125 stories by "Hunter Harris"
For months now, I have repeatedly issued a few humble requests to actor/Lady Bird stan/A Star Is Born director Bradley Cooper, mostly via Vulture dot com, and my own personal Twitter: What h…
In a pivot to utter humility, beard-growth, and softness, actor, director, and Lady Bird stan Bradley Cooper sat down with Oprah on Tuesday afternoon for a SuperSoul Conversation. Among Coop…
As the Oscars continue to lose its freaking mind right before our very eyes, a benevolent goddess has apparently arrived to right at least one of its wrongs: Deadline is reporting that the A…
Bradley Cooper's physical transformation for A Star Is Born rivaled " nay, eclipsed! " Christian Bale's for Vice. To play the jaded, addicted country rockstar Jackson Maine, Cooper added amb…
Glenn Close is the front-runner in the Best Actress Oscar race for playing a wife whose writing talent is overlooked in favor of her award-winning husband's. After picking up a SAG award for…
A documentary about child sex-abuse allegations against Michael Jackson premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Friday morning and it is already causing controversy. Leaving Neverland, direc…
Ally Campana is just a cater waiter moonlighting as a singer-songwriter when country singer Jackson Maine quite literally stumbles upon her in A Star Is Born: He's at a drag bar trying to ge…
Part of the challenge " and brilliance " of A Star Is Born was the creation of two musicians with clear, distinct visions and voices. Ally isn't just a collection of Lady Gaga B-sides, she's…
When Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham accepted the National Board of Review award for Best Directorial Debut, he thanked an unlikely competitor in his speech: "I'd like to thank Bradley Coop…
A Star Is Born, yes, but a director with double DGA nominations has been born, too! The Directors Guild of America has announced nominations for the 2019 awards, and Bradley Cooper (with no …
Ethan Hawke didn't just stride onto the Late Show's set Monday night to talk the Broadway revival of True West with Stephen Colbert " he moonwalked! "Wow! You are a well of hidden talents, E…
When the cast of If Beale Street Could Talk gathered onstage at the Apollo Theater for the movie's U.S. premiere in October, the dozen or so actors spoke reverently of James Baldwin " the mo…
In the run-up to the Oscars, the SAG Awards are one of award season's most important nights. ("SAG" stands for "Screen Actors Guild," and stunningly not "Snatch Awards, Gaga.") The guild has…
As the Oscar race is heating up, Bradley Cooper " writer, director, and star of A Star Is Born, the most important movie to ever exist about electrical-tape eyebrows and the word "fuck" " ha…
Awards season formally began at last night's Gotham Awards, and it barrels on: The National Board of Review announced its 2018 winners Tuesday morning. Green Book, a buddy comedy about maste…
More than once, since Daniel Kaluuya broke out into the mainstream with Get Out, I have sat at my desk " or on the train, or in a movie theater, or stared aimlessly into my refrigerator " th…
Jackson Maine might have been unimpressed with the "butt song" that Ally sings in A Star Is Born, but Bradley Cooper is willing to put some respeck on those sellout bops. When Variety asked …
This post has been updated throughout with even more Star Is Born compliments from Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, and me, Hunter Harris.If 2018 has given us one blessing, it is the knowledge tha…
Much hay has been made of Ally's sellout bops, the Star Is Born"loving internet's affectionate pet name for the pop songs that Ally (Lady Gaga) releases as a rising mainstream star (much to …
Spoilers for A Star Is Born's romantic climax follow.After a bender in Memphis, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) spend time at his friend Noodles's (Dave Chappelle…
A Star Is Born is a movie you can't help but want to take another look at. As is perhaps proven by the film's strong box-office hold, Bradley Cooper's musical melodrama has been attracting d…
Butt song, snubbed! Warner Bros. has announced who and what will be competing for Oscars on behalf of a A Star Is Born. Everything shakes out as expected " Bradley Cooper for best director, …
About halfway through The Lifespan of a Fact, Daniel Radcliffe's overeager, Harvard-educated magazine fact-checker is shooed away while his editor (Cherry Jones) sits in a living room poring…
It takes two hours and 14 minutes for Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) to be born in A Star Is Born, but only one scene for another star to crown: "Hi Ally, I'm Gail!" Rebecca Field says, popping up…
The first thing I noticed about Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born was how perfectly the stage lights complimented the caramel highlights in his greasy hair. The second thing I noticed about B…