Category: Entertainment Talk

For 45 seconds on the first Sunday of 2018, Americans saw the soothing side of a hard-hit locale. The first three seconds resembled a Cat Trumpet YouTube upload. It was all silence and snowfall. Relaxing music lasting an hour, or two, or three, could not have been far behind. Except the voice of CBS Sunday…

Fuller House recently capped its third season wrapping up the main story arc fans have been following for its 44 Netflix episodes. Actually, it is more accurate to say that it provided a satisfying conclusion to its ABC predecessor’s cliffhanger at the end of its final season. That allusion refers to the resolution of D.J.’s…

Home Alone usually airs in most households during the Christmas season. But curiously, while the holiday classic was in Freeform’s Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas lineup, it has since disappeared from the current 25 Days of Christmas block. This decision makes one look at the lineup with a more critical lens. The 2017 slate features Christmas classics such as Elf,…

Jingle Belle Kringle — a unique take on Santa’s teenage daughter — is, shall we say, a niche Christmas character. She is the brainchild of veteran comic-book author Paul Dini, who also helped give rise to Harley Quinn. (Once you know that and have perused enough of each character’s stories, it explains a lot.) But…

As of this week, Home Alone 2 has lived 25 years in the entertainment universe. Granted, most moviegoers who invested their anticipation and money in the sequel prefer to forget they did. The 1992 sequel to 1990’s Home Alone fetched a leading $32 million over its premiere weekend. Fast-forward a quarter-century, and its Rotten Tomatoes…

Only by attending a Lewis Black concert can you grasp the incisively infuriated comedian’s all-encompassing outreach. And only by these means can you absorb the deepest insights from what he has to say. As with sporting events, even a full-length viewing from one’s residence is no substitute. I know this having seen Black’s show this past…

Over its last two seasons, AMC’s The Walking Dead has lost what made the show enjoyable. Originally, the zombie apocalypse setting remained interesting because the human characters often made decisions that made them worse than the title figures they fought. No conflict made that more apparent than that between protagonist Rick Grimes and the Governor. By Season 4,…

Neal Page becomes a hero of sorts to his audience when he spews a string of seven-letter adjectives. But in his universe and narrative, he is most in need of rescuing, no matter how grudgingly grateful he is. Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ most NSFW scene speaks to anyone whose watery ill fortune has ever crisscrossed…

Team Flash has its winning formula back with comic relief, having restored to the equation. Now it needs to stare down its clear-cut No. 1 enemy to culminate the crowd-pleaser. This is, after all, still a superhero series. CW’s The Flash never took itself too seriously. A forensic scientist gaining superhuman speed when a particle accelerator explodes should constitute…