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Christopher Walken plays an Irish patriarch in Wild Mountain Thyme by John Patrick Shanley, and this is not the first time he plays a father. In 2005 he talked to HFPA journalists about playing the father of the bride in the comedy Wedding Crashers.

There is a climactic scene in Wild Mountain Thyme where Jamie Dornan is so uncomfortable in his own skin that it looks like he wants to escape from his very famous body. It's endearing and funny – and if you listen to the actor that became an overnight heartthrob in the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy – he will assure you that John Patrick Shanley’s, Anthony, is more akin to his true nature than that of the posturing Christian Grey.

Ever since Chloë Sevigny rose to fame in the 1990s, she has been able to forge a career in both independent and mainstream films and television. In her latest project, she plays Army Colonel and mother Sarah Wilson in Luca Guadagnino’s first TV series, We Are Who We Are.

With The Croods: A New Age still lording it over the box office amid no wide releases, the bigger news was overseas. In China, Monster Hunter, director Paul W.

On the Sicilian island of Favignana, in the late 1960s, Lucia (Marta Castiglia) is left behind by her parents who moved to France in search of work. She stays with her grandmother (Lucia Sardo), the “general”, a tough lady who forcefully tries to protect Lucia from the macho world around them.

French screen legend Catherine Deneuve plays Fabienne, an aging renowned actress, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La vérité), his follow-up to the 2019 Palme d’or winner and Golden Globes nominee Shoplifters.   The film explores the complicated relationship between Fabienne and her visiting daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche), who resents the rose-colored version of the past presented in her mother’s just-published memoirs.

The Crying Steppe is a film based on real events that happened in the early years of the Soviet communist regime, when artificially imposed hunger on the native population of Kazakhstan during the 1920s and 1930s cost the lives of 8. 5 million people – 70% of native Kazakhs.

This Bangladeshi movie from director Rubaiyat Hossain is the story of a group of garment workers who work in tyrannical conditions to produce cheap clothing for westerners. Wages are withheld, sexism, violence and abuse are the norm.

A remake of the popular 2013 South Korean film of the same name Miracle in Cell No. 7 is directed by Mehmet Ada Oztekin.

Pinocchio, written and directed by Matteo Garrone, is based on the 1883 Italian children classic The Adventure of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.   The familiar story, popularized worldwide by the Disney cartoon of 1940, is retold with renewed accuracy to the original version.