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The 32nd Sundance Film Festival kicked off today in Park City, Utah, with the traditional press conference headlined by festival creator/mentor/ president of the Sundance Institute Robert Redford. With Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam and Sundance Festival director John Cooper also in attendance, the annual press conference has become a kind of state of the independent cinema assessment.

The biographical drama Trumbo about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo received two Golden Globes nominations in 2015: Bryan Cranston for his portrayal of Trumbo, the highest-paid screenwriter of his day, and Helen Mirren for her role as Trumbo's nemesis, Hollywood actress turned gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. The red scare that stalked America and most visibly Hollywood after the end of the Second World War was one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the United States.

While we were eagerly waiting for the Golden Globes ceremony, a rehearsal of some sort for the event took place 100 miles east of Los Angeles in the California desert at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). Many of the Golden Globes nominees and future wiiners marched down the red the carpet in Palm Springs in their shimmering gowns, sharp tuxedos and dazzling diamonds to the Festival Awards Gala, which was held at the city’s convention center on Saturday, January 3rd, evening.

Who would think that the Force could be beaten by a couple of guys? But yes, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart did just that this weekend. The second installment of Universal’s Ride Along franchise took the number 1 spot at the domestic box office with a total of $39.

To see all the winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globes, CLICK HERE!.

Golden Globe winner, British actor and director Alan Rickman, has died of cancer, age 69. Rickman won the Globe in 1997, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, playing the title role of the Russian mad monk Rasputin, in Uli Edel's eponymous movie, Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996).

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The 73rd Golden Globe Awards were a memorable celebration of the year’s best in film and television. The HFPA’s HJ Park analyzes the results.

David Bowie, the news of whose death shocked the world just after the Golden Globes ceremony, was also a nominee. Among his universally celebrated accomplishments, the British rocker who died Sunday at age 69 at his home in New York, earned his Golden Globe nomination in 1982 for writing the title song for Cat People, the erotic horror film directed by two-times Golden Globe nominee Paul Schrader, and starring Nastassja Kinski (two nominations and one win) and Malcolm McDowell (one nomination).