Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Eric Bana For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here. What happened to Eric Bana's career? He is a great actor and good looking. I read once, long ago when he seemed ready to break out, that he purposefully only took a few films a year By Sarah • Feb 07, 2014 12:52 pm
TV Updates Benedict Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch went on Sesame Street and did a math bit with Murray and the Count. It’s cute, I guess. I don’t have any fond nostalgia for Sesame Street—I only remember watching it at school when it was raining and we couldn’t go outside at recess— By Sarah • Feb 05, 2014 12:27 pm
Justified Justified 5.5: “Hello Theo” Justified Season 5, Episode 5 recap. I had to watch this episode twice. A LOT happened. It’s episode five, which is usually when the various threads start coming together and we progress from the “table setting” portion of the season to the “sh*t hitting the fan” part. And By Sarah • Feb 05, 2014 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg was cast as WHO? The internet usually hates whoever is cast in upcoming superhero movies. It’s a fact of life. Superhero casting follows a pattern: 1) Announcement, 2) Fan backlash, 3) Supportive media backlash to the fan backlash, 4) The movie comes out and everyone forgets they hated that actor. We’ve seen By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Something old, something new, hey look, it’s Spider-Man 2 With their big comic book movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, due in theaters in May, Sony is getting serious with their ad campaign. How serious? Super Bowl serious. Sony dropped $8 million on two thirty-second spots (which you can watch here) to tell us to go online and watch a By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot. Dinosaurs. I got nerd-yelled at on Twitter for referring to the robots in the Super Bowl TV spot for Transformers: Age of Extinction as robot dinosaurs and not by their proper name, the dinobots. But c’mon. Seriously. “Robot dinosaur” sounds so much better than “dinobot”. There’s no way to By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America kicks ass Marvel played the “Super Bowl TV spot telling you to go watch a trailer online” card, for April’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It’s the Phase 2 film that most directly sets up The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and DAMN, did they deliver a great second trailer. It By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 10:14 am
Tom Hiddleston The softer side of Tom Hiddleston I mean, he’s all soft side, isn’t he? He’s basically the human equivalent of a puppy’s belly. But our most recent exposure to Hiddles was via Jaguar’s serial killer makeover, so it’s nice to be reminded that this is the same Tom Hiddleston who By Sarah • Jan 31, 2014 12:02 pm
Mark Strong Tom Hiddleston’s serial killer commercial When last we heard from Tom Hiddleston, he had four dead bodies in the trunk of his car. I had a lot of questions about a commercial that had no problem insinuating its protagonist had just committed quadruple homicide. Well, now we have the full Super Bowl spot from Jaguar, By Sarah • Jan 29, 2014 01:17 pm
Justified Justified 5.4: “So I know you’re a Crowe” Justified Season 5 Episode 4 recap. Four episodes in and a theme is emerging for Justified season five: Consequences. It started at the end of season four when Ava was arrested for Delroy’s murder and Raylan sanctioned Nicky Augustine’s murder, and now the consequences are just piling up By Sarah • Jan 29, 2014 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Freeze I have forgotten what warm is. Warm is a distant memory of another time, when the sky wasn’t grey and ice didn’t cover everything and I could feel all of my fingers and toes. But warm is gone and it is the cold time now. It will just By Sarah • Jan 24, 2014 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Where are my bloody pirates?! I have dragons. I’m happy with the dragons. Dragons are coming out the pop culture wazoo right now, and I love it. But I don’t have any pirates. Rather, the pirates I do have are stupid, and I want better ones. (Exception: Gideon Defoe’s The Pirates! series, By Sarah • Jan 23, 2014 03:10 pm
Justified Justified 5.3: “Who’s going to be the last man standing?” Justified Season 5, Episode 3 recap How are we already three episodes into Justified?! Now that we’re on such a finite schedule, it’s going too quickly. And things are moving quickly this season. It was like, episode five before season four really got into gear and the disparate By Sarah • Jan 22, 2014 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman and Superman flinched Celebrities aren’t the only ones who bury news stories late on holiday weekends. Warner Brothers did it late Friday with a piece of the news that, at any other point in the news cycle, would have dominated everything. As it is, tucking away their announcement after business on the By Sarah • Jan 21, 2014 04:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Jeremy Renner’s forgotten hustle Jeremy Renner was at the SAG Awards, nominated for best ensemble along with the rest of the cast for American Hustle. Let’s take a moment to celebrate a victory over his Shiny Suit Problem—he looked great in a non-shiny pewter tux (so great that Rita Moreno hit on By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 09:57 am
TV Updates The Batch is back as Sherlock returns Benedict Cumberbatch was enjoying himself at the SAG Awards. I mean that sincerely, no side-eye. Every time I caught a glimpse of him in the audience, he was smiling and laughing, sitting at the 12 Years a Slave table but making time for his August: Osage County co-stars, too. It By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 09:17 am
