Douchebags Walton Goggins’ “off the rails” interview Walton Goggins is in the fourth decade of his career, and thank to The White Lotus, he’s finally a full-blown celebrity. As observed, he’s been enjoying his newfound fame, a “that guy” no longer, but with this kind of scrutiny comes speculation. Chiefly, speculation around his relationship with By Sarah • May 02, 2025 11:52 am
Theatre Nerd George Clooney, Tony nominee The Tony nominations were announced yesterday, and as Lainey said, it was a historic day for Daniel Dae Kim—most successful Lost alum: discuss—but now we turn to his fellow nominee, George Clooney. George hit the pitch yesterday for a Broadway Show League softball game in Central Park, they By Sarah • May 02, 2025 09:51 am
Music Intro for May 2, 2025 Dear Gossips, Last week, Lorde released “What Was That”, the lead single from her upcoming album Virgin, which will be released on June 27. We’re living in a summer of Lorde, twelve years after her breakout single “Royals” propelled her to international pop stardom. Virgin is Lorde’s fourth By Sarah • May 02, 2025 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Simple Favor is the C-ntiest Movie Have you ever watched a movie and thought “what this needs is 500% more c-nt”? Well, Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Jessica Sharzer sure have, because they’re all back for Another Simple Favor, a sequel to the 2018 dark comedy A Simple Favor. Feig once again directs; By Sarah • May 01, 2025 01:43 pm
TV Updates Jessica Biel does Deadwood (sort of) Jessica Biel hasn’t acted since 2022’s Candy, a miniseries about Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore’s 1980 murder. Before that, her most lauded role was on The Sinner, a 2018 crime drama co-starring Bill Pullman. Biel, who has a young family and an adult toddler husband, doesn’t By Sarah • May 01, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s trailer time Summer movie season officially kicks off this weekend—even though school is still in session for at least another month—and we’re two weeks out from Cannes, which means it’s trailer time, baby! Today I have two trailers for you, because I refuse to acknowledge Now You See By Sarah • Apr 30, 2025 11:05 am
Style The Thunderbolts last push T-minus 3 days to Thunderbolts*, and it came up on the Squawk chat that this film has not gotten the wall-to-wall coverage Marvel has been afforded in the past. It’s not a reflection on the film, Thunderbolts* is EASILY the best movie Marvel has done since Guardians of the By Sarah • Apr 29, 2025 11:03 am
Style Tiffany’s warmup party We are one week away from the Met Gala, the Super Bowl of fashion. To mark the countdown, the Tiffany Blue Book “Sea of Wonder” launch was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the weekend—you could call it the Pro Bowl to the Met Gala’s Super By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sinners: A stunning second weekend Ryan Coogler’s Sinners just passed its second weekend at the box office. Opening weekend is a big deal because the economics of Hollywood have been gutted to the point that a film lives or dies by that frame, there is no grace given if a film opens “soft”. Sinners, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions about The Accountant 2 What is The Accountant 2? The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck as a neurodivergent assassin/accountant. Like the 2016 film, The Accountant 2 is directed by Gavin O’Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. Ben Affleck returns as Math Man the By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 12:58 pm
TV Updates Wednesday’s return Back in 2022, Wednesday took Jenna Ortega from scream queen to breakout stardom. The Addams Family spin-off series centered on the adventures of Wednesday Addams was a big hit three years ago, but that was then, this is now. Wednesday is one of the culprits in the streaming phenomenon of By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan: Leading Man While we’ve been watching Sebastian Stan a long time (shoutout Carter Baizen!), in the last few years, he has really levelled up. He was early on the Marvel train, getting in the door during Phase 1 playing Captain America’s childhood pal turned brainwashed super-assassin, and in between franchise By Sarah • Apr 23, 2025 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan in Sinners Growing up in the American South, something I find missing in most Southern-flavored media is the heaviness of the air. It is challenging to communicate in removed mediums like cinema because the viewer can never physically feel the weight of the air pressing down on them, so the burden is By Sarah • Apr 21, 2025 09:48 am
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
