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 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, 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 By Sarah • Jan 25, 2012 10:34 am
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 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 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 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 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 By Sarah • Jan 10, 2012 10:19 am