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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 trailer is here
Want a taste of what the dramatic final season of “Game of Thrones” will be like? HBO dropped their official trailer for Season 8 on YouTube today. Check out the scenes and try to guess what happens to your favorite characters: Arya and Sansa Stark, Jon Snow and, of course,...
Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ has dazzling powers but little personality
If there is one thing that’s true of most of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s that they have life and spirit to spare. It’s kind of an intoxicating joy that dares even the most comic book-apathetic to get on board and delight in the spectacle, and it...
Breaking down ‘The Bachelor’ jumping the fence
Welcome to Portugal, the land of tiny fish, extra-virgin olive oil and our 23rd bachelor, Colton Underwood. This week, Colton is poised to get his chance in the fantasy suites, where he will have off-camera time with his finalists and might have sex for the first time. The prospect of...
Library of Congress names new documentary award for Ken Burns
WASHINGTON — The Library of Congress will begin presenting an award named for Ken Burns, who elevated the craft of historical documentaries. Officials announced on Tuesday the creation of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. The annual award will recognize a filmmaker whose documentary uses original research...
How to train like Captain Marvel — physically and mentally
Brie Larson was hanging upside down and suspended by her legs when she was about to attempt one of her most challenging “Captain Marvel” stunts for the first time on set. It had already been a long day by the time the 29-year-old actress was dangling by a wire system....
Tamron Hall gets a new talk show, announces baby news
LOS ANGELES — Tamron Hall is having a baby and getting her own talk show. The former NBC “Today” show anchor and host tweeted Monday that she’s pregnant. She wrote that she was “in a safe place at 32 weeks” to share her joy. I’ve wanted to share this news...
‘90210’ actor Luke Perry dead at age 52
Actor Luke Perry, known for his stints in the 1990s Fox series “Beverly Hills 90210” and, more recently, “Riverdale,” has died after suffering a massive stroke on Wednesday. He was 52. In a statement, Perry’s rep confirmed the actor’s death. “Actor Luke Perry, 52, passed away today after suffering a...
Ryan Reynolds remembers John Candy on 25th anniversary of his death
Actor and comedian John Candy died 25 years ago Monday. The passing of the legendary funnyman was lovingly remember by a short montage of some of his films put together by fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds posted the video to social media on Sunday, with the caption: “It’s the 25th...
Spielberg’s push against Netflix at the Oscars hits a nerveVideo
LOS ANGELES — When Steven Spielberg speaks about the business of Hollywood, everyone generally listens and few dissent. But reports that he intends to support rule changes that could block Netflix from Oscars-eligibility have provoked a heated, and unwieldy, debate online this weekend. It has found the legendary filmmaker at...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ stays No. 1, ‘Madea’ a strong 2nd
LOS ANGELES — “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” topped the North American box office for a second week, but close on its tail was Tyler Perry’s final installment of the “Madea” franchise. Driven by a largely female audience, “A Madea Family Funeral” had a better-than-expected debut. The...
‘SNL’ parodies the Cohen hearings, with help from Ben Stiller and Bill HaderVideo
Actors Bill Hader and Ben Stiller made guest appearances on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, parodying Michael Cohen’s seven-hour testimony on Capitol Hill, which consumed the attention of Washington and the media. The cast started the show with a re-enactment of Cohen’s opening statement Wednesday to the House Oversight...
Cast-iron vs. nonstick skillets: How to choose the right pan
Cast iron is often called the original nonstick pan. And it makes sense. Well-seasoned cast-iron skillets have a naturally formed coating that is created when fats are heated to a certain point that causes them to reorganize into something resembling a plastic coating and bond to the metal. For centuries,...
Lincoln Park Performing Arts student competes on ‘American Ninja Warrior Junior’
A Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School freshman will compete on “American Ninja Warrior Junior,” a Universal Kids Network television show, at 7 p.m. March 2. Dance major Abby Richert, 14, of Bethel Park, will take part in the next-generation competition, which puts young contestants through a timed course of...
Rotten Tomatoes shuts down trolls targeting female-led blockbusters
A blockbuster is set to open with a lead who is not male and not white. People are excited about the film, but trolls hijack the conversation, sometimes targeting the movie’s stars. What should have been a good time instead becomes an internet maelstrom in which a movie and its...
Altoona native Jimmy Mowery joins Team Adam on ‘The Voice’
If you like to feel a connection to the singer you root for on “The Voice,” here’s one with western Pennsylvania roots. Altoona native Jimmy Mowery went through blind auditions on the Feb. 25 return of the NBC singing competition and ultimately ended up choosing Adam Levine as his coach....
Brie Larson meets young girl dressed as Captain Marvel at U.K. premiere
Brie Larson took to the red carpet for the U.K. premiere of Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” Wednesday night in London and shared a moment with a young girl dressed as the super-heroine. Larson spoke with 8-year-old Illie, who attended the premiere at The Curzon Mayfair with nonprofit organization The Female...
Pittsburgh man set to appear on ‘American Idol’ season
A Pittsburgh man is set to appear on “American Idol,” according to a post on the show’s social media accounts. Nate Walker will be a contestant on the singing competition which airs March 10 on ABC. “I really got inspired to do American Idol after I saw somebody else from...
Review: ‘Greta’ is both tremendously silly and kind of a blast
Imagine you’re a 20-something living in New York City and you spot a particularly nice and structured green leather handbag on the subway. Do you report it to the MTA? Ignore it and move on? Claim it and its contents for yourself? Return to the owner? For Chloe Grace Moretz’s...
‘The Masked Singer’: T-Pain flies under the radar to grab Golden Mask
And “The Masked Singer” is … T-Pain?! Much to everyone’s surprise, the rapper was revealed to be the voice behind the Monster mask on last night’s season finale on the Fox singing competition in which celebrity contestants concealed their identities under elaborate costumes. Nobody was more surprised than the Florida-born...
Broadcasters aren’t succumbing to Netflix era
PASADENA, Calif. — If there is a high point to Netflix’s status as the “cool kids” taking over television, it may be remembered as an emotional Chuck Lorre accepting a best comedy Golden Globe last month for “The Kominsky Method,” his show on the streaming service. Lorre is one of...
A year after Frances McDormand’s Oscars speech, are inclusion riders making progress?
“I have two words to leave you with tonight, ladies and gentlemen,” said Frances McDormand in her Oscars acceptance speech last year. “Inclusion rider.” Just like that, the little-known industry term was instantly catapulted into the public sphere. Actors, directors and producers began tweeting their pledges to adopt the inclusion...
Gotta catch Ryan Reynolds explaining ‘Detective Pikachu’ method acting
When the 2020 Oscars roll around, the Los Angeles Times says we probably won’t be talking about the first live-action Pokemon movie, “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” opening on May 10. Unless actor Ryan Reynolds — who voices the yellow title character with the thunderbolt tail — has something to say about...
After Oscar win, ‘Free Solo’ documentary again screens in Pittsburgh
Fresh off its Oscar win for best feature documentary, the movie “Free Solo” is returning to the screen of the Rangos Giant Cinema at the Carnegie Science Center this weekend. The movie tracks Alex Honnold’s free solo climb up the 3,000-foot granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park...
‘The Sopranos’ creators look back at a TV show that slayed
NEW YORK — Back in 1997, then-up-and-coming actor Michael Imperioli was mulling two work offers: a cable TV show pilot and a small role in a Woody Allen film. The script for the TV show didn’t initially seem so special to him. “I was not blown away by the pilot,”...
NBC appoints Jenna Bush Hager co-host on ‘Today’
NEW YORK — Jenna Bush Hager better get her wine glass ready. NBC appointed her Tuesday as co-host of the “Today” show’s fourth hour with Hoda Kotb, and she’ll replace Kathie Lee Gifford in that role in April. Kotb and Gifford were successful pioneers in expanding “Today,” with an irreverent...
