The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.10: “Those who arrive, survive” The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 10 recap We need to talk about Lizzie. At one point in this episode, I was legit worried she was going to murder Baby Judith and then cook and eat her. Judith is, indeed, alive, scooped up by Lizzie and Mika on their way By Sarah • Feb 17, 2014 09:46 am
Media Manipulation Katherine Heigl needs your money Once upon a time, not so very long ago, Katherine Heigl was on a popular TV show and was launching a promising film career. She was on the brink of having it all, of being America’s next sweetheart and becoming one of the most famous women in the world, By Sarah • Feb 14, 2014 09:30 am
TV Updates Taylor Lautner pod-personed Andy Samberg Today in completely improbable news, Taylor Lautner is replacing Andy Samberg on the BBC comedy Cuckoo. Let’s give that a moment to sink in: We now live in a world where Taylor Lautner is an acceptable comedic replacement for Andy Samberg. Cuckoo is about a British girl who marries By Sarah • Feb 12, 2014 11:59 am
Justified Justified 5.6: “You got no idea what I’m capable of” Justified Season 5 Episode 6 recap No one’s plan is working out. The theme of this season is consequences as many long-running threads throughout Justified begin to come to a head, but all those consequences are arising because no one’s plan is working out. Not one thing By Sarah • Feb 12, 2014 10:59 am
Douchebags JUST. APOLOGIZE. If you thought Shia LaBeouf’s behavior in Berlin was the pinnacle of how weird he can get, guess what, you were wrong. Because now, immediately on the heels of whatever that was in Berlin, The Beef is back in Los Angeles, where he is doing something he claims is By Sarah • Feb 12, 2014 10:16 am
Douchebags Shia LaBeouf is still a thief and a liar Remember when Joaquin Phoenix lost his mind, grew a big bushy beard and said he was going to be a rapper? And everyone was like, “Whatever, weirdo,” and laughed at him, and then he was all, Wait, wait, it’s a joke! Then he made that “documentary” with Casey Affleck, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2014 11:10 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.9: “I win” The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 9 recap The Walking Dead returns and immediately makes a really good decision. Carl is Carl is UGH, and Rick might be brain dead, or maybe just dead-dead. And Michonne had a pretty nice life before the zombies came. This week, on These By Sarah • Feb 10, 2014 09:24 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Eric Bana For previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus series, please click here. What happened to Eric Bana's career? He is a great actor and good looking. I read once, long ago when he seemed ready to break out, that he purposefully only took a few films a year By Sarah • Feb 07, 2014 12:52 pm
TV Updates Benedict Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch went on Sesame Street and did a math bit with Murray and the Count. It’s cute, I guess. I don’t have any fond nostalgia for Sesame Street—I only remember watching it at school when it was raining and we couldn’t go outside at recess— By Sarah • Feb 05, 2014 12:27 pm
Justified Justified 5.5: “Hello Theo” Justified Season 5, Episode 5 recap. I had to watch this episode twice. A LOT happened. It’s episode five, which is usually when the various threads start coming together and we progress from the “table setting” portion of the season to the “sh*t hitting the fan” part. And By Sarah • Feb 05, 2014 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg was cast as WHO? The internet usually hates whoever is cast in upcoming superhero movies. It’s a fact of life. Superhero casting follows a pattern: 1) Announcement, 2) Fan backlash, 3) Supportive media backlash to the fan backlash, 4) The movie comes out and everyone forgets they hated that actor. We’ve seen By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Something old, something new, hey look, it’s Spider-Man 2 With their big comic book movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, due in theaters in May, Sony is getting serious with their ad campaign. How serious? Super Bowl serious. Sony dropped $8 million on two thirty-second spots (which you can watch here) to tell us to go online and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot. Dinosaurs. I got nerd-yelled at on Twitter for referring to the robots in the Super Bowl TV spot for Transformers: Age of Extinction as robot dinosaurs and not by their proper name, the dinobots. But c’mon. Seriously. “Robot dinosaur” sounds so much better than “dinobot”. There’s no way By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America kicks ass Marvel played the “Super Bowl TV spot telling you to go watch a trailer online” card, for April’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It’s the Phase 2 film that most directly sets up The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and DAMN, did they deliver a great second trailer. It By Sarah • Feb 03, 2014 10:14 am
Tom Hiddleston The softer side of Tom Hiddleston I mean, he’s all soft side, isn’t he? He’s basically the human equivalent of a puppy’s belly. But our most recent exposure to Hiddles was via Jaguar’s serial killer makeover, so it’s nice to be reminded that this is the same Tom Hiddleston who By Sarah • Jan 31, 2014 12:02 pm
Mark Strong Tom Hiddleston’s serial killer commercial When last we heard from Tom Hiddleston, he had four dead bodies in the trunk of his car. I had a lot of questions about a commercial that had no problem insinuating its protagonist had just committed quadruple homicide. Well, now we have the full Super Bowl spot from Jaguar, By Sarah • Jan 29, 2014 01:17 pm
