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“Music is a gift. Music has been the skeleton key that's gotten me through every door including this one” says Pharrell Williams ,talking about his work as songwriter and producer for the upcoming movie Hidden Figures, a true and surprising story about the first US space travel.

The dynamics concerning women in Arab culture are at the center of Sand Storm. The directorial debut from Israeli writer/director Elite Zexer follows a contemporary Arab-speaking family living in a village of Southern Israel.

Music and movies will join forces when the LA Philharmonic opens a new season of its in/Sight program performing live the score from Rebel Without A Cause at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. According to its conductor, Scott Dunn, no score or title could express better the magic of music and images.

In a time when Colombia appears close to the end of the decades-long conflict between its government and leftist guerrillas, Colombian director José Luis Rugeles has made Alias Maria, a drama that shows the role of child soldiers and their exploitation in that civil war.  The film is the story of Maria (Karen Torres), a 13-year old child guerrilla soldier.

Part of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s mission is to foster greater understanding through world cinema. This year over 90 foreign language films were submitted for Golden Globe consideration.

Marvel and Disney just can’t seem to stop winning as their latest film Doctor Strange handily cast a spell on the domestic and international markets. The doctor in the title is Benedict Cumberbatch, who after having lost the use of his hands travels to Nepal to seek the healing powers of a sect of mystical sorcerers.

In the latest film by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn the story begins as celebrated Argentine expatriate writer Daniel Mantovani (Oscar Martinez) receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his acceptance speech, in front of the king and queen of Sweden, he expresses his scorn for such a recognition which he considers the end of his career, since from now on he will be forever regarded as a “Nobel Prize Winner”, which will generate incredible expectations for his future works.

I Am Not Madame Bovary, directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Feng Xiaogang and starring Fan Bingbing, is a rare satire of China’s bureaucracy in the current landscape of Chinese cinema. The term “Madame Bovary” originates from a famous fictional character “Pan Jinlian” in the 17th-century Chinese novel The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin Ping Mei).

Director David Schurmman had a very unusual upbringing: born in Brazil, he graduated college in New Zealand and, between one landmark and the other, spent most of his life on a boat, crossing the Earth’s oceans with his family. Little Secret, his first feature film after a career in TV and documentaries, showcases this very special point of view and beyond: it is, in essence, the story of his family.

Joan Blondell, two times Golden Globe nominee, will be celebrated in a five-week series of screenings, with 14 of her movies being shown at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles, starting om Friday, November 4.   The movies were restored by the University of California Los Angeles Film Archives, one of the leading film restoration institutions in the world, and a frequent recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's restoration grants.