Note:  All times PST 5:01PM:  Wasting no time, here’s Ricky Gervais with his first monologue since the very different world of 2016.  5:02PM:  Not exactly testing the limits with jokes about “Wild Hogs” and Joe Pesci whacking people. 5:05PM:  The crowd hasn’t had enough to drink yet to even pretend this monologue is funny. […]

6:30 We’ve arrived at that strangest phenomenon of awards season, the night when we collectively grant the 88 nonentities of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (none of them filmmakers, many of them not even critics, and some of them of dubious principle) meaningful sway over the Academy Awards.  That will be even more true this […]

  It’s not hyperbole to say that the stakes are higher for tonight’s GOLDEN GLOBES than they’ve ever been before.  On the awards front, a full set of wide-open Oscar races means that most Globe winners will become instant Academy Awards favorites.  Meanwhile, on the broader level, the Globes will be Hollywood’s first major awards […]

  There probably isn’t a single nominee at tonight’s GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS who could name 5 of the foreign journalists (and that term is used loosely) who vote for the prizes, but nevertheless the show has become one of the key precursors–certainly the most glamorous–to the Oscars.  On the TV side, the Gloves have shown a […]

  This year’s GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS should be even more interesting than usual.  On the Film side, although there are favorites in most major categories (Boyhood, Birdman, Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, Patricia Arquette, J.K. Simmons), none of them seems invulnerable, and while a win tonight won’t affect the Oscar nominations–those votes are already cast–it […]

  As we did on the movie side, here’s a quick look at today’s major Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe nominees in TV and some early thoughts.  Mostly, as is the case with any TV awards these days, the Golden Globe lists are proof that with the current flood of quality shows on a […]

  Although it’s always worth remembering that the Golden Globes are awarded by the few dozen foreign journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (and in many cases that should be phrased as “journalists:”) whose opinions would mean absolutely nothing if they didn’t have a nationally televised TV show to present their picks, the fact is that the Globes have become […]

  If it had happened, losing the Best Drama award at last night’s Golden Globes might have been the best thing that could have happened to 12 YEARS A SLAVE–while winning the award in the way that it actually did helped the film very little, if at all. Bear with me here. Remember last year, […]