Media Manipulation Jake G remains superhero-free Last week we learned that Tom Hardy had dropped out of Warner Brothers’ Suicide Squad, the villain team-up movie, and that they were going after Jake Gyllenhaal as his replacement. Well, Jake G has passed, too. So the Suicide Squad remains one member short with production set to begin in By Sarah • Jan 22, 2015 03:35 pm
Media Manipulation Chris Evans, stop skipping leg day Here are new photos of Chris Evans walking around in a tight shirt. Enjoy. That could be the sum total of this post. But there’s a woman in frame with him, and I’ve been getting emails about a mystery woman sighting last week, so I leave it to By Sarah • Jan 21, 2015 02:16 pm
Maple Leaf Star Wars could be getting clones With New New Star Wars less than a year away, Disney continues with their plans to expand the Star Wars universe into a multi-franchise superbeast a la Marvel. The next movie in the works is a spin-off to be directed by Gareth Edwards, which is due on December 16, 2016. By Sarah • Jan 21, 2015 12:05 pm
Justified Justified 6.1: “The bullet finds you” Justified Season 6, Episode 1 recap It’s the beginning of the end and I am not remotely ready. As anxious as I always get for Justified to come back, this time it’s bittersweet, because this is the final season. Last season was a mixed bag—not as bad By Sarah • Jan 21, 2015 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2015 Preview: 10 to Watch Traditionally, getting from Sundance to Oscar is a long, hard road that not many films manage to successfully navigate. There’s usually a token Sundance stand-out nominated for an Oscar, often in the screenplay categories, but it’s hard for a film to maintain the necessary momentum for an entire By Sarah • Jan 20, 2015 02:45 pm
Media Manipulation Kristen Stewart would like some of that Marvel gravy Kristen Stewart is still doing some promotion for Still Alice, which has opened in a few more theaters on the back of Julianne Moore’s Oscar nomination (it’s doing pretty well in the specialty market, too). She gave an interview to Yahoo to support the movie and she said By Sarah • Jan 20, 2015 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Now Emily Blunt is in that Huntsman movie, too With production set to begin in London in April on The Huntsman, Universal is trying to get all their ducks in a row. I say “trying” because it doesn’t seem to be going well. Snow White and the Huntsman was a modest hit in 2012, just eking out enough By Sarah • Jan 20, 2015 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paddington review Whoever did the US marketing for Paddington ought to be flogged. They did this movie dirty, cutting terrible trailers that made the movie look hokey and trite and Paddington himself a demonic hellbeast unleashed from our nightmares. But in reality, Paddington, and adaptation of the popular Paddington the Bear children’ By Sarah • Jan 19, 2015 10:24 am
Media Manipulation Tom Hardy kicks Suicide Squad to the curb Last we heard of Warner Brothers’ adaptation of DC’s villain team-up movie, Suicide Squad, Tom Hardy was part of a very impressive cast. But today it’s been announced that Hardy is dropping out and will no longer play team leader Rick Flag, and WB is now allegedly seeking By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenny Slate won an award! It’s an utterly meaningless Critics’ Choice Award, but still! Jenny Slate is awesome and she was awesome in Obvious Child and she won Best Actress in a Comedy for Obvious Child, so that’s awesome. She’s so pretty and I love her voice so much I just want By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 11:54 am
Bad Style Diane Kruger is a fancy plate Diane Kruger attended the dumpster fire also known as the Critics’ Choice Awards and she wore this dress that looks like a fancy plate. It’s by Naeem Khan and while the styling is nothing special, I would really like to know what the name of this pattern is so By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 11:27 am
Bad Style American Citizen at the CCAs Reese Witherspoon, American Citizen, attended the sh*tshow that is the Critics’ Choice Awards last night and she looked totally done with everything from the very beginning. Host Michael Strahan did a bit with her in the first ten minutes of the show and I thought she was going to By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Keaton somehow won twice I don’t understand why Birdman keeps getting categorized as a comedy. It’s weird and has its funny moments, but it’s not a comedy. And yet at the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards it was classified as a comedy. I’m fine with splitting drama and By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 10:22 am
Chris Evans Chris X 3: We got a Marvel Bingo! Lainey asked me to watch the Critics’ Choice Awards last night and I agreed, but before it started I went out to try and dig my car out of the accumulated ice and snow under which it was buried. I slipped on some ice and the snow shovel took a By Sarah • Jan 16, 2015 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor vs. A Fish is now an Oscar hopeful On the day that the 2015 Oscar nominees are announced, let’s start talking about (potential) 2016 Oscar nominees. Last night Ron Howard announced that his whaling disaster movie, In the Heart of the Sea, is moving from its March 13 release date to December 11, 2015. That’s a By Sarah • Jan 15, 2015 12:07 pm
Media Manipulation Chris Hemsworth gets wet for you And many of you return the favor, but both Lainey and I are on the record with this guy—we don’t get it. He seems nice enough, but to me the most interesting thing about Chris Hemsworth is that he’s friends with Matt Damon. I will give him By Sarah • Jan 14, 2015 02:28 pm
