Media Manipulation Michael Fassbender, comedy guy? After a huge 2011 and a hot start to 2012, Michael Fassbender is on a down beat, with nothing coming out for months and nothing to do but work and I don’t know…throw rocks at fish, or whatever he does for fun. (And please don’t email me By Sarah • Sep 17, 2012 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lincoln looks amazing, and hollow Abraham Lincoln is fascinating. Read his speeches, articles or the letters he left behind and he sounds amazingly modern. It is really incredible—pick a year in his life and study anything written by anyone else and then compare it to Lincoln and it’s like he’s speaking another By Sarah • Sep 14, 2012 12:43 pm
Media Manipulation Deep Thoughts on Chris Evans I have always liked Chris Evans. In my early days writing for LaineyGossip, I took a lot of sh*t from Lainey for liking him, but I think maybe she’s starting to come around. He’s a low-key guy, good looking but not obnoxious about it, and thanks to By Sarah • Sep 13, 2012 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor gets Strange One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding the Avengers franchise is the potential involvement of Dr. Strange, a dude who messes around with space-magic sh*t, and he sometimes helps the Avengers out. A lot of folks, myself included, have thought Benedict Cumberbatch might be down to play Strange, but By Sarah • Sep 11, 2012 01:05 pm
Lizzy Caplan Funny/Girl Coming off the success of Bridesmaids last year, Hollywood is experiencing a Funny Girl revival. Bridesmaids brought empirical proof that women being funny in a female-oriented movie can appeal to men as well (which, duh, because funny is funny is funny, regardless of your gender, but Hollywood tends not to By Sarah • Sep 06, 2012 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar kick off: TIFF 2012 It’s time once again for the Toronto International Film Festival, the official kick-off of award season. TIFF feels really huge this year. It’s one of the world’s premiere film festivals in general, but this year it seems like the line-up is extra special loaded, like they might By Sarah • Sep 06, 2012 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hansel. So hot right now. Hansel. I love bad action movies. Road House is one of my all-time favorite films. I can quote Point Break, chapter and verse. I will happily sit through Bad Boys II. I have a high threshold of pain when it comes to bad action movies. I like fairy tales too—I By Sarah • Sep 05, 2012 12:17 pm
Maple Leaf Jim Carrey’s rebound I was a big fan of Jim Carrey when I was a kid. In Living Color was one of my touchstones, one of my earliest influences and it (and Kids in the Hall--hands down, Canada’s most important cultural export besides Strange Brew) was one of the first things that By Sarah • Aug 30, 2012 12:27 pm
Media Manipulation Thor is a free agent Literally, he is free of an agent. Deadline reports that Chris Hemsworth, after the success of The Avengers and coming off his biggest payday ever, Snow White and the Huntsman, has broken up with his agent of four years, IFA’s Ilene Feldman. They cite differences stemming from negotiations for By Sarah • Aug 27, 2012 03:40 pm
Media Manipulation A Study in the Second Act: Kevin Costner He was one of the biggest stars on the planet in the 1990s, not only bankable as an actor but as a director, too, courtesy the success of Dances with Wolves. Through 1994, Kevin Costner was king. But then came Waterworld—at the time, the most expensive movie ever made— By Sarah • Aug 23, 2012 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ leading lady is… Captain America 2 is casting its female lead, with the final choice said to be down to Anna Kendrick, Imogen Poots and Felicity Jones. That’s an intriguing list, not only for what it says about which character they might be playing, but what we can expect Cap 2 to By Sarah • Aug 21, 2012 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Master in Chicago The crowd stretched down the block and around the corner, hundreds of people pouring onto Southport on a night when the Cubs weren’t in town for the special Chicago screening of The Master last night. People were palpably excited, checking and re-checking tickets, everyone worried about an oversell. I By Sarah • Aug 17, 2012 10:40 am
Media Manipulation Jake Gyllenhaal could take a cue from Chris Evans That is a truly bizarre sentence to write. The last time Jake G had a movie in theaters was nearly eighteen months ago, last spring’s Source Code. Since then, he’s kept a relatively low profile as he recalibrates after his Movie Star dreams died a slow, inexorable death By Sarah • Aug 16, 2012 01:23 pm
B-tch please Posh Benedict I’m a celebrity realist, which means that for me, it’s not so much about pretending away a celebrity’s bad habit, but asking whether or not whatever peccadillo they’ve got is a deal breaker, or something that I’m going to be able to ignore for the By Sarah • Aug 16, 2012 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What’s next for Jeremy Renner and Bourne I’ve been tracking the rise of Jeremy Renner as his bid for legit Movie Stardom culminated with The Bourne Legacy. The late shift in schedule turned out to be a really good idea, puting enough distance between it and The Dark Knight Rises, allowing Legacy to take the #1 By Sarah • Aug 13, 2012 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bourne Legacy’s expectation gap I saw The Bourne Legacy, and I liked it. It’s not a perfect movie and it definitely has some issues (you can read my full review here) but it’s not bad, not by a long shot. And I certainly wasn’t disappointed by it, probably because I didn’ By Sarah • Aug 09, 2012 11:51 am
