The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.6: “How did we get here” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 6 recap. We’ve seen Beth on her own and Abraham Ford and his crew off doing their thing, and this week it’s time to catch up with Carol and Daryl as they search for Beth. The episode opens with a flashback to By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 08:15 am
Amazingness The Batch is an impressionist There’s something about good actors also being good mimics. There’s some connection between being good at one and also being good at the other. It makes a certain kind of sense, especially given accent work and how being able to mimic would make mastering an accent easier. So By Sarah • Nov 14, 2014 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Age of Ultron and the problem with supervillains A new, slightly extended Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer has hit and it includes a bit more action but also, more from James Spader’s Ultron. God, Spader has the best voice for this. Ultron has some great monologues and I can’t wait to hear Spader go to town By Sarah • Nov 13, 2014 09:41 am
Media Manipulation Joaquin Phoenix didn’t punch this guy Joaquin Phoenix is promoting Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Inherent Vice, which comes out next month in the outside position of award season. Never want to count out PTA—or Phoenix, who despite being anti-campaign consistently gets nominated—but it’s really starting to feel like anything coming out By Sarah • Nov 12, 2014 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto could be the next Joker and that’s fine Warner Brothers/DC is making Suicide Squad, which will be directed by David Ayer. Fans of the TV show Arrow ought to recognize the name because this group of villains has popped up a few times on that show already, but WB/DC aren’t connecting their TV and film By Sarah • Nov 10, 2014 01:20 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.5 : “We don’t go back” The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 5 Recap SPOILERS We leave Beth, Carol, and the hospital of doom in Atlanta in order to check on Glenn, Maggie, Abraham Ford, and the others who left for Washington, DC. We start with an effective group-bonding scene in which we learn that Eugene By Sarah • Nov 10, 2014 08:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are making another comedy The Other Guys is seriously underrated in Will Ferrell’s canon. That movie has really grown on me over the last few years, and it’s mostly because Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make such a pleasantly, surprisingly great comedy team. Also it has some solid action-movie reference gags, and I By Sarah • Nov 07, 2014 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit: Almost Over The first full trailer for The Hobbit: Nerd Climax was released yesterday and it’s two minutes of dramatic music, clashing armies, loaded stares, and war bats. And that’s not even getting into the best of all gifts given to us by Jackson’s movies, no, not Dragon Batch— By Sarah • Nov 07, 2014 09:33 am
Dumbass Star Wars has a stupid title There’s an epidemic in Hollywood, a rash spreading through production offices like a bad case of pink eye, and it’s the trend of dumb subtitles given to franchise pictures. My #1 stupid title punching bag is Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which I call Superhero Face Punch By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CTates to star in Tarantino movie, maybe Earlier this year, Gawker leaked a Quentin Tarantino script for a Western called The Hateful Eight. Tarantino pitched a huge fit, said he was cancelling the movie, and then sued Gawker Media. Now, ten months later, he’s preparing to shoot The Hateful Eight and he’s dropped that lawsuit By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mawk Wahlberg’s gawta gamblin’ prawblem Yo, braw, come over heeah and check out the new trailuh for Mawky Mawk’s Oscah movie The Gambler. He plays a wicked smaht cawllege professah who likes’ta gamble and gets in deep with the mob or somethin’, I dunno, fahck you, why you care so much about a By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 12:00 pm
Media Manipulation Jessica Chastain’s Oscar fight Jessica Chastain has two Oscar-buzzy movies coming out—Interstellar this weekend and A Most Violent Year at the end of December. She’s already got good odds on a Supporting Actress nomination with Interstellar, but some Oscar prognosticators think she’s better and more worthy in Violent Year. Also, Interstellar By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Movie no one will admit to seeing getting sequel Last summer Now You See Me, the movie about bank-robbing magicians, trucked to over $117 million at the domestic box office, qualifying it as a sleeper hit. Accordingly, it’s getting a sequel, because movies can no longer stand alone. If it makes even the least little bit of money, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Johnny 5, I mean Chappie South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp broke out with District 9 and then whiffed with last year’s Elysium, and now he’s back with Chappie, the story of a robotic artificial intelligence learning how to be a real boy, made for the “low” budget of $60 million and starring Dev By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shark-Man to play Computer Jesus(?) Didn’t we just agree on this? Didn’t we just make a deal that if a project blows two casting rumors that we can stop paying attention to it until it gets it sh*t together? I’m pretty sure we just went over this. And yet, here we By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:08 am
Media Manipulation Bale quits Jobs Christian Bale has cut ties with the Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and being directed by Danny Boyle—I refuse to make any Bale/bails puns. This is the same project that potentially has Seth Rogen in to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (a really nice piece of By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 02:29 pm
