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TimesLIVE
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- TimesLIVE
SA producer rides the bull of Hollywood
South African producer, Ruvé McDonough, has quietly been making a name for herself in Hollywood, bringing stories to film and television. Her latest project, The Last Rodeo, is a faith based, family film about overcoming obstacles. It's being pegged as 'Rocky on a bull' — that's the Hollywood pitch. It's more than that though. It's about getting up when you're knocked down, doing the right thing and believing in yourself when no one else does. It's about looking at yourself in the mirror when all your options are gone and saying: 'I can'. The Last Rodeo landed in South African theatres a few weeks ago and stars Ruvé's husband, Neal McDonough, who's acted in Captain America: The First Avenger, Flags of Our Fathers, Justice and The Minority Report...
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Memorial Day movie picks that honor the real cost of war and human sacrifice
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Behind every flag draped over a soldier's casket is a story of sacrifice, service, and silence, the kind that lives in the hearts of families long after wars end. This Memorial Day, instead of turning to action-packed war blockbusters, the moment calls for films that reflect the true human cost of is exactly why we have selected three Memorial Day war movies that focus on memory, morality, and loss, not just military strategy or battlefield victories. These stories, told by acclaimed directors and actors, allow us to remember soldiers not as mythic heroes but as real people carrying impossible read: Memorial Day 2025: History, wishes, quotes, and what's open & closed Directed by Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers (2006) explores the real story behind the iconic World War II flag-raising at Iwo Jima. Based on true events, the film centers on six men, John Bradley, Mike Strank, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, and Franklin Sousley, who raise the American flag during battle, unaware that a photograph of that moment will follow them for the rest of their war movie reveals how these surviving soldiers, including Ryan Phillippe as Bradley and Adam Beach as Hayes, are brought back to the United States and turned into national heroes for fundraising purposes. Yet behind the celebrations lies deep psychological trauma that continues long after the battlefield is of Our Fathers is currently streaming on Paramount Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) remains one of the greatest war movies ever made. The brutal Normandy invasion sequence earned Spielberg his second Best Director Oscar. But the heart of the film lies in Captain John H. Miller, played by Tom Hanks, and his squad's mission to save James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), the last surviving brother of four who went to read: Memorial Day 2025: What's open and closed — Banks, stock market, offices, schools, retail & grocery stores The film raises deep moral questions: Is one life worth the lives of many? At what cost do we honor a promise? These questions make Saving Private Ryan, now streaming on Peacock, essential Memorial Day returns to World War II in Greyhound (2020), portraying Navy Commander Ernie Krause as he leads a convoy through dangerous U-boat infested Atlantic waters. The film is a suspenseful portrait of leadership, faith, and fear under pressure, highlighting a lesser-known but critical aspect of the is streaming on Apple TV Plus.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Look Back: 80th anniversary of the American flag raising on Iwo Jima
Feb. 24—The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II. "Five days, one hour and 30 minutes after American Marines of the Fifth Division waded across the black beaches of the southern end of this island, the American flag flew for the first time from the summit of the 566-foot crater of Suribachi Yama," reported the Record on Feb. 26, 1945. History and Clint Eastwood's 2006 movie, "Flags of Our Fathers," have taught us a smaller American flag was initially raised but a military general wanted the smaller flag as a keepsake and had a much larger American flag raised in its place. Today, digital pictures and videos can be instantaneously transferred by way of the internet and cell phones. Back in 1945, pictures were taken on film that needed to be developed in dark rooms and videos were recorded on 8 and 16 mm film. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the American flag raising on Mount Suribachi by five Marines and one Navy corpsman that took place on Feb. 23, 1945. The patriotic picture of the flag raising was taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photograph. The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is widely known. Years after I moved away from my childhood home on Boland Avenue in Hanover Township, I learned a fellow resident of the same street fought on Iwo Jima and the Pacific theater during World War II. As kids racing bikes and building forts in the woods behind my childhood house, there was a man we knew as "old man Alex" who dug coal to heat his tiny wooden home. We also called him "Red" as he had a tint of red hair. We kids enjoyed Alex's company. He would talk to us in the woods about the "old days" or stop by and talk to us whenever we hung out at the Lee Park Playground. Alex was Alex Luckes, who was a captain of the Hanover Township football team his senior year in 1940 and played football at Duke University in North Carolina. It was in his sophomore year at Duke when Luckes enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in October 1942. After extensive research on and newspaper archives, I learned Luckes was called for service in July 1943, and attached to the 1st Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division based out of San Diego, Calif. The 5th Marine Division took part in the Battle of Iwo Jima that began Feb. 16, 1945, and ended March 26, 1945. Rosenthal's picture of the American flag raising, as widely reported, occurred on Feb. 23, 1945, several days after the Marine landing on Iwo Jima. Luckes, whom I've previously written about in a 2020 Look Back, died June 20, 1996, and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Hanover Township. Reporter's note: I have a poster of Rosenthal's picture of the American flag raising in my basement home gym — the only poster hanging on the walls.
