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Watch Andre 3000 in New Jimi Hendrix Biopic

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Andre Benjamin (a.k.a Andre 3000) stars as rock-guitar-legend Jimi Hendrix in the upcoming Jimi: All Is by My Side, a movie that tells the story of Hendrix’s life leading up to a game-changing concert in London. In the just-released trailer below, the Outkast member—who now focuses more on his solo music career—masters the late icon’s speaking voice and laissez faire demeanor while rocking the butterfly collars and psychedelic prints of the 1960’s. The biopic, which was written and directed by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) won’t include any of Hendrix’s original musical arrangements though, due to his estate not being on board. Instead, the Atlanta-born rapper-singer will perform covers of the rock star’s classics, which are sure to lend a fresh sound to some already epic songs. The film debuts in the U.S. on March 12 at SXSW, and although we don’t get to hear the original Hendrix, there seems to be plenty of sex, drugs, and rock and roll to go around…with a little guitar eating thrown in for good measure.


 

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Brad “Fashion, Baby” Pitt Rolls through LAX

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Award season is upon us—as are opening blog articles that start this way—which means Brad Pitt will be out in full designer-clad force (his wife, more of a wildcard without a film of her own to promote). Pitt’s ever-lengthening IMDB page added some scroll to 2013, with a supporting role in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, for which he also served as one of the film’s lead producers. Over the weekend, Pitt showed up to the Critics’ Choice Awards and Producers Guild Awards with a brand new dude-do (see Mindy Kaling’s hilarious Instagramming below).

Later at LAX, a paparazzo approached the actor to find out the cause behind the chopping of Pitt’s gorgeous locks. The dialogue went as follows:

Pap: Congratulations, Brad.

Pitt: Thanks, Man.

Pap: What’s up with the hair, man? Was it an oops or what? Were you in the bathroom and oops? What was it? You said it wasn’t by choice (x2).

Pitt: Fashion, baby.

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Watch Every Movie Released This Year in Seven Minutes

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Some people have a lot of time on their hands. Those with such privilege must busy themselves somehow. Sometimes they: write songs, perform magic tricks, or, remember that guy that recited every line of Mean Girls in thirty minutes? These people exist, they’re real, and best of all, their schedule is wide open. Add a new contender to the pantheon of the time-unbound, as The Sleepy Skunk — his name, not one we assigned him — has taken every movie that hit theatres in 2013 and boiled them down to one comprehensive 6:45 supercut. ‘Cause how else should someone named The Sleepy Skunk manage his time? 

An overview: from 12 Years A Slave to that movie in which Denzel and Marky Mark blew up cars, many masked people, many guns — so many guns — worlds in peril, Blanchett in the shower, Gosling, DiCaprio, Gordon-Levitt, fire, blaze, explosion,”duck!”, DeNiro pushing Michael Douglas into a pool, people running for their lives, Judi Dench gazing off in the distance on a hill, an unwelcome reminder of that Oz movie, Jared Leto in drag, and a barrage of explosives (’cause who’s sick of those?).

 
Images courtesy of Columbia Pictures.

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Fassbender Doesn’t Want Your Carrot OR Your Oscar

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It’s hard for some to wrap their minds around the fact that Hollywood’s elite actually have to campaign to win those golden statuettes, but perhaps even harder to believe that some of them reject the very idea. In 2011, Michael Fassbender starred opposite Carey Mulligan in Steve McQueen’s Shame. But Kevin James had a comedy out where he played a zookeeper and Vanessa Hudgens had a vague remake of Beauty and the Beast and who could forget: The Smurfs. Needless to say, people were preoccupied and Fassbender’s very Oscar-friendly performance and his subsequent campaign went unnoticed. Well, Fassbender’s back at it again — making movies that is — re-teaming with McQueen for the highly-anticipated 12 Years a Slave (co-starring Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch). But no Oscars, please.

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Fassbender spoke to GQ, revealing: “You know, I get it. Everybody’s got to do their job. So you try and help and facilitate as best you can. But I won’t put myself through that kind of situation again. It’s just a grind. And I’m not a politician. I’m an actor.”

This harkens back to Joaquin Phoenix’s infamous Interview quote: “[The award circuit is] total, utter bullshit, and I don’t want to be a part of it. I don’t believe in it. It’s a carrot, but it’s the worst-tasting carrot I’ve ever tasted in my whole life. I don’t want this carrot. It’s totally subjective. Pitting people against each other … it’s the stupidest thing in the whole world.”

Here’s a trailer for the film Fassbender will not be campaigning for: