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“Why are we still talking about whether women can be funny?” wonders comedienne extraordinaire Amy Schumer. Well if there was ever a doubt she aims to put it to rest with Trainwreck There is a truly perplexed look on Amy Schumer’s face when she is asked why she thinks there is such a large group of successful women in comedy right now.

The Mexican American director of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl studied under Scorsese, Nora Ephron, Alejandro González Iñarritu and Ryan Murphy before helming his uniquely personal story. While his name is yet to be widely known, Alfonso Gómez Rejón, director of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a visual adaption of the novel written by Jesse Andrews is most definitely on the cusp.

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As the star of the expected box-office hit of the summer, Jurassic World, 35-year old Chris Pratt is on a roll. But he’s staying humble.

As is tradition, the Golden Globe Foreign Film Symposium took place at the American Cinematheque in the historic Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard on the eve of the Awards. This year’s nominees are five exceptional films by directors from Israel, Europe and Russia: FORCE MAJEURE, Ruben Östlund (Sweden), GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM, Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz (Israel), IDA, Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland), LEVIATHAN, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia) and TANGERINES, Zaza Urushadze (Georgia/Estonia).

It has become a Hollywood truism that we are living in a much-lauded “Golden Era” of television. There is ample evidence that premium cable and now streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have made television the domain of engaging, authorial fiction that used to be the purview of adult drama in film.

MIPCOM, the biggest TV market in the world, took place in Cannes, France from October 13 to 16, 2014. Hundreds of production, distribution and selling companies had their stands or booths in the Palace of Festivals on the famous Croisette Boardwalk.

Godzilla is the rare foreign import to achieve global movie-monster fame including numerous Hollywood reworkings. The latest iteration arrives courtesy of Warner Brothers and Gareth Edwards, the young British director who showed his sci-fi chops in Monsters, an auspicious no-budget debut about, you guessed it, monstrous creatures.

With an early career in comedy and such cult indie fare as Swingers plus the mega blockbuster successes of the Iron Man and Avengers franchises, Jon Favreau is nothing if not eclectic. With Chef he returns to smaller scale uplifting comedy and a personal passion: food.

The Christopher Nolan-produced Johnny Depp vehicle Transcendence which opens Friday is a sci-fi thriller that deals with artificial intelligence and the implications of such a computer-based “mind” turning on its creators – that is us lowly humans. The moment in which machines will be able to evolve independently of their original designers - what’s called the Singularity in tech lingo - is something many experts now consider inevitable.