Cate Blanchett

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

5 Feb 2009

MYSTERY/ROMANCE What would it be like to live in reverse? Born as an old man only to die as an infant, the Benjamin Button character created by F Scott Fitzgerald in his 1922 short-story gets the full ‘prestige picture’ treatment in David Fincher’s…

Hanna

A wonderfully curious, bold and original film

28 Jun 2011

(12A) 111min What a wonderfully curious and beguiling film this is. Hanna is the story of the eponymous 16 year-old (Saoirse Ronan), trained in the arts of combat and survival in the remote wilds of Finland by her ex-CIA father (Eric Bana).

Robin Hood

12 May 2010

(12A) 140min Marking his fifth film with Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood seems determined to conjure up the magic of their first collaboration, Gladiator. After all, both are historical dramas featuring a hero facing insurmountable odds. Yet…

Cate Blanchett's Robin Hood role

Celebrity Gossip

26 Feb 2009

Cate Blanchett will star as Maid Marian in 'Robin Hood'. The 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' actress will appear opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's big-budget adaptation of the classic folk tale, it has been confirmed. 'Factory Girl' star…

Cate Blanchett's lick excitement

Celebrity Gossip

22 Jan 2009

Cate Blanchett "can't wait" to be licked by millions of Australians. The 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' star will appear on a special series of postage stamps to mark Australia Day on January 26. In a statement, Cate said: "I am utterly…

Baby addict Cate Blanchett

Celebrity Gossip

30 Jun 2008

Cate Blanchett says having children is "addictive". The 'I'm Not There' actress recently gave birth to third son Ignatius Martin with her husband Andrew Upton and says the couple can't wait to further expand their brood. Cate - who also has sons…

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

22 May 2008

ADVENTURE (12A) 122min Seventeen years after his Last Crusade, Harrison Ford picks up his fedora hat and returns for his most ambitious and outlandish adventure yet. It’s 1957 and the Soviets have replaced the Nazis as the biggest set of thugs on the…

Cate Blanchett's green theatre

Celebrity Gossip

3 May 2008

Cate Blanchett is creating a green theatre. The 38-year-old actress and her husband, playwright Andrew Upton - who are both artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company - want to make the business the first green building on Sydney…

Cate Blanchett's baby Ignatius

Celebrity Gossip

14 Apr 2008

Cate Blanchett gave birth to son Ignatius Martin Upton yesterday (13.04.08). The Oscar-winning actress welcomed her third son - who weighed a healthy 7lbs 9oz - with husband Andrew Upton in a hospital in Sydney, Australia. A spokesman for the…

Cate Blanchett's face obsession

Celebrity Gossip

9 Mar 2008

Cate Blanchett is so obsessed with face masks she even wears them in public. The 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' star can't get enough of SK-II Facial Treatment Masks, and even wears one while she takes her two sons - seven-year-old Dashiell and…

Wes Anderson to direct animated Fantastic Mr Fox adaptation

3 Mar 2008

Wes Anderson, the director behind The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited, is to direct and write a big screen animated version of Roald Dahl's classic children's story The Fantastic Mr Fox. Expect a…

Cate Blanchett's Oscar lullaby

Celebrity Gossip

25 Feb 2008

Cate Blanchett's unborn baby "slept through" last night's Academy Awards (24.02.08). The double Oscar-nominee - who showed off her pregnancy in a flowing Dries Van Noten dress - says her future son stayed calm despite the excitement and stress of the…

I'm Not There - interview with Todd Haynes

13 Dec 2007

Todd Haynes is an artist who knows about shedding skins. The director originally came to prominence as part of the New Queer Cinema movement, a group that reacted to the arrival of AIDS by making films that investigated its impact on gay America. Now…

Elizabeth - Special Edition DVD review

(15) 118min

13 Dec 2007

Given the recent, and rather belated, cinematic release of a sequel to Elizabeth: The Golden Age, a renewed interest in 1998’s original historical drama based on the life of Queen Elizabeth I was inevitable. It may not have started the public’s liking…

Blanchett and Aguilera pregnant, Jovovich has baby girl

5 Nov 2007

they are both pregnant. In an interview with Glamour magazine, Aguilera said she will have her first child at the beginning of next year and plans to be a working mother. The 26-year-old added that husband Jordan Bratman is ecstatic at…

Blanchett returns as Virgin Queen

11 Sep 2007

Cate Blanchett has reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth 1, almost 10 years after the actress earned an Oscar nomination for ‘Elizabeth’. The 1998 version saw Blanchett lose out to Gwyneth Paltrow for ‘Shakespeare in Love’, but her new project…

Venice award for actress Blanchett

10 Sep 2007

Cate Blanchett has been named best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of the singer Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. She was one of several actors to play a part in the unconventional Todd Haynes film, and has been tipped for an Oscar…

The Good German

27 Feb 2007

Steven Soderbergh said he decided to direct this adaptation of Joseph Kanon’s murder mystery novel set in Berlin at the end of WWII because he wanted to make a movie in the classic film noir style. Soderbergh, who also produced, photographed, and edited…

Cate Blanchett interview

Woman of note

30 Jan 2007

‘If I knew that my son’s art teacher was banging his brains out in the art room, I’d be in there with a meat cleaver.’ Cate Blanchett is reflecting on her new film, Notes on a Scandal, in which she plays an art teacher who has an affair with one of her…

Notes on a Scandal

29 Jan 2007

Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) - note that grasping surname - is not a popular figure at the North London comprehensive where she teaches history. To the staff and the students she is, in her own words, ‘a battleaxe’, and to the headmaster, she is an…

Babel

15 Jan 2007

Somewhere down the crazy river there’s a little shack where screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) churns out his indentikit scripts. This is how he does it. He looks at his holiday snaps, and then he imagines a catastrophic event, say…