An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny.

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set ...

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

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 ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... upstaging each other in their respective death scenes. Meanwhile, the film offers an element of romantic comedy as Fayruz sparks chemistry with Abu Dice (Callum ...

In season 2 of Severance, Alia Shawkat joins the cast as Gwendolyn Y., a new member of the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) department. Gwendolyn Y. is one of three fresh faces welcoming Mark Scout ...

Three days have passed since Bianca Censori decided to break the internet by showing up on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards in a transparent dress, baring her body completely uncensored and ...

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 ...