Hollywood hits
Celebrities pick their favourite movies and TV shows of 2018.
WE reached out to the stars and creators behind the things you love to find out a few of their favourite things from this past year.
Bradley Cooper
(A Star Is Born)
Movie: Roma, Green Book
“I loved Roma .Ijustsaw Green Book. I loved that. I haven’t seen much but those were great.”
Henry Golding
(Crazy Rich Asians)
Movie: Sicario: Day Of The Soldado
“Sicario 1 was phenomenal. Sicario 2 was even better. Benicio Del Toro can do no wrong in my eyes.”
TV Show: The Bodyguard
“I’ve been really enjoying The Bodyguard. We sat on the couch and watched it and were riveted from episode one onward.”
Barry Jenkins
(If Beale Street Could
Talk)
Movie: Roma
“I’ve always known who Alfonso Cuaron is, anyone who went to film school in the last 20 years knows who he is. To see somebody who can make Gravity on such a large scale, apply that same aesthetic to a very intimate story. And to a story that’s about his home country, his home life. That’s what cinema should be. He’s acquired all these tools making these massive films, and then he uses those same tools to tell another massive film, but it’s massive here (points to heart) and not on the moon or in outer space.”
Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh
(Crazy Rich
Asians)
TV Show: Killing Eve
“(Because of ) Sandra Oh, and it’s so good, it’s so real. It doesn’t explain why an Asian woman is in that role, she just is. I thought that was very empowering.”
Zachary Levi
(The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel)
TV Show: Patriot
“I’m very much looking forward to Patriot Season Two. I genuinely loved the first season. It’s like the movie In Bruges, but as a series. In Bruges was so weird and different. I’m not even sure that I liked the movie the first time that I saw it and then I watched it again, and I was like, ‘I really like this movie. It’s so different,’ and I applaud people trying to do something different – and then Patriot just took that to a whole new level. The writing and the performances and the direction are so great. I do appreciate a show that’s just 10 episodes and I can binge the hell out of it.”
Kieran Culkin (Succession)
Movie: Black Panther
“I’m a huge fan of the MCU, and I think that movie and both Infinity War, were incredible. I think it’s great that a movie like that can actually be acknowledged for what it is. Those movies have been overlooked for a long time. There’s a lot that Marvel has done that has actually been fantastic, and people put it in the category of ‘superhero movie’ instead of acknowledging what they’ve been doing for the past 20 movies. So it’s great to see that happening.”
Guilty Pleasure :WWE
“For the last 30 years, or so, I’ve been watching WWE. Monday Night Raw, Smackdown and then all the big events Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania. I’ve been to, I think, nine Wrestlemanias at this point. My wife, unfortunately for her, has been to about five or six of them with me. Poor thing, she puts up with it. That would be, I guess, my guilty pleasure but I just don’t care anymore. It’s just a real pleasure to watch wrestling and go to Wrestlemania.”
Dan Levy
(Schitt’s Creek)
Movie: A Star Is Born
“It was such a big, shiny wonderful movie. And I just ate it up.”
TV Show: The Americans, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
“I thought the performances (on The Americans) were incredible. It was just a brilliant show. I just got into Maisel and that is such a special show.”
Andrew Rannells
(Big Mouth,
Black Monday)
TV Show: Homecoming
“I loved that it was such a beautiful drama but also in a half hour format, which is something I had not seen before. I thought the cinematography was really beautiful and the whole Hitchcockian tone of it. It was also just exciting to see that much of Julia Roberts again. To get to watch her for five hours is really fun. And Bobby Cannavale is always amazing. I really loved that.”
Lauren Ash (Superstore)
Movie: Crazy Rich Asians
“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a big budget blockbuster romcom. To see one now that also is celebrating an amazing world that we’ve never seen in film before, I mean, what more do you want?”
TV Show/Guilty Pleasure: 90 Day Fiance
“90 days is the best season of reality television ever made. Come at me. It really is compelling.” – Reuters