JOE WRIGHT

SEMINOLE — Joe Wright, 74, had known Shawn Thomas since he was a 7-year-old Bible school student at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, picking up and dropping off the boy and his peers as the church bus driver. Last fall, the little boy who climbed onto his bus every weekday during summer vacation became Wright’s pastor at the same church. On Friday, when Thomas asked for ...

For the eighth time in the last two and a half months, a movie starring Tom Holland is No. 1 at the box office.

Peter Dinklage, in the title role, tries valiantly to invigorate Joe Wright’s watered-down take on the classic play.

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