Movie Reviews and Previews The Thor 2 premiere was a sausage fest Lainey was hoping that RDJ would show in support of Thor: The Dark World at its LA premiere—not unreasonable, given he supported Captain America back in 2011—but Marvel typically only hooks one franchise outlier per premiere; they don’t clog their red carpets. So when Jeremy Renner showed By Sarah • Nov 05, 2013 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooting for Thor It was Hiddlemas Eve in Los Angeles last night as the Thor: The Dark World press tour wound to a close with the US premiere of the movie ahead of opening on Friday. The patron saint of Hiddlemas, Saint Tom the Huge Dork, was in attendance, wearing a suit that By Sarah • Nov 05, 2013 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Only Lovers Left Alive is funny? After premiering at Cannes and screening at TIFF, Only Lovers Left Alive, aka the vampire movie with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, finally has a trailer. And it looks funny, maybe? Funny is not a word I would use to describe writer/director Jim Jarmusch—usually I would go with By Sarah • Nov 04, 2013 10:09 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.4: “Then you change” The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 4 recap. One thing I love on The Walking Dead is when they get outside wherever they’re holed up (prison, farm, Woodbury) and we get to see what the world looks like as the zombie apocalypse progresses. This episode, with Daryl, Michonne, Tyrese By Sarah • Nov 04, 2013 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Hiddlemas As we enter our third week of Hiddlemas, celebrations move to America as the patron saint himself, Saint Tom the Huge Dork, has come to ring in the festivities by, what else, being a huge dork. But this time, he’s being a huge dork with kids, which is the By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The LEGO Movie: Everything is awesome At first, The LEGO Movie sounded like exactly the kind of consumerist filmmaking that is tanking summer movies (see also: Transformers, Battleship), but the first trailer was funny, and despite its graveyard shift release in February, I was optimistic. Now the second trailer has been released and I am totally By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 09:35 am
Media Manipulation Which would you rather: Aaron Taylor-Johnson edition This week in Duh, We Knew That news, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has officially joined the cast of The Avengers: Age of Ultron as Quicksilver, the one hero more worthless than Hawkeye. Word that Taylor-Johnson was being tapped for the role came out early last summer and then he gave some not-very-coy By Sarah • Oct 31, 2013 12:34 pm
Media Manipulation Way to waste my time, Liberty Ross When the new Vanity Fair cover was revealed earlier this week, Lainey commented, “Vanity Fair is out for blood all over the place.” We’re all waiting for the big expose on Goop, they’re reportedly pressuring Nigella Lawson to participate in a feature story, and the topline of the By Sarah • Oct 31, 2013 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s wedding The Germany premiere of Thor: The Dark World occurred over the weekend and—gasp—a rare wild Hemsworth appeared. We’ve been poking at Chris Hemsworth for his lackluster presence in his own franchise’s promotions, and after the London premiere I didn’t expect to see him again until By Sarah • Oct 28, 2013 10:12 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.3: “We’ve all got jobs to do” The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 3. Life at the prison is falling apart. Right away we learn that Rick did not, in fact, have anything to do with Karen and the other guy’s mysterious deaths. So someone else killed them and burned the bodies, and Tyrese is on By Sarah • Oct 28, 2013 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Winter Soldier is coming Everyone is sweating bullets about Thor: The Dark World’s box office, but really, they ought to be worried about Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America is, as the joke goes, nobody’s favorite. He’s one of the oldest characters in Marvel’s cannon (the oldest? Help me By Sarah • Oct 24, 2013 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews First Annual Hiddlemas Parade Continuing the (newly minted) holiday celebrating all things goofy and long-legged, Hiddlemas marked its second week by having a festive parade on a carpet that happened to be red. The parade was overseen by Grand Marshall Chris Hemsworth, with a tie knot tied so tiny-ly that it made his head By Sarah • Oct 23, 2013 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict’s box office boo-boo So we’ve already discussed today how box office tracking is usually full of sh*t (click here for a refresher), but there is a threshold where it simply doesn’t matter how wonky the numbers are—you can’t deny when a movie sh*ts the bed. And The By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Place Your Bets: Thor 2 Edition Predicting a movie’s opening weekend box office is a blood sport in Los Angeles. I’ve got a friend who is a brilliant mathematician, who has dual PhDs and if you met him, you would think he worked for NASA. But no, he works for a firm that specializes By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 10:58 am
Girly Throw Downs Harvey Scissorhands is at it again If you haven’t grasped it by now, Harvey Weinstein is a very difficult figure in film. There is no denying his impact on the US movie industry, especially as a promoter of specialty and indie films, and his role as one of the central figures in the politicization of By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 09:40 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.2: “You have to become strong” The Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 2 recap. Before we get into this week’s recap, we have some very important Walking Dead-adjacent news to discuss. Mainly—why did no one tell me Andrew Lincoln’s real last name is Clutterbuck?! This old clip from David Letterman showed up when By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 09:14 am
