The oppressive ugliness of the Saw franchise was, for an ever-diminishing core fanbase, its USP – the dank nastiness of both its hard-to-stomach gore and bleak descent-into-hell worldview giving the series a distinctive odour. For those less invested, there was still something compellingly loopy, and often genuinely surprising, about its serpentine plotting, each film admirably committed to a...
Will Smith hitting comedian Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars proved to be the most-talked about moment of the night. The King Richard star, who won the Oscar for Best Actor around 15 minutes after the altercation, took issue with a joke Rock made about his wife, fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith. Rock was onstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to present the award for Best Documentary when he...
Will Smith left the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in the path of his onstage assault on Chris Rock during last Sunday’s 94th Oscars. In a statement received by Variety on Friday, Smith called his actions during the tradition’ shocking, painful and inexcusable,’ adding that he would take any other consequences given by the Academy’s Board of Governors...