Movie Reviews and Previews 12 Years a Slave is coming for Oscar The first trailer for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is out and holy hell, you guys. A friend put it perfectly—this isn’t Oscar bait-y, this is Oscar win-y. Based on the true story of a man who was born free in the North and then kidnapped By Sarah • Jul 17, 2013 09:40 am
Dumbass Stealing: Still not okay Popular horror geek and blogger Lianne Spiderbaby (real name: Lianne MacDougall, secondary occupation: Quentin Tarantino’s girlfriend) got caught up in a plagiarism scandal over the weekend. Here’s what happened: Someone tipped off Mike White at Impossible Funky (among others) that MacDougall was plagiarizing for her FEARnet column, “Spiderbaby’ By Sarah • Jul 16, 2013 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Oldboy One of the most crazily violent, and just plain crazy, movies I’ve seen is Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, a classic of South Korean action cinema from 2003. It’s a twisted story of torture and revenge, loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo, with some of the most By Sarah • Jul 12, 2013 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks wants that third Oscar He must be thinking, “Daniel Day-Lewis has three. Why not me?” First in October, Tom Hanks has Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, about the Maersk Alabama’s crew being taken hostage by Somali pirates, which is sure to be a tense and heroic turn for Hanks. And then in December By Sarah • Jul 12, 2013 11:25 am
Judy Greer Yay Judy Greer! I can’t be the only one that greets Judy Greer news with a happy clap. Greer, hall of fame scene-stealer and professional portrayer of best friends, will star in a new pilot for FX. This is exciting on several levels. One, it gives Greer, after years of walking away By Sarah • Jul 11, 2013 04:28 pm
The Bridge The Bridge: “Check the border” I don’t know what to expect from FX’s new crime drama, The Bridge. Reviews have been positive but there are a number of distressing references to the rage-inducing The Killing, but then some have also said it soothes the hollow ache caused by Justified’s absence. All I By Sarah • Jul 11, 2013 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Marvel/Vin Diesel nightmare I cannot stand Vin Diesel. CANNOT. STAND. I don’t have a good reason for it. (Lainey: I have several.) It’s just an irrational hatred that sprang from sitting through one too many of his terrible movies. I love bad action movies, and have an unusually high tolerance for By Sarah • Jul 10, 2013 02:57 pm
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Jared Leto (For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here. To request a Career Prospectus feature, please email sarah@laineygossip.com.) Sarah, So in light of the new 30 Seconds to Mars video, I'm going to go ahead and ask you to do a career prospectus By Sarah • Jul 09, 2013 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The LEGO Movie actually looks funny (and Chris Pratt IS funny) A movie based on LEGO is an iffy proposition. On the one hand, it has universal appeal—LEGO has been popular so long that there are kids playing with it today and there are generations of adults who grew up with it, too. Who doesn’t love LEGO? It’s By Sarah • Jul 08, 2013 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lone Ranger TANKED I didn’t expect it to be good—and it wasn’t—but I did think that Johnny Depp’s name combined with the audience-pleasing connection to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies would translate into good box office anyway. Boy was I wrong. Over a generous five-day 4th of By Sarah • Jul 08, 2013 10:11 am
Thinnification The thinnification of Chris Evans When I first started writing for LaineyGossip back in 2010 (oh my God—it’s been three years?!) I had a big Freebie Five crush on Chris Evans and Lainey gave me sh*t all the time. But then he got super jacked for Captain America and I wasn’t By Sarah • Jul 03, 2013 11:15 am
Douchebags Elementary expands its pedigree Did you like CBS’ modern version of Sherlock Holmes, Elementary? I’m devoted to the BBC Sherlock, but I liked Elementary well enough. I didn’t feel the need to watch it every week, but it didn’t linger long on my DVR, either. I did think Jonny Lee Miller By Sarah • Jun 28, 2013 01:21 pm
Douchebags James Franco quits Usually he’s piling onto his schedule, signing up for new projects, new degrees, new artistic collaborations, but James Franco has, just two weeks before production was slated to begin, dropped out of his latest directorial effort, Garden of Last Days, in which he was also going to star. But By Sarah • Jun 28, 2013 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ashton Kutcher is Computer Jesus Have you heard Bill Burr’s take on Steve Jobs? If not, you can watch it here. Burr can be pretty incendiary, but I’m kind of with him on his assessment of the Jesusification of Steve Jobs. I do think Jobs was a true visionary and that it was By Sarah • Jun 25, 2013 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews World War Z’s triumph of mediocrity I’m in the middle of a horrible bout of food poisoning on the same weekend World War Z beat projections and earned an estimated $66 million at the domestic box office. Even if those numbers end up a little high, it’s still way better than the official projection By Sarah • Jun 24, 2013 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man’s girl problem In the wake of the announcement that Sony had pre-emptively greenlit two more Spider-Man movies with Andrew Garfield, it was also announced that Shailene Woodley, cast as Mary Jane Watson, was being cut from Spider-Man 2. At first, this wasn’t that big a deal. With two more movies to By Sarah • Jun 24, 2013 12:05 pm
