Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts isn’t done wasting its potential Because franchise death is slow and grinding, we still have to get through Fantastic Beasts 3, officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The first trailer dropped yesterday—one day after JK Rowling wrote some new transphobic sh-t in The Times that I won’t link to because it’ By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 03:19 pm
Harry Potter Daniel Readcliffe I think we can all agree that so far, 2020 has sucked. But it’s at times like these that people turn to nostalgia and comforts to help them get through it. Which is great because now it feels like I’m reliving my childhood/adolescence. There are High School By Prem • May 06, 2020 11:57 am
Maple Leaf Intro for November 22, 2019 Dear Gossips, “I got us a caramel brulee latte.” This is the line where I lost it and couldn’t recover – have you seen Benny Drama’s take on Shawn Mendes? It’s not just that he nails the imitation, it’s that some of this dialogue is so exactly By Lainey • Nov 22, 2019 09:56 am
Harry Potter The Crimes of Grindelwald are many, and great In my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I wrote, “A movie where Newt does a silly mating dance with a glowy rhinoceros does not also need to contain a bleak storyline about an abusive orphanage matron who whips the closeted wizard in her care. They’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 09:16 am
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: let the beasts be free Lainey can’t believe I’m Gryffindor. We had a whole conversation about it—she thinks I should be Ravenclaw-but if you need proof, Lainey is a loud and proud Slytherin, and Gryffindors live to cockblock Slytherins, which will explain my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2016 11:31 am
Harry Potter Diary Of A Bad Hufflepuff Like all of us, I was sorted on Pottermore. I don’t know if most people feel like they’re pulled in many…I had valid options for more than a few of the questions. Then when the Hufflepuff banner came down, I was horrified. You go through an entire By Duana • Nov 16, 2016 01:34 pm
Harry Potter Big Budget Ezra Miller Ezra Miller, before, seemed to go out of his way to remind you that he’s not mainstream. That he doesn’t wear clothes, he’s dons “textiles”. It felt like a sneer, like a judgement of those who are mainstream, rather than a celebration of the joy of not By Lainey • Nov 16, 2016 12:00 pm
Harry Potter JK Rowling on Depp and Dumbledore It was confirmed this week that Johnny Depp has indeed been cast as Gellert Grindelwald in the sequel to Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Many fans then expressed disappointment in light of his divorce from Amber Heard and the allegations – and accompanying photos and texts and witnesses – of By Lainey • Nov 11, 2016 12:21 pm
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts has no owls But it does have a really cool golden bird. A new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has come out and this one gives a better look at Newt Scamander’s many fantastic beasts, among them, a golden bird that is maybe a thunderbird. There are, however, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2016 02:45 pm
Harry Potter Intro for September 23, 2016 Dear Gossips, What’s your Patronus? If I were single and that was the opening line, I’d be inclined to stay for at least a drink. Pottermore introduced Patronus discovery yesterday. Here’s mine: My #Patronus is not My Sharona. A photo posted by Elaine Lui (@laineygossip) onSep 22, By Lainey • Sep 23, 2016 09:30 am
Harry Potter Ben Affleck’s Harry Potter birthdays Duana and I kicked it old school when Harry Potter And The Cursed Child came out, lining up at midnight and rushing home to read it before dawn. Ben Affleck probably didn’t. He probably had it sent to him. But, if he’s anything like he used to be, By Lainey • Aug 23, 2016 04:40 pm
Jock Smut Intro for August 15, 2016 Dear Gossips, I had an “I wish I thought of this” moment looking at my inbox this weekend. What if the Sorting Hat went to the aquatic centre? How would each swimming stroke – and the athletes who represent them – be divided into their respective Hogwarts Houses? The following comes from By Lainey • Aug 15, 2016 09:07 am
Harry Potter On the pronunciation of Delphi Duana and I posted our Harry Potter And The Cursed Child podcast yesterday. I’ve embedded it again below if you’ve not yet had a chance to listen. One of the things we ended up arguing over, which we never intended to argue over, but that’s how these By Lainey • Aug 10, 2016 12:22 pm
Harry Potter Swoki, Slytherin, and the Cursed Child podcast After partying with her trust fund baby friends in the Hamptons on Saturday, Taylor Swift is now in New York City, resuming the catwalk outside her apartment, going back to her natural curls. It’s now been over a week since the separation of Swoki, with Taylor back in the By Lainey • Aug 09, 2016 11:44 am
Harry Potter More Fantastic, More Magic Judging from the reviews of Suicide Squad – Sarah’s review was posted earlier today – Warner Bros still can’t figure out how to get the DC Universe right. It has however done a great job building the world of Harry Potter. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has been very By Lainey • Aug 03, 2016 11:10 am
Harry Potter Intro for August 1, 2016 Dear Gossips, Duana and I went to Midnight Magic for the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child release on Saturday night. People were queuing all over the place inside the store for different activations. Like assholes, when we got there, we had no idea which line meant what, so we By Lainey • Aug 01, 2016 09:11 am
