Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to popular belief, the seaweed isn’t always greener in somebody else’s lake. In the case of Ali Cook’s Oscar-shortlisted ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Ali Cook set out to make "The Pearl Comb," he never imagined the fantasy-tinged period short would end up among the year's most decorated films - let alone shortlisted for the Academy Award for ...

This Autumn, magician and screen actor Ali Cook, who is known for performing big tricks in tight spaces, takes his very highly acclaimed new show Principles Of Deception on a UK tour. Ali's magical ...

The Little Mermaid” it is not. “The Pearl Comb,” the haunting, occasionally chilling, deftly polemical directorial debut of British actor and writer Ali Cook, is a short film set in an English coastal ...

As a child, acclaimed magician Ali Cook was given a copy of a 1948 book, Principles and Deceptions. It was the first book to describe every type of magic trick and now Ali is going to perform them all ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed filmmaker Ali Cook for representation. Cook’s latest short, The Pearl Comb, has been one of the most decorated on the international circuit of late, earning over 70 awards.

Ali Cook was born on April 26, 1975 in Yorkshire, England. He is a Comedian, Magician, Actor and Writer, known for Kajaki (2014), In the Cloud (2018) and Mr Selfridge (2013).

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 ...

The writer-director reflects on his short film’s unlikely rise through the festival circuit, the challenge of creating a believable mermaid, and the real-world history that anchors its fantasy.