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Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, opened the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Lopez sizzled in a black velvet gown with sheer cutouts by Tom Ford, in the film’s world premiere.

Emma Thompson, two times Golden Globe winner out of ten nominations, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1998 about Primary Colors directed by Mike Nichols, where she played a political wife modeled after Hillary Clinton opposite John Travolta as Bill Clinton. The film is about the 1992 Presidential campaign, but the actress also addressed the 1998 impeachment trial that was explored in the 2021 series Impeachment: American Crime Story.

We spoke to Gina Guarino Eskow about the Valley Cultural Foundation, an important non-profit organization that has changed the arts landscape of the San Fernando Valley. The Valley Cultural Foundation, one of the HFPA grantees, was founded in 1975 to assist the LA City Department of Parks and Recreation in bringing arts and culture to the San Fernando Valley.

Romantic thriller Stars at Noon, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel of the same name, stars Golden Globe nominee Margaret Qualley (Maid) as Trish, a headstrong journalist who has an affair in Nicaragua with a mysterious, soft-spoken English businessman, Daniel, played by Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk). While the book is set in the 80s, legendary director Claire Denis (High Life, Both Sides of the Blade) has updated the backdrop from that of the Nicaraguan revolution to the present day COVID pandemic era.

It’s not surprising that Australian filmmaker Akhim Dev went gray while making his documentary, The Children in the Pictures. The powerful film takes us inside Task Force Argos, a renowned Australian-based police investigative team, as they go undercover to rescue children from online sexual abuse.

On paper, his success might have seemed more than logical. The most famous director of his time, collaborating with Universal Studios, responsible for many characters that became legends, and for special effects that changed the history of making movies, gave us memorable cinematic results.

Sunday night Radio City Hall in New York City will host the 75th Tony Awards Ceremony that will honor some of Broadways’ best work after its first post-pandemic season. In anticipation of that event, nothing better than to recall some of the Hollywood heavyweights who successfully made the jump from stage to screen and sometimes back to the stage again.

The Nigerian activist Pamela Adie was the first person in Nigeria to make a documentary about coming out as a lesbian. Under the Rainbow, from 2018, follows her discovery of herself, her coming out to her family and friends, and the consequent alienation that followed.

Top Gun: Maverick stays number 1 in France. Directed by Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, this sequel is about Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who continues to push his limits as a test pilot and in charge of training a detachment of young graduates from the Top Gun school for a special mission that no pilot would have ever imagined.

“I never had a bad encounter for being a gay Asian designer,” said fashion designer Alan del Rosario. “It has to do with how I present myself.