How to Watch the 2025 Oscars Online

Anything could happen the night of the 2025 Oscars—with key races, like Best Picture, lacking formidable front-runners going into the 97th Academy Awards. The movies featured at the ceremony this year range from crowd-pleasing blockbusters, like Wicked and Dune: Part Two, to more niche, critical darlings, like Nickel Boys and I’m Still Here. Hosted by […]

Where to Watch Golden Globes 2025: How to Livestream

With a new year comes the arrival of Moira Rose’s favorite season—and the first major awards show of it. The Golden Globes 2025, a Champagne-soaked soiree honoring the year’s best film and TV, air on Sunday, January 5. As for where to watch the Golden Globes 2025? The event will premiere live on CBS for […]

How to write a holiday rom-com for TV, according to the experts

Have you ever watched a holiday rom-com on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime — or any of the other many networks and streamers that now air them — and thought, “I could write that”? It’s harder than you may think — but just as fun. Regular writers of Christmas fare for Hallmark Channel, Great American Family […]

Commentary: How to speak to Grandma before her language dies

HOKKIEN, TEOCHEW ARE LANGUAGES, NOT DIALECTS Linguistically, dialects are variants of a single language, of which when spoken by different dialect speakers, would still be mutually intelligible. British, American and Australian English can be considered dialects of English, because speakers of these dialects would sound different, but still can comprehend one another. We certainly cannot […]

I guess I learned how to appreciate The Phantom Menace

More than anything, Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace is a fascinating cultural object. It’s been 25 years since I saw the film in theaters, and over a decade since I last rewatched it (in a vain attempt to help my Trekkie wife catch up to the prequels). I’ve had enough time to […]

How to Watch the Oscars 2024: Live Stream, TV & More

Presenters for this year’s Oscars include Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy, John Mulaney, Bad Bunny, Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton; 2023 winners Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis; past Oscar winners Regina King, Lupita Nyong’o, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew McConaughey, Nicolas Cage, Ben […]

2024 Oscars: Show time, channel and how to watch live

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s the Oscars’ time to shine. After an abnormally packed awards season that included the Emmys, Grammys, Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTAs and Golden Globes, the Academy Awards will hand out filmmaking’s top honor in 23 categories. Even in its 96th year, the Oscars are finding ways to reinvent itself, with […]

If ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Best Picture, This Will Be Why

Oscar night, 2006. I still feel foolish about it. The award for Best Picture was widely assumed to be a two-horse race between Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee’s devastating neo-Western about a pair of gay cowboys and their doomed love affair, and Crash, a tapestry of intersecting stories about race and reconciliation in modern-day Los Angeles. […]

Oscars 2024: How to Watch, When Is It, Nominated Movies

Even though the 2024 Oscars ceremony does not have the same cultural impact the awards show had during its peak viewership decades ago, actors, filmmakers, and anyone involved with the moviemaking business still yearn to win one of those golden statues handed out Sunday night. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 96th Academy Awards will take […]