Weddings Benedict Cumberbatch is engaged Oh noes… How are you over there Cumber-crazies? You OK with this wakeup call? A notice of engagement appeared in The Times today. Very subtle. Very classy. Very Cumberbatchy. Very fitting of someone called Benedict Cumberbatch. This might be my favourite thing about Benedict Cumberbatch – the way he announced that By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 09:36 am
Gross Benedict Cumberbatch’s erotica Someone sent me a link to a Benedict Cumberbatch story this morning with just the words: “You’re welcome.” So I clicked. I will not be thanking this person. Sorry. Because she thought I would get all wet and rubby over how Benedict Cumberbatch describes how he would f-ck as By Lainey • Oct 31, 2014 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dr. Strange is still up in the air The casting for Dr. Strange, Marvel’s next signature superhero, has become such a clusterf*ck that for a couple of months now, it has seemed just as likely that a three day old breakfast burrito would play the part as an actual human actor. The latest rumor, coming yesterday By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regal Cumberbatch Check out Benedict Cumberbatch on the set of the Hollow Crown yesterday in England. As you know, I don’t crank for Cumberbatch. But I’ll say here that I don’t mind him in cape and dressed in royal robes. Maybe because, back then, people from royal lineage were By Lainey • Oct 22, 2014 11:41 am
Media Manipulation Colin Farrell’s turn Marvel is still looking for Dr Strange because it definitely won’t be Joaquin Phoenix. His publicist released a statement the other day confirming that negotiations are “dead, dead, dead. A couple of weeks ago they mutually decided to part ways. It was over before the New York Film Festival” By Lainey • Oct 20, 2014 04:16 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch’s campaign of inclusion It’s mid-October, which means that award season is in full swing, and as such the actors starring in award bait are beginning to lay the foundation of their Oscar campaigns. We’re still over a month away from Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Imitation Game opening in the US, but By Sarah • Oct 15, 2014 11:24 am
Quiveration Beautiful British people looking beautiful (and British) in the rain The Imitation Game opened the London Film Festival the other night and Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley showed up looking all kinds of glamorous. Cumberbatch is at his best in Sherlock drag, but the suit porn is good, too, and this is some prime suit porn. If Cumberbatch is your By Sarah • Oct 10, 2014 10:01 am
Nicholas Hoult Nicholas Hoult for Jaguar I feel like picking a fight today. A reader called Natalie just sent me these videos: Nicholas Hoult’s ads for Jaguar. Or, rather, Nicholas Hoult playing a nerd villain for Jaguar? Despite the fact that he dated Jennifer Lawrence for a few years, Hoult is not a household name. By Lainey • Oct 06, 2014 02:22 pm
Media Manipulation Benedict Cumberbatch gets ahead of the game Benedict Cumberbatch has a GREAT new interview with TimeOut London in which he talks about both his Oscar chances and the kingmaker grooming him for center stage. The Batch is always an interesting interview for several reasons: 1) He’s 38 and fame came late-ish for him, striking in his By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Early birthday It's my birthday tomorrow. And look at my gift to you! New photos of Benedict Cumberbatch on set of the BBC2 production of The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses. Sarah always talks about his voice. Cumberbatch fans love the voice. And now the voice is doing By Lainey • Sep 25, 2014 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Imitation Game: TIFF Review In the eyes of his "Cumberbitches" online, Benedict Cumberbatch is a hero. In The Imitation Game, he cracks the code of his hype and fandom, and finally gets to play one. How? It's elementary. As WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, Cumberbatch is a mathematical genius who also By Joanna • Sep 12, 2014 10:20 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Intro for September 10, 2014 Dear Gossips, Last night during the Q&A for The Imitation Game, someone in the audience asked Benedict Cumberbatch… “Can I have some of your yummy-ness?” Cameron Bailey, creative director of TIFF, did not look impressed. Cumberbatch’s cast mates looked over at him, saying nothing. He said nothing. By Lainey • Sep 10, 2014 08:05 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch & Dan Stevens: Day 2 Sarah posted about Benedict Cumberbatch and Dan Stevens were hanging out yesterday – click here for a refresher. Something something something about men vs boys and lizards and velvet voices. My friend Lorella texted me afterwards with the following: “I do not understand Sarah when she says she likes manly men By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 10:36 am
Quiveration Men vs. boys: British edition Lainey texted me over the weekend about how she’s excited to see The Riot Club, a movie about secret societies at Oxford (it’s playing TIFF later this week). I’m into it for Natalie Dormer, but Lainey’s all over it because of the gaggle of British boys By Sarah • Sep 02, 2014 01:51 pm
Amazingness Ice buckets for everyone The ALS Ice Bucket challenge continues to steam-roll through popular culture, cluttering up everyone’s timelines and inspiring countless think pieces and rants, all while raising over forty million dollars for ALS research and support, which is tremendously awesome and everyone can just shut the f*ck up about how By Sarah • Aug 22, 2014 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why are we making TWO Jungle Books? Actors take jobs. Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor, and he’s just taken a job portraying the tiger Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book (not to be confused with Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book). If all you care about is that Benedict Cumberbatch’s voice will be coming By Sarah • Aug 19, 2014 01:08 pm
