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After winning three Golden Globes and becoming one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Aussie actress Cate Blanchett is the latest performer to gravitate towards the small screen, appearing in not one but two limited TV series in 2020. Her first role was playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly in the limited series Mrs.

Ryan Murphy’s limited TV series Hollywood follows several aspiring actors and filmmakers eager to make it in the Golden Age of Hollywood. The year is 1948, but with a twist of ‘dreamland’ to it.

Unorthodox, the four-part Netflix miniseries about a 19-year-old bride’s escape from her Hasidic community in Williamsburg, New York, has been gripping audiences across the globe. Loosely based on the best-selling 2012 memoir by Deborah Feldman, it is a tale of new beginnings and finding one’s place in the world.

In Unorthodox, the first Netflix original series in Yiddish, Shira Haas plays Esti, a young woman in a strict Hasidic community in Brooklyn who decides to flee to Berlin in search of her mother after a failed marriage puts her at odds with the group. The New York Times just called her 'a phenomenon', but this is not the first time that the Israeli actress has been celebrated for her work.

Rise of Empires: Ottoman is the origin story of the legendary Mehmed the Conqueror set against the epic backdrop of the siege of Constantinople in 1453. The story begins in 1451.

He was one of the madmen who pitched Narcos to Netflix, a show about Pablo Escobar with a Brazilian actor playing him, mostly on Spanish but with an American point of view. As we all know, it was a huge success, nominated in its first season for a Golden Globe as Best Television Drama and one as Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Wagner Moura.

When one hears the name Bollywood, what comes to mind, most often than not, are three-hour-long movies with song and dance no matter what the genre, movies driven by star power such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. These stars will still shine but they seem to be losing a little bit of their luster as is evident from the latest box office figures, all recent films starring the four actors have opened with good box office numbers and then have taken a nosedive.

Alba August belongs to Scandinavian film royalty as the daughter of Danish director Bille August and Swedish actress Pernilla August. But the 25-year-old actress is becoming a star in her own right and is currently to be seen in the TV series The Rain and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Becoming Astrid, the biopic of iconic Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

A notable lack of major titles and star-power fuel and a considerable Asian presence are the defining traits of the lineup of the 2018 edition of the Cannes Film Festival.   At the lineup announcement in Paris, Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux blamed protracted post-production issues for the absence of highly anticipated films from directors such as Mike Leigh, Xavier Dolan, and Jacques Audiard.

Before stepping inside the Marvel multiverse as, respectively, The Punisher/Frank Castle and Karen Page, Jon Bernthal and Deborah Ann Woll had already seared other illustrious TV characters into our minds: The Walking Dead's Shane and True Blood's Jessica. Now both are front and center in a trio of high-profile Marvel series:  Daredevil, now in its third season, and the new The Punisher and The Defenders.