Media Manipulation Career Prospectus: Emily Blunt (Lainey: we received a detailed question about Emily Blunt’s career a few weeks ago from a reader called Ngoc. Perfect for the Faculty of Celebrity Studies. Ngoc’s (abridged) email is below, followed by Sarah’s analysis. Should you wish a similar Career Prospectus about your favourite star, please By Sarah • Jan 08, 2013 02:14 pm
Justified In the deep, dark hills - Justified returns for Season 4 Justified Season 4 preview Over the holidays I tried to explain Justified to my parents and the best I could come up with was “a buddy cop show with a trigger happy, emotionally damaged Marshal and a neo-Nazi white supremacist”. Ah Justified, how I love thee. There’s nothing By Sarah • Jan 08, 2013 11:26 am
Media Manipulation Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the new movie star Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants superstardom. He’s already in the mix for the next Batman, carrying into DC/WB’s Justice League movie, and now he’s been revealed as the late entry into Marvel’s casting pool for the lead role in Guardians of the Galaxy, as space captain By Sarah • Jan 03, 2013 10:19 am
The Walking Dead The suits still don’t get zombies The Walking Dead is one of the most successful shows on cable television, is AMC’s biggest-ever hit, and yet the suits in charge cannot stop f*cking with it. Despite rich source material that provides a blueprint for what to do next and building off an extraordinary pilot, By Sarah • Dec 21, 2012 03:20 pm
John Krasinski Sorry, but that’s John Krasinski Last week I wrote about John Krasinski’s dorky Twitter and a whole bunch of you emailed/tweeted to tell me that Krasinski’s Twitter was set up and run by Jimmy Kimmel as a joke. And yes, Kimmel, during Krasinski’s interview on the show to promote Promised Land, By Sarah • Dec 18, 2012 11:01 am
John Krasinski John Krasinski’s twee Twitter On my General List of Celebrity Don’ts, there were several items relating to social media. Mostly things like “don’t get into Twitter fights” and “don’t reference yourself in a tweet”, but one thing I didn’t mention—because I thought we were past this, honestly—was “don’ By Sarah • Dec 14, 2012 11:06 am
Henry Cavill Superman is super sad you guys Have you heard about Superman? He’s like, totally sad these days. I guess that whole crab fisherman thing didn’t work out because he’s moping around, sporting a sadness beard. Superman’s beard is the saddest beard that has ever bearded. It’s practically having its own existential By Sarah • Dec 12, 2012 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lone Ranger looks sh-tty, will make money anyway The second trailer for Disney’s The Lone Ranger is out and oh God, it looks hilariously awful. Not because of Johnny Depp as Tonto, but because it just looks like a clichéd, bloated summer action movie. So, like, bad in the regular way. People are, of course, always and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2012 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will and Jaden Smith by M. Night Shyamalan looks terrible Somehow, after a run of increasingly bad efforts capped off by the infuriating The Happening and the appallingly awful The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan is still allowed to make movies. How he’s not been thrown in Director Jail remains a mystery, and not only does he remain at By Sarah • Dec 11, 2012 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hobbit review Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, this time focusing on Frodo’s uncle Bilbo undertaking his own adventure as a young man, is good enough, but “good enough” feels like an indictment when the original LOTR trilogy ranged from “very good” to “extraordinary”. The central problem in The Hobbit By Sarah • Dec 07, 2012 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Trek Into Benedict Cumberbatch Because the first teaser for Star Trek Into Darkness is all about The Batch. As I mentioned earlier this week, we don’t know a lot about the plot or new characters in Star Trek 2. This teaser does little to shed light on either of those things. Mainly what By Sarah • Dec 06, 2012 02:04 pm
Judd Apatow Judd Apatow lives up his own ass now As a Judd Apatow fan, I am extremely let down by Vanity Fair’s much-vaunted “comedy issue”, for which Apatow served as guest editor. Do not take this as any kind of examination of the state of comedy today or its role in popular culture. The feature is only By Sarah • Dec 06, 2012 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you know who Dane DeHaan is? You’re probably going to have to learn. He’s had a very busy year with four films—Lincoln, Lawless, Jack & Diane and his stand-out turn as the villain in Chronicle—and next year he’s got Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot, Kill Your Darlings, and Place By Sarah • Dec 05, 2012 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch Treks into Darkness I cannot stop making fun of the Star Trek 2 title, Star Trek Into Darkness. It sounds like an Annie Lennox song. “When the world ends/And hope is lost/We will rise again/Star Trek Into Darkness/Yeah/Star Trek Into Darkness”. In my head, it’s set to By Sarah • Dec 04, 2012 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar (Click here for Sarah’s Nostradamus on Matthew McConaughey. As I said then, she’s a big ball hitter.) Back in May in my Cannes preview, I noted that Matthew McConaughey was having a busy year, with five movies, including Cannes’ selections Mud and The Paperboy. It was for two By Sarah • Dec 04, 2012 11:00 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 3.8: “You forget what people do” The Walking Dead Season 3 episode 8 recap Well hello, Tyrese. It’s the mid-season finale and we pick up with a misty morning and a distant scream as a zombie staggers through the woods. Tyrese pops out from behind a tree to kill the zombie (with a very By Sarah • Dec 03, 2012 10:14 am
