Oscars 2012 All the proof you need that the Academy is run by old white men Did you see the statistics about the makeup of the Academy? The Academy is 94% white, 77% male, and the median age is 62. That’s quantitative data. Want some qualitative proof? Back in 2007 Sacha Baron Cohen was invited to present at the Oscars. He wanted to do so By Sarah • Feb 23, 2012 10:50 am
Justified 3.6: “You’re in trouble when the drums stop” Justified Season 3 Episode 6 recap A couple of floozies hit up an Oxycontin clinic to start the episode. They’re buying from the doctor Boyd threatened in the previous episode. And now there are dudes with guns shooting up the place. Well this is certainly an exciting start to By Sarah • Feb 22, 2012 11:38 am
Justin Timberlake What is the value of the celebrity host? Lainey messaged me on Saturday about why it seemed like SNL is always better when the host is a returning cast member as opposed to a celebrity. Knee-jerk reaction: because they’re proper comedians and they get it. But it does go a little deeper than that, because there many By Sarah • Feb 20, 2012 12:01 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead episode 9: Stupid Shane gets scary The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 9 We start with Horrible Lori in the overturned car, now beset by zombies, of course. The women of TWD are good for two things: 1) being bitches and 2) getting into trouble from which men must rescue them. At this point, this is By Sarah • Feb 20, 2012 09:52 am
Business of Hollywood Chris Pine’s legal throwdown It’s one of my core tenets when it comes to this business: Hollywood is not a team sport. Loyalty is all well and good in its place, but at the end of the day, your business is YOU. “Sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side” (name By Sarah • Feb 16, 2012 10:50 am
Justified Justified 3.5: “He said things might get weird” Justified Season 3 Episode 5 recap After Rick Grimes threw down in the bar on Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead, a friend and I discussed who would win in a fight: Officer Rick or Raylan Givens. Conclusion: In a straight-up brawl, Raylan, but if he feels cornered, Rick. By Sarah • Feb 15, 2012 10:20 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead episode 8: Once more into the breach The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 8 recap Things we know going into part 2 of The Walking Dead season 2: Officer Rick: Putting the “reluctant” in “reluctant hero” Horrible Lori: Pregnant and still horrible Stupid Shane: Completely batsh*t crazy Carl: Miraculously recovered from serious gunshot wound Sophia: Got By Sarah • Feb 13, 2012 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now this is how you handle casting drama Remember when it was reported that Jessica Chastain would be playing Princess Diana in that movie, Caught in Flight, the one about the last couple years of Diana’s life? Click here for more. Well, yesterday it was announced that Caught in Flight will star not Chastain, but Naomi Watts. By Sarah • Feb 10, 2012 12:03 pm
Justified Justified 3.4: “No matter how weird things might get” Justified Season 3 Episode 4 recap We begin with Devil meeting with Quarles, who offers Devil a job. The title of this scene is “Devil signs his death warrant”. And I am just now realizing that Quarles is also the guy in the bowler hat from Captain America, which is By Sarah • Feb 08, 2012 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Clooney & Pitt wish this would derail Dujardin So Jean Dujardin, the stone cold French fox who scored a surprise Best Actor upset at the SAGs for The Artist, has a new movie coming out in France. It’s called Les Infideles and it’s about a bunch of guys cheating. The ad campaign features images of the By Sarah • Feb 03, 2012 11:06 am
Justified Justified 3.3: “These boots ain’t made for running” Justified Season 3 Episode 3 recap Last week Carla Gugino appeared as Deputy Director Goodall, and some people were like, “Hey, why didn’t you mention that Karen Sisco was on Justified?!” Well, it’s because, due to a legal matter about who owns what Elmore Leonard property, they couldn’ By Sarah • Feb 01, 2012 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2012 wrap up Speaking to a long-time buyer at Sundance as she waited for her flight home to Los Angeles, she said of the 2012 festival, “This was a weird year. There was nothing that felt like lightning in a bottle, and nothing that screamed, ‘Buy me!’ either. There was a lot of By Sarah • Jan 31, 2012 10:48 am
Blake Lively Blake Lively’s girl drama cost her a job And I’m not down with that. Last week we talked about Blake Lively’s involvement in Steven Soderbergh’s new movie and how her casting as the lead caused a producer, the one with the money, to walk off the project. Click here for a refresher. The other producers By Sarah • Jan 30, 2012 03:35 pm
Well here’s one solution for the Academy’s old fart voters And by “old fart” I don’t necessarily mean physically old, but those technology and future-resistant members who fight the nominations of movies like The Dark Knight. There’s a schism in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that’s gotten progressively worse over the last decade, and By Sarah • Jan 27, 2012 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively girl drama I’ll admit up front that I’m not a fan of Blake Lively. So take all this with a grain of salt. I’d love to be able to point and laugh and go, “Haha, everyone hates Blake Lively.” But a development broke last night that had me thinking By Sarah • Jan 25, 2012 12:34 pm
Justified Justified 3.2: “I think he might be my penance” Justified Season 3 Episode 2 recap In last week’s episode I counted Raylan’s shooting of Nix—the black hat—as a kill. However, several readers threw some shade on that and suggested Nix wasn’t actually dead. Since his fate was inconclusive, I’m down-grading his shooting to By Sarah • Jan 25, 2012 10:34 am
