Cannes 2013 Cannes 2013: Competition domination (Our Cannes coverage this year is sponsored by U by Kotex® and we want to send you and your best friend on a festival experience in Toronto with deluxe accommodations, spending money, and more. Click here for more information and to enter the contest!) Did you see The Hollywood Reporter’ By Sarah • May 14, 2013 11:31 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Rebranding as Cumberbabes I’ve noticed it before, haven’t you? That Benedict Cumberbatch is patently embarrassed by the name his fan collective has—as he is quick to point out—bestowed upon themselves? He doesn’t even like to say it. Start watching/reading Cumberbatch’s interviews en masse, as I have By Sarah • May 13, 2013 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cumbers Bumbers Wumbers That was the most excellent term Simon Pegg coined to describe the shivery feeling people get around Benedict Cumberbatch. It came up in this terrible interview, which is worth a watch for how thoroughly Pegg dominates it and how quick he is off the cuff. (I cannot wait for The By Sarah • May 10, 2013 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crushing on Chris again Lainey used to give me sh*t all the time for liking Chris Evans, but over the last few years, he wore down my affection a bit. After taking a break, though, I’m coming back around to him. It helps that he’s not talking about rainbows and rivers By Sarah • May 09, 2013 10:22 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Kristen Stewart For previous installments of Career Prospectus, please click here. When word got out that Kristen Stewart had dropped out of Focus, the movie she was originally going to star in alongside Ben Affleck, Lainey thought maybe she would be a good subject for a career prospectus, and many of you By Sarah • May 08, 2013 09:31 am
Quiveration Henry Cavill is a (hot) nerd We’ve all noted that Henry Cavill, despite being ridiculously good looking and obviously being made into A Thing, is kind of boring. For many of us, the most interesting thing about him is that he dates Gina Carano (which is totally hot). He certainly seems nice, and is well By Sarah • May 03, 2013 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Suited Sherlock at Star Trek The world premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness (god, that TITLE) was held in London last night and Benedict Cumberbatch showed up in a sharp suit with his long, dark Sherlock hair. This is my favorite Batch—tall, alien, bespoke. Reviews of Darkness are rolling out and, as to be By Sarah • May 03, 2013 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Depends-ables I couldn’t get into Red when it came out in 2010, which is weird as I really love crap action movies, and Red, with its incredibly high-caliber cast was a cut above the average action team-up flick. But even though the cast clearly had a ball making it, I By Sarah • May 01, 2013 12:22 pm
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt, Zombie Savior I’ve been highly critical of and already disappointed in World War Z for like, three years now. I’ve called it a nightmare, I’ve been harsh on Brad Pitt’s responsibilities and decision-making regarding this project, and I’m not optimistic for the film’s chances at the By Sarah • Apr 30, 2013 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s a Macbeth-off I really wish someone had done a simulcast of the Macbeth adaptation starring James McAvoy. It got great reviews and McAvoy, a Scot and an actor who does such a killer job communicating suffering is, like, textbook Macbeth. McAvoy’s Macbeth was, by all accounts, an exceptional performance and production. By Sarah • Apr 30, 2013 10:32 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Not-Posh Last August, in advance of the HBO drama Parade’s End, Benedict Cumberbatch gave some interviews in which he talked about his background, the poshness thereof, and the relative annoyingness of Cumberbatch talking about it versus other people talking about it (we get annoyed when he talks about, he gets By Sarah • Apr 29, 2013 11:10 am
Media Manipulation Armie Hammer’s apprenticeship I said once that no matter how bad The Lone Ranger looks, I wouldn’t bet against director Gore Verbinski pulling a rabbit out of his hat and coming up with something entertaining and crowd-pleasing, if not exactly good. Verbinski is the kind of director that exceeds in chaotic conditions By Sarah • Apr 26, 2013 11:23 am
BFFs Guys & Dolls & GI: Joe I always forget that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in GI: Joe. In fact, I always forget that JGL and Channing Tatum have actually been in other stuff together (Stop-Loss, JGL’s upcoming Don Jon). They’re probably friends, or friendly work acquaintances anyway. Isn’t that weird? JGL and Channing Tatum By Sarah • Apr 25, 2013 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alex Pettyfer is not Christian Grey Somehow a story on The Wrap about director Gus Van Sant shooting an unsolicited test reel for Fifty Shades of Grey, in which he used Alex Pettyfer as Christian Grey, has turned into “Alex Pettyfer has auditioned for Fifty Shades of Grey”. But that isn’t what happened. What happened By Sarah • Apr 24, 2013 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s shampoo commercial Are you tired of dry, damaged hair? Sick of split ends? Try Asgardia, the number one restorative shampoo in the universe! Thor: The Dark World, which will henceforth be referred to as “Thor 2” because that’s a silly title, has released its first trailer in advance of Iron Man By Sarah • Apr 23, 2013 11:41 am
Try Tom Hiddleston wants to be The Crow Of course he does. We all agree that he totally wants to be a super famous star, right? I mean, I like the guy, but you can’t overlook his, um, eagerness. It’s what you like or don’t like about him—the Try is either annoying or adorable, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2013 01:31 pm
