PREPARE FOR A CUMBERBATCHING MOST FIERCE!

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, an early frontrunner for the Oscars’ Stiffest Upper Lip award (ensemble), now has a full-length trailer. Directed by Let the Right One In‘s Tomas Alfredson, the Cold War spy story stars Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, and, as if it couldn’t get anymore British, Benedict Cumberbatch, a name I don’t even feel comfortable saying without a powdered wig. FUN FACT: If you shut the lights and say “Benedict Cumberbatch” three times into the mirror, “Yakety Sax” starts playing and you have four minutes to catch the fox before he steals your Yorkshire pudding.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, from Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson, based on the spy novel by John le Carré, premieres at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, and now the first clip from the film is online. It stars Mark Strong, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy, and the first clip is everything you could ever want in a clip, provided what you want is super-serious British dudes having a gravelly-voice contest. GRR, GUV, DA QUEEN SAYS DA BARRISTAH’S LORRIE HAIN’T BEEN DIS NACKERED IN DOG’S EARS.

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This is the trailer for 44-Inch Chest, which sadly isn’t about boobs, but somehow still sounds really awesome. Says Twitch:

What happens when the writers of hard edged British gangster picture Sexy Beast tackle family drama?  You get 44 Inch Chest, a story of marital infidelity that takes a decidedly dark and nasty turn.  Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson star in what must surely be one of the best acted, most incredibly sweary films to come out of the UK in years.

Jesus, I love those actors, it’s like a who’s who of badasses.  Aside from James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman, does anyone have a cooler voice than Ray Winstone?  If Morgan Freeman is sexual chocolate, Ray Winstone is the persuasive sound of all my negative impulses.  “Oi, ‘ave anuvva drink, ya cunt.  ‘as you gone soft?  Oy fink dat mailbox wiz givin you da stink oy. You fink da bounsah wants to ‘ave a go? ‘e’s big but oy reckon ‘e’s nuffin specio.”

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Everyone’s favorite ambiguously gay hobbit Elijah Wood is back (his acid trip appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba from awhile back is also a must see).  This time in The Oxford Murders, which is already out in parts of Europe but still lacks a US distributor.

The Oxford Murders is based on the novel of the same name by Argentinian author Guillermo Martínez [Ed. Note – based on my limited knowledge of Argentina, he’s probably an escaped Nazi]. The book was published in 2003, and was a best-seller that went on to be published into over fifteen languages.  The Oxford Murders stars John Hurt and Elijah Wood as a professor and a graduate student who become involved in solving a series of gruesome murders at the legendary university. Through the course of their investigations, they discover that the murderer is committing his crimes on principles of mathematical theories. So of course, the only way to stop the murders is to figure out the ‘equations’ before the killer strikes again. [cinematical]

Sweet, I was hoping they’d remake the Da Vinci Code.  That movie sucked.   

In a recent interview with Premiere, John "Bringin’ Tha" Hurt, discussed his role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and had some choice words:

If I was asked what I would choose to do, it [the Indiana Jones movie] would be lightweight for me, at least for that sort of time commitment.

Oh snap! "It would be lightweight for me" is British actor speak for "Your whore of a mother really peels the scabs and lets the pus flow, bitch."

And my boy wasn’t finished, neither. He had some smack to lay down on George Lucas first.  

George is a bit socially crippled really. Not good with people. So I just left him alone.

BOOSH!  Who would’ve thought a guy that dresses like an aging lesbian version of Alf and thought Jar-Jar Binks was a good idea wouldn’t relate well to others?  Certainly not me! I say we settle this with a walk off.