Category: Entertainment Talk

The first Mighty Ducks movie, if not the whole trilogy it begat, can pass as a Slap Shot for kids. It takes a protagonist team of athletes of roughly the same age as the intended audience on an age-old Cinderella path. Along that road, it spawns a slew of you cannot get out of your…

Those who were born the year the Eden Hall Warriors gave way to a Mighty Ducks mascot have reached or are on the cusp of legal drinking age. Is that enough time for the opening and closing slow-motion flashbacks from D3 to lose their authority? Can the vault reopen for a long-rumored/proposed D4 late in…

Jennifer Aniston is reportedly the next A-lister seeking seconds on the small screen. The Hollywood Reporter’s Lesley Goldberg wrote last week that the former Friends star is teaming with fellow movie mainstay Reese Witherspoon for a series revolving around a fictitious morning talk show. The finer details of the program, and whether anyone will even…

If you came to this site and clicked on this column at no external suggestion, odds are you are visiting, first and foremost, as a sports fan. As such, you have likely heard the work of Chester Bennington in an athletic setting or context. Bennington, who took his life Thursday at age 41, was the…

With July a week old and the year half over, it is a good time to look back at what has been an incredible year for gamers so far. While it might seem easy to seem a bit overeager when calling this the best six-month stretch for games ever, there is a case to made.…

Finally, Amy Poehler has a co-star movie billing with Will Ferrell, a fellow Saturday Night Live alum whose precedent she helped to pick up and sustain early in this century. In a 2013 interview with Vulture.com’s Denise Martin, Poehler herself said, “Will Ferrell’s really the most talented person in the world. He’s like a comedy…

When most Americans tuned in to the anticipated Red Nose Day Actually special last month, it is a safe bet most merely thought back to their fond memories of its theatrical 2003 predecessor. Those who recalled Rowan Atkinson’s role as the jewelry clerk Rufus may have secondarily spilled the name “Bean” in their buildup chat.…

This author winced for one or two seconds while watching this year’s Easter episode of Bob’s Burgers. Linda dangled five toes over the line when she spent multiple sentences referencing Kelly Ripa. It was not the first time a present-day real-life figure has received a mention on the ordinarily wholly-separate-universe Fox animated sitcom. But Linda…

Author’s warning: Though the contents of this column are clean, those of some hyperlinks are NSFW. George Carlin, who lived for seven decades and change and first turned heads through his controversial “Seven Dirty Words” routine, would have been 80 this Friday. Nearly nine years after his death from heart failure at age 71, his…