Once upon a time, dear children, before you were born, they made a fairytale movie about a kingdom called Zamunda. “Coming to America,” starring Eddie Murph
Chelsea Winstanley: Whose lens is it anyway?
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You might not think the mysterious group behind the Golden Globes, known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has anything to do with Aotearoa. But some of their members have been speaking on our behalf for a long time. Academy Award-nominated film-maker Chelsea Winstanley is calling for change.
Supposedly there is a major overhaul about to take place at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). In the days leading up to last week’s Golden Globes, where film and television accolades are handed out by the HFPA’s 87-person membership, frustrated guilds and watch groups pointed out (not for the first time) that the organisation still had no Black members. They haven’t had any for more than 20 years.
Contrary to what “Game of Thrones” might have you believe, not all dragons are agents of destruction. In the newest offering from Walt Disney Animation, “ Raya and the Last
Lindsay Zoladz, The New York Times
Published: 10 Mar 2021 12:55 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Mar 2021 12:55 PM BdST FILE PHOTO: 2019 Billboard Music Awards- Arrivals - Las Vegas, Nevada, US, May 1, 2019 - Taylor Swift. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
When she was 18, Taylor Swift wrote a song called “Fifteen.” “Back then I swore I was going to marry him someday, but I realised some bigger dreams of mine,” she sang, sounding more like a wizened great-grandmother than a rising senior. );
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“Fifteen” is evocative, if a little sanitised: Nimble mandolin strums mimic the nervous-excited butterflies of the first day of high school, as Swift sings of wide-eyed hope that “one of those senior boys will wink at you and say, ‘You know I haven’t seen you around before.’”