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Next level inclusion: after 20 years as a stuntwoman in Hollywood, Swiss-born Petra Sprecher hopes not only to be seen but also to be heard on screen. Accent and all.

Sports have long been talked about as being a great social unifier, especially in the United States of America. Of course, this is only partially true.

The Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, across the street from the Burbank Airport broke ground exactly one hundred years ago. It is the final resting place of many well-known people, including Amelia Earhart and Oliver Hardy.

Marija Kavtaradze’s new movie Slow recently held its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where the magical mountain honored the Lithuanian native with the best directing price in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition category. Slow, Kavtaradze’s second feature after Summer Survivors, tells a uniquely intriguing love story between a modern dancer named Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė), who falls in love with a sign language interpreter Dovydas (Kęstutis Cicėnas), who identifies himself as an asexual.

Who could forget Halle Berry’s emotionally charged Oscar speech in 2002 when she won the Best Actress trophy for Monster’s Ball (she also earned a Golden Globe nomination). At the time, it was a historic win, marking Berry as the first Black woman to ever win in that category.

“I have a geographically scattered background,” replies Ása Hjörleifsdóttir to the question of how she got into writing and directing. The native of Iceland spent years of her childhood in the USA, UK and Canada and had originally aspired to become an actress.

The NAACP Image Awards Luncheon is part of a tradition that started 54 years ago when black artists like Lena Horne, Sidney Poitier and many others gathered to counter the harmful tropes that Hollywood used when representing people of color. This year the event was held Saturday, February 4th.

It took M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin to finally knock off Avatar: The Way of Water from its top position at the box office after seven weeks.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is another Marvel movie that will release in China on March 17, day and date with North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This will be the third Marvel movie to be released this year along with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on February 7 and Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania on February 17 after an almost four-year ban.

Ellen Barkin received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy in 1992 for Switch, written and directed by Blake Edwards from the 1959 play by George Axelrod, Goodbye Charlie. She spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1991 about playing a dead man reincarnated in a woman’s body as punishment for his misogynist behavior, and forced to confront his past from a different perspective.