"A New Lease on Death" is the ninth episode of Poker Face, and brings in an all-star list of guest stars. Awkwafina and Alia ...

The ninth episode of Poker Face Season 2, “A New Lease on Death,” opens on Anne Saint Marie (Lauren Tom), an elderly woman ...

In this week’s episode of Peacock's Poker Face, "A New Lease on Death, star ” Natasha Lyonne and guest stars Awkwafina and ...

In 11 Questions , The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our ...

Alia Shawkat, Kumail Nanjiani, Seth Rogen and More Join Kristen Stewart in ‘The Wrong Girls’ at Neon Dylan Meyer makes her directorial debut with the film, which also stars LaKeith Stanfield ...

Aspiring actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat) works at Atropia, a simulated country created by the U.S. military for immersive ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, ... ‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner Have the Year’s Weirdest Romance in a Scattershot Iraq War Satire.

Shawkat’s character, the struggling actress Fayruz, is one of the few participants of Iraqi origin, as well as one of its few Arabic speakers. She’s completely dedicated to her part, ...

Shawkat is an actress who hopes to leverage playing a role at the fake village into “stardom” as Shawkat puts it. “In this place she’s kind of a big fish in a small pond.” ...

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.

Logline: When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. Welcome to ...