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
Movie Reviews and Previews You stay classy, Anchorman I have this horrible thought that I cannot shake—what if the new Arrested Development isn’t as good as the old? It’s been ten years since the show first premiered—at this point, isn’t the nostalgia part of the love? I live in increasing fear of the By Sarah • May 22, 2013 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Totally forgot about The Wolverine When Lainey asked if I wanted to write about The Wolverine’s new trailer, I had a moment of, “What is she talking about…?” and then I remembered Hugh Jackman’s new movie, due in July. But I forgot about it. I even wrote about the first trailer, and I By Sarah • May 22, 2013 10:44 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jeremy Renner is not fired Last week a rumor surfaced about Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye being out of The Avengers 2, and that Renner himself could be done with the franchise, as Marvel brass weren’t happy with some comments he made about how Hawkeye turned out. While Marvel is totally willing to recast (see By Sarah • May 21, 2013 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Trek Merely Whelms After a much-hyped worldwide publicity tour, Star Trek Into Darkness opened and…just kind of showed up. It’s an okay movie, with slick action and an ultimately frustrating plot, but I wouldn’t say it’s anything more than okay. And apparently everyone else was merely whelmed too because By Sarah • May 21, 2013 11:13 am
Joss Whedon Joss Whedon returns to TV Joss Whedon, God of Nerds, was, pre-Avengers, best known for genre TV fare like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the criminally cancelled Firefly. Then Marvel came knocking and he hasn’t had a TV show since Dollhouse (the one thing he’s done that I could not make myself like) By Sarah • May 15, 2013 10:06 am
