Month: December 2021

Manifestation is a powerful tool. Photo: YouTube Almost nine years ago, a Pawnee citizen by the name of Garth Blunden, played by Patton Oswalt in a guest appearance, filibustered a town-hall meeting in season five of Parks and Recreation with a bit of inspiration from Marvel and Star Wars. Oswalt’s speech has become one of the show’s most famous moments — and it may even have been a little prophetic. The first episode of The Book of Boba Fett, a spinoff of The Mandalorian, features a scene that matches part of the filibuster nearly to a T. Here’s Oswalt’s Blunden: Pan down from the twin suns of Tatooine. We are now close ...

This past year couldn’t be expiring soon enough as far as most of the world is concerned, and we can only hope that the next one will at least provide small measures of relief in one regard or another. May this be true for the planet first and foremost, but also for the world of films. I’ve experienced 2021 as the worst year for movies in quite a few decades. Perhaps if I seriously combed through the 1980s I might find some that were worse, but I nonetheless felt seriously unrewarded for all the hours I put in watching films that simply didn’t rise to the occasion, including some that found significant critical favor with others. There were, perhaps, a couple of dozen films that ventured into excellence, but just four of these came from what we’re accustomed to call...

Spider-Man might have stopped the Multiverse from breaking any further and sent all the antagonistic ‘visitors’ back to their proper universe, but at what cost? The end of Spider-Man: No Way Home sees Peter Parker make one of the toughest, if not the toughest, decision of his life. Knowing that he’s the catalyst for the calamity unfolding around him and that there’s the only way he can put an end to it, Peter asks Doctor Strange to cast another spell — make everyone forget he’s Spider-Man, for real, this time.   While this sends the likes of Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, Sandman, and Lizard back to where they came from, this also means that everyone in his universe is going to forget Peter Parker ever existed, too. Sadly, that includes his girlfriend MJ and his best friend Ned, no...

Ryan Reynolds hilariously broke his silence on his relationship with Betty White after she claimed he had a crush on her.  As the 99-year-old legendary actress maintained that Reynolds has a 'thing' for her, the Deadpool star, 45, humorously played up their 'past relationship' in an Instagram post on Thursday.  Jokingly likening White to an ex-girlfriend of sorts, he said that he was 'absolutely sick' of people 'exploiting' their romance.   All in good fun: After Betty White maintained that Ryan Reynolds has a 'thing' for her, the Deadpool star, 45, humorously played up their 'past relationship' as he likened her to an ex-girlfriend of sorts 'I'm absolutely sick of the media exploiting past relationships just to drive clicks,' he wrote while posting a gr...

Tiffini Hale, a former cast member of The All New Mickey Mouse Club, has died. She was 46. The actress passed away on Dec. 25, Christmas Day, according to her former co-stars and fellow members of the Disney Channel pop group The Party. "It is with the heaviest of broken hearts that we share the sad news of the passing of our beloved sister, Tiffini Talia Hale," bandmates and All New Mickey Mouse Club alumni Deedee Magno Hall and Chasen Hampton posted on their Instagram pages on Thursday, Dec. 30. Their message continued, "Early this month, she suffered a cardiac arrest that resulted in her being left in a coma. After many prayers and with her family by her side, our dearest Tiff took her last breath Christmas morning. She is now resting peacefully. Tiffini's family has kindly asked...