After a dearth of good TV on our screens in recent times as a knock-on effect of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, ...

Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...

Turner, Hailey Gates and Alia's father Tony Shawkat. And at the event, Alia opened up to Variety about getting Tatum to make a cameo in the movie. 'Chan has been an amazing friend,' Alia said.

This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Alia Shawkat in a scene from "Atropia ... the intriguingly undefinable (there’s a movie about cabbage smuggling called “Bubble & Squeak” and one in ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver ... even comes with its own competing TV networks, Box News and a fake Al-Jazeera), but “The Truman Show” it ain’t. If anything, the buzzing ...

Through observing how actors, makeup artists, set and prop designers make a living by working in this 24/7 simulation, Gates shows the ease ... cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic ...

The committed performances of Alia Shawkat and Callum ... in a comedy sketch show. Two significant events change the direction of travel as Fayruz learns that a major movie star (played by a ...

Tech arts festival SXSW is upon us, and now in its 38th year, the main topic of conversation is once again AI. Here's the ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat ... immersive movie set; Gates’ film treats it as such. It has logistics ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came ... realistic as possible (it even comes with its own competing TV networks, Box News and a fake Al-Jazeera), but “The Truman Show” it ain’t.