Wyatt Cenac An interview with Wyatt Cenac Wyatt Cenac’s voice is tinny on speakerphone, and he sounds tired, but that might be a trick of his accent, which has all of the drawl of Texas and none of the twang. Best known for his stint on The Daily Show (“Four and a half years,” he emphasizes) By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Jena Malone playing a female Robin? On Friday the latest rumor about Superhero Face Punch, which has been filming since 1997 at this point, hit the internet and it’s one of the more interesting assumptions about the movie we’ve heard yet—Jena Malone might be playing a female iteration of Batman’s sidekick, Robin. By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Birdman Birdman is a tremendous film. There’s no other way to put it. It’s an ASTOUNDING technical accomplishment and a genuinely affecting film that is funny, absurd, moving, and sad. The performances are fantastic, the score is terrific, and where Clouds of Sils Maria gets bogged down in the By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Clouds of Sils Maria Clouds of Sils Maria is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s new film. It stars Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Grace Moretz. It is about an actress, Maria (Binoche), debating whether or not to take a role in the play that made her famous, but instead of playing the young By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:26 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.2: “You are not safe” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 2 recap As much as seasons spent stuck in one location suck (ugh, the farm), at least when you have a stable living situation there’s an opportunity to sketch out how everyone is surviving. The thing about wandering around the woods is that By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck is definitely in the Justice League During a shareholder meeting earlier this week, Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara dumped a ton of info about the DC cinematic universe on us, including the flashy announcement that textile-wearer Ezra Miller will play The Flash. Buried under the new information is the confirmation that Zack Snyder will direct two By Sarah • Oct 17, 2014 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: St. Vincent I have officially hit the halfway point of the Chicago International Film Festival. It is October 16th, and between the festival and squeezing in some commercial releases to meet writing commitments, I’ve seen sixteen movies so far this month. I have fifteen left to go, including four double-headers. Perhaps By Sarah • Oct 16, 2014 01:15 pm
Neil Patrick Harris NPH goes for EGOT Kind of. Yesterday news broke that Neil Patrick Harris will host the Oscars on February 22, 2015. This is very exciting—NPH is a born entertainer and he’s a proven host, having done stints on the Tonys and the Emmys. We’ve been clamoring for him to host for By Sarah • Oct 16, 2014 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller will play a broody, emo ARTISTE who runs really fast Warner Brothers is in the middle of their annual shareholder presentation right now, and CEO Kevin Tsujihara just dropped some major info bombs regarding the future of their DC movies slate, confirming a Wonder Woman solo movie in 2017, along with the proper Justice League team-up flick that Superhero Face By Sarah • Oct 15, 2014 02:05 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch’s campaign of inclusion It’s mid-October, which means that award season is in full swing, and as such the actors starring in award bait are beginning to lay the foundation of their Oscar campaigns. We’re still over a month away from Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Imitation Game opening in the US, but By Sarah • Oct 15, 2014 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America vs. Iron Man—Marvel’s Civil War is happening RDJ has been talking up a potential extension of his contract to play Iron Man, and everyone jumped on the Iron Man 4 grenade, because he made some wiseass comments about Iron Man 4. I didn’t buy that he was in talks for another Iron Man installment, but that By Sarah • Oct 14, 2014 10:52 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.1: “You can’t go back, Bob” We’re back with The Walking Dead, picking up where we left off at the end of season four—Rick and the group trapped in a train car in Terminus, at the dubious mercy of a bunch of cannibals. This was a strong episode, jumping immediately into action and never By Sarah • Oct 14, 2014 08:43 am
Quiveration CIFF Review: Miss Julie The Chicago International Film Festival kicked off last night, and over the next couple weeks I’ll be reviewing some festival season stragglers, beginning with the opening night film, Miss Julie, which blew chunks. But first we need to talk about Colin Farrell, who was on hand along with writer/ By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 10:17 am
Quiveration Beautiful British people looking beautiful (and British) in the rain The Imitation Game opened the London Film Festival the other night and Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley showed up looking all kinds of glamorous. Cumberbatch is at his best in Sherlock drag, but the suit porn is good, too, and this is some prime suit porn. If Cumberbatch is your By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney crashes Comic Con (but not THAT Comic-Con) Which is, honestly, more interesting to me than his wedding. New York Comic Con is underway, and while it isn’t as important from an industry perspective as San Diego Comic-Con, it is rising in prominence thanks to some high-profile projects that have eschewed Hall H for New York’s By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ, Forever and Always: Part Two Okay, now that we’ve talked about the Marvel can of worms RDJ has opened up, let’s move on to how delightful RDJ is in general, which is SO DELIGHTFUL. First, there’s his appearance on The Howard Stern Show in which he talked about Sarah Jessica Parker. Stern By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:55 am
