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Vigilantism is a topic frequently explored in movies, perhaps because it’s such an easy and visceral way to tap into feelings of individual helplessness in a cruel or unjust world. Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson helped mainstream and popularize the revenge genre in the 1970s, and it’s been a reliable commercial performer ever since – in stylized comic book adaptations, like The Crow.

The good news is, with movie theaters partially reopened in the two largest film markets in the United States – Los Angeles and New York – specialty films are performing better. Promising Young Woman, for example, drew nearly 30 % of its weekend earnings from LA and NY.

Mark Ruffalo, 2021 Golden Globe winner as Best Actor for the TV series I Know This Much Is True, spoke about religion to HFPA journalists in 2004. “I grew up in a household that had three religions in it, (born-again) Christianity, Catholicism and Bahai'ism, so there were different viewpoints and a lot of debate about that, and I immediately began to understand that all these people that I loved very much had very strong feelings about faith, but all of them were valid to me.

While cities like London, New York, Nashville, Detroit, and Los Angeles can easily be identified as centers of musical influence, there was no place like Minneapolis in the 1980s. The Minnesota metropolis became the capital of funk, due largely to the purple man himself.

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy When Tige Charity was still working in the corporate world as an insurance specialist, her husband taught an acting course at an all-girl group home. The director of the institution invited Charity and her husband to tour the facilities.

Some may remember British actress Vanessa Kirby, 32, as Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of the TV series The Crown, or as black market arms dealer White Widow in Mission: Impossible-Fallout, with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. This year she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Drama from the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her performance in Pieces of a Woman, by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, a role which had already earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

Hannah John-Kamen is no stranger to dystopian drama. Audiences have watched the British actor tackle lead roles in television shows including Black Mirror and Brave New World, as well as big-screen endeavors in movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One.

Actress-musician Sam Quartin stars in and executive produces Body Brokers, an American crime thriller, written and directed by John Swab. The story follows Utah (Jack Kilmer) and Opal (Alice Englert) two junkies living on the streets of rural Ohio until they encounter Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams) who brings them to LA for treatment.

Words matter to actress Katherine Waterston. She analyzes and thinks through her lines, especially in her latest movie The World to Come.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.