Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent.
So why didn’t he make a bigger splash on film? The paradox of WInters’s 50-year screen career was that film wasn’t a big enough medium to contain him. He did his best work on records and TV, where… Continue reading Jonathan Winters Remembered: His 5 Best Movies

There was nothing that made my dad laugh harder than watching Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor fumble about with his co-host Al Borland. I enjoyed watching ‘Home Improvement’ with him, but I had my sights on the show for a very different reason: Tim’s youngest son, played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
It’s shaping up to be a good week for horror author Stephen King. On Wednesday night, news broke that David Yates and Steve Kloves wanted to tackle a multi-film big screen adaptation of his novel The Stand. That was exciting, but now we’ve got even more good news for fright fans: the author’s upcoming novel, 11/22/63