Douchebags Charlie Sheen is still winning There’s an article in The Hollywood Reporter this week about Debmar-Mercury’s potentially revolutionizing formula for television syndication, and I wanted to read it and think about the future of TV, but I got stuck on one of the details in the article. Debmar’s syndication deal is a By Sarah • Jan 18, 2013 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2013 Preview: 15 films to look out for Oh relax, I’ll keep it short(ish). Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Casey Affleck has appeared in only one movie since the Joaquin Phoenix/I’m Still Here debacle in 2010, and that was the loathsome Tower Heist in 2011. But he’s back now (…good?), starring alongside Rooney By Sarah • Jan 16, 2013 02:53 pm
Justified Justified 4.2: “Speak of the devil” Justified Season 4 Episode 2 recap. We got a lot set up in the season premiere, including a new holy roller in town, that shady bag from Raylan’s childhood home, Arlo shanking a dude in prison, and Boyd has a new co-conspirator in the form of Rhodes, his old By Sarah • Jan 16, 2013 10:33 am
BFFs RDJ shills for Naomi Watts Naomi Watts, now confirmed as an Oscar nominee for Best Actress, has been quietly campaigning for The Impossible, and it’s paid off by landing her the trifecta—SAG, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. So can she win? As Lainey pointed out, Watts has an advantage with her peers—they By Sarah • Jan 10, 2013 12:11 pm
Justified Justified 4.1: “You stay frosty” Justified Season 4 Episode 1 recap Now that we’re refreshed and ready to go, it’s time for some new Justified. Starting with a flashback. It’s January, 1983. Oooo. A skydiver crash-lands in the street, surrounded by packets of what look like drugs as a crotchety old couple By Sarah • Jan 09, 2013 11:14 am
Media Manipulation Career Prospectus: Emily Blunt (Lainey: we received a detailed question about Emily Blunt’s career a few weeks ago from a reader called Ngoc. Perfect for the Faculty of Celebrity Studies. Ngoc’s (abridged) email is below, followed by Sarah’s analysis. Should you wish a similar Career Prospectus about your favourite star, please By Sarah • Jan 08, 2013 02:14 pm
Justified In the deep, dark hills - Justified returns for Season 4 Justified Season 4 preview Over the holidays I tried to explain Justified to my parents and the best I could come up with was “a buddy cop show with a trigger happy, emotionally damaged Marshal and a neo-Nazi white supremacist”. Ah Justified, how I love thee. There’s nothing else By Sarah • Jan 08, 2013 11:26 am
Media Manipulation Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the new movie star Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants superstardom. He’s already in the mix for the next Batman, carrying into DC/WB’s Justice League movie, and now he’s been revealed as the late entry into Marvel’s casting pool for the lead role in Guardians of the Galaxy, as space captain Peter By Sarah • Jan 03, 2013 10:19 am
The Walking Dead The suits still don’t get zombies The Walking Dead is one of the most successful shows on cable television, is AMC’s biggest-ever hit, and yet the suits in charge cannot stop f*cking with it. Despite rich source material that provides a blueprint for what to do next and building off an extraordinary pilot, this By Sarah • Dec 21, 2012 03:20 pm
John Krasinski Sorry, but that’s John Krasinski Last week I wrote about John Krasinski’s dorky Twitter and a whole bunch of you emailed/tweeted to tell me that Krasinski’s Twitter was set up and run by Jimmy Kimmel as a joke. And yes, Kimmel, during Krasinski’s interview on the show to promote Promised Land, By Sarah • Dec 18, 2012 11:01 am
John Krasinski John Krasinski’s twee Twitter On my General List of Celebrity Don’ts, there were several items relating to social media. Mostly things like “don’t get into Twitter fights” and “don’t reference yourself in a tweet”, but one thing I didn’t mention—because I thought we were past this, honestly—was “don’ By Sarah • Dec 14, 2012 11:06 am
Henry Cavill Superman is super sad you guys Have you heard about Superman? He’s like, totally sad these days. I guess that whole crab fisherman thing didn’t work out because he’s moping around, sporting a sadness beard. Superman’s beard is the saddest beard that has ever bearded. It’s practically having its own existential By Sarah • Dec 12, 2012 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lone Ranger looks sh-tty, will make money anyway The second trailer for Disney’s The Lone Ranger is out and oh God, it looks hilariously awful. Not because of Johnny Depp as Tonto, but because it just looks like a clichéd, bloated summer action movie. So, like, bad in the regular way. People are, of course, always and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2012 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will and Jaden Smith by M. Night Shyamalan looks terrible Somehow, after a run of increasingly bad efforts capped off by the infuriating The Happening and the appallingly awful The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan is still allowed to make movies. How he’s not been thrown in Director Jail remains a mystery, and not only does he remain at By Sarah • Dec 11, 2012 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit review Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, this time focusing on Frodo’s uncle Bilbo undertaking his own adventure as a young man, is good enough, but “good enough” feels like an indictment when the original LOTR trilogy ranged from “very good” to “extraordinary”. The central problem in The Hobbit By Sarah • Dec 07, 2012 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Trek Into Benedict Cumberbatch Because the first teaser for Star Trek Into Darkness is all about The Batch. As I mentioned earlier this week, we don’t know a lot about the plot or new characters in Star Trek 2. This teaser does little to shed light on either of those things. Mainly what By Sarah • Dec 06, 2012 02:04 pm
