm
Style Lando and Han on the Croisette Quiet Cannes, right? There was the women’s march, and Kristen Stewart took off her shoes, and Lars Von Trier predictably annoyed everyone, but it’s been relatively quiet, yes? It’s been quiet enough that The Hollywood Reporter ran an article devoted to Cannes’ “decline”. Frankly, it doesn’t By Sarah • May 16, 2018 08:56 am
TV Updates Benedict Cumberbatch dominates as Patrick Melrose Benedict Cumberbatch’s five-part limited series, Patrick Melrose, kicked off over the weekend, and the first episode teeters right on the edge of sublime and too much. Cumberbatch stars as the titular Patrick Melrose, an addict attempting to kick heroin—and nothing else—while retrieving his father’s ashes from By Sarah • May 15, 2018 10:36 am
Dumbass Timothy Olyphant joins Tarantino’s bad idea In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s apology tour earlier this year, I’ve been revisiting his movies, and it occurred to me, while re-watching Pulp Fiction, that the pitch for that movie would have sounded INSANE. There is no way to describe Pulp Fiction in a few sentences that By Sarah • May 14, 2018 03:08 pm
Equality Issues The Cannes Women’s March Eva Husson’s Girls in the Sun premiered at Cannes on Saturday, one of only three films in competition directed by a woman. Before the premiere, jury president Cate Blanchett led a march of 82 women up the famous red Palais steps. Significance? In the 71-year history of Cannes, only By Sarah • May 14, 2018 09:16 am
