Movie Reviews and Previews Thor & Darryl: Back Again As part of the home video release of Doctor Strange, Marvel released a clip from Team Thor: Pt. 2, Where Are They Now?, which is the continuing adventures of Thor and his Australian roommate, Darryl. We first met Darryl in Team Thor, Taika Waititi’s shot-on-a-lark mockumentary explaining Thor’s By Sarah • Feb 15, 2017 09:57 am
Catherine Zeta Jones I am living for Feud In this world, where everything is terrible nonsense, you have to live for the small victories and snatch joy wherever you can. John Wick got me through the beginning of the year, and now Feud is getting me through the next couple months. It premieres on March 5, and I By Sarah • Feb 14, 2017 05:11 pm
Douchebags Cap vs. The KKK: Round 2 Last week the human embodiment of spoiled milk, David Duke, attempted to take down Chris Evans on Twitter and got his ass electrically handed to him because Evans is a decent guy and David Duke just a pile of talking garbage. Well, they’re back at it. Or rather, Duke By Sarah • Feb 14, 2017 09:53 am
Tryhards Tom Post-Taffy Last week we all read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s amazing profile of Tom Hiddleston. In it, T-Hidds is the most! Excited! Person! And he just! Can’t! Stop! Sharing!!! Lainey assessed Hiddles’ Try as not the “uncool cool” of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Lady Gaga, but as the uncool-uncool of, well, a By Sarah • Feb 13, 2017 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Asa Butterfield in The Space Between Us If you’re avoiding Fifty Shades Darker this weekend, and you’re wondering if this might be an option… The Space Between Us tanked, so I was alone when I saw it, and though I have seen many bad movies under these very circumstances, for some reason, with this one, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 01:13 pm
TV Updates Try the Santa Clarita Diet Sheila and Joel are an average suburban couple with average suburban problems. Their teenage daughter, Abby, wants a car they can’t really afford, their realty business is maybe not so hot, and upon finding his wife’s dead body in an open house’s bathroom, Joel is a little By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 11:38 am
Douchebags Captain America tweet-punches the KKK It’s one of the most famous images from comic book history: Captain America punching Hitler in the face. It’s the cover of Captain America No. 1, and a moment that got referenced in Captain America: The First Avenger. Punching Nazis is what Captain America does. So people got By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Mannequins in Fifty Shades Darker What little worked in Fifty Shades of Grey worked because director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel played on a psychological thriller angle, and Dakota Johnson was able to use her natural screen presence to inject some slyness into Anastasia Steele that made her more than just a weepy doormat By Sarah • Feb 09, 2017 01:39 pm
Break Ups Chris Evans & Jenny Slate: They Did Break Up Or, In Which Sarah Is A Terrible Detective. Yesterday we went on a journey of discovery, trying to determine through social media posts and other dubious “evidence” whether or not Chris Evans and Jenny Slate were still together. I concluded “yes” because there wasn’t any empirical evidence otherwise, just By Sarah • Feb 08, 2017 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2 First and most important: Nothing bad happens to the dog. In fact, the first fifteen minutes of John Wick: Chapter 2 play like something of an apology for the first fifteen minutes of John Wick, as Chapter 2 opens with a rousing car chase and a surprisingly funny recap of By Sarah • Feb 08, 2017 12:16 pm
Relationship Assumption The State of Chris Evans & Jenny Slate Or, In Which Sarah Goes Social Media Sleuthing To Try And Determine Whether Or Not A Celebrity Couple Is Still Together. Let’s go on this journey together. The Evidence For Chris Evans And Jenny Slate Having Broken Up: They haven’t tweeted at/acknowledged each other on Twitter since By Sarah • Feb 07, 2017 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stranger Things returns to remind you of stuff During the Super Bowl the first teaser for the second season of Stranger Things premiered and people are super into it. It has Eggos, Ghostbusters—boys once again!—and Eleven, so of course the internet is excited. The opening with the vintage Eggo Waffles commercial and the way it cuts By Sarah • Feb 07, 2017 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardian’s golden villainess Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 also threw up an “extended” spot online following their in-game ad during the Super Bowl, and of all the movies advertised during the game, this one went over the best. (I thought more people would be into Logan but consensus in the room was By Sarah • Feb 06, 2017 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Transformers 5: Metal Gear Nonsense Transformers: The Last Knight aired a TV spot during the Super Bowl and then released an “extended look” online, so just in case thirty seconds inside a trash compactor isn’t enough for you, you can watch the 54-second extended spot for maximum noise and nonsense. Or you can just By Sarah • Feb 06, 2017 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More like F8 of the Male Ego The F8 of the Furious—I refuse to use its proper title—also aired a Super Bowl spot, giving us another look at Vin Diesel and The Rock trying one up each other while Jason Statham stands coolly to the side and delivers the trailer’s best line—Stath always By Sarah • Feb 06, 2017 09:58 am
TV Updates Melissa McCarthy stole SNL Kristen Stewart did a solid job hosting SNL, but Melissa McCarthy stole the show—arguably the whole season—with her impression of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. There had been no word that McCarthy was coming on, so it was a total surprise, which quickly gave way to a vengeful kind By Sarah • Feb 06, 2017 09:29 am
