The Bridge The Bridge 1.11: “There is no good outcome” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 11 recap Third to last episode. Really starting to get a “let’s just get this over with” vibe from The Bridge. Season one hasn’t been a total wash, but they have squandered the best element of the show, the rich environments of El By Sarah • Sep 19, 2013 10:45 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch: Professional Smart Person He’s played real life mathematicians (Stephen Hawking) and imaginary ones (in The Last Enemy), and Very Smart People real and imagined (Julian Assange and Sherlock Holmes), and now The Batch is filming The Imitation Game, a movie about mathematician Alan Turing and his efforts to code-break the Enigma Machine By Sarah • Sep 18, 2013 05:13 pm
TV Updates Is Rebel Wilson ready? That’s the question I had after reading Vulture’s profile on her, in service of promoting her upcoming sitcom Super Fun Night. I really like Wilson and I want her show to succeed, not only for Wilson’s sake but also because I am a huge fan of Liza By Sarah • Sep 17, 2013 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Princess Grace’s frozen face A little over a year ago I wrote about Nicole Kidman’s casting in Grace of Monaco, the Princess Grace biopic, and hoped that this would be the chance to rekindle my lady-crush on Kidman. I love Grace Kelly, I (want to) love Nicole Kidman, and I want to love By Sarah • Sep 16, 2013 02:23 pm
The Bridge The Bridge 1.10: “You’re not the only person to lose everything” Last week my family tried to watch The Bridge with me while I did my recap, and they were lost, so the simplest explanation I could come up with was, “There was a whole thing about the border and missing women and corruption and cartels, but that all turned out By Sarah • Sep 12, 2013 03:42 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Welcome to the A-list, Benedict Cumberbatch If 2011 was The Year of The Fassbender, then 2013 is The Year of The Batch. With a blockbuster (Star Trek Into Darkness), another installment of the popular TV show that made him (Sherlock), and a trio of Oscar-y projects that showcase his talents from period drama to modern leading By Sarah • Sep 11, 2013 03:44 pm
The Bridge The Bridge 1.9: “Not everything is black and white” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 9 recap I’m watching this at the family ranch, which is in Texas, so there’s a level of authenticity to this week’s recap. Flashback to the accident that killed David Tate’s family and turned him into a serial killer. It’s By Sarah • Sep 05, 2013 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourselves for Oscar: TIFF 2013 Preview People keep complaining about how terrible movies are, and while yes, it was a bad summer for the studios, there have already been some pretty great movies this year. If anything, the ham-stringing of the tent poles opened up the market for smaller independent and character-driven movies to emerge and By Sarah • Sep 05, 2013 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Spader is an evil robot The Avengers have their Ultron, the psychotic rampaging robot who tries to destroy humanity, and they’ve found him in the form of James Spader. *record scratch* What a WEIRD pick. But weird/good, not weird/bad. It’s just so out of left field. And yet, as I think By Sarah • Aug 30, 2013 10:35 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: John Cusack For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here. I just saw The Spectacular Now yesterday and loved it. Miles Teller reminds me of a young John Cusack in the best of ways. Which got me thinking. What happened with that career? Just bad choices? I' By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 01:51 pm
TV Updates Joshua Jackson took my advice At the end of my career prospectus on Joshua Jackson, I said the next step for him would be to get a gig with a cable network, and now THR is reporting that he’s signed onto Showtime’s pilot The Affair, from the team behind the much-admired In Treatment. By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 01:04 pm
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
