The Royals The Royals 1.3: “Fashion week makes everyone crazy” The Royals Season 1, Episode 3 recap I do not understand why Princess Eleanor even cares about Jasper evil-butlering her by releasing the tape of their threesome. When we first met her she had a bare-assed upskirt photo on the cover of all the tabloids, last week she was openly By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 01:15 pm
TV Updates Trevor Noah to take over The Daily Show In February Jon Stewart announced he will be retiring from The Daily Show later this year, and now it’s become official that his replacement will be South African comedian Trevor Noah. There’s still no date for Stewart’s retirement beyond “later this year”, but when he does go, By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 007 returns for James Bond: The Winter Soldier The first trailer for Spectre, the next installment in the James Bond franchise, arrived—oddly—on Friday evening, and it’s more of what we’ve come to expect from Daniel Craig’s stint as 007. Which is to say, it’s moody and dark and everything is gray and By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 10:45 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.16: “All life is precious” The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 16 recap. SPOILERS SERIOUSLY So we finally learn what the deal is with the W-zombies, and it is, in fact, a human hunting operation. The “wolves” are a couple of guys—so far as we know—who have baited and rigged traps to catch By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 08:41 am
Media Manipulation Jake G goes full-Bale for Oscar The first trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s boxing movie Southpaw—the one he got insanely ripped for—just premiered on Eminem’s Youtube channel, of all the weird places. Once upon a time, Eminem was attached to the project, but his involvement now is limited to a song on the By Sarah • Mar 27, 2015 12:59 pm
Royals Benedict Cumberbatch reads a poem to a king In 2012 the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England. It’s an incredible story and I don’t know how it wasn’t a bigger deal—England, was this a huge deal to you? Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth By Sarah • Mar 27, 2015 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler in The Cobbler I’ve seen some bad movies that have made me rage recently, but though it is a profoundly bad movie—I mean that literally, it is profound in its badness—The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler isn’t upsetting to watch. It’s mostly just boring, and then toward the end By Sarah • Mar 27, 2015 10:25 am
Break Ups Jeremy Renner’s divorce is capital-M Messy From the beginning, it’s been clear that Jeremy Renner’s divorce from Sonni Pacheco is going to be ugly as sh*t. Then, for a while, it seemed like maybe it would end up playing out largely behind closed doors, especially as Renner’s only move has been to By Sarah • Mar 26, 2015 10:02 am
TV Updates Deadline published a disgusting article meant to make us mad Sarah’s (snarky blogger) take Yesterday evening an article by Nellie Andreeva was posted on the industry trade website Deadline—formerly the bastion of hard-edged news harpy Nikki Finke—positing that the current pilot season is shaping up to be the most diverse in recent memory, maybe ever, with more By Sarah • Mar 25, 2015 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Ford returns to filmmaking with George Clooney Tom Ford made his directorial debut in 2009 with A Single Man, for which Colin Firth earned an Oscar nomination, and now, six years later, he’s lined up his sophomore project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ford has signed on to direct Nocturnal Animals, based on Austin Wright’s By Sarah • Mar 25, 2015 10:17 am
Justified Justified 6.10: “Ain’t this the conundrum” Justified Season 6, Episode 10 recap. This is the most stressful season of Justified, bar none. There are just four episodes left and you can feel everyone getting that much more desperate as plans unravel. In this episode, things go sideways for pretty much everyone. Let’s start with Wynn By Sarah • Mar 25, 2015 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender’s Western romance Michael Fassbender’s passion project, the Western Slow West, is currently making the festival rounds and is expected in theaters later this year. It’s the feature film debut of Scottish writer/director John Maclean and it’s produced by Fassbender’s shingle, DMC, and it looks very, very cool. By Sarah • Mar 24, 2015 04:57 pm
Game of Thrones Dragons in San Francisco So I’m taking over recapping duties for Games of Thrones this season as Duana is focusing on Mad Men’s final season. I came a little late to the Thrones party but my positions are the following: I don’t have a favorite house because I’m convinced everyone By Sarah • Mar 24, 2015 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Liam Neeson’s Run All Night Here’s Liam Neeson promoting Run All Night in Madrid today. Run All Night is the third team-up of director Jaume Collet-Sera and Liam Neeson, following Unknown and Non-Stop, and it is the least satisfying of the Not Taken, But Like Taken trilogy. And like the actual Taken trilogy, the By Sarah • Mar 24, 2015 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sean Penn: the Geriaction Gunman I misjudged The Gunman based on its trailer. I thought it was going to be a preachy political thriller, but it’s actually a Taken knock-off with Sean Penn starring as Liam Neeson Revenge Man. Oh, there’s some moralizing—undoubtedly Penn used his power as producer and co-writer to By Sarah • Mar 24, 2015 11:36 am
The Royals The Royals 1.2: “Why all the mayonnaise?” The Royals Season 1, Episode 2 recap This show’s production value cracks me up. Blenheim Palace is standing in for Buckingham Palace—with an assist on some interiors from the Greenwich Observatory—and anything shot in and around Blenheim is beautiful and detailed. But it’s painfully apparent when By Sarah • Mar 23, 2015 02:27 pm
