The vaccination passport demanded by Spain and the southern countries with the aim of facilitating travel and saving the tourist season is gaining momentum thanks to the support of Angela Merkel. Germany was until now one of the countries that opposed a common certificate in the EU, citing the risk of discrimination. After the video summit of European leaders held this Thursday, the Chancellor has taken for granted that the passport will be ready for the summer. “Everyone has agreed that we need a digital vaccination certificate,” Merkel assured at a press conference from Berlin at the end of the…
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The Goya Awards are just around the corner. On March 6, in a ceremony in which the nominees will be at home and connect telematically, it will be discovered which is the Best Film of the year according to the Film Academy. In this edition, Girls is the favorite, but it is not the one with the most nominations. That honor goes to Adú, Salvador Calvo’s film that has 13 nominations. A large amount, but far from the records set by other Spanish films. But… what is the title that had the most nominations in the history of the Goya…
Five films compete for the most important award of the night: the Goya for Best Film. These are the five finalist works.The Goya 2021 are just around the corner. On Saturday, March 6, the Film Academy will present its awards and decide which is the best film of the year. It will do so with a gala that will be held from the SoHo theater in Malaga and will be presented by Antonio Banderas and María Casado. Of course, the pandemic has made the nominees have to watch the ceremony from their homes. They will come electronically. A year in…
Harry Shearer has left his role after 30 years voicing one of the most iconic characters in the series.Many popular cartoon series are experiencing a delicate moment. Productions such as Big Mouth, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Central Park or Family Guy have recently been criticized for choosing white actors to voice black characters or characters from other ethnicities or races. In response to these complaints, several voice actors have abandoned their roles, forcing productions to replace them. Along the same lines, The Simpsons has changed the interpreter who voiced Dr. Hibbert. According to TVLine, Harry Shearer has left his role…
Following a complaint filed in August 2018 by a young actress. The actor was charged in December and remains at large.French actor Gérard Depardieu has been charged with rapes and sexual assaults after the complaint filed in August 2018 by an actress, according to judicial sources confirmed to Efe. The interpreter, known to the general public for films such as Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) or the Asterix and Obélix saga, was charged on December 16, but no provisional security measure was taken against him. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office assumed the investigation on August 30 of that year, after the one…
The anthropologist presents his book ‘Papá’ and talks about the historical roles and the experience of fatherhood: “Parents feminize their bodies when they take care of their children.”What is being a father? What does it mean? What story have they told us about fatherhood? What types of paternity have there been historically? In Papá (Bao Bab), Ritxar Bacete makes us an anthropological mosaic of this emblematic figure in our lives -sometimes silent, tyrannical, not empathetic or disappeared because of a culture of tremendous sacrifice that led them to work sun and shade no longer dedicate themselves to the care of…
To understand the history of Great Britain it is impossible to put aside one of its greatest characteristics: its insularity. The maritime refuge did not prevent them from being conquerors as well as conquered. Its great dominions on the globe contrast with the invasions suffered centuries ago by the Romans, the Vikings or the Normans. A nation even older than Spain hides a whole range of feats that make up what the British crown today means. However, in summary, the former editor of The Times and columnist for The Guardian, Simon Jenkins, marks the year 1066 as the most important…
A clay shell that wraps around a mummy is the rare mortuary treatment identified on an Egyptian mummy, the body of which has also been found to predate the coffin, suggesting that it was placed there by 19th century merchants to sell as complete set. A study published this Wednesday by Plos One reports a new analysis with modern techniques of a mummified individual from the 20th dynasty of Egypt. Although this treatment of the painted clay shell had not been previously documented in the literature, the authors note that its frequency cannot yet be determined and suggest that further…
Since cinemas lifted the blind after the pandemic closed, it has been independent distributors and small and signature films that have stood out. While the big productions fled – with some exceptions such as Father there is no more than one 2 and Tenet – to 2021, a handful of brave people tried to show that there is nothing comparable to a movie theater and that culture, as has been shown, is safe. According to the Association of Independent Distributors (ADICINE), 93% of the premieres of the Spanish billboard are independent. And not just premieres. What has returned with force…
Of interest to Spain, the La Mancha director Pedro Almodóvar, winner of two statuettes for ‘All about my mother’ (1999) and ‘Talk to her’ (2003), continues in the short list to win an Oscar for Best Fiction Short Film together to nine other jobs. He will do it with ‘The Human Voice’, starring Tilda Swinton, a 30-minute adaptation of the original play by Jean Cocteau that tells the story of a desperate woman who awaits the call of her lover who has just left her. With his first work shot in English, the manchego could return to the red carpet…