If you’re looking for a hype man, you could do far worse than Shea Whigham. The actor—who’s been seemingly ubiquitous lately, in everything from Kong: Skull Island to Fargo to Waco to First Man—is currently shooting Todd Phillips’ one-off Joker film, and let him assure you, he is fucking psyched about it.
It was little more than a week ago that the Russo brothers dropped their most recent tease for Avengers 4 in the form of a post announcing the production had wrapped, once more launching a new round of theories about the movie. Is a single hero going to die, or more than one? Will time travel be involved? Is anyone…
It’s 1 a.m., I am currently more high than I have ever been in my life. A ghostly apparition is coming out of the ceiling. My cat is looking at me with concern—or maybe I’m imagining the concern, like I’m imagining whatever is hovering above me. This is all the fault of a fancy new gadget I’ve just used to get high,…
There were no giant zombie battles. There was no mustache-twirling villainy. (Well, almost none.) And there was a distinct lack of endless conversations about the meaning of life. Instead, what the ninth season premiere of The Walking Dead gave us was a new society, new tensions, and a promising start.
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
When Marvel and Disney released the six Marvel Rising: Initiation animated shorts this summer, the assumption (reinforced by Marvel) was that they would serve as a calling card for the then-upcoming Secret Warriors TV movie, showing off the fun and breezy potential of these heroes. The shorts were brief but spirited,…
It’s been richly rewarding for fans of Welsh rock band The Joy Formidable to see the group evolve from album to album. For most, that journey began in 2011 with debut album The Big Roar (though prior EP A Balloon Called Moaning is now available to U.S. audiences on Spotify), a record that lived up to its title via…
A new article in The Wall Street Journal is outlining’s Apple’s plan for its fancy new streaming service, and everyone is making fun of the tech giant as a result. It sounds moralizing, paternalistic, and as watered down and neutered as TV can be—even compared to CBS. What it’s not, however, is surprising.
The condemned: The Dawnseeker (2018)
The young-adult books of John Bellairs were, above all else, a way for the late author to indulge in his fondness for gothic mystery. Through nearly all of his 15 YA novels, the author installed regal cemeteries, ornate mansions, ancient tomes, and unnatural mist, all in service of eerie supernatural goings-on. These…
It went to some very dark places. There was murder, kidnapping, arson, abuse, blackmail, and lots of very unpleasant therapy. The season finale of The Sinner answered questions, but it left one unanswered: Does Elisha Henig have the most unsettling thousand-yard stare of any kid on TV, or just one of the most?
De La Soul is one of the most culturally significant and musically influential hip-hop groups from the late ’80s and ’90s, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the current digital realm of music that actually gets listened to. That’s because, by and large, De La Soul isn’t there. Thanks to a messy thicket of legal…
Nicole Holofcener first gained attention in 1996 for her powerful comic drama Walking And Talking, a film that also provided one of the first starring roles for her longtime collaborator Catherine Keener. Since then, she’s continued to follow her muse of small, intimate stories about troubled middle- to upper-class…
Riot Fest 2018 was an oddly muted affair. No big reunions or “one time only” performances of the kind that have so thrilled festivalgoers in times past, like Jawbreaker getting back together last year or L7 in 2015. Instead, there was a comforting procession of longtime stalwarts (Bouncing Souls, Andrew W.K.) and…
We’re big fans of genre film festivals here at The A.V. Club. Fantastic Fest, Cinepocalypse, The Overlook Film Festival—there are too many to attend them all, but we do our best. So when we say the lineup for Beyond Fest has us pretty excited, please know we’re not just filling column inches. This shit is lit.
The world is a vampire, sent to drain / the Smashing Pumpkins, of songs that don’t sound the same
So what do we get, for our pain? / Fulfilled desires, for new tracks that kinda bang [contort your pronunciation so that it works, the way 2 Chainz would]
