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Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia is the outsized setting for this concert film featuring the diminutive comic. His language gets raunchy, but his routine is never bawdy, mean-spirited or smutty. Vocabulary aside, there are two main problems here: A framing device of Hart in a James Bond-style movie, directed by Tim Story, isn’t particularly funny […]
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Yet another action figure leaps off the toy store shelves and onto the big screen in this derivative coming-of-age superhero chronicle, directed by Stewart Hendler. A gangly 16-year-old boy (Ben Winchell) is transformed by the universe’s most powerful form of energy and gains a robotic sidekick (voice of Josh Brener) to go along with his […]
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Absurdly convoluted and morally bankrupt action-drama about an autistic man (Ben Affleck) with an innate genius for crunching numbers and the learned ability to kill with brutal precision. After years working as a forensic accountant for criminal enterprises worldwide, the deeply flawed protagonist takes on a legitimate client; in the process, he meets a young […]
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Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in this moving dramatization of the life of Nat Turner, an enslaved Virginian whose eponymous 1831 rebellion represented the most serious challenge of its kind ever posed to slavery in the antebellum South. Taught to read at an early age, Turner becomes a preacher whose gifts are turned to […]
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Parents may not care for the underlying message of this comedy for kids in which an artistically gifted but mildly troubled preteen (Griffin Gluck) rebels against the excessive discipline enforced by the rigid principal (Andy Daly) of his new school. Though his revolt, in which he’s aided by his best friend (Thomas Barbusca) and supported […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — U.S. bishops are scheduled to elect the next president and vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at their upcoming fall general assembly taking place Nov. 14-16 in Baltimore. Each office is elected from a slate of 10 candidates who have been nominated by their fellow bishops. Released by the USCCB, […]
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By Zoey Maraist
One of the happiest moments of Justin Kenny’s life was the day he learned he had been accepted to Marymount University in Arlington. For a Rhode Island native interested in journalism, it seemed like the perfect college: a small liberal arts school with a communications department, next to the nation’s capital. Still, his lackluster grades […]
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By Elizabeth A. Elliott
A suspicious fire Oct. 17 at the Paul Stefan Foundation’s Regional Maternity Center in Orange appears to have been an attempt to stop the foundation from — as their motto says — “saving babies, one mom at a time.” The fire, which started in one of the back rooms on the first floor, was discovered […]
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By Elizabeth A. Elliott
After Jesuit Father David Collins, 51, announced he would major in history at the University of Virginia, his mother, Katherine, urged him to minor in something practical. “He showed me,” she said. Father Collins is a history professor at Georgetown University in Washington and recently chaired its Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation that […]
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Father Michael J. Morris, former military chaplain, died Oct. 23. He was 54. He was in residence at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield. He was born June 24, 1962, in Denver, Colo., the son of George and Maria Morris. He attended the University of Alabama Birmingham for undergraduate studies and earned two Master’s Degrees during […]
