Media Manipulation ScarJo is the Ghost in the Shell After the surprise success of Lucy this past summer, Scarlett Johansson is now an internationally bankable action movie star. It’s not just Marvel, Lucy proves people like watching ScarJo punch things in the face with or without the presence of capes. And with that now-proven track record, she has By Sarah • Jan 06, 2015 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella has a Robb Stark problem The first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s live-action Cinderella halfway sold me on the project. It doesn’t look terrible, and some of the fantasy elements look cool, even if I will always and forever think that Cinderella’s should-be iconic ball gown is a mall prom dress nightmare (sorry, By Sarah • Jan 05, 2015 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2014 Nightcrawler Anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal’s blazing performance as the creepy, amoral Lou Bloom, Nightcrawler plays like a fractured fairytale take on the American dream. Bloom is reprehensible, driven and ambitious and unwilling to be stopped by anything, including morality. Writer and first-time director Dan Gilroy gives us a series By Sarah • Dec 31, 2014 12:04 pm
Break Ups Jeremy Renner’s divorce is going to be UGLY It was just in September that Jeremy Renner confirmed he married Sonni Pacheco, the mother of his daughter. And now, barely three months later, Pacheco has filed for divorce. The court documents reveal they were married for 10 months (consider it a 2014 Limited Edition Marriage), much of which Renner By Sarah • Dec 31, 2014 10:03 am
Chris Evans Call of Duty: Captain America I don’t think many of you—if any at all—care about video games, but I’m pretty sure that some of you do care about Beardy Chris Evans, so here is something for those of us who are into Beardy Chris Evans (and the two of us who By Sarah • Dec 29, 2014 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Review: The Interview With all the fuss surrounding The Interview, the question being asked after it was finally released via limited theatrical engagement and online platforms over the Christmas holiday is whether or not the movie is even worth all this trouble and strife. It doesn’t really matter because the point was By Sarah • Dec 29, 2014 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Interview is back on, kind of Last week, following a threat from the hackers that have ruined Sony’s year, the studio decided to pull The Interview off their release slate entirely. They cancelled its release and had no plans to show it, ever, despite a huge amount of criticism that peaked with President Obama calling By Sarah • Dec 23, 2014 02:07 pm
Norman Reedus Norman Reedus is into pajama onesies I feel like this is the only part of his Reddit AMA Lainey will care about. Reedus participated in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit over the weekend in order to promote his involvement with The Felix Organization (a group that benefits foster children). During the AMA someone asked By Sarah • Dec 22, 2014 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Kate Winslet’s turn to be in Jobs Casting for Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic was messy even before Sony vomited bitchiness all over it. Now that it’s been re-homed at Universal, things are hopefully less dramatic around the production office, but the casting merry-go-round continues to turn. The female lead has yet to be cast By Sarah • Dec 22, 2014 12:42 pm
Chris Pratt Chris Pratt and a dino-hunting Velociraptor Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World, posted a new image from the movie on Twitter. It’s Chris Pratt and a Velociraptor. If the rumors about the plot are to be believed, and based on the trailer it would seem so, Pratt’s character has a pack of raptors trained By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 11:43 am
Stephen Colbert The Last Colbert Report It’s a day for lasts. The last Serial, and tonight, the last episode of The Colbert Report. Tonight Stephen Colbert signs off as his fake-conservative persona and next year, he’ll re-emerge as simply himself, taking over David Letterman’s Late Show. For nine years The Colbert Report has By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Interview pulled after Sony Hack turns threatening The Sony Hack took a turn for the dangerous earlier this week when the hackers released a statement threatening violence should people go see the movie when it was to open on Christmas day. Following the threat, Sony said it would allow theater owners to back out of booking deals By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The best thing about Chris Hemsworth: Matt Damon When Chris Hemsworth was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, we were all like, wait what? What’s he even promoting? Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t until May 2015, and that Ron Howard whale movie is in March, but we totally forgot one! Hemsworth has that dismal looking Michael By Sarah • Dec 16, 2014 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Five Movie Review I went into Chris Rock’s Top Five with a checklist of expectations, and I am happy to say that my expectations were met, and even exceeded in places. If you’re extremely spoiler-phobic, and don’t like to know anything about any movie, best to bow out now. Otherwise, By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 12:45 pm
Media Manipulation Diversity in Film: The audience speaks Previously we’ve talked about the problem of diversity in film from the perspective of the executives making the movies and the media covering them. This week we’re going to delve into the audience’s role in the equation. It’s perfect timing, too, because whitewashed Exodus: Gods & By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 11:22 am
Media Manipulation Sony Hack: The wage gap revealed Fallout from the Sony Hack continues, and it’s no surprise that the news is bad. The people at Sony would probably love it if just once a released cache of data revealed email exchanges about funniest cat videos. But Sony doesn’t have that kind of luck and so By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 10:23 am
