Sentences with phrase «war hero whose»

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund Director: Ang Lee Release Date: Nov. 11 What it's about: Based on a novel of the same name, the film follows an Iraq war hero whose victory tour back in the U.S. is interrupted by jarring flashbacks.

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

Not exact matches

Mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio's estranged father, a World War II hero whose life careened out of control because of alcohol, took his own life after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, public records reveal.

A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify.

In Avengers: Infinity War, the longest, priciest, and most - crowded crowd - pleaser ever to roll off the Marvel Studios assembly line, Earth's mightiest heroes face their most daunting challenge yet: an intergalactic nihilist whose dearest dream is to cleave the entire population of the universe in half.

They're led by staunch war hero Sergeant John O'Mara (Josh Brolin - whose authoritative, chiselled mug makes him as appropriate a 1940s screen cop as it's possible to find in the modern age).

Yet there are other reasons why Rowling's world endures, says Fogler, referencing mythologist Joseph Campbell, whose hugely influential book The Hero With a Thousand Faces inspired, among many other things, George Lucas» Star Wars.

After 10 years and 18 films, we finally arrive at Avengers: Infinity War, the first in a two - part showdown between Marvel's extraordinary roster of heroes and Thanos, an intergalactic genocidal tyrant played in CGI motion capture by Josh Brolin, whose starring appearance has been seeded throughout the preceding films.

Guy Pearce is Captain John Boyd, whose battle cowardice during the Mexican - American war inadvertently results in making him an accidental hero.

Joining the fray is Cable (Josh Brolin, currently doing double Marvel duty, as he's also Thanos in «Avengers: Infinity War»), a metal - armed warrior from the future who clashes with Deadpool, as well as a team of new heroes dubbed the X-Force whose participants are too good to give away.

Believe it or not, they are the heroes of this dark look at two men whose collision sparks a war of destructive one - upmanship that unravels their lives and, worse, their humanity.

He spends nearly a half - hour on a stagecoach ride that introduces a mustachioed fugitive tracker, John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, talking like John Wayne); his driver O.B. (James Parks); his prisoner, the treacherous outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's being escorted to Red Rock for hanging; incoming Red Rock sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former outlaw that Ruth can't accept as a lawman, and Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-slave turned anti-Confederate war hero turned bounty hunter whose record of wartime atrocities makes Ruth distrust him and Mannix hate his guts.

Screenwriter Stephen McFeely notes, according to Screenrant, that the bad guy is usually «a foil for the development of the hero» but Infinity War will flop that trope: «Our heroes are foils for the villain, whose story we need to tell at large.»

While Scott must weigh his own place in history, fighting what many consider a bully's war, Lee the engineer becomes Lee the hero, the one man in Scott's command whose extraordinary destiny as a soldier is clear.

After flushing your business, you head outside to South Park to see a war raging on in the streets as kids fight for control of the Stick of Truth from the previous game, but just as we get close The Coon jumps into the fray to warn all the kids of a danger ahead, a missing cat, whose capture could reward the heroes $ 100 to fund their superhero franchise.

Hot on the heels of Orson Welles's 1938 «War of the Worlds» broadcast came «Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars,» whose hero kept fit by wrestling an octopus in the aquarium of Ming the Merciless, an art deco eco-terrorist who set the stage for Michael Crichton's latest technothriller by changing Earth's climate with a Nitron raygun.