NEW YORK (CNS) — The heroine of “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (Disney) is not Lewis Carroll’s curious 7-year-old girl but rather an intrepid sea captain […]
Movie: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
Movie: ‘The Angry Birds Movie’
NEW YORK (CNS) — Take an addictive phone app, contrive a plot to “explain” motivations, chuck in puns, brief potty humor and lengthy slapstick sequences, and […]
Movie: ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’
NEW YORK (CNS) — Everything you need to know about the witless comedy “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” (Universal), you’ll learn from a description of the opening […]
Movie: ‘The Nice Guys’
NEW YORK (CNS) — The morally unstable tone of the clever action comedy “The Nice Guys” (Warner Bros.) is typified by the fictional resume of one […]
Author finds controversy in life of great-grandfather most saw as heroic
“Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army” by James Carson. University of North Texas Press (Denton, Texas, 2015). 432 pp., $32.95. As […]
Movie: ‘The Darkness’
NEW YORK (CNS) — A cut-rate budget leaves the possession-themed horror flick “The Darkness” (BH Tilt) looking more than a bit frayed around the edges. Big […]
Movie: ‘Last Days in the Desert’
NEW YORK (CNS) — “Who do you say that I am?” As has often been pointed out, this question — originally posed by Jesus to the […]
Movie: ‘Money Monster’
NEW YORK (CNS) — Forty years ago, Peter Finch gave an Oscar-winning performance in the black comedy “Network.” He played Howard Beale, a crazed television news […]