The Oscar noms are out but does anyone care?
The Academy Awards have come to matter less
Hollywood
Wednesday
Friday
Hollywood awards shows have become boring
Let’s just hope Spider-Man doesn’t sweep all the Oscars and Golden Globes — then we’ll know we’re in real trouble.
Sunday
Sidney Poitier refused to be defined by race
The Old Hollywood great once declared, ‘I am artist, man, American, contemporary’
Monday
Seventy-five years of It’s a Wonderful Life
In George Bailey, we see our own fathers, our own brothers and husbands and sons
Wednesday
The return of the brilliant Nicolas Cage
He’s one of our most talented actors, elevating even the most awful of scripts
Wednesday
Stillwater and the rise of the blue-collar American in Hollywood
The movie humanizes the camo-hat and cutoff shirt-wearing segment of America while still telling an entertaining story
Sunday
Fatty Arbuckle’s fall
Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture
Monday
Hollywood’s vacuous moral turn
Black Widow, Luca and Nomadland are films for decaffeinated protesters
Tuesday
I was fathernapped
Someone couldn’t seriously have called the police and told them I was a threat to my children
Wednesday
John Cena’s car-crash Taiwan apology
‘You can’t CCP me’
Tuesday
How COVID-19 killed Hollywood
The pandemic has sped up the decline of glitzy award ceremonies
Monday
Sundance memories
Robert Redford’s film festival goes virtual
Wednesday
Here’s looking at you, Kid
One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick
Tuesday
No, Meghan Markle isn’t going to be president
The more people see her, the less they like
Monday
Terry O’Neill: ‘Hollywood is lonely’
He was one of Britain’s greatest portrait photographers, possibly the greatest
Wednesday
Hollywood’s transrace hypocrisy
The Academy Awards are making America look stupid in front of the entire world
Tuesday
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
She was not an anti-communist in spite of being a liberal, she was an anti-communist because she was a liberal
Monday
Where can patriotic Americans find America?
It is hard to identify safe spaces for those of us on the American right
Thursday
It’s OK everyone, actors are ‘taking responsibility’
Let’s all be grateful to these very rich, very famous people
Friday
Harry and Meghan represent the triumph of celebrity over royalty
We treat the royal family like Hollywood stars but get offended if they behave like them
