A Habitat for Humanity event in Indiana pulled together almost 2,000 volunteers, generous contributions, celebrities and faith groups including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, both in their 90s, helping to build 23 single-family houses during the last week of August.
“The Nun” (Warner Bros.) is an ambitious undertaking with an immense budget and lush special effects the aim to rank as the “That’s Entertainment!” of Catholic-themed horror films.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler’s ability to tell a great story using ordinary characters with flaws and doubts endears her to many readers.
Those on the lookout for an above-average thriller boasting both surprising plot developments and upright basic values will probably be pleased with “Searching” (Screen Gems).
Whether one’s heritage is Irish or not, the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle continue to fascinate us. These two books offer a look at the past and the present, the gifts and the shadow side of the Irish and Celtic heritage.
Author Mary Elizabeth Sperry has tapped into the issue of decluttering in a unique, refreshing, positive and pragmatic way by using the teachings of the church.
A few flaws notwithstanding, “BlacKkKlansman” (Focus) represents an effective — and, strange as it may sound, often entertaining — look at the vicious racism lurking at the fringes of American life and perpetually aspiring to enter its mainstream.
Fifty years ago in an act of civil disobedience, Bob Graf and 13 of his friends broke into nine neighboring draft boards in a Milwaukee office building, grabbed thousands of 1-A records of men about to be called up, doused them in homemade napalm in a nearby park and set them afire.
