Movie Reviews and Previews Furious 7’s first weekend $147 million domestically over the weekend… I want to like Furious 7, I really do, because in theory this is the kind of dumb fun action movie I cut my teeth on. But Furious 7, though wildly successful and spurring the franchise to new heights, actually shows exactly what’s By Sarah • Apr 06, 2015 03:34 pm
The Royals The Royals 1.4: The Queen burns down a distillery The Royals Season 1, Episode 4 recap Usually I title recaps with a notable line of dialogue from that week’s episode, but The Royals simply doesn’t provide notable dialogue, so for this show, I’m switching to the most absurd thing that happens in the episode. This week, By Sarah • Apr 06, 2015 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Lautner in Tracers There was a moment when watching Tracers that I thought it wasn’t half bad, and was sort of surprised that I wasn’t outright hating it. It gets off to a slow start, but once it gets going it’s kind of like if 1990s rollerblading classic Airborne and By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 05:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simon Pegg and the Lesser Lesser Hemsworth in Kill Me Three Times I’m a big fan of Simon Pegg and I want to like everything he does but sometimes—no. Australian black comedy Kill Me Three Times is the latest “Simon, I love you, but just no” (previous examples include Hector and the Search for Happiness and A Fantastic Fear of By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 04:53 pm
TV Updates Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are making a Lifetime movie This is not a joke. The movie, expected to air this summer, is about a couple who take care of a pregnant woman in the hopes of adopting her baby only to have it all go horribly awry. It’s described as a “wink” at the genre, the genre being By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rihanna is the best part of Home It’s impossible to get upset at a movie like Home, one aimed squarely at small children, so despite the fact that it’s boring and obnoxious in turns and is thoroughly second-rate, the tots in the audience—and I mean the little ones around 5-7 years—will probably be By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 12:46 pm
Break Ups Jeremy Renner’s divorce drama is over The last we heard in Jeremy Renner’s ongoing and super messy divorce drama, he and estranged wife Sonni Pacheco were hurling insults and accusing each other of being unfit parents. She said, he said, well now the court has said. Yesterday Renner and Pacheco’s custody case was settled By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 11:07 am
Trevor Noah Trevor Noah’s bad jokes On Monday, South African comedian Trevor Noah was appointed as the heir apparent to Jon Stewart as anchor of The Daily Show. On Tuesday, The Internet discovered that Noah has, over the course of his six years on Twitter, written some bad jokes. Here’s a sample: Messi gets the By Sarah • Apr 01, 2015 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Marsden rides the D Train I know there are a few of you out there who are into James Marsden, but he doesn’t leave a lot of openings, as it were. So enjoy him, looking super hot in a douchebaggy way, in the new trailer for The D Train, a comedy with Jack Black By Sarah • Apr 01, 2015 12:14 pm
Justified Justified 6.11: “All this is on you” Justified Season 6, Episode 11 recap It’s the third to last episode of Justified ever, and damn if this show is not slowing down. This is an all-time great episode, and one that introduces a new fear for the finale—that Raylan will live, only to go to jail. By Sarah • Apr 01, 2015 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World’s jerk dinosaur A new TV spot for Jurassic World has arrived and it’s teasing out more information about the new monstersaur on the block: Indominus Rex, the pants-sh*tting terror quaintly referred to as an “attraction” by the meat bags upon which it will soon be feasting. We’ve gotten a By Sarah • Mar 31, 2015 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell & Kevin Hart Get Hard A controversy about this movie erupted following its premiere at SXSW when a member of the audience at the post-screening Q&A told director Etan Cohen that the movie “seemed racist as f*ck”. In response, the filmmakers said that similar criticisms of the movie are “cheap” and “lazy By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 02:52 pm
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
