Posted on February 27, 2017 at 12:11 am
Nice work, Oscars! Except for that weird fake-out at the very end. The show started off with Justin Timberlake’s terrific performance of his nominated song, a burst of jubilant celebration that set the tone. Jimmy Kimmel was a fine host, with a self-deprecating reminder that this was his first-ever time at the Oscars and, given …
Posted on February 26, 2017 at 4:01 pm
I love the Spirit Awards (formerly Independent Spirit), given out the night before the Oscars for the best of the year’s independent films. These are movies made with more passion than money, and the award ceremony, on the beach, is always casual and a bit subversive, but always very sincere. I am proud to be …
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Posted on February 26, 2017 at 3:54 pm
Each year at Oscar time the Golden Raspberry Awards (the Razzies) pay “tribute” to the worst films of the year. The big “winner” this year was “Hillary’s America,” an anti-Hillary Clinton “documentary” from Dinesh D’Souza, who was awarded Razzies for worst film, worst director, and worst actress for the woman who portrayed the former first …
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Posted on February 25, 2017 at 3:55 pm
“When We Rise” was written and created by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. This mini-series event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, from its turbulent infancy in …
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Posted on February 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Many thanks to my friends at Rogerebert.com for including me in their round-up of tributes to the people we’re rooting tomorrow night at the Oscars. I was thrilled to get a chance to write about Mahershala Ali’s performance in “Moonlight,” and I hope the Academy will recognize his superb performance. The all-star line-up writing about …
