STX Entertainment’s The Mauritanian follows the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unjustly jailed by the U.S. for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay for being a 9/11 plot suspect, and his attorney Nancy Hollander who crusaded against the legal system for his freedom. French actor Tahar Rahim plays Slahi and Jodie…
Jodie Foster is back in the awards game this season, having recently been Golden Globe-nominated for her supporting role in The Mauritanian and getting renewed Oscar buzz as well. This represents her eighth Globe nomination (she is also a past recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press’ Cecil B. DeMille Award), the…
As the specialty box office space continues to navigate the digital VOD and day and date waters, numbers are trickling in but, again, they don’t necessarily give a solid reflection of a film’s box office performance as they did in the before-times (aka pre-Covid). On this President’s Day holiday weekend, award season…
True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and…
Mohamedou Ould Salahi endured unimaginable horror as an inmate of the U.S. government's notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 14 years. In all that time, no charge was ever leveled against him, and with the help of his tireless lawyer Nancy Hollander, who weathered extreme criticism for representing…
On Radioactive, production designer Michael Carlin created a sense of enormous scope with a relatively modest budget, recreating period environments from five countries, for a story spanning more than a century.
Based on a graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, the drama tells the story of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike), the…
The Mauritanian asks a lot of its audience.
Its central figure, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, spent years locked up at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government, accused but never directly convicted or charged of being a terrorist in league with and aiding those who attacked the United States on 9/11, and even confessing to that…
Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster's output has slowed in recent years. And it is not a paucity of roles, she says, but rather a decision to become more selective about what she…
Nearly 20 years after the September 11 attacks, Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian takes a deeper look into the legal aftermaths following the years-long trial of the once-accused Mohamedou Ould Slahi.
In the trailer for STXfilms title that dropped today, Jodie Foster’s Nancy Hollander attempts to do the difficult…
