Movie Reviews and Previews James Spader is an evil robot The Avengers have their Ultron, the psychotic rampaging robot who tries to destroy humanity, and they’ve found him in the form of James Spader. *record scratch* What a WEIRD pick. But weird/good, not weird/bad. It’s just so out of left field. And yet, as I think By Sarah • Aug 30, 2013 10:35 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: John Cusack For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here. I just saw The Spectacular Now yesterday and loved it. Miles Teller reminds me of a young John Cusack in the best of ways. Which got me thinking. What happened with that career? Just bad choices? I' By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 01:51 pm
TV Updates Joshua Jackson took my advice At the end of my career prospectus on Joshua Jackson, I said the next step for him would be to get a gig with a cable network, and now THR is reporting that he’s signed onto Showtime’s pilot The Affair, from the team behind the much-admired In By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 01:04 pm
The Bridge The Bridge 1.8: “You’re the man that crossed the bridge” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 8 recap. We’re halfway through season one of The Bridge and so far, it’s been a consistently good show that just misses being truly great. What we’re missing is someone to really care about. We don’t know enough about the original By Sarah • Aug 29, 2013 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carrie returns I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies; the love stems from a childhood spent watching Hitchcock, Vincent Price and Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the hate comes from the late trend of torture porn that’s strictly about the fetishizing of female fear for consumption by a predominantly By Sarah • Aug 28, 2013 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a space raccoon After the relief of Vin Diesel being relegated to playing a tree, the next bout of Marvel casting speculation turned to the final piece of the Guardians of the Galaxy puzzle—who would voice Rocket Raccoon, the trigger happy space varmint and biggest WTF element of a WTF-heavy concept. By Sarah • Aug 23, 2013 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck is Batman: the Nerd angle Well it’s definitely a better pick than some MTV pretty boy. The news that Ben Affleck will be Batman in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel was greeted, predictably, with equal parts nerd-joy and nerd-rage. The joy mostly comes from Affleck being a proper actor—did By Sarah • Aug 23, 2013 09:01 am
The Bridge The Bridge 1.7: “I am the truth” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 7 recap Last week my neighborhood experienced a blackout, which meant I missed The Bridge, which meant no recap. But after catching up, the takeaways from episode six are that truculent teen Gina, who was introduced only to witness Serial Killer Doug serial killing her By Sarah • Aug 22, 2013 09:10 am
Timothy Olyphant Timothy Olyphant to swagger on The Mindy Project Colin Firth has his long-legged stride, Meg Ryan has (had?) her jaunty bouncy walk, and Timothy Olyphant has that loose-limbed cowboy swagger that makes him so perfect as Raylan Givens on Justified. And this fall he’ll be swaggering on Mindy Kaling’s sitcom, The Mindy Project, playing By Sarah • Aug 20, 2013 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Loki Show The last time we talked about Loki and Tom Hiddleston, I said that Thor 2 is “almost a movie more about Loki than Thor”, and now with an interview that director Alan Taylor gave to MTV at the D23 Expo that can be changed to “Thor 2 is definitely more By Sarah • Aug 15, 2013 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Actor with no personality plays tree Remember when I wrote about Vin Diesel maybe making something happen at Marvel, and I was like, Ugh, please just let him be the space tree that barely speaks? Well guess what? He’s the tree. Diesel, after weeks of buildup via Facebook and some pretty blatant campaigning, is in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2013 09:56 am
Amazingness The Original Matt Damon Yesterday when I wrote about Channing Tatum being pleasant and, ugh, really likeable all over Chicago, I called him the new Matt Damon. And then last night the real Matt Damon turned up on The Colbert Report to remind us all what being Matt Damon is like —funny and personable By Sarah • Aug 09, 2013 11:01 am
Maple Leaf Career Prospectus: Ryan Reynolds For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here. Well this was inevitable. We’ve received several requests for a Ryan Reynolds prospectus, and since he’s had yet another summer blockbuster flop, it seemed like a good time to address what exactly is going on with his By Sarah • Aug 09, 2013 10:03 am
Channing Tatum You win, Channing Tatum I held out and held out, unable to accept a Cro-Magnon as the most viable leading man we’ve produced since Robert Downey, Jr. got his sh*t together, but I surrender. Channing Tatum has totally won me over. This isn’t a ringing endorsement of his acting—although By Sarah • Aug 08, 2013 11:45 am
The Bridge The Bridge 1.5: “I saw the Beast” The Bridge Season 1 Episode 5 recap Jumping right in with Jefe and an underling discussing how a serial killer is different from any other kind of killer. Jefe determines he isn’t a serial killer because he doesn’t enjoy killing. Then he murders some guy he tortured. He’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2013 10:07 am
Girly Throw Downs Ashton Kutcher thinks he knows better than George Clooney Today in things that make me laugh, Ashton Kutcher has made a statement implying that we live in a world where he knows better than George Clooney about something, anything. In response to George Clooney’s amazingly direct and on-point observation that hedge-funder Daniel Loeb is bullying the By Sarah • Aug 07, 2013 02:06 pm
