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The fascinating tale of two Russian spies – “Elizabeth” and “Philip” – living in the United States as a regular American family in the last years of the Cold War, the FX series The Americans has received several accolades, including Golden Globe nominations for its stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys. While people may have wondered about Cold War themes in the new millennium, the talk of a possible Russian shadow in America’s last election and on-going questions and innuendo between the two countries, has made the show almost prescient – and hotter than ever.

The best selling novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty is now a seven episode HBO mini series written for TV by David E. Kelley and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley.

In January the HFPA visited the set of Feud, the new limited series premiering on FX on Sunday March 5. Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon play Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at the time of their, ehm, collaboration on the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? At the time Crawford was 56, Davis 54, and Hollywood was swarming with young talent - Marilyn, Jayne, Liz, Audrey, and newcomers like Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot and Natalie Wood.

“Ai-Ling Lee and I would like to do big tentpole movies,” says Mildred Iatrou Morgan, the co-sound editor of La La Land, “As a team, we haven’t gotten anything like that yet. The movies we tend to get are on the smaller scale.

With the Oscars taking place last Sunday, the apparently never-ending awards seasons is now officially over. So, congratulations to Golden Globe and now Academy Award Best Picture winner Moonlight.

The muting of the red carpet continued this weekend, as the 2016-2017 awards season came to a close. Gold and silver shimmered; black, white and red proved they are classics.

The Sundance Film Festival is known for discovering new talent that is destined for stardom. Harris Dickinson is a perfect example.

Being an editor is a “happy coincidence,” according to Joi McMillon, the first African-American woman nominated for an Oscar for Best Film Editing, along with co-editor, Nat Sanders, for their work on Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins. “I wanted to be a journalist but all the slots were taken, so as part of the Junior Achievement Program, I went with my next choice, which was film.

Hugh Jackman, soon taking over the screens in his last turn as Wolverine for director James Mangold’s Logan, is in New York City shooting his dream project, the musical The Great Showman, the story of American showman P. T.

In this weekend’s box office roundup Fifty Shades Darker left the competition in the shadows with a $64. 6 million worldwide gross.