Movie Reviews and Previews Why isn’t George Lucas feeling Star Wars? The first trailer for New New Star Wars came out a couple weeks ago and is crushing records on its way to being the most viewed trailer of all time. Trailers are still the #1 indicator for a movie’s potential audience, and based on the stats for New New By Sarah • Dec 09, 2014 11:38 am
Music Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf Shia LaBeouf frustrates me. On the one hand, I think he’s a very talented actor. On the other, he’s a plagiarist with a plagiarist’s obnoxious “everyone steals because art” lack of understanding of what appropriation and repurposing really are. But, with a major movie out this year, By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Diversity in Film: The media reacts Last week we talked about Hollywood’s (ongoing) diversity problem in context to Rupert Murdoch’s and Ridley Scott’s outright offensive attitudes regarding the whitewashing controversy surrounded Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. This week, we’re taking a look how the media covers stories like this. I don’t want By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner’s London year Jeremy Renner has been in and out of London all year. Avengers: Age of Ultron filmed there over the spring and summer, and following that, he’s been there working on Mission: Impossible 5 – Presumably There’s A Bomb throughout fall and winter. Here he is once again at LAX By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batch is Strange, for real this time After a long, rumor-filled casting process—easily a top-three roughest go round— Marvel has finally announced their Dr. Strange and it is, for real, Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s been rumored for years—I first mentioned it in 2012—but the timing never worked out, and Marvel would go By Sarah • Dec 05, 2014 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Terminator: Ridiculousity The first trailer for the next Terminator is here, and it is some seriously silly sh*t. I refuse to deal with the movie’s real title, Terminator: Genisys, because it’s dumb, but it does seem to fit what looks like a highly stupid movie. There are ways to By Sarah • Dec 04, 2014 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen is coming back to TV Kind of. Rogen and his creative partner Evan Goldberg have finally gotten their pilot order from AMC for an adaptation of Preacher, a 1990s comic about a Texan preacher who is possessed by a heaven-baby and goes looking for God with his ex-girlfriend and a drunk vampire. It’ By Sarah • Dec 04, 2014 12:22 pm
Chris Rock Chris Rock on Hollywood: “It’s a white industry” Chris Rock is on a roll. First, he was in New York Magazine talking about race and politics, and now he’s written an editorial in The Hollywood Reporter in which he straight up calls out the industry’s ongoing and increasingly depressing diversity problem. Rock is speaking from experience, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2014 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Suicide Squad features Harley Quinn and some other people Last we heard of David Ayer’s DC villain flick, whether or not Harley Quinn, the nutjob supervillainess from the Batman comics, would be included was still up in the air, and Jared Leto was in talks to play The Joker (lesser version 2.0). Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2014 10:19 am
Chris Rock Chris Rock talks race, comedy, and rich people Back at TIFF, Chris Rock’s Top Five, which he wrote, directed, and stars in, sold for an incredible $12.5 million after a heated bidding war. The movie was fast-tracked for release by Paramount and is now due out on December 12, which means that Rock is on By Sarah • Dec 02, 2014 11:41 am
Dumbass Diversity in Film: The problem at the top On Friday Rupert Murdoch, elderly white man, took to Twitter to address the whitewashing casting controversy that has surrounded the upcoming movie Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. Christian Bale plays Moses, a Hebrew, Joel Edgerton is the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses, and Sigourney Weaver is their mother, Tuya, also Egyptian. In fact, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 11:17 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.8: “Who the hell are you?” The Walking Dead season 5, episode 8 recap. Spoilers It’s the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead and the showdown between Rick & Co. and Dawn and the hospital people. If you’re not okay with spoilers, here’s a short, spoiler-free review of the episode: It By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Force is a morning person It’s Black Friday here in the US, the day after Thanksgiving, during which we participate in the ritual sacrifice of holiday shoppers so that the old gods may be appeased and the winter will be a short one. Naturally, on a day dedicated to commerce and conspicuous consumption, Disney By Sarah • Nov 28, 2014 11:18 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Hilary Swank For previous installments of Career Prospectus, please click here. I have [a suggestion] for Sarah’s Career Prospectus: Hilary Swank—TWO Oscars, a lot of buzz and then…crickets. Like, PS I Love You with Spittle, and New Year’s Eve with everyone. Is she just done with the movie By Sarah • Nov 27, 2014 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman gets a Job(s) That Aaron Sorkin/Steve Jobs biopic has had a busy few weeks. First Christian Bale was in — confirmed by Sorkin himself! But then Christian Bale was out. Then Michael Fassbender was in talks to play Jobs—he’s still attached to the project but nothing is official yet. Now, Deadline By Sarah • Nov 26, 2014 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: The park is open for business It’s been 22 years since Jurassic Park failed its safety inspection, and Jurassic World, the culmination of John Hammond’s dream for a living-dinosaur theme park, is now open for business. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, besides the dinosaurs getting loose—again—and eating people touring By Sarah • Nov 26, 2014 09:15 am
