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Having battled a Demogorgon, a spider monster, the mind flayer and demo dogs, Natalia Dyer is quite used to stranger things in her life. So, when the 25-year-old Nashville native was asked to search the internet looking for sex, for her the challenge was just another day on the job.

Greta Thunberg’s strong words that have loudly echoed across the Globe for the past three years, her actions, her personality, and her mission is compelling enough for an upcoming documentary titled Greta. This week 17-year old climate activist Greta Thunberg was named as the first recipient of the Gulbenkian “Prize for Humanity” which comes with a 1 million euro endowment from the Portuguese fund.

A brilliant sense of humor. That made Daisy Edgar-Jones connect to her breakout role as Marianne on Hulu’s limited series Normal People.

In 1959 I was introduced by Bertil Unger, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the time, as a new member along with Yani Begakis in a general membership meeting held at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. Hilda Ulloa was vice president Alan Hunter was secretary and Victor Holguin was the treasurer.

For the past 50 years, Comic-Con has grown into the Mecca for all things Comics. Collectors, fans, and self-proclaimed geeks, as well as comic-book authors, exhibitors, and TV & movie stars, have all flocked to downtown San Diego to celebrate the 4-day event.

As the Black Lives Matter movement is gaining more ground in the wake of countless police killings, the number of (mostly white) people interested in getting an education in Black history is growing. The streamers have responded and added many films and documentaries to their library.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. DeMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 69 times.

Gina Prince-Bythewood is the director of The Old Guard, an action-adventure based on a graphic novel with super-heroes that don’t fit the normal spectrum. Gay, female, people of color and oh, yes, one straight white male, head up an all-star cast which includes Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli,  and Chiwetel Ejiofor – to name a partial list.

Margarita Terekhova, also known as the muse of legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky, was one of the luminaries of Soviet cinema. In Tarkovsky ‘s 1975 Mirror, now considered his best work by some critics, she played two roles: the mother and wife of the protagonist, and he lauded her by for being ‘an ordinary genius actress.

Diverse aptly describes Gerard Butler, both in his choices on screen and on the red carpet. With Greenland coming out soon, the Scot known for action roles, like 300, the Fallen series and Den of Thieves, has also starred in some challenging character work from The Phantom of the Opera, a musical, to Shakespeare, Coriolanus, to a little-seen character study, The Vanishing.