4 h. ago ‘Logs falling from the sky’: the harrowing true story behind wildfire drama The Lost Bus

Paul Greengrass’s anxiety-inducing new disaster drama relives the devastating 2018 Camp fire in California, a day relived by its survivors hereSchoolteacher Mary Ludwig gets goose bumps when she remembers the first time she met bus driver Kevin McKay. “I said, ‘Who the heck are you?’” she says via Zoom. “’Cause I knew all the bus drivers from field trips. He’s like, ‘I’m Kevin McKay.’ I said, ‘You’d better be good!’”The pair were setting off on a terrifying, five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary school students as the Camp fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. It was the start of a beautiful friendship. “That day I met a stranger and put my complete trust in that stranger and today we’re very close, lifelong friends,” Ludwig adds. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago The harrowing true story behind Matthew McConaughey's The Lost Bus

The Lost Bus has just dropped on Apple TV+ and stars Matthew McConaughey as a bus driver who risks his life to save children and their teacher from a devastating fire

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6 d. ago ‘Masterfully performed’ period drama based on ‘harrowing’ true story now streaming

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7 d. ago Matthew McConaughey & America Ferrera Bring ‘The Lost Bus’ to London

Matthew McConaughey & America Ferrera Bring ‘The Lost Bus’ to London  Just Jared

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7 d. ago Matthew McConaughey: The Lost Bus being a true story ‘gives me more purpose’

The film tells the story of bus driver Kevin McKay, who had to navigate a bus carrying children and their teacher to safety in 2018.

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2 w. ago The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in dynamic real

McConaughey plays the unassuming real hero who drove a schoolbus full of children out of California’s deadliest wildfireThe political context has been scorched away in Paul Greengrass’s empowering inferno. This is a dynamically shot and earnestly performed real-life disaster movie about California’s terrifying 2018 Camp fire, a darkness-at-noon horror that became the deadliest wildfire in California history, killing 85 people and razing more than 150,000 acres. Greengrass and co-screenwriter Brad Ingelsby have taken their inspiration from Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, about the calamity and the ironically named town caught up in it, pointing up the extraordinary, unassuming courage of school-bus driver Kevin McKay who piloted a busload of screaming kids and their teacher through hell to safety.America Ferrera plays the caring, if slightly prim teacher Mary Ludwig and Matthew McConaughey is the rough, sweaty everyman hero be...

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