Note: This is a spoiler-free description of what’s inside the 2nd edition of the “Hamlet Souvenir Programme” avail. to buy for £8.50 at The Barbican Theatre in London or at the Barbican Online Shop with additional shipping fees. How do you define “spoiler-fee”, you may ask. That’s to say any visual details specifically regarding costumes; […]
[Disclaimer: This Q/A does involve major spoilers. If you have not seen the movie, please DO NOT go forward, unless you want to be cheeky. In the meantime please check out our movie review. And please read on.] The Imitation Game Q&A AARP: Movies for Grown-ups November 9th, 2014 In Attendance: Scott Mantz (SM) […]
Benedict Cumberbatch is in a good place. He is in demand, working almost non-stop and repeatedly names his job “an embarrassment of riches”. Which it is when you’re friends with Harvey Weinstein and put in front line of next year’s Academy Awards with Alan Turing drama “The Imitation Game” (UK cinecast Oct. 8th, UK release […]
Imitation Game: Man or Enigma? “Are you paying attention?” Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) says glaring down in a cold, gloomy police station interrogation room “You think you are in control of what will happen, […]
Sometimes I think Alan Turing’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be as much of a mention as it often is. He shouldn’t be known as a homosexual in the first place but instead as the extraordinary code-breaking, brilliant individual he was, thinking ahead of the time he lived in. Then again, Turing’s sexuality shaped his life and […]
I’ll be the first to say I want to have the clock Benedict Cumberbatch uses, because in his world, he was “a day late” in accepting the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS/MND (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Let’s check that timeline: One of the actors who challenged Benedict, Tom Hiddleston, posted his challenge on August 18 […]
Today Benedict Cumberbatch turns 38. And today I am immensely proud to be part of the wonderful Cumbercollective. Not only have we raised well over $25’000 for various charities but we have also started an incredible initiative of kindness with Batch of Kindness. Today almost 2500 people from 86 different countries have come together to […]
Numbers. Numbers are great. Love numbers. The number “38”, thirty-eight, is possibly your best bet this Saturday. You’re probably familiar with the upcoming date already but let’s just give it another mention because nearly thirty eight years ago, on July 19th 1976 a “sturdy nine pounder” Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born to his very […]
How do you eat a banana? Did you make eye contact with the man who queued at the shops earlier? Did you catch yourself looking at that girl’s nicely shaped arse on the bus this morning? There’s no shame to admit it, it happens to all of us. We decide within moments whether another human […]
“Alan Turing is not outwardly very sympathetic. He’s brilliant, but the way that Benedict Cumberbatch played him showed us these guys found the right level of vulnerability, genius and the arrogance of the character, too.” – Harvey Weinstein. Although Cumberbatch is known for playing intelligent characters and cheekily says himself that he’s a crowd pleaser, […]
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