“Ahead of the U.S. debut of her enthralling and Oscar-worthy performance as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s biopic Spencer, Kristen Stewart is acknowledging the elephant in the room: her career hasn’t really been filled with critically acclaimed features, to say the least. ‘It’s a total crapshoot,’ Stewart says in a recent interview with The Sunday Times. ‘I’ve probably made five really good films, out of 45 or 50 films? Ones that I go, ‘Wow, that person made a top-to-bottom beautiful piece of work!’” Read more at The A.V. Club According to director James Wan, the now-canceled Aquaman spinoff about The Trench was secretly a Black Manta movie. Read more at Gizmodo Metroid Prime has speedrunners now, and they are beating the entire game in just an hour and a half. “There comes a time in every game’s life-cycle when speedrunners crack the code, and a baseline time against which to compete reveals itself. Now that we’re a few weeks removed from the release of Metroid Prime, such a benchmark has crystallized: The game’s fastest players are racing from start to finish in about an hour and a half.” Read more at Kotaku Lucky, the lovable one-eyed canine, steals the show on the official post for Hawkeye. Read more at The Mary Sue Remember that strange scene in Star Trek Into Darkness featuring Alice Eve? Despite internet hate, she’s proud of that moment. “Star Trek once promised to boldly go where no man has gone before. But Alice Eve knows science fiction can go much further by foregrounding women within its strange new worlds. ‘A lot of women in sci-fi are self-sufficient,’ says the actress, who played one such character — Dr. Carol Marcus — in 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, though not without controversy.” Read more at Inverse Former NFL superstar quarterbacks and brothers Peyton and Eli Manning bring new life to live sports television broadcasts. Read more at Deadspin
