Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch enters the Oscar race In 2011 the Black List was topped by a script for a biopic of Alan Turing, the computer scientist who developed the early computer that the British used to break the German’s Enigma code. You might also recognize his name from the Turing Test, a series of questions meant By Sarah • Jul 21, 2014 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars plot: Luke needs a hand Turn away if your eyeballs are a pristine, spoiler-free environment. We’re discussing potential Star Wars Episode VII plot details, so if you don’t want to know, go no further. It’s nothing particularly revelatory—it’s not like, “and then everyone at the wedding died” territory—but By Sarah • Jul 21, 2014 10:51 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Scarlett Johansson’s stunt triplets Entertainment Weekly’s Comic Con preview issue has dumped a truckload of new information on us regarding The Avengers: Age of Ultron. For the most part, it’s all fun and games—the superhero clubhouse, more information about the new characters being introduced, et cetera. There is one detail, though, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2014 12:24 pm
TV Updates True Blood’s Jessica levels up to Daredevil I haven’t watched True Blood in years (has anyone?), but the last I saw of it Jessica was one of the last good things going on that show. So it makes me happy that Deborah Ann Woll, who actually made that mess watchable, is moving on to bigger and By Sarah • Jul 18, 2014 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Clubhouse! With Warner Brothers electing to save Batman vs. Superman for next summer’s Comic-Con, this summer’s convention belongs squarely to the other superhero orgy in our lives, The Avengers: Age of Ultron. To that end, Entertainment Weekly is featuring a first look at Ultron on the cover of By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer box office blues In case you haven’t heard, summer 2014 is some weak-ass sh*t at the box office. We’re two-thirds of the way through the summer movie season and domestic tickets sales are down over 19%—that’s a staggering drop in revenue, especially since we were actually By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 02:09 pm
TV Updates A female Thor, but not for the movies I don’t want to discount the importance of Marvel choosing to reimagine Thor as a woman for a new comic book run. It’s important that kids—any kid—looks at the characters we deem heroic and see themselves reflected back, and Marvel Comics has been diligent about diversifying By Sarah • Jul 16, 2014 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Radcliffe’s devil face Yesterday Lainey wrote about Daniel Radcliffe and how he’s pretty much doing whatever he wants, post-Harry Potter. At 24 and he’s already made his money and earned the kind of fame that never really goes away (see also: Orlando Bloom, Mark Hamill), so there’s no pressure By Sarah • Jul 15, 2014 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Unbroken and Angelina’s Eye The first trailer for Unbroken, Angelina Jolie’s second film as a director, has been released and it has Oscar Bait stamped all over it: Sweeping music, dazzling visuals, a story about a scrappy survivor, World War II, and a family-friendly Christmas release date. If Unbroken is even half By Sarah • Jul 11, 2014 11:49 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: James Marsden (Click here for previous installments of the Career Prospectus series.) I jokingly proposed doing a prospectus on James Marsden a few weeks ago, but then thought, No but seriously—what happened to James Marsden? So I’m answering my own question with this prospectus, because Marsden is a guy—talented, By Sarah • Jul 08, 2014 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer crushing on Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon Last night Marvel offered a seventeen minute sneak peek of Guardians of the Galaxy in IMAX 3D. They screened the prison break/riot scene featured in the trailers, plus sizzle reels of new footage. It was a good choice to get people hooked—the prison scene is really funny with By Sarah • Jul 08, 2014 11:46 am
Lifestyle Sasha Answers: Did my best friend break Girl Code? Hi Sasha –I have a bridal party of 5 girls, and many of us go back many years together. One of my girls in particular, S, I’ve known for over 10 years and we’ve been there for one another throughout good times and bad. S is single and By Sarah • Jul 07, 2014 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who’s the horrible boss? Horrible Bosses was a perfectly serviceable comedy that is most notable for featuring Charlie Day, because Charlie Day is a national treasure and any time he’s on screen it’s worth watching. And since it made $209 million at the box office, it got a sequel, which is due By Sarah • Jul 02, 2014 11:04 am
Tilda Swinton Reddit got SWINTON’d Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” crowd-sourced interviews are such a mixed bag. Some are genuinely interesting—Louis CK and Canada’s own Col. Chris Hadfield come to mind—but a lot are boring. The AMA has become an actual publicity tool, and it’s pretty common now for actors By Sarah • Jun 30, 2014 10:13 am
Media Manipulation The Huntsman, but no Snow White In the wake of the Kristen Stewart/Rupert Sanders scandal of 2012, a lot of people wondered what would happen to the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Would Sanders be back, would Stewart be back, would neither return? Would Universal decide to skip a proper sequel entirely and just By Sarah • Jun 27, 2014 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Franco & Rogen’s act of war It’s amazing how tolerable James Franco becomes when he’s working with Seth Rogen. It might be Rogen’s ability to bring out the best in anyone, or maybe it’s seeing their real friendship bleed into their performances together, but when Franco is working opposite Rogen, I almost By Sarah • Jun 26, 2014 01:14 pm
