Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon is dusting off his Jason Bourne hat Once upon a time, Matt Damon went in hard against Bourne trilogy screenwriter Tony Gilroy. For a couple years he trash-talked Gilroy, taking no pains to hide his animosity, and said he’d never do another Bourne movie so long as Gilroy was involved. So Universal moved ahead with a By Sarah • Sep 16, 2014 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’s sociopathic rom-com I actually emailed Lainey about Playing It Cool (formerly known as A Many Splintered Thing) a few months ago when the official synopsis came out, because this is one of the most amazing synopses I’ve seen in recent memory. Here it is: “The story of a young man disillusioned By Sarah • Sep 15, 2014 11:19 am
Weekend Update might be good now No matter what else is going on with Saturday Night Live, the fake-news Weekend Update segment is usually reliable. But last year, post-Seth Meyers (one of the best Update anchors ever) was rough. Update was co-anchored by Cecily Strong and SNL head writer Colin Jost, and while Strong is a By Sarah • Sep 12, 2014 01:47 pm
TIFF 2014 Coverage Chris Evans: Successful salesman Last weekend Beardy Chris Evans popped up at TIFF to promote his directorial debut, Before SunriseBefore We Go. The movie screened for critics last Friday and Evans spent the weekend giving interviews and shilling—a whole week before he needed to be present for the actual worldwide premiere, which is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2014 05:15 pm
Orlando Bloom Orlando Bloom is “open” to more Pirates Of course he is. It’s not like he really has anything else going on. Over the weekend, Bloom appeared at Oz Comic-Con in Brisbane and said during a panel discussion that he had met with producers about possibly returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise for Pirates of By Sarah • Sep 10, 2014 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone loves Chris Rock In the last six years—ever since the economy took a sh*t in the world’s bed—the markets at film festivals have drawn down. Deals still get made at a comparable rate to pre-economy-sucking-it-hard days, but where once distributors were willing to throw money around to make a By Sarah • Sep 09, 2014 10:31 am
TV Updates The Late Night shuffle concludes with another white dude As part of the late night talk show reshuffle that’s been going on the for the last year, CBS has just announced that British comedian and TV host James Corden will replace Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show. The hand-off date is not final, but it will be By Sarah • Sep 08, 2014 02:50 pm
Music Tom Hiddleston’s country twang When the news came out that Tom Hiddleston would be portraying country music legend Hank Williams in a biopic titled I Saw the Light, I said I was fine with the choice from an acting standpoint but that I worried about the singing. Hiddles will be doing his own vocals, By Sarah • Sep 08, 2014 09:33 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Michelle Monaghan (For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here.) I have often wondered about the missing link for Michelle Monaghan’s career. Is she just not that interested in the fame game? Is she missing the “something” that sets her apart? She’s THAT girl where I always By Sarah • Sep 05, 2014 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock chooses villainy Dwayne Johnson has been teasing his involvement with the DC cinematic universe for months—over a year, actually—and finally yesterday he announced on his Twitter that he is indeed playing a marquee role in an upcoming DC movie—just not the hero. Johnson will be Black Adam from the By Sarah • Sep 04, 2014 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews And so it begins: TIFF 2014 It’s September and summer is officially over, which means it’s time for festival season. Telluride has come and gone and Venice is underway, and now TIFF kicks off on the fourth, heralding the unofficial start of Oscar season (it’s pretty much year-round at this point, but TIFF By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The summer box office sucked The summer box office, which was trending downward all season, officially blew chunks. Receipts were down 22.2% from last year, making this the worst summer movie season since 2005 (all numbers are for domestic box office, which is the case throughout, unless denoted otherwise). Accounting for inflation, this is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am
Quiveration Men vs. boys: British edition Lainey texted me over the weekend about how she’s excited to see The Riot Club, a movie about secret societies at Oxford (it’s playing TIFF later this week). I’m into it for Natalie Dormer, but Lainey’s all over it because of the gaggle of British boys By Sarah • Sep 02, 2014 01:51 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead season 5: “The greater good” We’re six weeks away from the premiere of The Walking Dead season 5, so it’s time for Entertainment Weekly to run their now-annual preview issue. The collectible covers are pretty good, especially Michonne and Daryl’s. Maggie and Glenn are just kind of eh, and I’m not By Sarah • Aug 29, 2014 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield, Forever Child Do you buy Andrew Garfield as an adult? I don’t know that I do. He’s 31 years old, I know that academically, but I don’t think I really know that. Because when I see Garfield, I don’t think “grown ass man”. He’s a Forever Child, By Sarah • Aug 28, 2014 12:28 pm
Amazingness Ice buckets for everyone The ALS Ice Bucket challenge continues to steam-roll through popular culture, cluttering up everyone’s timelines and inspiring countless think pieces and rants, all while raising over forty million dollars for ALS research and support, which is tremendously awesome and everyone can just shut the f*ck up about how By Sarah • Aug 22, 2014 02:56 pm
