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 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’ 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
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 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 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
