Happy Oscars-Shabbat! Hold on to your hats — here are all the Jewish people and Jew-ish movies that will be competing for Academy Awards in major categories this Sunday. BEST PICTURE “Black Panther” The nod for the cutting-edge Marvel movie is a huge moment for Black representation, and a credit to our non-Jewish friend, director…
After a serious misstep when intended 2019 Oscar host Kevin Hart was found to have made significant homophobic remarks in the past, this year’s Academy Awards will officially not have a host, Variety reports. Instead, the usual coterie of top stars will introduce individual segme — OH PLEASE. You’re telling me our girl Tiffany Haddish,…
On December 18 The Academy Awards announced its shortlist for some of the ceremony’s smaller categories. Jews are well represented in the Best Documentary Feature category. Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg film “RBG” made the list alongside Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers,” which told the bombshell story of Jewish triplets separated at…
Kevin Hart has stepped down as this year’s Oscar Host, fewer than 24 hours after the announcement that he’d been given the gig. In the thrillingly stupid time that lapsed between the announcement and the denouement, savvy Googlers discovered enthusiastically homophobic comments Hart made in tweets and while performing standup early in his career. Hart…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally intimidated by Natalie Portman. via GIPHY It’s hard to talk about the way female celebrities’ appearances affect their young fans without either blaming a woman for the work of a larger system or blaming the larger system, and snatching away the woman’s very agency. But, come on,…
In a moment of live television that was somehow both shocking and predictable, an Emmy award winner used his 37 seconds of speech time to propose marriage. Three-time director of the Academy Award ceremony Glenn Weiss paused the entire 2018 Emmy Award ceremony on Monday night when he took the stage to accept the award…
One of our most loved and adored young Jewish actors, Timothée Chalamet, is in talks to star in “Legendary” entertainment’s next big project, “Dune”. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the upcoming film is based on Frank Herbert’s novel “Dune,” both a gripping family drama and a sci-fi tale fitting for the maker of “Bladrunner 2049.” Published…
What is the biggest criticism of #MeToo, the social movement that has swept America since the Harvey Weinstein revelations in 2017, encouraging women to speak out about their experiences with sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct? Not enough due process. Of course, all of us would rather be tried by a judge and a jury than…
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