Movie Reviews and Previews Zac and Phoebe are Famous This sounds like the title of a YA book from the 2000s– Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares… I used to read them compulsively and haven’t had that much time over the last few years, By Lainey • Nov 27, 2024 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Maria Of late, Pablo Larraín has made a study of iconic women of the 20th century, specifically catching them at dramatic turning points in their lives. Jackie finds Jacqueline Kennedy reflecting on her life in the White House as she is preparing to (finally) leave it following the assassination of her By Sarah • Nov 26, 2024 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Missing Timmy Last week I mentioned in a couple of posts that the first screenings for A Complete Unknown were taking place and that we should be hearing initial reactions. And indeed the ones right out the gate were overwhelmingly positive. There have since been a few that are more mixed and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2024 12:46 pm
Amazingness Hugh Grant’s glorious misery It was six years ago, during the Golden Globes, that LaineyGossip became a Hugh Grant fansite. Duana was the one who wrote the post back in 2018 during our Globes coverage – Hugh was there as a presenter, his job was to introduce Dunkirk, one of that year’s nominees, after By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 12:57 pm
Style Angelina non-stop It’s been non-stop promotion for Angelina Jolie over the last three months as we’ve seen her promote Maria the way others might promote a Marvel/Disney tentpole – only with a muuuuuuch smaller budget. From Venice to Telluride to Toronto to New York to London and LA and, this By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, The most extra press tour, a press tour for and by theatre kids, has resulted in a major box office win. Wicked opened in North America with $114 million at the box office (to Gladiator II’s $55.5 million) and now holds the record for the biggest By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in Wicked Well, here we are. Once again, I have been subjected to a movie musical, a thing I almost never enjoy. And guess what? I didn’t enjoy it! Again! Although, on the scale of “Cats to Not Cats”, the cinematic adaptation of perennially popular stage musical Wicked is “Not Cats” By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s third act Six years ago, I wrote about Kristen Stewart’s intention to direct her first feature film, which she intended to adapt from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water. It feels insane to think about things said and done six years ago, everything pre-2020 feels like a completely different By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 12:22 pm
Quiveration ATJ sticking it out We have been talking about Kraven the Hunter for nigh on eighteen months, which is entirely too many months to allot to one of Sony’s Spider-Man films that doesn’t star Spider-Man. But after many false starts—Kraven was supposed to come out in January 2023, October 2023, and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Mescal in Gladiator II Twenty-four years later, Ridley Scott revisits one of his most beloved films, the sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, though the sequel picks up a mere 16 years after the action of that film. Gladiator II starts in north Africa, where Roman imperial daughter Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) sent her son, Lucius, to protect By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 11:27 am
Style Paul Mescal: GRWM Paul Mescal is in New York today for a final push before Gladiator II opens on Friday. I have talked repeatedly over the last few weeks about how much I’m enjoying Paul Mescal on this press tour, specifically the way he’s embracing his big Movie Star moment. Paul, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Real live Toothless (sort of) I’ve lost track of how many Disney live action remakes there have been—and do we count something like Maleficent, which isn’t so much a remake as a reimagining, but still brings an animated world to live action?—and we still have more coming, with Mufasa due this By Sarah • Nov 20, 2024 12:00 pm
Style Nicole Kidman: “Meme me as much you want” I f-cking love Nicole Kidman’s new interview, written by Ben Allen, with British GQ so much it might be one of my pop culture highlights of the year. Of course the part of the interview that’s getting the most play is what she says when she’s asked By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Timmy found Bob Through this entire year in the Best Actor Oscar race, everyone’s been leaving a spot open for Timothée Chalamet. He’s widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation. He’s already been nominated for Oscar – and that was six years ago! – it’s only By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 10:01 am
Style Oscar Futures In today’s previous two posts about last night's Governors Awards, Sarah posted about the 90s representation in contention for Oscars this year, and also some of the “overdue” candidates who are part of this year’s race. This post is about Oscar future, mostly those who have By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dude duos at the Governors Awards Just like the actresses, the actors find themselves in a wide-open competition, too, but in their case, it’s less about an abundance of strong performances and more that Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes, the presumed frontrunners, haven’t been hustling that hard, which leaves room for others to make By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 12:21 pm
