Media Manipulation RDJ, Forever and Always: Part One RDJ’s new movie, The Judge, opens this weekend, which means that RDJ is making the press rounds and giving us so much to talk about that we actually had to split it into two posts. He’s already given us the glimpses into his family life and his relationship By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:41 am
TV Updates House and Hiddles are coming to TV I saw this late Friday afternoon and heard a loud record scratch in my head—Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston are going to star in a television adaptation of John le Carre’s The Night Manager. The show will air on the BBC in the UK and though it does By Sarah • Oct 06, 2014 10:12 am
Joaquin Phoenix Dr. Strange will be played by a three-day-old breakfast burrito Yesterday Lainey asked a question—Joaquin or Ethan? Recent rumors have pitted them against each other for Marvel’s latest superhero incarnation, Dr. Strange. Today we have an answer: Neither. According to Badass Digest, they’re both out. Deadline is now reporting the same. When Lainey asked me about this By Sarah • Oct 02, 2014 04:39 pm
The Walking Dead Two weeks ‘til Dead October 12th is the premiere of The Walking Dead, season 5. Are you ready? I had to replace my DVR box over the summer and to be honest, when faced with programming the new one, I wavered on The Walking Dead. It’s half a hate-watch already, and I’m By Sarah • Oct 02, 2014 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesus Bale is back! One of my favorite things ever is Jesus Bale, or what happens when Christian Bale gets particularly hirsute. How can you not love this? It cracks me up every time. So I’m really excited to see in the new Exodus: Gods & Guyliner trailer that Jesus Bale is making By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 12:54 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch gets ahead of the game Benedict Cumberbatch has a GREAT new interview with TimeOut London in which he talks about both his Oscar chances and the kingmaker grooming him for center stage. The Batch is always an interesting interview for several reasons: 1) He’s 38 and fame came late-ish for him, striking in his By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 11:49 am
Media Manipulation Get off Jeremy Renner’s lawn Jeremy Renner’s new movie, Kill The Messenger, opens on October 10 (against RDJ’s The Judge—do you think they’re giving each other a hard time about box office competition?), and as such Renner is giving us the hard shill. Kill The Messenger is opening in a crowded By Sarah • Sep 30, 2014 01:08 pm
TV Updates Chris Pratt’s SNL was a charm offensive Is everyone on the Chris Pratt train at this point? Is there anyone left uncharmed? Does anyone object to Pratt becoming a Movie Star? As I predicted back in January, Pratt blew up huge this year, and this weekend he capped his breakout year by hosting Saturday Night Live, and By Sarah • Sep 29, 2014 12:00 pm
Relationship Assumption Jeremy Renner is officially married, bring on the crazy train It has been my experience that Jeremy Renner fans tend to be a most entertainingly delusional group of people. I don’t get hate mail from Renner fans, I get charmingly deranged, five thousand word essays about all the various ways in which I am wrong about whatever I’ve By Sarah • Sep 24, 2014 11:14 am
Sports South Park takes on the Washington Entitled Twats and it is GLORIOUS I’ve pretty much gone off football these days. I’ve loved football my whole life, but I can’t take it anymore. I can’t pretend like someone being good at running and catching stuff somehow indemnifies them from being a decent person. Not even a good person—just By Sarah • Sep 22, 2014 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds back in the superhero saddle A couple months ago a test reel for a potential Deadpool movie leaked—accidentally on purpose—onto the internet. It featured Ryan Reynolds as the talkative mutant mercenary Deadpool (aka Wade Wilson), the beloved character that was so brutally murdered by X-Men: Origins: Wolverine (Punctuation!). But in the test reel— By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy I’ve been trying to tune out everything surrounding Star Wars: Episode VII by declaring my person to be a Zone of Willful Ignorance. It’s all just rumors and innuendo and mystery boxes and the JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS drives me f*cking nuts. Is Adam Driver By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh my god—THE GUEST That was my only thought after I finished watching The Guest, starring Dan Stevens (and his abs). I had a visceral reaction to this movie. As soon as it was over I wanted to watch it again because I kind of couldn’t believe what I just saw. It’s By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston’s schedule shake up Remember that Ben-Hur remake that would pretty much only be watchable if it starred Tom Hiddleston? Well it’s no longer starring Tom Hiddleston. Instead it will star Jack Huston, which means I can stop caring about a February movie. Instead, Hiddles has jumped ship for Legendary’s King Kong By Sarah • Sep 17, 2014 11:16 am
TV Updates Mindy Kaling’s terms In advance of The Mindy Project returning for its third season, Mindy Kaling is doing press, including stopping by Howard Stern to talk about how BJ Novak—her Office-mate “Ryan” and also a producer on her show—is the one that got away. As per usual she’s funny, charming, By Sarah • Sep 17, 2014 10:43 am
Media Manipulation Chris Hemsworth’s post-Marvel moves Hollywood is suddenly obsessed with Hank Williams. It probably has a lot to do with the prolonged fight over the Hank Senior song catalog ending in 2011, or that the Hank Williams Estate, thus resolved, signed a huge licensing deal just last year. At any rate, first there was Tom By Sarah • Sep 16, 2014 03:44 pm
