Quiveration The Jake G charm offensive is going strong Though Nightcrawler opened over the weekend, earning a respectable $10.4 million, Jake Gyllenhaal is still out promoting the movie. Partially because Nightcrawler is the kind of movie that benefits from word of mouth, but also in no small part in service of an Oscar campaign. Jake G’s never By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 12:58 pm
Gorgessity Lupita of the single name She’s at that level, right? I don’t even need to say her full name. Lupita Nyong’o is a beautiful name, but if I just say “Lupita”, you know who I’m talking about. Musicians do it—Cher, Beyonce, Madonna, Britney, Adele, Lorde—but there aren’t as By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Most Violent Year is straight Oscar porn Writer/director JC Chandor is on a roll. First Margin Call, for which he was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and then the exceptional All Is Lost last year, and now he’s entering this year’s Oscar race with A Most Violent Year starring Oscar Isaac and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Whoa, Marco Polo—what’s up? I’m in a TV rut. My DVR went kaput over the summer and when I got a new box, faced with reprogramming dozens of hours of TV, I found that I didn’t like hardly anything I’d been watching. So I ditched a bunch of shows and even By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba just blew one of the Avengers best secrets There are a lot of cameos in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I don’t want to get yelled at for spoilers, so I’m not enumerating them here, but if you peruse nerd sites you can easily find out which ones have already been spoiled, and now you can add By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 01:57 pm
Media Manipulation Hopeless hustle On Saturday Deadline held “The Contenders” at the Directors Guild of America, a day-long symposium in which every distributor with Oscar hopes presented their award season wares, and many actors and filmmakers showed up to hustle. Most of the actors who showed up have outside chances at best, like newly-minted By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 10:49 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.4: “You let this happen” The Walking Dead season 5, episode 4 recap. Correction from last week: Father Gabe locked his congregation OUT of the church, leaving them to get eaten, not in it. But the point still stands—Gabriel has been established as a craven coward without the necessary survival skills. How long will By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G: Still Charming Jake Gyllenhaal is making the rounds, promoting Nightcrawler—a movie I cannot wait to see this weekend—and last night he appeared on The Tonight Show and was his usual charming self. When Jake G is on, he’s on, and very few can top it. Watching him goofing around By Sarah • Oct 30, 2014 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Superhero Clubhouse Marvel will never be finished with you. Just surrender now, give them all your money, and maybe they’ll let you have every other Thursday for yourself. After yesterday’s bonanza of news, last night during an episode of Agents of SHIELD Marvel aired some new footage from Avengers: Age By Sarah • Oct 29, 2014 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dr. Strange is still up in the air The casting for Dr. Strange, Marvel’s next signature superhero, has become such a clusterf*ck that for a couple of months now, it has seemed just as likely that a three day old breakfast burrito would play the part as an actual human actor. The latest rumor, coming yesterday By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel just broke the internet A couple weeks ago Warner Brothers announced the future of the DC Cinematic Universe during an investor phone call. They dumped a lot of information on us in the least exciting way possible, and by the end of the day I’d heard from multiple sources that the response from By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:09 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.3: “The good that comes out of this bad” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 3 recap It turns out that a lot of you have the same questions I do re: Judith’s diapers and formula. According to many moms, the diapers aren’t quite as big a deal as what on earth they are feeding that baby By Sarah • Oct 27, 2014 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Age of Ultron is here The trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron wasn’t supposed to debut until Tuesday during an episode of Agents of SHIELD, but it leaked online yesterday, no doubt thanks to Hydra. And since fighting the internet is pointless, Marvel went ahead and threw it up on YouTube for all of By Sarah • Oct 23, 2014 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Dear White People Dear White People was one of my Sundance picks way back in January, and man did it live up to the hype. The feature film debut of writer/director Justin Simien, Dear White People follows a group of students at a Harvard-esque Ivy League school, the fictional Winchester, as they By Sarah • Oct 22, 2014 11:03 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Mandy Moore (For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here.) I've always been a huge fan of Mandy Moore—always. Music, movies (as truly awful as some of them are), everything. And for the last few years, she’s been teasing a new album and chasing TV By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 03:02 pm
Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey is a hippy-dippy Philosophy TA Has anyone had a run like Matthew McConaughey has had the last few years? He’s transformed his career, won an Oscar, and gone from stock rom-com alpha male to one of the biggest and most in demand actors in the world. And he’s done it without seeming to By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 11:40 am
