Media Manipulation Vin Diesel gets into it Yesterday was the London premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy, and Vin Diesel showed up in a tee shirt with his one line from the movie, “I am Groot”, printed on it and wearing a pair of stilts to make him taller like his space ent character, Groot. While Bradley By Sarah • Jul 25, 2014 01:34 pm
Media Manipulation Cumberbatch Con Comic-Con is in full swing and yesterday Benedict Cumberbatch kicked it off in good old fashion convention style—thousands of screaming girls yelling his name in an enclosed space. Actually, I’m trying to remember if Comic-Con was like this in the pre-Twilight days. While I remember plenty of excitable By Sarah • Jul 25, 2014 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck suit It’s the 75th anniversary of Batman comics, and as part of their celebration at Comic-Con, DC Comics has a display of Batman suits throughout the ages—including Ben Affleck’s new costume from Superhero Face Punch. Well, part of it. All that’s on display is the cowl and By Sarah • Jul 25, 2014 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pirates of the Caribbean: Not dead yet Yesterday Disney announced that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is being kicked from summer 2016 to July 7, 2017. Apparently they’re doing this because they want to get the script “just right”—hahahaha, like the script in these movies matter. This is the second delay By Sarah • Jul 24, 2014 01:33 pm
Henry Cavill Sith Lord Superman In case you’ve forgotten that Henry Cavill is a huge nerd…Henry Cavill is a huge nerd. He’s into MMORPGs, hardcore fantasy novels, Dungeons & Dragons - we’re talking stuff that lives deep in the dork forest. Like Tom Hiddleston, his dorkiness is part of his charm. By Sarah • Jul 24, 2014 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dear White People – the trailer One of the movies that caught my eye at this year’s Sundance was Dear White People, a satire of race politics centered around an African-American themed party thrown by white kids on a college campus and the hell that breaks loose afterward. It was a hit at Sundance, winning By Sarah • Jul 23, 2014 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2014: When Comic Con Attacks It’s that time of year again, when the movie studios and TV networks venture into the Dork Forest to shill their wares in the hopes of generating audience interest in movies we won’t be seeing for another year. There’s been a curious development at Comic-Con over the By Sarah • Jul 22, 2014 03:24 pm
Bad Style Star-Lord suits up Chris Pratt and Anna Faris were on hand at the premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy last night to christen Pratt’s new career as a movie star. I’m not loving his suit. It’s boring, and the tie looks sloppy (needs pressing?), and his douche hair is too By Sarah • Jul 22, 2014 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch enters the Oscar race In 2011 the Black List was topped by a script for a biopic of Alan Turing, the computer scientist who developed the early computer that the British used to break the German’s Enigma code. You might also recognize his name from the Turing Test, a series of questions meant By Sarah • Jul 21, 2014 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars plot: Luke needs a hand Turn away if your eyeballs are a pristine, spoiler-free environment. We’re discussing potential Star Wars Episode VII plot details, so if you don’t want to know, go no further. It’s nothing particularly revelatory—it’s not like, “and then everyone at the wedding died” territory—but I By Sarah • Jul 21, 2014 10:51 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Scarlett Johansson’s stunt triplets Entertainment Weekly’s Comic Con preview issue has dumped a truckload of new information on us regarding The Avengers: Age of Ultron. For the most part, it’s all fun and games—the superhero clubhouse, more information about the new characters being introduced, et cetera. There is one detail, though, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2014 12:24 pm
TV Updates True Blood’s Jessica levels up to Daredevil I haven’t watched True Blood in years (has anyone?), but the last I saw of it Jessica was one of the last good things going on that show. So it makes me happy that Deborah Ann Woll, who actually made that mess watchable, is moving on to bigger and By Sarah • Jul 18, 2014 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Clubhouse! With Warner Brothers electing to save Batman vs. Superman for next summer’s Comic-Con, this summer’s convention belongs squarely to the other superhero orgy in our lives, The Avengers: Age of Ultron. To that end, Entertainment Weekly is featuring a first look at Ultron on the cover of its By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer box office blues In case you haven’t heard, summer 2014 is some weak-ass sh*t at the box office. We’re two-thirds of the way through the summer movie season and domestic tickets sales are down over 19%—that’s a staggering drop in revenue, especially since we were actually up nearly By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 02:09 pm
TV Updates A female Thor, but not for the movies I don’t want to discount the importance of Marvel choosing to reimagine Thor as a woman for a new comic book run. It’s important that kids—any kid—looks at the characters we deem heroic and see themselves reflected back, and Marvel Comics has been diligent about diversifying By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Radcliffe’s devil face Yesterday Lainey wrote about Daniel Radcliffe and how he’s pretty much doing whatever he wants, post-Harry Potter. At 24 and he’s already made his money and earned the kind of fame that never really goes away (see also: Orlando Bloom, Mark Hamill), so there’s no pressure to By Sarah • Jul 15, 2014 11:24 am
