Dumbass Star Wars has a stupid title There’s an epidemic in Hollywood, a rash spreading through production offices like a bad case of pink eye, and it’s the trend of dumb subtitles given to franchise pictures. My #1 stupid title punching bag is Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which I call Superhero Face Punch By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CTates to star in Tarantino movie, maybe Earlier this year, Gawker leaked a Quentin Tarantino script for a Western called The Hateful Eight. Tarantino pitched a huge fit, said he was cancelling the movie, and then sued Gawker Media. Now, ten months later, he’s preparing to shoot The Hateful Eight and he’s dropped that lawsuit By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mawk Wahlberg’s gawta gamblin’ prawblem Yo, braw, come over heeah and check out the new trailuh for Mawky Mawk’s Oscah movie The Gambler. He plays a wicked smaht cawllege professah who likes’ta gamble and gets in deep with the mob or somethin’, I dunno, fahck you, why you care so much about a By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 12:00 pm
Media Manipulation Jessica Chastain’s Oscar fight Jessica Chastain has two Oscar-buzzy movies coming out—Interstellar this weekend and A Most Violent Year at the end of December. She’s already got good odds on a Supporting Actress nomination with Interstellar, but some Oscar prognosticators think she’s better and more worthy in Violent Year. Also, By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Movie no one will admit to seeing getting sequel Last summer Now You See Me, the movie about bank-robbing magicians, trucked to over $117 million at the domestic box office, qualifying it as a sleeper hit. Accordingly, it’s getting a sequel, because movies can no longer stand alone. If it makes even the least little bit of By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Johnny 5, I mean Chappie South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp broke out with District 9 and then whiffed with last year’s Elysium, and now he’s back with Chappie, the story of a robotic artificial intelligence learning how to be a real boy, made for the “low” budget of $60 million and starring Dev By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shark-Man to play Computer Jesus(?) Didn’t we just agree on this? Didn’t we just make a deal that if a project blows two casting rumors that we can stop paying attention to it until it gets it sh*t together? I’m pretty sure we just went over this. And yet, here we By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:08 am
Media Manipulation Bale quits Jobs Christian Bale has cut ties with the Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and being directed by Danny Boyle—I refuse to make any Bale/bails puns. This is the same project that potentially has Seth Rogen in to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (a really nice piece By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 02:29 pm
Quiveration The Jake G charm offensive is going strong Though Nightcrawler opened over the weekend, earning a respectable $10.4 million, Jake Gyllenhaal is still out promoting the movie. Partially because Nightcrawler is the kind of movie that benefits from word of mouth, but also in no small part in service of an Oscar campaign. Jake G’s never By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 12:58 pm
Gorgessity Lupita of the single name She’s at that level, right? I don’t even need to say her full name. Lupita Nyong’o is a beautiful name, but if I just say “Lupita”, you know who I’m talking about. Musicians do it—Cher, Beyonce, Madonna, Britney, Adele, Lorde—but there aren’t as By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Most Violent Year is straight Oscar porn Writer/director JC Chandor is on a roll. First Margin Call, for which he was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and then the exceptional All Is Lost last year, and now he’s entering this year’s Oscar race with A Most Violent Year starring Oscar Isaac and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Whoa, Marco Polo—what’s up? I’m in a TV rut. My DVR went kaput over the summer and when I got a new box, faced with reprogramming dozens of hours of TV, I found that I didn’t like hardly anything I’d been watching. So I ditched a bunch of shows and even By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba just blew one of the Avengers best secrets There are a lot of cameos in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I don’t want to get yelled at for spoilers, so I’m not enumerating them here, but if you peruse nerd sites you can easily find out which ones have already been spoiled, and now you can add By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 01:57 pm
Media Manipulation Hopeless hustle On Saturday Deadline held “The Contenders” at the Directors Guild of America, a day-long symposium in which every distributor with Oscar hopes presented their award season wares, and many actors and filmmakers showed up to hustle. Most of the actors who showed up have outside chances at best, like By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 10:49 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.4: “You let this happen” The Walking Dead season 5, episode 4 recap. Correction from last week: Father Gabe locked his congregation OUT of the church, leaving them to get eaten, not in it. But the point still stands—Gabriel has been established as a craven coward without the necessary survival skills. How long will By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G: Still Charming Jake Gyllenhaal is making the rounds, promoting Nightcrawler—a movie I cannot wait to see this weekend—and last night he appeared on The Tonight Show and was his usual charming self. When Jake G is on, he’s on, and very few can top it. Watching him goofing around By Sarah • Oct 30, 2014 11:27 am
