Movies

With some of the busiest travel days of the year now upon us with Christmas and New Year’s, it is rather timely for Netflix to release their #1 streaming action-crime drama this week called “Carry-On”

Christmas Day is less than one week away now in case you no longer own a calendar, and the masses are always looking for a new holiday family film to add to their playlist.

In less than two weeks’ time, the jolly, chunky man with the white beard will be holding his breath, squeezing and shimmying that red velvet suit down our chimneys! Make sure you remember to leave those cookies and milk out on the kitchen counter. Although, in my house, they would never last long enough for Santa to get his share.

Without any doubt, or a second thought in mind, it is the absolute best time of the year! Dark by 4:30 p.m. 25 degrees outside at best, with a wind chill that makes it feel about 10. Frostbitten digits, while I work outside for my day job on the road, lying to myself that I am being hit with a tropical breeze. Mind over matter they say. Oh, and what a joy it is at the very thought of going home for the holidays in a few short weeks’ time with my chain-smoking family who not only can’t stand themselves, let alone me.

WILKES-BARRE – The holiday spirit is steaming into town! Join us at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, December 8, at 2:00 p.m. for a magical screening of the beloved holiday classic, “The Polar Express.”

Could you imagine being born in the year 1937 and still working full-time in the current year of 2024? When you look at those numbers and put the math together, it just doesn’t seem really feasible, or does it?

“Annie Hall,” “Midnight in Paris,” “Deconstructing Harry,” “Match Point,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Vicky Christina Barcelona” — all high points of an illustrious career that began back in the late 1960s by a now infamous actor and director named Woody Allen. Winner of countless awards, including four Oscars over a nearly-60-year career, Woody Allen, like his counterparts Clint Eastwood, and Ridley Scott is like the Energizer bunny — still going, going and going.

Question everything is the motto of the new A24 psychological thriller Heretic. Oh please believe me, I am questioning everything and not because of this movie, it’s after last week’s election!

It is a known fact that adults smile far less than children. Not only can a simple smile plastered across your face raise the hormones that boost your immune system, but a study also found that 69% of people found women who smile more attractive than women who wear make-up.