After four seasons and more than 100 episodes, ABC Family’s Melissa & Joey is going to come to a close. EW has confirmed Melissa & Joey will cease production this week. “We are proud of the milestones Melissa & Joey has achieved, being the network’s first sitcom to reach 100 episodes and the network’s first comedy to win a People’s Choice Award,” said ABC Family programming executive Karey Burke. “Now that the kids are grown and Mel and Joe have married and are looking towards starting a family, it seemed like a natural time to bring the series to a close. Read More...
The latest in a recent wave of mainstream faith-based films, Miracles From Heaven stars Jennifer Garner in a dramatization of a “real” story about a very sick, God-fearing girl, Anna, cured of a supposedly incurable intestinal disease by what her parents (Garner, Martin Henderson) call a divinely-gifted miracle. In short: she falls out of a tree, the trauma of which apparently rids her body of its deadly ailment—and definitively kills the audience’s suspension of disbelief. Read More...
She comes back to the water, no matter how hard she tries... The first trailer for the highly anticipated sequel Moana 2 splashed down on Wednesday. Developed initially as a series for Disney+, the follow-up to the hit 2016 animated film now gives the ocean explorer a full theatrical follow-up. Set to hit theaters Nov. 27, the film features return voice performances from Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson as Moana and the Hawaiian god Maui, respectively. Read More...