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
Amazingness Michael Bay might be starring in his own action movie But nobody seemed to tell him that. While filming Trans4mers in Hong Kong, Bay was approached—on set!—by two Chinese brothers who demanded he pay them HK$100,000 and the argument ended with one of the brothers assaulting Bay and three police officers before being arrested. Bay was By Sarah • Oct 17, 2013 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd could be a superhero And I would be totally fine with that. Wouldn’t you? Variety is exclusively reporting that Rudd, along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is a finalist for Ant-Man, which will follow The Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015. But this is a Marvel movie, and worse, it’s directed by fanboy favorite By Sarah • Oct 16, 2013 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston was totally a club kid There was a picture that traveled the electrical circuit, of Tom Hiddleston on a night off during Thor 2’s production, which was the basis of my #1 question to ask Hiddles, should I ever get the chance. It was this… …and my question was: Please explain these pants. Which By Sarah • Oct 15, 2013 10:54 am
Shia LaBeouf Shia LaBeouf: GOOD for Gossip Shia LaBeouf, Noted Weirdo, got into a kerfuffle in London. It isn’t the first time—about a year ago he got into it at a bar over a baseball cap (because that’s a thing), and now he’s getting kicked in the nuts for filming a girl who By Sarah • Oct 14, 2013 10:17 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.1: “You don’t get to come back” The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 1 recap We’re embarking a new season of The Walking Dead, the first one that is Horrible Lori-free, and we’ve also disposed of Andrea who, like this show itself, never lived up to her potential but was sucky and annoying. The show By Sarah • Oct 14, 2013 09:59 am
