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Here are 10 awesome new horror movies to watch for Halloween 2022
We’ve never understood why some people wait until October to binge horror movies. For us, it’s a yearlong pursuit and we’re just as likely to be found watching an all-time classic like “Final Destination 2” or “Bride of Chucky” on Valentine’s Day as we are on Halloween. And, yes, we...
TV Q&A: What happened to WPXI’s Mike Holden?
Q: Is Mike Holden still at WPXI? I don’t recall seeing him in a while. — Beth, McCandless Rob: Although he recently won a regional Emmy award for his past work at WPXI-TV, Holden left the station in June for a job at WEWS-TV in Cleveland where his family lives....
Nielsen, Amazon Prime spar over who really watches football
NEW YORK — By the Nielsen company’s count, 7.8 million people watched Amazon Prime’s coverage of last Thursday’s NFL game between New Orleans and Arizona. But Amazon says no, there were actually 8.9 million people watching. So which is it? You’ll have to judge for yourself. After each of its...
Jim Nantz to call last Final Four in ’23, Ian Eagle to take over
NEW YORK — Jim Nantz will step away from calling the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament after next year and will be succeeded by Ian Eagle. CBS Sports confirmed the move on Monday night. It was first reported by the New York Post. Nantz has been a part of the CBS...
New ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ trailer brings Kang into focusVideo
First, the great news: Bill Murray is a character in the new “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” film. This is reason to rejoice, regardless of who he’s playing or the size of his role. The other great news is that Kang the Conqueror — or one of his many multi-verse...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking a Pittsburgher’s return to ‘Jeopardy!,’ local bartender on ‘Drink Masters,’ ‘Tree of Life’ doc on HBOVideo
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including Pittsburgher Margaret Shelton, who won almost $80,000 over four “Jeopardy!” episodes in March, and will return to the game show next week for a...
It all comes down to obedience training on the ‘House of the Dragon’ finaleVideo
In the world of “Game of Thrones,” dragons are referred to multiple times as “fire made flesh.” They’re magical creatures, and the Targaryen family has a mystical connection with them....
TV Talk: Shaler grad directs ‘A Tree of Life’ documentary for HBOVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Pittsburgh native and New York-based director Trish Adlesic has made films in Western Pennsylvania before — she was a producer on HBO’s 2010 fracking documentary “Gasland” and 2013’s “Gasland Part II” — but she didn’t...
‘Black Adam,’ with Dwayne Johnson, debuts with $67M
NEW YORK — Warner Bros.’ “Black Adam” opened with an estimated $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Dwayne Johnson his biggest box-office weekend as a leading man and launching the D.C. Comics character he spent a decade to bring to the big screen. “Black Adam” was a $200-million...
Saga of last U.S. slave ship finds life in ‘Descendant’ docVideo
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In the murky waters of an Alabama river, diver Kamau Sadiki said he had to pause before entering the last known slave ship to the United States, where 110 people were confined in hellish conditions. “You feel the reverberation, the pain and suffering, and the screams and...
In ‘Good Nurse,’ a serial killer exposes health care systemVideo
NEW YORK — Charles Cullen is by some estimates the most prolific serial killer in American history. But when Krysty Wilson-Cairns began writing the script about his capture, she started not with Cullen, who was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in 2006, but outside the home of Amy Loughren, the...
Jury: Kevin Spacey didn’t molest actor Anthony Rapp in 1986
NEW YORK — A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1986. The verdict in the civil trial came...
Trailer released for Pittsburgh-area filmed Tom Hanks movie ‘A Man Called Otto’Video
A trailer for the filmed-in-Pittsburgh Tom Hanks movie “A Man Called Otto” was released Thursday. The movie, filmed at numerous locations across the Pittsburgh region, will be released in New York and Los Angeles on Christmas and will go into wide release, including Pittsburgh, on Jan. 13, said Joe Fucci...
TV Talk: Tamburitzans show debuts on WQED; Pittsburgher competes on Netflix’s ‘Drink Masters’Video
A year after he spearheaded the WQED-TV special “Tamburitzans: Prism,” producer/editor Frank Caloiero delivers another special featuring the music and dance group with “Tamburitzans: Symbols” (7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, WQED-TV). Caloiero, a former “Tammie” dancer/singer and Tambura player (1988-92), said this new special taped at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point...
In ‘Aftersun,’ Charlotte Wells makes a shattering debutVideo
NEW YORK — A normal morning scene. Breakfast on the kitchen table. A newspaper rustles. A backpack is packed. The mother asks her teenage daughter if she’ll be home later. “It’s Tuesday, so, um, I’m going to go to Dad’s.” The look of concern on the mother’s face, and the...
TV Q&A: Will there be new episodes of WQED-TV’s ‘QED Cooks’?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Are Chris Fennimore and Nancy Polinsky still making local cooking shows on WQED? — Margo, via email Rob: Production on new “QED Cooks” episodes stopped...
Charlie Brown holiday specials to air exclusively on Apple TV+
Apple TV+ will allow fans of the Charlie Brown holiday specials to watch them for free on the platform after the company bought the exclusive rights to the specials two years ago. Apple’s subscription-based TV platform bought the rights to exclusively stream classic “Peanuts” specials in 2020, but the platform...
Impractical Jokers to kick off tour with Pittsburgh showVideo
The Impractical Jokers are returning to Pittsburgh. The stars of TruTV’s hidden-camera practical joke/reality show will launch their tour on Feb. 2, 2023, at PPG Paints Arena. Sal Vulcano, James Murray and Brian Quinn — otherwise known as Sal, Murr and Q — have been working as a trio since...
Review: Roberts, Clooney bring charm to ‘Ticket to Paradise’Video
It’s often said that the movies that were fun to make never turn out great. Well, George Clooney and Julia Roberts look like they had a grand time making the Bali-set “Ticket to Paradise.” The film, directed and co-written by Ol Parker (“Mama Mia! Here We Go Again”), isn’t the...
Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely
NEW YORK — A Connecticut jury’s ruling this week ordering Alex Jones to pay $965 million to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims he maligned was heartening for people disgusted by the muck of disinformation. Just don’t expect it to make conspiracy theories go away. The appetite for such hokum...
‘Flash’ actor Ezra Miller pleads not guilty to liquor theft
BENNINGTON, Vt. — Ezra Miller pleaded not guilty Monday to stealing bottles of liquor from a neighbor’s home, one of a string of arrests and reports of erratic behavior by the “Flash” actor that stretch from Hawaii to Vermont. Miller, 30, appeared Monday with their lawyer remotely from Burlington, Vermont,...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking horror movies, Mister Rogers name-checked in ‘Barney’ doc, ‘Doc Martin’
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including Mister Rogers getting name-checked in the Peacock docu-series “I Love You, You Hate Me” about “Barney & Friends” and the lack of a “Won’t...
Can the Rock steady the DC universe with ‘Black Adam’?Video
NEW YORK — In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a parade of big-name actors have taken their turns donning various spandex suits, Dwayne Johnson — arguably the biggest movie star in the world — has, until now, sat out the trend. The...
A ‘wow’ moment is also a weird narrative choice on ‘House of the Dragon’
In the early trailers for “House of the Dragon,” Ser Otto Hightower says to his daughter, “We play an ugly game.” That game kicked into high gear with this week’s...
TV Talk: ‘Documentary Now!’ returns but so far no ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ parodyVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Ever since the Mister Rogers documentary ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” premiered four years ago, I’ve wondered if IFC’s “Documentary Now!,” which parodies documentaries, might find a way to gently skewer the 2018 feature film...
