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We celebrate the 100th birthday of Kirk Douglas, Hollywood icon, three-time nominee who won a Golden Globe as Best Actor for Lust for Life (1957), as well as the HFPA's highest honor, the Cecil B. deMille award in 1968.

Swedish writer Fredrik Backman initially had trouble selling the manuscript for his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, about an elderly curmudgeon fighting his loneliness through an obsession with order in his neighborhood. That difficulty dissipated after the publication of the book in 2012.

There’s an emotionally powerful scene toward the end of Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa in which Jaclyn Jose – who won the 2016 Cannes Film Festival best actress award for this role – quietly, wordlessly, weeps. Movingly conveying emotions only through her eyes, Jose sums up what her titular character has gone through in Mendoza’s Palme d’Or-nominated film.

The Caffe Trieste still stands in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. There in 1970, Francis Ford Coppola, 31 at the time, spent many an afternoon typing away on his yellow Olivetti Lettera 32, working on what he calls a “prompt book”: the voluminous and extensively detailed blueprint that would serve as the basis of his screenplay for The Godfather.

At a time when Hollywood is trying  hard (with different degrees of success) to represent minorities and handicapped people on the screen in a positive light, mainly as supporting characters, the Hungarian writer-director Atilla Till does precisely the opposite. He makes wheelchair- bound and otherwise handicapped people hired assassins and empowered anti-heroes.

A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case.  The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.

Four HFPA members triumphed in the 9th Annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) Awards gala held last December 4 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The competition, presented by the Los Angeles Press Club (LAPC), drew more than 1,000 entries.

Golden Globe nominee Sienna Miller plays a starring role in the upcoming Ben Affleck  movie Live By Night. The New York-born actress says that music is an essential part of her life - and her acting.

Who shot Lauri, a well-liked teacher with no known enemies in his local community? As he now lays comatose at home, his mother Elsa (Tiina Maelberg, a respected stage and TV actress making her film debut) acts as a devoted caregiver with infinite patience and resilience. A middle aged woman visibly stuck in a loveless marriage, the permanent quiet tension on her face only occasionally betrays hidden depths of lifelong frustration, unhappiness and resentment.

“As a filmmaker raised in Nagorno-Karabakh I have listened to stories of hardships endured by my family and villagers, and of their struggles into dealing with such a devastating inter-ethnic conflict. ” So says Jivan Avetisyan, a prolific 35 year-old Armenian director with a solid documentary background, who was born in this mountainous landlocked separatist region in the Southwestern tip of Armenia bordering with Azerbaijan and totaling a mere 4400 square km.