Although she has starred in a number of high profile projects, Alia Shawkat has managed to firmly wall off her dating life ...

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the ...

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of ...

Gladstone, who earned the Oscar nomination for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s historical drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was joined in the discussion by actress and producer ...

This could be her chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works well at the beginning of Atropia; the actress is clearly having fun playing an aspiring star ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.