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.
2017 saw multiple historic elections, including the election of Ravinder Bhalla, the first Sikh to be elected mayor in New Jersey. Bhalla will be inaugurated on January 1st and intends to hit the ground running.
Between Bells: Motor Trend's Car, Truck, and SUV of the year, the top entertainment stories of 2017, and gearing up for recreational cannabis legalization in 2018. We're joined by Cannabis Culture, Rare Media, PCMag, Hollywood Life and more.
Instagram is filled with "dogfluencers," but not all those viral pets are helping to make a difference in their communities. Melissa Molomo and her dog, Clyde the Bully, join Cheddar to discuss how they're helping the Bully breed bust stereotypes.
Kentucky's long history of bourbon production is mostly dominated by male executives, but that's changing thanks to one distillery. Michter's Distillery's Andrea Wilson joins Cheddar to discuss what it took to crash one of the spirit industry's most notorious boys' clubs.
By many accounts, 2017 may be the marijuana industry's best year ever. Cannabis Culture's Jodie Emery joins Cheddar to review the many strides made across the legalization movement.
From Oscar mix-ups to ice dragons, there were no slow news days this year in the world of entertainment. Hollywood Life's Lauren Cox joins us to recap the 2017's biggest pop-culture stories.
With high-quality cameras built into every smartphone, it has never been easier to snap a photo. Now, Neomodern wants to help you turn those beautiful pics into printed and framed pieces of art.
The experience economy is on the rise as consumers are trending toward spending money on events rather than things. Velocity Black wants to capitalize on the shift with a subscription service app catering to the elite.
It's no surprise that the year "fake news" entered our vocabularies was a controversial one for media. NewsBusters' Curtis Houck joins Cheddar to break down the year's most polarizing press events.
Now that the holidays have passed, we are officially in return season! Americans return about $380 billion worth of merchandise each year, and around 1/4th of the returns happen around the holidays. With shipping, storage, and re-sale complications, returns can be a major headache for retailers. Tobin Moore is the CEO and founder of Optoro, a reverse logistics technology company that helps major retailers manage their returns.
