Oprah Winfrey, cerebral cortex bulging with barely contained power, has always been gifted in the art of controlling others’ emotions. Over and over in the years she hosted her daytime talkshow, a current would run through the air and just beneath her pleasant smile or understanding expression, something was…

Thanks to the obsession with blockbusters that has preoccupied major studios for the past 40 years or so, there have been many weekends where two heavily promoted tentpole films—sometimes even from the same studio—have occupied the top two slots at the domestic box office. This past weekend, though, marked the first…

A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club, this time discussing A Wrinkle In Time, the latest adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved YA novel. Directed by Selma and 13th’s Ava DuVernay, A Wrinkle In Time is ambitious and well-intentioned, but…

In Matt Groening’s old Life In Hell comic strip, he refers to high school as “the second-deepest pit in hell.” The deepest pit, he clarifies, is junior high school. This feels true; the confusion and awkwardness of the transition from tween to teen is at least as potent as the transition from teen to adult. Yet there…

So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…

We’re less than a month from the arrival of Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time, the Selma director’s Disney adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved young adult novel. DuVernay’s film—the first Hollywood movie with a plus-$100 million budget ever to be directed by a woman of color—has already drawn a lot of positive…

Eight years after the release of her last album, 2010's Soldier Of Love, Sade has stepped out of her latest hiatus to write a song for the soundtrack of Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time adaptation. DuVernay announced the news on Twitter, saying the song is called “Flower Of The Universe” and that working with Sade—who…

Wes Anderson returns to stop-motion. Claire Denis goes to space. Joaquin Phoenix gets immobile and intimidating, not necessarily in that order. When sitting down to compose a list of the year’s most enticing upcoming releases, The A.V. Club tried to keep it to a manageable 25 titles, we really did. But then we started…

Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time has already amassed a huge (and top-notch) cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Chris Pine will play the scientist parents of Meg Murry (newcomer Storm Reid), who sets off in search of her father when he goes missing. Along the way, she meets three cosmic beings—Mrs. Who, Mrs.…

It’s easy to forget just how thoroughly Disney has monopolized the blockbuster movie industry, but that fact becomes very clear when the studio decides to announce release dates for multiple huge movies all at once. This comes via Variety, which reports that Disney has just announced the premiere dates for Star Wars:…

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Michael Peña, who stole scenes during his turn as Scott Lang’s fellow thief pal Luis in the first Ant-Man movie, will have another chance to run away with the plot in Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. According to the official Wrinkle In Time Twitter account, Peña has been cast as Red, and it’s pretty…

Ava DuVernay continues to line up big-name adult ringers to complement the relatively unknown teen cast of her upcoming film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Selma director is in talks to add Zach Galifianakis to the ranks of the 2018 Disney film, whose cast already includes …

The adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time has zipped through casting. The Ava DuVernay-directed film snagged its lead back in July, when Storm Reid boarded the classic sci-fi tale as Meg Murry, the awkward-but-average girl at the center of all the space-time travel. Earlier this week, Gugu Mbatha-Raw…

Starting today, you can watch Gugu Mbatha-Raw break your heart in the surprisingly lovely Black Mirror episode “San Junipero.” And soon, she’ll help bring your childhood to life in Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. DuVernay announced on Twitter yesterday that Mbatha-Raw would be playing Dr. Murry, the…

After taking care to first secure the key roles of its three galaxy-spanning witches—in the form of Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling—Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time has finally cast its primary lead. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DuVernay has selected 13-year-old actress Storm Reid to play …

Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time may have locked down its three “witches,” with Variety reporting that Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are both in talks for the galaxy-spanning Disney film. Kaling will reportedly play Mrs. Who, offering guidance to Madeleine L’Engle’s time-tossed, tesseractin’ protagonists in the…

As we reported earlier this year, Selma’s Ava DuVernay is set to direct Disney’s film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time, which will star Oprah Winfrey. And according to the LA Times, DuVernay’s new gig marks a major milestone: She will become the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a nine-figure…