Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s big moment I was just wondering about Jeremy Renner’s state of mind as The Bourne Legacy approaches, his first real test as a leading man. Well, if there’s anyone who can empathize, it’s Andrew Garfield. He’s got to be a bigger basket case than Renner, right? One, The By Sarah • Jun 28, 2012 11:14 am
Media Manipulation OMG an honest press release! That was my reaction to Friday’s announcement from Universal about kicking The Bourne Legacy back a week in order to get out of the wake of The Dark Knight Rises, which opens only three weeks before Bourne’s original August 3 release date. Pushing back a week gives Bourne By Sarah • Jun 26, 2012 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man finally gets some traction Or so the numbers people say. Two weeks out from The Amazing Spider-Man’s opening, and the trades are reporting that it’s tracking for a $120+ million holiday opening—it’ll span the long July 4 weekend in the US—showing strong interest from men and boys and decent By Sarah • Jun 21, 2012 11:21 am
Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Culkin’s Protective Bubble There are a few actors who have earned my loyalty. Experience has taught me that on the whole, actors aren’t worth the time and energy we, the consuming public, put into them. Most of celebrity is smoke and mirrors, and more often than not, the actor you think you By Sarah • Jun 20, 2012 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t bet against The Lone Ranger One of my absolute favorite movie-business memories is an oldie but a goodie: the expression on the faces of Disney executives after they got their first look at Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. I will never ever forget that look. It was what the F*CK and I don’ By Sarah • Jun 19, 2012 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews World War Z: Nightmare movie A nightmare movie is a movie on which everything goes wrong. And when I say everything, I mean everything. If it’s a miserable experience from start to finish, with hellish development and post-production periods to boot, then it’s a nightmare movie. Famous nightmare movies include Jaws and The By Sarah • Jun 19, 2012 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prometheus mostly worked I said last week that I wasn’t really feeling the Prometheus hype, that sci-fi isn’t really my bag and I was struggling to get interested in it despite a top-notch cast. But I also thought that, because I wasn’t on the crazy hype wagon, I might actually By Sarah • Jun 11, 2012 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prometheus has landed Cornball. Can’t believe I wrote that. Moving on. Easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year, I know a lot of you have been all over Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. I haven’t been that anxious for it, which is weird, because the cast is pretty much By Sarah • Jun 08, 2012 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America 2 might be funny? I worried for Captain America, a lot. Of all of Marvel’s pre-Avengers movies, that’s the one I had the most concern about. The challenge with Cap is that Steve Rogers is the boringest superhero ever. It’s like Lainey says about Game of Thrones all the time—there’ By Sarah • Jun 07, 2012 01:57 pm
Douchebags Charlie Sheen’s comeback After one of the most public, bizarre, and entertaining meltdowns in modern entertainment memory, Charlie Sheen is returning to TV, and he’s celebrating his comeback with a cover profile in Rolling Stone. Sheen’s new show, Anger Management, airs on FX later this month. I’m curious to see By Sarah • Jun 07, 2012 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner kicks major ass I’m loyal to Jeremy Renner. Ask Lainey. I’ll defend him to the mattresses. Why? He pinged on my radar years ago, way before his big break, before SWAT even, back when he was knocking around town, getting drunk and singing in bars (listen, that dude can SING). Renner By Sarah • Jun 01, 2012 12:38 pm
Girly Throw Downs Dominic Monaghan calls it like he sees it If that name is making you scratch your head, he was a hobbit in Lord of the Rings and was Charlie on Lost. The second one is the important part. Remember my General List of Celebrity Don’ts? Well Monaghan just ran afoul of #8, “don’t badmouth another celebrity By Sarah • May 30, 2012 11:59 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Obviously I’m a bad fan of things Last week I wrote about the consistent rumors dogging Benedict Cumberbatch and his possible involvement with Marvel. The emergent rumor is that he could be Ant Man, and I said—I thought I said—that Ant Man is a boring character with a stupid superpower, and that if Cumberbatch is By Sarah • May 28, 2012 03:54 pm
Cannes 2012 The most boring Cannes OF ALL TIME I really can’t remember a less interesting Cannes Film Festival than the one that just happened. Maybe it’s because Angelina denied us the opportunity to be LEGGED again, or maybe it’s because the weather sucked over there and everyone stayed inside, actually watching movies, but there was By Sarah • May 28, 2012 11:11 am
Quiveration Tom Hiddleston, dork crush We’re so fickle around these parts. How fickle? It was just over a month ago that many of us ran mad with Tom Hiddleston crushes, and it took only a few weeks to pretty much end it for the majority. Check out Lainey’s timeline—she started crushing here By Sarah • May 24, 2012 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvelous Benedict Cumberbatch Could not resist. So Benedict Cumberbatch has been hanging around Marvel since late last year, prompting a lot of talk about what he’s doing and the inevitability of his involvement with one of their properties. The natural assumption—mine included—was that he would play Dr. Strange. Because if By Sarah • May 24, 2012 09:47 am
