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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simon & Schuster, 315 pp, $32, hardcover. Try not to flinch. No, Towelhead isn't you when you swaddle your wet hair after a shower and preen idly in the steamed-up mirror. Arab-American author Alicia ...

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 ...

Alan Ball’s feature directing debut is an edgy and biting look at suburbia and the coming of age story of a young girl in this awkward and interesting environment. Jasira is a Lebanese/White girl who ...