Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch gets ahead of the game Benedict Cumberbatch has a GREAT new interview with TimeOut London in which he talks about both his Oscar chances and the kingmaker grooming him for center stage. The Batch is always an interesting interview for several reasons: 1) He’s 38 and fame came late-ish for him, striking in By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 11:49 am
Media Manipulation Get off Jeremy Renner’s lawn Jeremy Renner’s new movie, Kill The Messenger, opens on October 10 (against RDJ’s The Judge—do you think they’re giving each other a hard time about box office competition?), and as such Renner is giving us the hard shill. Kill The Messenger is opening in a crowded By Sarah • Sep 30, 2014 01:08 pm
TV Updates Chris Pratt’s SNL was a charm offensive Is everyone on the Chris Pratt train at this point? Is there anyone left uncharmed? Does anyone object to Pratt becoming a Movie Star? As I predicted back in January, Pratt blew up huge this year, and this weekend he capped his breakout year by hosting Saturday Night Live, and By Sarah • Sep 29, 2014 12:00 pm
Relationship Assumption Jeremy Renner is officially married, bring on the crazy train It has been my experience that Jeremy Renner fans tend to be a most entertainingly delusional group of people. I don’t get hate mail from Renner fans, I get charmingly deranged, five thousand word essays about all the various ways in which I am wrong about whatever I’ve By Sarah • Sep 24, 2014 11:14 am
Sports South Park takes on the Washington Entitled Twats and it is GLORIOUS I’ve pretty much gone off football these days. I’ve loved football my whole life, but I can’t take it anymore. I can’t pretend like someone being good at running and catching stuff somehow indemnifies them from being a decent person. Not even a good person—just By Sarah • Sep 22, 2014 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds back in the superhero saddle A couple months ago a test reel for a potential Deadpool movie leaked—accidentally on purpose—onto the internet. It featured Ryan Reynolds as the talkative mutant mercenary Deadpool (aka Wade Wilson), the beloved character that was so brutally murdered by X-Men: Origins: Wolverine (Punctuation!). But in the test By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy I’ve been trying to tune out everything surrounding Star Wars: Episode VII by declaring my person to be a Zone of Willful Ignorance. It’s all just rumors and innuendo and mystery boxes and the JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS drives me f*cking nuts. Is Adam Driver By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh my god—THE GUEST That was my only thought after I finished watching The Guest, starring Dan Stevens (and his abs). I had a visceral reaction to this movie. As soon as it was over I wanted to watch it again because I kind of couldn’t believe what I just saw. It’s By Sarah • Sep 19, 2014 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston’s schedule shake up Remember that Ben-Hur remake that would pretty much only be watchable if it starred Tom Hiddleston? Well it’s no longer starring Tom Hiddleston. Instead it will star Jack Huston, which means I can stop caring about a February movie. Instead, Hiddles has jumped ship for Legendary’s King By Sarah • Sep 17, 2014 11:16 am
TV Updates Mindy Kaling’s terms In advance of The Mindy Project returning for its third season, Mindy Kaling is doing press, including stopping by Howard Stern to talk about how BJ Novak—her Office-mate “Ryan” and also a producer on her show—is the one that got away. As per usual she’s funny, By Sarah • Sep 17, 2014 10:43 am
Media Manipulation Chris Hemsworth’s post-Marvel moves Hollywood is suddenly obsessed with Hank Williams. It probably has a lot to do with the prolonged fight over the Hank Senior song catalog ending in 2011, or that the Hank Williams Estate, thus resolved, signed a huge licensing deal just last year. At any rate, first there was Tom By Sarah • Sep 16, 2014 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon is dusting off his Jason Bourne hat Once upon a time, Matt Damon went in hard against Bourne trilogy screenwriter Tony Gilroy. For a couple years he trash-talked Gilroy, taking no pains to hide his animosity, and said he’d never do another Bourne movie so long as Gilroy was involved. So Universal moved ahead with By Sarah • Sep 16, 2014 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’s sociopathic rom-com I actually emailed Lainey about Playing It Cool (formerly known as A Many Splintered Thing) a few months ago when the official synopsis came out, because this is one of the most amazing synopses I’ve seen in recent memory. Here it is: “The story of a young man disillusioned By Sarah • Sep 15, 2014 11:19 am
Weekend Update might be good now No matter what else is going on with Saturday Night Live, the fake-news Weekend Update segment is usually reliable. But last year, post-Seth Meyers (one of the best Update anchors ever) was rough. Update was co-anchored by Cecily Strong and SNL head writer Colin Jost, and while By Sarah • Sep 12, 2014 01:47 pm
TIFF 2014 Coverage Chris Evans: Successful salesman Last weekend Beardy Chris Evans popped up at TIFF to promote his directorial debut, Before SunriseBefore We Go. The movie screened for critics last Friday and Evans spent the weekend giving interviews and shilling—a whole week before he needed to be present for the actual worldwide premiere, which is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2014 05:15 pm
Orlando Bloom Orlando Bloom is “open” to more Pirates Of course he is. It’s not like he really has anything else going on. Over the weekend, Bloom appeared at Oz Comic-Con in Brisbane and said during a panel discussion that he had met with producers about possibly returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise for Pirates By Sarah • Sep 10, 2014 10:47 am
