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Actress-musician Nora Lum aka Awkwafina just received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Lulu Wang’s comedy-drama The Farewell. Lum started her career as a rap musician with the song “My Vag”.

How would we judge a middle-aged woman who has a sexual relationship with her 17-year-old stepson? This is the question that director May el-Toukhy and her co-writer Maren Louise Kaehne force us to face in Queen of Hearts. Anne (Trine Dyrholm) is an attorney who advocates for children victims of abuse.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

A weak weekend overall positioned two studios on the forefront.  On the international front, Sony harvested good results from its release strategy for Jumanji: The Next Level, which hit 18 overseas markets ahead of its domestic debut and amassed $54.

Five remarkable films were nominated for the Best Foreign Language Golden Globe representing four countries, including the United States - and two are directed by women. Qualification for the category is determined by at least 51% of the dialogue in a non-English language and that is the case for Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, spoken mostly in Mandarin.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced the nominees for the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.   The three-hour telecast hosted by Ricky Gervais will air live on NBC coast to coast Sunday, January 5, 2020, at 8:00 p.

There are not too many international film festivals, besides the big ones such as Cannes, Venice or Berlin, that attract as many big celebrities as Marrakech in Morocco. That is probably due to a long Hollywood tradition of using the country as a location for films starting with Lawrence of Arabia.

It’s 1897 in Paris and young dramatist Edmond Rostand (seductively energetic newcomer Thomas Solivérès) is a struggling wordsmith plagued with anxieties, unable to find the inspiration for his next work. In desperation, he offers the great stage star of the Belle Epoque, Constant Coquelin (Olivier Gourmet, a Dardenne brother regular), a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse.

“It took me a long time to even have the confidence to tell my own stories,” says Lulu Wang, writer-director of The Farewell. As a female filmmaker and a minority, Wang hurdled challenges before she got to make her feature-length debut, 2014’s Posthumous, and The Farewell, which has been winning acclaim since it premiered in the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Incitement is a historical thriller by Israeli director Yaron Zilberman. It was shown at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the World Cinema competition where its screening had to be interrupted briefly due to a security threat.