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Benedict Cumberbatch Joins Guillermo Del Toro's Gothic Thriller 'Crimson Peak'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • April 4, 2013 2:49 PM
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News
Benedict Cumberbatch is pretty much on the precipice of stardom, if not already there. As the villain in both "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" this year, his wonderfully English name will be increasingly familiar to American audiences, and that's not to mention a potential awards baiting performance as Julian Assange in "The Fifth Estate" this fall. So what's next? He's gonna get some period clothes out of the closet again. Not to solve mysteries or endure various dramas, but instead to ride with whatever Guillermo del Toro is cooking up.
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More: Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro, Benedict Cumberbatch

New Pics From 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Give A Glimpse Of The Action

  • By Ken Guidry
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  • March 27, 2013 10:17 AM
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News
Believe it or not, we are almost one month away from the summer blockbuster season. If you are one of the many who are pumped up for the upcoming "Star Trek" sequel, perhaps these brand new images from the movie will only excite you even further. In the past month, we have seen a new teaser for the film as well as these images of Kirk, Spock, and Benedict Cumberbatch’s character John Harrison. This time we get a little more of Kirk and Spock, as well as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana).
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More: Star Trek Into Darkness, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch

Captain Kirk & Spock Get Serious In New Pics From 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 20, 2013 10:19 AM
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  • 2 Comments
News
J.J. Abrams only lets you see what you he wants you to see, and when it comes to his films before release, it isn't much. And so it's not surprising that these two latest photos for "Star Trek Into Darkness," coming in via some kind of app for the movie, aren't exactly Earth-shattering revelations.
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More: Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch

Recap: 'Parade's End' Brings Dense Miniseries To A Quiet Close In Finale

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 1, 2013 10:00 AM
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Reviews
As my colleagues have written in their recaps of the first four episodes of "Parade's End," there is much to admire in the five-part miniseries. From the dense, multi-threaded and layered script from Tom Stoppard, to the sumptuous direction from Susanna White and a cluster of great performances from Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Stephen Graham and Rupert Everett. And at the middle of it all, perhaps one of the most buttoned up leading men we've seen in quite some time on the small screen, Christopher Tietjens. It would almost be laughable at how much his life has taken a downward turn since we met him at the start of the first episode, if it weren't so tragic. As an era fades, so too does a particular way of English, gentlemanly life, and Tietjens will hold on to it until it nearly destroys him. But after seeing nearly every facet of his life crumble and corrupted, you yearn for Christopher -- as his wife Sylvia long has -- to finally submit to some kind of emotion. To break free and reclaim his life. And while he doesn't quite do that in the finale, his victory such as it is, is satisfying in the way the character deserves.
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More: Parade's End, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Television, TV Reviews

Recap: 'Parade's End' Goes To War With One Outstanding Episode, And One Middling One

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 28, 2013 9:58 AM
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Television
When we left off with part two of "Parade's End," war had arrived, with Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the trenches, and his wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) seemingly finding religion. Part three of the show stayed mostly away from the front, picking up with Christopher waking in a military hospital, concussed by a shell, and seemingly unable to remember even his name.
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More: Parade's End, Television, TV Reviews, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall

Premature Predictions: The 2014 Best Actor Nominees

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 27, 2013 2:45 PM
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  • 33 Comments
Awards
As part of our steady quest to go cold turkey from the Oscar season over the next few days, we've been running down some of our possibilities for the films that will be elbowing each other for awards in 2014. Yesterday, we looked at Best Picture, and today, we turn to Best Actor, won this year by Daniel Day-Lewis.
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More: Premature Predictions, Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bruce Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oscars, Awards, The Amazing Race, Academy Awards

Recap: Benedict Cumberbatch & Rebecca Hall Shine In First 2 Parts Of Period Miniseries 'Parade's End'

  • By The Playlist Staff
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  • February 27, 2013 10:00 AM
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Reviews
The specter of "Downton Abbey" has been present in the run up to the broadcast of BBC and HBO's new period drama "Parade's End." Both are lavish period tales set before, during and after World War I. But in fact, the comparisons are a little overblown. 'Downton' and "Parade's End" (an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's cycle of novels, often labelled as among the finest literary achievements of the 20th century, written for the screen by the great Sir Tom Stoppard, and directed by Susanna White, who was also behind "Bleak House" and "Generation Kill") might share a loose genre, but on the strength of the first episode, they couldn't be more different. 'Downton' is a soap, for better or worse, while "Parade's End" is a fearsomely intelligent, deceptively funny epic that, if it can keep up this level of quality, will likely be one of the best things on television all year.
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More: Television, TV Reviews, Parade's End, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adelaide Clemens, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Graham

Captain Kirk & John Harrison Face Off In 2 New 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Photos

  • By Edward Davis
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  • February 9, 2013 2:45 PM
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News
Fanboy curiosity has always been manic, but it's curdled into desperation of late. Adult geeks have looked at "Iron Man 3" children's toys to assay spoiler characteristics in upcoming Marvel films, but the intense inquisitive desire surrounding "Star Trek Into Darkness" and its main villain is true child's play in comparison. Perhaps it's because director J.J. Abrams is so secretive that it has become a challenge to nerds to figure everything out in advance, and so no one is buying that Benedict Cumberbatch's antagonist character (named John Harrison) is who the film says he is and assume he's Khan, as played by Ricardo Montalban in "Star Trek 2".
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More: Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, J. J. Abrams, Zachary Quinto

Captain Kirk Hangs On For Dear Life In 5 New Images Of 'Star Trek: Into Darkness'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 7, 2013 12:46 PM
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News
With all the buzz around "Star Wars: Episode 7" it kinda just seems like "Star Trek Into Darkness" is sort of this thing in the way that both J.J. Abrams and audiences just have to get over before we return to a galaxy far, fary away. But that said, "Star Trek" was a blast, and we're hoping that same popcorn fun will be found in the sequel, though in this batch of new photos, everyone is pretty damn serious.
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More: Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch

Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch Brings It In 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Super Bowl Spot

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 3, 2013 5:40 PM
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News
Let it begin! With kickoff on the Super Bowl now just an hour away, the advertising will be coming at a full throttle, and getting out of the gate on game day is "Star Trek Into Darkness." So what do we get?
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More: Star Trek Into Darkness, J. J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve

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