To play the 40th president of the United States in this week’s laudatory biopic “Reagan” is something special for Dennis Quaid. Ronald Reagan is the latest real-life character he’s tackled. There was “The Right Stuff” astronaut Gordon Cooper, rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis in “Great Balls of Fire” and, he pointed out in a
“The Deliverance,” on Netflix Friday, tells of demonic possession inspired by “true events.” Director Lee Daniels (“Precious”) issued a statement saying, “I no longer look at this as a typical horror movie. Instead, it’s a call for a higher power. Rather than making you jump out of your seat every two seconds, I’m here to
On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition. Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the crew members toiling in a building without power had no obvious respite from the heat. Instead,
After getting swept by the Dodgers in Los Angeles to open the second half of the season, the Red Sox badly needed a reset. But it wouldn’t come Monday night, as they fell to the Colorado Rockies 9-8 in the 12th inning of yet another odd, frustrating game. Despite the Rockies being in last place