Movie Reviews and Previews Budgets & Box office (Lainey: this is a question that came in recently from a reader called Issie. Sarah’s response is below.) I was on Box Office Mojo today, looking at the numbers for The Hunger Games. They've passed 1/2 billion worldwide and it looks like it'll be By Sarah • Apr 26, 2012 11:21 am
The Hunger Games Catching Fire’s director is not on fire Or, I guess I should say potential director, since the offer has not been officially accepted yet. After Gary Ross exited the franchise a couple weeks ago, speculation began about who would take over the reins of The Hunger Games sequel. I was hoping for someone with some vision and By Sarah • Apr 20, 2012 12:22 pm
Dumbass Presenting Kellan Lutz and Camilla Belle, festival judges Lainey messaged me and asked if I wanted to address the inclusion of Twilight’s Kellan Lutz and…um…something’s Camilla Belle in the Tribeca Film Festival’s jury lineup. My response? “Oh yeah, sure, I was just telling someone how that’s not a real festival anyway.” Tribeca By Sarah • Apr 18, 2012 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer movie preview 2012 It’s almost here, my favorite time of year. Summer movie season is a four month holiday for industry watchers. It’s all insanity and nervousness. There’s so much on the line—so much money, so many connotations for people’s careers. If you’re into blow-by-blow By Sarah • Apr 17, 2012 03:43 pm
Maple Leaf Battleship: Big, dumb, loud…successful? It’s crept up on me slowly, but for the last six weeks or so, I’ve thought that Battleship, the movie based on a boardgame, would surprise people. Sure, it looks big and dumb and loud and it reminds me of Transformers in less-than-flattering ways, but it By Sarah • Apr 13, 2012 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Ross is not Catching Fire I couldn’t resist! Over the last week there has been rampant speculation about the future of director Gary Ross and the Hunger Games franchise. Early reports were that he was leaving, but then a half-hearted denial from Lionsgate just before Easter weekend made it clear that negotiations were By Sarah • Apr 11, 2012 11:46 am
Justified Justified 3.13: “A man in a hat pointing a gun at Boyd” Justified Season 3 Episode 13. All right, here we go with the final Justified of season three. Time to see who lives and dies. I think Quarles and Dickie Bennett are going to eat it, but Limehouse will survive—probably not Errol, though—and so will Wynn Duffy because he’ By Sarah • Apr 11, 2012 10:22 am
Smutty Surgery Granny Freeze Grace I had such a huge lady crush on Nicole Kidman ten years ago, circa Moulin Rouge. Unlike my lady crush on Lucy Liu, though, the crush on Kidman did not survive the ensuing years and her increasingly frozen face. She made me too sad to crush on her. But maybe By Sarah • Apr 09, 2012 10:16 am
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner’s time is nigh If you don’t read my site, and let’s go ahead and assume you don’t, you might not know that I have a bit of a crush on Jeremy Renner. Or, more specifically, on his cute butt. Ever since his Oscar-nominated turn in The Hurt Locker in By Sarah • Apr 05, 2012 10:45 am
Justified Justified 3.12: “Do I strike you in any way as a Van Halen fan?” The penultimate episode of Justified season 3. Sh*t’s getting real now. This involves a naked, chained-up Quarles popping Oxy with the hookers Boyd left to keep an eye on him. Because that can’t possibly backfire. Meanwhile, Boyd is planning how he’ll divvy up the Bennett By Sarah • Apr 04, 2012 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is good enough for Nora Charles? I am fond of old romantic movies, which may be surprising, since my heart is made of roofing tar and ashes. But I do love them, I really do. To Have and Have Not, Love in the Afternoon, Roman Holiday, To Catch a Thief, Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, By Sarah • Mar 30, 2012 11:47 am
Justified Justified 3.11: “There’s gonna be another time” Looking back to Wynn Duffy’s first appearance in season 1, he seemed like such a tool. And now he’s developed into a steely criminal…well not mastermind; he’s too clearly a second in command to be the mastermind, but yet he seems like the only one who By Sarah • Mar 28, 2012 11:16 am
Justified Justified 3.10: “We are not your savages” Some deputies are trying to plant drugs in Shelby’s truck but he busts them and runs them off. He says he’s got only a couple years to live and wants to accomplish something before he dies, thus running for sheriff. Total crock of sh*t of course. In By Sarah • Mar 21, 2012 10:50 am
Media Manipulation Harvey Weinstein checks the MPAA In chess there is an old gambit known as the Bishop’s Opening. The general rule of thumb in chess is “knights over bishops”, which is what makes the Bishop’s Opening so effective. Players are trained to establish their knights first and develop from there, but the Bishop’s By Sarah • Mar 20, 2012 10:27 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead episode 13: On the road again Here we are at the season finale, with chaos about to rain down on the farm. But first, we get to revisit zombie-infested Atlanta, and some zombies following that helicopter Rick saw back in the pilot. The zombies pass through the highway where the group broke down at the By Sarah • Mar 19, 2012 09:43 am
Justified Justified 3.9: “There was just nothing she could do for him" Raylan’s living situation is always so depressing. I know it’s meant to be a statement about his solitary, no-frills character, but his series of sad motel rooms is bumming me out. He hides the gun that shot Gary in his A/C. So that guy Quarles killed By Sarah • Mar 14, 2012 10:56 am
