We’re fans of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s new sci-fi head-scratcher The Endless here at The A.V. Club, and to commemorate the film’s release—not to mention this, the greenest of holidays—we’ve got a special giveaway for you. We’ve got three limited-edition blacklight posters for the film created by artist Clay…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: The recent (and very strange) Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc has us tapping our toes to other rock musicals, rock operas, and rock-driven movies.
What, you thought we meant Leia? No, we mean the longest and truest love of Han Solo’s life, the girl he loved and lost and loved again—the Millennium Falcon. In the dynamic new TV spot for Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover, stealing the show already) introduces Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and…
Now that [REDACTED] is out of the picture, Stranger Things is replenishing its stunt-casting coffers with two new Hawkins residents, as Variety reports. First, there’s British actor Cary Elwes, a.k.a. the dashing Westley from ‘80s slumber-party classic The Princess Bride. Elwes has been cast as the mayor of Hawkins, …
Lovable lunkhead Vin Diesel has seized the means of action-movie production, announcing in a press release yesterday evening that he and his One Race Films have partnered with American-Chinese film company H Collective to buy the rights to his xXx franchise, where he is the biggest, baddest, and baldest dude on set…
NPR reports that one of its own, longtime Morning Edition host and beloved Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! scorekeeper Carl Kasell, has died. Kasell, who had been on the radio since he was 16 years old and practiced his “radio voice” for years before that, died from complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.
We’ve seen a lot of weird, off the mark, and just plain bad product tie-ins over the years here at The A.V. Club, as our annual Year In Swag roundups can attest. (Hello, KFC turntable.) But we’d like to formally state for the record—because such a thing has become necessary—that silk lingerie sets in colors inspired…
Mad Max: Fury Road’s path to Oscars glory was a famously long and tortured one, and things aren’t looking any easier for the (as-yet-hypothetical) fifth and sixth films in the franchise. In fact, as The Sydney Morning Herald reports, there may never be another Mad Max movie, thanks to a “bitter court battle” currently…
After a period of waffling between which Margot Robbie star vehicle to make next, DC is moving forward with an untitled female superhero ensemble project that’s most likely the Birds Of Prey movie, as Deadline reports. That film was previously thought to be scrapped in favor of the David Ayer-directed Gotham City…
We’ve always thought of Drake as too much of a goofball to pull off the whole “stone-faced assassin curb stomping gangsters in an elevator” look (see: his video congratulating LeBron James on 30,000 career points), but nevertheless Degrassi’s most famous alum is taking inspiration from Ryan Gosling and Drive to…
We’ve noticed here at The Takeout that practically everyone has their own weird food peculiarities. Staffer Gwen Ihnat’s husband won’t eat fruit, for example. Editor Kevin Pang can’t stand the sight of cottage cheese. We’ve had friends who can’t do hot beverages or hate the texture of melted cheese. And we know…
Harry Anderson, the actor and magician best known for his eight-year run as Judge Harry Stone on the NBC sitcom Night Court, has died. No cause of death has been listed, but local media is reporting that Anderson was found dead at his home in Asheville, North Carolina earlier today, and that “no foul play is…
The creepy clowns that terrified America by lurking in bushes and along dark highways throughout the fall of 2016 have disappeared, but just because those clowns seem to have gone into hibernation doesn’t mean that the greasepainted threat is gone for good. Anyone who’s read Stephen King’s IT—or seen the 1990 TV…
It’s a true testament to Dwayne Johnson’s charisma that even when he’s being totally cocky, it still comes across as charming. (Even the official Doom twitter account played along when he shit-talked the movie on Twitter.) Now Johnson has something new to endearingly brag about on social media, as his new film Rampage
The Shorty Awards, as everyone involved with the Shorty Awards will no doubt be happy to tell you, are the future of awards shows, an annual event honoring those twin pillars of social media monetization: influencers and brands. The 2018 edition of this collective death march into eternal distraction was held last…
