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The injection of humor into screenwriter Eric Heisserer’s script enfeebles director David F. Sandberg’s take on the hoary haunted house scenario. The result is pedestrian, predictable, and inspires few chills. A 10-year-old (Gabriel Bateman) has a better reason than most kids his age for not being able to get to sleep. His demented mother (Maria […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – In an effort to help contemplative women religious renew their life and mission in the church and the world, Pope Francis issued a series of new rulings dealing with formation, assets, prayer life, authority and autonomy. The new rulings include a mandate that “initially, all monasteries are to be part of a […]
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By John Garvey
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg caused quite a stir this month by saying what was on her mind about Donald Trump to the New York Times. “I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president,” she said. If her husband were alive, she continued, he might have said, […]
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The tone is light and the emphasis on special effects heavy in this 3-D reboot of the franchise that began with the eponymous 1984 comedy. Director and co-writer Paul Feig shifts the gender balance of the original as three parapsychologists (Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon) band together to track the numerous ghosts that […]
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The tone is light and the emphasis on special effects heavy in this 3-D reboot of the franchise that began with the eponymous 1984 comedy.
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The nuptials turn nasty as this potentially enjoyable comedy from director Jake Szymanski departs from its initial promise as a conversion story and instead follows an all-too-familiar path to the gutter. Fed up with their misbehavior and womanizing at social events, the family of two hard-partying brothers (Zac Efron and Adam Devine) insist they bring […]
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Bankers, not cocaine smugglers, are the real villains in this lackluster adaptation of Robert Mazur’s memoir of his takedown of the Medellin drug cartel in the 1980s. Mazur (Bryan Cranston) a U.S. Customs agent, passes himself off as an international financier by day, yet manages to return each evening to a quiet domestic life in […]
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By Katie Scott
The heat and humidity caused everyone to move a little slowly, but it was a busy Saturday afternoon at the Lakeforrest Transit Center in Gaithersburg, Md. A bag of groceries at her feet, a mother of three young children wiped away sweat as she waited for her bus. In front of her, a young woman […]
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By Meredith Husar
Robert Tessier sits surrounded by more than 30 teens and young adults in the lobby of All Saints’ old church, now called the Parish Activity Center (PAC). He’s going through his notes from the previous night’s rehearsal and giving critiques – cues, blocking, timing – the countless small, but vitally important details that go into […]
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