HBO has put in development Elisabeth, an hourlong romantic drama that has Patricia Clarkson attached to star and executive produce. The series, set in the world of international politics, hails from ...

Forget Liam Neeson and "Taken 7," or whatever carbon-copied version they're on now. Forget Sean Penn in the copycat thriller "The Gunman," which lands in theaters this weekend. You want Hollywood's ...

It's hard to imagine an upside to the civil war now causing unspeakable suffering in Syria. But the conflict has turned out to be a break for the makers of Inescapable, a feverish political thriller ...

In Canadian writer/director Ruba Nadda’s elegant and oddly topical thriller Inescapable, Adib Abdul-Kareem (Alexander Siddig) is a computer operations manager at a Toronto bank who fled Syria some 30 ...

It was especially sweet for director Ruba Nadda when her "Cairo Time" won best Canadian feature film at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. By Scott Roxborough, The Associated Press ...

It’s always a pleasure to gaze at Patricia Clarkson in close-up; this velvet-voiced actress has long mesmerized on screen, barely needing a script to tell a story. The best moments in Ruba Nadda’s ...

Ruba Nadda's "Cairo Time" is a film seeking poetry and not quite finding it.Shot on location in Egypt, it has the setting. With Patricia Clarkson as a visiting wife left alone by her waylaid husband, ...

Oscar winner Marisa Tomei and “Fringe” star Joshua Jackson are joining the political thriller “Inescapable” for writer-director Ruba Nadda (“Cairo Time”). They join lead actor Alexander Siddig ...

Love was in the air — not to mention on the screen — at Monday’s New York premiere of “Cairo Time,” held at Cinema CC. Writer-director Ruba Nadda conceived the film as a “love letter to Cairo,” ...

She'll reunite with producer Alan Poul ("Six Feet Under") and "Cairo Time" writer Ruba Nadda for "Elisabeth" By Lesley Goldberg Patricia Clarkson - H 2014 Elisabeth is described as a romantic drama ...

Helmer Ruba Nadda had the usual complement of crew members when she filmed “Cairo Time” in the Egyptian capital, including cinematographer, production designer, 1st a.d., costume designer, censor.