Helen O'Hara
@HelenLOHara
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For film journalist work, please contact [email protected]. My book, Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise of Women In Film is now on sale.
Joined September 2008
An older man in a fancy blazer, sat next to me on the train, just leaned over and said, apropos of nothing, "Excuse me, is Oslo an interesting city to visit?" He's a spy and was attempting to identify his contact, right?.
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I’m staying at a fancy hotel. This is the carpet in the corridor. How worried should I be?
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Surprise plot twist for #AvengersEndgame: looks like Hela recovers from her slight case of death, defeats Thanos and turns the Infinity Stones into a dress.
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All these people saying that Noel Clarke is innocent until proven guilty are, of course, right on the law. But we as a public do not have to act like lawyers. We can wonder, hey, why would 20 people, with nothing to gain and quite a lot to lose, lie?.
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Imma be honest with you, I binged the whole season last week and am ready for a rewatch already. It made me feel like the films did, and I can't compliment it much more than that.
"If you’re a Tolkien fan, it’s hard to imagine what more you could possibly ask for.". The Lord Of The Rings: #TheRingsOfPower returns for Season 2 on Prime Video – streaming from Thurs 29 August. Read the ★★★★★ Empire review:
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Anyway if you're a spy disguised as someone scruffy and on the 14:22 from Charing Cross, your contact is looking for you. And the code word is NOT, "I'm afraid I've never been so I can't say".
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If I were Apple and owned Killers Of The Flower Moon, I would be looking at Oppenheimer's box office and making a big bet on wide advertising and screening of the new Martin Scorsese film.
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This is some horrifying War of the Worlds shit right here. We have got to start electing governments that actually fight climate change, above all, and start demanding more of ourselves and of companies that can change things.
Absolutely terrifying footage from a ferry carrying passengers escaping the shores of Lake Evia in #Greece.
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Thrilled to report that the fancy bathroom shop where I once saw the world's worst toilet has restocked them!
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Lovely to see the entire world united to slag off Boris Johnson and the only disagreement is whether he's a fucking idiot, a haunted haystack, an incompetent bastard, or all three.
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Tonight's #Godzilla screening had rows reserved for, I assume, celebs and influencers, and the number of phones on there *throughout* the movie was shocking. Whether you like the film or not (I was more up on it than some) there's such a thing as basic etiquette.
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I love that Sebastian Stan is like, "Let me take this perfect face and all this Marvel currency and use it to go off and play just the worst guys, just wall to wall scumbags and idiots only.".
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I'm launching a new "Fuck off with this shit" campaign.
Government launches new 'Get Ready for Brexit' campaign
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British news is covering the NRA response to Newtown and has had to clarify twice that what they're showing is not a spoof.
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I love how Frances McDormand can play any role except Woman Who Is Pleased To Be At Your Awards Show. #BAFTAs.
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"Men of quality do not fear equality" - excellent sign at #WomensMarch #LondonWomensMarch.
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Had a terrible accident earlier today where I tripped and fell into a cinema showing Avengers: Endgame and accidentally saw it again.
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Look, I'm not going to retweet the stupid Prince William/sexy/bald men survey but I'd like to introduce the voters to Stanley Tucci, Mike Coulter, the entire cast of Fast & Furious, Patrick Stewart and Mark freakin' Strong. No weak chinned royal is cracking the top 100.
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I reckon I'm pretty good at budgeting. I take public transport almost always, shop around for insurance etc and make food as much as possible. But you will pry my takeaway coffee from my cold, dead hands.
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I feel like Timothée Chalamet's gallantry in helping James Ivory onscreen has added another million to his fanbase. #BAFTAs.
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Christ no. I know I keep saying this, but let the dead rest, let aging stars age and let's actually nurture new talent. You don't get to complain about millennials saying they lack opportunity and then cast the dead in films instead of young people.
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Just to say, Boris Johnson absolutely does not deserve to be played by Kenneth Branagh. If they want to make a serious film about his government and its many failings, that role belongs to Mr Blobby.
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I am excited for Parasite and hope it wins the big categories. I hope Gerwig gets the Screenplay prize. I hope every single copy of Joker is accidentally sent to a landfill. Even the digital ones somehow. #oscars2020.
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RIP. Let's all try to sing along with one of his power ballads (and likely fail) today.
Meat Loaf, the American singer and actor, has died at the age of 74. He also appeared in over 65 movies, with iconic roles in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Fight Club," among others.
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Fuck Brexit. Fuck the Tories. Fuck the sinkhole of British politics and Labour being so shit they’re *still* behind in most polls. And fuck the tabloid lies that fuelled so much of this.
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Important journalism.
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Ok, this is ridiculous. Went to go to the gym this morning and there are two identically dressed little girls. Seriously, is this a Shining remake?
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And for those who claim that, gee, showbiz seems to be full of terrible people, please remember that showbiz gets reported on. Bob in the office does not. Paul at the local council does not. It doesn't remotely mean that it only happens in film.
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OK, so I am superstitious enough that I was not going to announce this until I had also finished writing it, but I guess I got scooped on that.
Here's some good news. The terrific Helen O'Hara, of Empire magazine, is penning a new book entitled Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise Of Women In Film - more details on it here.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the cover of #WomenVsHollywood! Clearly @LittleBrownUK has played a belter and I will have to ensure the insides live up to it. But I have been interviewing extraordinary women to give myself the best chance of doing so.
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@FoxKerfuffle1 I feel terribly foolish. I could be dangling off a balcony somewhere in Rio by now.
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Let's do international treasure Angela Lansbury the very great favour of ignoring her on this one.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??!?!!.
The winners of Best Live Podcast are:.Gold: The Empire Film Podcast - @empiremagazine.Silver: @nobodypanicpod.Bronze: @guiltfempod.#britpodawards
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Do these groupings have significance or are they as random as they seem? I MUST KNOW.
After a decade of unprecedented success, @MarvelStudios is at a pivotal moment: the looming farewell to some of its founding superheroes, and the rise of a new generation.
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They say the UK needs the royals for tourism but, like, if you get rid of them that actually opens up *more* palaces for visitors. Versailles still does pretty well! You don't need kings for tourism, just all their stuff.
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MY DEAR BOY WHY DON'T YOU JUST TRY ACTING?.
“I got scared for Jared,” #Morbius director Daniel Espinosa says of Leto. “He really commits. You have to watch out for it.” In a scene involving Morbius shattering glass, “I could sense the crew backed off,” Espinosa recalls. “It was a bit spooky.”
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Fuck white supremacists, the pathetic braindead loser shithead lunatic wanker babies who choose to believe the evil lies of madmen and build their lives on deliberate misreadings of history and reality. Fuck 'em all.
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The end of an era and a hugely sad day for film journalism in the UK. All my best to everyone there, this sucks.
Gladiator II is on the cover of Total Film’s upcoming issue 356, which hits print and digital newsstands on October 10. It’s with a heavy heart that we announce that this will be the final issue of the print magazine. We like to think that this final print edition is a showcase
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Just went on a date so bad it was kind of fun. He almost instantly revealed that he was a Brexiteer who believes in global warming but is fine with us going extinct because what else can we do? I started walking to a coffee shop; ended up leading us in a circle back to the tube.
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So I wrote this book and it’s out now. My author copy hasn’t arrived yet but hopefully it doesn’t suck too hard. Available here:
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Sometimes you really want to talk about a film but also can't be bothered with the absolute shitheads who'll bitch at you if you do.
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In extremely on-brand news, I reviewed #CaptainMarvel and liked it a lot. It takes a while to get started but it really works.
#CaptainMarvel has arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she’s not here to play. Read the Empire review:
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OK, I am hesitant to tell anyone this but I really must: I wrote a comic. A short 7-page story in this rather exciting collection, in fact. It's about a character called Thunderbolt the Avenger (no, not those ones). It is MAD to me that I was asked but also thrilling.
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Tom Cruise is older now than Maggie Smith was when she played Granny Wendy in Hook.
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@Tekkaman_Blade @bridgmandrew I think the point stands. It is the wrong character to be licensed that way.
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I have just finished proofing my book! My mum read it and thinks it's brilliant in her unbiased opinion, so really if you don't buy it you're calling my mum a liar, which is a bit rude and uncalled for. Geez. I think very highly of *your* mum.
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Panic when men comprise only 43% of a group; shrug it off as normal when men are the majority. Sheesh.
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This Batgirl news is appalling for all the cast and crew who worked hard on the film, and I hope for a swift U-turn by the studio. This ain't the way.
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War & Peace has too much farming. Shakespeare is, if anything, underrated and anyone who questions his authorship is a snob at heart. Stephen King is a genius. Terry Pratchett is at least as good as Dickens. Women write better sci-fi on average. More ppl should read Dan Simmons.
What’s your hottest literature take?.
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There should be a tradition where, at some point in the life of the chronically single, all the friends who got wedding and baby presents from them contribute to a really nice tomb fund or something.
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Hardly a day goes by that I don’t feel furious about Brexit. Today is no exception. A bunch of cynical politicians trying to cover their own arses while pursuing a policy they KNOW will be ruinous. Fuck em all.
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CHRIST people still talking about Marvel and Marty, please, I am begging you, just stop. Please. No more. I'll tell you whatever you want. The password is Blackbriar. The attack comes at dawn. The butler did it. I did it. I don't care.
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Fuck Brexit. Fuck the Tories. Fuck their attempts to fuck the constitution.
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Here's a minor film trope that needs to die: people around the world watch A Thing on TV. In India, it's a rickety set outdoors as barefoot kids run around. In China, it's a tiny shared TV in a cafe. Everywhere but the US, vast crowds surround one shitty set.
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I honestly thought that she would live forever. What a talent. What a force of nature.
Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89.
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I keep thinking about this, and thinking about the casting they'd have killed. Michael Keaton's Batman (too funny), Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (too tall) and Heath Ledger's Joker (too teen). They'd have put the X-Men in yellow Spandex and maybe killed the comic book movie at birth.
Studio marketing executives who talked with Variety agreed that the best defense against toxic fans is to avoid provoking them in the first place. In addition to standard focus group testing, studios will assemble a specialized cluster of superfans to assess possible marketing
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My favourite celebrity feud.
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It is FOUR WEEKS TODAY until my book, #WomenVsHollywood, hits shelves, and here is a *very* sexy video to show how close we are. You can pre-order here!
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It is not unreasonable for us to choose to take these allegations seriously, and come to our own conclusions, and that is not "cancel culture" or "trial by media". It's being a grown up in an imperfect world.
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Love that every woman in the audience laughed at Hugh Grant's Bridget Jones joke and every other man seemed a bit baffled. #BAFTAs.
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This nugget, from a Rings Of Power piece, may well be true for US viewers. Still, I feel like this summary of Sir Lenny Henry's career is cause for war.
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I am delighted Parasite won, because it is right and historic and the best nominee and also for this photo.
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The man-babies seem upset at #CaptainMarvel's failure to crash and burn this weekend. Anyway, in case any of you are out of loo roll here's the article that so upset this numpty.
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And I know every single financial advice column starts with "But that's £600 a year!" or whatever. GOOD. It is WORTH IT. I have coffee at home for very early mornings and back-up.
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Absolutely devastating news this morning. What a loss.
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@scottindeed Dammit, I could be hanging out with Steve Rogers, Stanley Tucci and Tommy Lee Jones right now!.
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@rob_hawkins Yes, I didn't get any creepy vibe at all so that's OK. It was just so odd. If he was trying to start a conversation there was zero follow-up when I said I'd never been.
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In this society, we love and respect Keanu Reeves. That's a fundamental rule. #thatVarietystory.
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Gosh, the tension before the season finale of The Book Of Boba Fett is intense. Can't wait to find out if he's in the episode!.
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Why would all these people create a wild conspiracy going back through years of corroborating evidence and testimony? What is in it for them, unless they were sincere? Why would so many people attack Clarke's career, especially if he is as good a guy as we all thought?.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: fuck Brexit. Fuck this horrendous Tory shitshow.
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Well she IS the best agent so that tracks.
Hayley Atwell joins Tom Cruise in next 'Mission: Impossible' movie
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This has been obvious for ever, of course, but here it's simply laid out for the people at the back.
This is the most chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December. By @AdamPosen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor
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Going on holiday with my pod-buddies. Have forgotten how to travel so just hoping we can navigate airports and ground transport and such.
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Cultural vandalism. Wildly disrespectful to creators and very bad for the business model long term.
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever. Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer. (Source:
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Muting that thread now because ye gods. Genuinely quite depressing to see how angry people get at the suggestion that we take women seriously, and how many are quick to call women liars.
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We, as individuals, don't have to withhold judgment forever. We can support victims even if our system will not. We can withhold our support from accused abusers even if the system allows them to continue.
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Actual Spike Lee just cycled past! Not creepy enough to grab a pic but please enjoy this nearby beach. (Oh, I'm in Cannes, hello).
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*hyperventilates* YOU GUYS LOOK THERE IS GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE.
Surprise! The original Broadway production of Hamilton, filmed LIVE onstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, is now coming exclusively to @DisneyPlus this July 3rd. Shout it to the rooftops! #Hamilfilm
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They released the Zemo cut!.
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No one is celebrating this. No one wanted this. But if the allegations, from 20 different women and over a long period, are as well founded as they appear, then we as humans do not have to wait for a court case that may never come to say we're appalled.
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All day every day but particularly right now, fuck the Tories. (But never fuck a Tory). They think the rules don't apply to them.
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This is offensively stupid. He's dressed as a Stormtrooper ffs, so unless you are both outing yourselves as Sith, there are no Force users here.
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I found #AdAstra a damn near religious experience. I am willing to extend James Gray, and him only, a pass from my regular complaints about father complex stories. Phenomenal performance from Pitt and visually flawless.
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Terrifyingly, today is the 20th anniversary of my first official day @empiremagazine. As luck would have it, I actually wasn't in the office that day: I did a briefing session with @AmieBolissian the Friday before to learn about one of the most boring parts of the job. .
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In some *extremely* flattering and thrilling personal news, #WomenVsHollywood has been named one of the Times' books of the year (TV and film category).
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