Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius in Daniel Espinoza’s MorbiusPhoto: Sony Pictures No one wants to watch a lousy movie, but an unmitigated disaster can often be more interesting than something that’s just mediocre. Morbius falls into the latter category, a run-of-the-mill origin story that’s capably acted and professionally mounted, but mostly lifeless up on […]
This year’s Oscar hosts Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda SykesPhoto: ABC/Art Streiber This Sunday, March 27, the long footrace known as Hollywood’s awards season will reach its final leg: the 94th Oscars ceremony. Of course, the question at this point isn’t whether you’re ready for the show, but how much you’ll be able to […]
Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP (Getty Images) After months of “razzle-dazzle“and hullabaloo, the 2022 Oscars ceremony is now only days away. It’s time to finally see who will land at the top of the acting categories, and which film will take home the top prize for Best Picture. Ahead of the big night, The AV Club has […]
Donald Glover and Brian Tyree Henry in season 3, episode 2 of AtlantaPhoto: Coco Olakunle/FX At SXSW last week, Atlanta creator and star Donald Glover said he wanted season 3 to be a “black fairy tale.” That tracks with the show’s genre-skipping ethos, which has forayed into surrealism and horror, and the evolution of its […]
Naomi Watts in director Małgorzata Szumowska’s Infinite StormPhoto: Bleecker Street Joel and Ethan Coen definitely understood the impact upon an audience of telling them, as they subversively did with 1996’s Fargo, that what they were about to watch is “based on a true story.” The use of those words helped set and frame has certain […]
One of these two women is my best dressed for The Gilded Age season finale, and for once it wasn’t Carrie CoonPhoto: Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO Agnes: I feel like I’ve been watching a play in a foreign language After ending last week’s episode with Mrs. Russell being unceremoniously shoved out of the Astor home, the […]
Natasha Lyonne Russian Doll Picture: netflix Next month, NOTetflix welcomes back several highly anticipated shows along with its usual pool of new films. One of those highly anticipated series is Russian Doll. Iyou’ve been nearly three years since Russian Doll made its debut on Netflix, and it’s finally coming back for more. The series, starring […]
Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock in The Lost CityPhoto: Paramount Pictures breaking news: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum have a lot of on-screen charisma. The Lost City, directed by Adam and Aaron Nee, is a good movie, but for inscrutable and ineffable reasons. The story is not particularly original, daring only in its Romancing The […]
Donald Glover and Bryan Tyree Henry in season two of AtlantaPhoto: Guy D’Alema/FX Atlanta ended its second season with a rep as one of the best shows on television. And it was well deserved: The series combined sublime comedy, high drama, piercing truths about relationships and race, and boundary-busting excursions into farce, surrealism, and horror, […]
WeezerPhoto: Brendan Walter Sounds like an odd plan: After Van Weezerits very corny but entertaining metal-influenced record, Weezer announced it would be making a four-EP series, SZNZ, with the releases coming out on the first day of each season. Guitarist Brian Bell teased that one of the records would be “Weezer-inspired,” with the others taking […]
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