WKKL 90.7’s Midday Movie Madness

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 Dis...

On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode , fuel up the jet engines once more because a third Top Gun film with Tom Cruise is officially a go ! Jacob Elordi will be stepping into some famous monster sized shoes soon-he’s playing Frankenstein’s monster in Guillermo Del Toro’s version of Frankenstein for Netflix. Big newest Planet of the Apes fans- the newest film in the reboot series is op...

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 los...

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 speaki...

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 exc...

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 R...

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...

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 pr...

On this week’s Midday Movie Madness Weekly Weekend Warrior .. ooooh! Beyonce sauntered past the ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Godzilla Minus one to take the crown. What’s this? Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is getting a dvd release next Tuesday? And Pixar’s Luca, Soul and Turning Red ( which were shoved to Disney+ from theaters back at the height of the pandemic) are coming to big screen theat...

*believit or not this marks the 401st midday movie madness podcast episode *! On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode , after 65 years Brenda Lee’s iconic “ Rocking Around the Christmas Tree “ has finally reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list- quite an incredible early birthday gift for Lee.( She’s 79 next week.). It’s “the start of something new” for high school music...

On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode Macaulay Culkin got his star on the Hollywood Walk of fame and his Home Alone on-screen mom Cathrine O’Hara reduced him to tears with a beautiful speech. Yippee-ki-yay-1988’s Die Hard is returning to theaters on December 8. Plus Rejoice Spirited Away fans - the filmed version of the 2022 Spirited Away Live on Stage is flying like Haku’s dragon for...

On this week’s Weekly Weekend Warrior , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes kept the box office throne over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. What’s this? The 96th Oscars will be starting an hour earlier than normal and a Taylor Swift class will be taught at Harvard in the spring? Surprise! Paris Hilton is now a mom of two and Kathy Lee Gifford is a grandmother of 3 . Plus rawr! Godzilla Minus One...

On today’s breaking news I pay tribute to late former First Lady Rosalyn Carter - the longtime wife and partner of President Jimmy Carter- who sadly passed away earlier this week. Eeek! It looks like the cast of Scream VII’s getting killed off and not by old ghostface as the production lost not 1 but 2 of its main leads. Plus the newest Batman Robert Pattinson is getting a new off screen role: he’...

On this week’s pre thanksgiving Weekly Weekend Warrior … oooh . New box office king The Marvels didn’t have a really “Marvel-ous” debut ( sorry couldn’t resist) proving the once immortal Marvel might be mortal after all. Exciting news Frozen fans.. we’re not just getting a Frozen 3 in the future .. we’re getting a Frozen 4! Return to the games when The Hunger Games: The ballad of songbirds and sna...

(Note: originally meant to be done last night). On this week's 1 day delayed news and Flashback Fun mini episode , sorry Big Bang Theory fans- the prequel series “ Young Sheldon” is going to be bazinga-gone after this season. Rejoice friends show fans- the first ever real Central Perk coffee house is now open in Boston . Yahoo-Jimmy kimmel is back on hosting duties for the 96th Oscar’s. For flashb...

On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode … what this? We have an official trailer and debut date for Netflix’s live action Avatar: the last Airbender series. I repeat We have an official trailer and debut date for Netflix’s live action Avatar: the last Airbender series ! Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey just welcomed his sixth child? ooooh ..sorry deadpool 3 fans.. while the anticipated film...

On this week’s Weekly Weekend Warrior although it kept the box office throne Five Nights At Freddy’s suffered an enormous drop. What’s this? Warner brothers has shelved ’Coyote v. Acme “ with John Cena ? And the live action avatar the last airbender series has an official trailer and premiere date? Plus The Marvels flies into theaters , the Oscar hopeful romantic drama May December arrives on sele...

On this week’s Weekly Weekend Warrior Five Nights At Freddy’s had quite the killer Halloween weekend haul as it slayed all box office predictions with an astounding $80 million stateside. Max is paying tribute to the late friends star Matthew Perry - so cruelly taken from the world October 28. Hate to be the bearer of bad news folks but you can’t check out HBO’s The White Lotus season 3 or the IT...

On today’s News and Halloween Flashback Fun mini episode the Max streaming service has added a tribute to the late Matthew Perry . Great news poltergeist fans .. the famous movie is reaching is supernatural ghostly hands to tv screens . And Fall and It Follows are fretting sequels. To rephrase the nightmare before christmas' This is Halloween “ Horror films everywhere Life's no fun without a good...

On today’s breaking news.. I say goodbye to 54 year old Matthew Perry who charmed and entertained audiences as Friends’ commitment-fearing Chandler Bing and to Night Court’s 80 year old Richard Moll. Plus get ready to hear the phone ringing again folks cause Universal and Blumhouse have put the sequel stamp on The Black Phone 2. Whaaat? Elio and The live action Snow White film won’t out until 2025...

On today’s Midday Movie Madness Weekly Weekend Warrior.. not even Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Fraser or Robert De Niro could topple the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert film from the box office throne. But will she survive the horrors of the big screen version of the Five Nights at Freddy’s film this weekend? What’s this? A new looney tunes movie with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig is coming to theaters in...

On this week’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode .. I’m so sorry Mission impossible fans but the eight Mission Impossible film has been delayed by nearly a year. ‘Bear-y good news Paddington bear fans- we have a release date for Paddington 3 .. but it’s not until January 2025. (But if you live in the United Kingdom you’ll get to see the lovable marmalade obsessed bear two months earlier in mid-N...

On today’s News and Flashback Fun mini episode. I celebrate this show 18th birthday. 18 years-can you believe it? oooh! I’m sorry Deadpool fans but the wait for Deadpool’s 3rd raunchy movie just got longer. In fact the famous Merc with a Mouth left his May 3 2024 release date. In better news news heads up dragon ball fans- a new dragon ball anime is coming .. in 2024 fall. Pop quiz time: what do t...

On today’s breaking news…. Alas 76 year old Suzanne Somers has given into her 23 year fight with breast cancer and what’s this ? Netflix is opining actual retail stores in 2025