Can you name a situation in which Hollywood provides women with the same level of major career opportunities that it does for men?

I believe he also still tests very well with foreign markets, which may explain his enduring bloated paycheques. Well, that and the whole being a rich white dude in Hollywood thing.

That and The Founder, the Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc of McDonalds fame movie I keep forgetting is coming out. I just don't see Harvey pulling this one out of the bag, not in a year with A24 dominating the indie game and a roster of critically adored films that are inspiring more devotion than Lion. I'm hoping Patel…

Well, Weinstein is hoping it's the sleeper hit of the season. Word around The Weinstein Company is not good and he's in dire need of an awards hit, if not a real commercial success.

I'm eager to see Dev Patel in a leading role with real substance. As he's discussed before, Indian actors don't tend to get their pick of the crop in Hollywood projects, and he's too good to be left in bit parts.

Don't tell the organisers that. They seem to get a bit peeved when people actively want to win the award, like when Alastair Campbell essentially campaigned for it. I guess it is more fun when the winners are horrified and not in on the joke. Hi, Morrissey!

The book itself, which I'm currently reading, is actually pretty good. Ellis has raw talent but she's just a bit too heavy handed with the metaphors. Classic over-enthusiastic creative writing student mistake.

I doubt any of the nominees this year will top previous winner Tom Wolfe's effort in I Am Charlotte Simmons:

Arrival all the way. Far better role and performance in a superior movie.

It's easily his best performance. He's slimy and genuinely threatening in his hillbilly theatricality.

In fairness, a bunch of really great actors turn up - Linney, Jena Malone, Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough - and get basically nothing to do. The only roles of note in the film are Shannon, Taylor-Johnson and Gyllenhaal, who are all in the other storyline.

And a total waste of Adams too.

I generally enjoyed the film but the attempt to balance the two storylines felt like Ford read the "style over substance" criticisms of his last film and saw this as an opportunity to play around with that, but it didn't work. The opening credits alone kill that. The book segments are great and Shannon is predictably…

It's a double edged sword - they've got the money, audience and certainty of profit that allows them to be as adventurous and strange as they want, but they've also got a brand and those well loved images to maintain.

If the Prince is just Dan Stevens in The Guest, that would greatly improve things.

Between Deep Water Horizon and this, the entire "Mark Wahlberg saves the world" thing feels like an overplayed South Park joke.

It looks pretty enough, but nothing feels like it has any real weight, and Watson's acting still leaves much to be desired. At least Ewan Mcregor sounds less Mexican in this trailer?

I'm so taken with the mental image of Jared Harris as Dumbledore that any other choice made will just disappoint.

The Devil Wears Prada.

That's a fun one on catch on TV at 2 in the morning.