Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ortenberg called the film, “another terrific genre film by William Brent Bell with standout performances by Brian Cox, Rupert ...

While A Separation is the first Iranian movie ever to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Iran has been a cinema hotbed for decades, turning out exceptional work despite the strict codes of ...

Last year, Asghar Farhadi's film A Separation won Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and now the director is back with The Past. Sony Pictures Classics will ...

The Separated, an Atlantic documentary, follows Anita and her son Jenri, who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border this summer. The documentary’s producer, Jeremy Raff, says he wanted to capture a ...

The winner of the 2011 Sydney Film Prize came down to a tight contest between two Middle Eastern films, Ashgar Farhadi’s "A Separation" from Iran and Mohamed Diab’s "Cairo 678" from Egypt, but it was ...

As with the escalating tension between Washington and Tehran, it's hard to assign blame to a single character in Oscar-nominated Iranian drama A Separation for an explosive chain of events that ...

Breaking from the awards season pack in a pretty significant way, the International Cinephile Society announced that Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” led the winners of their 9th annual awards. “A ...

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment jointly acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Separation, a horror film directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, The Boy) ...

Farhadi’s 2011 Berlin prizewinner is not precisely about law, Sharia or any other. But the legal rituals and fevered bureaucracy, the Islamic predicate of one person’s word against another’s – no ...