With the nail firmly in Halloween’s coffin, it is time for a parade of holiday season fare. In theaters this week, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” wants to get on your merry ol’ to-do list ahead of buying the Thanksgiving turkey and stringing all those lights. An adaptation of Barbara Robinson’s 1972 children’s novel of
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Review: ‘Heretic’ horror flick weaponizes Hugh Grant’s charm
If “A Quiet Place” — the screenplay that put writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on the map — was a rather tight-lipped, high-concept monster movie where the characters could rarely speak, “Heretic,” their latest film, which they wrote and directed, is the opposite. This is a talky chamber piece of philosophical face-offs, debate duels
Xaverian and Brockton through the years
Xaverian and Brockton competed in nearly a quarter-century in one of the premier nonleague contests in New England before the series came to an end in 2021. The two schools will meet in the opening round of the 2024 Division 1 state tournament Friday night at the Hawk Bowl. Back by popular demand is
Alam: When every election is ‘the most important of our lives’
Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.” Brush this article off and reread it in a few years, and that will be the new “most important election of our lives,” when half the nation pretends to know precisely what’s best for the nation.