The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsThe Hunger Games Suzanne Collins wrote a Hunger Games prequel and it's out in less than a yearThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnYou thought The Hunger Games were finished? You fool. We live in the age of IP, meaning that every day brings us another viable property to resurrect, repackage, and, if you’re J.K. Rowling, ruin for generation
The A.V. Clubadded this to MoviesPixar Pixar animator Patty Kihm talks reintroducing Bo Peep to the Toy Story universeThe A.V. Club - Baraka Kaseko and Marah EakinAll ofAndy’sBonnie’s toys are back for a new adventure with Toy Story 4, another installment in Pixar’s decades-spanning franchise. This time around, Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang accompany Bonnie
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsBroadway Musical Gary Busey to play GodThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnGary Busey’s been a force of chaotic good for years now, but this fall he’ll become a symbol for all that is holy. Rolling Stone reports that the Oscar-nominated actor will play God in Only Human, an Off-Broadway
The A.V. Clubadded this to MusicMusic From loud to loudest: The A.V. Club’s favorite queer rock of 2019 (so far)The A.V. Club - Randall ColburnPhoto: Sleater-Kinney (Charlie Engman), Japanese Breakfast (Lorne Thomson/Getty Images), Vile Creature (Facebook)Rock’s never lacked for queer visibility, though that depends, of course, on what one calls
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsAndrés Manuel López Obrador Behold, the man who crushes his nuts while crossing his legsThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterGreat comedy can rely on extraordinary wit, cutting satire, or elaborately choreographed slapstick. People spend their entire lives devoted to this craft, working tirelessly to perfect the nearly ineffable
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsNetflix Vegas plays the heel in third season trailer for Netflix hit GLOWThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnNetflix’s hilarious, heartfelt GLOW, a fictionalized spin on ‘80s wrestling outfit Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, transplants its core gang of grapplers to Las Vegas for its third season. There, they’ll
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV And now, a Twitter bot that collects phrases you can sing to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themeThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterIn the mid-‘90s, when consumer internet began spreading to homes across the world—back before corporations figured out how to exert control over every aspect of this technology they could think of—the
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsLena Headey Game Of Thrones' Lena Headey just says it: "I wanted a better death"The A.V. Club - Randall Colburn [This post contains spoilers for the final season of Game Of Thrones.] Read more...
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV Hulu’s Das Boot miniseries is well-acted and well-crafted… but needs more bootThe A.V. Club - Noel MurrayThe cable and subscription streaming business lately seems determined to reinterpret an old saying: These days, history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, and then as a multi-part prestige TV drama. just
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsTaylor Swift Everyone is in Taylor Swift's new music video for "You Need To Calm Down"The A.V. Club - Shannon MillerLast Friday Taylor Swift dropped her newest single “You Need To Calm Down,” an upbeat wag of the finger at anonymous online hate and the toxic obsession with other people’s lives—in particular, those the
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV We’re here and we’re 9 queer shows you might’ve missed this yearThe A.V. ClubTelevision is queerer than ever. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reported a record-high number of LGBTQ+ characters for the 2018-2019 season, with cable networks and streaming platforms,
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsPlay buttonJohn Oliver John Oliver on Dems' impeachment debate: "Every asshole wins until, finally, they don't"The A.V. Club - Dennis PerkinsImpeachment. It’s the heavily hashtagged Congressional process (see: #Impeach45; #ImpeachTrumpNow; or, for followers of Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, #ImpeachTheMotherfucker) that many other
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Jessica Jones ends the Marvel Netflix universe on a high noteThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeThat unexpected sense of lightness Erik described back in “A.K.A Hellcat” is exactly how I felt going into Jessica Jones’ series finale. That’s not just because Sallinger was officially off the table,
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV All Big Little Lies families are unhappy in their own wayThe A.V. Club - Gwen IhnatThis season of Big Little Lies appears to be a bit less subtle than the first one. In case you were busy stripping furniture or a similar skill while you viewed this episode, or watching another channel,
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsPixar Toy Story 4 will be the first Pixar movie in decades without an animated shortThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiDisney’s subsidiary studios apparently have a thing for breaking from tradition these days, because just a few months after Avengers: Endgame tricked viewers into sitting through the credits just to hear
The A.V. Clubadded this to MusicLyrics Genius accuses Google of ripping off its song lyrics databaseThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiAccording to The Wall Street Journal (via Rolling Stone), lyrics database Genius (formerly Rap Genius before it branched out into other genres) has accused Google of stealing its content and reposting
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Jessica Jones’ Big Bad is a big waste of timeThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeBack in my review of Jessica Jones’ first season finale—the wrap-up to my first ever Marvel Netflix binge-review experience—I wrote about how conflicted I felt about Kilgrave’s death. On the one hand,
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsSamurai Netflix orders Game Of Thrones-esque samurai docu-dramaThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiAccording to Deadline, Netflix is putting together a “docu-drama” about feudal Japan that it’s positioning as “a real-life Game Of Thrones.” The Deadline story says the show will be called Age Of Samurai:
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV Dick Wolf wants to do the first cross-network crossover, even though it's definitely been done beforeThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiYou’ve heard of crossover episodes, where a character from one show pops up on another show, but have you heard of a cross-network crossover, where a character from a show on a totally different network
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Another Trish-centric Jessica Jones is even more inventive than the firstThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeAfter the big reveal at the end of “A.K.A Hero Pants,” my first thought was that I’d love to go back and rewatch the previous two episodes to track Trish and Erik’s arcs through this new lens. Thankfully,
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Jessica Jones offers an effective, unexpected meditation on griefThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeNot only is “A.K.A Hero Pants” a compelling episode in its own right, it retroactively makes the previous episode more interesting too. Not the Sallinger parts, of course, those are well past saving. it
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsAvengers: Endgame Tony Stark's cabin from Avengers: Endgame is on AirbnbThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiDo you need a place to get away for a bit? Did you fail to stop an intergalactic genocidal maniac from wiping out half of all life and then drifted in space for a while, playing paper football with a And
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVTV This season of Big Little Lies is almost as good as dear sweet perfect AmabellaThe A.V. Club - Allison Shoemaker Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, June 16. All times are Eastern. Read more...
The A.V. Clubadded this to MusicCelebrity Gossip Good news, Connor4Real fans: The Popstar soundtrack is out on vinyl, at lastThe A.V. Club - William HughesThe Lonely Island might be some hot garbage in the eyes of our future robot overlords, but it’s still having a pretty great year: Not only did the comedy rap group release a great visual album, The Unauthorized
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Strong character moments can’t save a weakly plotted episode of Jessica JonesThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeThe good news about “A.K.A I Did Something Today” is that Jessica very much feels like herself anything. She’s once again faced with an impossible, impossibly frustrating scenario, but she approaches with
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsTV Ben Edlund concedes, says there's no saving Amazon's The TickThe A.V. Club - William HughesWe’ve reached a weird point in the lifespan of the modern TV ecosystem, where words like “canceled” are no longer automatically synonymous with “So obviously, there won’t be any more of that.” There have
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones A high-stakes Jessica Jones road trip winds up feeling like a tangentThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeIn our flawed criminal justice system, there’s unfortunately often a factor that’s more important than guilt or innocence: Narratives. How you spin a story, including how you spin it in the publicity a
The A.V. Clubadded this to NewsFranco Zeffirelli R.I.P. director Franco ZeffirelliThe A.V. Club - William HughesFranco Zeffirelli has died. Although his long career contained many distinct and notable phases—including fighting as a member of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance movement in World War II, directing
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones Jessica Jones’ sixth episode feels like a season finale—until it doesn’tThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeFor most of its runtime, “A.K.A Sorry Face” feels like a season finale. Erik’s kidnapping provides a high-stakes time clock. Jessica and Trish use their investigative skills to track him down and burst
The A.V. Clubadded this to TVJessica Jones A downright confusing episode of Jessica Jones takes some odd swervesThe A.V. Club - Caroline SiedeGregory Sallinger has a law degree. That’s about all the justification we’re given for why Jessica is adamant about treating his case differently than pretty much every other case we’ve ever seen her Just
