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In  Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, Adam Driver plays Colorado Springs cop Philip Zimmerman, who steps in to pretend he is his colleague Ron Stallworth – played by John David Washington – in an undercover effort to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Together – Zimmerman, in person, Stallworth, over the phone – they would attempt what seemed to be impossible in the 1970s’ Colorado.

Blake lively is the very image of a modern woman. Doing it all.

It’s a prehistoric monster versus some crazy rich Asians, at this week’s box office. On the domestic (the U.

Two women from very different backgrounds – Ana, an upper-middle-class professional, and Clara, a nurse from the poor outskirts of São Paulo – come together under extraordinary circumstances. There’s an unplanned child, whose very own existence challenges the standards and expectations of the circles where Ana travels.

Puerto Rico star and Golden Globe winner Benicio Del Toro has recently spent seven months with director Ben Stiller, working on a nine-episode limited series that recounts the well-publicized escape from the high-security prison of Dannemora of two inmates helped by a female prison worker. Del Toro is famous for choosing tough and deep roles.

Film Bios is an occasional series reviewing autobiographies of notable filmmakers.  “The 21st of October 1935 was my second birthday”, writes Otto Preminger at the very beginning of his memoirs, published in 1977and simply titled An Autobiography.

HFPA journalist Diederik van Hoogstraten met with renowned stage, film and TV actress and Golden Globe winner Glenn Close to talks about a variety of topics, ranging from her latest role to the #metoo movement, the constitution, mental health and our current administration.  In the drama, The Wife Close plays a woman who questions her own path in life after sacrificing so much to support her husband’ - a Nobel Prize-winning writer, career.

HFPA Grantee From specialty items for preemies to breakthroughs in heart surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is a nonprofit institution that provides pediatric healthcare and helps patients more than half a million times a year. CHLAs history began in a small house on the corner of Alpine and Castelar Streets (which is now Hill Street in DTLA’s Chinatown section) in 1901.

Blindspotting tackles issues of race, class, gun violence, police brutality and gentrification through the story of two Oakland best friends. Not coincidentally, the film is written and performed by two best friends from Oakland: Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.

She stands just short of four feet tall in her Target dress and Steve Madden shoes, but for some she was the biggest presence at the HFPA Annual Grants Banquet red carpet.  Her name is Yasmine Leilah Malayeri -her mother is from Mexico, her father from Iran- and she was positioned at the head of the first row of press photographers covering the red carpet.