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Apr 20, 2024
Congratulations, you're high (in a state where it's legal)! Depending on your mood and level of baked, you may find yourself in a college course-like debate over the differences between Fritos and Doritos, waxing poetic about the clouds in the sky, or scrolling endlessly through your streaming channels in search of…
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Apr 20, 2024
Pearl Jam isn't quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an elite group of alt-rock bands who survived the 1990s unscathed. Although they've had the inevitable ups and downs that…
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Apr 19, 2024
Taylor Swift has once again stolen a record from herself—which must be a nice change of pace, after all that shit that went down with her masters a few years back—with Spotify announcing today that Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already smashed the record for most streamed albums in a single…
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Apr 19, 2024
Devastating the collective political cartoonists of America—forced to crumple up potentially hundreds of hastily scrawled cartoons depicting Bert and Ernie screaming slogans while out on the picket lines—Deadline reports tonight that the Writers Guild Of America has reached a tentative agreement with Sesame Workshop,…
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Apr 19, 2024
For the second time in the franchise's ridiculously successful 23-year history, CBS's CSI franchise is facing the prospect of a world in which there are no active CSI shows on the air. The network announced tonight that it's killing off revival series CSI: Vegas after three seasons on the air, tossing it onto our old…
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Apr 19, 2024
While it will probably take a few more days for all the reactions, close readings, and fervor over The Tortured Poets Department to really crystallize, one thing that's immediately clear about the album is its sheer mass. Including its surprise, 16-track sister album, The Anthology, TTPD is a 31-song, two-plus hour…
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Apr 19, 2024
We would like to posit that no single film role has done more to damage the psyches of British male actors of a certain age, type, and jawline than James Bond. The moment pretty much any of these poor saps hits, like, 25, the rumors and speculation, the internal questioning, the horrific, endless pressure all start.…
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Apr 19, 2024
It's another banner week for casting news. Big name actors like Steve Buscemi, Emma Thompson, and Don Johnson landed new television projects, while Riz Ahmed becomes the newest addition to Wes Anderson's merry band of players. Also, Michael Showalter's Christmas pic Oh. What. Fun. rounds out its cast. Read on for more.
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Apr 19, 2024
What is going on with this new The Office thing? The possible reboot/possible revival/possible spin-off has been all smoke and mirrors and Greg Daniels schemes. But it's real enough to have apparently bagged two pretty big names as the first actors cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Domhnall Gleeson (of the Sta…
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Apr 19, 2024
It's pretty safe to assume that almost everyone engaging with this site isinterested incelebrity gossip in some form, whether that's about directors getting sent t0 "movie jail" or housewives getting sentenced to actual jail. If you think you're immune, first of all maybe stop lying to yourself and second, consider…
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Apr 19, 2024
Storming into theaters this weekend to play alongside murky, politically fraught films like Civil War, there's something comfortingly simple and familiar about a historical action flick dedicated entirely to coming up with ways to kill Nazis. From Inglorious Basterds to last year's Sisu, it's a subgenre that's existed…
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Apr 19, 2024
If you've had a chance to catch Hundreds Of Beavers during its recent roadshow tour, or at any of the many festivals where it's played to enthusiastic audiences, you already know what a weird and wonderful film it is. If not, it's kind of hard to explain. Think of it as a live-action Looney Tunes feature, with…
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Apr 19, 2024
Mandisa, the contemporary Christian artist and former American Idol contestant, has died, according to Rolling Stone. She was 47 years old.
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Apr 19, 2024
Uh oh! It sounds like Monty Python co-founder John Cleese won't be able to fart in our general direction via his show about cancel culture any time soon, because it has reportedly already been canceled. Help! He's being repressed!
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Apr 19, 2024
Uh oh! It sounds like Monty Python co-founder John Cleese won't be able to fart in our general direction via his show about cancel culture any time soon, because it has reportedly already been canceled. Help! He's being repressed!
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Apr 19, 2024
I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with my tail between my legs, much like the titular "Black Dog." My comprehensive review of Taylor Swift's new album turned out not to be comprehensive at all. At 2 AM EST, hours after the scheduled release of the first 16 tracks, Swift announced on her…
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Apr 19, 2024
There's a lot to say about Taylor Swift's latest, a surprise two-part album titled The Tortured Poets Department. Of course, much of that has already been interrogated by The A.V. Club's Mary Kate Carr in her review of the collection. But here at The A.V. Club, we also like to spend extra time teasing apart the most…
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Apr 19, 2024
When he was down on his luck and wanted to support his family and make sure his kids had a good life, Giancarlo Esposito almost took a very different route than his Breaking Bad character, Gus Fring. While Gus turned to the cartel, Esposito recently revealed that he seriously considered committing insurance fraud in…
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Apr 19, 2024
Like some unholy fusion of Resident Evil and Dance Moms, Abigail dares suggest that the only thing scarier than a haunted house is one that's also occupied by a pissed-off tween ballerina with an emotionally absent, narcissistic parent. It's not wrong, but there'll be no Abby Lee Miller showing up to discipline the…
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Apr 19, 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 19, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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Apr 19, 2024
In September 2001—that is, 23 years ago somehow—Cartoon Network launched Adult Swim, a late-night programming block for the kind of people who would check out a kid's TV channel just to see what it was airing after the kids went to bed. It was, essentially, for folks who hoped things would get a little weird. And…
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Apr 19, 2024
When I started this little post-apocalyptic journey seven episodes ago, it was with a question about tone. Was Fallout, at its core, a comedy or a tragedy? But it's a false distinction, in a lot of ways. As our old pal Bud Askins might tell us, either in his flesh body, or trapped with his brain rolling around inside…
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Apr 19, 2024
To call Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver pastiche is to oversell it. As was the case in Part One—A Child Of Fire, The Scargiver is an unmistakable blend of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and George Lucas' Star Wars, so obvious in its make that pointing out the origin of its parts is redundant. The Scargiver doesn't…
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Apr 19, 2024
Because there must always, somewhere, be a pop culture lawsuit designed to make the rest of us gently roll our eyes—and the "Yesterday used Ana de Armas to trick us into watching Yesterday!" people have finally settled out of court—we're very excited to inform you of a new potential class action suit kicking off in…
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Apr 19, 2024
Taylor Swift has cultivated a daunting amount of lore to sift through. The casual fan doesn't need to know the entire backstory to enjoy The Tortured Poets Department, the artist's 11th album, but do casual fans of Taylor Swift even exist anymore? Over the past three years, she's gone from megafamous to ultrafamous to…
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Apr 18, 2024
One of the big things that happened, when the rise of streaming TV kicked off roughly a decade ago, is that everybody got very cagey about numbers, very quickly. Netflix was the first to get the big idea, of course, realizing that, since they'd essentially sidestepped Nielsen ratings entirely (with the polling…
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Apr 18, 2024
In news practically as inevitable as humanity's innate impulse to annihilate itself in a burst of cleansing nuclear fire, Amazon has confirmed today that it's renewing Fallout for a second season of post-apocalyptic Prime Video TV. This is not a shock, in so far as the series (executive produced by Westworld's…
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Apr 18, 2024
Apologies to all the dorks out there with their YouTube channels, but the rain in Seven isn't the mood-setter you think it is. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times celebrating the [ahem] 8K IMAX re-release of Seven (we're really looking forward to seeing "Sloth" in glorious 8K), director David Fincher dispelled…
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Apr 18, 2024
It's a given, in this day and age, that the streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood, and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. But did we also know that there are some pretty interesting Hollywood what-ifs floating in that river of blood, particularly surrounding Zack…
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Apr 18, 2024
Despite the fact that Hollywood's actors and writers went on strike in part because of the encroachment of AI just this past summer, we've already seen the technology pop up more during the past few months. In January, disappointed True Detective: Night Country fans spotted and called out a clearly AI-generated poster…
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Apr 18, 2024
Despite sending some of that affection to the musical stylings of Frank Sinatra and science education over the last decade, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane hasn't forgotten his first love: his precious cartoons. That love has served him well at the Fox network, where his animation domination ruled much of the 2000s…
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Apr 18, 2024
It's hard to believe that the Spy X Family series, based on the manga series of the same name, has only been around since 2022. The characters have become so ubiquitous in fan spaces that it feels like they've been with us for much longer. Even if you've never seen the show before, you've probably seen an image of…
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Apr 18, 2024
What if the public event you were attending was entirely a setup just to getcha? That's the nightmare of paranoiacs and Truman Show fans everywhere, and also the premise of M. Night Shyamalan's new film Trap, premiering in theaters August 9. A new trailer for the film takes advantage of star Josh Hartnett's good-guy…
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Apr 18, 2024
The Witcher had a good run; at least as good as it can get when the lead actor bows out midway through over rumored creative differences. The fact that the show survived to recast Liam Hemsworth as Geralt and even got a spin-off speaks to its success. Now, Netflix has given the series another vote of confidence by…
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Apr 18, 2024
You'd think that, by now, Glen Powell's characters would have learned that adopting a false identity and lying to pretty much everyone you know never pans out well, but nope! The actor is trading being Sydney Sweeney's fake boyfriend in Anyone But You for being the cops' fake hired gun in Hit Man, and—based on the…
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Apr 18, 2024
The one rule of Pretty Little Liars is, no matter how many mysteries you solve, how deep down the rabbit hole you go, or how frequently you unmask A, the twisted, murderous mind games must always continue. Such is the case for the second season of the rebooted series, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (premiering May…
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Apr 18, 2024
Re-airing any sort of exploitative or sexually explicit material—even for the purpose of exposing a predatory system—is a slippery slope, and it's one Quiet On Set subjects Raquel Lee Bolleau and Alexa Nikolas say the documentary's producers didn't handle well. "After watching the show, I saw that it was not at all…
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Apr 18, 2024
Two years removed from the finale of the critically acclaimed, audience-beloved comedy We Are Lady Parts, it looked as though the show was going the way of MacGruber—another Peacock series destined to fade into obscurity because they premiered at a time when no one knew what Peacock was. (Yes, there really was a…
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Apr 18, 2024
Alex Garland's Civil War may be the movie of the month, but before Kirsten Dunst or Cailee Spaeny ever picked up their cameras to document a crumbling, divided America, Natalie Portman's Lena set out with a team of three other scientists to explore an equally terrifying phenomenon called The Shimmer in the director's…
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Apr 18, 2024
Reboots are normally frowned upon, especially if it's a project you've cherished for a long time. How dare anyone touch it and potentially ruin something fun you grew up with. Yet along comes X-Men '97, whichproves it's still possible to nail the whole bringing-back-a-beloved-series thing. In that spirit, we asked The…
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Apr 18, 2024
[Editor's note: This is a recap of Fallout episode seven. The recap of episode eight publishes April 19.]
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Apr 18, 2024
The Olympics are almost upon us once again—that hallowed event where humanity comes together, once every two years, to ask itself the big, important questions that define us as a species. What is the pinnacle of human athletic achievement? How do some of these people swim so fast, and why? And, of course, the most…
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Apr 17, 2024
It's official: We, and our plucky contestants, have made it to the top 10 on Top Chef: Wisconsin. But before our chefs can get even remotely comfortable with that reality, Kristen Kish bombarded them with an early-morning video message ("It's always something!" Kévin cried in French. For their QuickFire Challenge, the…
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Apr 17, 2024
Stretching the definition of the word "trilogy" to (and, frankly, beyond) its logical breaking point, one of the writers of Zack Snyder's Netflix-set sci-fi series Rebel Moon has claimed that he and Snyder actually have plans for six movies, with each pair of two films (like last year's initial film, and this month's T…
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Apr 17, 2024
Hype has, both steadily, and inevitably, been building up for Quentin Tarantino's The Movie Critic for a while now. It's only natural: Not only is Tarantino coming off of one of the best films of his career, in the form of 2019's Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, but he's also applied a huge amount of self-directed…
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Apr 17, 2024
In what we can only assume is a dedicated effort to drive the parts of our brains devoted to writing punny headlines completely insane, Kate Pierson of The B-52s has announced that she's selling a series of small, metal, inherently disposable living structures…that cannot, in good conscience, ever be described as…
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Apr 17, 2024
There comes a time in every film festival's life when they must flee the nest. Having spent the better part of 40 years in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival may be looking to spread its wings and fly within the year. Per Variety, the Sundance Institute's contract with Park City is nearly up, and they are…
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Apr 17, 2024
Park Chan-wook started a revenge revolution with 2003's Oldboy; that stylish, bloody-as-all-hell thriller featuring a man in a dark suit still gets made today. This month alone sees the release of two Oldboy-inspired action movies, Monkey Man and Boy Kills World. Now, Lionsgate, the finest purveyors in American Oldboy…
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Apr 17, 2024
If Brian Cox were the one launching cannonballs at the pyramids with Ridley Scott, it wouldn't have gone down like it did. This revelation comes from Brian Cox himself, who launched into a veritable tirade against the director's Napoleon at a history event panel in London this week, with some extra, seemingly…
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Apr 17, 2024
Overlook the training montage sequence in Monkey Man at your own pop culture and movie peril. Kid (Dev Patel) aims to avenge his mother's death by vanquishing the police chief (Sikander Kher as Rana Singh) who raped and killed her and the false spiritual guru (Makarand Deshpande as Baba Shakti) who ordered the…
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Apr 17, 2024
For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the '90s. Between our very own "Choice Awards" and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers flooded TV screens with images of independent youngsters with the magical ability to eat McDonald's whenever they…
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Apr 17, 2024
It's been a rough couple of decades for Golden Axe star Ax Battler, the barbarian. Following the release of his now-classic video game breakthrough, Golden Axe, Battler has descended into obscurity, presumably taking roles in Red Box geezer teasers in Moldova. But like Mickey Rourke circa 2008, Ax Battler is getting…
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Apr 17, 2024
Martin Scorsese is staying plenty busy, according to a new report from Variety. We already knew his next film was going to be another Shusaku Endo adaptation about the life of Jesus Christ (a spiritual follow-up to his 2016 film Silence). But Variety's sources say the 81-year-old is already lining up the film after…
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Apr 17, 2024
In a lawsuit that people will probably remember as much as they did the Beatles' music in the movie Yesterday (or the fact that there was a movie called Yesterday about people forgetting the Beatles at all), plaintiffs Peter Rosza and Conor Woulfe have finally settled with Universal after they initially sued the…
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Apr 17, 2024
The full lineup for the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place in New York City from June 5 to June 16, has arrived. The list is rich with premieres and buzzy new projects, including films that star A-listers like Kristen Stewart, Dakota Johnson, Jenna Ortega, and recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone.
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Apr 17, 2024
Great news for dads and dads at heart: For All Mankind is returning for another season. The alt-history series from Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, which is being called a "hit" by Apple TV 's publicity department, will blast off for another season of soviet espionage, interplanetary union drives, and…
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Apr 17, 2024
For the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gabriel García Marquez's seminal 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude is coming to the screen. The Netflix adaptation doesn't yet have a release date (it's set to premiere sometime in 2024), but a teaser released on Wednesday previews the story of the Buendía…
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Apr 17, 2024
As we've seen with the premieres of song-filled films like Mean Girls and The Color Purple, the "movie to musical to movie musical" pipeline is becoming an increasingly present force in our culture. Whether film or stage theatergoers like it or not, it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time soon. The latest film…
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Apr 17, 2024
Robert Durst is a good murderer and a shit criminal. "I think he would be free today if he had just kept his trap shut," New York Times reporter Charles Bagli explains in the premiere of The Jinx - Part Two, the followup to the 2015 HBO series chronicling Durst's history of murder allegations.
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Apr 17, 2024
There's nothing scarier than childhood. Look no further than the movies (or your very own memory palace) for proof. With the upcoming release of Abigail and the recent child-adjacent scares from The First Omen and Imaginary, horror movies aren't taking a break from ruining a few childhoods. It's easy to see why. By…
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Apr 17, 2024
Do you remember the summer of 2020? You might not want to, but unless you're particularly gifted at repressing memories, you mostly likely do. It was a season of fear, of paranoia, of guilt. It's also the season of Stress Positions, the debut feature from writer-director Theda Hammel, in which she stars with comedian…
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Apr 17, 2024
If there was ever any doubt that Shogun's Mariko-sama was a force to be reckoned with, the penultimate episode squashes it. The enthralling installment centers on Anna Sawai's loyal, impassioned character making the ultimate sacrifice. "Crimson Sky" takes us through Mariko's emotional endeavors as she fights for Lord…
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Apr 17, 2024
[Editor's note: This is a recap of Fallout episode six. The recap of episode seven publishes April 18.]
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Apr 17, 2024
The shit has hit the fan in Palm Royale. People are getting arrested, generational wealth is getting past down, babies are being born in bathtubs...it's a mess out here. Let's get into it.
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Apr 16, 2024
Everyone has an opinion about the end of The Sopranos. Did Tony live, did he die, or did the cable go out? These questions have lingered over the last two decades since the show's end, with none other than series creator David Chase offering a definitive answer to the question. But—and this is a big but—in 2010, while…
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Apr 16, 2024
Is it too much to give Michael Douglas what he wants? Early last year, he appeared in the much-derided Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. Though one of the year's highest-grossing movies, Quantumania acted like a canary in the coal mine for a flailing MCU. The film somehow crossed the superhero movie Rubicon, pushing…
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Apr 16, 2024
As you may have surmised from the title, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate, coasting on her sitcom fame as the dumb blonde daughter on the popular Fox show Married… With Children, as Sue Ellen Crandell, a 17-year-old…
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Apr 16, 2024
It's official: the author of such stunning philosophical insights as "Too hype I just got this C on my exam without even studying... just using common knowledge!! s/o to Papa Kelce for the gene's" and "Its such a nice day out..... as I stair from my math class.... smh #mustbenice" is taking on hosting duties for Are…
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Apr 16, 2024
What could be less surprising than Rob Schneider turning to TMZ to set the record straight about his doomed stand-up set at the Republican leadership holiday party? (Besides every other unsurprising detail about this story, of course.) Schneider says that he wasn't removed from the stage after just ten minutes of…
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Apr 16, 2024
If you're wondering how Doctor Who lured back Russell T. Davies, the writer responsible for re-launching the show in 2005, the answer is money. Not just his salary, mind you, but the new big budget the BBC got out of partnering with Disney . "They said, ‘We want to make Doctor Who bigger. We want to take it to a…
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Apr 16, 2024
Man, imagine being a time traveler from the ‘90s right now; you might not even think your machine had worked at all. Last week, O.J. Simpson was front page news yet again when his family confirmed his death from cancer at 76 years old. Now, Pamela Anderson—another icon of the era—is stepping into an upcoming reboot of …
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Apr 16, 2024
Thanks to a growing roster of shows from Marvel (your WandaVisions) and the Star Wars camp (your Andors), along with a cache of beloved series, from Alias to Black-ish, there are plenty of gems on this streamer worth watching beyond classic Disney films. To help figure out where to start, we present the best ones on…
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Apr 16, 2024
Saturday Night Live got one thing really, really right this past weekend. It's so much more fun to laugh about old cartoons than it is to linger on the fact that AI may one day "grow so intelligent that it deems humans unnecessary and kills us all." How about that perfect Beavis And Butt-Head makeup though?
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Apr 16, 2024
Peter Jackson has found his niche in life, and it is advancing technology to restore Beatles stuff. He pioneered the tech for the 2021 docuseries Get Back, which restored cut footage from the filming of Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 Let It Be documentary. Then he used it to restore an old John Lennon demo to make the…
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Apr 16, 2024
Let's get the obvious out of the way first: Under The Bridge is triggering. Hulu's true-crime drama, which premieres April 17, is generally difficult to digest, and it's a particularly tough watch for anyone who's lived as a teenage girl. That's because it acutely captures the horrors of being a frantic, lonely…
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Apr 16, 2024
It's been a long time since we've seen newly resurgent comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) or her writing partner, Ava Daniels (Hanna Einbinder), and it's been almost as long since the two have seen each other. When we last checked in on the duo in Hacks' season two finale, Deborah had fired her younger counterpart so…
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Apr 16, 2024
You probably already know Courtney Love doesn't give a fuck. But every generation has to figure that out on their own, and now the rabid stan armies are figuring it out firsthand. Of course, in her Evening Standard interview, Love alternately praised and shaded a dozen or more female artists. But the one that's going…
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Apr 16, 2024
From its very first shot, Minhal Baig's masterful We Grown Now grabs you. A still shot of an empty hallway (in, as we learn, the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago) beckons you to discover it, to let the many lives it houses drift through you. We hear scraping. We hear sneakers squeaking. We hear, and soon see,…
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Apr 16, 2024
[Editor's note: This is a recap of Fallout episode five. The recap of episode six publishes April 17.]
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Apr 16, 2024
Boy, is this ever Shogun's Mariko-sama episode. We begin with a flashback to her 14 years before the action of our story, wandering in the snow, heavy with child, and hellbent on self-destruction. Once she has been led into a tent to warm up, we learn that these attempts to escape her husband and end her life have…
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Apr 15, 2024
Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show tonight with stories full of contradictions. After a weekend in which the news was routinely bleak, hyping up World War III following Iran's missile-guided response to Israel, Stewart stuffed as much as he could into the show's first 15 minutes. He bounced from the U.S.'s…
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Apr 15, 2024
The Blair Witch Project has never been a cut-and-dry Hollywood project. This scrappy $35,000 mockumentary wasn't meant to be a blockbuster, but it went on to become one of the most profitable independent films ever made. Now, due to the creative marketing and filmmaking savvy of co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo…
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Apr 15, 2024
Gas up the Mystery Machine because Velma's coming back to streaming. Executive-produced by and starring Mindy Kaling, Velma follows the exploits of everybody's favorite teen forensic scientist as she sets about losing her glasses and unmasking the elderly owners of haunted amusement parks. Following a divisive…
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Apr 15, 2024
Rob Schneider's journey from Saturday Night Live star to Adam Sandler stooge to conservative conspiracy theory comedy has been well documented. A simple scroll through his Twitter/X profile reveals the kind of political content Schneider is consuming and regurgitating (reposting far-right account Libs of TikTok, for…
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Apr 15, 2024
"Nice beaver."
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Apr 15, 2024
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was found guilty last month of involuntary manslaughter for her role in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Western film Rust, was sentenced to 18 months in prison today. Per Variety, this was the maximum possible sentence for her conviction.
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Apr 15, 2024
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV has got a lot of people talking, including other child stars outside of the series. Though the subjects of the film like Drake Bell, Giovonnie Samuels, and Bryan Hearne have praised co-directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz for their handling of the subject matter, Disney…
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Apr 15, 2024
Like we said: Conan O'Brien did Hot Ones the best. Anyone familiar with O'Brien's work couldn't have been surprised by his utter and complete commitment to the bit. (Though he said himself in the episode it's no bit: "What's the point of even being alive if we can't do this!" he declared while drowning himself in hot…
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Apr 15, 2024
Ah, Coachella weekend; a harbinger of summer, a cultural celebration, a mass exodus of the insufferable to the desert. The California festival didn't exactly have a major Beychella moment this year. Vanessa Hudgens—she who once proclaimed death as "inevitable" when coronavirus lockdowns threatened 2020's…
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Apr 15, 2024
Sure, this lanky redhead has spent the bulk of his career talking to people from behind a desk, beginning with Late Night With Conan O'Brien in 1993 and continuing now with his podcast Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, but his remotes have remained some of the most lasting bits from his run (thanks in part to the…
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Apr 15, 2024
[Editor's note: This is a recap of Fallout episode four. The recap of episode five publishes April 16.]
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Apr 14, 2024
No messing about: That's what I like to see. The first five minutes of The Sympathizer bombard you with information, characters, flashbacks, unreliable narration, and Robert Downey, Jr. wearing some of the most unsettling color contacts in TV history. It's an absolute whirlwind, and we have next to no idea what's…
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Apr 14, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, April 14 to Thursday, April 18. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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Apr 13, 2024
After the comedic tour de force that was Barbie's Ken—not to mention that himbo fever-dream musical number at last month's Academy Awards—Ryan Gosling had a lot to live up to as this week's Saturday Night Livehost. And, unsurprisingly, the ever-game, every-giggly actor was more than Ken-ough in his third hosting gig,…
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Apr 13, 2024
Famous NFT proponent Reese Witherspoon—better known for other work—has some advice for people worried about the inevitable and crushing intrusion of technology into their lives of late, telling anyone nervous about artificial intelligence's ongoing effects on humanity that they should, in essence, suck it up,…
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Apr 13, 2024
It's hard to say, on reflection, whether scaring someone so badly that they call the cops counts as good PR for a horror movie, or bad. But it certainly happened recently, as THR notes that a recent mailer campaign for new 20th Century Pictures/Disney horror flick The First Omen was so successful that a film blogger…
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Apr 13, 2024
As far as legendary pop culture stories go, few are weirder than the Titanic "PCP chowder" incident—a real, actual event that happened during filming on the future blockbuster in August of 1996, in which at least 50 cast and crew members, including star Bill Paxton and director James Cameron, were dosed with angel…
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Apr 13, 2024
Although film company A24 has built up a pretty remarkable reputation for itself over its 12 years of existence—winning 16 Oscars, including the sweep executed by Everything Everywhere All At Once last year—it's still pretty niche, as far as money-making goes. (Even EEAAO only ended up clearing $144 million at the…
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Apr 12, 2024
Eleanor Coppola has died. An author and documentary filmmaker, Coppola's most celebrated movie was the 1991 documentary Hearts Of Darkness, in which she recounted, with intimate access and an unsparing eye, the numerous disasters that befell the filming of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Coppola…
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