• GQ

    Who is ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ For, Exactly?

    Let’s clear something up straight away: Ghostbusters is not a comedy. Now let’s immediately muddy it back up: Ghostbusters (1984), one of the most popular movies of the ’80s, is a comedy, and a very good one. It occupies the top tier of movies inspired by, adjacent to, or otherwise connected with Saturday Night Live, and represents a career highlight for Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and the late Harold Ramis all at once. Ghostbusters II (1989) is also a comedy, albeit very much of the ’80s-sequel...

    • Screen

    ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’: Review

    Ghostbusters old and new return to New York for another not-very-spirited sequel

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    This is the time of year when our local waterways – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds – really begin to come to life. The backyard pond on our Northbrook homestead is no exception where one of those early signs of spring is the return of a pair of wood ducks determined to set up housekeeping in one of the two nesting boxes we erected years ago.

  • Build Your Own Tiny Backyard Wildlife Pond

    If you're looking for your next garden project and want something that is low maintenance but also beneficial for the entire ecosystem, consider building a tiny wildlife pond.

  • Pond skimming at Carbon County resort

    LOWER TOWAMENSING TOWNSHIP, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An annual celebration of winter coming to an end took place in Carbon County on Sunday afternoon. It involved getting getting wet if you were unlucky. The water was dyed green for this year's pod skimming at Blue Mountain Resort in honor of it falling on Saint Patrick's []

  • Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is a step backwards for the franchise

    In 2021, Ghostbusters Afterlife became a Pandemic hit that revived the 40-year-old franchise with a sentimental adventure following the family of the late Ghostbuster Egon Spengler. The sequel takes the action back to New York, with the Spengler family now part of a wider Ghostbusters network run by Winston Zedemore (Ernie Hudson). A rocky family []

  • A Frozen Journey: From Screen to the Stages of North America

    Disney’s Frozen, the animated film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, opened in the United States on November 19, 2013. An overnight, global phenomenon, the tale of two sisters driven apart by magic and reunited by love quickly became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, a distinction it held until Frozen 2 […]

  • ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ beats the dead hearse

    There’s a moment of beauty nestled in the tepid confines of “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” that occurs during the only scene that legacy characters Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore have alone together. “This is how I want to spend my golden years,” Stantz says. “Doing what I love.” This is a sweet sentiment, and it’s easy

  • Does 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' have a post-credit scene?

    Should fans stay through the credits for more ghostly treats after watching "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire"? Find out!

  • Police: Angela Chao was drunk when she drove into pond

    Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas, according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday.

  • 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' clears a low bar

    Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” — it’s fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the

  • 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Slimes Us with Nostalgia

    You could excuse 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' for wallowing in nostalgia. The reboot/sequel had to wash away the stain of the 2016 'Ghostbusters: Answer the Call' while making amends with the franchise faithful. 'Afterlife' still moved the story's setting far from the Big Apple, and the presence of the franchise's core members came mostly at the end. It felt like the franchise was ready to go off on its own. 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' argues just the opposite. The sequel stuffs every possible...