Jay Cray, Correspondent (Film) One of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1940s, Joan Fontaine, died on December 15. In this article The Global Panorama celebrates her life and her silver screen success. Born in Japan to British parents in 1917, Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress. Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day (1935) and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More […]
Stewart Huwe, Correspondent (Music) If I can ever make one suggestion to anyone using their computer to procrastinate from what ever important thing they are meant to be doing, I suggest you check out TED talks. Too often I find myself on the site to watch various speakers talking about the future of technology or other such subjects. It was such a video that inspired this article. The TED talk by Derek Paravicini is not […]
Meredith Lloyd, Correspondent (Music) This month, the global superstar has ignited the music scene with the sudden release of her fifth studio album, BEYONCÉ, which once more exhibits her flawless vocals and a rejuvenation of style that comes with each of her albums. This body of work includes a host of featuring artists, including Frank Ocean, Drake, Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s two-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. According to statements made by Apple in a recent press release, BEYONCÉ now holds […]
Lise Epailly, Correspondent (Music) San Cisco is an Australian four-piece indie pop band that formed in 2009 under the original name of King George, in Australia. The band consists of Jordi Davieson as guitar and lead vocals, Josh Biondillo also plays guitar and vocals alongside with mademoiselle drummer Scarlett Stevens and eventually Nick Gardner on bass. During an interview for trebuchet magazine in 2012, Scarlett Stevens confessed that San Cisco is actually working as […]
Jay Cray, Editor (Film) This week the Sundance Film Festival announced the line-up of its premieres for 2014. The festival, which will take place in January, will turn 30 years old and seems to be getting bigger each year. It proves that independent films are at the heart of the international film-making community. With 117 premiere feature films and 11 documentaries, the festival has a lot to offer. And the line-up does not disappoint. An international flavour […]
Meredith Lloyd, Correspondent (Music) New Zealand’s latest young star is sternly subverting the clichés of past teen idols. Her work dares to carry with it some individuality and poignancy, as her indie/electronic style and stimulating lyrics mark the beginning of a meaningful youth movement in popular music. Lorde, or Ella Yelich-O’Connor, who recently turned 17 in November, has enjoyed a sudden rise to international fame this year as her single ‘Royals’ attained number […]
Hana Afifi, Correspondent (Egypt) Egypt has been shaken with a revolution, but also with a vibrant music scene. It started with the first chants that turned into sit-ins, which involved patriotic songs, just what it takes to stay motivated and continue the collective struggle. Since January 25, 2011, protesters started singing revolutionary artists’ songs such as the songs by poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, who passed away on Tuesday, December 3, and late singer and […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Who’s afraid of surrealism? I can’t have a certain answer to it, but what I and Google do know is what were the surrealists afraid of. The literature and visual art movement whose foundations were laid in interbelic Europe, strongly opposed the rationalism seen by surrealists to have been the cause behind World War I. Like so, a new way of looking at reality came forth. The ‘pope of surrealism’, […]
Gift Ruremesha, Correspondent (Film) As The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) is coming out this month, you can’t help but reflect on the career of Peter Jackson, the director of this film and the previous J. R. R. Tolkien books such as The Lord of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), and what he has done for the film industry. The New Zealander began his career in the film […]
Yong Jo Leen, Correspondent (Film) Frozen, The Hunger Games, Oz the Great and Powerful, We’re the Millers, Identity Thief and Epic. What do these films have in common? They were all released in 2013 with female lead characters and are just some of the few films with female leads in it, (compared to seven films in 2012, five in both 2010 and 2011, and a dismal four in 2009). Some might argue that women are especially […]
