Sports / Entertainment

I was told by a colleague that my column last week was a bit too much doom and gloom, so I have some good news to cheer you up this week. THE CRICKET WORLD CUP HAS STARTED!!!! Last Thursday, England played New Zealand in the opening game of the tournament being played in India. The opening game of the tournament is a replay of the final from 2019, where England prevailed on the number of boundaries they scored after the match was tied after 50 overs and a super over.

Most know her as the spirited feminist Mrs. Banks, mother of Jane and Michael, in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins, but actress Glynis Johns has had a storied career apart from the movie masterpiece. On October 5th of this year, the South African-born British actress will have seen an entire century pass before her. What does that century have to show? 58 movie roles — including an Oscar nomination in 1960 for the outback comedy-drama, The Sundowners alongside Robert Mitchum —  32 TV shows, 15 LP record appearances, 30 stage shows, 5 leading roles

The major news broke late Sunday night and the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ respective negotiating committees shook hands. The news came after 146 days of picketing, negotiating attempts, and heaps of frustration. Along the way, truTV’s Adam Conover somehow became the Twitter spokesman for unfolding developments. At 12:00 AM on Wednesday, the strike was over. Streaming services and studios met the demands of the guild, increasing healthcare benefits, salaries, royalties, and protections from Artificial Intelligence (AI). Essentially, everything that the writers

Those of us who grew up watching the golden age of teen comedies, from Sixteen Candles to Weird Science, usually have one prevailing thought when revisiting them as grown-ups: How did we watch this and think it was okay? The era of John Hughes’ suburban-set hormone odysseys typically centered on one idea: dorky boys want to get with the bombshell cheerleaders and will stop at nothing to do so. Fast forward to the early 2000’s, when gross-out comedies took the hyperbolic sentiments of teen comedies to the extreme cringe value.