The highways and byways of America have been eerily quiet over the past several weeks thanks to responsible citizens doing their best to remain indoors and limit unnecessary travel. Meanwhile, a small group of highly irresponsible drivers have taken these open stretches of asphalt as a sign that they should drive as…
Nobody would ever accuse The 1975 of cutting corners or resting on its laurels. The British band spent time in a whopping 15 different studios during the nearly two-year genesis of Notes On A Conditional Form. Unsurprisingly, as what happens with many creative projects, the album expanded to fit this lengthy…
History will look kindly upon the artists who dared to gift the world with unabashed dance bops during a global pandemic. So while we continue to thank the Dua Lipas, BTSes, and Lady Gagas of the industry, let us also make sure to give Tituss Burgess his proverbial flowers for his new single, “Dance M.F.” The singer…
Contracting COVID-19 already sounds terrifying on a physical level, but Will Carroll, drummer for thrash metal band Death Angel, has made it seem even metaphysically spooky, too, by telling the San Francisco Chronicle that his experience with the coronavirus involved a trip to hell.
Violin whiz and nerd icon Owen Pallett—the artist formally known as Final Fantasy—has returned with not one, but two new albums. The first, Island, is his first studio LP since 2014's In Conflict, while the second is his score to Hulu’s new Biosphere 2 documentary, Spaceship Earth.
Note: This interview contains light spoilers for Homecoming season two.
As we all know, celebrities are to be treated with a level of respect bordering on worship. They are not, no matter what the entertainment tabloids say, like us. They are wealthy and influential, beautiful and exceptional beings who live on a plane higher than us mortals can ever understand. Thus, it’s very funny to…
So many games only let me play as a human. Sure, that’s fun, but it’s not really taking full advantage of games’ ability to let us be and do anything. Maneater gets it. In Maneater, I’m not a dull person—I’m a shark. A dangerous, agile, and cool shark, free to swim anywhere and eat whatever and whoever I like. Sadly,…
Strange things can happen when you’re stuck in a house with someone. It’s a lesson people all across the world are learning right now, and it’s one Nancy Meyers already taught us way back in her 2003 romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give. Against her better judgment, brilliant but neurotic fiftysomething playwright…
Though past Loren Bouchard projects Home Movies and Bob’s Burgers harbor few similarities (beyond H. Jon Benjamin’s strong presence in each, that is), both animated comedies can boast of stellar musical moments that strayed from their typical narration style. Bouchard’s latest venture, Central Park, stretches those…
With school graduations numbering among those beloved institutions wisely but disappointingly cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic (baseball, Coachella, outside, hope and dreams), some schools are turning to high-profile celebrity guest commencement speakers for their annual dose of out-the-door uplift. With notable…
The Geist Corporation is up to no good. That’s been clear since early in season one of Homecoming, Amazon’s sharp and compelling adaptation of the Gimlet Media podcast of the same name. It was revealed fairly early on that the company was using soldiers as guinea pigs: Men and women coming back from abroad and…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23. All times are Eastern.
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Well, now we know the entertainment industry if officially topsy-turvy, because ABC just cancelled one of our favorite unofficial holidays of the year: Bloodbath Day, the near-annual event in which the network looks around at the freshman and sophomore shows lingering around on its schedule, gives a collective “Yeeeesh…
It’s to the credit of Christopher Nolan’s new brain-bending action thriller Tenet that the method of its latest trailer’s release—which required logging in to the video game Fortnite, where star John David Washington introduced it on a virtual big screen while children pelted it with plunger arrows, beach balls, and…
Way back when, there were few signs of stand-up comedy stature more obvious than an HBO special. George Carlin, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, and many more all crossed the stage at the premium network, often multiple times, and often as a sign that they were ascending from “regular star”…
How do you film a session when every member of a band is quarantining separately? Just ask The Districts, who managed to figure it out for this week’s AVC Sessions: House Show. The group—whose latest record, You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere—came together, separately for three new songs and an interview, all of which…
ESPN recently concluded its airing of The Last Dance, its multi-part documentary on Michael Jordan and his time with the Chicago Bulls from director Jason Hehir, and now it’s preparing a similar series (which is to say that it’s basically the exact same thing) about another sports icon who is extremely well-loved in…
Ken Nightingall, a veteran boom operator for dozens of films, and who achieved internet fame a few years ago after a photo surfaced of him working on the set of Star Wars, has died. Nightingall, 92, picked up the nickname “pink shorts boom guy” among fans for the famous photo, which saw him weathering the harsh…
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