Movie Reviews and Previews Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic I know it’s a real movie. We have trailers—proof!—that it’s a real movie. But the idea of Darren Aronofsky making a movie about Noah and the Ark seems like a parody. Like a fake movie from an SNL bit, like the Wes Anderson horror movie, or By Sarah • Nov 15, 2013 11:01 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Josh Hartnett (Please click here for previous installments of Sarah’s Career Prospectus.) We’ve received several requests for a Josh Hartnett career prospectus, which makes sense as one of the first things that comes up when you Google “Josh Hartnett” is “Josh Hartnett career over”, followed by “whatever happened to Josh By Sarah • Nov 14, 2013 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Only-Somewhat-Mighty-Thor There was a lot riding on the box office of Thor: The Dark World, namely that Marvel/Disney spent something like $300 million to make and market the movie, and it serves as a more realistic gauge for what the “Avengers bounce” is really going to be. Nothing in the By Sarah • Nov 11, 2013 10:14 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.5: “Not everyone gets to live” The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 5 recap After last week’s very good episode, being stuck in the prison this episode feels a little stagnant and less interesting, but a slow start builds up to a great climax as the threats inside and outside the prison coalesce at the By Sarah • Nov 11, 2013 09:14 am
Media Manipulation At long last, Wonder Woman? Maybe. Variety is reporting that three actresses have been tapped to screen test for a role in Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman, which is being billed as a Man of Steel sequel but feels very much like a pre-cursor to a Justice League movie. The three actresses are By Sarah • Nov 08, 2013 01:33 pm
TV Updates What happened to John’s comedy mustache? The teaser for Sherlock, series 3, introduced us to John Watson’s comedy mustache, but the BBC has released the first still from the upcoming season and the comedy mustache is nowhere to be seen. What happened to it? Why was it shaved? WHY WAS IT GROWN? Forget blackmailers and By Sarah • Nov 05, 2013 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Thor 2 premiere was a sausage fest Lainey was hoping that RDJ would show in support of Thor: The Dark World at its LA premiere—not unreasonable, given he supported Captain America back in 2011—but Marvel typically only hooks one franchise outlier per premiere; they don’t clog their red carpets. So when Jeremy Renner showed By Sarah • Nov 05, 2013 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooting for Thor It was Hiddlemas Eve in Los Angeles last night as the Thor: The Dark World press tour wound to a close with the US premiere of the movie ahead of opening on Friday. The patron saint of Hiddlemas, Saint Tom the Huge Dork, was in attendance, wearing a suit that By Sarah • Nov 05, 2013 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Only Lovers Left Alive is funny? After premiering at Cannes and screening at TIFF, Only Lovers Left Alive, aka the vampire movie with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, finally has a trailer. And it looks funny, maybe? Funny is not a word I would use to describe writer/director Jim Jarmusch—usually I would go with By Sarah • Nov 04, 2013 10:09 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.4: “Then you change” The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 4 recap. One thing I love on The Walking Dead is when they get outside wherever they’re holed up (prison, farm, Woodbury) and we get to see what the world looks like as the zombie apocalypse progresses. This episode, with Daryl, Michonne, Tyrese By Sarah • Nov 04, 2013 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Hiddlemas As we enter our third week of Hiddlemas, celebrations move to America as the patron saint himself, Saint Tom the Huge Dork, has come to ring in the festivities by, what else, being a huge dork. But this time, he’s being a huge dork with kids, which is the By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The LEGO Movie: Everything is awesome At first, The LEGO Movie sounded like exactly the kind of consumerist filmmaking that is tanking summer movies (see also: Transformers, Battleship), but the first trailer was funny, and despite its graveyard shift release in February, I was optimistic. Now the second trailer has been released and I am totally By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 09:35 am
Media Manipulation Which would you rather: Aaron Taylor-Johnson edition This week in Duh, We Knew That news, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has officially joined the cast of The Avengers: Age of Ultron as Quicksilver, the one hero more worthless than Hawkeye. Word that Taylor-Johnson was being tapped for the role came out early last summer and then he gave By Sarah • Oct 31, 2013 12:34 pm
Media Manipulation Way to waste my time, Liberty Ross When the new Vanity Fair cover was revealed earlier this week, Lainey commented, “Vanity Fair is out for blood all over the place.” We’re all waiting for the big expose on Goop, they’re reportedly pressuring Nigella Lawson to participate in a feature story, and the topline of the By Sarah • Oct 31, 2013 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s wedding The Germany premiere of Thor: The Dark World occurred over the weekend and—gasp—a rare wild Hemsworth appeared. We’ve been poking at Chris Hemsworth for his lackluster presence in his own franchise’s promotions, and after the London premiere I didn’t expect to see him again until By Sarah • Oct 28, 2013 10:12 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 4.3: “We’ve all got jobs to do” The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 3. Life at the prison is falling apart. Right away we learn that Rick did not, in fact, have anything to do with Karen and the other guy’s mysterious deaths. So someone else killed them and burned the bodies, and Tyrese is on By Sarah • Oct 28, 2013 09:09 am
