A movie about the evils of prejudice reveals its biases. Perhaps the weakest scene in American Beauty is the one in which the brutal, homophobic Marine colonel played by Chris Cooper is revealed to be ...

“Towelhead’s” title is considered insensitive and definitely provocative. The film’s sexualization of a 13-year-old girl makes Miley Cyrus look like a kindergartner. It also questions basic ...

Towelhead is the feature film directorial debut of Alan Ball, best known as the screenwriter of American Beauty and "Six Feet Under". Based on the novel of the same name from Alicia Erian, the film is ...

Unbeknownst to us, the Council on American-Islam Relations (aka CAIR) has been arguing with Warner Brothers to change the name of the upcoming indie film Towelhead. Thankfully they resisted and in ...

If director Todd Solondz were to bring a Judy Blume book to the screen, "Towelhead" would be the result. With equal parts dark comedy and even darker drama, this coming-of-age tale takes an ...

Towelhead (R) (124 min.) - "Towelhead"is a cruel nickname assigned to Jasira Maroun (Summer Bishil), a 13-year-old Lebanese girl sent to live with her estranged father after her mother's boyfriend is ...

Alicia Erian's novel "Towelhead" had not yet been published when Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "American Beauty" and the creator of the acclaimed HBO series "Six Feet Under," devoured a ...

An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group has asked Warner Bros. to change the title of its upcoming film "Towelhead," saying "the word is commonly used in a derogatory manner against people of the ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

"Towelhead" is Alan Ball's smart but visually troubling adaptation of Alicia Erian's 2005 novel of the same name, which portrays a young Lebanese American girl becoming sexually aware in a bland ...