Golden Globes 2015 Jennifer Aniston & Benedict Cumberbatch: Best Pair at the Globes You gotta give them something… But it’s perfect, isn’t it? The two hardest hustlers this award season, you could say the two most Try nominees on the circuit, were paired together for the first award of the night. As a programming strategy, it's understandable. Opening the By Lainey • Jan 12, 2015 11:29 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Alien Lizard King expecting alien lizard offspring The king of the reptiloid planet Garlactaca-9, Beeblebrox Calcify, proudly announces that he is expecting his first child. He and humanoid fiancée Sophie Hunter (humans and their odd names!) were rumored to be expecting after Hunter wore loose clothing, which we all know is a human signal of successful copulation. By Sarah • Jan 07, 2015 02:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Benedict Cumberbatch’s Oscar timing Benedict Cumberbatch and fiancée Sophie Hunter were in Palm Springs this weekend campaigning for The Imitation Game. They were also photographed at LAX on Sunday. People are saying she’s pregnant. Because her dress isn’t tight and she’s holding her clutch at the waist. Is that all it By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 11:47 am
Gorgessity Kissing Gugu The New York Times released a series of videos yesterday all themed around kissing starring actors who delivered some of the finest performances of the year. There are 9 of them. And my favourite… Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Miles Teller. Because I love her. Because look at her face, don’t By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 04:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batch is Strange, for real this time After a long, rumor-filled casting process—easily a top-three roughest go round— Marvel has finally announced their Dr. Strange and it is, for real, Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s been rumored for years—I first mentioned it in 2012—but the timing never worked out, and Marvel would go look at By Sarah • Dec 05, 2014 10:49 am
Media Manipulation British Contenders and their fiancees Benedict Cumberbatch and fiancée Sophie Hunter (in Erdem) attended the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards together last night. Of course he’d be there. Because even though he’s been hustling his balls off for an Oscar, that voice was meant for the stage, don’t you know? And he’ By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 10:42 am
Weddings Work more, talk less Yesterday in Smutty Tingles, I wrote that “I have Benedict Cumberbatch love and engagement fatigue, GOD." Every day there’s another quote about how much he loves his fiancée and how much she loves him and why they decided to list their engagement and why she walked the carpet By Lainey • Nov 28, 2014 12:45 pm
Media Manipulation Give him a rowboat in the rain Benedict Cumberbatch was seen at JFK airport in New York today, heading out after several days of intense Oscar campaigning that included his first official red carpet appearance with fiancée Sophie Hunter – click here for a refresher. Over the last couple of days, Cumberbatch has been on American morning television, By Lainey • Nov 19, 2014 12:01 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter’s first engaged carpet Sophie Hunter accompanied Benedict Cumberbatch last night at the NY premiere of The Imitation Game. Just yesterday on Good Morning America he was not very forthcoming with questions about his engagement. And then, come night, there she is. Their very first official public appearance after the proposal… And right in By Lainey • Nov 18, 2014 02:44 pm
Media Manipulation The Batch is not taking engagement questions The Imitation Game opens in theaters next weekend, and in advance of that Cumberbatch is in the US doing some promotion. On Friday that meant showing up at the Hollywood Film Awards and pretending like that’s a real thing (click here for more on that) and this morning it By Sarah • Nov 17, 2014 03:00 pm
Media Manipulation Every Best Actor gets an award The race for Best Actor will be between Michael Keaton, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Eddie Redmayne this year. All three were at the Hollywood Film Awards. All three received awards at the Hollywood Film Awards. Jesus, is this show business or is this grade school? As we’ve seen, Keaton had By Lainey • Nov 17, 2014 10:43 am
Amazingness The Batch is an impressionist There’s something about good actors also being good mimics. There’s some connection between being good at one and also being good at the other. It makes a certain kind of sense, especially given accent work and how being able to mimic would make mastering an accent easier. So By Sarah • Nov 14, 2014 11:01 am
Twilight Cumhard confirmation Every week or so, I get an email from a particular subset of Twi-Hard. I call them the deniers. These are the ones who refuse to believe that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are no longer together. And that not only are they not broken up, but that she secretly By Lainey • Nov 12, 2014 09:32 am
Keira Knightley Academy ass-kissers: the British edition Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Keira Knightley attended the Academy’s Governors Awards on Saturday night. As you know, all of them are in the award season race this year; Cumberbatch and Knightley for The Imitation Game and Redmayne is contending in The Theory Of Everything. According to Oscar experts, By Lainey • Nov 10, 2014 09:39 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch Arguments for: -Cumhards want it. The Batchies are passionate. They could drive sales of the magazine. -Oscar campaigning for The Imitation Game and Harvey Weinstein is on his side. -Dr Strange rumours. No word yet on who it is but if he is Marvel’s newest superhero, it could be By Lainey • Nov 07, 2014 12:34 pm
Weddings Benedict Cumberbatch proposed on Monday A reader called Maureen emailed yesterday: “I am honestly shocked that no one has coined the term ‘Cumhards’ for the crazy Cumberbatch fans.” Cumhards makes sense. Because the Batchies behave in similar ways to Twi-Hards, especially on social media. Cumhards ask questions at film festival screenings like, “Can I have By Lainey • Nov 06, 2014 01:11 pm
