Judd Apatow Judd Apatow lives up his own ass now As a Judd Apatow fan, I am extremely let down by Vanity Fair’s much-vaunted “comedy issue”, for which Apatow served as guest editor. Do not take this as any kind of examination of the state of comedy today or its role in popular culture. The feature is only representative By Sarah • Dec 06, 2012 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you know who Dane DeHaan is? You’re probably going to have to learn. He’s had a very busy year with four films—Lincoln, Lawless, Jack & Diane and his stand-out turn as the villain in Chronicle—and next year he’s got Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot, Kill Your Darlings, and Place Beyond By Sarah • Dec 05, 2012 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch Treks into Darkness I cannot stop making fun of the Star Trek 2 title, Star Trek Into Darkness. It sounds like an Annie Lennox song. “When the world ends/And hope is lost/We will rise again/Star Trek Into Darkness/Yeah/Star Trek Into Darkness”. In my head, it’s set to By Sarah • Dec 04, 2012 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar (Click here for Sarah’s Nostradamus on Matthew McConaughey. As I said then, she’s a big ball hitter.) Back in May in my Cannes preview, I noted that Matthew McConaughey was having a busy year, with five movies, including Cannes’ selections Mud and The Paperboy. It was for two By Sarah • Dec 04, 2012 11:00 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 3.8: “You forget what people do” The Walking Dead Season 3 episode 8 recap Well hello, Tyrese. It’s the mid-season finale and we pick up with a misty morning and a distant scream as a zombie staggers through the woods. Tyrese pops out from behind a tree to kill the zombie (with a very large By Sarah • Dec 03, 2012 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews My money is on Lee Pace Marvel’s “Phase 2” is underway with Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 in production and set for release next year, kicking off a slate of movies leading up to The Avengers 2 in 2015. Most of these are sequels to the Phase 1 movies, but they will be introducing By Sarah • Nov 30, 2012 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s budget superhero team In the wake of the monster success of The Avengers, Warner Brothers announced they will be bringing DC Comics’ own superhero super group, the Justice League, to the big screen. (Hilariously, they will attempt to do this in the same year that The Avengers 2 comes out.) The Justice League By Sarah • Nov 29, 2012 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit shuts down New Zealand At least, that’s the impression the world premiere in Wellington yesterday gives. The red carpet was over 500 yards, running the length of several city blocks, and the crowd was estimated at 100,000. The cast arrived earlier in the week in a plane plastered with the faces of By Sarah • Nov 29, 2012 11:12 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 3.7: “We’ve been on the road” The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 7 recap You guys, Merle is still REALLY upset about that whole “left handcuffed on a rooftop in Atlanta, surrounded by zombies” thing. He’s been roughing up Glenn, threatening him with his creepy knife-hand. I like that we’re getting to see the By Sarah • Nov 26, 2012 09:57 am
Chevy Chase is a locker room cancer First, Chevy Chase walked off set during filming of Community’s season three. Then series creator and showrunner Dan Harmon chewed Chase out in front of cast and crew—and Chase’s family—at the wrap party. In response, Chase left Harmon an angry voice mail (listen here), which Harmon By Sarah • Nov 23, 2012 12:37 pm
BFFs Angelina Jolie gives Ewan McGregor a leg up Pun fully intended. Last year Julia Roberts hosted a screening of Javier Bardem’s film Biutiful to promote her friend’s performance in a small film, and garnering him some Academy attention. The ploy worked and Bardem received his third Oscar nomination. Taking a page from the Julia Roberts’ Playbook By Sarah • Nov 20, 2012 10:55 am
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner’s SNL was ROUGH Possibly even the worst episode of the season so far. It’s not entirely on Renner—SNL is just so bad these days—but he wasn’t helping much. His cue card reading was blatant and only got worse throughout the show, and though he is funnier than his manly-man By Sarah • Nov 19, 2012 10:43 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 3.6: “We’re dying here” The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 6 recap We start with Merle and his search party out looking for Michonne, instead of picking up with Rick and his ringing phone. Michonne left a warning message made out of a dead body for Merle. Michonne is seriously f*cked up. Merle By Sarah • Nov 19, 2012 09:37 am
Girly Throw Downs Tom Hardy wants some video game action, too A few months ago it came out that Michael Fassbender had signed on to produce and star in an adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed. I fretted, because video game movies, historically, don’t work and I don’t want to see Fassbender suffer the same fate as By Sarah • Nov 16, 2012 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can James Bond really win an Oscar? With a Best Picture field that can accommodate anything from 5 to 10 nominees, the last few years always featured talk about which of the more populist films could be included in the Oscar race. Last year the conversation revolved around Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 (no By Sarah • Nov 16, 2012 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Warm Bodies: The zombie rom-com you didn’t know you wanted A year ago I wrote about the adaptation of Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies, a YA novel about a zombie who falls in love and rediscovers his humanity along the way. At the time, I noted, “it has the chance to appeal to a broader audience [than Twilight] because the By Sarah • Nov 12, 2012 01:17 pm
