Tag: Comedy
MacGruber Show Coming to NBC’s Peacock
America’s favorite MacGyver spoof (by default) just defused a bomb with a paper clip, as NBC’s Peacock streaming service will resurrect MacGruber as a TV show. MacGruber began as a sketch on Saturday Night Live back when it was a comedy show, in which Will Forte portrayed an incompetent adventur...
Read MoreREVIEW: Cats (2019)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats opened in London in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982 and has since become a global phenomenon. Consisting of lyrics from T. S. Elliot’s book of poems Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and featuring Webber’s music, it is largely considered to be the prototypical m...
Read MoreREVIEW: 6 Underground (2019)
Netflix has become a fantastic platform for a myriad of creators. Artists such as Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes, and more recently, Game of Thrones showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff, have all made deals that set the industry abuzz. However, there was one area that they still wanted to break into: ...
Read MoreGhostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Arrives Online
There’s something strange in the neighborhood as the first trailer for the new film Ghostbusters: Afterlife has arrived online. The latest entry in the franchise follows the original films rather than being another reboot, and comes from Jason Reitman, son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Re...
Read MoreREVIEW: Knives Out (2019)
It’s no secret that I have my issues with Rian Johnson’s take on the Skywalker saga in The Last Jedi. But this does not mean that I have issues with Johnson as a filmmaker. His original movies Brick, The Brothers Bloom, and Looper, were each something special, and he brought a unique vision to a...
Read MoreA Decade of Disney – 2010-2019: Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Munir: The Princess and the Frog was touted as Disney Animation’s big return to traditional animation, only to underperform at the box office. The next film to be done by that technique was an odd choice. Winnie the Pooh has been one of Disney’s most profitable franchises, with TV shows, theatri...
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