NEW YORK (CNS) — One can only hope that “X-Men: Apocalypse” spells not the end of the world, as the title implies, but the conclusion of […]
Movie: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
Despite flaws, book offers excellent insights into Bible women
“Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament: Their Enduring Lessons” by T.J. Wray. Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland, 2016). 233 pp., $26.95. The author, who […]
Movie: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
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: ‘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 […]