Is there a more tired playlist than your family’s annual holiday music sampler? For many of us, traveling home for the holidays ensures that we’ll not only endure some passive-aggressive familial exchanges we normally spend the rest of the year avoiding; it also means having our ears filled with a list of songs that…
In discussing Guillermo del Toro’s latest movie, the film noir period thriller Nightmare Alley, Jimmy Kimmel, having already seen the film, noted in admiration, “Even the ugliness in the movie is beautiful.” That may well be a description of the Oscar-winning director’s entire oeuvre, from the craggy majesty of Ron…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 7. All times are Eastern.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans who enjoyed last week’s annual Turkey Day celebration are also getting a last-minute Hanukkah present. MST3K will return to its previously scheduled programming of funny-looking robots making fun of cheapo B-movies on March 4, 2022.
In case it has been too long since a prestige actress has been mixed up in a murder on HBO, Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman arrives to fill the void with Landscapers, a new limited series about a real-life double murder in England in the late 1990s. The actress stars as Susan Edwards, who was convicted alongside…
Dwayne Johnson had to fight for a while to prove that he was a viable movie star and not just a gimmicky casting choice for roles like a certain cartoon scorpion monster that they accidentally put into an otherwise live-action movie, but Dave Bautista rocketed past the “wrestler-turned-actor” label to become a regular…
Drake, one of the few rappers to shave a cute little heart into his hairline, has taken yet another bold step in his continuously rising, often confusing career: He’s withdrawing his 2022 Grammy nominations. Per Variety, all two of his nominations are off the table, meaning that while he’s a Certified Lover Boy, he’ll…
Sometime between Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar-winning turn as Daniel Plainview and Jared Leto sending his Suicide Squad co-stars condoms and dead rats, the general public lost their stomach for so-called method acting, a term so divorced from its original meaning that it basically became shorthand for “asshole on set.”
Back in September, we reported on a story about HBO Max developing a spin-off of Matt Reeves’ The Batman that would focus on the rise of The Penguin, a.k.a. bird-like criminal mastermind Oswald Cobblepot. Penguin is being played by Colin Farrell in the movie, opposite Robert Pattinson’s The Batman and Jeffrey Wright’s…
After already getting canceled and then miraculously revived once, former NBC sitcom (then a Peacock sitcom) A.P. Bio has been canceled for a second time. Barring an even more miraculous revival, the show will not be getting a fifth season of revenge missions, Toledo shenanigans, and a group of students who will…
Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings is one of the more inventive entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon, partially due to the fact that it has a more fantastical nature than the average superhero-adjacent film (it also had an oddly accurate fight scene on a bus), so it’s…
This piece originally ran in December 2012 as part of The A.V. Club’s 13 Days Of Christmas series, a collection of essays on a handful of beloved holiday classics and a few that have sadly fallen through the cracks. Up today, The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama Succession wraps up this week, and the nominations for the actors’ performances in this harrowing season have begun to roll in. The series leads this year’s Critics Choice Awards with eight nominations, including Best Drama Series. HBO rakes in the most nominations for its…
Brand Twitter is a consistently terrible presence in modern life. Though ultimately harmless when compared to climate collapse, income inequality, highly contagious viruses, or any of the other existentially terrifying threats that haunt our every moment, there’s something uniquely soul-deadening about the background…
We’re getting closer to the premiere of The Matrix Resurrections, and Warner Bros. has been teasing what fans can expect from Lana Wachowski’s fourth Matrix film. Last week, a clip was released that combined old footage from the first three movies with shots of a current day Keanu Reeves as Neo (who doesn’t seem to…
MacGruber is back. Peacock just released the first full trailer for the new, eight-episode comedy series, set ten years after the feature film that flopped both at the box office and with critics.
The Grammys announced they fixed a pretty big error in one of their nominations of Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR. When the nominees were announced in November, Taylor Swift, St. Vincent and Jack Antonoff were listed as songwriters on Olivia’s debut album, which was nominated in the Album Of The Year category. That’s because …
As we’ve seen in the long battle between musicians and Spotify, the streaming app thinks artists have a lot of gall to ask for their share of the money earned from their work. The fight for fair royalty payments has now extended to comics who, for the first time, have a lot to gain in revenue from streaming. However,…
After months of speculation that Charlie Cox’s Daredevil would find a second life in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel boss Kevin Feige has confirmed it’s true. The Marvel Studios president spilled the news about Cox’s Murdock will be joining the MCU in an interview with CinemaBlend.
Danielle, Este, and Alana Haim are hitting the road once more, with over two dozen shows slated for the summer. The One More HAIM tour, with support from Faye Webster, Sasami, Waxahatchee, Buzzy Lee, and Princess Nokia, kicks off in Las Vegas on April 24.