| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hey, movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger. | | It's been a crazy week for plugged-in movie fans, and we'll get to that in a moment. But first, let's discuss what you might be able to go see this weekend… there's "Ben Is Back," starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges in a story of a recovering addict who surprises his family over the fraught Christmas holiday, "Mary Queen of Scots," where Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie play well-matched royal rivals, and "Vox Lux," which stars Natalie Portman and charts pop careers and senseless massacres in equal measure. | | Okay, now that we've dispensed with all that, can we talk about this crazy week of award-season ups and downs? It was one thing that we got the Golden Globe nominations, which were close enough to hitting the mark to make their weird snubs (no "Widows" in Best Drama or "If Beale Street Could Talk" in Best Score?) all the more galling. But in addition to that, we had to deal with the briefest, wildest Oscar hosting stint I can remember. | | On Tuesday night, just before I took the stage in Santa Monica with Wesley Morris, A.O. Scott, and Aisha Harris to talk year-end movies at an event with Times readers, Kevin Hart was announced as the host of the Oscars. Then last night, as Wesley and A.O. hosted a different event to tout their selected great performances of the year, the news broke that Hart was out after refusing to apologize for homophobic tweets he had made several years ago. | | What a messy Oscar year! Between this and that scuttled best popular film prize, it feels like the Academy can't stop fumbling. All this, and it's still more than a month before we even get this year's Oscar nominations. Hopefully, they'll get that right at least. | | |
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