Norman Reedus Norman Reedus is into pajama onesies I feel like this is the only part of his Reddit AMA Lainey will care about. Reedus participated in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit over the weekend in order to promote his involvement with The Felix Organization (a group that benefits foster children). During the AMA someone asked By Sarah • Dec 22, 2014 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Kate Winslet’s turn to be in Jobs Casting for Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic was messy even before Sony vomited bitchiness all over it. Now that it’s been re-homed at Universal, things are hopefully less dramatic around the production office, but the casting merry-go-round continues to turn. The female lead has yet By Sarah • Dec 22, 2014 12:42 pm
Chris Pratt Chris Pratt and a dino-hunting Velociraptor Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World, posted a new image from the movie on Twitter. It’s Chris Pratt and a Velociraptor. If the rumors about the plot are to be believed, and based on the trailer it would seem so, Pratt’s character has a pack of raptors trained By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 11:43 am
Stephen Colbert The Last Colbert Report It’s a day for lasts. The last Serial, and tonight, the last episode of The Colbert Report. Tonight Stephen Colbert signs off as his fake-conservative persona and next year, he’ll re-emerge as simply himself, taking over David Letterman’s Late Show. For nine years The Colbert By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Interview pulled after Sony Hack turns threatening The Sony Hack took a turn for the dangerous earlier this week when the hackers released a statement threatening violence should people go see the movie when it was to open on Christmas day. Following the threat, Sony said it would allow theater owners to back out of booking deals By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The best thing about Chris Hemsworth: Matt Damon When Chris Hemsworth was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, we were all like, wait what? What’s he even promoting? Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t until May 2015, and that Ron Howard whale movie is in March, but we totally forgot one! Hemsworth has that dismal looking Michael By Sarah • Dec 16, 2014 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Five Movie Review I went into Chris Rock’s Top Five with a checklist of expectations, and I am happy to say that my expectations were met, and even exceeded in places. If you’re extremely spoiler-phobic, and don’t like to know anything about any movie, best to bow out now. By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 12:45 pm
Media Manipulation Diversity in Film: The audience speaks Previously we’ve talked about the problem of diversity in film from the perspective of the executives making the movies and the media covering them. This week we’re going to delve into the audience’s role in the equation. It’s perfect timing, too, because whitewashed Exodus: Gods & By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 11:22 am
Media Manipulation Sony Hack: The wage gap revealed Fallout from the Sony Hack continues, and it’s no surprise that the news is bad. The people at Sony would probably love it if just once a released cache of data revealed email exchanges about funniest cat videos. But Sony doesn’t have that kind of luck and so By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 10:23 am
TV Updates Marco…Polo I had high hopes for Netflix’s new period drama Marco Polo. With a $90 million dollar budget—making it the second-most expensive show on TV behind only Game of Thrones—and being co-produced by The Weinstein Company, the table was set for something interesting, maybe even special. By Sarah • Dec 12, 2014 11:48 am
Business of Hollywood The Sony Hack, somehow, gets even worse At this point, it shouldn’t be surprising that the leaked emails from Sony have taken a turn for the worse. They started bad, so it wasn’t like the bar was all that high to begin with. But the latest emails between Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin aren’t By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Choose Top Five This weekend there are two new major releases in theaters: Exodus: Gods & Guyliner and Chris Rock’s Top Five. If you’re going to the movies, go see Top Five. Ridley Scott thinks he couldn’t make Exodus without white leads, but we have a chance to empirically prove By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 03:01 pm
Media Manipulation Sony Hack reveals budget drama on Bond 24 Fallout from the Sony Hack continues, and this time it’s the new Bond movie, Spectre, caught in the crosshairs. Emails between the president of MGM, Jonathan Glickman, Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, and Sony executives, including co-chief Amy Pascal—is anyone having a worse week than Amy Pascal?—reveal By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 11:55 am
Media Manipulation No interviews at The Interview Tonight is the premiere of Seth Rogen’s and James Franco’s new movie, The Interview, in which they play entertainment reporters attempting to assassinate Kim Jong-un. North Korea is unhappy about the existence of this movie, and many people assume it’s the impetus behind the Sony Hack, By Sarah • Dec 11, 2014 11:16 am
Business of Hollywood Sony Hack Part Eleventy Billion: Actors are greedy whores The newest wave of leaked emails from the Sony Hack, dutifully combed through by Gawker, reveals a conversation between Sony co-chiefs Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, and Clint Culpepper, head of Sony subsidy studio Screen Gems. The email is about Kevin Hart, who has a multi-picture deal with By Sarah • Dec 10, 2014 04:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leaked Sony emails: Jobs is a mess The Sony hack is the gift that keeps on giving. First it was a laundry list of reasons why making Adam Sandler movies was slowly crushing people’s souls, and now it’s a series of email exchanges between Sony co-chief Amy Pascal, producer Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin, and By Sarah • Dec 10, 2014 08:57 am
