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Abdullah Al-Hamdan refused to buckle. Rather than hide from the public criticism and the brutal attacks that have followed him lately, the Saudi Arabia star stepped up to take the first penalty against Qatar on Saturday in the semi-final of the Arabian Gulf Cup.

Interviewing director Francis Lawrence causes a strong desire to insert, at one point or another, the iconic line from The Hunger Games—“May the odds be ever in your favor.” The impulse is understandable (I’ve gone ahead and given in to it), but in the case of Lawrence, he largely made his own odds favorable through…

No matter how difficult the conditions, there’s only one thing that matters to these artists: making films.