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Whether he’s playing a sociopathic hitman, pirate, underwear model/bullfighter, detective or painter, Javier Angel Encinas Bardem seems to have no boundaries to the unique creative stamp he puts on every role he inhabits on screen. Now the 52-year-old Spanish native enters the fray as bandleader, singer, and television pioneer, portraying Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, which earned the actor his fifth Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (he previously won for No Country for Old Men).

While multitudes of young aspiring actors dream of seeing their names on the big screen, there’s the rare case of the unexpected star. Cooper Hoffman is the most recent example.

British actor Nicholas Hoult is having a time of his life…on the small screen. The movie star, who is globally famous for his mutant superhero character Hank McCoy, aka Beast in the X-Men franchise, has turned to TV to play Peter III in Hulu’s original series The Great.

Actor de Broadway, cantante, protagonista de cine y de la pantalla chica, Anthony Ramos en pocos años se ha vuelto uno de los estandartes del talento joven Latinx. Con familia de ascendencia boricua, el joven de 30 años nacido en noviembre de 1991 creció en el vecindario de Brooklyn, llegando a ejercer el oficio de panadero y de profesor de preescolar, mientras soñaba con volverse beisbolista.

Born in a family of actors, Benedict Cumberbatch has been many people, on stage or in front of a camera – and sometimes not even in his own body. From the supporting parts that, in the 00s, launched him in the Hollywood universe – in The Ends of the Earth, Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy – to his unforgettable Sherlock in the BBC/PBS series, Cumberbatch has been heroes, villains, soldiers, scientists, artists, nobles, kings, the occasional dragon, the Grinch and, of course, a superhero doctor.

Unclenching the Fists is only the second feature film by an aspiring Russian filmmaker, Kira Kovalenko. Co-written with Anton Yarush and Liubov Mulmenko, this 97-minute drama received the grand prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.

Let it Be Morning addresses the Israeli Arab community and the ways in which they deal with life and its challenges when they find themselves under siege on occasion and without warning. The film is directed by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (2007s The Band’s Visit, later adapted as a Broadway musical; 2016s Beyond the Mountains and Hills), who deftly adapts the book by Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua, on which Let it Be Morning is based.

Faith, stigmata, religious patriarchy, forbidden desires, self-flagellation, suffering, punishment, power plays: Catholicism has it all. Nothing gives us as many story components as this religious institution, which has more scandals and a more colorful history than any other.

1943… 1944… In a classic Hollywood film, maybe one of those juicy melodramas starring Joan Crawford, for example, a calendar would appear on the screen, its pages slowly turning from one year to the other…Let’s stop for a moment and rewind, back to the days of World War II. After having been fiercely isolationist, just like Rick Blaine in Casablanca, the United States saw most of its movie stars play “real roles” in helping the war effort.

“I grew up six miles outside of Belfast,” Jamie Dornan reminisced to the HPFA last year. “Although it’s fairly connected to the city, it still would be considered rural.