Gary Oldman Gary Oldman’s Oscar chances We started talking about Oscar odds yesterday during the liveblog, and I made the assertion that Gary Oldman would win Best Actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Let’s break down how I got there. 1) No one is a lock this year By this time last year, it was By Sarah • Dec 01, 2011 11:48 am
Media Manipulation Dear Michael Fassbender: Are you enjoying your expensive Oscar campaign? I hope so, as it’s certainly costing Fox Searchlight a pretty penny. Although, I don’t mean “expensive” strictly in the pecuniary sense. No, I mean that your Oscar campaign for Shame is coming at the expense of others, notably Fox Searchlight’s other title, Martha Marcy May Marlene. By Sarah • Nov 30, 2011 02:09 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead episode 7: The inevitable conclusion The Walking Dead season 2 episode 7 recap Downside: It’s the midseason finale, which means no more recaps until the New Year. Upside: We get a much needed break from Stupid Shane. Look at Andrea turning into Commando Barbie, sharpening knives and sh*t. Like everyone on this show, By Sarah • Nov 28, 2011 10:21 am
Blind Riddles They’re creeping everyone out This director doesn’t have a reputation for engaging in tomfoolery on his sets, and this starlet has no reputation at all, yet they’ve been raising eyebrows with their vaguely off-putting relationship, which is inching into “professionally inappropriate” territory. Their weird fascination with one another is making some folks By Sarah • Nov 23, 2011 09:29 am
The Walking Dead The Horrible Confession The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6 recap Carl makes a miraculous recovery, is up and helping Horrible Lori with farm chores just days after being seriously wounded. His acting, however, remains mortally injured. A creepy farm cannibal (where do these new people keep coming from?) breaks some chickens’ legs By Sarah • Nov 21, 2011 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mirror Mirror is beyond second-hand embarrassing When I wrote about ending the Snow White “war” last week, I said it was over not because one movie was better than the other, but because they’re targeting totally different demographics and there would be little audience crossover. (Really, Relativity needs to worry about Hansel & Gretel: Witch By Sarah • Nov 16, 2011 10:36 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead episode 5: In which things get impossibly worse The Walking Dead season 2 episode 5 recap Another cold-open flashback, this time of a traffic jam that shows us the survivors finding each other on the highway. Revisiting Carol’s horrid husband, I’m still glad he got eaten by zombies in season one. We see the military napalming By Sarah • Nov 14, 2011 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Snow White battle royale is over And not because one project is better than the other. It’s over because they’re so DIFFERENT that comparing becomes pointless. If you’ve been living under a rock, an ongoing movie business story this year is the “Snow White war” being waged between Universal and Relativity. These two By Sarah • Nov 10, 2011 02:57 pm
Dumbass The Oscars are a clusterf*ck I have no doubt that in the long run, the 2012 Academy Awards will be fine, but man, right now, it’s a mess. In the wake of Brett Ratner resigning (read: getting canned) as co-producer, Eddie Murphy, the host he recruited, quit the telecast. I have one thought about By Sarah • Nov 10, 2011 11:08 am
Douchebags The Oscars go KABOOM no more It’s been a rough week for Brett Ratner. First Olivia Munn outs him as the pervy director who jacked off in front of her while holding a shrimp, then he admitted to banging Munn, but not the shrimp/jacking off part, then Tower Heist was a disappointment, then he By Sarah • Nov 09, 2011 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s a princess cage match! I guess we should have seen this coming, with the worldwide popularity of the royal wedding this past spring and our obsession with the Cambridges, that there would be a rash of princess-themed movies in the wake of that interest. First it was Grace of Monaco and what is sure By Sarah • Nov 08, 2011 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A handy list of actors who think you’re stupid That’s what Forbes should have called their list of “Hollywood’s most overpaid stars”. In and of itself, there’s nothing wrong with commercial filmmaking. It’s not a completely soulless endeavor, it’s just that it’s frustrating when movies consistently get made to the lowest common denominator By Sarah • Nov 07, 2011 10:14 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 2.4: Where did they get Otis's body? The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 4 recap Time to find out what the fallout is over Stupid Shane’s decision re: Otis The Fat Cannibal. Stupid Shane is now sporting Travis Bickel-esque hair. The Farm of Doom folks seem to be collecting rocks. Hey Dennis, there’s some lovely By Sarah • Nov 07, 2011 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult, cute zombie Lainey emailed me about the first promotional image of Warm Bodies, a bit confused about the plot, and wanted me to write about it, because, as she said, I have a “PhD in zombie”. Of course my first thought was, Oh my god I WISH I could get a real By Sarah • Nov 04, 2011 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Lautner goes the Leo route Remember when Taylor Lautner met with Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black for dinner last month? A writer, a director and an actor at a table together can only mean one thing—they’re working together. Or, at least Lautner and Van Sant are. The Hollywood Reporter just announced By Sarah • Nov 03, 2011 08:44 am
Quiveration Dear Michael Fassbender We have got to stop meeting like this. I just can’t with you when I’m busy and have work to do, then here you come with your everything and I just can’t. It’s like you knew that I needed you yesterday. Like you knew that in By Sarah • Nov 02, 2011 08:33 am
