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
Movie Reviews and Previews Khal Drogo vs. Batman vs. Superman One of my favorite new video games this year is Injustice: Gods Among Us, which is a fighting game that pits all of DC Comics’ best superheroes and villains against each other. It’s a solid game, with decent graphics (characters look GREAT but the backgrounds get a little muddy) By Sarah • Dec 10, 2013 11:09 am
TV Updates Sherlock doesn’t approve Of John’s comedy mustache. It’s T-minus forty days until Sherlock series 3 premieres in the US, or, as I like to put it, T-minus twenty-two days until we all pirate it (“The Empty Hearse” is scheduled to air on New Year’s Day in the UK). Why do By Sarah • Dec 09, 2013 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston’s fairy movie I deleted the knowledge that Tom Hiddleston is voicing Captain Hook in the latest Tinkerbell movie for Disney. It is in no way relevant to me, a grown-ass woman who does not have children to whom I must cater. So when Lainey emailed me about covering a new Tom Hiddleston By Sarah • Dec 05, 2013 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new Wonder Woman A month after casting speculation emerged regarding a female role in Batman vs. Superman that was assumed to be Wonder Woman, though I was skeptical, we now know two things for sure. 1) The role is, in fact, Wonder Woman, and 2) she will be played by Gal Gadot. A By Sarah • Dec 04, 2013 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner’s Movie Star Mulligan Remember how last year Jeremy Renner was everywhere, trying to be a movie star, and that the centerpiece of his campaign was a Bourne movie that didn’t star Jason Bourne? Well, the strategy kinda sorta worked. The movie, The Bourne Legacy (aka the non-Bourne Bourne), did well enough to By Sarah • Dec 03, 2013 10:06 am
