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May 01, 2024
Carol Burnett's hour has arrived! After three episodes in a coma and six ones slurring minimal dialogue, Palm Royale is finally setting her up to make a splash in the finale. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I have to recap this penultimate episode first.
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Apr 30, 2024
Oh, good, a new contrarian take from Brian Cox just came in! From the old guy who brought you "I could've done Napoleon better" and "woke culture is truly awful," we now have some comprehensive thoughts on the Bible and religion as a whole. Buckle in, guys!
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Apr 30, 2024
This May, Glee turns 15. For better or worse—often both, within the same episode—the series is singular. It ushered in a wave of musical TV shows, and with it a new era of merchandising. Its young cast might not have become Euphoria famous, but they were household names for a generation and a constant presence in the…
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Apr 30, 2024
The entertainment industry is full of troubled characters and addictive personalities, and Saturday Night Live is no exception. More than one talented star from the long-running sketch show has experienced tragedy, and it's clear that SNL godfather Lorne Michaels has taken even more care with the younger generation to…
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Apr 30, 2024
Netflix has announced "some guests" for John Mulaney's new special, Everybody's In L—holy crap, Halloween director John Carpenter is listed.
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Apr 30, 2024
Following Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's failed attempt to take over the DC Cinematic Universe with his character, Black Adam, at the center (an awe-inspiring act of hubris, even for him), there was clearly blood in the water. Yes, the hierarchy of power in Hollywood has indeed changed, and The Rock is no longer the untou…
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Apr 30, 2024
Megalopolis may have been brewing in Francis Ford Coppola's mind for over four decades now, but details of the sprawling epic have remained mostly elusive for the rest of us. That changed a little bit today, as the director shared a more holistic glimpse into some of the events and historical figures that inspired the…
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Apr 30, 2024
The 2024 Tony Award nominees were announced this morning, but from a quick skim of the list, you'd be forgiven for assuming it was the Oscars, or even the Grammys. Even with 36 shows vying for awards this season, there's a lot of Hollywood representation on the Great White Way.
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Apr 30, 2024
If you'll allow us our very own Ghostface moment, we have a question for you: What's your favorite TV series? Now, what's your favorite season of that TV series? And (before we gut you like a fish, obviously) why is it season three?
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Apr 30, 2024
Thor: Love And Thunder just wasn't the home run that Thor: Ragnarok was, and Chris Hemsworth knows it. In fact, he sounds a little embarrassed by how his fourth solo outing as a Marvel hero turned out. "I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself," he says in a new profile for Vanit…
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Apr 30, 2024
We've officially reached the magical point in the year where Halloween is finally just six months away. We're now heading downhill towards Spooky Season, and since "Halfway to Halloween" has become an unofficial holiday among the horror faithful, it seems like a perfect time to take stock of how the genre has treated…
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Apr 30, 2024
May 2024 is apparently all about returning TV heavy hitters, with the month boasting the comebacks of beloved shows like the Jean Smart-led Hacks, Shonda Rhimes' popular period romance, and AMC's sexy take on Anne Rice's novels. Meanwhile, Apple TV drops two new thrillers, Benedict Cumberbatch leads an emotional…
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Apr 30, 2024
Yesterday, we took a look at the films that really stand out to us this summer, but there are still plenty of other movies on the docket that are also worth keeping an eye on. Blockbusters, rom-coms, indies, horror flicks—here are 25 more films to check out over the next few months.
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Apr 29, 2024
Has anyone seen the movie Tron: Ares? For once, not even Chief Wiggum would have to lie about that.
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Apr 29, 2024
Start stacking your sandwiches and packing your Scooby Snacks because Scooby-Doo is taking the Toon Town Express to Live-action Avenue. Per Variety, Netflix is working on a live-action Scooby-Doo series described as a "one-hour drama" about a high-guy dog owner who talks to his near-verbal giant canine. Judging by the…
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Apr 29, 2024
During its run from 1998 to 2002, Susunu! Denpa Shonen (translated: Do Not Proceed! Crazy Youth) became the biggest thing on Japanese television. The travel-focused variety show, cited by many as the foundation for reality TV as we know it, saw contestants tossed into survival scenarios, their hardships undercut by…
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Apr 29, 2024
Zack Norman, the stand-up comic best known for his role in Romancing The Stone, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His family announced that he died Sunday night of natural causes at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 83 years old.
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Apr 29, 2024
The Billboard Hot 100 chart has been refreshed for the first time since Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department stormed into the world, and—surprise, surprise—it's not looking great for anyone not named Taylor Swift. Actually, it's not looking like anything at all unless you're Post Malone and Florence Welch, who…
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Apr 29, 2024
The post-Avengers: Endgame career of directors Joe and Anthony Russo has been marked by uninspiring output (Cherry, The Gray Man, Citadel) and relentless futurism. Their stated goal has been to create brand-new, sprawling IP franchises and to get ahead of the curve regarding technologies that are changing cinema, to…
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Apr 29, 2024
This weekend, a three-year internet odyssey finally concluded in a perfect reminder that it's still possible to have fun on the World Wide Web. This story has it all: a missing song, a prevailing mystery, a collective, Reddit-based quest, TikTok users unintentionally embarrassing themselves, and porn. But we're…
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Apr 29, 2024
Richard Gadd's real stalker, who was the inspiration for the comedian's hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, is considering legal action against him, according to The Daily Mail. The unnamed woman claimed to the outlet that Gadd didn't do enough to obscure her true identity in the show, leading to online "death threats…
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Apr 29, 2024
Unsurprisingly, the runaway train biopic trend has reached two inevitable, hopefully terminal stations. These days, it feels like every new project announced is either a controversial smooth-over job backed by an artist's estate (i.e. Antoine Fuqua's upcoming Michael Jackson biopic) or an equally controversial…
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Apr 29, 2024
If no one was asking for a live-action Lion King remake, then really no one—maybe even negative people—were asking for a live-action Lion King remake prequel. Even burgeoning auteur Barry Jenkins sounded a little confused about how he ended up as director when introducing footage at CinemaCon, acknowledging that…
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Apr 29, 2024
Warning: this post contains spoilers for Velma season two.
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Apr 29, 2024
When Disney screened its new animated revival series X-Men '97 for critics last month, just ahead of the series' launch, it was with only the first three episodes available to watch. My review, published at the time, reflects that: It (I hope accurately) describes a series in active conversation with some of the…
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Apr 29, 2024
Films releases have been, let's say, uneven in 2024: we're finally seeing premieres for movies delayed by COVID, the writers' strike, and the actors' strike, in addition to whatever else the studios originally had on their schedules for this year. The release calendar is finally filling out after the drought of the…
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Apr 28, 2024
In lesser hands, The Sympathizer's third episode, "Love It Or Leave It," would easily be its weakest: The first half hour is almost languid in its pacing, repetitive in what it shows and tells, and Sandra Oh gets fuck all to do. But after a breakneck opening run, a little stop for breath is appreciated and makes the…
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Apr 28, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, April 28 to Thursday, May 2. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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Apr 27, 2024
Tonight was the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, when America celebrates its most teeth-grittingest night of blazing-tepid comedy. Yes, the annual tradition that sees Washington D.C.'s funniest people prove that depressing reality in dismal detail, while a paid comedian prepares themselves to be compared…
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Apr 27, 2024
Luca Guadagnino's new sexually charged sports drama Challengers—which might also, now that we think of it, be described as an athletically charged sex drama—is expected to triumph at the U.S. box office this weekend. That is , admittedly, with the caveat that this has been one of the sleepiest weeks at movie theaters…
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Apr 27, 2024
We wish we could manifest, in our day-to-day lives, the same joyfuloptimism with which Sony makes movies set in the Spider-Man universe, in which Spider-Man himself does not actually appear. (Except, possibly, as a baby, lacking the proportional strength and agility of even the tiniest of spiders.) Despite what has…
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Apr 27, 2024
We only get one really major David Cross/Bob Odenkirk project once a decade or so—with the Mr. Show duo coming back together most recently for Netflix's W/ Bob And David in 2015. We would have been on track to get another one pretty soon, but, according to Cross, Paramount 's "marketing and analytics department"…
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Apr 26, 2024
When we recently started codifying the concept of the Friday Night TV Murder Pile—the Hollywood trend that sees TV networks dump the news that they're canceling modestly performing "bubble" shows in the last hours before the weekend, presumably to cut down on the shouting—it was mostly as a joke. "Certainly," we…
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Apr 26, 2024
What, exactly, would it feel like, to suddenly have Pauly Shore insert himself into your life? It's the kind of question that haunts most of us merely in the hypothetical. But for mostly-retired fitness guru Richard Simmons, it's become a very real concern of late. Simmons—who people just cannot be normal about,…
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Apr 26, 2024
Few celebrities, when accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple people, have reacted it to in a stranger fashion than actor Kevin Spacey. A full timeline of Spacey's public weirdnesses since 2017, when Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp accused the actor of making unwanted sexual advances against him…
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Apr 26, 2024
If you plan to see Luca Guadagnino's Challengers this weekend, be prepared to be knocked on your ass by its propulsive score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Their synthwave-inspired compositions add an energy not just to the action on the tennis court, but to more intimate scenes between the characters as well.…
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Apr 26, 2024
Here's more Hollywood for you. Some interesting projects are looking for buyers out of Cannes, including Adam Scott's directorial debut Double Booked. Elsewhere, Mission: Impossible 8 and Wednesday add to their already-stacked ensemble casts, and The Thursday Murder Club builds an impressive ensemble of its own.
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Apr 26, 2024
EGOT winner SZA has a nice ring to it, huh? The "Snooze" singer is now one step closer to achieving that lofty (but deserved, in this writer's opinion!) goal. Per Deadline, the artist is set to make her film debut alongside Keke Palmer, in an upcoming "buddy comedy" film fromthe team behind Rap Sh!t. (R.I.P.) Issa…
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Apr 26, 2024
Hollywood will do anything to avoid paying a real human, actor, huh? Just kidding! We are all very happy for the success of Messi the dog, who was the breakout star in the Academy Award-winning French film Anatomy Of A Fall. According to IndieWire, the canine actor is capitalizing on his success with a new series…
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Apr 26, 2024
We know, we know—it's tough to subscribe to yet another streaming platform. But even so, NBC Universal's service is worth the sacrifice. Peacock is home to network standouts like The Office, 30 Rock, and other unique originals and irreverent comedies. To help you sort through all the offerings, here is The A.V. Club's…
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Apr 26, 2024
Who doesn't love a good cinematic "what could have been"? In a new episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Janet Jackson revealed she was considered for the role of Storm in X-Men but had to pass because she "was just embarking on the Janet tour." Film veteran Barrymore unsurprisingly has a few "almosts" on her résumé as…
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Apr 26, 2024
When Ellen walked on stage for the last episode of her eponymous talk show in 2o22, she told audiences, "Today is not the end of a relationship, it's more of a little break." For the past two years, that break hasn't really felt all that small; the once ubiquitous host all but disappeared from the public eye after a…
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Apr 26, 2024
We've talked ad nauseam about how every single film ever made is getting the remake treatment right now, but it seems the urge to recycle is so strong that some stories are getting two (or more!) separate revisits at the same time. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! will be the second Frankenstein interpretation to hit…
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Apr 26, 2024
Now for some news that makes complete sense:Aaron Sorkin is working on a project about the storming of the capitol on January 6, he revealed on The Town podcast. Not only will he be writing about it, but the project will act as a pseudo-sequel to The Social Network. "I blame Facebook for January 6," Sorkin stated on…
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Apr 26, 2024
Normani, formerly of the girl group Fifth Harmony, has been teasing her debut album for 6 years. Shortly after the X-Factor alums went their separate ways, Normani tweeted that she had a title for her first record. Ever since then, she's been grinding away (reportedly making multiple albums' worth of discarded music)…
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Apr 26, 2024
And so the summer movie season begins with a whimper. Unfortunately, because of the work stoppages last summer that the studios dragged out for about six months, there are very few releases this May, leaving multiplexes without a superhero in sight. While this lack of offerings wasn't as noticeable in the doldrums of…
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Apr 26, 2024
The "time of monsters," according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, comes when the old world is dying and the new one "struggles to be born." His quote seemed to get a lot of play on social media in 2020, as we all watched endless death play out via smartphone screen. The old way of doing things was very clearly over,…
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Apr 26, 2024
"It's funny," Zendaya says early on in our conversation about Challengers, "because people keep saying that it's romantic." She scoffs. "I was like, I don't know where the romance is here."
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Apr 26, 2024
Just as there are Christmas carols and songs of the summer, there's "Oh, it's finally nice out today" music. These are the albums you listen to on the days you first notice the trees budding, when you decide to take those ten extra minutes to walk around at lunch, when the jacket you bring with you in the morning is…
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Apr 26, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, April 26 to Sunday, April 28. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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Apr 26, 2024
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We'll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you're playing this weekend, and what…
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Apr 25, 2024
It's been four years since Eminem put out a new album, Music To Be Murdered By—the most successful album ever to be directly named after a 1958 Alfred Hitchcock novelty record. (That sounds like we're making fun, but it's genuinely true; Eminem acknowledged the reference himself, shortly before the album shot to…
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Apr 25, 2024
We're still, at this point, only about two-thirds of the way to believing that Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming directorial debut, absurdist Pop-Tarts origin story Unfrosted, is actually a real movie. That number doesn't tick significantly upward, either, when we're reminded that the film's version of cereal mascot Tony The…
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Apr 25, 2024
Annie Potts, for one, doesn't understand what the hell CBS is thinking, canceling that sweet young Young Sheldon. In a recent interview with Variety, the TV and Ghostbusters vet called out CBS for a "stupid business move," forcing her very polite co-star on the series, Iain Armitage (host to the Young Sheldon entity),…
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Apr 25, 2024
He's been a Gladiator. He's been a Nice Guy. He's been a Pope's Exorcist. Now get ready to see Russell Crowe as you've never seen him before. In The Exorcism, Russell Crowe plays an actor playing an exorcist. Well, at least that's somewhat of a change—but will he still ride a Lambretta Scooter?
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Apr 25, 2024
The juggernaut of Harry Potter really can't be stopped, even as J.K. Rowling descends further and further into an obsession with the rhetoric of trans-exclusionary radical feminism. The latest stop on the gravy train is a new set of audiobooks from Audible (a subsidiary of Amazon) and Pottermore Publishing (the audio…
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Apr 25, 2024
Every day, once a day, Kyle MacLachlan gives his adoring public a present. Whether he's spoofing Lorde's Instagram or simply trying to understand what "babygirl" means, McLachlan has ingratiated himself into the hearts of netizens. Today, filling the internet void which is as black as midnight on a moonless night,…
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Apr 25, 2024
If you were disappointed by HBO's decision to cancelWinning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynastylast fall, FX's new show about LA's other basketball team might be just the thing for you. Based on ESPN's 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, FX's upcoming series Clipped shines a light on all the players—both on and…
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Apr 25, 2024
Apple TV quickly emerged as one of the most popular and reliable streamers with the breakout Emmy-winning hit Ted Lasso. But the platform offers so much more, including comedies like Shrinking and powerhouse dramas such as Silo and Pachinko. Unsure about what to watch? The A.V. Club has assembled this guide to the…
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Apr 25, 2024
Larry Dalrymple has died. Perhaps best known for his staggering 35 seasons on The Simpsons as the sad, balding drunk who hung out at Moe's, Dalrymple was a long-running fixture of the bar's dank milieu. Springfield barkeep Moe Szyslak confirmed his death on Sunday. No cause of death was given. He was 42.
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Apr 25, 2024
Doctor Who made headlines casting Ncuti Gatwa as the latest Doctor, not only because he's the first Black actor to play the role but because he would be, in the words of Neil Patrick Harris, "the first gay Doctor." (Sorry to the doomed romance of 14 and Yaz, and any headcanons you might have floating around.) Although…
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Apr 25, 2024
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction—part of a case that ushered in the #MeToo movement and led to a long overdue reckoning for predatory men in Hollywood and beyond—was overturned by a New York court today after it determined that the original trial was prejudiced against the disgraced producer and relied on…
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Apr 25, 2024
Sequels to big, dumb, beloved comedies are almost always a bad idea: inevitably disappointing, rarely capturing the magic of the original, often seemingly like a desperate cash grab. (See: Blues Brothers 2000, Caddyshack II, etc.) But Ben Stiller must've thought he was exempt when he took a stab at a second Zoolander.…
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Apr 25, 2024
Anyone who's watched a few episodes of HBO's excellent, very funny Hacks has already been exposed to the comedic wrecking ball style of Megan Stalter, who manages to steal pretty much every scene she shows up in as devotedly incompetent agents' assistant/boss' daughter Kayla. Now, Stalter—who also appeared in this…
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Apr 25, 2024
Donnie Darko crashed into theaters a little over twenty years ago, bringing with it one of cinema's all-time great soundtracks—one that still resonates all these years later. This May, A24 and director Jane Schoenbrun are hoping to provide the same for a new generation with their soundtrack to I Saw The TV Glow, a…
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Apr 25, 2024
Netflix's Baby Reindeer is full of turbulence. Series creator and comedian Richard Gadd lifts from his real-life experience with a stalker to write seven jaw-dropping episodes that are tough to digest. They're emotionally devastating and cause physical discomfort but deliver a profoundly human story that's impossible…
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Apr 25, 2024
Though Boy Kills World (the feature debut of German writer-director Moritz Mohr) tries its best to conjure a snarky, gory action flick àla Deadpool, a sorely lacking script, bloated runtime, and aimless direction render this revenge flick aggressively tepid.
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Apr 25, 2024
In case the title wasn't enough of a hint, Dead Boy Detectives wastes no time establishing its paranormal setting. There are demons, possessions, World War II and Victorian-era spirits, an evil witch, a larger-than-life snake, a glowing squid, and magical mirrors galore in the first episode alone. Netflix's drama,…
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Apr 25, 2024
In a move it's very difficult not to see in terms of the recent nostalgia/horror firestorm surrounding the network's Nickelodeon docuseries Quiet On Set, Investigation Discovery has announced that it'll soon be launching a four-part investigative series into '90s and 2000s pop culture mainstays Nick and Aaron Carter.…
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Apr 24, 2024
"I have this sneaking suspicion that something is going to happen today," Milwaukee Dan sagely introduced Wednesday night's edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. And he was quickly proven right: Even before host Kristen Kish could delight the chef-testants by bringing out baking great Christina Tosi—the James Beard…
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Apr 24, 2024
The U.K. version of Rebel Wilson's new memoir Rebel Rising will be a bit different from the version previously published in the United States—to the tune of most of the material contained in the attention-heavy chapter "Sacha Baron Cohen And Other Assholes," and specifically all of the stuff about Cohen himself. The…
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Apr 24, 2024
It was probably inevitable that, of all the really big names in rap and hip-hop, the first one who'd get seriously obnoxious with A.I was going to be Drake. (It was him or Kanye West, and West's trajectory is so weird and out of step with modern tastes right now as to make the confluence unlikely). After all, A.I. is…
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Apr 24, 2024
Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved." Nevertheless, Billy Corgan is still trying to bring the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) back and has two shows on The CW app that will cage his rage. Announced earlier today, Corgan is bringing his experiences attempting to restore NWA to its former glory to…
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Apr 24, 2024
People have been trying, for at least 20 years, to turn Cormac McCarthy's Western opus Blood Meridian into a movie—and every single one of them has failed. Big names, too: Ridley Scott moved heaven or hell to try to get the movie made in the 2000s, and Tommy Lee Jones, who would later star in the Coens' adaptation of…
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Apr 24, 2024
Even amid the summer of many divorces, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney's alleged affair on the set of Anyone But You maintained a stranglehold on both headlines and the hearts of gossip-hungry viewers across the nation. The two really looked like they wanted to rip each other's clothes off every time they stepped onto…
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Apr 24, 2024
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can't disclose in our official review. Fair warning: This article explains the ending of the movie Abigail.
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Apr 24, 2024
Nicole Kidman is beloved not only by audiences, but by filmmakers. You can see by her extraordinary resumé that she likes to challenge herself, and by the incredibly diverse variety of directors she's worked with that she wants to have a well-rounded career. (Kidman famously pledged to work with a female director…
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Apr 24, 2024
Note: this article contains spoilers for The Curse's final episode, "Green Queen."
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Apr 24, 2024
Billie Eilish shares a lot in her new Rolling Stone interview—about her sexuality, her mental health, her experience with isolation, and her masturbation habits, among other things—but most relevant for fans is the direction of her new album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, debuting May 17. She and her brother/collaborator…
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Apr 24, 2024
Taylor Swift is the biggest star in the world, and The Tortured Poets Department is, so far, the biggest album of the year. Those facts can be proven in numerical terms: the record-breaking tour, the record-breaking concert film, the record-breaking vinyl sales, the record-breaking streaming numbers. But feelings, to…
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Apr 24, 2024
The question that springs to mind at the end of The Veil is: What are we even doing here? What is the purpose of this FX six-episode limited series? Premiering on April 30, The Veil is boring and aimless unless the goal is to (much like the dragged-out The Handmaid's Tale) remind audiences of the all-consuming power…
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Apr 24, 2024
Boy Kills World, starring Bill Skarsgård and his rubber face (at perhaps the most rubber it's ever been), is a bonkers, bloody, and endlessly imaginative tale of retribution and revenge. Skargård is "Boy," a deaf and mute fighting machine hell-bent on murdering the woman who killed his family. Boy Kills World features…
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Apr 24, 2024
One day, should humanity be blessed enough to continue upon its current collective perch, the old op-ed pages of national newspapers will provide their own records of our social temperature in these charged times. Future generations, then, will get to judge—perhaps harshly—the nature of our collective preoccupations.
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Apr 24, 2024
If only for his lifelong collaboration with David Bowie, Tony Visconti would be among the greatest record producers of the rock era. Visconti and Bowie bonded early in the singer's career and, together, they assembled an adventurous and enduring catalog anchored by such classics as Low, "Heroes," and Blackstar.
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Apr 24, 2024
Each era of Saturday Night Live has its mega-stars, the ones whose sketch-comedy contributions linger long after those weekly, wistful goodbye segments and that final saxophone blow. There are, of course, those legendary 1975 originals, the Not Ready For Prime-Time Players like John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase,…
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Apr 24, 2024
I thought that maybe Palm Royale was finally gelling after last week. Everyone was in one location, the humor was clicking, and the reveals felt like payoffs. Alas, it was short lived, as the wheels came off this week in a big way.
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Apr 23, 2024
1985's Clue has long been the gold standard for movies based on board games. While the toxic thinking that led to the subgenre has added a handful of worthy titles to the game closet, most probably think of Battleship, which sunk the genre back in 2012. Very few end up as good as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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Apr 23, 2024
Last week, cinephiles found a horse's head in their bed when The Hollywood Reporter announced that no one in Hollywood has the guts to release Francis Ford Coppola's latest passion project, Megalopolis. Even though Hollywood is releasing a film called Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, the lack of clear good guys and…
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Apr 23, 2024
Last week, cinephiles found a horse's head in their bed when The Hollywood Reporter announced that no one in Hollywood has the guts to release Francis Ford Coppola's latest passion project, Megalopolis. Even though Hollywood is releasing a film called Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, the lack of clear good guys and…
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Apr 23, 2024
The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino's now-abandoned tenth and final film, is now regulated to the what-if portion of Tarantino's career. Like Double V Vega and Kill Bill Vol. 3, it is now another unproduced idea for the filmmaker's filing cabinet. However, the filing cabinet casket and the author aren't the only…
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Apr 23, 2024
Guy Ritchie's two-and-a-half-decade career as a filmmaker has been a bit of a mixed bag, and that's being generous. No one really wants to be pigeonholed, but the fact is that some artists are especially suited to one particular genre, and they do their best work when they stick to it. For Ritchie, that genre is…
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Apr 23, 2024
Sometimes, escapist media works best when it presents a vision of a world that's somewhat close to the one someone is trying to run away from, but without any of the real-life stressors that make that situation so taxing. (This writer watched a lot of Veep in November 2020, for example.) In an interview with The A.V.…
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Apr 23, 2024
Zoë Kravitz's long-awaited directorial debut finally has a trailer. Blink Twice, which Kravitz co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum, stars Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat. Of course, the horror film was originally titled…
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Apr 23, 2024
There's no dearth of options on Hulu, so deciding what to watch can be overwhelming. Instead of figuring out which show will keep you on your couch for several hours, check out our roundup of the best series on the streamer, including beloved Hulu originals, FX hits, network TV favorites, and cult gems. Looking for…
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Apr 23, 2024
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be…
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Apr 23, 2024
The logline for Netflix's upcoming film, Atlas,reads, "Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the…
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Apr 23, 2024
Another Taylor Swift album cycle, another barrage of broken records for music's conquering titan. According to Variety, Swift has already sold 700,000 vinyl copies of The Tortured Poets Department, breaking the record for weekly vinyl sales in just three days. By the time the week is out, she'll have broken the…
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Apr 23, 2024
Anne Hathaway is adding her own story to the growing archive of all the ways Hollywood was an even bigger minefield for women before the Me Too era. As she goes back to her rom-com roots in upcoming boy band fantasy The Idea Of You, Hathaway recalled how chemistry tests used to look a lot different than they do…
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Apr 23, 2024
In Apple TV 's star-studded show Palm Royale, picking out a favorite performer isn't easy considering it features Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Leslie Bibb, and Ricky Martin. So it's no wonder Josh Lucas, who co-stars in the dramedy, agrees that it's a "comedy lab" of sorts. The actor holds…
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Apr 23, 2024
Given the past few episodes, I was expecting more of a showstopper-style finale in which a bunch more characters would die, or maybe someone would seek some kind of retribution for Mariko's death. But no. This is more of a denouement of an episode, a processing of things, and a subtle setting-up of the future to come…
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