movie review JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (some strong violence, language throughout, some sexuality, and brief full nudity). In theaters Oct. 4 The DC dirge “Joker: Folie à Deux” is a sequel in search of a purpose. For nearly two and a half hours, director Todd Phillips’ pathologically unnecessary movie … Read more
All award shows are trivial by nature. We treat them with the utmost seriousness, but really they’re cringe parades in which networks go overboard celebrating hot entertainers — the same people we celebrate every single day of the year. Yet they serve a practical purpose, too. The Oscars can still reliably boost the Best Picture … Read more
movie review BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Running time: 104 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use). In theaters Sept. 6. By the end of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” I was fully convinced that Michael Keaton really is a ghost. Thirty-five years have passed since Tim Burton’s original horror-comedy … Read more
Ladies and gentleman, may I have your fully divided attention! Thank you. … Reader G. Wilbur asks a good, though self-dating question: “When did MLB telecasts become ‘The David Susskind Show’?” “The David Susskind Show” was an interview program seen throughout the 1960s and 1970s on Ch. 11 then Ch. 5. It featured long, pensive … Read more
movie review BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F Running time: 118 minutes. Rated R (language throughout, violence and brief drug use). On Netflix. After the overhyped letdown that was 2021’s “Coming 2 America,” the misguided sequel to “Coming to America,” it’s understandable that viewers approach Eddie Murphy’s new “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” with some trepidation. … Read more
Is it time to rethink zinc? New research has found that taking zinc may help shorten the length of a person’s cold by about two days — but the evidence isn’t definitive and it may not be worth the side effects. A healthy diet can easily provide enough zinc, which is found in foods such … Read more
Those crunches may not be abs-olutely necessary. Exercises that target certain groups of fat — whether it’s thunder thighs or love handles — might be useless, experts say. In fact, it’s “simply not possible” to lose fat through area-specific workouts — fitness influencers be damned. Dr. Nick Fuller, an author and obesity researcher at the University of … Read more
Forget these memintos. Members of the private Facebook group That’s it, I’m wedding shaming are reportedly slamming a pair of newlyweds for their “pointless” wedding favors. The tiny take-home gift under fire is two unwrapped Polo breath mints, which are made in the UK, in a plastic bag with a sticker that reads: “Thanks for … Read more
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” has spun off into a series about the little sister. The new Netflix series “XO, Kitty” follows Kitty (Anna Cathcart), the bubbly self-professed “matchmaker” younger sister of Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor), who was the heroine of the 2018 movie (and its two sequels). “XO, Kitty” is busier … Read more