Movie Reviews and Previews Jupiter Ascending review Right off the top, the thing you care about most: No, this won’t “Norbit” Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar chances because it has far bigger problems than his relatively small performance, but make no mistake: Eddie Redmayne is profoundly terrible in Jupiter Ascending. He gives the most baffling, distracting, ABSURD By Sarah • Feb 10, 2015 01:19 pm
Media Manipulation Huge Coup: Marvel reclaims Spider-Man Late last night Marvel Studios dropped a bomb: They’ve worked out a deal with Sony and will take over production of future Spider-Man movies. This is a huge deal, literally and figuratively, that will have repercussions for a lot of people, and especially Andrew Garfield, who is now out By Sarah • Feb 10, 2015 11:42 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.9: “It’s better now” The Walking Dead season 5 episode 9 recap SPOILERS The Walking Dead returns with an episode directed by SFX maestro Greg Nicotero that centers largely on Tyrese. Nicotero is a pretty good director, but he’s prone to some film school bullsh*t, the kind of stuff that screams, “Look By Sarah • Feb 09, 2015 12:58 pm
Media Manipulation Superman and Captain America stand next to each other Yesterday at the BAFTAs Chris Evans and Henry Cavill presented Julianne Moore with the Best Actress award. Two handsome men of the superhero persuasion stood next to each other, and the internet collectively lost its sh*t. It’s understandable—they’re both really, really, really ridiculously good-looking, though Beardy By Sarah • Feb 09, 2015 11:29 am
TV Updates Daryl Dixon goes solo The Walking Dead returns this Sunday, and Entertainment Weekly dedicated this week’s cover feature to the show. Usually when they do this, they have a group cover shot, or multiple cover variants for different characters on the show, but this time they’ve given the lone cover to Norman By Sarah • Feb 06, 2015 11:56 am
Media Manipulation Amy Pascal steps down at Sony Throughout December as we covered the fallout of the Sony Hack, I often wondered how Amy Pascal, co-chair of the studio and head of its Motion Picture Group, could possibly continue on, given how damaging some of the leaked information was to interpersonal working relationships. How effective can you be By Sarah • Feb 05, 2015 02:50 pm
TV Updates The Five-Time Club marks SNL 40 With SNL’s 40th anniversary celebration looming this February (even though the real anniversary is in October but this works to accommodate Sweeps), there’s a lot of SNL coverage, including a new feature in The Hollywood Reporter featuring the people who have hosted at least five times, including Tom By Sarah • Feb 04, 2015 03:02 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ryan Gosling’s art school hard-on has a trailer Remember when Ryan Gosling made a movie and took it to Cannes and everyone hated it? Well, that movie, Lost River, is coming out this April and it has a trailer, and it is some straight up art school sh*t. This trailer has everything—Malickian voice over shots of By Sarah • Feb 04, 2015 10:41 am
Justified Justified 6.3: “It don’t get any easier” Justified Season 6, Episode 3 recap. The dialogue on Justified is always good, but this episode was SPECTACULAR. This episode includes the line, “I’m going to shoot your dick off,” which has to be one of the top-five Justified one-liners of all time, although Ava telling the Marshals she By Sarah • Feb 04, 2015 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Felicity Jones is probably Princess Leia A couple weeks ago we learned that Tatiana Maslany was testing for a role in one of the New New Star Wars spin-offs, but THR is reporting that the role has been offered to newly-minted Oscar nominee Felicity Jones. Okay, sure. She’s got Oscar polish and everyone wants a By Sarah • Feb 03, 2015 03:13 pm
TV Updates All the funny ladies, sort of The 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is this month—there’s a big special starring Justin Timberlake airing later this month—and as part of the celebration Glamour brought together some of the prominent women from the show’s long history. The photos teach us two things: 1) Tina By Sarah • Feb 03, 2015 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet the Jurassic World monstersaur A new trailer for Jurassic World aired during the Super Bowl, increasing its odds of being one of the biggest movies of the year, and it has some new stuff to show us. The trailer jumps right in with Sea World-style patter to introduce the Mosasaurus. I love this set By Sarah • Feb 02, 2015 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tomorrowland: What is it? Answer: We still don’t really know. The first trailer was not informative, and while the Super Bowl TV spot includes new footage, it is still not telling me anything about this movie beyond that it looks cool. I really dig the effect of the girl touching the little T-thingie By Sarah • Feb 02, 2015 11:11 am
Amazingness Boston celebrities talk about Tom Brady’s balls Deflategate, in which the New England Patriots are accused of deflating footballs because OH MY GOD WHO CARES. It’s the stupidest sports controversy in recent memory and I’m pretty sure it’s only a thing because there is no other interesting narrative around this Super Bowl. But it By Sarah • Jan 30, 2015 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ted 2 exists Seth MacFarlane is such an up-and-down guy. Family Guy, not so great, but American Dad is consistently funny. Ted was surprisingly funny in 2012, but last year’s A Million Ways to Die in the West was bereft of humor, wit, and/or charm. He’s a douche in real By Sarah • Jan 29, 2015 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joss Whedon wants out of the superhero boys’ club After The Avengers became the third-highest grossing film in modern cinema in 2012, Marvel handed him a bag of money and the gig directing the sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, approaching the release of Ultron and probably also the end of his tenure at Marvel, Whedon sounds more than By Sarah • Jan 29, 2015 02:09 pm
