The A.V. Clubflipped into TV Runaways’ final season hints at what the series could be The A.V. Club - Eric ThurmPutting aside the jokes about how the title characters in Marvel’s Runaways didn’t actually run away from home until the end of the first season, it felt from the beginning like the show had all of the
The A.V. Clubflipped into MoviesMovies Meet Me In St. Louis is back in theaters, but Margaret O’Brien never left the screen The A.V. Club - Gwen IhnatThe actor: In the early days of cinematic child stars, Shirley Temple had some competition. Margaret O’Brien wasn’t much of a tap dancer, but from the moment she hit the big screen at the age of 5, she
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsStephen Colbert Joe Pera talks with Stephen Colbert about Joe Pera Talks With You The A.V. Club - Dennis PerkinsAnyone familiar with comedian Joe Pera, and especially his deceptively placid Adult Swim comedy series Joe Pera Talks With You, knows that he’s not in any hurry. So last night’s Late Show saw Stephen a
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Let’s watch these 2 watch other people make crafts The A.V. Club - Allison Shoemaker Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, December 5. All times are Eastern.
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV South Park wants to know what you would give for Disney Plus The A.V. Club - Stephanie WilliamsNow that South Park has hopefully gotten all of the shit out of its system this season, it’s back this week with a new target, streaming services. I have been hoping Trey and Matt would tackle this growing
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsArt Artists attempt to pit art-stealing Twitter bots against trigger-happy corporate lawyers The A.V. Club - William HughesWhile the internet has obviously been a major boon for artists—what with the ability to show off their work to far wider audiences than humanity could have ever once dreamed—it’s also been a pretty massive
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Vikings' sixth season has a new king, new villain, and familiar problems The A.V. Club - Dennis Perkins “I want to be myself. I’m just not sure how to be.”
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsTV Hulu and Marvel's Tigra & Dazzler series on hold after entire writing team gets fired The A.V. Club - William HughesThe course of Marvel’s TV offerings has never run as smoothly as that of their cinematic siblings—possibly because, unlike with the movies, the TV side of the company’s superhero equation has had to make
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Everyone gets the therapy they so desperately need on an introspective Riverdale The A.V. Club - Charles BramescoOnce upon a time in the late ’00s, HBO provided a home for an unusual small-screen experiment called In Treatment. An Americanization of an Israeli series called BeTipul, the program ran in half-hour five
The A.V. Clubflipped into News Joker was supposed to launch its own cinematic universe of downer comic book origin stories The A.V. Club - William HughesThe desire to have a neatly labeled cinematic universe is one that’s both perfectly understandable, and ultimately fraught with peril. For every successful MCU, after all, there are any number of aborted
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsAladdin Aladdin star Mena Massoud says he hasn't had an audition since starring in the billion-dollar film The A.V. Club - William HughesWhat does it mean when you star in a movie that makes a billion dollars? If you’re Robert Downey Jr.—whose face and public persona have been as much a part of the marketing apparatus for the Marvel Cinematic
The A.V. Clubflipped into MoviesMovies Say yes to the killer dress of the bizarre horror-comedy In Fabric The A.V. Club - Katie RifeHorror movies about inanimate objects possessed by anthropomorphic bloodlust tend to lean more on the exploitation side. There’s 1977’s Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, made famous by a Patton Oswalt stand-up
The A.V. Clubflipped into MoviesMovies Naomi Watts comes unglued in the claustrophobic but thin psychological thriller The Wolf Hour The A.V. Club - Beatrice LoayzaNew York City in the summer of 1977 must have felt like the end of the Roman Empire. Sweltering heat waves turned daily life into a sticky struggle, while rising inequality and poverty levels stoked social
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsRap & Hip-Hop Finally, a Christian alternative to the wicked heresy of the "Cha Cha Slide" The A.V. Club - Randall ColburnArt and spirituality are uneasy bedfellows. We’ve seen it in film. We’ve seen it in rock music. We’ve seen it in hip-hop. We saw it this year in hip-hop. Still, that hasn’t stopped believers from relentlessly
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsZack Snyder Oh great, here's Zack Snyder showing the physical existence of Justice League's "Snyder cut" The A.V. Club - Alex McLevyThis is getting ridiculous. We already know the “Snyder cut” of Justice League is something that exists. Kevin Smith has seen it. Jason Momoa has seen it, and assured us it is “ssssiiicccckkkkkk”—presumably
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsAdam Sandler Adam Sandler on getting fired from Saturday Night Live: “We pretended we weren't sad” The A.V. Club - Allison ShoemakerAdam Sandler is currently making the rounds, publicity-wise, in support of his new anxiety-inducing film with the Safdie Brothers, Uncut Gems. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the blitz included a stop at Howard
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsTV The Office’s John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer don't agree on which kiss was Jim and Pam's first kiss The A.V. Club - Gwen IhnatThe romantic journey of Jim and Pam was one of The Office’s most compelling storylines throughout its first few seasons. The then-engaged-to-someone-else Pam seemed oblivious to Jim’s obvious-to-everyone-else
The A.V. Clubflipped into MoviesMovies Clint Eastwood turns the sad true story of Richard Jewell into another salute to American heroism The A.V. Club - Ignatiy VishnevetskyClint Eastwood, the oldest of the old-timers, has in recent years focused on making movies about real-life stories of momentary heroes and underestimated men (some of whom aren’t heroes at all). To this
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsBuick Thomas Jane adapting Stephen King's From A Buick 8, which stars a different kind of evil car The A.V. Club - Randall ColburnWith the landmark Stephen King properties spoken for—It, The Stand, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Tommyknockers, etc.—producers are digging deep into the author’s catalog in search of another horror hit. Hulu’s making
The A.V. Clubflipped into MusicMusic Well, shit, Willie Nelson quit smoking pot The A.V. Club - Britt HayesDoes Willie Nelson know something we don’t? Are we truly so fucked that even smoking pot won’t help to soothe or, at the very least, distract us from certain apocalyptic doom? Or is the legendary country
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsTV In 2019, Reddit mostly existed to dunk on and/or mourn Game Of Thrones The A.V. Club - Allison ShoemakerToday Reddit released its annual Year In Review, an always enlightening look at what the internet glommed onto in any given year. In the realm of TV, the winner was clear: People loved dunking on/mourning
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV The Moodys is more concerned with its Christmas future than its Christmas present The A.V. Club - LaToya FergusonAs much mileage as one can get out of the concept that TV is basically creating episodic movies now, it’s still important to choose between creating one or the other. Plenty of movies are so dense that
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsAidy Bryant Aidy Bryant takes a chance on herself in new teaser for Shrill's second season The A.V. Club - Randall ColburnWe lauded Shrill as “the start of something great” when it dropped last March, so we were stoked when Hulu granted Aidy Bryant’s comedy a second season to keep honing its voice. New episodes land on the
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsAirplanes A League Of Their Own, Airplane!, Psycho, and more are heading back to theaters in 2020 The A.V. Club - Shannon MillerThe new year will come with its fair share of cinematic explosions, heroes, spies, and deluge of discourse, surely. You can (and should!) indulge in all of it; it’s part of what makes film fun and periodically
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Netflix finally reveals Locke & Key release date in first promo image The A.V. Club - Britt HayesJoe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novels have had a very long, very bumpy road to television. Following a failed FOX pilot (directed by Mark Romanek, no less) and a deal that fell through with Hulu, the creators
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Noam Chomsky has "never heard of Baby Yoda" and has "no thoughts about memes" The A.V. Club - Reid McCarterNoam Chomsky is renowned for being one of the most important and prolific public intellectuals of our time. Naturally, then, we look to him for opinions on the most pressing issues in the world today,
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsOscar Isaac Oscar Isaac also wishes Poe and Finn were space boyfriends, but "people are too afraid" The A.V. Club - Britt HayesThe undeniable chemistry between Poe and Finn in the recent Star Wars movies led many fans to hope that Oscar Isaac and John Boyega’s characters might finally make kissy faces at each other in The Rise
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Octavia Spencer searches for redemption but finds mostly melodrama in Truth Be Told The A.V. Club - Joi ChildsObsession is not a new concept, but it is one that’s been magnified in the digital era. From stan Twitter accounts and Reddit threads to communities on Tumblr, many collectives are fueled by their fixations.
The A.V. Clubflipped into NewsAnthony Hopkins There's almost too much wistful eloquence in this interview between Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins The A.V. Club - Randall ColburnWhere does one even begin with Interview Magazine’s magical new chat between friends and former co-stars Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins? At the beginning, of course, which so perfectly sets the stage for
The A.V. Clubflipped into TVTV Castle Rock is in the remembering business, then the action business The A.V. Club - Emily L. Stephens In which Castle Rock finally gets to the fireworks factory, sort ofRead more...
