Cinema du Sanity: the summer-of-despair issue

Disney’s Planes: Really? This is what we’ve come to? Christ Almighty. *sigh* Plus: What next? Bikes? Boats? just kill us now. Special Investigation: Planes, Cars, Turbo: all the same film? we look at the evid– oh, fuck it, what’s the point?

let Benedict Cumberbatch read to you from a children’s book

And Javier Bardem and Idris Elba and Ryan Gosling. (And also Channing Tatum, if you’re into that sort of thing.) From “Love You Forever: 5 of Hollywood’s Sexiest Men Read to You from Children’s Classics” at Bookriot: You know what they say: There is nothing sexier than a man reading a children’s book. Okay, so … more…

Cinema du Sanity: the summer tentpoles issue

R.I.P.D.: How Hollywood sells us the same flicks over and over again. The New Grizzled Action Hero (same as the old grizzled action hero). Special Report: Tentpoles — how putting all your eggs in one basket become “good business”…