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…