One of the most powerful documentaries I've ever seen also is one of the shortest. "All the Empty Rooms" has a simple premise: Reporter Steve Hartman, long known for his uplifting human-interest ...

Ali Cook’s The Pearl Comb arrives at a moment when genre filmmaking feels increasingly bloated, reminding audiences that horror, intelligent horror, still has the capacity to be intimate, layered, and ...

The writer-director reflects on his short film's unlikely rise through the festival circuit, the challenge of creating a ...

Beatie Edney in ‘The Pearl Comb.’ Photo Courtesy of Ali Cook. “The Pearl Comb,” starring Beatie Edney, is an award-winning British short film that was written and directed by Ali Cook (“Ragdoll”). It ...

Contrary to popular belief, the seaweed isn’t always greener in somebody else’s lake. In the case of Ali Cook’s Oscar-shortlisted short film The Pearl Comb, the county of Cornwall is flourishing in ...