(224) Leo, it is time + links

So yesterday someone was all like hey, why do you ladies even need ovaries in the first place? and released this shit all over the web.

Leaving aside the fact this probably just incorporated Children of Men scenario into real world, let's just ask one question -

just how irresponsible is Tom Hardy, really? Walking around, with some sort of belt covering his dick, carrying a spear, playing a savage? Who then goes to England and wears a suit?

My God, man. My God.

It's Tom Hardy Watch 2016 for me this Sunday which means I'm gonna have to do what I never do - watch garbage press people harass celebrities aka red carpet. But I need to watch it to see if Tom is there. And then have a melt down all over my twitter. I know how much some of you are looking forward to my drunken, batshit insane live-tweeting. Oh yeah. It's happening again this year.

And again, for absolutely no other reason other than I want to, here is the picture of Harrison playing tennis shirtless, because as we established - ovaries, gone.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are now 2 days away from witnessing Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar

Maybe indeed anything is possible. I mean this is definitely gonna happen.

What else can happen? Can we finally get a time machine that can take me back to the 80s? Or alternatively - can Harrison Ford ride in front of my building on a white horse? Or fly in his jet? Or fly on his angel wings? You know....to cheer me up?

The means of transportation are really not important here.

And it would be good timing too as I had a horrible week work-wise and had to smile through all of it and I was essentially a cross between Chris Traeger during Leslie's trial and Clooney's character in Intolerable Cruelty.

That should be the title of my autobiography, by the way.

Still the humor was pretty strong in me this week - I think this is really clever.

Also I offered Harrison a safe haven in case Trump gets elected.

But back to our dear Leo - I imagine this whole week he had Thursday face on. Just sitting there, waiting. Possibly adding in all that bullshit about how The Revenant brings awareness to what was done to the natives to his speech.

Oh God. The Internet will go wild. Kate Winslet is probably going to faint.

The memes will end. But the new ones will start. Because I cannot believe the man is winning for throwing himself in the mud in some forest and moaning like he was insane. I just cannot believe he did it, they shot it, the studio released it and people actually thought it was good and it may win BP.

But Leo is good people. He deserves it.

Meanwhile, this year the Academy was relentless in their efforts to ruin this season for everybody. I mean I genuinely think they are trying their hardest to come off as the worst people on the planet. Or at the very least - the dumbest.

They are now letting only 3 out of 5 artists perform the nominated songs. The most famous ones which sadly includes the one sounding like the dying cat parade. One of the performers who is not gonna sing is a transgender person so seriously the Academy is basically just fucking themselves all over again.

And what the fuck is Dave Grohl even be doing there?

Also this comment I found on one of the movie boards - "I defended the Academy when they were racists, but I cannot defend this. This is bullsh_t." - absolute gold.

Seriously this is one ugly Oscar season. Let's thank OscarSoWhite backlash people for that. I mean...I am not ruling out Jada Pinket Smith throwing a bucket of pig's blood on Leo on Sunday.

I am serious.

Two weeks ago I ranted at length about people discriminating against younger woman/older man relationships. It apparently is an issue even when the involved are themselves very young people - Henry Cavill, 32, is dating a chick who is 19 and he is getting tons of hate for it on the Internet. Yes she is 19 but come on, 19 is an adult. I know that America is a sick country where 21 is considered an adult, but that is their deal. Leaving aside the fact that in that Elle magazine interview Cavill comes off as a total asshole for other reasons, you wanna tell me there is some harm coming to this girl that she is doing him? I'm fairly certain every single nineteen year old out there would trade with her. And let's not bring the issue of age here because if you read this interview Cavill comes off as a less mature than an average nineteen year old girl and that is saying something. So no one is getting hurt there, people.

Speaking of Cavill, apparently Justice League movie is still going ahead and they are starting shooting this April. I still think Batman v Superman movie looks so bad, except for Affleck. I found this picture and I think this is pretty accurate depiction of Affleck and Snyder watching the footage - the disgust and shock of an actor vs the blind joy of an awful director, respectively.

Just last week I was wondering what the hell is going on with Sharp Objects adaptation and it is finally gaining some speed. Amy Adamswill play the lead in TV adaptation with Dallas Buyers Club director behind the camera. I pictured Rebecca Ferguson or Rebecca Hal for Camille, given that I think she is in her early thirties. Adams is 41 years old, she looks younger but it's not an ideal casting. She is way too innocent to play someone who is as fucked up as Camille. She would have to mix up her highest shady moments from The Master and messiest ones from other performances (does she even has any where she plays someone who is deeply depressed and feels empty?). I just cannot imagine this cheerleader playing a dark soul like Camille - Ferguson, Hall or even Emily Blunt have this cloud of mystery around them, Adams never had it. They can still make good adaptation here, because the part of the mother in the story is so juicy and there is a perfect actress out there who could play her - Michelle Pfeiffer. I so hope she gets cast here.

Rosamund Pike is majorly channeling Isabelle Adjani in Possession here:

American Crime Story was very good this week. Travolta is just so damn entertaining to watch. This and Entourage is literally all I've been watching lately, I really need to find time, somewhere to see an actual movie next week.

m.brown wrote a hysterical review of The Witch

and Brittani also didn't hate the film so that's great

Ruth reviews Trumbo and Hail, Caesar!

Andrew shares his thoughts on news from this week and again I have a meltdown in his comment section about the monstrosity known as Blade Runner sequel

Kevin and Josh share their Oscar predictions

Courtney shares her top 10 movies from 2015 along with some OscarsSoWhite thoughts

In his In Character series Alex features the great John Goodman

and finally Nick wrote a fantastic piece on Leo's career and acclaimed roles and gave praise to his Blood Diamond performance which I don't see enough - it's such a great work from Leo.