Melissa McCarthy Shows Another Side of Her Talents with Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Jay S. Jacobs Melissa McCarthy is mostly known for playing broad comic roles, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that she decided to take on the dramatic real-life story of Lee Israel. Israel was a fairly popular … Continue reading
FREAKY FRIDAY (2018) Starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jason Maybaum, Alex Désert, Ricky He, Kahyun Kim, Dara Renee, Isaiah Lehtinen, Jennifer LaPorte, Sarah Willey, Rukiya Bernard, Joshua Pak, Lauren McGibbon, Dave Hurtubise, Gary Jones, Paula Burrows, Jag Arneja, Julius Fair, Ryan Lawrie, Gaalen Engen, Colby Wilson, Jocelyne Loewen, Georgia Klebe-McCulloch, Pendo Muema, Kris Neufeld, Brody … Continue reading
LOVE, GILDA (2018) Featuring Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Michael Radner, Judy Levy, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Lorne Michaels, Paul Shaffer, Cecily Strong, Laraine Newman, Rose Abdoo, Alan Zweibel, Anne Beatts, Rose Schuster, Andrew Alexander, Janis Hirsch, Marcus O’Hara, Stephen Schwartz, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, Pam Zackheim, Robin Zweibel and archival footage of Gilda … Continue reading
Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd Get Unplugged with Juliet, Naked by Jay S. Jacobs Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd play a long-time couple coming to the end of the road in the music-oriented romantic comedy Juliet, Naked. However, you wouldn’t have been able to tell that when we recently met up with the two at … Continue reading
Our Mia and Camille Jessie spent the day on the red carpet with the stars and producer of Netflix’s comedy Father of the Year. Check out what Allen Covert, Matt Shively and Bill Kottcamp had to say about making the movie! Continue reading
On Top of the Wizard World by Jay S. Jacobs Such a feeling is coming over us. There is wonder in most everything we see. The reason is clear, it’s because Wizard World is back. Philly’s baby sister to San Diego and New York’s huge corporate Comic-Cons, Wizard World Philadelphia is a more intimate and … Continue reading
Hayley Orrantia The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea by Jay S. Jacobs On television, Hayley Orrantia is known as Erica Goldberg, the brainy and tough only daughter of a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburban town of Jenkintown back in the 1980s. In real life, Orrantia is brainy and tough, … Continue reading
LOST IN SPACE SEASON ONE (2018) (Netflix) Still Lost in Space Netflix brings back the sci-fi classic in this winning reboot by Mark Mussari “Danger, Will Robinson.” You’ll feel a certain thrill when the Robot speaks those lines in the first episode of Netflix’s new reboot of Lost in Space. It might be your childhood … Continue reading
Neil Meron and Marc Platt Resurrecting Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert by Jay S. Jacobs In 1970, a pair of fairly unknown composers named Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice released a concept album called Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock opera about the life of Christ looking through a (then-) modern prism. The record was … Continue reading
Julee Cerda Reaching New Heights in Children of a Lesser God By Jay S. Jacobs Broadway is the dream, and Julee Cerda has finally reached it. The role which has made this dream a reality is in the much-anticipated revival of Mark Medoff’s Tony Award-winning play Children of a Lesser God, which became a smash … Continue reading
