The event will honor the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was originally scheduled for May but had to be postponed due the pandemic, and now it’s been rescheduled again due to bad weather.
Director Mel Gibson pulls off strong, visceral battle sequences, but his film is weakened by subpar performances.
Nearly 2,000 names written in gold leaf, but why?
In Fritz Stern and Elizabeth Sifton’s new book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State, a little-known story of two early Hitler opposers paints a fascinating portrait of Nazi Germany.
“This memorial, it’s fantastic,” 91-year-old Charles Herd tweeted. “Just fantastic.”
Hear a recording of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech to the 1941 Academy Awards.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy, a pivotal moment in cracking the Nazis’ power in Europe. There were about 156,000 troops: 73,000 Americans and 83,115 British and Canadian, with most arriving from the English Channel. The U.S. Army has an extensive D-Day site, with a video (below) of memories from soldiers, maps and audio of General Dwight Eisenhower’s pre-Invasion message to troops:Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!…
There’s an textual epilogue at the end of Agnieszka Holland’s new Oscar-nominated World War II drama that confirms something that I suspected throughout the film: the director was angry. Like most movies that involve the Holocaust, this is a story of struggle against adversity and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable actions. But most of those films look at the atrocities with a sad resignation — what’s done is done, so better to mourn than to rage — that balances whatever triumphal notes there are in the story.
Kids, I just want to be clear on this point: performance enhancing drugs have no place in sports. Being that all’s fair in love and war, when faced with difficulties in either of those arenas, you go ahead and do what you need to do. It was war that birthed Captain America, née 98-pound weakling Steve Rogers. Chosen by the army for an innate courageousness that far outpaced the abilities of his scrawny body, he participates in an experimental program designed to use chemicals and some really cool-looking and completely unexplained technology to create a super-soldier. OK, so the rippling pecs don’t exactly hurt Rogers’ chances in the love department, either.
John Tweel and Madeleine Carr in ‘Improbable Frequency’. Photo by Dan Brick. The Capital Fringe Festival may be a hot, steamy, distant memory, but don’t tell Solas Nua that. To open their sixth season, the theater company has tapped into that festival’s rag-tag, anything-goes spirit with their first musical, Improbable Frequency. The play, written by Arthur Riordan, with music by an Irish group known as Bell Helicopter, actually did start out as a Fringe…
