Encore: The Scholar's Reward

Recorded live in Parker, CO, this magical Palestinian tale introduces you to wisecracking elders, wayward felines, and the unexpected rewards generosity can bring. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here. 

Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Thelma, Eleanor the Great) headlines a Jewish Turkish story about taking a wrong turn and finding the right prize. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here. 

Charlet Takahashi Chung (Wylde Pak, Rugrats) stars in a Japanese folktale about a clever farmer who gives herself a helping hand... and foot! Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here. 

Fin janvier, à un peu plus d’un mois des Oscars, Emilia Pérez, le film du réalisateur français Jacques Audiard, semblait lancé sur l’autoroute du succès. Ce long métrage, mi-thriller mi-comédie musicale, raconte l’histoire d’un narcotrafiquant mexicain qui fait appel à une avocat ... Show More

Susan Sarandon, the actor whose five decade career has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Best Actress, joins the pod to talk about her early days as a God-fearing Catholic kid in New Jersey. She details the unexpected and serendipitous path that l ... Show More

This week on the pod, Anthony is joined by Nour and Nadim as they discuss Twitch's stupid new policy around the word "zionist" and Ethan Klein's role in the matter. They're also ranking the best and worst Lebanese Hollywood celebs! 

The Seed of the Sacred Fig was (secretly) shot in Iran with Iranian actors and an Iranian director. But it’s Germany’s submission for Best International Film.This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Bo ... Show More

This week Lara and Michael sit down with Jewish anti-zionist activist and writer Amanda Gelender. We discuss how the Jewish community has a major fascism problem in Zionism; and how to best bring it to an end. Amanda speaks frankly that Jewish ally-ship is not more important than ... Show More

This week Lara and Michael sit down to talk about the zionist pogroms in Turumusaya, a town in the occupied West Bank. We share accounts of some of the victims of the pogrom some of them Palestinian Americans visiting home for the first time in twenty years. Lara recaps her famil ... Show More

In front of an audience at Chapman University, the trailblazing actress, producer, director and activist reflects on the unlikely path to her breakthrough role in the indie film 'Real Women Have Curves'; becoming the first Latina ever to win the best actress in a comedy series Em ... Show More

Still awash in the 'Parasite' afterglow, we drill down on some of the lingering questions from the 92nd Oscars submitted by you, the listeners (1:17). Has 'Parasite' undone the wrongs that the Academy inflicted on Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’? What happened to ‘Once Upon a Time … in H ... Show More

This week's episode of the Empire Podcast brings you not one but two Oscar winners, as first Chris Hewitt sits down with Michelle Yeoh to talk about her new Star Trek movie, Section 31, and how the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once changed her life [20:56 - ... Show More