Q: Is Tyler Perry's "The Haves and the Have Nots" coming back?
We "have" a few more episodes of the beloved, long-running OWN drama left, after which we all become "have nots."
The show is midway through its eighth season, and the news of its cancellation came as it went into mid-season hiatus. The back half of this now-final season will premiere in May.
The Bachelor, on ABC
Season 25 nears its conclusion in this new episode. Real estate broker and community organizer Matt James is this long-running unscripted dating franchise's first Black lead, and audiences - as well as this season's contestants - couldn't be happier.
Talking Dead, on AMC
Join Chris Hardwick for this series' return. Stars, celebrity super fans, creators and crew members sit down with Hardwick to discuss the just-aired "Walking Dead" episode, offering insight and answering online questions posted on social media by viewers.
Late Laughs for the week of February 28 - March 6, 2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The GOP's compromised offer to Biden's plan is a compromise [in] the same way a pack of wolves compromises with an absent-minded caribou.
So once you leave a job, you're immune from prosecution? "Cannibalism? Nice try, your honor, but I don't even work at White Castle anymore."
You gotta admit, sedition is a lot easier than voting: you don't have to register, you don't have to wait in line, you're not risking jury duty and you still get a cute little sticker.
Sunny days: Easter arrives early with new Food Network competition
Claudia Sandoval, Sunny Anderson and Jordan Andino in "Easter Basket Challenge"
The thing about Renée: Zellweger to star in NBC true crime series
Renée Zellweger to star in "The Thing About Pam"
The thing about Renée: Our collective obsession with true crime stories is still going strong. Maybe that's why NBC had no trouble landing a big-name actress for its new limited series.
New Releases for the week of February 28 - March 6
Fatale
Former college basketball-star-turned-entrepreneur Derrick Tyler (Ealy) and his closest friend, Rafe Grimes (Colter), take a business trip to Las Vegas in the wake of Derrick's suspicion that his wife, Tracie (Lewis), is having an affair. Rafe suggests Derrick have his own affair and, after meeting a beautiful woman at a bar and having given her a fake name, Derrick and the woman spend the night together. The night after returning to Los Angeles, Derrick finds a masked intruder in his home and barely escapes with his life. When the police come to investigate the scene, Derrick soon discovers that the detective assigned to the case is none other than Valerie Quinlan (Swank), the woman he had the affair with. Derrick must navigate his indiscretions and complicated personal relationships while the police turn their suspicions on him.
Director: Deon Taylor. Stars: Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, Damaris Lewis, Tyrin Turner, Danny Pino, Geoffrey Owens, David Hoflin. 2020. 102 mins. Thriller.
Scare Me
When struggling actor and writer Fred (Ruben) retreats to the Catskills to write in total seclusion, he comes across bestselling horror author Fanny (Cash). Unimpressed with each other, the pair go their separate ways until a thunderstorm knocks out the power in the area. Visiting Fred's house to see if his electricity has been lost, too, Fanny encourages Fred to tell her a scary story but is indifferent to his first attempt. When the pair have a pizza delivered by horror fan Carlo (Redd), Fred finds Fanny's fame too much to bear and the evening descends into chaos.
Director: Josh Ruben. Stars: Josh Ruben, Aya Cash, Chris Redd, Rebecca Drysdale, Lauren Sick. 2020. 104 mins. Horror.
Half Brothers
After traveling to Chicago to visit his estranged dying father, Flavio (Espinosa), days before his wedding, straight-laced Mexican business executive Renato (Méndez) soon discovers he has an eccentric and bohemian American half-brother named Asher (Del Rio). Tasked with fulfilling their father's last dying wish, the newly united brothers must embark on a cross-country road trip recreating the path their father took when he emigrated from Mexico. Finding answers to their own identities along the way, the brothers soon discover they are more alike than they would care to admit.
Director: Luke Greenfield. Stars: Luis Gerardo Méndez, Connor Del Rio, José Zúñiga, Vincent Spano, Alma Sisneros, Beatrice Hernandez, Tyler Cook, Juan Pablo Espinosa. 2020. 96 mins. Comedy.
Forrest Gump, on AMC
While waiting for a bus, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) shares his remarkable life story with unsuspecting strangers, chronicling the ways American history at large became unwittingly influenced by the life and love of one simple man. Sally Field also stars.
It's a bird, it's a plane ...: 'Superman & Lois' join the Arrowverse
Tyler Hoechlin stars in "Superman & Lois"
Race to your couches "faster than a speeding bullet" this week and be sure to leap over any tall buildings that stand in your way because the second episode of the new Arrowverse series "Superman & Lois," is airing Tuesday, March 2, on CW.
Q: I put on a baseball movie the other day, but it wasn't what I was looking for. It was called "The Rookie" and I was hoping it was a '90s Disney movie about a teenager who breaks his arm and becomes a superstar pitcher. Instead, it was about a middle-ag
The kid you were looking for wasn't just any old rookie, he was "Rookie of the Year" (1993).
You're certainly not the only one to be disappointed by expecting one and getting the other. They are, as you say, very different movies, despite both being made by Disney. And they were only released nine years apart (Dennis Quaid's "The Rookie" was released in 2002).