An Arkansas priest-inventor had a hand in creating the candy canes that you know and love this time of year.
Priest’s ‘sweet secret’: He invented machine that ‘hooked’ the candy cane
Movie: ‘Downsizing’
An odd combination of elements makes up the offbeat drama “Downsizing.” But the residue that remains with viewers is ultimately a positive one.
Movie – ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” (Columbia) is an amusing comic adventure finds a quartet of teens magically transported into an old video game where they inhabit the avatars they chose before the start of play.
Movie: ‘All the Money in the World’
By turns suspenseful, darkly comic and stridently moral, “All the Money in the World” (Sony), a slightly fictionalized account of a famous kidnapping, makes a strong case that immense wealth not only can’t buy happiness, it also imposes depths of misery that few ever know.
Movie: ‘The Greatest Showman’
The life of pop entertainment pioneer P.T. Barnum provides the subject matter for the big, brash musical “The Greatest Showman” (Fox).
Novelist reimagines how Dickens’ beloved Christmas tale came to be
While the new Dickens movie, “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” is an adaptation of a nonfiction book “A Christmas Carol,” author and screenwriter Samantha Silva has written a new fictionalized account of Dickens titled “Mr. Dickens and His Carol.”
Chaplain says 40 years with bowl-bound Badgers ‘a wonderful experience’
When the Wisconsin Badgers’ football team travels to the Orange Bowl to play Miami Dec. 30, the players will take a 12-1 record with them. Accompanying them will be Msgr. Michael Burke, who has been the team’s chaplain for 40 years.
Movie: ‘Ferdinand’
By John Mulderig NEW YORK (CNS) — Generations of children have fallen in love with the peace-loving protagonist of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 classic […]