Movie Reviews and Previews Little Johnny, Big Armie There are worse things than The Lone Ranger. Like, say, Transformers 1-3, conclusive. Or World War Z. WWZ looks terrible because it’s so freaking generic, like someone threw Independence Day, Armageddon and The Walking Dead into a blender and WWZ is the vomitus mass that came out. Or the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2013 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are you ready for Superman? Because he’s going to be very, very big. After the first trailer for Man of Steel came out in December, I expressed doubts—about Zack Snyder as a director, about Superman as a compelling character, about the overall tone being too similar to The Dark Knight trilogy (Christopher Nolan By Sarah • Apr 17, 2013 11:53 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Aaron Eckhart Hi Lainey, If Sarah can find the time I'd be really interested to hear her thoughts on Alan Eckhart's career. He's built like a leading man, but aside from "Thank You For Smoking" he seems to always be the side character. I By Sarah • Apr 16, 2013 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Foxx is a blue albino crocodile Don’t ask me how “blue albino” works, that’s just what is in my head as I look at these set photos of Jamie Foxx as Electro, the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which so far has no cutesy subtitle (The Even More Amazing Spider-Man? Spider-Man: Still Amazing? By Sarah • Apr 16, 2013 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No thanks, Tarzan. We’re good I’m kind of wondering what Alexander Skarsgard’s career management plan looks like. On the one hand, he’s jumping off a successful cable show into films and taking supporting roles in movies like The East and Melancholia and What Maisie Knew, but on the other hand he books By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruis-E Yesterday when I wrote about the Elysium trailer I said that making good sci-fi is hard. It’s just a big pit of vipers and the vipers are named things like Exposition and Logic and Narrative Mandate. Good sci-fi requires a huge amount of behind-the-scenes planning, the majority of which By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please don’t let Elysium be disappointing like Prometheus Was there a bigger let down last year than Prometheus? All the hype, is-it-Alien/is-it-not-Alien, the series of good trailers and stellar viral marketing, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender AND Idris Elba in a movie together, and then…it kind of sucked. A lot. Sci-fi is hard. It’s By Sarah • Apr 10, 2013 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America 2 is basically justifying Scarlett Johansson’s paycheck In the wake of The Avengers bonanza success last summer, we learned that RDJ raked in—at minimum—fifty million for the film. There was also a rumor that arose in the wake of RDJ’s back-end deal getting exposed that Scarlett Johansson, in order to guarantee her return in By Sarah • Apr 09, 2013 10:20 am
Melissa McCarthy The Melissa McCarthy Problem I’ve been having something of a Melissa McCarthy problem for the last few months. I loved her as Suki of Stars Hollow, and so was excited to see her elevated to prominence in pop culture by way of Bridesmaids, but ever since that movie, I’ve experienced the dawning By Sarah • Apr 08, 2013 12:41 pm
Justified Justified 4.13: “You don’t go after a man’s family” Justified Season 4, Episode 13 recap. SPOILERS It’s the last Justified. As always, it’s too soon and never enough. This is my favorite season. Mags Bennett remains the best antagonist, but this season has been more fun than any other. It’s had furries, Dairy Queen, shoot outs, By Sarah • Apr 03, 2013 10:59 am
Hook Ups Amy Poehler’s new hookup Everyone loved the Golden Couple of Comedy, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. When they broke up last fall, the internet’s collective heart was broken. They seemed so great! So fun! So funny! But that’s over now, and it’s time to start dealing with the next phase: post-divorce By Sarah • Apr 02, 2013 01:04 pm
The Walking Dead 3.16: “You kill or you die, or you die and you kill” The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 16 recap SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Season three started strong, went wonky in the middle, then got back on track with that excellent trip back to Rick’s old town where they encountered Morgan. Last week’s episode wasn’t as good as that one By Sarah • Apr 01, 2013 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman’s passion Is playing Wolverine. No seriously. It is. It’s his life’s work. And you know what? He’s really, really good at it. Jackman has been, even through the awfulness of X-Men 3 and the unspeakable horror of Wolverine: Origins, the perfect Wolverine. But the material was definitely going By Sarah • Mar 27, 2013 12:08 pm
Justified Justified 4.12: “Today is another opportunity to mess up some bad guy’s day” Justified Season 4, Episode 12 recap. Penultimate Justified. Last week’s episode was so crazy good I’m not sure how the remaining two episodes can top it. Season 4 started slow but has become the best season after season 2. While season 2 is still the most cohesive effort By Sarah • Mar 27, 2013 11:10 am
Dumbass Will Smith could have been Django, is a moron Will Smith’s career strategy is not a mystery. He’s spoken in the past about choosing roles because they would be blockbusters, about deliberately deciding not to pursue the kind of interesting and diverse roles like he did back in the Six Degrees of Separation days because he valued By Sarah • Mar 26, 2013 11:11 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 3.15: “You’re family, too” The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 15 recap I love that everyone’s reaction to Andrea being captured by the Governor was, “Ugh, whatever, she deserves it.” Andrea has had about a hundred chances to get away from the Governor, either by killing him or just switching sides and rejoining By Sarah • Mar 25, 2013 10:30 am
