Movies transport us to another world—but you’re limiting yourself just by sticking to Hollywood. There are countless foreign films on Netflix that are worth your attention. Here's a short list of ...

The history of the Academy Awards is a complicated one. For every groundbreaking and unexpected Oscar nomination, there are groan-inducing ways this awards show keeps coming up short. Just look at the ...

At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

It is generally believed that children never lie. The Danish director Thomas Vinterberg proves exactly the opposite in his film The Hunt. The film, which is nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign ...

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In 2020, the whole film industry was shaken when the film that took home Best Picture at the 2020 Oscar Awards was Parasite, a film that was neither produced in Hollywood nor an English language film.

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