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Chris Evans has given up his Captain America costume and shield and dove in as a DA whose work is compromised when his son is accused of murder on Apple TV+’s limited series Defending Jacob. Evans tells HFPA journalist Henry Arnaud why he was excited to take a role on a crime series that is based on William Landay’s novel.

In South Africa the word “moffie” is a homophobic term for homosexual. It is also the title of a fine film by Oliver Hermanus.

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut eludes definitive characterizations. For each thought or feeling that may be generated by it, there will be another to counteract it.

Chloé Zhao is receiving critical acclaim for Nomadland which stars Frances McDormand and nabbed top honors at the Venice Film Festival. She has just wrapped shooting Eternals, a Marvel super-hero movie starring Angelina Jolie slated for 2021, and was the only woman featured on the Chinese GQ Man-of-the-Year cover.

Joel Schumacher, who passed away in 2020, often spoke to HFPA journalists about movies he directed, such as A Time to Kill (1996) and The Phantom of the Opera.

Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins will return for a third and final installment of  the Wonder Woman trilogy, WarnerMedia announced along with the Christmas domestic box office weekend earnings of Wonder Woman 1984. The Wonder Woman sequel’s take of $16.

Minari is an American production acted in Korean and as such qualifies for the Golden Globes’ Foreign Language category. It is a semi-autobiographical story written by director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in a small farm in Arkansas and it follows very closely the experiences of  a small Korean family in that state in the 1980s.

Alena Yiv and Shira Hass play mother and daughter in this intimate drama from Israel that explores the psychological effects of a teenager as she comes to terms with her impending death. For her mother, a youthful 35-year-old still trying to stay sexually relevant, the struggle contains a bitter irony: ironic that at her work at a hospital her job is to save people; while at home, she proves powerless to protect her daughter.

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Star-director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) chose a cult novel for his newest film. He based Forgotten We’ll Be on Hector Abad Faciolince's book of the same title, which tells the true story of Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarized, violent Medellin of the 1970s.