Faux Gossip Blake Lively isn’t to blame for everything Back in 2018, A Simple Favor did moderately well, and over the years—bolstered by streaming—it became a cult classic. This led to Amazon and Lionsgate greenlighting a sequel, which was filmed last year. Based on when it was filmed, I expected A Simple Favor 2 to be a By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Violet reunite Normally, I would not have much to say about Ben Affleck standing around outside, but, well, due to the ongoing and very serious wildfires around LA interrupting publicity schedules, it’s this or pictures of B-list celebrities at the farmer’s market, so…here is Ben Affleck with Violet Affleck, By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 12:04 pm
TV Updates Meghan’s delay It’s not just award shows and such being postponed due to the wildfires, a bunch of TV shows that film in LA have paused production, too. In a similar vein, Meghan Markle asked Netflix to delay the launch of her new series, With Love, Meghan, from January 15 to By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 10:37 am
Intro for January 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles—an event that looks more and more on the scale of Hurricane Katrina swamping New Orleans nearly twenty years ago—more awards season shuffling is happening. This is obviously not the most important thing right now, but as we observe celebrity By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 09:26 am
What Else What Else? Akaylah Ellison recounts fleeing the fires in LA, and what it’s like to come to terms with (potentially) losing your memories when everything burns. (Popsugar) Notre Dame is a longtime rival of my alma mater, USC, but I like Penn State even less than Notre Dame, so I guess By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Statham: Working-class action hero Jason Statham makes a very specific kind of movie. Outside of big-budget studio fare like The Meg and the Fast/Furious movies, a “Jason Statham movie” is best defined as “a blue-collar guy trying to hold down his end gets pushed to the brink and does many murders on behalf By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2024 As theatrical moviegoing continues to rebound following the COVID shutdowns of 2020, cinema itself is fully back, baby. 2024 was another really good year for film, especially in the lower budgeted ranks, where a number of filmmakers used whatever was at their disposal to realize their visions, from open-source software By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meanwhile, in New York As Lainey has mentioned, Hollywood is the nexus of what we discuss here at LaineyGossip, the literal and figurative cross-section of celebrity and gossip, and right now, Hollywood is on fire. Or rather, Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, is on fire. Which means movie premieres, award season activities, all By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 10:11 am
Intro for January 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, News that Anita Bryant passed away broke yesterday, and the whole world reacted like this: If you’re not familiar, Bryant was a singer popular for a minute in the 1960s before pivoting to hardline anti-queer crusading for the rest of her life. She is most known for By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 09:10 am
Award Season Campaigning The somewhat surprising SAG nominations As Lainey mentioned in her intro, the in-person announcement of the SAG Award nominations was cancelled due to the wildfires in Los Angeles. The nominations were instead announced by press release, and as Lainey predicted, Angelina Jolie was, indeed, left off the list of SAG nominees. Even more surprising than By Sarah • Jan 08, 2025 12:51 pm
Golden Globes 2025 Two Roys and a Stan Let’s just say it. It needs to be said. We’re all thinking it—Jeremy Strong showed up to the Golden Globes dressed like a Lucky Charm in a 90s rap video. He looks like his boy Squiggle is cooking up beats for him back home. A kinder, gentler By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 12:15 pm
Golden Globes 2025 The Brutalist vs Emilia Pérez Since the Golden Globes split drama and comedy into separate categories—truly, their best innovation in the awards show space—they crown two best pictures, and this year, The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez were the respective winners, with Emilia Pérez netting four wins overall, and The Brutalist right behind with By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 07:57 am
Golden Globes 2025 The Golden Globes stay messy Usually, Duana would write this post and critique the Golden Globes as a telecast, with her expertise as a television writer, directress, and producer in her own right, but this year, the Golden Globes telecast was so f-cking janky even we peons with our untrained, non-professional eyes could see there By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 06:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman & (Super) Friends It’s the holiday movie season, which means it’s also summer movie trailer season. Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch got a teaser, and Stitch is so cute, he’s going to make a billion dollars. Death of a Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, sounds like the By Sarah • Dec 19, 2024 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl On the surface, Romy’s life is perfect. She’s the wealthy CEO of a rapidly growing robotics company; her husband, Jacob, is hot (he’s played by Antonio Banderas); her teenaged daughters are only mildly challenging to deal with; she looks like Nicole Kidman. It’s the holidays and By Sarah • Dec 18, 2024 01:20 pm
TV Updates Maybe just don’t go to the White Lotus Since it debuted in 2021, The White Lotus has become one of the most scathing comedy-dramas on TV, an unrelenting, pernicious takedown of entitled white people vacation culture from Mike White, filmmaker and Survivor season 37 runner-up. The trailer for the highly anticipated third season is here, teasing a February By Sarah • Dec 17, 2024 12:04 pm
