On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode , rejoice Michael Jackson fans! The upcoming biopic of the late singer has found its young Michael Jackson ( and already released its first image) and 3 more star have been added to Jason Reitman’s drama about the 1975 start of Saturday Night Live. Plus .. pop quiz.. what do a certain doomed 1912 ship, two vastly different students with a love of singing, a London born Indian girl chasing her dreaming of playing association football ( that’s soccer to us Americans) and the underdog men’s winners of the 1980 Winter Olympics have in common?

On this week’s Weekly Weekend Warrior.. the Mean Girls musical took the MLK JR weekend crown proving that the Plastics still can draw in box office crowds nearly 20 years later. Looks like Jenna Dewan is sashaying back into maternity clothes-she’s due with her third child. Fire up the jet engines -a third Top Gun film is in the works Plus .. Heigh Ho Heigh Ho! It’s back to the late 1930s for a Disney classic ( that began walt Disney studios legacy) I go and .. gasp ! A new Fear Street movie is in the works at Netflix ( and it’s going to the prom).

On this week’s Midday Movie Madness Weekly Weekend Warrior Wonka continues to rule ( chocolate) supreme while Night Swim drowned in his chocolate river. Sorry Our Flag Means Death and The Good Doctor show fans .. those shows have walked the tv series planks. Gasp! The Mandolorian and Baby Yoda err I mean Grogu are headed to the big screen for the theatrical movie sometime in the future. Get in loser ..the Mean Girls musical movie is going to the big screen . Plus what’s this? A Star Trek origin film is coming, The Michael Jackson biopic has a date, Halle Bailey is a mom and much more.

On this breaking news I say goodbye to both the actress who charmed audiences as Mrs. Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins and one half of TV’s legendary Starsky and Hutchins crime fighting duo. On a happier note , it appears that Ke Hut Quan has found his next lead role and Gerald Bulter is going back to battling dragons as Stoick for the live action How to Train Your Dragon film.

On this week’s Midday Movie Madness Weekly Weekend Warrior , box office king Wonka gave audiences a ‘sweet’ chocolate-y way to ring in the new year . Michelle Yeoh has a new off screen role-elated first time grandmother ( and Marlee Matlin is getting promoted to that role later this year.) Get ready for a terrifying ‘Night Swim” - the first horror film of 2024- in theaters this Friday . And speaking of horror, what’s this? The world is getting a horror-comedy version of Steamboat Willie ?( No folks I’m not joking). Plus Pop quiz! What do a chicken legged strange moving castle, a witch in training , a girl raised by a forest wolf god in feudal Japan, and a sullen 10 year old in the spirit world all have in common?

On the very last 2023 News and Flashback Fun mini episode, I say goodbye to comedic legend who paved the way for Saturday Night Live , The Daily Show and today’s late night talk shows, a Parasite actor and many others. Sorry What We Do In The Shadows show fans ..the FX show has been “staked” through the heart .(get it ? Vampires? Staked? Bad pun I know.) on the flip side , Marlee Matlin has an exciting new role: future first time future grandmother, I give a glowing spoiler free review for The Color Purple Remake. Plus ..gasp! Robert Pattinson is engaged. For the year’s final flashback fun I take a look at 4 requested films -one of which introduced the world to the Truffle Shuffle , Sloth and One-eyed Willy and one that rocketed Anne Hathaway to star down just 22 years ago. Happy New Years to all!

On today’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode ( the 2nd to last one of 2023)… yikes .. Disney and and Marvel dropped actor Johnathan Majors from the role of Kang quicker than Bruce Banner transforming into The Hulk after his trial today. Sorry to say this Curb Your Enthusiasm fan .. but the long running HBO comedy is saying farewell after 12 seasons. In better news what’s this ? Katie Curic and Rosario Dawson are going to become grandmas next year.. and Gasp! Netflix is doing a One Piece anime reboot that will be totally separate from the long running anime. Plus in honor of Christmas being a week away , I look back at 3 famous comedies with Christmas In The title.. one of which just turned 40 triple dog dares a month ago.(remember no flashback fun or show next week. The final 2033 Flashback fun mini episode will be on December 31). Merry Christmas to all!

On the final 2023 Midday Movie Madness Weekly Weekend Warrior, to no one’s surprise The Boy and the Heron took the domestic box office crown . Hilary Duff is expecting a fourth visit from the stork? Get ready for a sweet chocolate filled origin story story as Wonka sings his way to the big screen .Aquaman 2 and the anticipated Disney+ Percy Jackson and the Olympians series both make a splash next Wednesday. Plus The American Girls dolls are going to the big screen, a Saw 11 is coming next September and guess what Bridgerton fans? We have a date for season 3.. and it’s only 5 months away.

On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode , rejoice Stranger Things fans- we have a production start date for the fifth and final season of the Netflix show ! Hooray Hayao Miyazaki fans- he finally has a number 1 film in North America. For this week’s Flashback Fun, in honor of the remake opening up in two weeks I revisit 1985’s The Color Purple ( and I go back in time to the film that propelled the late Alan Rickman to celebrity status and Bruce Willis to leading action star).