Films
Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat are joining forces for a film about migration, trauma, and unexpected connection. The pair are set to star in “Drift,” an adaptation of Alexander...
News
Alia Shawkat and Natasha Lyonne are joining forces. The multi-hyphenates are developing “Desert People,” a half-hour series at Amazon. Variety broke the news. Co-created by Shawkat and...
Trailers
Alia Shawkat’s not ready for the party to end in a new UK trailer for “Animals.” An adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel of the same name, the dramedy tells the story of...
Features
Alia Shawkat is killing it on “Search Party,” the new dramedy on TBS. The series centers on a confused twentysomething, Dory (Shawkat), and her obsession with a missing acquaintance from college....
News, Trailers, Videos
A month before her wedding, Jordanian-American May (Cherien Dabis) visits her mother (Hiam Abbass) in Amman to convince her to attend the big day. A successful writer back home in New York, May...
I was traveling a lot during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but thanks to technology I was able to catch some of the movies that I really wanted to see. One of those was the Jennifer...
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