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
Movie Reviews and Previews Tron: Ares almost looks good One of the pieces of Disney’s CinemaCon presentation was for Tron: Ares, which I did not mention because Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto and life is short, and I try to make wholesome, self-loving decisions like not talking about Jared Leto. But now there is a trailer for Tron: By Sarah • Apr 07, 2025 12:32 pm
The White Lotus The White Lotus spoils Spoilers ahead for The White Lotus season three. The White Lotus season three wrapped up last night and it was fine. Some storylines resolved much more satisfactorily than others, but overall, this season was not as strong as the previous two. Not for nothing, this season also featured another episode By Sarah • Apr 07, 2025 10:05 am
Hair George Clooney opens on Broadway The Broadway adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck celebrated its opening night last night (the reviews are mostly good), and because the play stars George Clooney, EVERYONE came out in support. First there was Clooney himself, sporting a truly bad dye job. I know it’s for the play, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal in Freaky Tales Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck return to cinemas with their first feature film since 2019’s Captain Marvel with the anthology film, Freaky Tales. A loosely connected set of four stories depicting convergent events on May 10, 1987, in Oakland, California. Freaky Tales is a love letter to By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel’s big week Following their CinemaCon presentation earlier this week, DC Studios dropped their Superman featurette. It’s heavy on Krypto, showing the scene where he takes Superman “home” to the Fortress of Solitude. There is also a promising bit of kissing between Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Superman doesn’t work without By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon concluded yesterday—at least, the studio presentation bit did—by bringing out the big guns. Literally Tom Cruise, who might as well be christened Mr. CinemaCon at this point, turned up for Paramount’s presentation, as did Edgar Wright and the stars of his new adaptation of By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 09:25 am
