Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively to remake At First Sight At First Sight, the romantic drama starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, is one of the most hilariously terrible movies I’ve ever seen. In that movie, Kilmer’s character is blind and he falls in love with Sorvino, but when he regains his sight their relationship falls apart because By Sarah • Feb 27, 2015 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apparently Shakespeare has an undiscovered masterpiece The first trailer for a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, starring Ethan Hawke and Dakota Johnson, has arrived and it claims the play is Shakespeare’s “undiscovered masterpiece”. Though the date of its writing is unknown, a performance of Cymbeline was noted in 1611, and in every century since By Sarah • Feb 27, 2015 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain joins The Huntsman for some reason The Snow White and the Huntsman sequel/spin-off/whatever, that no one asked for has now somehow convinced Jessica Chastain to join its cast. She will reportedly play the Huntsman’s love interest, because this project makes no goddamned sense. Does the script pop out gold coins every time you By Sarah • Feb 25, 2015 01:00 pm
Justified Justified 6.6: “They don’t know crime” Justified Season 6, Episode 6 recap Well that escalated quickly. In that way that it has, just when you think you’ve figured out how Justified is zigging, it zags and the board changes. Following Ava’s attempt to run away, she, Raylan, and Boyd have a tense confrontation at By Sarah • Feb 25, 2015 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Tub Time Machine 2 review When I reviewed Kingsman: The Secret Service I singled out a tasteless joke as a blot on an otherwise enjoyable movie. In the case of Hot Tub Time Machine 2, a horrendous joke makes an already bad movie vile. There’s nothing fun or funny about Hot Tub Time Machine By Sarah • Feb 24, 2015 03:02 pm
Xenu Mission: Impossible 5 may or may not be having issues Depending on who you talk to. Last week, The Hollywood Reporter stated that production on Mission: Impossible 5 shut down for a week while a mysterious unnamed writer worked over the finale to provide the film with a better ending. But, on the same day as THR’s report, M: By Sarah • Feb 24, 2015 11:06 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.11: “We can make it” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 11 recap After last week’s filler episode, this week we’re back to stuff happening, sort of. The new guy, Aaron, claims to have a safe settlement and he’s on the road to recruit Rick & Co. to his community. Unfortunately for By Sarah • Feb 24, 2015 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is here, it’s not a joke We’ve known for the better part of a year that Jason Momoa will be playing Aquaman in Superhero Face Punch, but last night was the first time it was actually confirmed when Zack Snyder tweeted a picture of Momoa in full Aquaman costume, along with the words “Unite the By Sarah • Feb 20, 2015 01:04 pm
Dumbass “Brutally honest” Oscar ballots reveal that Oscar voters are as dumb as you think In the run-up to the Oscars The Hollywood Reporter has started doing this thing where they get select members of the Academy to fill out their Oscar ballot and explain why they’re voting the way they’re voting. So far they have three this year, which you can read By Sarah • Feb 20, 2015 12:24 pm
Dumbass Fifty Shades author wants to whip sequel into submission Whatever we may think of it, Fifty Shades of Grey is an unqualified hit, with $300 million at the worldwide box office and counting. In some respects, that’s a good thing: A movie by women, about women, for women is a monster success. Every time we clock a win By Sarah • Feb 20, 2015 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will there be sing-yelling at the Oscars? Musicals are not my bag, so I had to brace myself to watch The Last 5 Years, an adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical. I still ended up texting Lainey ten minutes in, electrically shouting that they wouldn’t stop singing because THEY WOULDN’T STOP SINGING. Musicals are By Sarah • Feb 19, 2015 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson is testing for psychopaths Scarlett Johansson’s career re-direct over the last several years is impressive. She’s become one of the very few actresses who can open an action movie, she’s retained her artistic indie cred, she’s doing the motherhood thing without turning it into a career move, and she has By Sarah • Feb 19, 2015 11:59 am
Media Manipulation Ewan McGregor realizes the dream, becomes own boss The film adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral has undergone some upheaval during its development. First Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly were going to star as the central couple, then Bettany dropped out and was replaced by Ewan McGregor—but Connelly stuck around (does that make for weird By Sarah • Feb 19, 2015 11:17 am
TV Updates Norm Macdonald’s SNL Story Time Lainey emailed me last night and said I needed to go look at Norm Macdonald’s Twitter. So I did and it turns out that Macdonald, who appeared on SNL40 over the weekend, was having an SNL-themed story time about the week running up to the anniversary special. The big By Sarah • Feb 19, 2015 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kingsman: The Secret Service review There’s a scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service (why the subtitle? It’s dumb) in which Colin Firth, as dapper gentleman spy Harry and Samuel L. Jackson as megalomaniac Valentine, talk about their love of old spy movies, bemoaning that modern spy thrillers have “grown too serious”. It’s By Sarah • Feb 18, 2015 02:01 pm
Justified Justified 6.5: “What you and me started” Justified Season 6, Episode 5 recap. After last week’s most excellent episode, this week we take a slight step back. It’s not a bad episode at all, it just doesn’t have the same urgency as last week’s. The main things that happen, plot-wise, are that Ava By Sarah • Feb 18, 2015 10:13 am
