Movie Reviews and Previews James Franco, artiste, wants your money It started with Veronica Mars, then came Zach Braff, and now the Artiste, James Franco, is on a crowdfunding platform attempting to raise money for a new feature film project. Franco is seeking $500,000 in order to make three films based on his own short stories, to be directed By Sarah • Jun 20, 2013 12:24 pm
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Alia Shawkat (For previous installments of Career Prospectus, please click here.) I've loved Alia Shawkat for a very, very long time. I remember watching State of Grace, then she went on to star in one of my favorite shows of all time, and one that was egregiously canceled, Arrested Development. By Sarah • Jun 19, 2013 05:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anchorman 2 has salon-quality hair After promising teasers, the first trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues has been released and it’s already quotable. This is the measure of a good comedy—not necessarily a good movie, but a good comedy—how often and how long you can quote it. Let’s call it… By Sarah • Jun 19, 2013 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America gets it From the Black Widow no less. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is filming in Cleveland and they’re getting busted kind of a lot. It’s a good early predictor for how big a movie will be—what level is the set stalking at? There’s been a steady diet By Sarah • Jun 13, 2013 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Snowpiercer finally has a trailer There were two movies I was really looking forward to this year by a pair of South Korean directors getting some English-language work -- Stoker and Snowpiercer. Park Chan-wook’s Stoker turned out completely freaking amazing, and now we’re getting our first look at Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which By Sarah • Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews World War Z review I don’t know how else to put it -- it’s bad. It’s a mess. It’s barely functional as a piece of entertainment and not at all as a movie. I don’t even know where to start. I could write a thousand words on how it By Sarah • Jun 12, 2013 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Where are my dragons? Remember how there was a Hobbit movie last winter (and despite making a billion dollars worldwide, didn’t it feel like no one saw it?), and how there are two more still to go? Well the first trailer—with Czech subtitles (???)—for part two, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug By Sarah • Jun 11, 2013 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel is wishlisting Saoirse Ronan And why wouldn’t they? She’s talented and has carved out a niche playing tough but vulnerable kids, and she has proven action capabilities (see also: Hanna). A superhero role seems like the next natural step, right? But Marvel is going beyond just putting a name on a top By Sarah • Jun 07, 2013 11:46 am
Royals Benedict Cumberbatch at a fancy party I’ve had a very long week. Travel, business trip, long days, more travel. It’s a bit exhausting. But, as if sensing my need, my Five list has risen to the occasion and they’ve been getting photographed all week, from Timothy Olyphant to Jake G to RDJ and By Sarah • Jun 07, 2013 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart goes back to work In my recent career prospectus on Kristen Stewart, I suggested it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a break after the last year she’s had, but that if she did continue working, she needed to pick a direction and focus on it. According to Deadline, she is By Sarah • Jun 06, 2013 10:06 am
Dumbass Jonah Hill is serious, bro To promote This is the End, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, James Franco and Jonah Hill were interviewed for a cover feature on Rolling Stone. Among that group, who do you think would come across as the most pompous and least fun? If you guessed Jonah Hill, you guessed right. And By Sarah • Jun 06, 2013 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The bromantic comedy That’s what it’s called, right? These movies about “boys will be boys” hijinks, stuff like The Hangover, Wedding Crashers/The Internship, Old School, Pineapple Express—basically all the movies the Stiller/Apatow crews have been making for the last 10+ years. (Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy’s The By Sarah • Jun 05, 2013 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benecio Del Toro is now a superhero Or maybe a supervillain. Del Toro is the latest to join Guardians of the Galaxy, the insane movie Marvel is set to start filming in a couple months. Chris Pratt is leading a cast that includes Lee Pace, Dr. Who’s Karen Gillan, Zoe Saldana, Glenn Motherf*cking Close, and By Sarah • Jun 04, 2013 10:27 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Joshua Jackson Click here for previous installments of Career Prospectus. Every time we do one of these career prospectuses (prospecti?), we get a bunch of requests for Joshua Jackson. I know from this site and others that he is a popular Celebrity Person, but for the life of me, I cannot figure By Sarah • May 28, 2013 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes 2013 Wrap: Award Season shapes up With Steven Spielberg, never the most controversial or daring filmmaker in a room, as the jury president, many expected the Cannes prizes to go to Hollywood-friendly films, but Spielberg surprised many when his jury picked the French film Blue is the Warmest Colour, adapted from a French graphic novel about By Sarah • May 27, 2013 09:54 am
Media Manipulation Propagandizing World War Z With one month to go until it opens in theaters, it’s time for World War Z to get serious about promotion. To that end, Paramount held a surprise screening in New Jersey, and Brad Pitt himself stopped by to introduce the film. And wouldn’t you know it? The By Sarah • May 24, 2013 11:10 am
