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  As the world is slowly returning to a pre-Covid normal, one place where this was never more obvious was the annual Toronto Film Festival, which had been mostly online since 2020. The popular Canadian festival returned with a hugely ambitious and diverse program offering many films we will hear more about going into the height of awards season - like People’s Choice winner, The Fabelmans – as well as panels with everyone from Taylor Swift to Hilary Clinton.

  HFPA journalists Elisabeth Sereda and Janet Nepales sat down to reflect on their experiences at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, which came to an end this past weekend. They touch on everything from the surprise win for the documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, some of the red carpet fashion trends from the likes of Timothée Chalamet and Cate Blanchett, and the controversy surrounding Olivia Wilde's new film Don't Worry Darling - and more.

  Twelve days after the U. S.

  On our special Rewind  Episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast series, we thought it would be a good time to revisit our December 2020 podcast with Chris Evans, who at that time was promoting his limited series Defending Jacob, co-starring Michelle Dockery. 2022 has been another busy year for the star.

  The documentary Kili Big is the story of 20 plus-sized women from around the world all attempting to climb to the top of Africa’s highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro.

  It’s been a guest list to rival any A-list event: Barack and Michelle Obama, Tyler Perry, the Rev Al Sharpton, Yara Shahidi, Tamron Hall, Tonya-Lewis Lee, and singer Bobby Brown. They’re just some of the luminaries who’ve already appeared over the past weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival.

  Although Casper Van Dien has appeared in over 150 TV and film credits during his 30-year-plus career, he will probably always be best remembered for two early iconic roles: as General Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers (1997) and as the King of the Jungle himself in Tarzan and the Lost City (1998). In our newest “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast episode, Van Dien reminisces with HFPA member Rocio Ayuso about how both roles compare with his newest alter ego, Samuel Hyst, in the series, Salvage Marines, now on www.

  As the Golden Globes website has been highlighting for the past week, San Diego’s Comic-Con – a Holy Grail to geeks everywhere - finally returned after a three-year Covid-induced hiatus. Nothing replaces the experience of being there in person, but our HFPA members Anke Hofmann and Rocio Ayuso will try it in our new episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast.

    It’s almost a guarantee that if you ask someone about Don McLean’s 1971 iconic hit song, “American Pie,” they can recite the lyrics to you. Even more likely they’ll remember the classic vinyl album, reprinted for decades, that features the singer with his thumb up and painted as an American flag.

    In 2019, Marvel President Kevin Feige sat down with HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann to talk about one of the biggest years in the company’s history following the success of Black Panther, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Avengers: End Game. Three years later, Marvel has reached even greater heights with blockbusters including Black Widow (2021), Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Eternals (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Eternals (2021) and the recent release, Dr.