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
Scarlett Johansson’s skin suit A Super Bowl teaser for Ghost in the Shell has been released and it includes a close-up look at Scarlett Johansson’s skin suit. It’s effectively creepy when half her face detaches. This is just a little clip, but they’re leaning hard into the combination of tantalizing people By Sarah • Feb 03, 2017 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Keaton in The Founder As a title, The Founder is a bit of wordplay meant to test your knowledge of Americana. You see The Founder is about Ray Kroc, the man who founded a fast-food franchise empire, but who did not found the restaurant he made famous: McDonald’s. Originally a California burger stand, By Sarah • Feb 03, 2017 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey in Gold If you’re looking for an option at the movies this weekend and you’re wondering about Matthew McConaughey in Gold… Based on a true story but featuring a fake person, McConaughey is Kenny Wells, a prospector down on his luck. The inspiration is the Bre-X scandal of the 1990s, By Sarah • Feb 03, 2017 10:44 am
Quiveration Timothy Olyphant went somewhere I know nothing really matters today except for Beyoncé’s pregnancy Glamour Shots, but the premiere of Santa Clarita Diet was last night and Very Handsome Man Timothy Olyphant was there, being very handsome—we’re reaching the “silver fox” stage of Olyphant’s hotness. Olyphant doesn’t go to By Sarah • Feb 02, 2017 12:42 pm
Douchebags Anonymous Oscar Voter showing their ass again It’s become an annual tradition during award season, for Academy members to give anonymous opinions that almost invariably end up showing their ass and this year is no different. This time it’s Anonymous Oscar Voter talking to Michael Musto of The Daily Beast, and it starts out well By Sarah • Feb 01, 2017 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick is coming John Wick: Chapter 2 had its premiere last night in Los Angeles and it reunited Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne on the red carpet. Reeves is, of course, John Wick, and Fishburne is playing a new character named “The Bowery King”. The obligatory reference here is “Neo and Morpheus together By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck sheds some Bat-responsibility Continuing the “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” trend, Ben Affleck released a statement last night that he will not, after all, direct The Batman, the stand-alone Bat-movie he’s been developing. There were already questions about what is actually going on with this movie, and now it By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 09:31 am
SAG Awards 2017 Blunt and Krasinski: Dream Dinner Date I mentioned John Krasinski and Emily Blunt in my post about Kirsten Dunst, and they were also at the SAG Awards, where Blunt was a nominee for The Girl on the Train, which has more to do with her popularity among her peers than her actual performance. Her face when By Sarah • Jan 30, 2017 12:09 pm
SAG Awards 2017 Kirsten Dunst’s solo SAG Well, not technically solo since she went with her brother, but solo in the sense that she didn’t bring her maybe fiancée, Jesse Plemons. So, if they are engaged, despite waving a ring around they’re keeping a low profile. That’s a pretty smart play. Kiki can flash By Sarah • Jan 30, 2017 11:16 am
SAG Awards 2017 Mahershala Ali’s moving speech Describing something as “moving” always feels a little bit like Emma Woodhouse dropping an “elegant”—a blank descriptor to be used when you can’t think of anything truly nice to say. But Mahershala Ali’s speech at the SAG Awards IS moving—he’s visibly emotional, speaking from the By Sarah • Jan 30, 2017 07:52 am
