I was happy to see that Cloud Atlas was finally being released in England, and I clicked on WENN’s premiere photo set, hoping that my love James D’Arcy was there, not expecting to see him or anybody of interest. But as it turns out, it was a total sausage party at the London premiere, and some of the dudes are quite hot and/or doable. My guy D’Arcy was there (he’s so lovely and tall), as was Tom Hiddleston, Jim Sturgess (Pillow-Weeper), Ben Whishaw (gay, hot and talented), Hugh Grant (meh) and Jim Broadbent (God, I love him).

So here are some photos of all of the lovely and talented men. Since I came to the party for my lover James D’Arcy, I think I’d like to start things off with him, dong-wise. And then I’ll move to Hiddleston, then some gossip and banter with Ben Whishaw, and then maybe I’ll see if Sturgess is any good at flirting, then I’ll go back for another dose of D’Arcy. Jim Broadbent gets to cook my breakfast and Hugh Grant gets to flirt with me and tease me a little. That’s it. That’s all I want.

PS… I just came to a strange realization about Hiddles. If Hollywood ever decides to do a Danny Kaye bio-pic, I think Hiddles is the only actor who could do it. Considering Danny Kaye was one of my first loves, I don’t know how to feel about this.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last week, Kristen Stewart scored her first official role (in a film that will actually be made) since she got caught up in The Great Mini-Coopering Scandal of 2012. The film is called The Big Shoe, and as I said last week, it doesn’t sound like Kristen’s role is anything special. She’s basically playing “the girl” in a sort of weird black comedy, I think. Kristen’s costar (and the lead of the film) is Jim Sturgess, an actor I have occasionally referred to as “the Pillow-Weeper”. Sturgess is English, he’s attractive in that way that many English guys are attractive, and he gives off super-sensitive vibes. Like, he’s the guy who cries after sex. Thus, The Pillow Weeper. Now, Kristen has already shown that she has a type (if we’re just relying on Sparkles). So has Kristen found her jumpoff?

Kristen Stewart will soon be filming The Big Shoe with Hollywood hottie Jim Sturgess. Robsten fans may have a reason to be nervous — Jim possesses a lot of qualities that Kristen desires, and Robert Pattinson isn’t exactly a hundred percent sure he wants to reconcile with his Twilight co-star upon his return to the states.

A source close to Jim tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively, “Jim was in town last week for pre-production meetings on his new movie with Kristen and they got along really well! Jim is super shy and unassuming, he’s actually a lot like Rob – really polite and he has the cutest British accent. It’s quite posh, just like Rob’s. Jim and Kristen have major chemistry, they really seem to click. They were talking up a storm about England and how bad the weather is there. They talked about their dogs and music. Jim is a really talented musician, so they connected on that a lot too.”

Don’t worry! Jim has a girlfriend – Mickey O’Brien, keyboardist for the band La Roux.

“There wasn’t any over the top flirting or anything, but Kristen was enjoying herself, she kept touching her hair and she was laughing a lot. Jim has a girlfriend and Kristen is back with Rob, so it’s totally professional between them right now,” our source adds.

Kristen seems really set on reconciling with Rob and working on their relationship for the long haul. Of course, it’s all in Rob’s hands. He’s filming The Rover in Australia and once he returns, he’ll make a decision as to whether or not he wants to continue a relationship with Kristen.

[From Hollywood Life]

Hmm. It sounds like Jim was being a pro and Kristen was trying to show him her scorched biscuit in between biting her lip seductively. TRAMPIRE!!!

As for poor Rob and the terrible Twihardy situation in which their great love cannot be fully realized because of time and space and infidelity and angst and armpits and Australia and Mini Coopers… what I keep hearing are reports of how Rob is over it and Kristen wants to stay with him but she’s starting to realize that they’re not going to make it through this year. So she’s pulling out all of the stops by compulsively wearing his dirty underwear.

Kristen Stewart apparently thinks the best way to win back Robert Pattinson’s heart is through his underwear! Yes, according to a friend, Kristen has been wearing Robert’s boxers since he left to film The Rover in Australia and told her not to visit.

“Kristen is beside herself over Rob’s decision to step back from their relationship and has started wearing his old undies every day,” says the friend.

Ron is having a hard time getting over Kristen’s affair with Rupert Sanders, but she’s been bombarding Rob with texts and calls. The insider says Rob freaked out when Kristen tearfully told him about wearing his drawers.

“He thought it was creepy… Kristen’s clinginess has been a problem, and this is just a step too far.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Gross. Just… gross. I can’t even think of a reasonable explanation for wearing Rob’s dirty underwear. That’s just disgusting. And before you throw shade… remember, this is the girl who admitted in an interview that Rob loves to lick her armpits. They are just a gross couple and I wouldn’t doubt this for a second.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Here’s Halle Berry promoting her film Cloud Atlas at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s an epic adventure film based on a book of the same name by David Mitchell. It also stars Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, and Hugh Grant among others. It’s out on October 26th. I just watched the extended trailer and there are so many different interwoven storylines, I came away with no idea what it’s about. It’s futuristic, it’s historical, parts look like Inception and parts like Avatar. There’s also a little Water World mixed in. Screen Rant has some advanced reviews if you’re interested. Apparently it’s getting good reviews overall and needs to do well since it cost $100 million to make.

Getting back to Halle Berry, she wore this see-through lace top to remind us of how hot she still is, and paired it with a purple snakeskin print suit with shoulder pads that has a very 90s sillouette. The only designer ID I have found for Halle’s outfit is that the blouse is Monique Lhuillier. I don’t know who made that crazy suit, but I don’t hate it. She really works it hard. I just wish she had gotten the pants tailored. We just saw Kate Hudson in some too-long pants so maybe that’s going to be a fashion “do” now. Halle’s hair and makeup are perfection. I’m so glad she ditched the crazy curls.

I came into this story thinking I would talk about Halle Berry’s silly fashion and maybe wonder aloud what’s going on with her custody battle, but having seen the Cloud Atlas trailer I realize I don’t care. It’s all part of the intricate dance of humanity, where we love, lose, die, fight for our rights and try and remain relevant with wacky fashion and extreme fitness. I don’t know. The film is described as “exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.” Here’s a brief part of a glowing review on Collider that makes me really want to see it:

“My life exists far beyond the limitations of me,” a character notes in Cloud Atlas. By the same token, The Wachowski Siblings and Tom Tykwer‘s film exists far beyond the limitations of genre, narrative, identity, and time. It is a work of sweeping ambition, engrossing stories, compelling characters, and powerful emotions. The filmmakers have taken David Mitchell’s novel, and rebuilt it into a captivating sextuplet filled with love, hate, redemption, damnation, bravery, cowardice, and more. Through skillful editing and astounding performances, Cloud Atlas is a cinematic experience like few others, and it will leave viewers in awe.

[From Collider]

I’m kind of excited for this movie. Plus I love Hugh Grant and Tom Hanks. I know it will make me cry, though. I cried at Avatar, and had to fight the urge not to bawl.

Hugh Grant. He still looks great, right?

Jim Sturgess does not do it for me. I understand why Kaiser calls him “pillow weeper”

Hugo Weaving. I would!

Susan Sarandon needs a new stylist, but you know she does not GAF at all. Look at her shoes.

Love Tom! I’m not a fan of that barely-there mustache, but maybe he’s growing it in for a role.

Photo credit: Dominic Chan/ WENN.com

I was in the mood for something romantic and girly over the weekend, so I ended up seeing One Day, the film that I proclaimed, at one point, that I was never going to see. I read the book, and loved the book… up until the last third of the novel. Then I got so pissed off, I swore up and down that I wasn’t going to get involved. When the previews for the film came out, I once again swore I wasn’t going to see it, this time because Anne Hathaway’s faux English accent seemed wonky as hell, and because Jim “Pillow Weeper” Sturgess wasn’t my idea of Dexter. So… I guess I have to suck it up. I not only saw the movie, but I enjoyed it. Maybe it helped that I walked in with such low expectations. Or maybe it’s a better movie than you’ve heard.

For those unfamiliar with the story, the basic gist is: Dexter (Sturgess) and Emma (Hathaway) meet and sort-of hookup on their last day of university, on July 15. The book and the film follows Dexter and Emma on every July 15th for the next twenty years, through triumphs and heartbreaks and love and loss. As far as the film being a faithful adaptation of the book, it worked out very well. Surprisingly well, I have to admit. The kept a lot of the book in there, and they even let Hathaway have all of the funniest lines, which is true of Emma in the book. And they kept Dexter a mess, which is also true to the book.

As for the performances of the two leads… I was impressed. They had a great deal of chemistry together, despite the weird little oddness that they kind of look like brother and sister (true story – they look A LOT alike). Anne’s accent work wasn’t her best, but for the majority of the film, it wasn’t actively bad. There were only a couple of scenes where I was like, “She sounds less English and more like she’s had a stroke.” Sturgess did a wonderful job as a privileged boy who never quite gets it together, and true to his Pillow Weeper moniker, Jim cried and cried and cried. That boy can pull out the waterworks at the drop of a hat, and he’s a better weeper than Anne. But he had moments of real sexiness, and he and Anne played off of each other beautifully.

Two weird little things – Patricia Clarkson has a wonderful little part as Dexter’s glamorous and then tragic mother, and I swear, her accent work was worse than Anne’s. I love Clarkson, so that pains me. Surely they could have found a glamorous English actress for that part, right? Second weirdness: the casting of one of my favorite up-and-coming girls, Romola Garai (see her IMDB here) – she looks like Drew Barrymore and she’s one of the most talented young actresses in the UK (she’s currently starring in the new, wonderful BBC show The Hour). Romola appears in maybe many scenes later in the movie, playing an unsympathetic character that no one cared for in the book, and she made the character extremely sympathetic and lovely, and Romola stole every scene she was in. It struck me that Romola would have been a wonderful choice to play Emma, and in a few years, she IS going to be getting lead roles in Hollywood films. She’s lovely.

So, would I recommend this movie? Go see it if you’re in the mood for a romance, and you don’t mind having a good cry. It will be a good rental too.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Last night was the big NYC premiere of One Day, that Anne Hathaway-Jim Sturgess film that I’m worried about. I’m worried about Anne’s wonky accent, I’m worried that The Pillow-Weeper isn’t going to be good enough to play Dexter, I’m worried that this movie seems to be getting dumped in the dead of August, where movies go to die. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing – I read the book, and I’m not as in love with the story as some people, so maybe Anne and Jim and everyone involved are just trying to get through minimal film promotion with as little attention as possible.

As for Anne’s dress… it’s McQueen. It’s pretty and it says “fun party frock”. Look at how tiny her little waist is! She wasn’t always this skinny – they say that she’s been training really hard for The Dark Knight Rises, so this is probably the most fit she’s ever been. To me, she doesn’t really look “pulled together” but I suspect she just threw this on in between her Catwoman film schedule. Sidenote: did you hear that Catwoman/Selina Kyle has “a history of abuse and works as a stripper and is also a pickpocket”? Anne Hathaway as a stripper… interesting.

As for Jim “Pillow Weeper” Sturgess… he looks good. Not particularly masculine or heartthrobby or anything, but he looks presentable and attractive. The itty-bitty bangs trauma still kills me, though. As do his weepy eyes. Also: I added a photo of Patricia Clarkson – she plays Jim/Dexter’s mother in the film.

Would you like the trailer for One Day again? Here you go!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve been calling Jim Sturgess a pillow-weeper for so long, I kind of forgot that he doesn’t just exist as a vague, watery-eyed image that speaks “One thrust and weeps into a pillow” for everyone. He’s in a new movie with Anne Hathaway called One Day, and the trailer was just recently released. Now, I read the book (by David Nicholls) several months ago after Lainey raved about it. I really, really enjoyed the book until the last 60 pages or so, but I won’t spoil the story for you. So here’s what the film is about in broad terms: Anne plays Emma (“Em”), a studious, dorky, funny English girl, and Jim plays Dexter (“Dex”), a hip, cool, English boy. They meet on their graduation day at University of Edinburgh in 1988. The book follows them for the next twenty years, year after year on the same day that they met. Here’s the trailer:

I don’t hate the trailer. Lainey does – she thinks the trailer makes the film sound like one of those interchangeable Jennifer Aniston/Katherine Heigl rom-coms. Considering that I ended up hating the book (after loving the first three quarters of it), I tend to think the trailer gives me a nice taste of what to expect. I’m not too impressed with what I heard of Anne’s accent work, but I’m impressed with how grungy and dorky Anne is looking – Em is supposed to be quite a hot mess for a number of years, so at least they’re not making her “Hollywood dorky” – which is like giving Anne a blowout, a face full of perfect makeup, and then just putting glasses on her. Anne looks truly flat-out unattractive in some of the little clips, so good for her and good for them.

As for Jim… damn, I find myself being attracted to a pillow-weeper. What is the world coming to? He looks really skuzzy-hot in parts of the trailer. YAY! Huzzah for pillow-weepers!

But still, I know what happens, so I probably won’t see this in the theater. But now I know that I’ll be renting it.

Posters & ‘One Day’ promotional images from various sources. Additional photos courtesy of WENN.

Today was the first photo call for The Way Back, that crapfest-looking “wandering around the snow and desert, because we’re Jews” film. I would have saved this one for the links, but the photos were just too, too perfect to not write about. First of all, Colin Farrell, ladies and gentlemen. He looks good, doesn’t he? Like, he’s healthy and he’s sleeping and eating properly, and he’s not running around partying and making mischief with every trollop out there. My Spidey sense tells me that he’s already got another girlfriend, honestly. It’s his air of containment… it says to me that he’s got a regular partner. Just a theory.

Also in the film: Jim Sturgess. I know some of you like him. I think I understand it – he’s one of those femme boys with their emotions and he’s all artsy and “deep” right? That’s why you like him? Well, he could very well be all of those things, but the boy is also a pillow-weeper. Just my opinion, but I stand by it: Jim Sturgess weeps after orgasm. His, not yours. He has to be “sensitive”. He has to hold your hand and talk about his “sadness”. That’s how he gets you into bed, where he pumps for a full minute, then bursts into tears. Trust me.

Ed Harris – I love him, but the man looks like death. Are we sure that he hasn’t already passed?

Little Saoirse Ronan! God, she’s growing up and she’s becoming ridiculously beautiful. God, I hope Colin isn’t nailing her.

Here’s the trailer for The Way Back. It really looks so dumb.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve been dying to see the new movie ’21,’ which tells the story of some super-smart MIT math nerds who make big bucks counting cards in Las Vegas. I read the book it’s based on, “Bringing Down the House,” and the film stars one of my favorite new actors, Jim Sturgess, who was fantastic in “Across the Universe.” Now, Kate Bosworth, who co-stars in the film as Jim Sturgess’ love interest, reveals how they prepared to do a steamy love scene- they got hammered.

The 25-year-old actress cannot recall shooting her love scene with Jim Sturgess for 21, she told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s Cinema Society and Calvin Klein Jeans-sponsored screening of the film in Manhattan.

“We were both so drunk,” the Superman Returns star said. “Jim and I became such good friends, we decided to have a couple of drinks, loosen up and go for it.”

Sturgess – who plays the lead in the shot-on-location casino flick, based on Ben Mezrich’s book, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions – has similarly fuzzy recollections.

“We were on Grey Goose, I think,” said the British actor. “It was brilliant for about half and an hour. As we continued to drink … it just became sloppy and messy. I couldn’t stand up at one point.”

[From People]

I always wondered how actors got through these loves scenes- now it makes perfect sense. From what I’ve read, shooting these kinds of scenes are no picnic- there you are, often buck naked with someone you barely know, while an entire film crew is standing around talking and telling you what to do. Then again, Jim Sturgess is adorable, and I know many women who’d happily brave all that discomfort for the chance to smooch him. If you haven’t seen him yet in “Across the Universe,” do yourself a favor and rent it.

Kate Bosworth is shown after having lunch with friends on 3/30/08, thanks to Splash News. I find her outfit kind of fascinating and can’t decide if I like it or not.