Because Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton are co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company she has scaled back her film commitments to barely one a year. That makes the news that  Blanchett is about to sign up to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe's Robin Hood e...

"George Bush is NOT the president ... we're alive! ... we actually made it!" - Chris Rock I certainly couldn't put it any better myself, so I'll just move on to something much, much more trivial. Along with the Oscar nominations coming tomorrow morning, there's evidence (though I can't yet call it p...

“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,â€� adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.  A man, like any of us, unable to stop time.  We follow his story set in Ne...

From barely-noticed blips in Hot Fuzz, to stunning elves, to time as Elizabeth I, Cate Blanchett has proven that she can do pretty much anything. And now she's itching to stretch the boundaries even further. In a discussion with MTV, the actress revealed that she has a new pet project that she'd lik...

The photos of Cate Blanchett for Interview magazine are a fine piece of work however, without all those outfits it would have been awfully boring.  Is she plain, is she kinda cute?  Hell, is she a man or a woman?  Sometimes you can’t trust your eyes anymore–she could have once been wa...

Imagine that you’re an actress not even forty years old, and you’ve already been nominated for the Oscar four times, won it once, and worked alongside everyone from Steven Spielberg to Leonardo DiCaprio to Peter Jackson and many others. Where does Cate Blanchett go from here? Naturally, she find...

A hearty congrats at the start to who I would have to say was the real surprise winner at last night's Golden Globes, "In Bruges" star Colin Farrell. I would have cast my vote in the Best Actor/Comedy or Musical category for his co-star Brendan Gleeson, but it's still a well-deserved win for a smart...

Year in Review: 3 of 5 The Prime Prestige Poster Girls Disturbing Factoid: You're unlikely to spot Kate Winslet or Cate Blanchett on movie screens outside of Oscar season. Of Blanchett's 20 most recent films, a full 50% were released in December. Many from the other 50% were small films in which she...

The amazing actress Cate Blanchett is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine wherein in her coverstory interview she talks about how disinterested she is in resorting to cosmetic surgery under any circumstances. In the accompanying photospread, shot by Annie ...

Yesterday, the day I saw "The Curious Life of Benjamin Button" and wrote that post, I conked out early. Oh, I don't know if it was from the movie or from the pizza and one glass of wine I had afterward or just from being somewhat old. Most of the people in the movie audience were old, so old, that w...