In a series of four books, the adventures of the titular hero picked up on the literary exploration of the absurdity of military life that has accompanied conflict, from Alphonse de Vigny in the Bourbon restoration through good soldier Schweik’s adventures in the Great War to Hawkeye and Trapp...
They were first opened to the public at the turn of the 20th century and have since been used for munitions storage (during World War I, to cater for overflow from the Woolwich Arsenal), mushroom growing, and, during World War II provided accommodations for some 15,000 people as one of ...
During World War II, Murphy rose from private to first lieutenant and received the Medal of Honor. He enjoyed a brief postwar career as a Hollywood actor and portrayed himself in a celluloid version of his combat experiences. Born near Kingston, Texas on June 20, 1925 – the date later bec...
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and began as a child actor on BBC radio’s Children’s Hour initially recruited as a Bevin Boy, that is a conscripted mine worker, towards the end of the war he was recruited into the Seaforth Highlanders, and with this unit went to India and then ...
By Debbie Diamond Sarto | Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 2:23pm The streamer’s sizzling summer anime offerings include new ‘Suicide Squad Isekai’ episodes dropping Thursdays and the complete Season 1 of ‘Bloom into You’ and ‘I'm Quitting Heroing’ debuting July 15. In 2D, 3D, Anime,...
Henry Cavill's latest movie, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, has defied its box office performance and critics' reviews to top the chart of the actor's personal list of Rotten Tomatoes audience scores. Directed by Guy Ritchie, the WWII-based action-blockbuster pairs Cavill with an all...
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Jean Cocteau's greatest film takes the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (He: head over heels in love; She: also head over heels but inconveniently stuck in the netherworld) and updates it to a menacing, post-war Paris. Orpheus, played by the devilishly debonair Jean Marais, is a poet plung...
There is now a third movie in what could now be referred to asfranchise. Like the titular shape-shifting creature, the story and basic premise ofhas mutated and adapted to the themes, issues and even fears of the various times in which the films were made. ...
actor.We discuss how my time spent with my family in Soviet Occupied Czechoslovakia helped me navigate my later relationship with the head of my graduate acting program, Andrei Serban, who is Romanian. Then, I explain how Joseph Campbell’s scholarly work on mythology and hero journeys, helped...