TV An admirable Tales Of The City update wants to be considered radical without being radicalThe A.V. Club - Pilot ViruetIt’s not particularly surprising that Tales Of The City is finding new life in 2019. For one, we’re in an era of media where basically anything that’s ever existed can return at some point but also because
Arnold Schwarzenegger Today, friends, is the day you get to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger rapThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterThroughout Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long, eventful career he’s worn many different hats: professional bodybuilder, actor, politician, even a pony wrangler. Thankfully, as of today, we can say, too, that
Ava DuVernay Batman and Mister Miracle writer Tom King joins Ava DuVernay's New GodsThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiWarner Bros. tapping Ava DuVernay to direct a movie about Jack Kirby’s New Gods characters from DC Comics seemed like a surprising choice, if only because of how unexpectedly awesome it was, and now it
Music Stream sets from Nas, Low, Courtney Barnett, and more at Primavera SoundThe A.V. Club - Kelsey J. WaiteWe can’t all be in beautiful Barcelona this weekend for Primavera Sound, one of music’s biggest and consistently best-curated festivals, but thanks to the marvels of modern telecommunications, we can our
Ali Wong Ali Wong and Randall Park on Always Be My Maybe, Bay Area hip-hop, and awkward car hook-upsThe A.V. Club - Baraka Kaseko and Marah EakinAli Wong and Randall Park star in Netflix’s new romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe, the story of estranged childhood friends Sasha and Marcus who reluctantly reconnect after 15 years apart, and soon rediscover
Peter Mayhew Harrison Ford honored late Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew at the Galaxy’s Edge openingThe A.V. Club - Dan NeilanLast night, Star Wars fans rejoiced as the new Galaxy’s Edge attraction at the Disneyland park in Southern California officially opened for business. There to help Disney CEO Bob Iger kick off the festivities
Portland, OR Jake Johnson joins ABC’s Stumptown cast to will-they/won’t-they with Cobie SmuldersThe A.V. Club - Gwen IhnatWhile Jake Johnson turned in an exemplary vocal performance in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (and will offer another one in the upcoming Netflix animated series Hoops), he hasn’t been seen on TV in
Movies Sparkling star chemistry (and Keanu Reeves!) makes Always Be My Maybe a can’t-miss Netflix rom-comThe A.V. Club - Gwen IhnatRom-coms have the tricky task of straddling the “rom” and the “com” part, with a lot of star-steered vehicles leaning toward the former. Always Be My Maybe thankfully focuses on the latter; there are lot
Music The universe trembles as Empire Records' Ethan Embry seeks revenge against GWARThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterBack in 1995, a year when the space-faring, metal-loving aliens of GWAR were at the height of their powers, the band made a cameo appearance in Empire Records. A TV plays the video for “Saddam A Go-Go”
Anya Taylor-Joy The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance trailer is blockbuster-style puppetryThe A.V. Club - Alex McLevyIt’s been one Henson of a wait, but the trailer for Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance is here, and it delivers on the promise implied by the very cool-looking images released earlier this In
Sylvester Stallone Rambo finds a few hundred more people to kill in the Rambo: Last Blood trailerThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnSylvester Stallone’s John Rambo, voice stonier than peridotite, is obsessed with death. “I’ve lived in a world of death,” he grumbles in the trailer for Rambo: Last Blood, reflecting on those who died
Elton John Fairweather friends: Elton John’s best collaborations, from Aretha to A Tribe Called QuestThe A.V. Club - Annie ZaleskiElton John has assumed many guises throughout his more than 50 years in music. Campy, glammy pop star. Earnest piano balladeer. Bluesy troubadour. Incisive, emotional storyteller. Disney soundtrack kingpin.
TV "Wednesday Morning, 8 AM" is the only #SaveAPBio argument you really needThe A.V. Club - William HughesAdults lie to kids all the time, for as many reasons as you might care to name: manipulation, protection, convenience, and, sometimes, just because it’s easy, and kind of fun. The annals of educational
Tiffany Haddish Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy, and Elisabeth Moss turn to crime in trailer for mob drama The KitchenThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnThere’s shades of last year’s Widows in The Kitchen, a ‘70s-set crime thriller about the wives of convicted Irish mobsters who take control of the criminal empire forged by their husbands. The directorial
Lil Nas X Lil Nas X surprised an elementary school with "Old Town Road" and the kids lost their mindsThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerAdmittedly, there aren’t many more avenues that Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” can traverse at this point. After an initial scuffle with the country Billboard charts, it has incurred global support, remix
Trevor Noah Trevor Noah runs down Robert Mueller's non-answer answer about Trump's obstruction herpesThe A.V. Club - Dennis PerkinsThe Daily Show was the only late-night game in town on this holiday week Wednesday, leaving host Trevor Noah the only host on duty to cover the long-awaited, now longer-to-be-debated public comments by
TV This season of Drag Race sashays awayThe A.V. Club - Allison Shoemaker Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, May 30. All times are Eastern. Read more...
TV Space smells like a giant bag of assholes in Archer's latest, weirdest reinvention yetThe A.V. Club - William HughesTV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place. If there’s one exchange the proves that tonight’s Archer premiere is still the same show that debuted on a different network, in a different genre,
TV The vampires confront death itself in the What We Do In The Shadows season finaleThe A.V. Club - Katie RifeWell, friends, as four fine young men from Philadelphia once harmonized, now we’ve come to the end of the road. Tonight marked the season one finale of What We Do In The Shadows on FX, and overall I think
TV Jane The Virgin’s personal troubles pile up as new professional opportunities ariseThe A.V. Club - Oliver SavaJane Gloriana Villanueva has long dreamed of being a professional writer, and while she had a significant crisis of confidence last week, the universe has assuaged her insecurities by giving her two major
Walt Disney Company Disney says it'll probably bail on Georgia, too, if the state's anti-abortion law goes into effectThe A.V. Club - William HughesDisney, as a rule, does its best to stay far away from political statements, for a pretty obvious reason: People mad at you about your stances on public policy won’t give you money for a brand new Mickey
Taika Waititi Shudder announces Visitations podcast with Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and a killer rosters of guestsThe A.V. Club - William HughesIf there’s one thing that we, as a species, love almost as much as telling ourselves scary stories, it’s talking about why they spook us as much as they do. Hence (part of) the appeal of Shudder’s new
Alex Trebek Alex Trebek says his cancer is now in "near remission"The A.V. Club - William HughesBack in early March, game show fans worldwide were struck with some truly dispiriting news: An announcement from Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Over
MTV MTV revokes Jason Mitchell award nomination in light of misconduct allegationsThe A.V. Club - William HughesWe reported last week on the sudden firing from multiple projects of actor Jason Mitchell, who—after being accused of misconduct and harassment by a number of his co-stars on multiple sets—has now been
Superhero Movies Dark Phoenix reshot its entire ending because it was too much like another big superhero movieThe A.V. Club - William HughesMore cynical fans of the cinematic superhero genre might point out that the vast majority of modern comic book movies tend to end in the same way these days, with our heroes facing off against a computer-animated
Chernobyl Memes are helping people process the horrors of HBO's ChernobylThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnChernobyl, HBO’s gutting five-part miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster, has quietly grown in popularity in the aftermath of Game Of Thrones’ divisive final episode. With every episode, Twitter Reddit’s
Octavia Spencer Octavia Spencer brings unexpected depth to the small-town teen horror of MaThe A.V. Club - Katie RifeThe “real America” Republican politicians are always fetishizing is dying. From the Rust Belt to the Bible Belt, small-town America in 2019 is defined by its abandoned shopping centers, crumbling facades,
Death Stranding New Death Stranding trailer provides more throat baby, a character named "Die-Hardman," and a release dateThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterFor years now, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has been showing off his team’s new game, Death Stranding, through a slow drip of baffling trailers. In them, we’ve been shown everything from a lovingly
Stevie Nicks Stevie Nicks and Harry Styles are playing together again, and fans are getting eager for an albumThe A.V. Club - Alani VargasBack when Harry Styles was a boy band sensation, no one would’ve guessed that he’d find a muse and collaborator in Stevie Nicks. Now, though, their performances together are one of the more enjoyable on
Moby Moby takes the hint for once and cancels the rest of his book tourThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerFor weeks we have been subjected to nuggets of Moby’s personal life via unsolicited excerpts from his creepy-ass second memoir, Then It Falls Apart. One story involved Natalie Portman, who he claimed have
