Sven's Seven

'Tis the season of lists, so I thought I'd better get my ass into gear and at least come up with a good list name.  Anyway, as expected, Aquaman drowned the competition again for the second week in a row.  As for the debuts this week, well... it's graduates of the Will Ferrell Rolling Stock Company this week, and even though they've all debuted below the dreaded #5, it should still be a good New Year's celebration.  Older wünderkind and yester-decade's frequent director of Will Ferrell Adam McKay's Vice finally debuted this week.  Plenty of TV ads for it, but so far no political backlash that I've seen.  Nothing on the Sunday talk shows?  No shout-out from Colbert?  Well, even though it's not clicking with the masses, whose faces are still intact, thank God... there's still the Oscars.  And even though Christian Bale's already got his golden statue (TM) (C) (R), he seems to be aiming for another with each new role he picks.  This one could be hard to top, though.  I don't doubt McKay as a writer, but I'm assuming he didn't just write Cheney's life story on his own... did he?  No source material?  It's Lord of War all over again, which is actually based on a book, but thanks to WGA rules they get to stand by the oft-coveted "Written and Directed By".  ...okay, okay, same thing goes for Inside Llewyn Davis, as it is based on someone's life as well.
The other debut is Holmes & Watson, the latest and maybe not greatest collaboration between Ferrell and John C. Reilly, star of 1992's Hoffa.  Well, sometimes it's nice to have a decade apart before you work together again.  But Reilly's big deal this season is the new Laurel and Hardy biopic.  Will 2018 be as good for Reilly as 2005 was for George Clooney?  Stay tuned here to find out!  Or just Yahoo in general, really.
Meanwhile, in recently watched TV news, who played Janel Tyler on the new issue episode of "The Orville"?  You won't keep it a secret from me forever!  Scarlett Johanssen's sister?  Kirstin Scott Thomas' daughter?