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The Serpent, Rahim a toujours fait preuve dun talent remarquable pour ce qui est dinjecter de la chaleur humaine dans les personnages les plus accablés rien quen ouvrant ses yeux lumineux, ou à travers des expressions faciales très fines. Il le fait extraordinairement bien dans le rôle de cet homme qui sest battu avec les moudjahidines contre les Soviétiques. Il donne à Mohamedou une dose d’humanité, tout en laissant de la place pour le doute quant à son implication, ou pas, dans des ...

The Serpent, Rahim has a remarkable talent for bringing warmth to the most pained characters by opening his luminescent eyes or through perceptive facial movements. He does this to tremendous effect playing a man who once fought alongside the Mujahideen against the Soviets. He gives Mohamedou a dose of humanity, while also leaving some room for doubt over his involvement, or lack thereof, in heinous crimes. Somehow, he makes Slahi obstinate, but also warm and courteous. He makes us want to beli...

The Beat 92.5 Our first look at Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Spencer By Rick Da Conceicao Neon Neon has released the first image of Stewart from the upcoming film Spencer in which she plays the late royal. The movie is set over the course of a single weekend in Diana’s life as she spends the Christmas holiday with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The film tracks Diana’s emotional journey as she comes to a decision to leave her marriage to Prince Charles. "De...

‘The Mauritanian’: Film Review David Rooney The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker ( Touching the Void) with a more uneven track record in narrative features ( The Last King of Scotland is probably strongest among them), and this legal procedural remains strangely flat, des...

A politically charged legal thriller with only an intermittent pulse. TWITTER 2/19/2021 Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch star as lawyers on opposing sides of a habeas corpus case in Kevin Macdonalds drama based on the memoir of a longtime Guantánamo Bay detainee, played by Tahar Rahim. Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base i...

The Artists Wife). On May 13, 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a sophomore at Harvard, took his own life. The night before, Wilcox confessed to his brother that he was gay and had been having an affair with a Boston man. Wilcoxs confession led Harvard to create a Secret Court to investigate claims of gay activity on campus. Eight students, four “accomplices,” and a handful of locals were tried by the court. The students were expelled and purged from official records. The incident was kept secret until 2...

27 December 2020 Share with: Zachary Quinto is headed back to college to tell a tragic century-old story about homophobia at Harvard University. The Star Trek actor will voice and produce the scripted audio series about events which took place at the top U.S. university in 1920, when staff members quietly removed a group of gay students, following the tragic suicide of one of them, named Cyril Wilcox. Academic leaders had founded their own Secret Court to investigate the death, which led not o...

Rolling Stone The Best Podcasts of 2020 From those covering urgent social issues to detailed stories of low-stakes mysteries, there were plenty of great new podcasts in 2020 By Illustration by Rolling Stone, Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/AP Images (Nosrat) Like so many other parts of our lives, podcasts were different this year. For people suddenly working remotely, there were no more commutes. Instead, podcasts soundtracked evenings making dinner, weekends doing chores, long walks t...

Producers Mynette Louie, Mollye Asher and Derek Nguyen are behind the new indie banner. Spotlight producer Topic Studios has signed a first-look deal with The Population, the independent production company formed by Nomadland producer Mollye Asher, Mynette Louie and Derek Nguyen. The Populationss first two films are I Carry You With Me from director Heidi Ewing and Sony Pictures Classics,  and Swallow from director Carlo Mirabella-Davis and IFC Films. The first look deal expands ties betwee...

God’s Time.  Topic Studios executive vice president Maria Zuckerman commented: “Topic Studios has a great track record of working with top talent across multiple formats and successfully supporting creators as they explore new mediums. In this spirit, we couldn’t be more excited and thrilled to collaborate with the gifted storytellers of The Population. We look forward to partnering with the accomplished trio of Mynette Louie, Mollye Asher and Derek Nguyen to bring many very special proj...