Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller will play a broody, emo ARTISTE who runs really fast Warner Brothers is in the middle of their annual shareholder presentation right now, and CEO Kevin Tsujihara just dropped some major info bombs regarding the future of their DC movies slate, confirming a Wonder Woman solo movie in 2017, along with the proper Justice League team-up flick that Superhero By Sarah • Oct 15, 2014 02:05 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch’s campaign of inclusion It’s mid-October, which means that award season is in full swing, and as such the actors starring in award bait are beginning to lay the foundation of their Oscar campaigns. We’re still over a month away from Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Imitation Game opening in the US, By Sarah • Oct 15, 2014 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America vs. Iron Man—Marvel’s Civil War is happening RDJ has been talking up a potential extension of his contract to play Iron Man, and everyone jumped on the Iron Man 4 grenade, because he made some wiseass comments about Iron Man 4. I didn’t buy that he was in talks for another Iron Man installment, but that By Sarah • Oct 14, 2014 10:52 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 5.1: “You can’t go back, Bob” We’re back with The Walking Dead, picking up where we left off at the end of season four—Rick and the group trapped in a train car in Terminus, at the dubious mercy of a bunch of cannibals. This was a strong episode, jumping immediately into action and never By Sarah • Oct 14, 2014 08:43 am
Quiveration CIFF Review: Miss Julie The Chicago International Film Festival kicked off last night, and over the next couple weeks I’ll be reviewing some festival season stragglers, beginning with the opening night film, Miss Julie, which blew chunks. But first we need to talk about Colin Farrell, who was on hand along with writer/ By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 10:17 am
Quiveration Beautiful British people looking beautiful (and British) in the rain The Imitation Game opened the London Film Festival the other night and Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley showed up looking all kinds of glamorous. Cumberbatch is at his best in Sherlock drag, but the suit porn is good, too, and this is some prime suit porn. If Cumberbatch is your By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney crashes Comic Con (but not THAT Comic-Con) Which is, honestly, more interesting to me than his wedding. New York Comic Con is underway, and while it isn’t as important from an industry perspective as San Diego Comic-Con, it is rising in prominence thanks to some high-profile projects that have eschewed Hall H for New By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ, Forever and Always: Part Two Okay, now that we’ve talked about the Marvel can of worms RDJ has opened up, let’s move on to how delightful RDJ is in general, which is SO DELIGHTFUL. First, there’s his appearance on The Howard Stern Show in which he talked about Sarah Jessica Parker. Stern By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:55 am
Media Manipulation RDJ, Forever and Always: Part One RDJ’s new movie, The Judge, opens this weekend, which means that RDJ is making the press rounds and giving us so much to talk about that we actually had to split it into two posts. He’s already given us the glimpses into his family life and his relationship By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:41 am
TV Updates House and Hiddles are coming to TV I saw this late Friday afternoon and heard a loud record scratch in my head—Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston are going to star in a television adaptation of John le Carre’s The Night Manager. The show will air on the BBC in the UK and though it does By Sarah • Oct 06, 2014 10:12 am
Joaquin Phoenix Dr. Strange will be played by a three-day-old breakfast burrito Yesterday Lainey asked a question—Joaquin or Ethan? Recent rumors have pitted them against each other for Marvel’s latest superhero incarnation, Dr. Strange. Today we have an answer: Neither. According to Badass Digest, they’re both out. Deadline is now reporting the same. When Lainey asked me about this By Sarah • Oct 02, 2014 04:39 pm
The Walking Dead Two weeks ‘til Dead October 12th is the premiere of The Walking Dead, season 5. Are you ready? I had to replace my DVR box over the summer and to be honest, when faced with programming the new one, I wavered on The Walking Dead. It’s half a hate-watch already, and I’ By Sarah • Oct 02, 2014 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesus Bale is back! One of my favorite things ever is Jesus Bale, or what happens when Christian Bale gets particularly hirsute. How can you not love this? It cracks me up every time. So I’m really excited to see in the new Exodus: Gods & Guyliner trailer that Jesus Bale is making By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 12:54 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch gets ahead of the game Benedict Cumberbatch has a GREAT new interview with TimeOut London in which he talks about both his Oscar chances and the kingmaker grooming him for center stage. The Batch is always an interesting interview for several reasons: 1) He’s 38 and fame came late-ish for him, striking in By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 11:49 am
Media Manipulation Get off Jeremy Renner’s lawn Jeremy Renner’s new movie, Kill The Messenger, opens on October 10 (against RDJ’s The Judge—do you think they’re giving each other a hard time about box office competition?), and as such Renner is giving us the hard shill. Kill The Messenger is opening in a crowded By Sarah • Sep 30, 2014 01:08 pm
TV Updates Chris Pratt’s SNL was a charm offensive Is everyone on the Chris Pratt train at this point? Is there anyone left uncharmed? Does anyone object to Pratt becoming a Movie Star? As I predicted back in January, Pratt blew up huge this year, and this weekend he capped his breakout year by hosting Saturday Night Live, and By Sarah • Sep 29, 2014 12:00 pm
