Movie Reviews and Previews Gina Carano’s fake Haywire voice Gossip is a buffet and today we’re serving three entrees. Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Haywire opens this weekend. It stars MMA star Gina Carano. I’m not an MMA fan nor had I ever heard of Gina Carano until Haywire came about, so I didn’t notice anything By Sarah • Jan 20, 2012 01:59 pm
Dumbass Do or do not. There is no TRY. I know that quoting Yoda isn’t going to help my whole “no really, I’m not this nerdy” thing, but it’s strangely apropos. On Tuesday, Lainey posted this about the “You can do anything!” sketch from last weekend’s SNL, hosted by Daniel Radcliffe. Lainey noted the line, By Sarah • Jan 20, 2012 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2012 Preview: Support these films! The top ten highest-grossing films of 2011 were all sequels/franchises, and two superheroes (Thor and Captain America). I don’t see that trend changing too much in 2012, but I do think that this is (mostly) our fault. People complained so much about a lack of quality at the By Sarah • Jan 19, 2012 10:30 am
Justified Justified 3.1: “Sorry about your tablecloth” Justified Season 1 Episode 1 recap In case you haven’t been watching Justified, here’s a quick primer on who’s who and what’s what. Raylan Givens: Deputy US Marshal and all-around badass. Reassigned to his home state of Kentucky after he killed a dude in broad daylight By Sarah • Jan 18, 2012 11:02 am
Bad Style Robert Pattinson: Rich Hobo Last year Sasha coined a term in relation to Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart: “rich hippy”. My friend A, though, made a good point when she said that Pattinson and Stewart aren’t hippies so much as hobos. Fine, then. Rich hobos. Last night RPattz’s rich hobo-ness was on By Sarah • Jan 12, 2012 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews You have GOT to be kidding me with Miley Cyrus Over the last year I’ve seen several gossips—Lainey included—state that Miley “Smoke pot? Not me, never!” Cyrus has earned some affection by drawing down her public persona and making some effort at being a more mature pop tartlet. I’ve disagreed all along, issuing a strong BITCH, By Sarah • Jan 11, 2012 09:51 am
Rooney Mara You will get another Dragon Tattoo and YOU WILL LIKE IT First, I think we need stop saying that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is some kind of big disappointment. Did it fail to dominate the holiday movie season? Yes. Is going to pass the hundred-million mark at the box office? Yes. Let’s call it even. After a lackluster By Sarah • Jan 10, 2012 12:31 pm
Twilight Breaking the Hunger Games Dawn If you need further proof that a movie studio can’t survive without a steady diet of cash-cow franchises, look no further than the Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment takeover. The talks began years ago and kept on in stop-start fashion, until late in 2011 it looked like some kind of a By Sarah • Jan 10, 2012 10:19 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch makes his Hollywood move This moment has been anticipated over the last couple years. Cumberbatch drew notice in his native UK first, with his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in an eponymous tele-film. Recently he’s been making inroads across the pond with his superb modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes and with supporting roles in By Sarah • Jan 05, 2012 09:45 am
Quiveration Love letters to The Fassbender Dear Michael Fassbender… 2011 was a huge year for you. After flirting with the edge since 2008, 2011 is when you went global. 2012 is poised to be more of the same, with Haywire next month, and Prometheus in the summer, and filming 12 Years a Slave with Steve McQueen. By Sarah • Jan 04, 2012 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum is really growing on me And it feels really bizarre to say that. (Lainey: Please note this article was written by Sarah.) It all started with a radio interview with him and Jamie Bell during promotion for that Eagle movie they made. I listened and found myself thinking, You know, Channing Tatum isn't By Sarah • Dec 27, 2011 10:39 am
Media Manipulation Who decided to drop a trailer after Batman? There’s a marketing misstep if ever I saw one. Summer 2012 is stacked with high-profile franchise releases including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and one of the more mysterious entries, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Set in the same universe as Scott’s classic Alien, it’s a By Sarah • Dec 23, 2011 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese Witherspoon: Serious, not sexy Speaking of studying celebrity career moves... Reese Witherspoon is an interesting case. She's popular, not a bad actress, an Oscar winner. Yet the last few years she's eroded a lot of goodwill by making a string of bad movies. Even in this year's Water By Sarah • Dec 19, 2011 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s hard out there for a female director A couple months ago, Marvel Studios announced that Patty Jenkins, director of Monster, would be in charge of Thor 2, which was very exciting as it was only the second time a woman would be in charge of a superhero tent pole project (Lexi Alexander was the first to do By Sarah • Dec 15, 2011 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This year’s Black List, next year’s most anticipated films When Franklin Leonard created the Black List—an annual list of the most popular unproduced scripts circulating around Hollywood—it was a way to see what trends were coming, what sort of projects the execs around town were favoring, and who would be next year’s breakout star. Past Black By Sarah • Dec 13, 2011 11:54 am
Anne Hathaway Update: An actor’s value still kind of questionable Last year I questioned the Forbes list of the “best value” actors because they had some folks on there who make sh*t movies (Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Aniston—though to be fair to Aniston, the upcoming Wanderlust looks really funny). This year my question is less about By Sarah • Dec 07, 2011 11:26 am
