Movie Reviews and Previews Unbroken and Angelina’s Eye The first trailer for Unbroken, Angelina Jolie’s second film as a director, has been released and it has Oscar Bait stamped all over it: Sweeping music, dazzling visuals, a story about a scrappy survivor, World War II, and a family-friendly Christmas release date. If Unbroken is even half as By Sarah • Jul 11, 2014 11:49 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: James Marsden (Click here for previous installments of the Career Prospectus series.) I jokingly proposed doing a prospectus on James Marsden a few weeks ago, but then thought, No but seriously—what happened to James Marsden? So I’m answering my own question with this prospectus, because Marsden is a guy—talented, By Sarah • Jul 08, 2014 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer crushing on Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon Last night Marvel offered a seventeen minute sneak peek of Guardians of the Galaxy in IMAX 3D. They screened the prison break/riot scene featured in the trailers, plus sizzle reels of new footage. It was a good choice to get people hooked—the prison scene is really funny with By Sarah • Jul 08, 2014 11:46 am
Lifestyle Sasha Answers: Did my best friend break Girl Code? Hi Sasha –I have a bridal party of 5 girls, and many of us go back many years together. One of my girls in particular, S, I’ve known for over 10 years and we’ve been there for one another throughout good times and bad. S is single and By Sarah • Jul 07, 2014 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who’s the horrible boss? Horrible Bosses was a perfectly serviceable comedy that is most notable for featuring Charlie Day, because Charlie Day is a national treasure and any time he’s on screen it’s worth watching. And since it made $209 million at the box office, it got a sequel, which is due By Sarah • Jul 02, 2014 11:04 am
Tilda Swinton Reddit got SWINTON’d Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” crowd-sourced interviews are such a mixed bag. Some are genuinely interesting—Louis CK and Canada’s own Col. Chris Hadfield come to mind—but a lot are boring. The AMA has become an actual publicity tool, and it’s pretty common now for actors to By Sarah • Jun 30, 2014 10:13 am
Media Manipulation The Huntsman, but no Snow White In the wake of the Kristen Stewart/Rupert Sanders scandal of 2012, a lot of people wondered what would happen to the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Would Sanders be back, would Stewart be back, would neither return? Would Universal decide to skip a proper sequel entirely and just By Sarah • Jun 27, 2014 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Franco & Rogen’s act of war It’s amazing how tolerable James Franco becomes when he’s working with Seth Rogen. It might be Rogen’s ability to bring out the best in anyone, or maybe it’s seeing their real friendship bleed into their performances together, but when Franco is working opposite Rogen, I almost By Sarah • Jun 26, 2014 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aging entertainment Yesterday I wrote about the issues arising on Star Wars Episode VII because Harrison Ford was injured on set and snarking on the surprise that he was badly hurt. The fact is, he IS 71, and he’s making an action movie playing a character we met almost 40 years By Sarah • Jun 26, 2014 10:43 am
Media Manipulation Elderly person breaks leg, internet melts A couple weeks ago, Harrison Ford, who is seventy-one, broke his ankle when a door on the Millennium Falcon set fell on him. At first it was made to sound like no big deal, but over the last couple weeks, rumors have swirled as to the true extent of his By Sarah • Jun 25, 2014 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Women are not invited to the franchise table On Friday news broke that writer/director Rian Johnson, who previously made the most excellent Looper and Brick, would be writing and directing Star Wars Episode VIII and writing the treatment for Episode IX. He won’t actually direct IX — he probably won’t even write the final script—but By Sarah • Jun 24, 2014 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s panties It’s the one of the biggest issues surrounding Wonder Woman—her costume. In the annals of comic book exploitation of women (boobsploitation), Wonder Woman’s panties-and-corset get-up is among the worst offenders. Her costume is utterly nonsensical for what she is—a fighter—and even as a little girl By Sarah • Jun 23, 2014 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews American Citizen saves the day If there’s one story people can’t get enough of, it’s white people saving stuff. Man, people really love that story. Show us a problem and a white person to solve it, and you’re on your way to box office—and maybe even Oscar—gold. And since By Sarah • Jun 20, 2014 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson emotes After Twilight wrapped up in 2012, Robert Pattinson took a year off, releasing no movies in 2013. This year, he’s back in front of the public with two new movies, The Rover and Maps to the Stars, from well-respected directors in which he plays a supporting role (he might By Sarah • Jun 19, 2014 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Guardians of the Galaxy: The best idea Back when Marvel first announced their intention to adapt obscure-even-by-nerd-standards Guardians of the Galaxy and everyone went “What? WHO?” there was some not-so-quiet snickering throughout the industry. The prevailing attitude among rival studios and development teams was, Finally. They’re overreaching, and they will fall. Even as trailers began rolling By Sarah • Jun 17, 2014 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aqua Drogo Back when Ben Affleck was named as the new Batman, there was a rumor—that sounded more like wishing, really—that Matt Damon could be on board to play the most laughable of all superheroes, Aquaman. It was the latest in a succession of Aquaman rumors, and if you’re By Sarah • Jun 16, 2014 12:58 pm
