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‘Resident Evil’ returns to nasty roots

“Resident Evil” has evolved over the last 20 years, from a humble horror game set in a solitary haunted mansion to a globe-spanning epic in which humanity is fighting for its very existence. Along the way it has lost much of its charm. When 2012’s “Resident Evil 6” gave up ...

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding award goes to Octavia Spencer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Octavia Spencer has another honor to go along with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar: Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.Spencer accepted the honor Thursday and used the opportunity to pay homage to Mary Tyler Moore and talk about her ...

‘Bending the Arc’ an inspiration

PARK CITY, Utah – The story of the global nonprofit Partners in Health is the story of a few young idealists who couldn’t have started any smaller – trying to deliver primary health care in rural Haiti 30 years ago. With no structures, little money, undaunted spirits and a belief that all ...

McConaissance reaches its limits

The Reformation toppled the Renaissance, but the decline of the McConaissance is harder to delineate.It was probably inevitable that Matthew McConaughey’s bold rebirth – that terrific run of “True Detective” “Magic Mike,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Interstellar,” “Mud” ...

CMU graduate Adams gets breakout role in ‘Roxanne’

PARK CITY, Utah – Actress Chante Adams had just graduated from Carnegie Mellon University when she got a call from a casting agent who wanted her to audition to be the lead in the Roxanne Shante biopic “Roxanne, Roxanne.” Adams had no feature credits to her name and a background in ...

Review: Train’s new CD is stuck in the same soft-rock track

Train, “a girl a bottle a boat” (Columbia Records)Some people simply adore Train. Others simply loathe them. The band’s new album is unlikely to change anyone’s mind.The band – now without lead guitarist and founding member Jimmy Stafford – has returned with an unmemorable, fluffy ...