Jay Cray, Editor (Film) Last night saw the gathering of Hollywood’s best and brightest at the Beverly Hills Hotel with the 71st Annual Golden Globes taking place. 12 Years a Slave won Best Motion Picture (Drama) gathering support and accolades in the run up to the Academy Awards in March. The film based on Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who is sold back into slavery, sees British director Steve McQueen […]
Breona Carroll, Correspondent (Music) Spotify has changed the way that music lovers around the world enjoy and share music. With a growing number of users, Spotify’s practices have recently come into the public interest. A few months ago, Spotify posted an article on their website about their business model, “the Spotify method” and also released the average payout for rights holders. After the post, major backlash occurred from both musicians and the media. Radiohead […]
Jay Cray Editor (Film) Quentin Tarantino announced the title of his next feature film this week, The Hateful Eight. Following the western style of Django Unchained (2012) Tarantino’s next film looks to have parts for Christoph Waltz and a rumoured role for Nebraska actor Bruce Dern. With this announcement, we at The Global Panorama felt it was time to look back and celebrate Tarantino’s career in film. Born 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino began acting classes at the […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) It wasn’t until the late 1980s that the then Party Secretary General of Vietnam became conscious of the damage brought by an economic system of large-scale production and centralised planning to Vietnam’s financial progress. Consequently, a long-term series of economic reforms known as the ‘Doi Moi’ policy was launched in 1986, and together with President Clinton’s decision to lift the U.S. trade embargo in 1994, led to Vietnam’s rampant economic ascension. […]
Jay Cray, Editor (Film) 2013 saw the announcement of plans for a Veronica Mars film. This left many wondering how a television show cancelled nine years ago would get funding and the go ahead for filming. Rob Thomas, the creator of Veronica Mars - a neo-noir show following student Veronica Mars as she moonlights as a private detective and solves cases – wrote the feature script, which carried on the story line, however Warner Bros. decided not to […]
Stewart Hume, Correspondent (Music) So it’s the start of 2014. With the start of every new year we are bombarded with names of talents to look out for and which veterans will be working on new material in the coming months. However, as a music fan, I have found in the last couple of years that the beginning of a new year goes hand in hand with a pessimistic question: “Does the music […]
Gift Ruremesha Correspondent (Film) James Avery’s death on December 31, 2013, has come as a shock to most of us. Before he was an actor, Avery was in the US Navy and served in Vietnam (from 1968-1969). He then went on to write poetry and TV scripts for PBS. He won an Emmy for production during his tenure at PBS and thus won a scholarship for literature and drama at the University of California […]
Kunal Chatterji, Correspondent (Music) Practice and patience are two of the most important things required when you want to make a name for yourself in this world, and the man I am writing about is a good example. He is the famous Paris-based Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. Born on December 5, 1980 to trumpet master Nassim Maalouf and pianist Nada Maalouf, Ibrahim was born with music in his blood. He started learning the trumpet […]
Jasmina Saleh, Correspondent (Film) Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America — each of them are perhaps the most macho, brilliant and unique superheroes that I’ve ever seen work together; they starred in The Avengers. In 2012, I had anticipated this collaboration more than you can imagine. It was my favourite character, Tony Stark — genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist — who began the sequel of the five linked movies when Iron Man launched in […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Despite Christmas-themed pieces being long overdue, I, who respect tradition — though sometimes from afar — thought that the season called for a little less conventional celebration at this point. It is a Coca-Cola kind of approach, if you will; much like their famous 1930′s slogan ‘The pause that refreshes!’ Widely thought to have been the origin of Santa Claus’s modern image, the depiction is not the first of its […]
