The Bridge The Bridge 1.8: “You’re the man that crossed the bridge” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 8 recap. We’re halfway through season one of The Bridge and so far, it’s been a consistently good show that just misses being truly great. What we’re missing is someone to really care about. We don’t know enough about the original By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carrie returns I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies; the love stems from a childhood spent watching Hitchcock, Vincent Price and Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the hate comes from the late trend of torture porn that’s strictly about the fetishizing of female fear for consumption by a predominantly By Sarah • Aug 28, 2013 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a space raccoon After the relief of Vin Diesel being relegated to playing a tree, the next bout of Marvel casting speculation turned to the final piece of the Guardians of the Galaxy puzzle—who would voice Rocket Raccoon, the trigger happy space varmint and biggest WTF element of a WTF-heavy concept. Rocket By Sarah • Aug 23, 2013 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck is Batman: the Nerd angle Well it’s definitely a better pick than some MTV pretty boy. The news that Ben Affleck will be Batman in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel was greeted, predictably, with equal parts nerd-joy and nerd-rage. The joy mostly comes from Affleck being a proper actor—did they tease By Sarah • Aug 23, 2013 09:01 am
The Bridge The Bridge 1.7: “I am the truth” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 7 recap Last week my neighborhood experienced a blackout, which meant I missed The Bridge, which meant no recap. But after catching up, the takeaways from episode six are that truculent teen Gina, who was introduced only to witness Serial Killer Doug serial killing her By Sarah • Aug 22, 2013 09:10 am
Timothy Olyphant Timothy Olyphant to swagger on The Mindy Project Colin Firth has his long-legged stride, Meg Ryan has (had?) her jaunty bouncy walk, and Timothy Olyphant has that loose-limbed cowboy swagger that makes him so perfect as Raylan Givens on Justified. And this fall he’ll be swaggering on Mindy Kaling’s sitcom, The Mindy Project, playing a skateboarder By Sarah • Aug 20, 2013 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Loki Show The last time we talked about Loki and Tom Hiddleston, I said that Thor 2 is “almost a movie more about Loki than Thor”, and now with an interview that director Alan Taylor gave to MTV at the D23 Expo that can be changed to “Thor 2 is definitely more By Sarah • Aug 15, 2013 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Actor with no personality plays tree Remember when I wrote about Vin Diesel maybe making something happen at Marvel, and I was like, Ugh, please just let him be the space tree that barely speaks? Well guess what? He’s the tree. Diesel, after weeks of buildup via Facebook and some pretty blatant campaigning, is in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2013 09:56 am
Amazingness The Original Matt Damon Yesterday when I wrote about Channing Tatum being pleasant and, ugh, really likeable all over Chicago, I called him the new Matt Damon. And then last night the real Matt Damon turned up on The Colbert Report to remind us all what being Matt Damon is like —funny and personable By Sarah • Aug 09, 2013 11:01 am
Maple Leaf Career Prospectus: Ryan Reynolds For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here. Well this was inevitable. We’ve received several requests for a Ryan Reynolds prospectus, and since he’s had yet another summer blockbuster flop, it seemed like a good time to address what exactly is going on with his By Sarah • Aug 09, 2013 10:03 am
Channing Tatum You win, Channing Tatum I held out and held out, unable to accept a Cro-Magnon as the most viable leading man we’ve produced since Robert Downey, Jr. got his sh*t together, but I surrender. Channing Tatum has totally won me over. This isn’t a ringing endorsement of his acting—although I By Sarah • Aug 08, 2013 11:45 am
The Bridge The Bridge 1.5: “I saw the Beast” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 5 recap Jumping right in with Jefe and an underling discussing how a serial killer is different from any other kind of killer. Jefe determines he isn’t a serial killer because he doesn’t enjoy killing. Then he murders some guy he tortured. He’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2013 10:07 am
Girly Throw Downs Ashton Kutcher thinks he knows better than George Clooney Today in things that make me laugh, Ashton Kutcher has made a statement implying that we live in a world where he knows better than George Clooney about something, anything. In response to George Clooney’s amazingly direct and on-point observation that hedge-funder Daniel Loeb is bullying the leadership at By Sarah • Aug 07, 2013 02:06 pm
Girly Throw Downs MTV vs. Colbert Nation If you’re a big media outlet whose sole job is to look cool and hip then you really shouldn’t tangle with a top-notch, widely popular comedian with a big-ass network microphone. That’s a new rule I just made up. Stephen Colbert has been hyping the appearance of By Sarah • Aug 07, 2013 11:43 am
Dumbass Armie Hammer’s snit-fit I wonder which is more uncomfortable—promoting a movie that you know sucks, or promoting a movie after it tanks? Based on Armie Hammer’s recent interviews, he does not seem to be enjoying promoting The Lone Ranger in the wake of its disastrous performance this summer—and let’s By Sarah • Aug 06, 2013 09:42 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock’s return It’s about three months until Sherlock returns on the BBC and/or we all pirate it—no use pretending any of us are actually going to wait till it airs on PBS in twenty-motherf*cking-fourteen—and we have our first teaser. It’s a totally uninformative glimpse of Sherlock By Sarah • Aug 05, 2013 10:35 am
