Justified Justified 5.3: “Who’s going to be the last man standing?” Justified Season 5, Episode 3 recap How are we already three episodes into Justified?! Now that we’re on such a finite schedule, it’s going too quickly. And things are moving quickly this season. It was like, episode five before season four really got into gear and the disparate By Sarah • Jan 22, 2014 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman and Superman flinched Celebrities aren’t the only ones who bury news stories late on holiday weekends. Warner Brothers did it late Friday with a piece of the news that, at any other point in the news cycle, would have dominated everything. As it is, tucking away their announcement after business on the By Sarah • Jan 21, 2014 04:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Jeremy Renner’s forgotten hustle Jeremy Renner was at the SAG Awards, nominated for best ensemble along with the rest of the cast for American Hustle. Let’s take a moment to celebrate a victory over his Shiny Suit Problem—he looked great in a non-shiny pewter tux (so great that Rita Moreno hit By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 09:57 am
TV Updates The Batch is back as Sherlock returns Benedict Cumberbatch was enjoying himself at the SAG Awards. I mean that sincerely, no side-eye. Every time I caught a glimpse of him in the audience, he was smiling and laughing, sitting at the 12 Years a Slave table but making time for his August: Osage County co-stars, By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 09:17 am
Aging Gorgessity Is Rob Lowe an incubus? It isn’t that Rob Lowe is aging gracefully—Matt Damon is aging gracefully. Rob Lowe doesn’t appear to be aging AT ALL. There has to be an explanation for how he looks so impossibly young and fresh on the cusp of his fiftieth birthday. I’ve narrowed it By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 08:50 am
Tom Hiddleston Tom Hiddleston’s murder car The most insane commercial I’ve ever seen is the Folgers “Christmas incest” ad. I love that commercial, and I never thought anything could top its accidental comedy gold, until I saw the teaser for Tom Hiddleston’s Jaguar commercial, which will air during the Super Bowl. Why is this By Sarah • Jan 17, 2014 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2014 Preview: 10 to Watch I was looking over my Sundance 2013 preview for formatting notes when I saw this: Matthew McConaughey will get nominated for an Oscar. It will happen. I missed it this year, so I’m going to go ahead and call it for 2014—Matthew McConaughey will get nominated for an By Sarah • Jan 16, 2014 10:43 am
Justified Justified 5.2: “You lawmen only know one way” Justified Season 5, Episode 2 recap. A while back I heard that Justified was on a seven-season arc, and while I would happily have Justified forever, seven seasons seemed like a nice, healthy run. That’s 91 episodes, good by any measure. Well, you can knock 13 of those By Sarah • Jan 15, 2014 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Douglas: Sexagenarian superhero Watching the Golden Globes Sunday night, it occurred to me that four out of six Avengers were there. Then I started looking at the tables more closely during cutaways and realized that damn near every film table, and more than a few of the TV tables, had at least one By Sarah • Jan 14, 2014 10:25 am
Dumbass More like POINTLESS Break The Golden Age of Sh*tastic Action Movies (1984-1991) is marked by certain watershed films: Exterminator 2, Miami Connection, Invasion: USA, Gymkata, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, and, of course, the greatest achievements in sh*tastic action filmmaking, Road House and Point Break. You can’t replicate the conditions that existed in By Sarah • Jan 10, 2014 10:43 am
Justified Justified 5.1: “We’re going to Detroit” Justified Season 5, Episode 1 recap. Over the holidays my entire family came down with the flu, and I was the only healthy person in a house full of sickos. Quarantined for my own protection, I had six days and nothing to do, so I re-watched all four seasons By Sarah • Jan 08, 2014 10:23 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Kate Hudson (For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here) Saw these photos and got to thinking...what happened with Kate Hudson's career? She went from Promising Young Movie Star to Bad RomCom Girl to Small Part on TV/Fashion Girl. Current IMDB roster looks weak. By Sarah • Jan 07, 2014 04:00 pm
Sasheer Zamata SNL works on that whole diversity thing Late last year, SNL—and its executive producer, Lorne Michaels—got accused of having a diversity problem. There hasn’t been a black woman on the show since Maya Rudolph left in 2007, and in the history of the show, they’ve only had four black women total, and in By Sarah • Jan 07, 2014 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America’s no-worries reshoots There are several things that signal problems on a film shoot—budget overages, falling behind schedule, sudden firings and late reshoots being chief among them—and once upon a time, news of any one of those things was enough to get a production labeled as being “in trouble”. But increasingly, By Sarah • Jan 06, 2014 01:02 pm
Joaquin Phoenix Joaquin Phoenix could spice up Superman Every time I write about Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman, his follow-up to Man of Steel (because it certainly isn’t a sequel at this point), and how increasingly unexcited I am for it, I inevitably get some email that basically says, “Shut up, the movie will be By Sarah • Dec 19, 2013 12:26 pm
Paul Rudd Paul Rudd: Superhero Two months ago a rumor emerged that Paul Rudd was a finalist for Marvel’s Ant Man, and though I liked the idea of Rudd as part of the Marvel universe, I was cautious simply because of all of Marvel’s projects, Ant Man is the least-known (and there By Sarah • Dec 19, 2013 11:15 am
