Movie Reviews and Previews Ben, George, and the 70s Here are some new shots of Ben Affleck being directed by George Clooney on the Boston set of The Tender Bar. This is the first good look of Ben in costume from the era – JR Moehringer’s story takes place in the 70s and that’s definitely what we’re By Lainey • Mar 24, 2021 02:24 pm
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy and the New Celebrity 2020 was such a weird f-cking year for pop culture, but I feel like we can all agree Anya Taylor-Joy was one of the breakout stars of the year, yes? She began the year with Autumn de Wilde’s sexy, stylish adaptation, Emma., the last movie many people By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow moves (for the last time?) A year ago, we started the blockbuster shuffle when No Time to Die vacated April 2020 due to the then-burgeoning pandemic. Now, one year on, we have potentially, probably, our last step in the blockbuster shuffle. Disney has pushed a group of seven films out of spring/early summer, By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emerald Fennell goes to DC It feels like a draft, doesn’t it? A filmmaker has an indie breakout hit, and then they get drafted by one of three teams: Marvel, DC, or Lucasfilm. The latest draftee is Emerald Fennell, fresh off her triple Oscar-nomination and Writers’ Guild Awards win for Promising Young Woman. By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 03:14 pm
Music Demi Lovato’s Next Chapter Demi Lovato performed her title track “Dancing with the Devil” live for the first time last night at the drive-in premiere for her docuseries of the same name in LA. The song chronicles her relapse, near-fatal drug overdose, and subsequent recovery, with lines like “I told you I By Joanna • Mar 23, 2021 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WarnerMedia CEO addresses fan toxicity As I have mentioned many times over the years, writing about DC Films and the Snyder Cut can be loaded, because it comes attached to a very toxic fandom. There were plenty of instances over the years where I passed on writing about some new wrinkle in the Snyder drama By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy Scout Loki With The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropping on Disney+ today—review of episode one coming Monday—the Marvel machine now turns to promoting Loki, which will premiere on June 11. That seems a long way away, but the marketing department must be bored since they are holding off on By Sarah • Mar 19, 2021 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Introducing, Selma Blair Selma Blair is the kind of exhilaratingly self-aware performer who will cartwheel weeks after a stem cell transplant, then curl up into a ball and laugh about how she wanted to stick the landing, only to lie on the floor dormant before saying, “I’m trying to look dead By Joanna • Mar 19, 2021 10:12 am
Style House of Gucci: Mariticide as Romance I am currently quite worried that law enforcement is now monitoring my actions because of what I’ve just been googling which is “what is it called when you kill your husband” and “different kinds of homicide”. Because I wanted to get the word, a word I’ve just learned By Lainey • Mar 18, 2021 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews At last: Zack Snyder’s Justice League After all the sturm und drang to get to this point, Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official name of the “Snyder Cut”—is here to give Zack Snyder a mulligan on Justice League after he had to leave the project in 2016 before completing it. One thing can be By Sarah • Mar 17, 2021 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Monday: Sex, Love, and Reality Check When did Hollywood stop making romantic dramas? I feel like that was a big part of the 80s for me. I was probably too young to be watching them but during that era, romantic dramas were regular cinematic features. And I’m not saying they had to be good, but By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My sueñito after watching the In The Heights trailer Can the trailer to a movie of a musical you haven’t seen or listened to evoke nostalgia and give you hope on the one-year anniversary of your world changing? I say yes. Over the last few weeks, the only stories that my brain could hold had to do By Violeta • Mar 16, 2021 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao makes history Infuriating snubs aside, there are some feel-good stories among this year’s Oscars nominees, and Chloe Zhao’s historic year is one of them. Zhao and Emerald Fennell mark the first time two women have been nominated at the same time for Best Director, and Zhao is the first By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscars 2021: Return of the Snubs I generally don’t like using the word “snub” to describe awards nominations because frequently it is not a case of willful exclusion but there being too many worthy films to include when there are a limited number of nominations to hand out. But THIS year? When MANK is the By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Oscars got Manked The Oscar nominations for the weirdest year in cinema are here, and they are a Mank of Chicago 7s. There are some big inclusions worth noting—and we will—but the most nominated film of 2020 is MANK, which is so on-the-nose for 2020 it feels satirical. Mank By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the 2021 Oscar nominations Somehow, amazingly, in my whole history at LaineyGossip, I’ve never done a full Oscars prognostication. Well, no more! In this, the weirdest of all years, here’s my extremely scientific prediction of the Oscars nominations, which are set to be announced Monday morning. I shall attempt to guess the By Sarah • Mar 12, 2021 09:51 am
