If you thought goats were weird, though, a certain set of animatronic Innies would like to have a quick word. Episode four, ...

A biting satire set inside a military role-playing facility, “Atropia,” which stars Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny, follows an aspiring actor who falls in love with a soldier ...

At the heart of both the short and Atropia is Alia Shawkat’s Fayruz, whose Iraqi heritage and commitment to character lend her an overwrought self-seriousness played for laughs. That obscene ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came to California in the hopes of becoming a famous Hollywood actress. Instead, she wound up in “The Box,” playing an Atropian DVD seller ...

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt was recently linked to jewelry designer Sat Hari Khalsa and also to Alia Shawkat. On the work front, Angelina Jolie has been gearing up for her Marvel film 'Eternals' wherein she ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...

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.

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. More from ...

Rose Byrne, Alia Shawkat and Rachel Sennott lead the stars attending day three of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On Saturday, high-profile celebrities flocked events held by ...

Director and writer, Hailey Gates, along with lead actors Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner of 'Atropia,' drop in at our studio in Park City talk about the process adapting a short film and turning ...