I think this might be the first time I’m doing on a full post on Jessica Chastain . Don’t get me wrong, I know she’s a good actress but I don’t think I’ve ever realized she was this talented before. Anyway, after seeing her dropping some serious A-list cleavage at the screening of some new movie called Salome , I think this cute ginger has definitely got what it takes to become a huge star. You know, once she starts picking projects that highlight her true talents. And I’d be happy to volunteer as a consultant. » view all 19 photos Photos: WENN.com
The start of a new month is always a glorious time, for though we bid farewell to some beloved films that have been available on Netflix, a new crop of flicks pop up! And what a crop we have in July! Sharon Stone ‘s legendary interrogation room beaver flash in Basic Instinct ranked third on Mr. Skin’s Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes Of All Time , and now you can relive that moment, along with Sharon’s other nude scenes and the terrific ta-tas of Jeanne Tripplehorn anytime you like! Of all the Basic Instinct imitators that were released in its aftermath, Body of Evidence is far and away the best of the bunch. It even mimics that film’s nude scene patterns, with an early nude scene from Julianne Moore , followed by lots of full frontal antics from Madonna ! One of our favorite phallically named actors, Peter O’Toole , received an Oscar nomination for 2006’s Venus , which features the phenomenal fun bags and fanny of Jodie Whittaker ! Another Oscar nominated film, 1996’s Primal Fear , is probably best remembered now for the uncomfortably awesome topless scene from the lovely Azalea Davila ! Finally it’s the 2012 moonshine crime drama Lawless , starring Shia LaBeouf & Tom Hardy . It also famously featured the fantastic flappers of Jessica Chastain , as well as a quick flash of right breast from the supremely lovely Malinda Baker ! That should make your LaBeef very Hardy!
Redheads sometimes get a bad wrap in the looks department. They’re pale, they’re freckled, there’s a whole day devoted to kicking them (thanks for that South Park!). And yet there is something fascinating about redheads. Maybe it’s because they’re so rare – only 1-2% of the world’s population is ginger, and there have been studies for years saying they might eventually go extinct. These 15 celebrities prove that though the gene might be recessive, their hotness is dominant. *rimshot!* I’d be happy to do my part help keep the redheaded gene alive with any of them. Call me? 15 Hottest Celebrity Redheads Open Slideshow 1. Emma Stone Emma Stone is a stone cold red-headed fox. View As List 1. Emma Stone Emma Stone is a stone cold red-headed fox. 2. Kevin McKidd Let this hot TV doctor make you feel alllll better. 3. Christina Hendricks The red hair is like a warning: dangerous curves ahead. 4. Prince Harry of Wales Royally hot. 5. Isla Fisher Really really funny, really really good-looking. 6. Damian Lewis He can come spy on me anytime. 7. Jessica Chastain Her Golden Globe proves she’s talented AND gorgeous. 8. Rupert Grint Maybe it’s a confundus charm, but I think Ron Weasley grew up super hot. 9. Amy Adams One of the most enchanting red-heads ever. 10. Conan O’Brien Your opinion may vary, but women love a man with a sense of humor. HOT. 11. Alyson Hannigan From lesbian witch to married art buyer, this ginger has always been one of our favorites. 12. Benedict Cumberbatch It’s true, it’s real and it’s SPECTACULAR. Why they made him dark for Sherlock I will never know. 13. Debra Messing She looks amazing as a redhead…and she knows it. 14. Simon Woods Try to resist Mr. Bingley. You know you can’t. 15. Lindsay Lohan Honorable mention goes to the Lindsay Lohan who starred in “Mean Girls”. She’ll always be one of the hottest redheads ever and we miss her. Did your favorite ginger make the list? Who did we forget?
Where was Jimmy Kimmel before the Oscars? Kathryn Bigelow could have used him. On Wednesday night, the late-night talk-show host gave a comic lesson in marketing when he showed this trailer for the DVD release of Zero Dark Thirty that re-positions the movie as a romantic comedy instead of a pro-torture CIA procedural. All it takes is a little voiceover magic and some creative editing to depict Jessica Chastain as a workaholic in search of “the man of her dreams.” Pretty, pretty funny, as is the movie’s new title, Zero Dark Flirty , and tagline: “Sometimes it’s good to be a little bit Abbottabad.” For those who limited their consumption of Oscar-nominated based-on-a-real-story CIA thrillers to Argo , that’s the name of the town in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden’s compound was located. Speaking of Kimmel, he should be the next host of the Oscars. Hollywood loves him, and he’s got the perfect tone for the evening. In fact, Seth MacFarlane left me with the impression that he was trying to be Kimmel on Sunday night. What do you think? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Bruno Mars, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain and more stars join in on the parody sequel. By Drew Taylor Jimmy Kimmel and Jessica Chastain in “Movie: The Movie: 2V ” Photo: ABC
The box office has spoken! Jessica Chastain scored the top two weekend spots over Arnold Schwarzenegger ( The Last Stand ) and the double-whammy of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe ( Broken City ) as the Guillermo del Toro -produced fantasy horror Mama scored a #1 debut with $28.1 million and Zero Dark Thirty stepped into second place. (Oscar rival Jennifer Lawrence didn’t come out so bad herself as Silver Linings Playbook expanded to #3 in wide release the same weekend she tenderly slammed her fellow Best Actress contenders on Saturday Night Live .) More power to the ladies! But where, oh where, did Arnold land in his big action comeback? Schwarzenegger’s breezy actioner The Last Stand showed a surprising lack of muscle over the MLK holiday weekend, raking in just $6.7 million over three days and calling into question the potency of the ex-Governator’s screen appeal as it shuffled into tenth place at the box office. Tenth place. Ouch. Broken City , Fox’s Wahlberg-Crowe mano-a-mano crime pic, also debuted to rather limp returns, with a $9.5 million estimated weekend take (numbers via Deadline ). But if Arnie’s box office cache was proven less brawny than expected, the Best Actress-nominated duo of Chastain and Lawrence reflected strong appeal for both Oscar contenders, both of whom notched Golden Globes wins last weekend. For Chastain’s part, the genre gamble that is the feral child-ghost mother pic Mama could have thrown a wrench into her awards campaign but paid off; it currently sits at a better-than-most-horror-pics 62 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, but had some pundits wondering if Universal’s timing of the film’s release was part of a crafty plot to ruin the awards season momentum of her campaign for Sony’s Zero Dark Thirty . But audiences came for a double dose of Chastain in two very different roles — one in a prestige pic that underscored Chastain’s steely strength in a man’s world ( ZDT ), the other a genre pic built around an emotionally distant character gradually embracing her latent maternal instincts ( Mama ). Meanwhile, Silver Linings Playbook and its swelling Oscar momentum continues to be owned by Lawrence, whose audience appeal was solidified by SNL ‘s solid ratings Saturday night. With almost exactly a month left before Oscar ballots are due, this race is just starting to get good. Read more on the Oscars : After Golden Globes Win, Is ‘Argo’ The People’s Film? ‘Argo’ & ‘Les Misérables’ Take Top Movie Prizes At Golden Globes High Five! The Best GIFs Of The 2013 Golden Globes Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
In Tree of Life , Jessica Chastain played a mother who could float. In Mama , she’s attacked by one. Chastain shot this dignified little thriller in fall 2011 during the stretch when literally every arthouse theater played at least two of her pictures—between Tree , Coriolanus , The Help , Take Shelter , Texas Killing Fields and The Debt , she was indie cinema’s inescapable new queen. Universal intended to release the Guillermo del Toro -produced Mama last October, but shelved it until the week after Chastain was nominated for an Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty . Is this her reputation-besmirching Norbit ? Pshaw — for my money, it’s her best performance yet. Mama starts with a child’s hand scrawling “Once upon a time,” words that send us all the way back to, uh, the financial collapse of 2008. A Wall Street bigshot (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has a nervous breakdown: He shoots his co-workers, shoots his wife, and kidnaps his two girls, ages 3 and 1, with the intent of hiding out and shooting them, too. (Alas, murder-suicide is today’s version of parents in the Brothers Grimm casting out their children to survive in the forest.) The place he chooses to pull the trigger is a cabin in the woods that belongs to “Mama,” a ghost who doesn’t take kindly to deadly dads. Side note: Why is Hollywood newly obsessed with monsters who are painfully thin and flexible? It’s as if our entire generation grew up having nightmares about a double-jointed Karen Carpenter. As the opening credits roll, kiddie crayon sketches show us what happened next: The scared blonde tykes cling to their new ghost mommy and revert to crawling on all fours and eating rats. It’s a feral child fairy tale! Cut to the present where we first meet rocker girl Annabel (Chastain) beaming at an EPT test, overjoyed that her boyfriend (Coster-Waldau again) hasn’t gotten her pregnant. Alas, her guy turns out to be the girls’ uncle, and his detectives have finally found Mama’s lair. Surprise! Annabel’s about to be the adopted mother of two crab-walking nightmares, and she really doesn’t want to meet their babysitter. Every beat in Mama is familiar, down to the exact moment you need to close your eyes to dodge a jump-scare, and there’s a goofy child psychiatrist (Daniel Kash) whose actions make about as much sense as Claire Danes in Homeland . But damned if Mama doesn’t transcend its nonsense. As in Paranormal Activity 3 , the girls — now 6 and 8, but psychologically closer to wildcats in captivity — spend a lot of time in their bedroom playing tug-of-war with their spooky spectral caretaker and humming creepy hymns. Young actresses Isabelle Nelisse and Megan Charpentier are excellent, with Nelisse frighteningly primal, and Charpentier as her guilt-stricken and watchful older sister. The best call in the script is the slow wedge that’s driven between the girls, the real world, and the world only they believe in. The kids are scary but they don’t thrill to see Chastain scream. Instead, their loyalty is torn between the only mother they’ve ever known and, you know, the one who doesn’t look like an anorexic hellbeast. One standout chase sequence shows us Mama’s back story in a retro filmstrip style that looks like one of D.W. Griffith’s nightmares. But Mama ‘s smartest choice is the decision by helmer Andres Muschietti (who also co-wrote the script with Barbara Muschietti and Neil Cross) to cast Chastain for insta-class. Chastain has carved out a career in shockingly fast time, but she’s been oddly ill-used by her directors, who tend to see her as a figurehead, not a woman. She’s been shoehorned into archetypes: The fragile doll, the vision of womanly perfection, the sexless drone. It takes this slight but ambitious horror flick to let her be flesh-and-blood fun. Her Annabel is a tough, short-haired dame who’s inked with tattoos under her Misfits t-shirts. She plays guitar in a ’90s-esque girl band — god, I wish we had more of those today — and her cellphone voicemail barks: “This is Annabel. Leave a message at the beep. Fuck you — beep .” As she warms, slowly, to the beast-children, Chastain gets to play an arc, not an archetype, and Mama becomes an honest-to-god film instead of a quickie horror cash-in or a bone-dry drama that relies on Chastain to do all the heavy lifting. Kathryn Bigelow , take note: Surround Chastain with an actual movie, and you might get a Oscar nod the next go-round. Amy Nicholson is a critic, playwright and editor. Her interests include hot dogs, standard poodles, Bruce Willis, and comedies about the utter futility of existence. Follow her on Twitter. Follow Amy Nicholson on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
What contestants? On Thursday night’s episode, the two feuding divas were the center of attention. By Adam Graham Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj Photo: FOX
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