Movie Reviews and Previews The Return of Rom-Com Sandra The last time Sandra was on Netflix was almost two years ago this coming December, when Bird Box became the movie of the holiday season. Sandra Bullock has been in Vancouver the last few weeks shooting a Netflix movie based on a British miniseries called Unforgiven about a woman released By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-men are back Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is set to start filming this month—and may already be picking up shots in Queens, though Tom Holland is still working on the Uncharted movie—and with that comes another round of casting news, though this has not yet been backed up by the trades. By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is the new Furiosa George Miller is returning to the world of Mad Max with a Fury Road prequel called Furiosa. As the title indicates, it will be the origin story of Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. But Theron will not be reprising the role; instead, Furiosa will By Sarah • Oct 14, 2020 12:32 pm
Music Shawn Mendes and the Netflix album promotion A few years ago Lady Gaga’s Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two, came out nearly twelve months after the release of her album Joanne. Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana premiered on Netflix six months after the release of her Lover album. More recently BLACKPINK dropped their first full-length album By Lainey • Oct 14, 2020 11:44 am
Music Intro for October 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, BLACKPINK: Light Up The Sky, the documentary about Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé, is now available on Netflix so if you’ve been hate-watching Emily in Paris it should show up in your algorithm. Highly recommend for those who are still unfamiliar with one of the biggest bands By Lainey • Oct 14, 2020 08:48 am
Photo Assumption Smell Tom Cruise’s Hand Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell continue to work on Mission: Impossible 7 in Rome filming the action scene that they started shooting last week. This time we see them out of the car during the pursuit and at some point I think they’re getting shot at. Since their characters By Lainey • Oct 13, 2020 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gal Gadot is Cleopatra and people are mad Wonder Woman 1984 may or may not come out this December, but that uncertainty is not getting in the way of Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot reteaming for a third time, for a new biopic of everyone’s favorite Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Jenkins will direct the film which will be By Sarah • Oct 13, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman: “Paranoid Android” Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, John Turturro, and Colin Farrell were seen in Liverpool on the set of The Batman this weekend. It appears to be a funeral scene. Colin Farrell is unrecognisable as Oswald Copplepot, aka The Penguin. I am so here for Zoe’s Catwoman look too. Black leather By Lainey • Oct 13, 2020 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Female Revenge Fantasy for the Holidays One of the most anticipated films of the year around the LaineyGossip internet office is Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman starring Carey Mulligan. This movie looks GREAT, and it got very interesting reviews out of Sundance. It was slated for a spring release, but then came COVID and it By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul for the Holidays In completely unsurprising news, Pixar’s next film, Soul, will skip theaters and premiere on Disney+. It is shifting back one month from its previously COVID-adjusted release date of November 20 to December 25, when it will be available on the streaming service at no additional cost. In international territories By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange joins Spider-Man One of the most adorable moments in Avengers: Infinity War is when Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange. It’s less than thirty seconds but it’s a great character beat for Peter Parker and the “who has time for you” look Strange gives him is loaded with potential which neither Infinity By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher worships at the altar of Mank and Welles David Fincher’s latest film is for Netflix, as is becoming the way for top-tier directors who can’t get the funding they want from traditional studios. Titled Mank, it is a biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who co-wrote Citizen Kane, among other things (including an uncredited draft of By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The 355 is NOT a comedy I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought The 355 was an action-comedy. This is the all-lady spy movie Jessica Chastain pitched to Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, and I don’t know what about that made me think it was going to be a comedy, but By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 11:22 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso: The spiritual successor to Schitt’s Creek With the final season of Schitt’s Creek hitting Netflix, the show is really, truly, officially over (until the inevitable reunion episode to support some new streaming platform called something like Zibi Max+). Of course we can always revisit Schitt’s Creek, but with no new episodes coming until Zibi By Sarah • Oct 07, 2020 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Free Guy is sticking it out As most movies vacate 2020, Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy is sticking with it. A new trailer dropped yesterday, doubling down on the movie’s December 11 release date. Interestingly, there is no “Only in theaters” tag, which suggests that whatever happened with Mulan, Disney might not be over the direct-to-streaming By Sarah • Oct 06, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s Dune’s turn When the first trailer for Dune was released last month, I said it wasn’t going to come out in 2020, and sure enough following Bond, it is the latest movie to pull up stakes in 2020 and seek greener pastures in 2021. Specifically, Dune is taking overThe Batman’s By Sarah • Oct 06, 2020 10:06 am
