Girlcrushes Effie Brown and Matt Damon are not super best friends The last time we talked about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s HBO revival of Project Greenlight, it was about #mattsplaining and Damon’s dumb remarks about diversity hiring on a film set, which he directed at Effie Brown, an African-American producer. Now, as the show heads toward its finale, By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor, Hulk…and Cate? The third Thor movie—officially titled Thor: Ragnarok—is creaking into gear, moving inexorably toward its July 2017 release date. Seems far away, but that means it’s going into production next year, so, you know. Time to fire up the rumor mill. The unofficial word is that New Zealand By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 11:01 am
TV Updates Quentin Tarantino is bummed he lost an Oscar, is not into TV There is a new interview with Quentin Tarantino in the New York Times magazine, and by far the most annoying thing about it is that the interview is conducted by Bret Easton Ellis. QT actually manages to come off as the reasonable one here, mostly because the majority of the By Sarah • Oct 13, 2015 03:36 pm
Fargo Fargo Season 2: “The devil came to God” Fargo Season 2 Episode 1 recap In Fargo, people like to tell stories. Characters speak in parables and riddles, and the events of previous generations linger in collective memory. In season one the shadow of a massacre in Sioux Falls hangs over the case police officer Molly Solverson investigates. Her By Sarah • Oct 13, 2015 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pan is wrong in every possible way Some movies are bad, and others are disastrous, but a few movies blow straight past your regular levels of terrible and land the realm of the just plain WRONG. This is where Pan lives. This is a movie made for no one, and it totally faceplanted at the box office By Sarah • Oct 12, 2015 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pride & Prejudice & Zombies looks…okay? I’ve been writing about Pride & Prejudice & Zombies almost as long as I’ve been writing for LaineyGossip. Once upon a time, it was developed as vanity project for Natalie Portman, but she ended up abdicating the role of Elizabeth Bennet—though she did stay on as a By Sarah • Oct 09, 2015 02:47 pm
Media Manipulation The first in 10 years Disney just announced a slew of new release dates, and on the slate for 2018 is a sequel to Ant-Man titled Ant-Man and the Wasp. Evangeline Lilly plays Hope Van Dyne, who, at the end of Ant-Man, we saw get her own super-suit, setting her up to become the Wasp. By Sarah • Oct 08, 2015 03:40 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead season 6 preview The Walking Dead kicks off its sixth season this Sunday with a ninety minute episode, which I won’t be recapping. I’m not going to do weekly recaps of The Walking Dead this season, because even though this show is capable of producing some outstanding episodes, as a whole By Sarah • Oct 08, 2015 01:36 pm
TV Updates Sherlock’s Victorian Christmas Sherlock season four won’t premiere until next year—waiting for this show is the worst—so to tide us over the BBC and Masterpiece Theater are giving us a Christmas special this December, for which we now have a trailer. Christmas specials aren’t really a thing in the By Sarah • Oct 08, 2015 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara feels really bad about this whole Tiger Lily thing Casting Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in Pan is not a move that went over well anywhere, and since she’s doing press to promote the movie, which comes out this weekend, Mara is now answering questions about the casting and whitewashing of what should have been a high-profile role By Sarah • Oct 06, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andy G & Michael Shannon in 99 Homes Ramin Bahrani’s latest film, 99 Homes, makes for an interesting companion piece to Spotlight and the lesser Sicario, in that all three films deal with disillusionment and the corruption of an idealized system. Spotlight examines the putrid rot at the core of an ancient organization that’s become more By Sarah • Oct 06, 2015 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ellen Page joins the pointless remake crowd Remakes have been a part of cinema from the beginning—The Wizard of Oz is a remake—so I’m not going to waste my time complaining about their existence. Movie remakes happen, they’re part of the cinematic landscape. Fine. But if we’re going to remake movies, especially By Sarah • Oct 06, 2015 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angsty Andrew Garfield Should we be worried about Andrew Garfield? The tone of his recent interviews is kind of making me worry about him. Garfield has been promoting his new movie, 99 Homes, which deals with class disparity and all the ways in which lower-income members of society are disadvantaged—often cruelly and By Sarah • Oct 02, 2015 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit To say that The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan’s return to form isn’t saying much, because 1) few filmmakers have fallen further than Shyamalan in public opinion, and 2) it’s only a so-so movie. But it is certainly better than anything Shyamalan has made in years, and By Sarah • Oct 01, 2015 01:18 pm
TV Updates The X-Files: Still waiting on that truth, bro When movies get sequels, reboots, remakes, or spin-offs, people complain. Too many franchises! Why are they remaking that! What’s the difference between a reboot and a remake anyway! But when a television show does it, people love it. Breaking Bad spin-off starring Saul Goodman? Sign me up! Fargo remade By Sarah • Sep 30, 2015 10:07 am
TV Updates Trevor Noah’s solidly solid debut Last night Trevor Noah sat at The Daily Show desk for the first time as host, and it went very much okay. He opened with a tribute to Jon Stewart that felt genuine and heartfelt, and then he segued into current events, focusing on the Pope’s trip to the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2015 12:14 pm
