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 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 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 By Sarah • Oct 14, 2013 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Hiddlemas, everyone! It’s a good way to go out on a Friday. Here’s Tom Hiddleston being a big ole dork, doing an impression of Owen Wilson playing Loki. He’s a good mimic, he’s got decent delivery—how has he not done any comedies? Someone cast Hiddles in a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2013 01:49 pm
The Walking Dead Walking Dead and back again The Walking Dead returns on Sunday (recaps start Monday) and to “celebrate”, Rolling Stone has Officer Rick himself, Andrew Lincoln, on the cover, as well as new interviews with the cast. I say “celebrate” with electrical sarcasm because has any recent television show squandered more potential than The Walking Dead? By Sarah • Oct 11, 2013 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Necessary Shia LaBeouf He is, isn’t he? He’s a total disaster but is there anyone else like him in the under 30 market? Or even over 30? A dependably good actor (though not always in dependably good movies), who, for better or worse, is always good for an entertaining interview and By Sarah • Oct 09, 2013 10:45 am
TV Updates Halle Berry got a TV show (and a baby) One of the early career prospectuses featured Halle Berry, and I maintained that her taste level in choosing projects is questionable at best—for someone who’s won an Oscar and is generally considered very talented, she makes a lot of bad movies. Maybe she’ll have better luck on By Sarah • Oct 07, 2013 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jack Ryan’s Swan Song In the wake of Tom Clancy’s death earlier this week at 66, it could seem mercenary that Paramount is releasing the first poster and trailer for the latest cinematic iteration of Clancy’s popular character Jack Ryan, which is creatively titled Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (sounds like a video By Sarah • Oct 04, 2013 11:05 am
The Bridge The Bridge 1.13: “We need to fix this” The Bridge, Season 1 Episode 13 recap I’m not sure I’ve seen a more frustrating first season than that of The Bridge. It started out so promising, with a serial killer mystery and a gruesome crime set in a fascinating and complicated environment, starring a cast of intriguing By Sarah • Oct 03, 2013 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen is the newest Avenger It was supposed to be Saoirse Ronan. Marvel wanted it to be Saoirse Ronan. But she passed and Marvel moved on. (The unofficial story is that her people tried to game Marvel for money and unless your initials are R, D and J, that sh*t don’t fly. It’ By Sarah • Oct 03, 2013 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit: Everything IS better with dragons A few months ago, after the release of the first trailer for The Hobbit: Journey to Nowhere, I said that trailer #2 should just be the dragon, as voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Because that’s all we really care about, right? The dragon, The Batch’s voice, and bonus Lee By Sarah • Oct 02, 2013 12:39 pm
