More news out of CinemaCon today: the Scary Movie franchise is getting a reboot. Originally created by the Wayans Brothers, the movies were a parody of all things horror and launched the careers of comedic actors like Regina Hall and Anna Faris. The series fell off in 2013 after the release of Scary Movie 5, but it’s…
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Even though the world is still recovering from her earth-shaking delivery of “your parents are upper middle class” in Bodies Bodies Bodies, Rachel Sennott is back with yet another sardonic but personally miserable protagonist in I Used To Be Funny, the feature-length debut from director Ally Pankiw.
No sooner had the warm colors of Barbieland with Allan touched the audience’s eyes than a shudder ran through executives, and they stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to them: The exquisite Proust Barbie had invaded the screen, and audiences were lost. And all from a test screening of Barbie…
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Is it any surprise that Conan O’Brien is the best at doing Hot Ones? Not the best at eating hot wings, mind you; just the best at being on the show. He spent the season finale squirreling away chicken bones in his pocket, checking in with his “affordable” personal doctor Dr. Arroyo (whom he brought along to monitor…
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O.J. Simpson, a one-time football star and actor who achieved infamy during his 1995 trial over the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman, has died. His family confirmed the news via a post on his official Twitter/X account. He was 76 years old.
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Ryan Reynolds, who perfected the whole “guy talking to little animated creatures” thing in Detective Pikachu, is back at it again in the new trailer for IF. At last year’s CinemaCon, Reynolds teased that he and writer-director John Krasinski have been formulating the idea of IF for years, and compared it to the likes…
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Last year, a triumphant Cannes Film Festival gave us best picture nominees Anatomy Of A Fall and Zone Of Interest, and—perhaps more importantly—best boy and Palm Dog winner, Messi the Border Collie. But while that immaculate showing will be pretty tough to beat, this year’s festival is already putting in a great bid.
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“Dearest gentle reader, we have been apart for far too long,” Lady Whistledown narrates in the new third season trailer for Bridgerton. And it’s true: it’s been two years since we checked in with the Bridgerton family and their adventures on the Ton, with nothing but the Queen Charlotte spin-off to tide us over in the…
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Sasquatch Sunset has more in common with a nature documentary than a narrative film: 89 minutes of wordless, but not silent, footage of a bigfoot family, which, at first, is only discernable by height. Even Sunset’s most recognizable star, Jesse Eisenberg, is lost under the layers of hair and prosthetics. The film’s…
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FX’s Shōgun is mesmerizing for multiple reasons. The feudal Japan-set drama boasts phenomenal performances, direction, and production design, with masterful stunts adding to the authentically crafted world of the show. The political chess games played by Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), his allies, and his foes…
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The first three scenes of Boat Story, a stylish British show that aired on BBC One last year and made it to Freevee in the States last month, feature the following payoffs: a severed head being discovered in an abandoned field; a hand getting crushed in a factory, complete with thick blood slowly oozing down rusty…
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[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode two. The recap of episode three publishes April 15.]
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We genuinely never thought we’d see it happen, folks: The psychopaths have decided they’re going to bring Heroes back… again. This is per Deadline, which reports thatTim Kring, creator of the superhero soap opera, is currently shopping around a second revival project in the vein of 2015's Heroes: Reborn, which served…
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The surprises came quick on Wednesday night’s edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. Firstly, Kristen Kish announced, there would be no Quickfire this week because, secondly, our dozen remaining chef-testants would be packing their bags—better that than their knives—and heading off in a suite of shiny BMWs down the Frank…
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Jon M. Chu’s two-part Wicked film adaptation wasn’t exactly lacking for star power in the first place, what with Cynthia Erivo and Ariane Grande in its biggest roles, and back-up coming from the likes of Michelle Yeoh, Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey, and Jeff Goldblum. (The latter as the not-as-wonderful-as-advertised…
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[Editor’s note: The A.V. Club will recap each episode of Fallout throughout the month. The recap of episode two will publish tomorrow, April 11.]
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It’s not every day that we find ourselves feeling sympathy for The Walt Disney Company, a corporate leviathan that owns huge swathes of the entertainment industry, with a yearly revenue that’s roughly on par with the gross domestic product of Luxembourg. Still, there’s something about a court filing asserting the…
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