Movies/TV category, Page 155
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ debuts in PittsburghVideo
It was a beautiful night in the neighborhood in Pittsburgh as the Mister Rogers movie debuted. A red carpet gala and special screening of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” took place Wednesday at the SouthSide Works Cinema in Pittsburgh. Rogers’ wife Joanne Rogers arrived at 6:30 p.m., smiling and...
‘Saturday Night Live’ announces Jennifer Lopez, Niall Horan for December shows
It’s going to be a good month on “Saturday Night Live.” The NBC program announced hosts and musical guests Wednesday for its December shows. ? ???????? ????? ? pic.twitter.com/uEFfVaKlCE— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) November 20, 2019 Jennifer Lopez and rapper DaBaby are set for Dec. 7. Scarlett Johansson...
Once ruler of kids’ TV, Nickelodeon is working on a comeback
Twenty-five years ago, Brian Robbins was an aspiring young producer, scouring the country for talent. He assembled a troupe of teens for a sketch comedy show, “All That,” that became all that and more for Nickelodeon. The goofy show helped usher in a period of peak imagination for the children’s...
6 questions with ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ star Matthew Rhys
Friday’s opening of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” starring Tom Hanks as Latrobe native Fred Rogers is fast approaching. In the highly anticipated movie filmed in Pittsburgh, actor Matthew Rhys plays Lloyd Vogel, the fictional version of journalist Tom Junod, who is not quite ready to buy into the...
‘Muppet Christmas Carol’ screening free at Irwin’s Lamp Theatre
The Lamp Theatre in Irwin is gearing up for the holidays with two free showings of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” on Nov. 21. Movie times are 4:15 and 8:15 p.m. in the theater at 222 Main. St. Released in 1992, the G-rated movie features Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit,...
‘SNL’ taps Steelers-Browns helmet controversyVideo
For Pittsburgh Steelers fans, there was nothing funny about Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett smashing quarterback Mason Rudolph on the head with a helmet at the end of Thursday night’s game. But NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” attempted to mine a few laughs from it. Well, “attempted” anyway. The cold...
Busy Sterling K. Brown learns to decline offers ‘with integrity’
With a hit TV series, awards, film and TV opportunities, Sterling K. Brown admits he’s experienced “a lot of pinch me moments” in recent years. But, with all those possibilities and offers, the 43-year-old has also learned a very important lesson— how to say no. “ ‘No’ has become my...
Pittsburgh ‘Jeopardy!’ champ shares behind-the-scenes details from Tournament of Champions
One Final Jeopardy! clue stood between a chance at the $250,000 grand prize and getting knocked out of the game show’s Tournament of Champions. And Lindsey Shultz didn’t know the answer. “In a 1644 letter he wrote, ‘We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean air,’ which is what...
Stars come out for special screening of ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’Video
Actors in the new Tom Hanks film about Fred Rogers, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” attended the special screening Sunday in New York. Rita Wilson with Tom Hanks & with Mister Rogers’ widow Joanne Rogers attend the "A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood" New York Screening at Henry R....
‘The Crown’ gives new season and cast members a clever intro
“The Crown” opens with a clever acknowledgment that time has passed for Queen Elizabeth II and taken with it the Emmy-winning actress who played her in the Netflix drama’s first two seasons. In the scene, postage stamp portraits are displayed for the monarch: one with Claire Foy’s likeness as the...
Review: An evolved iceman? Kristoff steps up in ‘Frozen 2’Video
Picture this: A princess is in distress. It looks bad. Her dashing young man rides up in the nick of time and says, “Here I am to save you, my dear!” Actually, he doesn’t. He just says, “I’m here. Whaddya need?” She has a plan, and off they go. This...
Review: ‘Charlie’s Angels’ is basic, globe-trotting nonsenseVideo
ABC-TV wasn’t alone. But in the network’s flesh-peddling harem era of the 1970s, an adolescent boy could tune into “Charlie’s Angels” (or “Fantasy Island,” or “Battle of the Network Stars”) and begin developing some pretty dubious notions of female empowerment as it relates to straight male gratification. Meaning, if the...
NBC’s ‘Dateline’ to recount Blairsville dentist’s murder
The 2006 murder of Blairsville dentist John Yelenic will be recounted in the Friday installment of NBC’s “Dateline.” Titled “The Premonition,” the two-hour segment of the long-running investigative series will air at 9 p.m. Among those interviewed for the show is Janelle Lydic, a Blairsville police corporal who was among...
NBC lays off entire ‘Days of our Lives’ castVideo
Like sands through the hourglass … so goes the cast of “Days of our Lives.” But it looks like the hourglass has been busted. By NBC. Every actor on the show, one of television’s last remaining soap operas, has been released from their contract, TVLine reports. The site said the...
Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ puts the moviemaking pedal to the metalVideo
Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film “Ford v Ferrari” is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots. This infectious and engrossing story of the 1966 showdown on a French racetrack between...
Review: Blandness runs the game in ‘The Good Liar’ until its satisfying twistVideo
Mirren. McKellen. How could it possibly be that “The Good Liar” is the very first film in which the dame and the knight have costarred? Bill Condon brings them together for this adaptation of Nicholas Searles’s novel, with a screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher. The twisty little tete-a-tete is a fine...
TV series honored for casting actors with disabilities
The Ruderman Family Foundation has awarded “Years and Years,” “General Hospital,” “Tales of the City,” “Raising Dion” and “Loudermilk” with its latest Seals of Authentic Representation for casting actors with disabilities. A leading advocate for disability inclusion, the organization bestows honors on TV series that “feature actors with disabilities with...
Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys focus of 2nd ‘Beautiful Day’ trailerVideo
If you needed more Mister Rogers content in your life, today’s your lucky day. Sony Pictures has released another trailer for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” the film based on Rogers’ life. The trailer shows the relationship starting and developing between Rogers, played by Tom Hanks, and journalist Lloyd...
‘Jeopardy!’ contestant’s final answer gets Alex Trebek choked upVideo
One contestant on Monday’s night “Jeopardy!” show didn’t know the answer to the final question, so he sent some love to host Alex Trebek. Dhruv Gaur, a student at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia, competing in the Tournament of Champions, didn’t have a response to a question in the category...
Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano emerges as Trump critic
NEW YORK — More than two decades into his career as a commentator at Fox News Channel, Andrew Napolitano reached a milestone of sorts when he was called a “fool” on his own network. Not to his face, of course. But Tucker Carlson guest Joseph diGenova’s dismissal of Napolitano for...
‘Terminator: Dark Fate’: What makes a franchise live or die?Video
On the surface, “Terminator: Dark Fate” and “Joker” share basic similarities: both are R-rated movies based on well-known characters that appeal to predominantly male audiences. Further, the films got virtually identical Rotten Tomatoes scores. But the box office results could not be more different. The Warner Bros.-DC film “Joker,” made...
Donald Trump Jr. spars with ‘The View’ hosts, from blackface to rape
Tempers were short, the volume was loud and the crosstalk relentless when Donald Trump Jr. and girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle appeared on Thursday’s episode of ABC’s “The View.” Dubbed “The Political View,” the marathon argument session devolved from the political topics at hand into the president’s son accusing cohosts Joy Behar...
WWE’s Ali works to fight Muslim stereotypes as wrestlerVideo
Adeel Alam has had horrible things said to him. “I think the worst thing that ever got yelled at me while performing was, ‘I thought we killed you Osama,’ ” Alam said in a CBS Evening News interview. Alam, who wrestles as Ali in WWE (previously Mustafa Ali), talked about...
Study finds LGBTQ characters hit record high on network TVVideo
“Pose” and “Batwoman” are among the shows contributing to a surge in LGBTQ and gender inclusiveness on television, according to a new study by the advocacy group GLAAD. The percentage of regularly seen LGBTQ characters on prime-time broadcast TV this season reached an all-time high of 10.2%, or 90 out...
Review: ‘Last Christmas’ leaves its good intentions unfulfilledVideo
Paul Feig’s “Last Christmas” looks every bit like your standard holiday romantic-comedy, but it has some surprises under its gauzy wrapping. Kate (Emilia Clarke) works in a year-round Christmas ornament shop in London where she must dress daily in a green elf costume. A repeatedly self-described mess living couch to...
