Mind blowing.   We've all seen so many reboots or relaunches as they try to recapture the magic - including with The Muppet Show  which ...

I don't know what it says about me that of the famous people whose passing I regularly note, this is maybe the third that genuinely upse...

, Back during some crucial years of my late high school and college years, I basically couldn't sleep.  Long after my folks had gone to ...

I don't know how many of you read comic books, especially superhero comics, but from time-to-time Marvel and DC have these absolutely ma...

everything on this DVD cover is a lie Watched:  12/23/2025 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  Second (and last) Director:  Mimi Leder While watching ...

I hate this.  I hate writing this.   No one deserves to die the way Rob Reiner and his wife Michele passed.   Most of the time, I'm able...

  Dick Van Dyke is now 100.  What a delight to do a "at 100" post and have the person still with us and in terrific shape. He...

I am sure my observations are in no way unique, but here we go. I don't think Stranger Things is for me. SPOILERS Three years between s...

One of my favorite writers is Candice Millard .  With a relatively modest output compared to other popular historical writers, I would gladl...

Back in the day, network TV would air pilots for TV shows if they felt they might be a costly gamble, and then the show would or wouldn'...

June Lockhart, born during the silent era of film and when Calvin Coolidge was president of the US, and who had her first credit in 1938 (th...

  MTV , Music Television , is shutting down music operations .  Specifically in England.  Likely soon to be the rest of Europe.  I assume th...

I'm pretty sure we didn't talk much about Peacemaker Season 1 around here.  Which is too bad, I quite liked it.   Peacemaker Season...

I'm the first person to say Alien and Aliens are two great films, each for different reasons.  And while I understand people love Alie...

Ms. Chabert , set to grace Christmas screens this Holiday season, seen here having pulled this man's finger Well, Hallmark has released...

Liz is also easily distracted by squirrels A while back I read the book Rin Tin Tin : The Life and The Legend by Susan Orlean (recommended...

In addition to being very TL;DR, this post was difficult to write as this documentary covers horrific, very real deaths, and the aftermath, ...

Let Emmylou be my co-pilot Hey all.   The pic above is just the new pooch, Emmylou.  No news there.  I just like my dog, and y'all won...

According to Superman lore, today is the birthday of Lois Lane , star reporter of The Daily Planet , former girlfriend, and now wife of Supe...

Loni Anderson, star of TV and movies, has passed at 79.   Anderson will be best remembered as Jennifer Marlowe, the beautiful, secret brains...