"The Stoning of Soraya M." is not for casual viewing. Based on a true story, this powerful film recounts the murder of a wrongly accused woman in a small Iranian village in 1986. Needless the say, the ...

"The Stoning of Soraya M." is an undiluted attack on execution by stoning, a practice still employed in sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, the ...

R: disturbing sequence of brutal violence, strong language; 1:54 Manipulating religion for the purposes of personal gain is explored in the often startling telling of "The Stoning of Soraya M," based ...

Director Cyrus Nowrasteh on 'Young Messiah' Los Angeles, Calif. - Cyrus Nowrasteh has spent his entire life caught in between cultural viewpoints. Born in the U.S., his parents moved him back to their ...

Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo and Mozhan Marno. (In English and Farsi with English subtitles, Rated R, 114 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "The Stoning of Soraya M." opens ...

Those who want to know the truth about Iranian justice must see Cyrus Nowrasteh’s gripping feature documentary film “The Stoning of Soraya M.” The film – based on the book written by Friedounce ...

"The Stoning of Soraya M." Movie Review-- In a dusty village in Iran, a man wants to be rid of his wife, Soraya, so he can marry his mistress (and avoid alimony). So, to cover up his own adulteries, ...

Vachik Mangassarian, a character actor with dozens of credits including Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Curb Your Enthusiasm and feature The Stoning of Soraya M., has died. He was 78. His reps at ...

Jim Caviezel, Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Stoning of Soraya M. This powerful adaptation of a 1994 book by French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam of the same title exposes the inhuman practice of ...

The Stoning of Soraya M. opens at sunrise in a remote Iranian village. A woman in black walks with purpose to a riverbank, where she shoos a dog from a pile of bones. She washes them carefully. She ...

Plays for much of its running time like a dime-store version of Arthur Miller, only to conclude in a wrenching, extraordinarily brutal sequence that is as upsetting as it is moving. Zahra (Aghdashloo) ...