Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Aura Photography What is it? A color-coded compliment. What is it REALLY? Artist Christina Lonsdale uses a double-exposure technique to combine a traditional portrait with a colorful “electrical impression” taken from hand sensors on classic 4x3 Polaroid film. Do you think that is your actual aura? No, but Christina Lonsdale is very By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 07:54 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Moonjuice What is it? You might recognize Moonjuice from this amazing NYT profile, or perhaps the Great Crystal Robbery of 2016. It’s a chain of juice stores—“Juiceries,” hip people whisper—that specialize in “moon dust” additives in their drinks, such as Brain Dust that will, according to their website, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 07:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenny Slate is a movie star If you’ve ever seen Jenny Slate in anything, you know she can steal a scene. If you’ve seen Obvious Child, you know she can carry a movie. That she is a talented actor and comedian is not a secret. But watching the Landline trailer is the first time By Sarah • Jun 09, 2017 11:34 am
What’s a monster anyway The Mummy officially kicks off Universal’s “Dark Universe”, the cinematic universe they’re going to build around their classic monster characters. It’s not the worst cinematic universe pitch we’ve heard—it’s light years better than a Transformers universe—and Universal has been promoting it, announcing the By Sarah • Jun 07, 2017 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in The Mummy In the tradition of mummy monster movies, beginning with the original 1932 Boris Karloff film, the 2017 reboot of The Mummy is pretty dumb. But then, the 1999 movie starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz is pretty dumb, too, so it’s not like there’s a real high bar By Sarah • Jun 07, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s War Machine Brad Pitt’s Netflix movie, War Machine, probably didn’t play out as well as anyone hoped. Netflix doesn’t report box office or viewership, so there’s no real way to know how anything on the platform performs, but you can certainly tell, if you pay attention to entertainment/ By Sarah • Jun 07, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wahlberg and Williams: The Odd Couple Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams are in Rome, filming All the Money in the World, and Lainey emailed like, “This seems weird, Michelle and Marky Mark.” At first glance, sure, odd. Michelle Williams isn’t known for the kind of movies Wahlberg often stars in, and vice versa. But Money By Sarah • Jun 06, 2017 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scuzzy Tom Cruise The first trailer for Tom Cruise’s post-Mummy movie, American Made, was just released and it’s the scuzziest we’ve seen Tom Cruise in a while. There’s some ribbing in the LaineyGossip email chain offices about how OF COURSE Tom Cruise crash-lands a plane and walks away—in By Sarah • Jun 05, 2017 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s BIG weekend In case you missed the news this weekend, Wonder Woman stomped on the box office, with an estimated $100.5 million opening weekend (don’t be surprised if the actuals go up a few million). This is a new record for a film directed by a woman, leap-frogging Sam Taylor-Johnson By Sarah • Jun 05, 2017 09:47 am
Relationship Assumption BexHamm Lainey’s not feeling well so she’s off for the rest of the day. We’ll be back on Monday with our regularly scheduled programming. Maria's Smutty Social Media is up next! There was a screening of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver in Los Angeles this week, By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 01:09 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Carey Mulligan’s Spotlight Carey Mulligan is stepping into producer’s shoes for her new movie, On the Other Side. Mulligan will also star in the film, as Kate Webb, a Vietnam war correspondent who was captured and held by the Vietcong for twenty-three days. The project comes from an imprint of the studio By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Holly Hunter like damn Holly Hunter is one of those actors, I don’t care what she’s in, I’ll watch it. Carrie Coon is also that type (you might not know her name yet, but you will soon, as she is THROWING DOWN on Fargo and The Leftovers right now, plus she By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman Wonder Woman opens in Themyscira, the utopian home of the Amazons, where little Diana, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, longs for adventure and glory, while her mother tries to protect her from the harsh realities of life beyond their secluded haven. Themyscira is a beautiful setting, a Mediterranean island sketched in By Sarah • Jun 01, 2017 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson & Zac Efron: high on muscles, low on mocking By now you know that Baywatch sh*t the bed on Memorial Day weekend. A lot of people decided not to see Baywatch, whether it’s because they don’t care about Baywatch as a thing or because there really is something to the “one buff guy, one schlubby guy” By Sarah • May 31, 2017 10:35 am
Equality Issues Jessica Chastain speaks out The Cannes Film Festival closed down with an award ceremony and press conference, and during the presser the jury took the stage to talk about their festival experience. Jessica Chastain specifically talked about how the representation of women on screen “disturbed” her: Say that, @jes_chastain. pic.twitter.com/H7QHnEE5JA— By Sarah • May 30, 2017 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig is bleached and tatted in Nascar’s 11 The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky was released yesterday and it’s one of those automatic, Three Billboards - style I’M IN deals. You don’t even need to finish the trailer before you know whether or not this movie is for you. I knew it By Sarah • May 29, 2017 10:32 am
