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
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
