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Imagine that Rome is just like Los Angeles: it hasn't rained in three years! The Eternal City is in the middle of the worst drought probably ever, just as Southern California actually is. In real life, in Rome it rains, it rains a lot, usually.

In Beautiful Beings, a teenage boy, Addi (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason), becomes friends with Balli (Áskell Einar Pálmason) after having seen him on national television. Balli is in the news as a victim of teen violence, which, we learn, is an increasing problem in the capital of Iceland.

Cinematic anti-heroes have long been an entertainment staple. Think classic characters like Orson Welles’ Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941), Malcolm McDowell’s Alex DeLarge, a Golden Globe Nominee for Best Picture-Drama, A Clockwork Orange (1971), and, more recently, the Golden Globe Winning TV Drama Breaking Bad’s protagonist Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), a mild-mannered, middle school teacher pivoted to the perilous world of big-time drug dealing.

In 2014, Sergei Loznitsa, one of Ukraine's most prominent filmmakers, directed Maidan, a powerful documentary focusing on the Euromaidan movement of 2013 and 2014 in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. As is well known, the Euromaidan movement has advocated political freedom, civil and human rights, and closer ties with the West (with or without affiliation with NATO).

It was a night of celebration to honor a classic. The red carpet was laid out a few meters from the main movie theater of the Paramount studio, which kicked off its year-long commemoration of The Godfather , considered in many lists of filmmakers and critics as the best film of all time.

Whether you celebrate Valentine's Day or not, whether you are or were in love - or, maybe, hoping it will knock on your door, - there are some gems with one thing in common: they celebrate and explore this complicated and very human feeling - love - with precision, knowledge, and passion. (And there are many more - go ahead, create your own Love Festival!) .

Wolfgang Petersen, the German director whose film credits include Das Boot, a 1982 Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture -- Non-English Language (formerly Foreign Language), died in his house in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on Friday, August 12, 2022.  He was 81.

In 1972, Diana Ross, then better known to the public as the topliner of the Supremes, burst on the movie scene with a stunning performance in Lady Sings the Blues, a biopic of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. For that splashy feature debut, Ross earned two Golden Globe nominations, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama and for Most Promising Newcomer-Female, winning the latter.

In Igbo, the Nigerian language, the word “Ejime” means “twin. ” How apropos for identical twins Adamma and Adanne Ebo to name their production company Ejime while pursuing content focused on multiple perspectives and intersectional experiences.

John Waters, nicknamed by some as “the Pope of Trash,” rose to fame with a series of shaggy, amateurish, Baltimore-set features which later became cult works offering a distinctive perspective on American life. Suburban habits and customs are his targets, his pleasure dome.