Oscars
Glenn Close Doing ‘Da Butt’ At The Oscars Was All Scripted In Advance
At the otherwise most boring Academy Awards ever Sunday night, eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close seemingly stole the show with an encyclopedic knowledge of 1988-era R&B/funk music, and ass-shaking dance move stylings one would not expect of a 74-year-old woman. During a quiz-show segment, actor Lil Rel Howery popped Oscar
The 7 Best Oscars Watching Parties In San Francisco And Oakland
The “Gay Super Bowl” is just one week after the real Super Bowl this year, and maybe your invtation to the Vanity Fair party got lost in the mail. So if you’re still looking for a kick-ass, glam Oscars party, then the winner is…. You! Because here are the coolest
This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco
I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available
The Real-Life Diamond Industry is a Corrupt Sham Too
by Kate Brunotts Everyone seems to be talking about the Safdie brothers’ latest film “Uncut Gems” and how it was overwhelmingly snubbed in the 2020 Oscar nominations. The film, notably starring Adam Sandler in a non-comedic role, follows the chaotic life of a fictional player in 2012’s New York Diamond
We Need to Support Female Directors if Hollywood Won’t
by Jonas Barnes It’s awards season! You know what that means, right? It means our television and computer screens will be covered in a bukkake of celebrity news for the foreseeable future up until the big show! It also means that we will be reminded of films in 2019 that
La La Land Wins…wait…nevermind. Moonlight wins best picture!
I never watch awards shows. Never. My spouse and my in-laws watch that shit on the reg. But, I have never invested any time or effort into watching awards shows because if the award ain’t going to me, what’s the point? This year I had a special interest in the
Oscar Nominated Films You Should Know
No matter if you’re a film junkie, indie elitist or you cling onto every review from Rotten Tomatoes, you’ll either watch the Oscars or hear endlessly about who won what. Cinema has been everything from entertainment to an escape for millions of movie-goers for over 100 years. Whether your preference
“An African City’s” Nana Mensah Talks Diversity, Style, and What it Takes to be an Actor
Working actor” is not a term that many understand. When you say the word “actor,” people picture Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts. But an actor’s success isn’t determined by their level of celebrity, but by the integrity of their work. Many wouldn’t know the names of thousands of working
The 7 Best Dressed Oscars of All Time
The Oscars were on Sunday, and it wasn’t just a celebration of great acting and films but all the red carpet broadcasting makes the fashion just as important. If you took a drink every time you heard ‘Who are you wearing?’ you would have been deader than a George R.R. Martin character.