girls on film

Julianne Moore is a fucking nut

We love her, but it seems like every time Julianne Moore is in a movie she’s going off about something or having some sort of meltdown. It’s like casting directors sit down in their offices and are like, “Hm, this character needs to go totally fucking mental at some point in the movie—why not call Julianne?” We mean, we haven’t seen The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio but we’re pretty sure she locks herself in the bathroom with a box of dieting pills in it or something. We all love gravitas, but would it kill you to make me feel like I don’t want to hang myself every once and a while? Goddamn.

Anyway, Julianne’s new movie, Savage Grace, is a dramatization of the Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, the key word in the phrase being drama. Just the trailer makes us want to squeal with glee in the theater as unspeakable acts of horror unfold before our eyes. We could start discussing the cult of voyeurism that young America has become or something, but who are we kidding, we just want to see some BJs. Everyone wins with those.

It’s also worht stating that the movie was directed is Tom Kalin, who also did the muder movie Swoon all the way back in 1992—we guess he’s really into murderous gays.

We know we shouldn't be excited for this

But we SO are. The X Files is one of our favorite Sci-Fi shows of all time, and even though I Want To Believe has Amanda Peet and fucking Xzibit in supporting roles (innumerable tears), we’re so going to see it opening weekend. L’Anderson can do no wrong (and hasn’t really done anything, right or wrong, for a while). Let’s hope her wardrobe is better than in the first season of the series, though. For real.

Oh fuck yes!

Our favorite Canadian actress/rumored lesbian Ellen Page has been pegged to portray our favorite Victorian heroine/probable-lesbian-now-that-we-think-about-it Jane Eyre, in an upcoming BBC cinematic adaptation. Fucking. Holler. We’ve been waiting for someone to give Elz a chance to break away from the psychotic/sociopath teen roles, delve into to some period pieces and rock a British accent. Maybe Ellen could finally dethrone Kiera Knightley as the go to for any role that requires a corset? Seriously.

Ellen Page To Play Jane Eyre In BBC’S Big Screen Adaptation [via Buzzsugar]

Gwen does us proud in Iron Man

It goes as a testament of our sentiments about Gwyneth Paltrow that we’ve more or less taken to calling her Fishsticks instead of her real name: she doesn’t irritate us, but frankly the last movie we saw her in that we liked was Se7en, and we all know how that turned out. Cue music:

It’s my head in a box! Head in a box, yeah!

Anyway, for some inexplicable reason we’ve been really into the idea of Gwen playing Virginia “Pepper” Potts, Tony Stark/Iron Man’s lovably maternal secretary/will-they-won’t-they pseudo love interest. Well, we just came back from seeing Iron Man and can we just say, hats off to Gwennie. We don’t quite know why, but Gwen’s slight blandness and not-so-deep onscreen personality actually propels Pepper forward and makes her credible: it’s like the ugly ducking grew into a beautiful swan with no idea what to do with itself, so it throws itself into its hunky boss’ life, reattaches his weird titanium heart pacemaker thing, and gives him the strength to move forward.

Also, Iron Man is a really good movie and we wanted to write about it, and this is a blog about actresses.

The New York Magazine Vulture blog basically feel the same way we do, and wrote a pretty cool article today about Gwen as Pepper. We personally think she deserves the Oscar nom if only for running through the last 20 minutes of the movie in 3-inch stilettos. Seriously, homegirl booked it around that power plant, right?

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts: Surprisingly Super [via Vulture]

Basically.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [via Apple Quicktime Trailers]

Elizabeth Banks about to kick it to the next level

As much as it brings us personal amusement to picture Elizabeth Banks sucking on a pork rib or getting off with a shower nozzle, it’s always nice to see a respectable actress take on meatier roles (there’s a joke in there somewhere). Up until about a year ago, Elizabeth resided in the realm of our consciousness clearly labeled: “CHARACTER ACTRESSES” subtitled “WHO IS SHE AGAIN? OH YEAH, THAT GIRL.”

HOWEVER! It was released today that Elizabeth will be playing Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s upcoming George W. Bush biopic, W. We’re not really quite sure what to expect: we’re not so much hesitant about Elizabeth’s capability of ditching the guy’s-best-friend typecast and delving into a more serious role as we are about THE EXISTENCE OF A GEORGE W. BUSH BIOPIC DIRECTED BY OLIVER STONE. But fans of the Banks oeuvre needn’t fret: later on this year, Elizabeth will play the lead alongside ugly-hot dreamboat Seth Rogen in the new Kevin Smith movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno, about two life-long friends who begin a part-time adult film business (insert your own “you taste like a burger” joke here).