Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Michelle Monaghan (For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here.) I have often wondered about the missing link for Michelle Monaghan’s career. Is she just not that interested in the fame game? Is she missing the “something” that sets her apart? She’s THAT girl where I always By Sarah • Sep 05, 2014 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock chooses villainy Dwayne Johnson has been teasing his involvement with the DC cinematic universe for months—over a year, actually—and finally yesterday he announced on his Twitter that he is indeed playing a marquee role in an upcoming DC movie—just not the hero. Johnson will be Black Adam from the By Sarah • Sep 04, 2014 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews And so it begins: TIFF 2014 It’s September and summer is officially over, which means it’s time for festival season. Telluride has come and gone and Venice is underway, and now TIFF kicks off on the fourth, heralding the unofficial start of Oscar season (it’s pretty much year-round at this point, but By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The summer box office sucked The summer box office, which was trending downward all season, officially blew chunks. Receipts were down 22.2% from last year, making this the worst summer movie season since 2005 (all numbers are for domestic box office, which is the case throughout, unless denoted otherwise). Accounting for inflation, this is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am
Quiveration Men vs. boys: British edition Lainey texted me over the weekend about how she’s excited to see The Riot Club, a movie about secret societies at Oxford (it’s playing TIFF later this week). I’m into it for Natalie Dormer, but Lainey’s all over it because of the gaggle of British boys By Sarah • Sep 02, 2014 01:51 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead season 5: “The greater good” We’re six weeks away from the premiere of The Walking Dead season 5, so it’s time for Entertainment Weekly to run their now-annual preview issue. The collectible covers are pretty good, especially Michonne and Daryl’s. Maggie and Glenn are just kind of eh, and I’m By Sarah • Aug 29, 2014 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield, Forever Child Do you buy Andrew Garfield as an adult? I don’t know that I do. He’s 31 years old, I know that academically, but I don’t think I really know that. Because when I see Garfield, I don’t think “grown ass man”. He’s a Forever Child, By Sarah • Aug 28, 2014 12:28 pm
Amazingness Ice buckets for everyone The ALS Ice Bucket challenge continues to steam-roll through popular culture, cluttering up everyone’s timelines and inspiring countless think pieces and rants, all while raising over forty million dollars for ALS research and support, which is tremendously awesome and everyone can just shut the f*ck up about By Sarah • Aug 22, 2014 02:56 pm
Amazingness Chris Pratt keeps his promise During press for Guardians of the Galaxy last month, Chris Pratt said that he’d stolen his Star-Lord costume so that he could visit sick kids in the hospital dressed as his superhero character. And guess what? HE DID. Pratt visited the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles on By Sarah • Aug 21, 2014 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Ant-Man Yesterday, in a display of stubbornness so determined it’s almost impressive, Marvel tweeted a first-look image of Paul Rudd in character as Scott Lang for Ant-Man, which is now officially in production. The movie that was greenlit purely to humor Edgar Wright is now being made because By Sarah • Aug 20, 2014 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Why are we making TWO Jungle Books? Actors take jobs. Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor, and he’s just taken a job portraying the tiger Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book (not to be confused with Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book). If all you care about is that Benedict Cumberbatch’s voice will be coming By Sarah • Aug 19, 2014 01:08 pm
Media Manipulation Beardy Chris Evans returns It’s Friday, it’s been a pretty sh*tty week all around, and we could all use something nice to look at as we zone out for the weekend. So here are new photos of Beardy Chris Evans, making his return after Avengers: Age of Ultron has wrapped. I By Sarah • Aug 15, 2014 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Bad Boys III getting real? Let’s check in with Michael Bay, who’s had a big summer with two awful movies performing mediocrely at the domestic box office, only to skate to success on the back of an expanding Chinese market hungry for any output at all! Hey Michael! How’s it going, buddy? By Sarah • Aug 14, 2014 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Loki-Hur MGM had previously announced their intention to remake Ben-Hur, the classic Charlton Heston chariot race epic, but nothing about the project inspired confidence. They’ve put Timur Bekmambetov, director of such fine films as Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, in charge and they’ve already dated it for By Sarah • Aug 13, 2014 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Tourist 2: Mortdecai After Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai got kicked to February 2015, it was clear that it was not going to be a good movie. But just how not-good it will be was a mystery, at least until yesterday when the first trailer was released. We now have some idea of By Sarah • Aug 13, 2014 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews You guys, Aquaman is cool! Last Friday Zack Snyder, ringmaster of Superhero Face Punch, was listening to a local sports talk radio show in Detroit when he heard the DJs bashing Aquaman, echoing pretty much everyone’s sentiments when it comes to Aquaman, which is—really? So Snyder called into the show to defend Aquaman, By Sarah • Aug 12, 2014 11:02 am
