Whaaaaa? Never! Sean Connery is Scotland’s greatest gift to Hollywood. (Can’t say “the world,” because Adam Smith, Hume, Bell, Robert Burns and those Scottish shepherds who invented golf.)

Please go sit in the corner. Nobody sullies the honor of the Cumberlord on my watch. NOBODY.

You go ahead and put my girls Cate Blanchett and Jodie Foster up there at the top of the A List immediately! =)

I forgot about him! Insanely talented and tremendous versatility but he seems troubled, the self-sabotaging sort. I believe he was the only person who defended Mel Gibson’s hilarious little quip about “the Jooooooos.”

The posh Brits are deffo A List: Emma Watson, Keira Knightly, Cumbersnatch* and Redmayne the Ginger. Tom Hardy has been teetering on the cusp of A List-dom—he was in two Oscar-nominated movies last year. Hiddlesnatch was poised to break thru but blew it.

Gerard Butler. He seems kinda nice and sweet in real life but by God, let’s keep him away from Shakespeare dramas!

Skip to 0:23. =)

Haaah. Never saw that. Four percent on Rotten Tomatoes is impressive though. What on earth could have gone so wrong? (Checks cast) Uh-oh. Kim Basinger.

OK, I have a giant soft spot for the guy. He just seems Midwestern-nice and hardworking and not an assmunch. When I think “overrated,” I go through a pretty big list before I hit Pitt: Gosling, Affleck, Bradley Cooper (by contrast, I find Chris Cooper woefully underrated), the insufferable Jared Leto, the Scottish guy…

Wrong. Angie is the perma-B lister, Brad is damn fine when working with a good director.. He’s been in stupid films and played lame parts, sure—but come on. Fight Club? The gypsy character in Snatch? Basterds? Thelma & Louise? 12 Monkeys? Seven? Moneyball? etc.

OK, so Bradley is a legit architecture/mid-century modern furniture fanatic. He has already restored and flipped a couple of landmark modern homes in LA—a Neutral and a Neff, I think.

I’d go with the oeuvre of Catherine Breillat—her stuff is mondo disturbing.

It’s a French movie, which might explain why they got the blood wrong. I’m certain they have red food coloring in France, but maybe they lack corn syrup. (That is the true & tried recipe for realistic-looking fake blood. Has the appropriate level of gloss & viscosity, and it shoots really well..)

This sounds kinda interesting to me but card-carrying psych/horror fans need not reach for the smelling salts.

Lovely piece. Thank you for introducing me to a wonderfully complex lady who deserves a contemporary audience.

This angle makes one’s cheekbones look elongated but normal(ish)—hers otherwise look odd due to fillers. The aggressive lighting from this angle also blots out the skin texture. In short: basic camera angle tricks to look younger or sexier or whatever Madonna imagines her followers want her to be. The e constant…

Snooker? Holy shit. Yeah, I don’t think so. As to tennis—ummmm, I dunno. I think David Foster Wallace—one of the very few contemporary writers I’ve read for pleasure—might have fulfilled my lifetime quota of tennis-adjacent highbrow fiction.

I agree with you.

No no, the discussion is about Native American writers.

Also Afro-Cuban dance! And rumba. I took an Afro-Cuban dance class in college a billion years ago and I still remember it as one of the most fun things ever.