It’s another banner week for casting news. Big name actors like Steve Buscemi, Emma Thompson, and Don Johnson landed new television projects, while Riz Ahmed becomes the newest addition to Wes Anderson’s merry band of players. Also, Michael Showalter’s Christmas pic Oh. What. Fun. rounds out its cast. Read on for more.
What is going on with this new The Office thing? The possible reboot/possible revival/possible spin-off has been all smoke and mirrors and Greg Daniels schemes. But it’s real enough to have apparently bagged two pretty big names as the first actors cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Domhnall Gleeson (of the Sta…
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It’s pretty safe to assume that almost everyone engaging with this site isinterested incelebrity gossip in some form, whether that’s about directors getting sent t0 “movie jail” or housewives getting sentenced to actual jail. If you think you’re immune, first of all maybe stop lying to yourself and second, consider…
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Storming into theaters this weekend to play alongside murky, politically fraught films like Civil War, there’s something comfortingly simple and familiar about a historical action flick dedicated entirely to coming up with ways to kill Nazis. From Inglorious Basterds to last year’s Sisu, it’s a subgenre that’s existed…
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If you’ve had a chance to catch Hundreds Of Beavers during its recent roadshow tour, or at any of the many festivals where it’s played to enthusiastic audiences, you already know what a weird and wonderful film it is. If not, it’s kind of hard to explain. Think of it as a live-action Looney Tunes feature, with…
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Mandisa, the contemporary Christian artist and former American Idol contestant, has died, according to Rolling Stone. She was 47 years old.
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Uh oh! It sounds like Monty Python co-founder John Cleese won’t be able to fart in our general direction via his show about cancel culture any time soon, because it has reportedly already been canceled. Help! He’s being repressed!
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There’s a lot to say about Taylor Swift’s latest, a surprise two-part album titled The Tortured Poets Department. Of course, much of that has already been interrogated by The A.V. Club’s Mary Kate Carr in her review of the collection. But here at The A.V. Club, we also like to spend extra time teasing apart the most…
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I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with my tail between my legs, much like the titular “Black Dog.” My comprehensive review of Taylor Swift’s new album turned out not to be comprehensive at all. At 2 AM EST, hours after the scheduled release of the first 16 tracks, Swift announced on her…
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When he was down on his luck and wanted to support his family and make sure his kids had a good life, Giancarlo Esposito almost took a very different route than his Breaking Bad character, Gus Fring. While Gus turned to the cartel, Esposito recently revealed that he seriously considered committing insurance fraud in…
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Like some unholy fusion of Resident Evil and Dance Moms, Abigail dares suggest that the only thing scarier than a haunted house is one that’s also occupied by a pissed-off tween ballerina with an emotionally absent, narcissistic parent. It’s not wrong, but there’ll be no Abby Lee Miller showing up to discipline the…
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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what…
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Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.]
When I started this little post-apocalyptic journey seven episodes ago, it was with a question about tone. Was Fallout, at its core, a comedy or a tragedy? But it’s a false distinction, in a lot of ways. As our old pal Bud Askins might tell us, either in his flesh body, or trapped with his brain rolling around inside…
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To call Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver pastiche is to oversell it. As was the case in Part One—A Child Of Fire, The Scargiver is an unmistakable blend of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and George Lucas’ Star Wars, so obvious in its make that pointing out the origin of its parts is redundant. The Scargiver doesn’t…
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Because there must always, somewhere, be a pop culture lawsuit designed to make the rest of us gently roll our eyes—and the “Yesterday used Ana de Armas to trick us into watching Yesterday!” people have finally settled out of court—we’re very excited to inform you of a new potential class action suit kicking off in…
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Taylor Swift has cultivated a daunting amount of lore to sift through. The casual fan doesn’t need to know the entire backstory to enjoy The Tortured Poets Department, the artist’s 11th album, but do casual fans of Taylor Swift even exist anymore? Over the past three years, she’s gone from megafamous to ultrafamous to…
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One of the big things that happened, when the rise of streaming TV kicked off roughly a decade ago, is that everybody got very cagey about numbers, very quickly. Netflix was the first to get the big idea, of course, realizing that, since they’d essentially sidestepped Nielsen ratings entirely (with the polling…
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In news practically as inevitable as humanity’s innate impulse to annihilate itself in a burst of cleansing nuclear fire, Amazon has confirmed today that it’s renewing Fallout for a second season of post-apocalyptic Prime Video TV. This is not a shock, in so far as the series (executive produced by Westworld’s…
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Apologies to all the dorks out there with their YouTube channels, but the rain in Seven isn’t the mood-setter you think it is. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times celebrating the [ahem] 8K IMAX re-release of Seven (we’re really looking forward to seeing “Sloth” in glorious 8K), director David Fincher dispelled…
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