| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hey, movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger. | | Of this week's new releases, I'm most partial to "Widows," the new heist film from the "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen, which is crackling with intelligence and packed with genre thrills. Still, there is a lot out there to choose from: You've got two crowd-pleasers with the Oscar-tipped "Green Book," starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, as well as the Mark Wahlberg comedy "Instant Family." Harry Potter fans may brave "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," while the art-house crowd can check out Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in "At Eternity's Gate." | | This week would normally be one of the busiest in Hollywood, as many stars are in town for AFI Fest and this Sunday brings the Governors Awards, a ceremony that allows this year's most trumpeted contenders to get some schmooze time in with a ballroom full of Academy voters. But with wildfires continuing to rage in California, and many in Hollywood affected, the mood is muted. The red carpets were scuttled for many AFI Fest premieres, though the after-parties, by and large, went on as scheduled. | | The most prominent cancellation came when Universal thought better of a splashy Griffith Park Observatory fete for "First Man," which was supposed to happen last night. The event would have given Damien Chazelle's space drama a welcome lift after several slow weeks at the box office, but with smoke still hanging in the air, it would have been hard to look down at the embattled Southern California landscape from that rarefied perch on the hill. The party was canceled, though I'm sure I'll see the film's stars at the Governors Awards, regardless. | | |
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