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“Brave” is an overused word in film reviews, said Wendy Ide in The Observer – applied to anything from an actor’s weight gain for a role to “an unconventional editing decision”. But Iranian director ...

Oscar-bound filmmaker Jafar Panahi has reportedly been sentenced to prison by Iranian officials. The It Was Just an Accident director is widely expected to score major Oscar nominations. The 2026 ...

Julia Roberts booked her ticket to paradise the minute she became a mom. "By the time we had kids, I had accomplished things and felt secure about that part of my life," the Oscar winner told the Wall ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is not here to make movies that pander to his audiences. Sitting in a Seattle hotel sipping tea on a Thursday evening, Panahi said he sets out to make the films he wants ...

A man is driving his car at night when he accidentally hits a dog in the road. That kicks off a chain of events that causes several people to confront the nightmare they thought they'd put behind them ...

“I didn’t have the opportunity to work with any companies or studios in Tehran,” Etminan explained. While most editors rely on cloud-based software, he couldn’t. Instead, he worked on an old MacBook ...

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From an AI-fueled stock rally to record-high gold, the signs are stacking up that nearly every asset class is due for a reckoning. Asset bubbles give off a scent. Stocks far outpace earnings. Junk ...

Throughout cinematic history, revenge is a subject well-examined. Often, American audiences have watched films unspool with the view that violence begetting violence is an act of desperation. Where ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi puts a lot on the line for his work. Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...