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Security is tighter than ever, the red carpet is in place, the jury has arrived. Like so many migrating birds, thousands of journalists, photographers, executives, producers, directors, sales agents and stars ranging from A to Z-lists flock to the once-sedate town in the South of France for ten days of films, deals and parties in a yearly ritual that reverberates around the world - and all the way through the end of the year, when the final fate of many of these characters will be revealed during awards season.

When 69th Cannes International Film Festival opens tomorrow with the gala premiere of Woody Allen’s latest, the period comedy Café Society, it will follow closely a tradition that began with its very first edition: its deep connection with the world at large, beyond the Croisette and beyond cinema itself. In 1946, when the project of an international film festival, proposed 15 years earlier by France's Minister of National Education, finally came into being, Cannes emerged from the shadows of the Second World War, offering art as succor for a deeply wounded world.

Understated elegance. We’ve grown accustomed to stars donning designer duds that sparkle and shine.

There is no question that director Garry Marshall, 81, who brought us Pretty Woman (four Golden Globe nominations in 1990, and a Globe for Best Comedy actress Julia Roberts), Runaway Bride (1999), The Princess Diaries franchise (2001-2004), Valentine's Day (2010), New Year's Eve (2011), and now Mother's Day, loves to celebrate women. He is in fact unabashed in his praise: “Women are more interesting than men,” he says.

One hundred and ffifty one years after General Robert E. Lee signed his surrender at Mclean House in Appomattox Virginia, millions of Americans are choosing sides and heading off to the front to support their factions in a war where, whatever happens, Disney and Marvel are the winners.

And so, after seven seasons, universal praise and a myriad of awards – including 12 Golden Globe nominations and one win, for Julianna Margulies, best actress/TV series/drama in 2010-The Good Wife comes to an end this Sunday. Sprung from the minds of writers/producers Robert King and Michelle King, The Good Wife took its cue from the series of sexual scandals that rocked the US political scene in late 00s – the very public shaming of congressman Anthony Weiner, New York state governor Eliot Spitzer and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – and ran fast and loose with it.

As film-lovers mark the anniversary of one of the most acclaimed movies of all time, the HFPA’s Phil Berk reflects on Orson Welles’ masterpieceIn the seventy-five years since Citizen Kane was first shown, no film in history has been discussed and debated more than Orson Welles's masterpiece. For most film scholars, the only mystery of Citizen Kane is not Rosebud, but whether or not Welles actually wrote it.

Dos producciones españolas, el largometraje Psiconautas, los niños olvidados de Pedro Rivero y Alberto Vázquez, y el cortometraje Alike, de Daniel Martínez Lara y Rafa Cano Méndez, consiguieron sendos premios en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Animación de Stuttgart (Alemania). El primero consiguió el premio al mejor largometraje, el llamado Tricksy con la forma de un caballito juguetón, mientras que el segundo obtuvo el premio Tricks for Kids, escogido por y para niños al mejor cortometraje.

In an action-packed weekend filled with big sales and few surprises Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War stormed onto the international scene and posted a huge $200. 2 million from 37 international markets.

“People presume that because of the relatively small number of women who are directors, when a woman directs it's a sexist set,” says Liza Johnson, the director of Elvis & Nixon. The very funny movie depicts the actual meeting of the King and the 37th president and stars Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon.