Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Superhero Clubhouse Marvel will never be finished with you. Just surrender now, give them all your money, and maybe they’ll let you have every other Thursday for yourself. After yesterday’s bonanza of news, last night during an episode of Agents of SHIELD Marvel aired some new footage from Avengers: Age By Sarah • Oct 29, 2014 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dr. Strange is still up in the air The casting for Dr. Strange, Marvel’s next signature superhero, has become such a clusterf*ck that for a couple of months now, it has seemed just as likely that a three day old breakfast burrito would play the part as an actual human actor. The latest rumor, coming yesterday By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel just broke the internet A couple weeks ago Warner Brothers announced the future of the DC Cinematic Universe during an investor phone call. They dumped a lot of information on us in the least exciting way possible, and by the end of the day I’d heard from multiple sources that the response from By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:09 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.3: “The good that comes out of this bad” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 3 recap It turns out that a lot of you have the same questions I do re: Judith’s diapers and formula. According to many moms, the diapers aren’t quite as big a deal as what on earth they are feeding that baby By Sarah • Oct 27, 2014 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Age of Ultron is here The trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron wasn’t supposed to debut until Tuesday during an episode of Agents of SHIELD, but it leaked online yesterday, no doubt thanks to Hydra. And since fighting the internet is pointless, Marvel went ahead and threw it up on YouTube for all of By Sarah • Oct 23, 2014 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Dear White People Dear White People was one of my Sundance picks way back in January, and man did it live up to the hype. The feature film debut of writer/director Justin Simien, Dear White People follows a group of students at a Harvard-esque Ivy League school, the fictional Winchester, as By Sarah • Oct 22, 2014 11:03 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Mandy Moore (For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here.) I've always been a huge fan of Mandy Moore—always. Music, movies (as truly awful as some of them are), everything. And for the last few years, she’s been teasing a new album and chasing TV By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 03:02 pm
Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey is a hippy-dippy Philosophy TA Has anyone had a run like Matthew McConaughey has had the last few years? He’s transformed his career, won an Oscar, and gone from stock rom-com alpha male to one of the biggest and most in demand actors in the world. And he’s done it without seeming By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 11:40 am
Wyatt Cenac An interview with Wyatt Cenac Wyatt Cenac’s voice is tinny on speakerphone, and he sounds tired, but that might be a trick of his accent, which has all of the drawl of Texas and none of the twang. Best known for his stint on The Daily Show (“Four and a half years,” he emphasizes) By Sarah • Oct 21, 2014 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Jena Malone playing a female Robin? On Friday the latest rumor about Superhero Face Punch, which has been filming since 1997 at this point, hit the internet and it’s one of the more interesting assumptions about the movie we’ve heard yet—Jena Malone might be playing a female iteration of Batman’s sidekick, Robin. By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Birdman Birdman is a tremendous film. There’s no other way to put it. It’s an ASTOUNDING technical accomplishment and a genuinely affecting film that is funny, absurd, moving, and sad. The performances are fantastic, the score is terrific, and where Clouds of Sils Maria gets bogged down in the By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Clouds of Sils Maria Clouds of Sils Maria is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s new film. It stars Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Grace Moretz. It is about an actress, Maria (Binoche), debating whether or not to take a role in the play that made her famous, but instead of playing the young By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:26 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.2: “You are not safe” The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 2 recap As much as seasons spent stuck in one location suck (ugh, the farm), at least when you have a stable living situation there’s an opportunity to sketch out how everyone is surviving. The thing about wandering around the woods is that By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck is definitely in the Justice League During a shareholder meeting earlier this week, Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara dumped a ton of info about the DC cinematic universe on us, including the flashy announcement that textile-wearer Ezra Miller will play The Flash. Buried under the new information is the confirmation that Zack Snyder will direct By Sarah • Oct 17, 2014 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: St. Vincent I have officially hit the halfway point of the Chicago International Film Festival. It is October 16th, and between the festival and squeezing in some commercial releases to meet writing commitments, I’ve seen sixteen movies so far this month. I have fifteen left to go, including four double-headers. By Sarah • Oct 16, 2014 01:15 pm
Neil Patrick Harris NPH goes for EGOT Kind of. Yesterday news broke that Neil Patrick Harris will host the Oscars on February 22, 2015. This is very exciting—NPH is a born entertainer and he’s a proven host, having done stints on the Tonys and the Emmys. We’ve been clamoring for him to host for By Sarah • Oct 16, 2014 11:05 am
