Media Manipulation Brad Pitt, Zombie Savior I’ve been highly critical of and already disappointed in World War Z for like, three years now. I’ve called it a nightmare, I’ve been harsh on Brad Pitt’s responsibilities and decision-making regarding this project, and I’m not optimistic for the film’s chances at By Sarah • Apr 30, 2013 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s a Macbeth-off I really wish someone had done a simulcast of the Macbeth adaptation starring James McAvoy. It got great reviews and McAvoy, a Scot and an actor who does such a killer job communicating suffering is, like, textbook Macbeth. McAvoy’s Macbeth was, by all accounts, an exceptional performance and production. By Sarah • Apr 30, 2013 10:32 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Not-Posh Last August, in advance of the HBO drama Parade’s End, Benedict Cumberbatch gave some interviews in which he talked about his background, the poshness thereof, and the relative annoyingness of Cumberbatch talking about it versus other people talking about it (we get annoyed when he talks about, he gets By Sarah • Apr 29, 2013 11:10 am
Media Manipulation Armie Hammer’s apprenticeship I said once that no matter how bad The Lone Ranger looks, I wouldn’t bet against director Gore Verbinski pulling a rabbit out of his hat and coming up with something entertaining and crowd-pleasing, if not exactly good. Verbinski is the kind of director that exceeds in chaotic By Sarah • Apr 26, 2013 11:23 am
BFFs Guys & Dolls & GI: Joe I always forget that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in GI: Joe. In fact, I always forget that JGL and Channing Tatum have actually been in other stuff together (Stop-Loss, JGL’s upcoming Don Jon). They’re probably friends, or friendly work acquaintances anyway. Isn’t that weird? JGL and By Sarah • Apr 25, 2013 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alex Pettyfer is not Christian Grey Somehow a story on The Wrap about director Gus Van Sant shooting an unsolicited test reel for Fifty Shades of Grey, in which he used Alex Pettyfer as Christian Grey, has turned into “Alex Pettyfer has auditioned for Fifty Shades of Grey”. But that isn’t what happened. What happened By Sarah • Apr 24, 2013 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s shampoo commercial Are you tired of dry, damaged hair? Sick of split ends? Try Asgardia, the number one restorative shampoo in the universe! Thor: The Dark World, which will henceforth be referred to as “Thor 2” because that’s a silly title, has released its first trailer in advance of Iron Man By Sarah • Apr 23, 2013 11:41 am
Try Tom Hiddleston wants to be The Crow Of course he does. We all agree that he totally wants to be a super famous star, right? I mean, I like the guy, but you can’t overlook his, um, eagerness. It’s what you like or don’t like about him—the Try is either annoying or adorable, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2013 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Little Johnny, Big Armie There are worse things than The Lone Ranger. Like, say, Transformers 1-3, conclusive. Or World War Z. WWZ looks terrible because it’s so freaking generic, like someone threw Independence Day, Armageddon and The Walking Dead into a blender and WWZ is the vomitus mass that came out. Or By Sarah • Apr 18, 2013 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are you ready for Superman? Because he’s going to be very, very big. After the first trailer for Man of Steel came out in December, I expressed doubts—about Zack Snyder as a director, about Superman as a compelling character, about the overall tone being too similar to The Dark Knight trilogy (Christopher Nolan By Sarah • Apr 17, 2013 11:53 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Aaron Eckhart Hi Lainey, If Sarah can find the time I'd be really interested to hear her thoughts on Alan Eckhart's career. He's built like a leading man, but aside from "Thank You For Smoking" he seems to always be the side character. I By Sarah • Apr 16, 2013 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Foxx is a blue albino crocodile Don’t ask me how “blue albino” works, that’s just what is in my head as I look at these set photos of Jamie Foxx as Electro, the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which so far has no cutesy subtitle (The Even More Amazing Spider-Man? Spider- By Sarah • Apr 16, 2013 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No thanks, Tarzan. We’re good I’m kind of wondering what Alexander Skarsgard’s career management plan looks like. On the one hand, he’s jumping off a successful cable show into films and taking supporting roles in movies like The East and Melancholia and What Maisie Knew, but on the other hand he books By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruis-E Yesterday when I wrote about the Elysium trailer I said that making good sci-fi is hard. It’s just a big pit of vipers and the vipers are named things like Exposition and Logic and Narrative Mandate. Good sci-fi requires a huge amount of behind-the-scenes planning, By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please don’t let Elysium be disappointing like Prometheus Was there a bigger let down last year than Prometheus? All the hype, is-it-Alien/is-it-not-Alien, the series of good trailers and stellar viral marketing, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender AND Idris Elba in a movie together, and then…it kind of sucked. A lot. By Sarah • Apr 10, 2013 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America 2 is basically justifying Scarlett Johansson’s paycheck In the wake of The Avengers bonanza success last summer, we learned that RDJ raked in—at minimum—fifty million for the film. There was also a rumor that arose in the wake of RDJ’s back-end deal getting exposed that Scarlett Johansson, in order to guarantee her return By Sarah • Apr 09, 2013 10:20 am
