Sennott deserves so much praise for Shiva Baby. She occupies the screen for basically the entirety of the film and she manages to run the audience through the ringer as she goes from infuriating to inviting empathy and back again.
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Gabrielle Sanchez
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Gabrielle is a contributing writer at The A.V. Club. She's a native Texan, and an aficionado in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, sitcoms, sad girl music, and bubblegum pop. Yes, she's multifaceted.
Echoing the praise for Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby. She was absolutely phenomenal in the role and my hands were in the mouth throughout the whole movie. The endless anxiety mixed with cringe humor was executed so flawlessly!
New Editor-in-forced-relocation doesn’t have the eye for details?
Josie & The Pussycats has aged incredibly well in my eyes. If anything, that movie undersold how much worse the intersection between pop music and product placement would get. There doesn’t even need to be a secret conspiracy. Pop stars will do it willingly and gleefully.
I’ve had Valentine the single on repeat for months now (and got obsessed with “Pristine” about half a year ago) so I am looking forward to the rest of the album. My concern is that the rest of the album might not be able to keep up the level of energy from Valentine and I think this review bears that out. Which isn’t… Read more
This was a real treat this morning from the new releases list. I liked Lush well enough, but this album is really really terrific. This’ll definitely be in heavy rotation for awhile.
Just listened to this album. She’s a real talent. Loved it.
I think it’s important to know that the reason there was fentanyl in the oxycodone (as it is in black market Percocet, Xanax, heroin, cocaine, MDMA, etc.) is primarily because prohibition makes it impossible to regulate the products people are using, most of whom aren’t addicted. Michael K. Williams didn’t… Read more
What makes you think she was talking about Captain America? Clearly she referring to Evans’ role as Curtis in Snowpiercer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s absurd that AVClub constantly misspells the name “America’s Sweetheart, Aidy Bryant.”
Offscreen they remain passionate lovers.
Damn, I sorta called this in a previous Wes article!
I hope for this film to be a Sci-Fi Western...of sorts.
Great to see Lillard back as Shaggy. I’ll have to give this a go. The art direction looks great.
I've heard repeatedly that he's completely broke. Either way, he isn't getting out of this. There's no chance
I agree this album is probably a B because a lot of the songs blend together a little too easy. but I also just feel so lifted by these queer lyrics and I am grinning ear to ear walking down the street with this blasting in my ears. I wish I had an album like this when I was a baby queer with some very dark thoughts… Read more
I’m astounded that this is his debut album. Also I’m an old man who has no idea how the music industry works now.
That’s basically my take on the “why can’t a woman be Bond?” discourse. Why would a woman want to be Bond? He’s kind of a sad Cold War relic whose (toxic? depends on the interpretation) masculinity is pretty central to the character.
I know I would much rather see something like Black Panther which is by and about POC that tells stories from their perspective than “It’s James Bond but he’s [record scratch] a Lady!?”
“Like Castaway, but Tom Hanks builds Wilson this time. And get this, Wilson is a robot!”