Recent Articles by Ed Gross

One of the most interesting — and sometimes bizarre — spin-offs from successful TV shows and movies is the idea of an animated series that takes the concept and characters and expands them....

There’s something very special about enjoying the performances of young actors in a film or TV series, and then checking in with them many years later to see how they’ve grown up. That’s...

For a while there, it looked like Tom Cruise was going to have two ongoing franchises with Mission Impossible and adventures featuring him as Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. Well, let’s hope that Tom is going...

You may think it’s a little too early in the holiday season for sentimental tears, but you’d be wrong — especially if you’ve seen the amazing new commercial from British high-end retailer John...

This has been a rough week for fans of different genres. Comic book buffs lost Marvel Comics’ revolutionary writer/editor Stan Lee, while fans of country music (among many other people) are still taking in the...

Over the next couple of years, Walt Disney Pictures will be presenting a number of live action adaptations of their animated classics. So far we’ve already seen takes on 101 Dalmations, Alice in Wonderland and,...

Fans are still having a hard time dealing with the fact that this year will be the final one for CBS’ long-running The Big Bang Theory, largely due to the fact that Jim Parsons...

Back in the 1960s when it came to comic book superheroes, there was the Marvel way and the way that everyone else did it. At Marvel, then editor-in-chief Stan Lee — who recently...

While Rocky IV has the distinction of being the third highest-grossing film of 1985 (right behind the original Back to the Future and Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo: First Blood Part II), everyone pretty much considered it a relic of...

In watching the episodes of The Conners to date, on the one hand, it’s admirable the way that the writers and cast have so successfully been able to move on beyond the death of the...

The women of Star Wars have finally risen to a point of equality to their male counterparts, as proven by the fact that so much of the action of recent films in the series have...

CloserWeekly.com’s Classic TV & Film podcast describes itself as celebrating the golden age of television and movies, then and now. Well, it’s not easy finding somebody who represents both aspects of this podcast,...

As so many of us are dealing with the loss of Stan Lee, we’ve dug into the archives for an interview that was conducted with Stan the Man seventeen years ago, but had...

Yes, we know that Matthew Broderick is and forever will be Ferris Bueller (you know, the guy who took the most famous day in history off?), but three years before he brought Ferris to life,...

There are legends and then there are legends, and writer Stan Lee without question falls into the latter category. Sadly, the man whose imagination has filled movie theatres, toy shelves, comics racks (hey, there...

Television in the 1960s was filled with a lot of high concepts, but nothing was quite like The Andy Griffith Show. During this time, there was the wacky adventures of seven stranded castaways...

For all of her success at Fox News, Megyn Kelly had a bumpy ride from the start with NBC, a point that is being driven home even more in the aftermath of her...

Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon may be streaming giants, but can even they stand up to the combined might of the Avengers, the Galactic Empire, and… Olaf? Nope, we don’t think so either, but...

Hollywood leading man, icon, and legend Rock Hudson is going to be back in a major way as the subject of Mark Griffin’s new biography, All That Heaven Allows, which is being published...

In the days before VHS — which were in the days before DVDs, which were before Blu-rays, which were before streaming — your only hope for re-watching a movie that you loved was...