The SAG Awards & Plastic Screeners: An Actor’s Dilemma
Both the Television and Motion Picture academies have renounced physical screeners. Why does the SAG Awards insist on sending plastic DVDs?
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“The Night” Premieres on IFC Midnight
On Jan. 29, director Kourosh Ahari’s psychological thriller The Night premieres on IFC Midnight. Starring Cannes Award-winning actor Shahab Hosseini, The Night follows an exhausted married couple and their baby …
September’s the New January
The last few months have felt like eons, so I’m taking a page from Gretchen Rubin’s Outer Order, Inner Calm (page 213, as a matter of fact) and proclaiming that today, September 1, is …
April Showers Bring May Shows
If you’ve lost all sense of time during the pandemic, you’re not alone. I woke up this morning only realize it’s my sweet Denny’s birthday, which means it’s May, and …
“The Night” Premieres at SBIFF to Rave Reviews
Over Labor Day Weekend 2018, the lovely and talented Niousha Noor called to inquire if I could speak Farsi. There’s a film, she told me, that stars Shahab Hosseini (of …