So Benedict Cumberbatch May Not Be In STAR WARS VII After All
Over Labor Day weekend, a rumor about Benedict Cumberbatch being in Star Wars VII hit the web hard and fast. Then fuel was added to the fire when Cumberbatch was said he was a major villain, not just any character. In a perfect world, Cumberbatch as a Sith Lord in Star Wars would be exactly what we get for Christmas in 2015. But apparently we can’t have nice things. Cumberbatch’s reps shot down the rumor like an X-Wing to a Tie Fighter in New York Daily News: “There is no truth to the rumour Benedict has been cast in Star Wars,” a spokesperson for the 37-year-old actor told the News. “I think the rumours are circling because JJ and Benedict have just recently had a wonderful time working together on Star Trek.” If it were J.J. Abrams or Disney denying...
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Who Are Horror Movies For Anymore? YOU’RE NEXT, THE CONJURING And The Future Of A Genre
For decades now, the stigma surrounding horror has encompassed similar disdain to lower forms of entertainment all together, some media research even comparing the pleasures these films give us to the seedy and singular experience that pornographic films denote. Then, in recent years, we’ve been given regurgitated remakes, gratuitous gore-nography and trite torture porn. Now, don’t get me wrong—I love the first two Saw films and both Hostel films just as much as the next person, actually. I wouldn’t even necessarily venture to say they’re guilty pleasures because I see them as just one of many coexisting subgenres with merits and flaws alike. But when even those things which start off as brilliant become exercises in merely how many horrific ways of killing people on screen writers can concoct, things do get a little stale. I likewise have no...
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Watch Zac Efron And Seth Rogen In The Trailer For NEIGHBORS
“Welcome to the darkness, bitches.” Yesterday, I posted a picture from the comedy Neighbors of Zac Efron gloriously shirtless with my usual snark toward a movie that sounded pretty lame. Frat house moves in next to a couple with a newborn baby? Sure, whatever. Well, today we have a trailer and I’ll be damned if I didn’t laugh out loud. That’s what trailers are supposed to do, but more shirtless Efron (wet, by a pool) pretty much seals the deal for me here. Check it...
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Consider This Sh*t: James Franco’s SPRING BREAKERS Oscar Campaign
If this was any other movie, I wouldn’t even believe it was real. But it’s James Franco and Harmony Korine, so a hyper-real Oscar campaign is about right. Franco’s long-shot campaign for Best Supporting Actor in Korine’s Spring Breakers was released to THR over the weekend, making it one of the first For Your Consideration ads of the Oscar season. It’s also the first and likely only campaign to ever include word “shit” in its messaging. While there’s no better way to win attention than to create a campaign that gets right to the heart of the character/actor it’s supporting, this Spring Breakers ad won’t likely win over the old, white male Academy voters. Still, as Harmony Korine’s only consistently watchable movie and his likely masterpiece, Spring Breakers deserves some recognition come the end of the year. Maybe, just maybe, some brave critics group will...
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From Sherlock to Sith? Benedict Cumberbatch Rumored for Major Villain Role in STAR WARS VII
The rumblings over Star Wars VII casting have started to pick up over the last two weeks. Most recently, Alex Pettfyr and Rachel Hurd-Wood were rumored to be up for the roles of Luke’s son and Leia’s daugheter, respectively. But that’s not something go get excited about really, a stripper and a no-name. Well, here’s news that will make millions of Tumblrs suddenly cry out in happiness all at once… Benedict Cumberbatch’s name is being tossed around for the role of a major villain in the next Star Wars movie. There has been a quiet build up to this news, but Bad Ass Digest sent word across the web that Cumberbatch isn’t just up for one movie but rather all three films in the new trilogy. It’s also why he recently dropped out of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak without much of an explanation. Not even...
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Just Because… New Image of Zac Efron In NEIGHBORS
Really, I don’t have much to say here. But this is how you make a movie go from “don’t care” to “must-see” in less than 10 seconds. Oh, the movie. Yeah, this is from Neighbors (a.k.a. the comedy formerly known as Townies), starring Zac Efron as a frat boy who annoys his neighbors (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) when they are forced to raise their newborn baby next door to a fraternity house. Hilarity, I’m sure, ensues. (But hey, I saw 17 Again twice because of Efron, so who am I to judge.) Neighbors hits theaters on May 9,...
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