At the Berlin Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated director of 'It Was Just an Accident' declined his long-delayed Golden Bear and put the focus on Iranians killed and detained in a brutal crackdown.

Formalism gets a bum rap. No style carries intrinsic virtue, but formalism, at its best, is a powerful expression of political crisis, embodying realities too extreme for plain narration. In ...

Disney’s live-action Aladdin movie won’t be released until May, but Marwan Kenzari, 35, is already stealing the spotlight from the lead actor. That’s because fans just got a first look at the film and ...

Books & the Arts / His films show how a regime’s wrongdoing can upend one’s sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life. Alex Kong The photographs of Eugène Atget document the ghostly ...

Break out that combination hookah and coffee maker! Disney's live action Aladdin movie is moving closer and closer to reality, and I am so excited. After casting its three hero leads — Aladdin, ...

Within the storyline of Lorcana, a Jafar glimmer has repaired the Hexwell Crown, an artifact of immense power. Jafar has used the crown to take over Archazia’s Island (the name of the previous set) ...

Aladdin remains an iconic film from the Disney Renaissance era. The popularity of the movie led to a sequel and a live-action remake. One of the memorable characters in the animated film is Jafar, and ...

While Molly Shannon’s return to Studio 8H as host of Saturday Night Live was all the rage, it was Bowen Yang’s pitch-perfect Jafar from Disney’s Aladdin that really stole the spotlight. On the Weekend ...

The cast of Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue on Wednesday, giving fans their first look at how the characters will be brought to life ...

A self-identified “90s Disney kid,” Kara Carneal remembers watching “Aladdin” for the first time when her parents bought it on VHS. While she liked much of the storyline, Carneal says she just ...