The Royals The Royals 1.6: Ted returns, remains terrible at everything The Royals Season 1, Episode 6 recap Ophelia’s father, Ted, returns this week. He’s the head of security and he sucks at his job so much that I can do this entire recap as a list enumerating all the ways in which he sucks at his job. We’ By Sarah • Apr 20, 2015 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Child 44 Child 44, the so-called thriller starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and Gary Oldman, is a spectacular mess (and it’s tanking). Like Serena earlier this year, it features a lot of talent and yet the result is completely lacking. It didn’t get much of a promotional push and it By Sarah • Apr 20, 2015 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: Redeeming with dinosaurs We’re getting a slew of new trailers lately because everyone is debuting the stuff that will be attached to Avengers: Age of Ultron. That movie is tracking like a monster (I had a hilarious conversation last week with a box office money guy about the potential ceiling for Marvel By Sarah • Apr 20, 2015 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four is all about Michael B. Jordan Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot is flying under the radar, as far as superhero movies go. This one has the least amount of hype and pre-release attention focused on it, and I can’t help but think that’s a good thing: With expectations low, even a mediocre result will By Sarah • Apr 20, 2015 11:06 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.2: “Nothing’s worth anything to dead men” Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 2 recap I try really hard not to get invested in anyone on this show because they inevitably die in horrible ways, but Arya Stark is my tomboy spirit animal. This episode has less of a place-setting feel than last week, but we still By Sarah • Apr 20, 2015 09:03 am
Media Manipulation Batman vs Superman trailer leak Warner Brothers has planned an elaborate IMAX stunt to see the first trailer for Superhero Face Punch on Monday night, but the internet, that jackhole, ruined it by spraying Bat-jizz everywhere last night and leaking the trailer early. (The internet also blew Marvel’s big Avengers: Age of Ultron reveal By Sarah • Apr 17, 2015 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Force is awake, and it’s strong Today is the Star Wars Celebration fan event in Anaheim, California—basically a Comic-Con Hall H presentation without Hall H—and JJ Abrams and the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (or however that title officially goes) debuted a second teaser trailer. The movie doesn’t come out till By Sarah • Apr 16, 2015 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling’s Lost River review Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, opened to widespread scorn and general derision at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now, it is available on streaming platforms and in three theaters nationwide in what distributor Warner Brothers says is absolutely the release they always intended for Gosling’s debut By Sarah • Apr 15, 2015 01:10 pm
Justified Justified 6.13: “We dug coal together” Justified Season 6, Episode 13 recap SPOILERS I started recapping Justified in season 3, and it turns out I miscounted Raylan’s body count, missing some unnamed henchmen from season one. I’ve had it at twenty-one, but it’s actually twenty-seven. Well, twenty-eight, by the end. GET TO THE By Sarah • Apr 15, 2015 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avengers: Age of Beardy Chris Evans Enjoy while it lasts. Principal photography on Captain America: Civil War starts in a few weeks and Beardy Chris Evans will be no more. We’ve all agreed that he’s better with the beard, right? It’s not even a conversation anymore. The beard is superior. For dudes who By Sarah • Apr 14, 2015 09:26 am
The Royals The Royals 1.5: Prince Cyrus has an orgy in the palace The Royals Season 1, Episode 5 recap Cyrus’s big move to secure the monarchy’s future is to recreate the orgy scene from Eyes Wide Shut in the palace for the members of the House of Lords. Because if the monarchy goes, so goes the aristocracy, and wouldn’t By Sarah • Apr 13, 2015 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ant-Man packs a punch I mentioned last week that I’ve heard some good stuff about Marvel’s other movie this year, Ant-Man. Despite its troubled beginning, word is that it’s funny and the action stuff is shaping up to be pretty slick. Well now we have a new trailer that shows off By Sarah • Apr 13, 2015 12:44 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.1: “Westeros needs to be saved from itself” Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1 recap Well it’s nice to know that Cersei was always a brat. Season five opens with a flashback to Cersei’s childhood when she visited a witch in the woods and made the witch tell her the future. Surprisingly, the witch didn’ By Sarah • Apr 13, 2015 08:10 am
Maple Leaf Film Review: Woman in Gold Earlier this week I got an email from reader Christine with the subject line “Please go see a movie you like”, and the message was, “I have to say I feel awful for you, you haven’t seen a movie (at least reviewed on LaineyGossip) you like in months and By Sarah • Apr 10, 2015 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Ant-Man With Avengers: Age of Ultron less than a month from opening—and now screening for critics, who are almost universally singing its praises—Marvel isn’t focusing much yet on their other movie this year, Ant-Man. That’ll change soon enough, but for now Ant-Man is quietly going about re-shoots, By Sarah • Apr 10, 2015 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt is the best part, as usual As Avengers: Age of Ultron ramps up in high gear, the press machine for another summer blockbuster, Jurassic World, is getting into motion. Last night Universal released the first clip from the movie and it features Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and no dinosaurs. As always, Pratt is the By Sarah • Apr 09, 2015 10:45 am
