Robert Towne has died. A prolific screenwriter and occasional director known for the realistic melodramas and sophisticated neo-noirs that were a hallmark of New Hollywood, Towne’s filmography reads like an essential viewing list for 1970s…
Far be it from us to stop a team of vest-wearing wand enthusiasts from robbing a bank for their audience’s enrichment. But after nearly 10 years of silence from the Magic Castle’s bank robbery contingent, we had all but assumed that Jesse…
While it’s been 30 years since Eddie Murphy last donned Axel Foley’s Detroit Lions jacket, that’s hardly remarkable by today’s standards. Heck, the gap between Beverly Hills Cop III and Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is shorter than…
It is with no pleasure that we inform you of the latest ghoulish artificial intelligence endeavor, an app that makes dead celebrities read stuff to you. Eleven Labs, a company that specializes in using A.I. for text-to-speech purposes, has…
At the beginning of a lengthy interview with The New York Times, Eddie Murphy spoke about the ways he took his fame for granted when he was just starting out. “I started at maybe around 13, 14, saying that I was going to be famous. I’d…
Ridley Scott has made some of the most iconic movies in modern cinema, some of which spun off into major Hollywood franchises. Scott says in a recent Vanity Fair interview that he “should have done the sequels to Alien and to Blade Runner…
Today in “Um, did we really need to know that?” news, Melissa Etheridge has revealed that David Crosby—the biological father of two of her four children—was a sperm donor for a currently unknown amount of kids. Why was a rockstar donating…
The Bear is cooking up some mixed reviews this season, even within The A.V. Club. Saloni Gajjar lauded its groundbreaking episode one music choice, while Jenna Scherer wrote in her review that “the episode feels both too slow andtoo fast.…
In a bizarre data point for the growing movement to keep rap lyrics out of the courtroom, Hot Boys rapper Christopher “B.G.” Dorsey was recently ordered to provide the government with a copy of any song he writes moving forward, ahead of…
There’s plenty of screaming, slapping, and sexy eyes to go around in Industry’s firstseason three trailer. That’s not surprising to anyone who has watched HBO’s tense and entertaining drama, which also happens to be a perfect way to fill…
It’s hard not to approach reviewing Despicable Me 4 with anything other than a sense of futility. Illumination Studios seems to have cracked the code for mainstream blockbuster success, not by being any good, but by being merely “Good…
Hey, who says those fancy ol’ film festivals can’t have a bit of fun, huh? Amid the very particular glamor of the Venice Film Festival—all those beautiful movie stars arriving via boat!—the Juice is going to be let loose. Yes, Beetlejuice…
The people of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” didn’t gather in the square between the post office and the bank around ten o’clock on June 27th just for Awkwafina to bastardize their holy tradition 70 years later. Unfortunately for them,…
Jamie Foxx still isn’t divulging much information about his health scare last year. Though he was hospitalized for nearly a month, the Oscar winner has remained tight-lipped on his extended absence from his numerous professions. Speaking…
Since his early graduation from Greendale Community College, Donald Glover has defied expectations. Under the alias Childish Gambino, he’s become a chart-topping, Grammy-winning rapper and, on television, an Emmy-winning writer and actor,…
Making your way in Gotham today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries, like a Batman, sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t it be nice to get away? Even villains want to go where everybody knows your name: Noonan’s.…
It would be easy to make a Taylor Swift movie about the image she’s projected to the world: the hopeless romantic underdog who conquered the world with the power of song! But it would be way more interesting to make a Taylor Swift biopic…
An actor can’t control what may become his last performance. One of the final films of the late Ray Liotta happens to be 1992, a boilerplate crime thriller set against the backdrop of the riots that took place in Los Angeles that year. On…
Recently, a certain sect of The Boys’fans got a rude awakening. Shockingly, the show that depicts a deeply patriotic superhero as a psychopathic, milk-guzzling maniac with an equally boorish band of followers isn’t exactly trying to make…
Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got five exciting picks, including new series from Image Comics, DC, Oni Press, Drawn & Quarterly, and…
The blessing and curse of Kevin Costner’s first chapter in his “American Saga,” Horizon, is that there’s no visible horizon (yet). It opens with a surveyor marking out the boundaries for a new home with his son, making it an apt metaphor…
The recent release of Thelma, a film that subverts the conventions of action films, has us thinking about other movies we’ve enjoyed over the decades that did something a little different with the genre. “Subversive” can be a slippery term…
Between the box office success of Bad Boys: Ride Or Die and, more importantly, his visit to Hot Ones, Will Smith has spent the past few months clawing his way back into Hollywood’s good graces. While he’s still barred from the Academy and…
When last we spoke of Cobra Kai—when the first look teaser for the sixth season debuted—we were all pretty much in agreement that dropping the show’s final season in three parts was a really annoying strategy by Netflix. Unfortunately, the…
Remember in A Star Is Born how Lady Gaga’s character lamented that she was always told her nose was too big to make it in the music industry? Imagine the meme from that movie—Bradley Cooper saying “I just want to take another look at…
We’ve got some good news and some bad news this morning. The good news is that Inside Out 2 is actually pretty delightful—at least by current Pixar standards—and the sequel is being rewarded for the joy it’s bringing at the box office.…
Whether you’ve read Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire or not, Part II of Rolin Jones’ adaptation for AMC has been an exquisite season of storytelling. Readers and viewers alike have been reeling from the onslaught of revelations…
Last year, The Bear pumped the brakes on the frantic, ulcer-inducing energy of its first season, as one restaurant shed its skin to make way for the next. This audacious shift in rhythm signaled that, like the addled wunderkind at the…
This week’s episode of House Of The Dragon makes one thing abundantly clear: Women get the job done. Or they would get the job down, if they weren’t surrounded by men hellbent on revenge. “Hotter blood has prevailed,” notes Rhaenys sagely,…