Movie Reviews and Previews Mandy Moore in 47 Meters Down SPOILERS 47 Meters Down, aka, Don’t Go In The F*cking Ocean, You Dipsh*ts, opened in 5th place this weekend, exceeding expectations with over $11 million at the box office, and ahead of Rough Night, which should tell you how much of a bomb Rough Night is. But By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson in Rough Night Rough Night bombed this weekend, and with a C+ CinemaScore it’s going to be hard pressed to last long enough in theaters just to break even on a comparatively low budget of $20 million. There’s a lot of “what happened” going on, and I think the issue with By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 10:19 am
Break Ups Dodgeball Reunited Dodgeball is one of those movies that isn’t good and I won’t defend it, but if it’s on TV, I will watch it and laugh every time. (That actually describes most of the early 2000s output of Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.) So when Lainey emailed me By Sarah • Jun 14, 2017 11:15 am
Maple Leaf What happened, Ellen Page Ellen Page earned an Oscar nomination at 20 for Juno. She starred in cult favorite Hard Candy and the underrated Whip It. She’s been in the X-Men and has worked with Christopher Nolan. It’s not like Ellen Page hasn’t Done Things. She totally has. And everyone likes By Sarah • Jun 13, 2017 12:22 pm
Top Reads I went to In Goop Health and here’s what happened The night before the Goop summit I go to The Ripped Bodice, the only bookstore in the country exclusively for romance. It’s a fantastic place, with a creative shelving system that divides books by type, not author (“Cowboy”, “Pirate”, et cetera). There’s a vast used section upstairs, an By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 01:47 pm
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Flower Remedies with Alexis Smart What is it? Bach flower remedies, which is basically flower-water steeped in the sun (in a crystal bowl, naturally). You ingest them as drops taken under the tongue. Used regularly, they should help boost confidence, sharpen focus, calm down, or whatever that particular formula promises. Alexis Smart offers many variations, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:23 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews The I.V. Doc What is it? In-home “hydration therapy” for hangovers, jet lag, et cetera. It’s very popular at music festivals. What does it do? Instant hydration in the privacy of your own home, office, or Burning Man encampment, for those times when drinking water just isn’t fancy enough. Does it By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:11 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Crystal Therapy What is it? Compliments with rocks. What is it REALLY? Fortune-telling. (The security guy was directing people to the “crystal ball” and when someone corrected him he did not care.) How does it work? Colleen McCann (Goop’s “resident shaman”) sits down with you and stares intensely into your eyes By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:02 am
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
