Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston is letting it all hang out Earlier this year it was noted that Tom Hiddleston’s public persona has shifted from “internet’s boyfriend” to a more closed off, grown up persona. Saint Tom the Huge Dork is dead, and in his place we have…Tom Hiddleston: Sears Catalog Underwear Model. In a new profile in By Sarah • Jun 20, 2016 02:53 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.9: The Battle of the Bastards Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 9 recap SPOILERS Feed your dogs. If you take any life lessons from Game of Thrones, it’s this—FEED YOUR DAMN DOGS. We’ll get to Ramsay Bolton and his deliciously fitting end, but first: Meereen. With the city under attack, it played By Sarah • Jun 20, 2016 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emilia Clarke in Me Before You Movies about people falling in love when one of them is dying is a particular sub-genre of romantic drama, and the latest entry into the field is Me Before You, a tearjerker adapted by Jojo Moyes from her novel of the same name, and directed by Thea Sharrock, a stage By Sarah • Jun 17, 2016 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Dory Well here’s a sequel guaranteed to break summer 2016’s case of sequelitis. Thirteen years after Finding Nemo, Finding Dory is a nearly equal companion piece. Though it doesn’t reach the ecstatic highs of Pixar at their best (Inside Out, Wall-E, Toy Story 3, Up), Finding Dory is By Sarah • Jun 17, 2016 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Helen Mirren is going to class up Fast & Furious Today in Your Dreams Are Coming True, Helen Mirren Edition, Helen Mirren told Elle magazine that she will, in fact, be appearing in Fast 8, the eighth Fast/Furious movie that is somehow not called F8. Last year she went on the record with her admiration of Vin Diesel, and By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys (Lainey: fell behind last month and didn’t get to posting Sarah’s review of The Nice Guys. Then, the next week, there were no more new photos of Ryan Gosling. He showed up for his friend Nicolas Winding Refn in LA yesterday at The Neon Demon premiere though. So By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise hopes to face-punch the sequel curse It’s a bad year for sequels. The summer box office is down 22% from last year, mostly because sequel after sequel has failed. Naturally, this has everyone clutching their pearls and wondering what’s gone wrong, whether or not Finding Dory and Suicide Squad will be enough to save By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Margot Robbie really the best Tonya Harding? Margot Robbie has had a rapid ascent ever since breaking out in Wolf of Wall Street, and now she’s putting some of her juice into developing projects. She has started a production shingle, LuckyChap Entertainment, and she’s already got some solid projects lined up, including a Harley Quinn By Sarah • Jun 15, 2016 02:27 pm
TV Updates Sherlock in the rain Sherlock series four filming is ongoing in the UK, with the latest round of set pictures showing Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, and Benedict Cumberbatch getting drenched in the rain while solving a potentially rain-related mystery. The Batch looks especially Byronic with rain-drenched curls and at what point in his career By Sarah • Jun 15, 2016 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Donald Glover is officially Spider-Man adjacent Years after fans shouted into the ether of the internet, campaigning for Donald Glover to play Spider-Man—they went with Andrew Garfield, instead—Glover, of Community and Childish Gambino fame, is finally living the dream. Kind of. He’s the latest person to join the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming, so By Sarah • Jun 15, 2016 10:57 am
Girl Sh-t Tig Notaro and Amy Schumer were only friends on TV That’s my takeaway from Tig Notaro’s interview with The Guardian, which got real awkward when the interviewer, Hadley Freeman, brings up Amy Schumer. After Notaro delivered her now-legendary Live set at Largo—if you haven’t heard Live, what are you doing with your life? It’s only By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo in Now You See Me 2 At their best, movies can be wonderful escapes into worlds outside of our own, where, for two hours, we can put real problems aside and exist in a kind of suspended animation. For those hours spent in a darkened room, surrounded by strangers, we’re united by the trials and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Just give Lin-Manuel Miranda the Oscar now Following the surprise billion-dollar success of Zootopia—and the inevitable domination of Pixar’s Finding Dory—Disney will cap their (outrageous box office bonanza) year in animation with a new princess movie, Moana. It’s about a Polynesian princess, Moana, it features a mythical Maori figure, Maui, and it’s By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 10:52 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.8: “I’m going home” SPOILERS Several plans don’t work out and people reveal themselves to be the people we always thought they were this week on Game of Thrones. Thematically this is a rich episodes that pays off years of character work, but dramatically, man, some of these storylines feel like such a By Sarah • Jun 13, 2016 09:58 am
Stephen Colbert Is Stephen Colbert finished at The Late Show? Stephen Colbert’s tenure on The Late Show has been rocky. He has struggled to translate his fake news popularity to a more straightforward late night format, and ratings haven’t been awesome. But more importantly, Colbert struggles to create the kind of viral content networks love to see blowing By Sarah • Jun 10, 2016 11:42 am
TV Updates Winona Ryder’s retro murder show A trailer for Netflix’s upcoming mystery series starring Winona Ryder was just released and it looks like Netflix made a show just for me. It’s called Stranger Things and it’s about children disappearing and weird sh*t happening to them in the 1980s, and the trailer gives By Sarah • Jun 09, 2016 04:21 pm
