Movie Reviews and Previews Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk At one point in The Walk, as Philippe Petit steps onto a high wire strung between the towers of the World Trade Center, clouds roll in and obscure the view of New York City, leaving only Petit’s foot in frame as he steps onto the wire, which seems to By Sarah • Sep 29, 2015 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews London Fields London Fields is one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year, and I’ll get to sh*tting on it in a second, but first, an odd thing happened TIFF with this movie. I saw it at a press screening at the festival—Joanna and I were both By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 03:36 pm
Michael B Jordan Michael B. Jordan’s most excellent apology Celebrity apologies usually come in two flavors: 1) I’m sorry you’re upset, and 2) I’m sorry I got caught (sub-category; I’m sorry you misunderstood). Owning personal responsibility is, depressingly, rare in this strata of humanity, but when Michael B. Jordan found himself the target of public By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t think too hard about Anne Hathaway in The Intern Nancy Meyers’s latest Upper East Side White People With Problems movie, The Intern, follows the likes of It’s Complicated and Something’s Gotta Give, except The Intern has been liberally doused with hipster flavor in an attempt to appeal to The Youths. Manhattan has been traded for Brooklyn— By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neither Benedict Cumberbatch nor Jake G are playing Nikola Tesla That’s my takeaway from the news that Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to star in a movie called The Current War, based on the nineteenth century patents arms race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for control of the budding electric industry. At the heart of By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G in Everest Actually, I should say that it’s Jason Clarke in Everest because Jake Gyllenhaal has a relatively small role and disappears from the film for long stretches, but he’s being treated in the publicity materials like he’s the star, and I don’t know how many of you By Sarah • Sep 25, 2015 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy ain’t got time for primadonna directors Tom Hardy gave an interview, via Skype, to Vulture and in it he sh*ts all over the idea of directors and basically says they contribute nothing to film. I laughed for a solid five minutes, because cinema is a culture that worships directors and also because Tom Hardy basically By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hero Boy, Girl, Cool Girl, and Littlefinger Once again, I went into the second entry in a YA dystopia franchise totally blind—I have not read the Maze Runner books nor have I seen the first Maze Runner movie. Like Divergent: Insurgent, this is an exercise in “Can Sarah figure out what is going on without any By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Perfect Guy There is nothing in The Perfect Guy as mind-blowingly ludicrous as a teenager handing his older lover a first edition copy of The Iliad, but oh, how I wish there was. The Perfect Guy is a “romantic” thriller so devoid of romance—or passion, or any emotion, really—that it By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 11:05 am
Media Manipulation The smooth, calculated Michael B. Jordan Michael B. Jordan is one of three cover profiles in October’s GQ, alongside Ryan Reynolds and Rob Lowe. The interview itself is a good read, especially as Jordan has maintained a pretty low profile on his way up these past few years. It’s possible to know him as By Sarah • Sep 23, 2015 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Lobster What a f*cking weird movie. I love it, I can’t guarantee you will all love it, too, but if you’re open to trying a different flavor, The Lobster is definitely worth a shot. The first English-language feature from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), and co-written with his By Sarah • Sep 22, 2015 11:06 am
Bad Style Amy Schumer – Big Winner, Worst Dressed Amy Schumer picked up her first Emmy for Inside Amy Schumer, for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. This has been Schumer’s year, from the breakout success of Inside to a hit feature film, to #squadding with Jennifer Lawrence, and now she caps it off with her first Emmy win. The By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 12:51 pm
TV Updates Emmy Fatigue: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Veep As I previously mentioned, I have a hard time with the Emmys. If Game of Thrones illustrates the television academy’s slow-on-the-uptake ways, then nothing better captures the essence of “Emmy fatigue” than Julia Louis-Dreyfus. JLD won her sixth Emmy as an actress in a comedy series, of which four By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 10:38 am
Equality Issues Jon Stewart’s Farewell Emmys Here is another case of the Emmys making themselves irrelevant by giving trophies to the same people over and over. I get it—Jon Stewart’s tenure at The Daily Show is over, and his wins for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series and Outstanding Variety Series are his send-off By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 08:55 am
Emmy Awards 2015 Emmys nothing to give: Frances McDormand Frances McDormand won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/Movie for Olive Kitteridge, which gives her a TOE (Tony-Oscar-Emmy). This is a not insignificant achievement, and as icing on her cake, Kitteridge also won a boatload of other Emmys, including ones for writing, directing, lead and supporting By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 06:13 am
Emmy Awards 2015 Emmys Overdue: Peter Dinklage & Game Of Thrones Peter Dinklage won his second Emmy for portraying Tyrion Lannister last night, a win that encapsulates my problem with the Emmys—oh yeah, I have a problem with the Emmys. My problem is this: The same shows win every year. And once something starts winning, it tends to turn into By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 04:26 am
