Was “Ghostbusters Afterlife” overly packed with fan service and references to the original film? Hell, yes, and I loved it. The original rules, and I made a mini quiz about it. The only thing that could make the original better, for my money, is the presence of Paul Rudd. Riddle me this: At the start […]
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A new teaser for “The Morning Show” was released today, and as a huge stan of “The Newsroom,” my antennae are tingling. The new show looks at morning cable news hosts and the struggles they face trying to be objective journalists in the face of a 24-hour news cycle machine. It stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese
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Do you remember what was going on 10, 20 and 30 years ago this week? Find out in this week’s decades of trivia quiz! In the News Aug. 11, 2009 A philanthropist and member of an American dynasty, what woman who founded the Special Olympics died at the age of 88 in a Cape Cod,
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The top movie in the country right now features The Rock and Jason Statham spinning off the “Fast & Furious” franchise with their own action flick, “Hobbs & Shaw” — and that got me thinking about other ampersand movie titles. Can you come up with these 10 film names that follow the construction “_______ &
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Do you remember what was going on 10, 20 and 30 years ago this week? Find out in this week’s decades of trivia quiz! On the charts The week of Aug. 8, 2009 What Black Eyed Peas’ song, the follow-up to “Boom Boom Pow,” was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 this
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“Sorry I’m late. It took me forever to get here.” “I know what you mean.” In “Never Been Kissed,” newspaper copy editor Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) gets assigned to go undercover at a high school, looking for stories about what the heck teens are all about these days. Flashbacks to the unpopular “Josie Grossy” days
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Do you remember what was going on 10, 20 and 30 years ago this week? At the Movies The week of July 24, 2009 The family action comedy “G-Force,” about a team of secret agent guinea pigs who save the world, opened at No. 1, knocking which installment of the Harry Potter franchise down into
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“In any other town, they’d be the bad guys.“ The tagline comes from the Rat Pack original, but we’re talking Clooney and company on this “Ocean’s 11” trivia quiz. Steven Soderbergh’s jazzy visual style and George Clooney’s modern-day Cary Grant vibe combine in this remake from 2001 that sees Danny Ocean (Clooney) freshly released from
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Boris Johnson was elected the new prime minister of the United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 23. If we know Hollywood, it’s only a matter of time before we see an actor taking on the role of Johnson in a film or TV show. Perhaps “Brexit 2: Electric Boogaloo.” Politics across the pond have long been
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His name is Andrew Shepherd and he IS the president. Michael Douglas and Annette Bening starred in the Aaron Sorkin-penned film, “The American President,” about a widowed commander in chief who makes the grave mistake of falling in love with a lobbyist while under the 24-hour news cycle scrutiny of an election year. Our take:
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