One strong limb is missing from Amazon forest
The book cover is a dead giveaway. In a close-up photo, Notre Dame de Namur Sister Dorothy Stang flashes a joyously friendly smile and the expression in her eyes is vision-like—one has to believe that she really could see the forest for the trees.
Published in Books : Nov 26, 2007
The book cover is a dead giveaway. In a close-up photo, Notre Dame de Namur Sister Dorothy Stang flashes a joyously friendly smile and the expression in her eyes is vision-like—one has to believe that she really could see the forest for the trees.
Published in Books : Nov 26, 2007
Centuries of women who ‘answered the call’
Subtitled “21 stories for 21 centuries,” Joanne Turpin’s vignettes of her favorite female church leaders are neatly packed into a collection titled “Women in Church History.”
Published in Books : Nov 16, 2007
Subtitled “21 stories for 21 centuries,” Joanne Turpin’s vignettes of her favorite female church leaders are neatly packed into a collection titled “Women in Church History.”
Published in Books : Nov 16, 2007
The holiday season gets off to a surprisingly delightful start with "Fred Claus" (Warner Bros.), a generally funny yet bittersweet tale about Santa Claus, aka St. Nicholas (Paul Giamatti), and his older, neglected brother, Fred (Vince Vaughn).
Published in Movies : Nov 9, 2007
Silence has never been so excruciatingly terrifying as it registers in this latest film from the Coen brothers, based on a 2003 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy.
Published in Movies : Nov 9, 2007
"Bee Movie" (DreamWorks) may just do for bees what "Ratatouille" did for rats.
Published in Movies : Nov 2, 2007
"Martian Child" (New Line) is a delicate, highly unusual story -- based on David Gerrold's semiautobiographical short story, "The Martian Child" -- about widowed science fiction writer, David Gordon (John Cusack), with a yen for adopting a child to fill his empty life.
Published in Movies : Nov 2, 2007
Steve Carrell may be the best reason to see "Dan in Real Life" (Touchstone/Focus), a pleasantly amusing if unremarkable comedy.
Published in Movies : Oct 26, 2007
Much as we like to be supportive of family-friendly films, especially independent works made on modest budgets, "Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour" (Freestyle) is, we're afraid to say, the kind of Halloween film you'd be forgiven for wishing would be run out of town by parents armed with pitchforks and torches.
Published in Movies : Oct 26, 2007
Man’s frisky friend leaves an indelible paw print
If you have a special place in your heart for dogs, particularly supersized, awkward, hyperactive pooches, then you’ll want to sit down on some rainy autumn afternoon and step inside the pages of John Grogan’s memoir of his Labrador retriever, “Marley & Me.”
Published in Books : Oct 25, 2007
If you have a special place in your heart for dogs, particularly supersized, awkward, hyperactive pooches, then you’ll want to sit down on some rainy autumn afternoon and step inside the pages of John Grogan’s memoir of his Labrador retriever, “Marley & Me.”
Published in Books : Oct 25, 2007
The unusual bond between a young widow and her late husband's best friend is the focus of "Things We Lost in the Fire" (DreamWorks), a film which moves dexterously from moments of clever humor to painfully deep emotion. The result is captivating.
Published in Movies : Oct 19, 2007