Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Mikey Madison potentially starring in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and why she is such a good choice to play Frances Haugen, the data scientist who exposed Facebook’s internal mess to the SEC and The Wall Street Journal. Jeremy Allen By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 09:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Colman, Kieran, and friends Colman Domingo is currently one of the presumed five actors to receive a nomination for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sing Sing. Right now, according to prognosticators, there are four of them who seem pretty locked in: Adrien Brody, Ralph Fiennes, Timothée Chalamet, and Colman… with Daniel By Lainey • Dec 19, 2024 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain A Real Pain is a significant leap forward for Jesse Eisenberg: Filmmaker. His first feature film, When You Finish Saving the World, is the kind of navel-gazing drama you might expect from an actor known for playing uptight, even neurotic characters. A Real Pain, in contrast, has an intimacy and By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 01:48 pm
Mark Ruffalo Jesse Eisenberg and friends Jesse Eisenberg’s feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, hits theaters next week. There was a screening in New York last night, and people showed up, including stars Finn Wolfhard and Alisha Boe, as well as Emma Stone, who produced the film (along with her husband, Dave By Sarah • Jan 13, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg is saving the world Jesse Eisenberg is having a moment, what with Fleishman Is in Trouble—I’m already behind, what is time, and how do you manage it?—and his upcoming feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World. In 2020, Eisenberg wrote an audio drama of the same name about the By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 01:50 pm
TV Updates Taffy conquers TV As Lainey has said, we here at LaineyGossip are Taffy fans. As in, fans of writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Whether it’s one of her masterclass celebrity profiles or her first novel, Taffy is a must-read. That novel, Fleishman Is In Trouble, is now also a limited series starring Jesse Eisenberg, By Sarah • Oct 27, 2022 12:12 pm
TV Updates Lizzy Caplan week Lizzy Caplan, perennially underappreciated actor and wearer of an equally underappreciated Emmys dress, has had a busy week. The erstwhile Janis Ian has been announced as the star of a Fatal Attraction television series, which…okay, sure. Caplan will play the Alex role previously inhabited by Glenn Close, and while By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone is too good for Zombieland: Double Tap Ten years after Zombieland was a sleeper hit, the gang reunites for a sequel to mixed results. In the decade since Zombieland, its stars have gone onto greater and greater success. Jesse Eisenberg became an Oscar nominee, Woody Harrelson added two more Oscar nominations to his collection, and Emma Stone By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zombieland returns Zombieland was a surprise hit in 2009, popular enough that people speculated about a sequel, but the cast immediately blew up and got too busy to reunite. Until now, ten years later, and the gang is back together for Zombieland: Double Tap, a totally unnecessary sequel that looks stupid as By Sarah • Jul 26, 2019 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in Café Society Café Society is Woody Allen’s eleven-hundredth movie and it’s the thirty-seventh time he’s made Annie Hall and the second time he’s done Midnight in Paris. It stars Jesse Eisenberg asWoody AllenBobby Dorfman, a New Yorker who goes to Hollywood to find his fortune, and Kristen Stewart By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo in Now You See Me 2 At their best, movies can be wonderful escapes into worlds outside of our own, where, for two hours, we can put real problems aside and exist in a kind of suspended animation. For those hours spent in a darkened room, surrounded by strangers, we’re united by the trials and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews In Cannes: Kristen Stewart & Blake’s silence Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Corey Stoll, and Jesse Eisenberg with Woody Allen at the photo call for Café Society in Cannes today. Let’s begin with an upliftingly gross quote from 80 year old Woody: Woody Allen: "I’m 80. I can’t believe it. I’m so youthful, By Lainey • May 11, 2016 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg in Louder Than Bombs A dysfunctional family drama with a teenaged son named “Conrad” will inevitably invoke the 1980 film Ordinary People—and the novel upon which it’s based—and like that film, Louder Than Bombs is a family portrait snapped at a moment of profound grief, of a family derailed by loss. By Sarah • May 05, 2016 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg: Woody Allen’s perfect muse As we’ve seen through the decades, Woody Allen has his muses. But now? Forget Diane Keaton, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, forget the actresses, because he’s finally found The One, the one he’s been looking for all this time: Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse stars in Woody’s latest film, By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck & Gal Gadot can’t save Batman v Superman SPOILER FREE Well. Here it is. After nearly three years of marketing, hype, and expectation, the film I have called Superhero Face Punch arrives in theaters this Friday, where it lands with a leaden thump, an overlong, overly serious, grinding f*cking drag of a movie. If you’re not By Sarah • Mar 23, 2016 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Potter f*cks over some magicians … Is the best way of describing Now You See Me 2, judging by the new trailer. If you remember the first one—and why would you?—Morgan Freeman ended up in jail because Mark Ruffalo was the best magician in the world, or something like that. So the sequel is By Sarah • Mar 17, 2016 12:39 pm
