Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun Addiction narratives can be bleak, and the waters of the North Atlantic can be bleak, but somehow, together, The Outrun finds great beauty in bleak circumstances. Director Nora Fingscheidt adapts Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun, with Liptrot co-writing the screenplay. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Liptrot’s By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 02:22 pm
TV Updates One last turn in the Shadows What We Do in the Shadows is one of my favorite films of the 2010s, and the TV series spin-off of the same name has become one of my favorite shows of the 2020s. Since 2019, What We Do in the Shadows has been one of the most consistently By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 01:18 pm
Music Free Kesha After a decade locked in a battle for her music and her very self, Kesha is finally free. Her onerous contract with Dr. Luke was fulfilled with 2023’s Gag Order, the last lawsuit with Dr. Luke was settled that same year. Now, Kesha is coming back with a new By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Todd Phillips's billion-dollar and Oscar winning 2019 hit, Joker. Much of the first film’s creative team has returned, with Phillips once again directing and co-writing with Scott Silver, and cinematographer Lawrence Sher, editor Jeff Growth, and composer By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 11:16 am
Girl Sh-t Rihanna at night It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in with Rihanna—since Natalie Portman was talking about her—so here she is, living her night owl life in New York in a cow-print coat over what looks to me like bed rotting clothes—an undershirt and underpants. It’ By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 10:05 am
Intro for October 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Variety published a feature on how movie studios are responding to the rise of “toxic fandom”, the phenomenon of fans attacking films and TV series for reasons often described as “relentlessly negative, often bigoted online campaign[s]”. It’s an interesting read, with some unnamed sources in By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 09:15 am
TV Updates Nicolas Cage’s live action Spider-Man Somehow, I totally missed the news earlier this summer that Nicolas Cage is starring in a live-action Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video (as the kids say, none of these words are in the Bible). The series is supposedly called simply Noir, which sounds like a cologne, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2024 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lewis Pullman in 'Salem’s Lot 'Salem’s Lot is one of Stephen King’s most popular and influential novels, which is the first problem for the new film adaptation, also called 'Salem’s Lot. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, who previously adapted It as a two-film franchise, as well as writing By Sarah • Oct 02, 2024 02:04 pm
Style Timmy Ping Pong (with bonus Kylie) Everyone is already forecasting Timothée Chalamet as a Best Actor contender in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but before we even get to see Timmy-Bob in action, Chalamet is already bombarding us with his new look for his upcoming film, Marty Supreme, a movie about a ping By Sarah • Oct 02, 2024 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza in My Old Ass Megan Park’s sophomore film is a considerably lighter effort than her feature directorial debut, The Fallout, which deals with a school shooting. In contrast, My Old Ass, written and directed by Park, is a coming-of-age tale with a stoner comedy soul. Set in Ontario’s cottage country, By Sarah • Oct 01, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Taylor-Johnson has a busy December When the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu came out, I said I hoped it would play TIFF, as did two of Eggers’ previous films. Well, it did not, much to my disappointment. But that DOES mean I still have Nosferatu to look forward to, which I am, very much. By Sarah • Oct 01, 2024 10:12 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, September 30, for Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. You can learn more about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women here, and find resources, as well. You can also find information on the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund here. By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina emotes in Maria There were a lot of new trailers yesterday. Besides Ballerina, there were also trailers for The Last of Us season two (depressing!), Shrinking season two (depressing but funny, too!), and something called Hysteria starring Julie Bowen and Bruce Campbell (Satanic panic!). We also got the official teaser for Maria, starring By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis is Cats Once in a while a film is made which is so ambitious it becomes profound, a film that attempts to encapsulate the whole of human experience, a film that is richly complex, beautifully crafted, perfectly acted, which tells a story of humanity and frailty and greed and loss and love, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is a dancing assassin In 2014, John Wick became a sleeper hit, ten years later, it’s the foundation of a whole ass franchise. There have been four John Wick movies, one TV show, and now, the first cinematic spin-off, the awkwardly titled From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. We really have By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 12:08 pm
TV Updates Joshua Jackson, Canadian Boyfriend It’s unofficially Joshua Jackson week here on LaineyGossip. We were JUST talking about him and his new show, Doctor Odyssey, which premiered last night. Here is Joshua heading into Jimmy Kimmel Live! to continue promoting the show during its premiere week. But the real reason I bring up Joshua By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 11:00 am
