Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Rachel Weisz is Jackie O?

Entertainment Weekly has reported that Academy Award winning actress and gift from the
Gods of beauty Rachel Weisz is set to play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming film to be directed by Weisz's fiance, Darren Aronofsky. The film will explore the turbulent aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.

Personally, I have never been interested in the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, but based on the talent currently attached to the project, I'm already eagerly anticipating this film. Darren Aronofsky is a genius and Weisz is a tactical weapon of hotness and extreme acting skills. Weisz is the rare beauty that encompasses several dimensions of pure hotness.

Adventurous Rachel.















Playful Rachel.














Elegant Rachel.













Ready for anything Rachel.
























Hayley Atwell to join Captain America cast

Captain America has just received its first major hotness boost.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, British Actress Haley Atwell of Brideshead Revisited and Cassandra's Dream fame has been cast as the patriotic super soldier's love interest, Peggy Carter. She'll star opposite Chris Evans, who was recently unveiled as the choice to play Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in Joe Johnston's upcoming film.

I have to admit, initially I was not wowed by Haley Atwell's looks. Sure, she is pretty, but let's face it, most mainstream actresses are. Then I found this series of photos, which made me seriously my first impression.





I don't care what anyone says. That's certified hotness. Admittedly, I am a sucker for the understated, quietly sexy brunette, but look at those tasty milk duds.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Scarlett Johansson set to star in lost Stanley Kubrick script

Source: Dorkshelf.com

If Stanley Kubrick were still alive, could anyone imagine him casting Scarlett Johansson in what can only be described as a grotesquely camp mystery centered around an escaped axe-murderer?


Well, it just happened--except for the part about Stanley Kubrick. He is neither alive, nor did he personally cast Johansson and her Boleyn Girls (I'm trying really hard to make that a thing), and let's be honest, would Kubrick even cast Johansson anyway? Before he featured Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut, the hottest actress he ever worked with was Sue Lyon who played Lolita (was it weird that I said that?).


According to cinematical.com, both Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on to star in an adaptation of a long-lost film treatment developed by Kubrick and pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the late 1950s. In 2006, the New York Times reported on the existence of a script adaptation of this titled Lunatic at Large, which was described as 1950s potboiler featuring a car chase and a macabre carnival set piece most likely filled with very spooky things.


Am I the only who thinks this sounds nothing remotely like a Stanley Kubrick film? And as far as Scarlett Johansson's luscious boobliness is concerned, maybe that's a good thing. Stanley Kubrick was a genius, but sexiness was one quality conspiculously absent from most of his films.

Hot or Not: Rebecca Hall

Recently, I learned that British actress Rebecca Hall has starred in some particularly steamy sex scenes in the acclaimed BBC production the RedRiding Trilogy. Although apparently she doesn't bare all, it can only help that she's finally decided to embrace her narrowly withheld sexuality. This development has, at least for myself, re-opened a debate of vital importance: is Rebecca Hall hot or not?


Mainstream audiences were first introduced to Rebecca Hall in The Prestige, where she plays Christian Bale's tormented wife. Constantly made-up in frumpy Victorian garb--and a terribly worn-up hairdo that her naturally pretty face struggled to overcome--this role did little to endear me to her attractiveness. But one could still see there was more under the surface of her of intentionally understated appearance in The Prestige.

Her next major role was in Vicki Christina Barcelona, in which she yet again had to act opposite the unworldly hotness that is Scarlett Johannson and her Boleyn girls (that's my euphemism for Scarlett Johannson's boobs), not to mention Penelope Cruz (and her... Bandidas?). Despite that, she acquited herself well as Scarlet Johannson's more sexually conservative friend that Javier Bardem still bangs.



In Frost/Nixon, Hall finally plays a character that isn't a prude either because of choice or sex-sapping Victorian conventions. As the film's only real offering of sexuality, Hall seemingly relishes the opportunity to show off her sleek, deliciously well-proportioned body. That combined with her demure and hard-earned sensuality help to make this clearly her most attractive role to date (I'm a sucker for reserved British beauty, especially when packaged with such knowing seductiveness).

But if this were simply a question of sexiness of personality, then there wouldn't even be a debate. You decide.

Source: Aceshowbiz

Monday, April 12, 2010

English Hottie Siena Miller and Jude Miller Engaged

Siena Miller is off the market... again... maybe.


For the third time, the British actress and Jude Law have declared their marital intentions toward one another in an effort to create one of the ulimate power couples of hotness.

Although Siena Miller has apparently been wearing her engagement ring on the wrong hand in order to keep the engagement private (did it ever occur to her to not wear the engagement ring at all if secrecy was her main goal?), sources on Hollyscoop.com confirm that the couple is finally ready to tie the knot.

Some say that Siena Miller is the pre-eminent British hottie of her generation. Personally, I'm biased toward Emily Blunt, but this one photo provided by artistsgallery.blogspot.com is certainly making me reconsider my choice. Yikes.

Julianne Moore lezzing out again in The Kids Are All Right Trailer





Julianne Moore is returning for yet another ride on the lesbian train.


In the recently released trailer to The Kids Are All Right, Moore and Annette Bening star as a long-time couple whose children seek to reconnect with their sperm donor father (Marc Ruffalo), proving in the process that family transcends societal conventions and portrayals of middle-aged lesbianism have really never been the same since Claire of the Moon (obscure lesbian film reference? Get used to it).


Director Lisa Cholodenko has dabbled in this territory before with High Art, another exploration of complex lesbian relationships with a fair amount of explicit girl-on-girl action, and Laurel Canyon, an indie drama featuring one incredibly awkward threesome with Frances McDormand and Kate Beckinsale. Somewhere between then and now, Cholodenko has lost sight of the fact that representations of lesbianism devoid of erotic, male-centered pandering just doesn't cut it.


I mean... I watched the entire trailer and there wasn't even one teary make-out scene ala Chloe.