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Thirteen Lives review: Tham Luang cave rescue film is good, but it could have been extraordinary

The tension of this true-life tale – starring Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen – grips like a vice

The Independent UK

‘Thirteen Lives’: Ron Howard’s film depicts Thai cave rescue at both epic and intimate scale

Heroes dive for hours to save the trapped boys in intense, real-life adventure.

Chicago Sun-Times

Movie review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ an enthralling dramatization of effort to rescue youth soccer team from cave in Thailand

The effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand that captured the world’s attention in 2018 is rivetingly depicted in one of the best directorial efforts by prolific filmmaker Ron Howard.

Tribune News Service

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Thirteen Lives review – Ron Howard’s Thai cave-rescue saga told with non-Hollywood heroics

Howard gives this stunning true story the Apollo 13 treatment but swerves Elon Musk’s grotesque ‘pedo’ comment

The Guardian - UK

Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue

Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explains

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Silly distraction’ Elon Musk ignored for rescue film

In Today’s Diary: Elon Musk ignored by rescue film/ Jimmy Carr’s got a new job/ Producers take pity on outdoor performers/ MP Rehman Chishti on the audacity of hope

Evening Standard

Ron Howard Celebrates the Power of Many in Thai Cave Rescue Retelling

Four years on from the dramatic rescue of a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand, their story has been told by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard in "Thirteen Lives”. The boys, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach, were exploring the Tham…

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New movie celebrates Tham Luang cave rescue

Four years on from the dramatic rescue of a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand, their story has been told by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard in “Thirteen Lives”.

Bangkok Post

Ron Howard celebrates the power of many in Tham Luang cave rescue retelling

LONDON: Four years on from the dramatic rescue of a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand, their story has been told by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard in “Thirteen Lives”.

Bangkok Post

Ron Howard celebrates the power of many in Thai cave rescue retelling

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Reuters

Potsie for mayor? 'Happy Days' alum Anson Williams says he's running for office in Ojai, California

LOS ANGELES — Potsie for ... mayor? "Happy Days" actor Anson Williams is planning to run for office in his hometown of Ojai, in Ventura County.

Los Angeles Times

With 'Thirteen Lives,' Ron Howard Revisits Thai Cave Rescue

The dramatic rescue of 12 youth football players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018, a captivating operation already revisited in an award-winning documentary, is now getting the big-screen dramatic treatment from Ron Howard. "Thirteen Lives" hits theaters in North America on July 29, and the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bryce Dallas Howard marks 16th wedding anniversary with Seth Gabel: ‘I am more in love with you than ever’

The couple married in 2006 after five years of dating

The Independent UK

With 'Jurassic World' ending, Bryce Dallas Howard is ready for her next act (hint: It's not acting)

LOS ANGELES — Midway through an aside about her grandparents' traveling vaudeville days, Bryce Dallas Howard's eyes light up. A scoop of gelato has arrived during a break in a jet-setting press tour: "Sustenance!" she exclaims. Alas, it is more than she bargained for. Now an array of way too…

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The Guardian - UK

What links Nixon and the Kennedys to the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park? We go down a rabbit hole to find out

With a new Jurassic World film on the loose, let’s follow Laura Dern, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Nixon down the rabbit hole on a dinosaur hunt

Tribune News Service

Bo Hopkins, versatile film actor from ‘American Graffiti,' dies at 80

Bo Hopkins, an actor made a memorable impression in films from the 1960s through 2020, died on Saturday. He was 80.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chef José Andrés trying to feed every person who needs hope, new documentary shows

Andrés has been showing up to calamitous situations with World Central Kitchen for 12 years. The organization is the subject of a new documentary, “We Feed People,” directed by Oscar winner Ron Howard.

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'We Feed People' chronicles chef José Andrés' efforts to help people in crisis

Ron Howard's absorbing new documentary about chef José Andrés and his nonprofit relief organization, World Central Kitchen, opens with Andrés' team navigating flooded roads to deliver food after 2018's Hurricane Florence. Soon enough we'll see him visiting Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, then Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in…

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What to stream: 'We Feed People' and other recent documentaries from Ron Howard

Ron Howard’s latest NatGeo documentary, “We Feed People,” premieres Friday on Disney+, and it follows a man who you’ve likely seen in the news or on social media in the past few years. Mr. Rogers once said, in times of trouble, to “look for the helpers,” and it seems, these…

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do May 19-25 in Chicago

“Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations,” the Long Grove Chocolate Fest and a National Tap Dance Day celebration are among the cool things to see and do in the week ahead.

The Independent UK

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ director Ron Howard ‘surprised’ by JD Vance’s far-right politics

Vance is the Republican nominee for the US Senate in Ohio, where he will face Democratic congressman Tim Ryan in November

Los Angeles Times

If this new TV show outrages the Mormon church, 'they have themselves to blame'

Dustin Lance Black first picked up a copy of "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" nearly two decades ago. For someone who was raised in a conservative Mormon household but had since left the faith, it still felt dangerous.

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

Los Angeles Times

How the Oscars have, and haven’t, changed since Halle and Denzel’s historic victories

LOS ANGELES — Twenty years ago, Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind” won four Academy Awards including best picture, beating out “Gosford Park,” “In the Bedroom,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” and “Moulin Rouge!”

Los Angeles Times

Why Halle Berry deserved her Oscar win — and who didn’t — 20 years ago

The worst Oscar wins don’t age well after 30 seconds; the best endure for decades. On the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Oscars, Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang and columnist Glenn Whipp put their heads together to relitigate the winners in eight major categories — and to offer…

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