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An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Short Film, Stranger at the Gate connects as a movie for these times. Against a real-world backdrop of swirling, often over-amplified political and religious extremism, its message of dissipated hatred and communal hopefulness is a welcome one.

Dorothy Emma Arzner, born on January 3, 1897, in San Francisco, grew up in Los Angeles. Hanging out and helping out in her parent’s restaurant, the Hoffman Café in Hollywood, young Dorothy served and observed Hollywood’s elite of her day, mostly silent movie stars such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mack Sennett, and stage legend Sarah Bernhardt.

Foreign language content on streaming platforms has become increasingly popular in America, providing viewers with various options. According to media analytics firm Parrot Analytics, the demand for non-English-language TV shows in the US is rising.

In 1967’s The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s aimless Benjamin Braddock is plied with a piece of one-word career advice: plastics. It’s a quip which has long endured, finding its way onto the American Film Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes” list in 2005.

Some people get a job. Others earn one.

There is no doubt that Paul Mescal is a popular name in Hollywood right now. The 27-year-old Irish Oscar nominee presented his film Aftersun at the American Cinematheque Aero Theatre in Santa Monica for a full house and with a long line of hopeful attendees outside on Montana Avenue.

Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me) stars in the revenge horror thriller, The Retaliators for which he also serves as producer. The film, which also stars Marc Menchaca (Ozark), and Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones) is about an upstanding pastor who uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter’s murder.

The year was 2021, and the place the Cannes Film Festival.  La Civil, a co-production between Romania, Belgium, and Mexico, shocked the audience at the Un Certain Regard section with the poignant tale of a mother who is looking for her kidnapped daughter in the dangerous areas of Northern Mexico.

Ulises de la Orden has spent the last few years trying to tell the story of the historic Juntas Trial that took place in Argentina in 1985, summarizing 530 hours of footage in a three-hour documentary. With a vast career as a documentary filmmaker, he did not imagine that a fiction film like Argentina, 1985 would tell that same story in such a brilliant way as to win the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Picture – Non-English Language.

Eric Guilmette is an American model turned actor from Massachusetts who has reached the milestone of gracing the covers of one hundred books. As an actor, he’s known for Jurassic Domination (in which he starred alongside Eric Roberts), about two military-made dinosaurs that attack a small mountain town.