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The events chronicled in Kevin Macdonald’s film were set immediately into motion by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Mauritanian is chilling During a recent NPR interview with Sam Sanders for the Da 5 Bloods press junket, director Spike Lee alluded to something I’d never really considered, and maybe that makes me culturally illiterate; Hollywood’s propensity for making “victorious” Vietnam War films is a type of mass wish fulfillment, rooted in America’s unconscious desire for a second shot at a war that was such an obvious, unambiguous blunder in real life. In some ways, a similar principle applies to 9/11 cinema, if that can now be considered a proper genre of film. Whether or not you ...
Review: ‘The Mauritanian’ is a harrowing 9/11 thriller “The Mauritanian” is based on the true story of a suspected 9/11 terrorist imprisoned by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for years without being charged, and the American defense attorney who tirelessly champions his release before he is convicted and executed. 8:37 am, Mar. 9, 2021 × A photo of the World Trade Centers in the 1970s before hijacked airplanes flew into them as part of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil. Photo by History in HD on Unsplash.com BAXTER — “The Mauritanian...
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON: 3 ½ STARS If you look on IMDb, there are dozens of titles containing the phrase “dragon slayer.” Movie dragons, by and large have been of the Smaug variety, a beast “The Hobbit” author J.R.R. Tolkien described as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.” There are exceptions of course, like the “How to Train Your Dragon” creatures and the wyvern in “The Reluctant Dragon” who would rather recite poetry than cause havoc. “You’ve got to be mad to breathe fire,” he says, “but I’m not mad at anybody.” This week we can add Sisu...