Operation Christmas Drop is Netflix's latest heartwarming holiday movie that you may not anticipate is actually inspired by a true story. The basics: Alexander Ludwig plays Andrew, an Air Force captain, opposite Kat Graham as Erica, a congresswoman's aide. Andrew, other Air Force members, and volunteers are preparing for Operation Christmas Drop (Ocd), in which they drop gifts and supplies to islanders. Erica comes to the base with a mission from the congresswoman: to make a case for base closure. However, as she meets the Ocd helpers and the families they serve, the Christmas spirit fills her heart.
While the romance is fictional, the mission is based on a real, yearly Air Force tradition! Ocd is the Department of Defense's longest-running humanitarian airlift operation. It started in the 1952 Christmas season when a B-29 aircrew saw Kapingamarangi islanders waving at them. Feeling the love and the Christmas spirit, the...
While the romance is fictional, the mission is based on a real, yearly Air Force tradition! Ocd is the Department of Defense's longest-running humanitarian airlift operation. It started in the 1952 Christmas season when a B-29 aircrew saw Kapingamarangi islanders waving at them. Feeling the love and the Christmas spirit, the...
- 11/6/2020
- by Ashley Broadwater
- Popsugar.com
The latest installment of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s opus, Dark Nights: Metal #3, takes a powerful turn as Superman gets sucked into the Dark Multiverse like the gullible nut he is. While most of us thought this was lining up to be another Batman-centric event, it appears as if the Man of Steel was the one who Barbatos wanted all along.
With so much talk of heavy metal, this issue touches upon the event’s music theme rather well, with Damian and Jon’s jam and Batman’s warning to Clark and Diana being significant to the plot. Coupled with the dark imagery, this book could very well be the prototype for Ghost’s next album if you ask me.
From a narrative perspective, there’s an interesting twist as Superman and Nightwing have differing views on what to do next. At first, it appears as if Snyder is...
With so much talk of heavy metal, this issue touches upon the event’s music theme rather well, with Damian and Jon’s jam and Batman’s warning to Clark and Diana being significant to the plot. Coupled with the dark imagery, this book could very well be the prototype for Ghost’s next album if you ask me.
From a narrative perspective, there’s an interesting twist as Superman and Nightwing have differing views on what to do next. At first, it appears as if Snyder is...
- 10/11/2017
- by Sergio Pereira
- We Got This Covered
Chicago – Nick Frost has played character and comic roles as the affable sidekick, especially in the famed “Cornetto Trilogy” – “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz’ and “The World’s End” – alongside Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright. Frost is a leading man now, strutting his stuff on the salsa dance floor in “Cuban Fury.”
This high concept film has Bruce (Nick Frost) revisiting his childhood roots as a championship salsa dancer, after as an adult engineer he falls for his sales manager Julia (Rashida Jones). Turns out Jones is also into salsa, and Bruce believes that taking up the dance again is the best way to woo her. The film co-stars Chris O’Dowd as the rival suitor for Julia and Ian McShane as Bruce’s old salsa coach.
Nick Frost Puts on His Dancing Shoes in ‘Cuban Fury’
Photo credit: Entertainment One
Nick Frost was in Chicago to talk about “Cuban Fury,...
This high concept film has Bruce (Nick Frost) revisiting his childhood roots as a championship salsa dancer, after as an adult engineer he falls for his sales manager Julia (Rashida Jones). Turns out Jones is also into salsa, and Bruce believes that taking up the dance again is the best way to woo her. The film co-stars Chris O’Dowd as the rival suitor for Julia and Ian McShane as Bruce’s old salsa coach.
Nick Frost Puts on His Dancing Shoes in ‘Cuban Fury’
Photo credit: Entertainment One
Nick Frost was in Chicago to talk about “Cuban Fury,...
- 4/12/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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