Category: The Very Best Of

Joshua Jackson, also known as Charlie Conway from the Mighty Ducks films, turns 40 this Monday. The heart of District Five/Team USA/Eden Hall JV thus becomes the protagonist roster’s seventh actor to reach this milestone. Only Elden Henson, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Larusso, Colombe Jacobsen, Aaron Lohr and Kenan Thompson are older. Throughout the trilogy, Charlie’s…

With Ocean’s 8 premiering this week, Anne Hathaway is ending a two-year gap between Internet Movie Database credits. Since she entered the mainstream in 1999, only 2003 and 2017 have gone by without an addition to her resume. But more often than not, in this decade, Hathaway has hit the silver screen under multiple titles…

Composition connoisseur Danny Elfman has a unifying power over TV and film consumers. Whether they notice it or not, viewers with opposing tastes have each heard his work complement their beloved program or film. One could be a strict DC devotee or a Marvel-only movie buff. Both bases have seen their favorite superhero swashbuckle to the tune…

Former Cheers centerpiece Ted Danson told it point blank to Seth Meyers in October 2016. “I hope this is not…the end,” he said in reference to his latest endeavor, The Good Place. Meyers had just finished watching a clip with Danson, then noted the so-obvious-one-would-be-remiss-not-to-mention it symmetry. This past Sunday marked exactly 25 years since…

Monday marks 20 years since “The Finale” dropped the curtain on Seinfeld. Two decades later, the unprecedented anticipation tops the iffy reception as the last episode’s reflection on the series. A 2012 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll concluded that Seinfeld was still considered the all-time greatest sitcom. Four years later, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 5…

This Tuesday marks 25 years since a pivotal moment in reshaping the attitude over live actors breaking character. By giving his Matt Foley character a national glimpse, the late Chris Farley left his Saturday Night Live colleagues helpless. Farley had previously played the bombastic, caffeinated, not-so-exemplary motivational speaker in smaller, non-televised settings. And naturally, he…

Not counting the 2004-05 season that never was, the NHL has logged 25 consecutive seasons of U.S. network television partnerships. Sure, it has been a revolving door between ABC, NBC, Fox and back to the first two. But the league and sport’s advocates would surely agree that beats the emptiness of the ’80s. With thorough,…

Silly and salacious are not mutually exclusive with scholarly and sophisticated. Monty Python proved and repeatedly reaffirmed that fact in its heyday. The revolutionary British comedy sextet — who combined for multiple Cambridge and Oxford degrees — wasted no creativity with William Shakespeare, along with other timeless key components of the national culture. Sometimes the…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in a recurring series where a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary actor from each city in a hockey league. This week, we focus on the current markets in the WHL U.S. Division. All filmography and award information was found on the Internet Movie Database.…