Movie Reviews and Previews Free Guy: The Best of Ryan Reynolds In Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds stars as Guy, a non-player character in an open-world shooter game called “Free City”. Within the world of the game, Guy and all the other NPCs are unaware of their artificial reality, they just think it’s normal for the bank to be robbed every By Sarah • Aug 13, 2021 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, Over the last few years, Ryan Reynolds has become one of the most skilled and successful celebrity entrepreneurs. He’s managed to use new media effectively and organically, both in the promotion of his various commercial projects (and there are many) and social causes, while maintaining a sense By Lainey • Aug 12, 2021 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Screaming nonsense in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard In 2017, I called The Hitman’s Bodyguard “super, super dumb”, “charmingly sh*tty”, and “brainless, dumb-fun escapism at its best”. Through commitment to a dumb premise and solid chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, The Hitman’s Bodyguard propelled itself to blockbuster status, an increasingly rare achievement By Sarah • Jun 15, 2021 12:57 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds: Creating Ownership Content One of these days we’ll need to dedicate an episode of Show Your Work to Ryan Reynolds because… he has been doing a LOT of good work over the last couple of years. Ryan has a LOT going on. Multiple film projects which, alone, could keep him full time By Lainey • May 20, 2021 01:07 pm
Maple Leaf Blake, Ryan, Boots, and Hats Now that New York is opening up, there have been more and more celebrity sightings. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were seen a couple of times last week out with their kids and the dog and here they are, on their own, out for a coffee run this weekend. I By Lainey • May 03, 2021 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Ryan Reynolds in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard The Hitman’s Bodyguard was one of 2017’s success stories: an original, Black Listed script that survived a last-minute genre change—from drama to action comedy—to become a breakout hit, amassing over $176 million against a $30 million budget, and it helped cement Ryan Reynolds’ as an action By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 12:32 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds and All His Bromances On the Pop Chat podcast earlier this week with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Sarah Hagi, one the questions that came up as a lookback on 2020 was…which celebrities did not do well in 2020 and which ones came out good? A lot of celebrities sucked in 2020 but there were By Lainey • Jan 15, 2021 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix dunks on everybody Yesterday Netflix released a video promoting their 2021 films and it’s the video equivalent of screaming, “I am a golden god!” and diving into a pool from the roof of a three-story house. Netflix is taking a victory lap before anyone else even lined up for the race. Lainey By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:38 am
Best Of 2020 Intro for December 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Over the next couple of weeks, as we approach the end of 2020, we’ll be sharing some of our favourite 2020 content, entertainment that got us through this f-cked up year. If you asked me at the end of 2019, if we could have predicted that we’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 09:30 am
BFFs Taylor & Ryan’s Excellent Co-Production As we know, Taylor Swift is currently re-recording music from her first six albums to degrade the value of her masters, which she does not own, but she’s tried to own. There is so much anticipation about this project, these projects, because of course Taylor is one of the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2020 01:24 pm
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 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
Equality Issues Ryan Reynolds: bringing people on Lainey has already written about Ryan Reynolds this week, and the preamble in that piece is the same as this one – Ryan Reynolds is great at being Ryan Reynolds, and in committing to his self-imposed agenda of trying to do what he can to balance systemic inequalities, to acknowledge mistakes By Duana • Aug 07, 2020 02:25 pm
Weddings Ryan Reynolds: The Movie Star Marketing Executive Ryan Reynolds has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2020 and this is a profile of his work as a marketing executive who happens to be a movie star as opposed to a movie star who’s really good at marketing. As we have By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 01:29 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for April 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, History will be made in Canada on Sunday as STRONGER TOGETHER, TOUS ENSEMBLE will be simulcast on 15 Canadian networks and multiple online platforms in support of frontline workers and Food Banks Canada. The 90 minute show begins at 630pm April 26 across all markets featuring performances and/ By Lainey • Apr 24, 2020 08:39 am
Hugh Jackman Making Lemonade with the Marvel In-Laws Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Gwyneth Paltrow’s contribution of “great sentimental value” to the All In Challenge, following Drake and JBiebs. The All In Challenge is a charity sweepstakes where people can enter to win amazing prizes. Celebs are being asked to go “all in” and provide either a “cherished By Prem • Apr 21, 2020 11:11 am
