Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac gets Apocalyptic Already part of New New Star Wars, Oscar Isaac is adding another huge franchise to his roster as he is joining X-Men: Apocalypse as the titular villain. Isaac’s been on the brink for a few years now, and it’s really feeling like he’s ready to make By Sarah • Nov 25, 2014 11:32 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: 5.7: “Know who you’re dealing with” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 7 recap Tara named their group GREATM. That’s adorable. With only two episodes left before the winter hiatus, and what seems to be a mandate to not drag things out anymore, the penultimate episode before the break has a lot of ground to By Sarah • Nov 24, 2014 07:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoolander 2 is so hot right now Rumors of a Zoolander sequel have circulated off and on for years, but yesterday sh*t got real when Deadline published a report that Penelope Cruz has signed onto the movie, with Justin Theroux writing the script and Ben Stiller directing. Originally, Deadline said Theroux would direct, but his commitment By Sarah • Nov 21, 2014 12:08 pm
Dumbass Dum-dum Ashton Kutcher thinks smear campaigns are fine There’s a story that’s been blowing up in techie circles this week about ridesharing app Uber and its problematic executives targeting journalists who disagree with them. It goes like this: Sarah Lacy, editor in chief of PandoDaily, a Silicon Valley news site she founded, wrote an article about By Sarah • Nov 20, 2014 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively defeats time The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively’s new movie, has its first trailer and it looks like a hybrid of Winter’s Tale and Benjamin Button, with special effects straight from The CW. It’s about Adaline, who defeats time in a car accident and stops aging as a prize, By Sarah • Nov 19, 2014 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella doesn’t look terrible The fairytale trend in movies has been more miss than hit, by a pretty wide margin. Maleficent was okay, but if it weren’t for Dame Angelina, it would not have been even half so tolerable, but there hasn’t been a really great—or even just whole-heartedly good— By Sarah • Nov 19, 2014 12:44 pm
Media Manipulation The Batch is not taking engagement questions The Imitation Game opens in theaters next weekend, and in advance of that Cumberbatch is in the US doing some promotion. On Friday that meant showing up at the Hollywood Film Awards and pretending like that’s a real thing (click here for more on that) and this morning it By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Frederick Zoller will fight Captain America On Friday afternoon Marvel announced that Daniel Brühl will appear in Captain America: Civil War as a villain. The specific character is unknown, and Variety fanned the flames a bit by adding the tidbit that he may also appear in Dr. Strange, where his villainous character would have a larger By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 11:50 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.6: “How did we get here” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 6 recap. We’ve seen Beth on her own and Abraham Ford and his crew off doing their thing, and this week it’s time to catch up with Carol and Daryl as they search for Beth. The episode opens with a flashback to By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 08:15 am
Amazingness The Batch is an impressionist There’s something about good actors also being good mimics. There’s some connection between being good at one and also being good at the other. It makes a certain kind of sense, especially given accent work and how being able to mimic would make mastering an accent easier. So By Sarah • Nov 14, 2014 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Age of Ultron and the problem with supervillains A new, slightly extended Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer has hit and it includes a bit more action but also, more from James Spader’s Ultron. God, Spader has the best voice for this. Ultron has some great monologues and I can’t wait to hear Spader go to town By Sarah • Nov 13, 2014 09:41 am
Media Manipulation Joaquin Phoenix didn’t punch this guy Joaquin Phoenix is promoting Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Inherent Vice, which comes out next month in the outside position of award season. Never want to count out PTA—or Phoenix, who despite being anti-campaign consistently gets nominated—but it’s really starting to feel like anything coming By Sarah • Nov 12, 2014 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto could be the next Joker and that’s fine Warner Brothers/DC is making Suicide Squad, which will be directed by David Ayer. Fans of the TV show Arrow ought to recognize the name because this group of villains has popped up a few times on that show already, but WB/DC aren’t connecting their TV and film By Sarah • Nov 10, 2014 01:20 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.5 : “We don’t go back” The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 5 Recap SPOILERS We leave Beth, Carol, and the hospital of doom in Atlanta in order to check on Glenn, Maggie, Abraham Ford, and the others who left for Washington, DC. We start with an effective group-bonding scene in which we learn that By Sarah • Nov 10, 2014 08:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are making another comedy The Other Guys is seriously underrated in Will Ferrell’s canon. That movie has really grown on me over the last few years, and it’s mostly because Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make such a pleasantly, surprisingly great comedy team. Also it has some solid action-movie reference gags, and By Sarah • Nov 07, 2014 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit: Almost Over The first full trailer for The Hobbit: Nerd Climax was released yesterday and it’s two minutes of dramatic music, clashing armies, loaded stares, and war bats. And that’s not even getting into the best of all gifts given to us by Jackson’s movies, no, not Dragon Batch— By Sarah • Nov 07, 2014 09:33 am
