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
Aging Gorgessity Is Rob Lowe an incubus? It isn’t that Rob Lowe is aging gracefully—Matt Damon is aging gracefully. Rob Lowe doesn’t appear to be aging AT ALL. There has to be an explanation for how he looks so impossibly young and fresh on the cusp of his fiftieth birthday. I’ve narrowed it By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 08:50 am
Tom Hiddleston Tom Hiddleston’s murder car The most insane commercial I’ve ever seen is the Folgers “Christmas incest” ad. I love that commercial, and I never thought anything could top its accidental comedy gold, until I saw the teaser for Tom Hiddleston’s Jaguar commercial, which will air during the Super Bowl. Why is this By Sarah • Jan 17, 2014 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2014 Preview: 10 to Watch I was looking over my Sundance 2013 preview for formatting notes when I saw this: Matthew McConaughey will get nominated for an Oscar. It will happen. I missed it this year, so I’m going to go ahead and call it for 2014—Matthew McConaughey will get nominated for an By Sarah • Jan 16, 2014 10:43 am
Justified Justified 5.2: “You lawmen only know one way” Justified Season 5, Episode 2 recap. A while back I heard that Justified was on a seven-season arc, and while I would happily have Justified forever, seven seasons seemed like a nice, healthy run. That’s 91 episodes, good by any measure. Well, you can knock 13 of those episodes By Sarah • Jan 15, 2014 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Douglas: Sexagenarian superhero Watching the Golden Globes Sunday night, it occurred to me that four out of six Avengers were there. Then I started looking at the tables more closely during cutaways and realized that damn near every film table, and more than a few of the TV tables, had at least one By Sarah • Jan 14, 2014 10:25 am
Dumbass More like POINTLESS Break The Golden Age of Sh*tastic Action Movies (1984-1991) is marked by certain watershed films: Exterminator 2, Miami Connection, Invasion: USA, Gymkata, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, and, of course, the greatest achievements in sh*tastic action filmmaking, Road House and Point Break. You can’t replicate the conditions that existed in the By Sarah • Jan 10, 2014 10:43 am
Justified Justified 5.1: “We’re going to Detroit” Justified Season 5, Episode 1 recap. Over the holidays my entire family came down with the flu, and I was the only healthy person in a house full of sickos. Quarantined for my own protection, I had six days and nothing to do, so I re-watched all four seasons of By Sarah • Jan 08, 2014 10:23 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Kate Hudson (For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here) Saw these photos and got to thinking...what happened with Kate Hudson's career? She went from Promising Young Movie Star to Bad RomCom Girl to Small Part on TV/Fashion Girl. Current IMDB roster looks weak. By Sarah • Jan 07, 2014 04:00 pm
Sasheer Zamata SNL works on that whole diversity thing Late last year, SNL—and its executive producer, Lorne Michaels—got accused of having a diversity problem. There hasn’t been a black woman on the show since Maya Rudolph left in 2007, and in the history of the show, they’ve only had four black women total, and in By Sarah • Jan 07, 2014 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America’s no-worries reshoots There are several things that signal problems on a film shoot—budget overages, falling behind schedule, sudden firings and late reshoots being chief among them—and once upon a time, news of any one of those things was enough to get a production labeled as being “in trouble”. But increasingly, By Sarah • Jan 06, 2014 01:02 pm
Joaquin Phoenix Joaquin Phoenix could spice up Superman Every time I write about Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman, his follow-up to Man of Steel (because it certainly isn’t a sequel at this point), and how increasingly unexcited I am for it, I inevitably get some email that basically says, “Shut up, the movie will be great” By Sarah • Dec 19, 2013 12:26 pm
Paul Rudd Paul Rudd: Superhero Two months ago a rumor emerged that Paul Rudd was a finalist for Marvel’s Ant Man, and though I liked the idea of Rudd as part of the Marvel universe, I was cautious simply because of all of Marvel’s projects, Ant Man is the least-known (and there has By Sarah • Dec 19, 2013 11:15 am
Benedict Cumberbatch How responsible are we, really? Reader Jackie sent an email this morning about Benedict Cumberbatch that basically boiled down to, “Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be skating along the edge of other people’s bad decisions, so when does that become a problem for him?” (Emphasis mine). Her examples: playing a white-washed role in Star Trek By Sarah • Dec 17, 2013 01:45 pm
Channing Tatum Jump Street is back One of the surprises of 2012 was that the 21 Jump Street movie reboot didn’t suck. It very much did not suck. It was, actually, pretty funny. And it’s only gotten funnier on repeat viewings, which is the sign of a classic. It might chap your ass a By Sarah • Dec 17, 2013 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla Rising I couldn’t get down with Pacific Rim I wanted to, but it was just so lazy and predictable. After getting burned by Pacific Rim, I’ve been extremely cautious about the Godzilla remake, even though a bunch of my nerd friends lost their sh*t over it at Comic-Con By Sarah • Dec 10, 2013 03:28 pm
