Of all the pop culture institutions to be canceled, ended, or otherwise shut down by the pandemic in 2020, the permanent closure of the “Mean Girls” Broadway musical was perhaps the one that disappointed me the most. I’m not sure why it wasn’t brought back post-pandemic – ticket sales had clearly been healthy enough to […]

For the first time since the pandemic, January means the release of a terrible horror movie in “Night Swim.” Actually, the pandemic only really affected January horror in 2021. It’s just that with January 2022 bringing us that nifty ‘Scream’ reboot and January 2023 giving the world the instantly-iconic ‘M3GAN,’ I can’t say that the […]

A googol – 1 with 100 zeros after it – is a number so large that there is not a googol of anything on Earth. Not grains of sand. Not drops of water in the oceans. Not even atoms.The search engine, Google, was meant to be named Googol (to represent the vast amount of information […]

With the holiday season coming to an end, I can only talk about what “made” a movie like “Migration” a relative hit, as opposed to talking about its future. And that reason is that it was a “compromise” movie for families looking for a way to kill time together during the holiday break. “Wonka,” while […]

When my younger daughter was in grade school, she could not have learned to play the upright bass. It was not in the realm of possibilities. Bass was not offered and would have been too tall for her. The instrument she chose was clarinet. So we rented her a clarinet and she practiced and practiced […]

2023 has not been good for the DC Extended Universe. The year will end without ‘The Flash’ as one of the top 20 highest money-earners at the domestic box office. ‘Blue Beetle’ will finish out of the top 30; ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’, out of the top 40; the newest offering ‘Aquaman and the […]

I’ve lived in Maine most of my life, but there are times when I feel like an Okie, particularly in matters of food. At the moment, I’m thinking of fried okra, which was a childhood favorite of mine. If you have never seen okra, it will help to know that its nickname is Lady’s fingers. […]