The Kominsky Method is coming back for a third season. However, Alan Arkin won’t be joining Michael Douglas for the final season.
According to Deadline, the 86-year-old Oscar-winner only planned on doing two seasons. His departure will be written into the show.
Arkin is the second lead actor to depart a Chuck Lorre before the new season. Anna Faris is leaving Mom to “pursue new opputunities.” This is a rarity for Lorre who never sees stars leave his shows unless their names are Charlie Sheen or Agnus T. Jones.
Back in 1991, we fell in love with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton as a happily married couple, whose daughter (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) is getting married, in Father of the Bride. Then four years later, the father of the bride was becoming a father again and a grandfather for the first time at the same time. Now, 25 years later the Banks are reuniting for Father of the Bride 3(ish).
We don’t know what is bringing them together (I say double wedding for the babies from the first sequel), but Netflix says it is for a special event. That special event might have something to do with the World Central Kitchen. That is because the reunion, that is written and directed by Nancy Meyers, is benefitting the nonprofit.
The sequel that also stars Kieran Culkin, George Newbern, Martin Short, and few special guests will debut tomorrow at 6 pm EST on Netflix and YouTube.
Maybe 2020 is not all bad. That is because Netflix is giving us The Christmas Chronicles 2 on November 25th.
At the end of The Christmas Chronicles we were introduced to Goldie Hawn playing Mrs. Claus to Kurt Russell’s Santa Claus. Today, we got to see the teaser for the sequel that is about their marriage.
I don’t know what the film is about, and I don’t care. Just seeing these two as the mother and father of Christmas gave me some holiday joy in September. They are one of Hollywood’s cutest couples, and seeing them together makes me happy. That is something we all need in 2020.
Back in 1997, Tampa businessman Don Lewis went missing. Since then, some have questioned if his second wife, Carole Baskin, fed her husband to her tigers. People like Joe Exotic, aka the Tiger King, and her stepchild, Donna, Gale, Lynda.
Tonight during Baskin’s debut on Dancing with the Stars, the Lewis girls bought commercial time so they could air their ad asking for information on their dad’s disappearance. They are offering a $100,000 reward for any information leading to the whereabouts of their father. If you know anything, contact their attorneys at Phillips & Hunt.
Hopefully, someone will know what happened, and they can finally get closure after 23 years.
The Babysitter is back on Netflix, and she has been upgraded to a Killer Queen.
When I saw the trailer for The Babysitter: Killer Queen, I did not realize it was a sequel to The Babysitter. I just thought it looks like a fun teenage horror movie. The film tells you at the beginning that it is taking place two years after a life-changing event for Cole (Judah Lewis), but I still didn’t pick up on the signs that we saw that event. Then when I pressed stop, it was then that I realized it was recommending that I watch The Babysitter for a reason. It is the prequel to this tale.
Now, you don’t have to watch The Babysitter to enjoy this flick, but it does make it more enjoyable because then you understand what it is going on better. It just sets everything up. It is not like Halloween 3 to the ’70s Halloween 1 & 2.
So what happened in The Babysitter. Cole’s babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving), invites her friends, the self-absorbed cheerleader Allison (Bella Thorne), the shirtless jock Max (Robbie Amell), the wise-cracking John (Andrew Bachelor), and the cookie-making Sonya (Hana Mae Lee) over for some fun. Cole watches as they play spin the bottle. At first, it is every 12-year-old boy’s dream, until his babysitter kills one of their friends. That friend is being used as a sacrifice for his blood, and the babysitter needs Cole’s blood to solidify the deal.
When the group of friends realizes he is awake and saw what happened, their mission is to kill Cole. That is unless Cole can kill all of them first. One by one, the pre-teen kills all of them until he is the only one left standing.
That was two years ago, now Cole is a 14-year-old freshman in high school, and everyone thinks he lied about that night, including his parents (Ken Marino and Leslie Bibb). He is on major prescriptions, and his parents think he needs to be institutionalized.
Everyone at school thinks he is a weirdo. Well, everyone but his neighbor and best friend, Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind), who was with him that night two years ago. She saw what happened, so she always been supportive of him.
This comes in really helpful for Cole when his parents come to take him away. Melanie gets to him first and takes him to the lake with some of her friends and her boyfriend. The night starts off simple enough until some of Cole’s old friends come back to haunt them.
OK, so maybe Allison, Max, John, and Sonya are not his friends, but they come back from the dead to get their revenge. They have until sunrise to continue the satanic ritual if they want to live again and get all of their dreams to come true. Like the original plan, they had two years ago.
Cole is not going to make that easy on them. He is not the only one fighting them because this time, he has help from the mysterious new girl in school, Phoebe (Jenna Ortega). The two of them are trying to get them to stay dead this time. However, it is harder to kill someone who is already dead. Will they be able to do, or will they be sacrificed to Satan?
Just when you think you know what is going to happen next in The Babysitter: Killer Queen, they throw you a curveball. Don’t expect to figure this movie out until it is all spelled out for you. Something that is rare in horror these days.
Another thing that is rare in the genre is a film being enjoyable. I am an ’80s horror girl, so I love horredies, and this one definitely delivers on the laughs. Who doesn’t want to see Allison get shot in the boob again, and see Cole finally kick Max in the dick? Spoiler alert.
Seriously, you can tell they all had fun making this. Especially Ortega, who is the complete opposite of her squeaky-clean Disney image. It is not a transformation as grand as Zendaya to Euphoria, but it is enough to make you want to see what is next for her. She is not the only one who went through a transformation, so did Lewis. He has proven he is ready to be a leading man after this movie.
Actually, all of them proved themselves in this feature. That is why I say bring on The Babysitter 3. Is that doable? Can McG bring it back for a threequel? You just have to see how it ends. Believe me, you don’t want to miss that. You don’t want to miss a single second.
I can’t wait to watch it again when I donate platelets. That way, the only thing I am paying attention to then is the movie. There are plenty of things I am sure I missed because McG has the perfect way of combining his movie directing skills with his music video ones.
So sit back this weekend and watch The Babysitter: Killer Queen. What else is there to do? I mean, we are literally in the middle of a deadly pandemic, so there is nothing else we can do but watch and enjoy.
