TV Live Blog Stranger-er Things Yesterday Netflix puts nerds everywhere out of their misery by announcing that Stranger Things will get a second season, due in 2017. The announcement came via video, with what seem to be episode titles for nine new episodes, including “Mad Max”, “The Pollywog”, “The Brain”, and “The Lost Brother”. The By Sarah • Sep 01, 2016 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston’s Bond dream isn’t dead yet Earlier this week UK paper The Sun published a list of actors supposedly up for consideration as the next James Bond which includes the usual suspects—Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston—and also people like Michael Fassbender and Luke Evans. The Sun’s list reads like a cross between Tumblr By Sarah • Sep 01, 2016 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins The catch-up continues with Meryl Streep’s latest Oscar vehicle, Florence Foster Jenkins. I want to sh*t on this movie for being too saccharine and unevenly balanced between its two leads, but this movie is explicitly about NOT sh*itting on people who are trying really hard, even if By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in War Dogs Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips’ latest bro-nightmare movie, War Dogs. For a director known for comedies—namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others—Phillips doesn’t seem to like directing comedies. He got By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 09:56 am
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner arriving for Arrival Here is Jeremy Renner, wearing the sh*t out of a pair of jeans, arriving in Venice for the film festival, which kicks off this week. He’s there to support Arrival, in which he plays second fiddle to Amy Adams. Renner—along with Elizabeth Olsen—skipped out on most By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Get Down I feel like I should apologize for not getting to The Get Down sooner. But now that I’m here, I’m looking around what feels like a mostly empty room and wondering where everyone else is. Have you watched The Get Down? No? Why not? Maybe it doesn’t By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s roommate Darryl At Comic-Con Marvel had several videos that played during their panel, but they only released one, a new trailer for Doctor Strange. Everything else stayed under the seal of Hall H, because it is possible to show stuff in Hall H and not have it pirated, you just have to By Sarah • Aug 29, 2016 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pete’s Dragon: a reason to go to the movies So far, it’s been kind of a sh*t year for film. The highlights have been incredibly high (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Green Room, Swiss Army Man, Captain America: Civil War), but they’re vastly outnumbered by a slew of utter dreck, and more than once this year, I’ By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 03:54 pm
Equality Issues Amy Schumer, Again It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Amy Schumer. Just as her first book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, was being released, a writer on Inside Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger, went off on social media about rape survivors and rape culture. Schumer, as Metzger’s high-profile By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kubo and the Two Strings: Who is watching this? The animation house Laika makes beautiful jewel-box movies, all done in distinctively macabre stop-motion animation, and even when their aesthetic leans into “ugly on purpose” territory—as in their two previous films, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls—their films are visually stunning. Their latest is Kubo and the Two Strings, a By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster in Hell or High Water Sometimes you try to get to a movie to review it, but it keeps not working out, and you start to think that maybe you should just let this one go. I had just about reached that point with Hell or High Water when my schedule finally lined up and By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Manchester by the Sea is the new Oscar favorite At Sundance, the Kenneth Lonergan movie starring Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea, closed a big $10 million deal. Between the big sale and buzz coming from the festival, it felt like a sure bet for Oscar, and that Casey might finally step out of big brother Ben’s shadow. By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Assholes In today’s “There’s Absolutely No Way This Ends Badly” news, Sean Penn and Mel Gibson are going to star in a movie together. The movie, The Professor and the Madman, is an adaptation of Simon Winchester’s book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Gibson By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 10:54 am
Douchebags Scott Eastwood’s gross world Scott Eastwood is featured in Australia GQ’s September issue—in a somewhat telling play, he’s on the alternate subscriber cover while Jake Gyllenhaal covers the newsstand copy. So Scott Eastwood gets covers, but he still has to take a backseat to an actual movie star. Which is how By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 04:14 pm
TV Updates Ryan Murphy’s Feud has a bonkers cast Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series, Feud, sounded great from the beginning. Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, and Stanley Tucci starring in a miniseries about the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford? Sign me up. But just in case that wasn’t enough to get you excited for “Camp By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 02:41 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kit Harington, Emmy Nominee Kit Harington scored his first Emmy nomination this year, for the “Battle of the Bastards” episode of Game of Thrones, and so he’s doing some campaigning, including talking to The Hollywood Reporter about his nomination and the way Jon Snow changed in season six. First, Harington’s Emmy campaign By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 12:37 pm
