Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley starts the clock on Emma Stone I liked The Amazing Spider-Man well enough. Mostly, I liked how great Andrew Garfield was as Peter Parker, but it wasn’t a bad movie. The biggest issue was that it didn’t do enough to separate itself from the Sam Raimi treatment of just a few years ago. When By Sarah • Oct 11, 2012 12:58 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead Season 3 preview The third season of The Walking Dead starts on Sunday night —I will be recapping episodes on Mondays again—and it looks to be the darkest season yet. It’s also the first season that is free of Frank Darabont. Season two was really uneven and you could clearly see By Sarah • Oct 11, 2012 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos and The Fassbender together at last Ryan Gosling was already in Austin shooting Terrence Malick’s next movie, as yet untitled, and now Michael Fassbender has joined the cast at the last minute, which means the The Gos and The Fassbender are in a movie together—and yes, they have scenes together —and the universe is By Sarah • Oct 10, 2012 02:25 pm
Clown Lindsay Lohan is in a sexploitation flick because duh Or it looks like a sexploitation flick anyway. Penned by novelist and professional blowhard Bret Easton Ellis, directed by Paul Schrader (best known for writing Taxi Driver and Raging Bull), and funded largely by Kickstarter, The Canyons stars Lohan and James Deen as a couple caught up in sexual obsession By Sarah • Oct 09, 2012 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp ‘s Tonto might not be a joke Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger has been something of a cursed movie. Pre-production budget wrangling turned into on location over-spending, an already long shoot fell behind schedule, and, tragically, a member of the crew died in an accident on set. It just doesn’t get worse than that. But By Sarah • Oct 04, 2012 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casting Cap’s Lady There are three roles being cast by Marvel right now that are attracting a lot of attention. Two of them, Ant Man and the as yet unnamed “American Pilot” in Guardians of the Galaxy, we’re still a year or two away from hearing about. But the role of Captain By Sarah • Oct 03, 2012 10:06 am
Media Manipulation Seth MacFarlane set to annoy us at the Oscars I find Seth MacFarlane funny when I don’t have to look at him. Family Guy can be funny. Ted was funny. But he’s not a physical presence in either of those things. Seth MacFarlane’s funny is always hindered by his smug moonface. Is there a more self-satisfied By Sarah • Oct 01, 2012 01:44 pm
Lucy Liu Passing Elementary Last night was the premiere of the CBS version of Sherlock, titled Elementary since the Sherlock producers declined to sell Americans the rights to their show. Starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson, it’s been the brunt of a lot of “why bother, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2012 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Krasinski, Writer: yay or nay? I mean, obviously, who doesn’t love Jim on The Office? John Krasinski is cute—so tall!—and he’s adorable with Emily Blunt and he makes us laugh, so yes, of course, I know we all like him, in general. But The Office is ending. Entering its final season, By Sarah • Sep 25, 2012 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit now has less singing, more action The first trailer for Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth was a little underwhelming. It looked pretty much exactly like Fellowship of the Ring and it had some dude (do not ask me to differentiate the people playing dwarves—can’t do it) singing a depressing dirge. But the By Sarah • Sep 20, 2012 10:51 am
Aisha Tyler Aisha Tyler: Proto Funny/Girl When I wrote about Funny/Girls a couple weeks ago, Duana asked me about Aisha Tyler. Why, as Tyler is talented, funny and beautiful, she never quite took in the mainstream. My answer was that Aisha Tyler is six feet tall. She smokes cigars and drinks Scotch (and brews her By Sarah • Sep 19, 2012 12:41 pm
Oscar shake up, campaign shake down The shape of Oscar campaigning just got a whole lot different. The Academy released the schedule for the 85th Academy Awards, and it has some significant changes which will, in some ways, make the process less political and more about actually seeing the films, but in other ways could completely By Sarah • Sep 19, 2012 11:00 am
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
