Movie Reviews and Previews Extraction 2: Sure, why not Do you remember Extraction? It’s that Netflix action movie starring Chris Hemsworth as a frowny mercenary. It wasn’t even bad, and I have a hard time recalling anything about it beyond Golshifteh Farahani, who I recall being WAY better than her under-written character deserved. Well, it was whatever By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio The first teaser for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up gave us a glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio in rare comedy mode, and the new “Tudum” teaser doubles down, giving us even more of comedy Leo D in action. He’s sweaty, nervous, he has a stupid haircut and an By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 03:58 pm
Relationship Assumption Thuso, Olivia, Kaia, and Jacob: The Academy Youth As noted in the previous post about the Academy Museum gala, this was a major event on the Hollywood calendar. The Oscar Academy is a big deal, and Academy functions are work functions. This is why the gala was so well-attended, with past Oscar winners and nominees showing face among By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superstar Super Mario Bros. Given the success of Sonic the Hedgehog, which defied the gods and all decency to become one of the top-ten highest grossing films of 2020, it’s no surprise that more video game movies are coming. Next on the block is Nintendo making another run at Super Mario Bros., this By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dear Evan Hansen is PSYCHOTIC In many ways, Dear Evan Hansen is “better than Cats”, mainly because Evan isn’t physically painful to look at—I don’t want to pluck out my eyeballs and run screaming into the sea—and because the musical is not sung through. But in all the ways that count, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 12:04 pm
Top Reads Cary Fukunaga spills the tea Theoretically, No Time To Die is slated to premiere next week before opening in North America on October 8. I sort of won’t believe it’s happening until I am actually watching it, but it seems the time for Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie has come at last. By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bennifer: A Low-Key Week After the back-to-back highs of Venice and the Met Gala, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have kept it pretty low-key over the last week. Let’s not get greedy now – how much more do we need? Well… it’s not like they didn’t give us anything. Adweek released the By Lainey • Sep 24, 2021 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart speaks as Diana With freedom-craving royals on the mind, let us turn to the new trailer for Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Diana, Princess of Wales. With the teaser, we considered Kristen Stewart’s look as Diana, but this trailer gives us more of her speaking as Diana, so let’s examine By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews PTA is here with Licorice Pizza Licorice Pizza sounds terrible. Not as a film, but as a thing. Licorice is one of those flavors, very strong and sometimes medicinal, that not everyone likes. Pizza, however, is universal. Everyone has their own idea about what goes on pizza, but pizza itself is widely adored. I wonder what By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders is a Phenomenal First Feature We are wrapping up TIFF 2021 with Danis Goulet’s feature directorial debut, Night Raiders, a future-set dystopia with YA undertones and an Indigenous bent. Written and directed by Goulet, Night Raiders is set in a near future in which it is implied that America has conquered Canada for resources By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 01:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning George Clooney and Bennifer: An Award Season Run? Ever since it was announced that George Clooney would be directing Ben Affleck in the film adaptation for The Tender Bar, I’ve been saying that this film will have awards potential. George and Ben have already won an Oscar together, Best Picture no less, for Argo. The screenplay for By Lainey • Sep 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s an exciting day for us here at LaineyGossip. We are thrilled to announce that Sarah Marrs, who has been contributing to the site as our film industry expert, will be stepping into a new expanded role as Deputy Editor. Sarah is a member of the Chicago By Lainey • Sep 23, 2021 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Macbeth Needs No Introduction One of the surefire heavy hitters of awards season is The Tragedy of Macbeth, a new adaptation of the Scottish play from Joel Coen (working for the first time in his career without his brother, Ethan). Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, we now have our first, brief, look at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother In the tradition of The Babadook, Irish horror film You Are Not My Mother uses genre tropes to pry into domestic spaces and the world of mother and child. The feature directorial debut of Kate Dolan, Mother is set in the days leading up to Halloween, or Samhain on the By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens in I’m Your Man Did you know that Dan Stevens can speak German? Well, he can. In fact, he speaks German so fluently he can act in a German-language film and give exactly as good a performance as he would in an English-language film. It’s the kind of lingual flexibility we’re used By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 10:48 am
