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Kevin Bacon is currently playing a corrupt FBI agent in the TV series City on a Hill. In 1994 he spoke to HFPA journalists in Montana about The River Wild, where he played the villain opposite Meryl Streep, and Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard.

Drama rooted in tabloid-worthy family secrets meets colorful labyrinthine plotting of the type which might be at home in a Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard novel in the documentary The Lost Sons, which recently enjoyed its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. A stranger-than-fiction slice of investigative self-discovery, director Ursula Macfarlane’s movie serves in many ways as a complementary bookend to the earlier Three Identical Strangers – no great surprise, given that it is produced by RAW Productions and slated for release via CNN Films, the same company and distributor, respectively, behind that Emmy-nominated 2018 movie.

The fear of how old age erodes our faculties and the way we perceive and treat our elders invariably reveals something about ourselves. In her charming, off-kilter documentary, The Mole Agent, Chilean director Maite Alberdi confronts that fear directly and honestly.

Paris. Summer of 1928.

Italian American director Gianfranco Rosi’s most recent film Notturno was the Italian selection for the International Film Category at the Academy Awards and was shortlisted for the best documentary category. The idea for the story started to develop in 2016, when he was filming Fire at Sea, the documentary that captured life on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa during the European migrant crisis.

La Habana, Cuba, década de 1920 a 1930, los supuestamente felices y así llamados años 20. Rachel, una muchacha nacida con el siglo, trabaja como corista en un local de mala muerte, donde se le ofrece una sola posibilidad, ser prostituta.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

In 1963, with his MGM film, A Child is Waiting starring Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland, director John Cassavetes had burned his bridges with the Hollywood studio system. Producer Stanley Kramer had fired him from the movie after Cassavetes fought with everyone including his leading lady, one report saying Garland and Cassavetes had to be physically restrained during a clash.

At one time regarded as a fad, and then a niche industry, videogames have boomed to a $135 billion-plus annual business, on par with the cumulative total of the global film box office and home entertainment businesses. And when final numbers from 2020 are tallied, aided no doubt by last year’s pandemic stay-at-home orders, MarketWatch indicates that the global videogame revenue is expected to further surge an astonishing almost 20 percent over 2019 figures, to more than $179 billion.

It took Godzilla and Kong, those cinematic titans on the Earth’s surface, to jolt the overseas market from its pandemic slumber. Godzilla vs.