Movie Reviews and Previews The Suicide Squad features Harley Quinn and some other people Last we heard of David Ayer’s DC villain flick, whether or not Harley Quinn, the nutjob supervillainess from the Batman comics, would be included was still up in the air, and Jared Leto was in talks to play The Joker (lesser version 2.0). Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2014 10:19 am
Chris Rock Chris Rock talks race, comedy, and rich people Back at TIFF, Chris Rock’s Top Five, which he wrote, directed, and stars in, sold for an incredible $12.5 million after a heated bidding war. The movie was fast-tracked for release by Paramount and is now due out on December 12, which means that Rock is on the By Sarah • Dec 02, 2014 11:41 am
Dumbass Diversity in Film: The problem at the top On Friday Rupert Murdoch, elderly white man, took to Twitter to address the whitewashing casting controversy that has surrounded the upcoming movie Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. Christian Bale plays Moses, a Hebrew, Joel Edgerton is the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses, and Sigourney Weaver is their mother, Tuya, also Egyptian. In fact, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 11:17 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.8: “Who the hell are you?” The Walking Dead season 5, episode 8 recap. Spoilers It’s the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead and the showdown between Rick & Co. and Dawn and the hospital people. If you’re not okay with spoilers, here’s a short, spoiler-free review of the episode: It gets off By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Force is a morning person It’s Black Friday here in the US, the day after Thanksgiving, during which we participate in the ritual sacrifice of holiday shoppers so that the old gods may be appeased and the winter will be a short one. Naturally, on a day dedicated to commerce and conspicuous consumption, Disney By Sarah • Nov 28, 2014 11:18 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Hilary Swank For previous installments of Career Prospectus, please click here. I have [a suggestion] for Sarah’s Career Prospectus: Hilary Swank—TWO Oscars, a lot of buzz and then…crickets. Like, PS I Love You with Spittle, and New Year’s Eve with everyone. Is she just done with the movie By Sarah • Nov 27, 2014 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman gets a Job(s) That Aaron Sorkin/Steve Jobs biopic has had a busy few weeks. First Christian Bale was in — confirmed by Sorkin himself! But then Christian Bale was out. Then Michael Fassbender was in talks to play Jobs—he’s still attached to the project but nothing is official yet. Now, Deadline By Sarah • Nov 26, 2014 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: The park is open for business It’s been 22 years since Jurassic Park failed its safety inspection, and Jurassic World, the culmination of John Hammond’s dream for a living-dinosaur theme park, is now open for business. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, besides the dinosaurs getting loose—again—and eating people touring the By Sarah • Nov 26, 2014 09:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac gets Apocalyptic Already part of New New Star Wars, Oscar Isaac is adding another huge franchise to his roster as he is joining X-Men: Apocalypse as the titular villain. Isaac’s been on the brink for a few years now, and it’s really feeling like he’s ready to make the By Sarah • Nov 25, 2014 11:32 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: 5.7: “Know who you’re dealing with” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 7 recap Tara named their group GREATM. That’s adorable. With only two episodes left before the winter hiatus, and what seems to be a mandate to not drag things out anymore, the penultimate episode before the break has a lot of ground to By Sarah • Nov 24, 2014 07:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoolander 2 is so hot right now Rumors of a Zoolander sequel have circulated off and on for years, but yesterday sh*t got real when Deadline published a report that Penelope Cruz has signed onto the movie, with Justin Theroux writing the script and Ben Stiller directing. Originally, Deadline said Theroux would direct, but his commitment By Sarah • Nov 21, 2014 12:08 pm
Dumbass Dum-dum Ashton Kutcher thinks smear campaigns are fine There’s a story that’s been blowing up in techie circles this week about ridesharing app Uber and its problematic executives targeting journalists who disagree with them. It goes like this: Sarah Lacy, editor in chief of PandoDaily, a Silicon Valley news site she founded, wrote an article about By Sarah • Nov 20, 2014 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively defeats time The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively’s new movie, has its first trailer and it looks like a hybrid of Winter’s Tale and Benjamin Button, with special effects straight from The CW. It’s about Adaline, who defeats time in a car accident and stops aging as a prize, By Sarah • Nov 19, 2014 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella doesn’t look terrible The fairytale trend in movies has been more miss than hit, by a pretty wide margin. Maleficent was okay, but if it weren’t for Dame Angelina, it would not have been even half so tolerable, but there hasn’t been a really great—or even just whole-heartedly good—fairytale By Sarah • Nov 19, 2014 12:44 pm
Media Manipulation The Batch is not taking engagement questions The Imitation Game opens in theaters next weekend, and in advance of that Cumberbatch is in the US doing some promotion. On Friday that meant showing up at the Hollywood Film Awards and pretending like that’s a real thing (click here for more on that) and this morning it By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Frederick Zoller will fight Captain America On Friday afternoon Marvel announced that Daniel Brühl will appear in Captain America: Civil War as a villain. The specific character is unknown, and Variety fanned the flames a bit by adding the tidbit that he may also appear in Dr. Strange, where his villainous character would have a larger By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 11:50 am
