Melissa McCarthy Skewers White House’s Sean Spicer on ‘SNL’

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has become the latest member of President Donald Trump’s administration to get the “Saturday Night Live” treatment, courtesy of actress and comedian Melissa McCarthy. In a surprise cameo, McCarthy mimicked Spicer’s famously combative first appearance with the White House press corps, where he angrily took issue with reports about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration.

‘Split’ shocks the box office with a $40 million debut

Competing with a presidential inauguration, multicity marches and big-budget Hollywood productions, M. Night Shyamalan’s creepy psychological thriller “Split” pulled off a surprising opening weekend victory, pulling in an estimated $40.2 million. The low-budget “Split,” which cost a reported $9 million to make, blew away predictions that it would be bested by Vin Diesel’s big, action-packed “xXx: Return of Xander Cage.”

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year

As for me, well, a driver drives. Today’s appetizer is Kate Beckinsale, perhaps best known as the star of the Underworld movies, which appear to be about a war between vampires and werewolves, but as Daddy Warpig says, “If you’re watching Underworld for the plot, YOU’RE WATCHING IT WRONG.”

Kyle Abraham’s Political Choreography

The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual Next Wave Festival, as its name indicates, usually brings us work that is new, or new to New York. But in this year’s festival you could see Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement” looking very much as it did when it premiA red, at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, four years ago.