Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari has long explored the quiet tensions and bureaucratic pressures of everyday life in Iran, from ...

Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story ...

Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of political films that defy the clichés of the post-9/11 Iraq ...

Action and sci-fi movies made in Hollywood in the 1980s and 1990s are often associated with a sort of mindless entertainment value, often being referred to as films from a time when "shut your brain ...

Although it is science-fiction to its core, director Bong Joon Ho‘s first film since his Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago is in many ways a not-that-absurd look at where we just might be headed as ...