With critics' groups across the country starting to hand out their awards, the Oscar race is officially on. Cinemablend's Sean O'Connell joins us to handicap the major categories. With no clear frontrunner, it's anyone's guess which movie is going to break out before the big night.
In the Best Picture category, it's looking like things are boiling down to a showdown between "The Post" and "Lady Bird." O'Connell weighs the pros and cons of each, noting that he thinks the Steven Spielberg political drama is the best movie of the year. We also consider whether "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" could be the franchise's first Best Picture nominee since the 1977 original, "A New Hope."
Then, we tackle the contenders duking it out in the acting categories. Meryl Streep is looking to win her fourth Oscar for her leading role in "The Post." If anyone can stop her, O'Connell says it will likely be "Lady Bird's" Saoirse Ronan or "I, Tonya's" Margot Robbie. As for the actors, "Darkest Hour's" Gary Oldman is pulling ahead as the one to beat for his portrayal of Winston Churchill.
If you had any lingering doubts that eSports had gone mainstream, they would have been erased when the North American League of Legends Summer Split took over the Oracle Arena ー home to the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors. Cheddar was there for the last stop before the World Championships in South Korea next month.
Kathryn Finney, founder of DigitalUndivided, wants to help minority entrepreneurs gain access to venture capital money for their start-ups.
Apple casts a long shadow, and that's never more apparent than after a new product launch. John Vinh, equity research analyst at KeyBanc, ticked off the companies that, as part of Apple's supply chain, stand to benefit from the latest iPhone launch.
Boutique fitness classes are taking on traditional gyms as the workout of choice for millennial fitness buffs. Sarah Larson Levey, founder of Y7, said that she initially started a new yoga studio to appeal to people like her who weren't feeling fulfilled in other yoga classes.
To get more television viewers, the Emmys, and all award shows for that matter, need to "honor the past" and get big names to show up and make people nostalgic, said Sean O'Connell, managing editor at Cinemablend. This year's ceremony takes place Monday night.
Robert Fairchild, star of the new stage-to-screen adaptation of "An American In Paris," tells Cheddar how revivals can work for audiences in a modern age.
The couple told Cheddar about how they balance screen time in their house, and why it's so important that they show their kids on social media.
Natural disasters, hurricanes especially, were once opportunities for administrations to flex their leadership and empathy muscles. When they failed (see: Bush, Katrina), the results were politically devastating. When they succeeded (see: Christie, Sandy), they launched runs for office. Those days appear to be over.
At its annual event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple announced three new iPhones and a new Apple Watch Series 4. With new features such as bigger screens and an EKG monitor on the watch, Apple hopes to reach audiences that may have not bought into the last edition of its products.
Hurricane Florence made a shift toward the southeast and is now likely to bring potentially catastrophic rain to a large swath of the southeast. Colin Hackman, a reporter and meteoroligist for WECT, reported for Cheddar from the North Carolina coast.
