Douchebags Kevin Hart is not hosting the Oscars Two days ago it was announced that Kevin Hart would host the Oscars and I wrote, “…everyone likes Kevin Hart. He’s the Platonic ideal of an Oscar host: popular, funny but not offensive…” And then a lot of you emailed to let me know that you don’t like By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 09:48 am
Award Season Campaigning A mixed bag of filmmaker inclusion It’s been a great year for black American cinema, as evidenced by the Golden Globes nominations which include Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture. (Sorry to Bother You is too weird for award shows, but let us not forget it is one of By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 02:31 pm
TV Updates SNL Thirst Traps Jason Momoa is hosting SNL this weekend, and their promos are largely just thirst traps. When you have a hot surfer dude the size of a tree as your host, the jokes write themselves. Thus, Momoa’s promo as an action-page, finding answers by busting down doors and hacking computers By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 12:00 pm
TV Updates The Golden Globes forgot about Atlanta The Golden Globe nominations came down this morning and you guys, who is going to tell the HFPA that they forgot about Atlanta? It’s a lot, I know, there is SO much television. It’s impossible to watch everything and hard to keep up with new episodes, but even By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 11:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Actors saying things at a table Next stop on the Award Season Express, it’s The Hollywood Reporter’s actor roundtable, featuring Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Timothee Chalamet, Chadwick Boseman, Hugh Jackman, and Richard E. Grant. This group actually makes me wonder how far in advance they book these things, because Hugh Jackman is a ??? at By Sarah • Dec 05, 2018 01:25 pm
Kevin Hart Kevin Hart is hosting the Oscars Yesterday morning The Hollywood Reporter called hosting the Oscars the “least wanted job in Hollywood”. Less than three months from the 2019 telecast, the Oscars had no host, and, apparently, no hope of a host. My suggestion was either Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, or a pack a wolves. Picture By Sarah • Dec 05, 2018 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I TAKE IT ALL BACK I have been skeptical of Brie Larson from the moment she was announced as Captain Marvel. Not anything against her, personally, just that she’s too young, and wasn’t the most interesting name in the mix. Well, guess what? I TAKE IT ALL BACK. I am sold on Brie By Sarah • Dec 04, 2018 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s Asian-American hero After years of not prioritizing any voice or story other than white dudes, Marvel is now full steam ahead on the diversity express. Thanks to the success of Black Panther—and due in no small part to Ike Perlmutter’s control being loosened on the movie studio—they have greenlit By Sarah • Dec 03, 2018 03:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus baby name formula I forgot Norman Reedus and Diane Kruger are a thing. They’ve been together for a couple of years now, but they generally keep a low profile, so they just kind of slipped out of my celebrity-couple brain space. (Which is mostly occupied by Zendalland , anyway.) And they have a By Sarah • Nov 30, 2018 12:10 pm
Quiveration Richard Madden wouldn’t mind being 007 Even though we’re still two years away from seeing Daniel Craig’s last turn as James Bond, we cannot stop speculating about the next 007, you know, the one that is, like, five years from being a real thing. To that end, Richard Madden is British GQ’s January By Sarah • Nov 30, 2018 10:26 am
TV Updates Awkwafina’s own show Awkwafina has had a big year, with Ocean’s 8, Crazy Rich Asians, an EP (In Fina We Trust), and hosting SNL, the iHeartRadio MMVAs, and the Hollywood Film Awards. And now, to cap it off, comes the announcement that Awkwafina will star in her own comedy series on Comedy By Sarah • Nov 29, 2018 03:18 pm
Business of Hollywood Tech is either saving or killing movies Depending on who you talk to, tech companies investing in and/or partnering with film companies is either the end of cinema as we know it or the savior of the mid-budget movie. We still haven’t decided whether or not something shown on Netflix qualifies as a movie, so By Sarah • Nov 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Green Book’s precarious Oscar position Back in September, Green Book won the audience award at TIFF. This set it up as an Oscar front-runner, and it seemed like an inevitable Best Picture nominee. It’s a middle-of-the-road movie about race made to make white people feel good, a la Driving Miss Daisy, The Blind Side, By Sarah • Nov 28, 2018 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood (Lainey: The headlines about Robin Hood aren’t great. Forbes calls it the “most predictable box office bomb” of the year. The Telegraph says it’s the “biggest box office bomb since Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur”. According to Business Insider, it’s the “biggest box office bomb of the By Sarah • Nov 27, 2018 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman, Weisz, and Stone in The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos is not interested in teaching a history lesson, so The Favourite is an historical drama heavier on drama than historicity. Telling the story of Queen Anne, Sarah Marlborough, and Abigail Hill, The Favourite takes a series of events and bends and twists them into a tale of power, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lion King is coming for our money Disney already gets most of our money, what with Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and their revolving door of animated classics being turned into live action films. This year alone they’ve taken $4 billion off us with just Marvel and Pixar. But that’s not enough. It will never be By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 10:40 am
