I don’t want to be your token crazed liberal arts millennial, but the fact is that if Steven Spielberg had criticized Natalie Portman’s Golden Globes comment about the “all-male nominees” for best director, I would have have built a model of E.T. and burned it in effigy, and I would have demanded that you do…
Almost exactly one year after the historic Women’s March on Washington, DC, the most powerful women in Hollywood gathered for a much more extravagant event that sent the same powerful message: Time’s Up. The slogan, which is also the name of a legal defense fund and initiative intent on applying the momentum for gender equality…
The 2018 Golden Globe Awards were a tremendous show of force (by Hollywood standards, at least) in support of women and sexually disenfranchised people. Tinseltown’s luminaries wore all black to protest sexual harassment in the industry, and some nominees brought feminist organizers as their plus-ones. The movies that took home the awards for best drama…
Natalie Portman, resplendent in a decadent velvet gown and her signature face-that-looks-like-it-was-personally-architected-by-God, almost made a huge mistake at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards. She followed Oprah. After Oprah Winfrey’s exceptionally barn-burning acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a speech that brought the entirety of the Hollywood glitterati to its feet with an evangelical…
It’s officially movie awards season: The Golden Globes, the first major film and television awards show of the year, will take place on Sunday January 7. Catch up on the nominees you’ve missed this weekend, and read on for this past week’s most important movie news. 1) What does “Fargo” have to do with President…
“The Post,” the Steven Spielberg-directed account of The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, is one the most-nominated films for the 2018 Golden Globes. With six nominations, “The Post” came in a close second to Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which won seven nominations. “Call Me By Your Name,” the much-heralded…
The Golden Globes aired last night, and there were plenty of juicy, poignant and altogether unexpected moments to go around. From Meryl Streep’s shout-out to Natalie Portman’s roots to Carrie Fisher tributes, we’re breaking down all of the night’s best Jewish moments. The ceremony paid an unprecedented homage to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. The…
Actress Meryl Streep turned a Golden Globe acceptance speech into a scathing attack on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying she had been heartbroken by his imitation of a disabled reporter during his campaign. “There was one performance this year that stunned me,” Streep, 67, said as she was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime…
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