When not aggressively branding himself as humanity’s sole gatekeeper to the universe’s cosmic wonders (or being repea…

Since breaking into Hollywood, writer/director Denis Villeneuve has been on an absolute tear. His most recent films,…

When AMC announced its new pop culture docuseries, Visionaries, at the Television Critics Association 2017 summer…

This week’s question is the result of a discussion about the 90th Academy Awards ceremony happening this weekend:

Jóhann Jóhannsson, the Oscar-nominated film composer who lent his talents to The Theory Of Everything, Mother!, and…

Last year’s Arrival managed to be the rare thought-provoking, emotionally rich sci-fi blockbuster, another stepping…

Arrival remains a rare case of a critically acclaimed, successful sci-fi movie that shirked action or horror in…

Nostalgia can make anything seem sweeter than it really was at the time, but it’s hard to argue with the assertion…

The 89th annual Academy Awards are this Sunday, and to celebrate the end of another long awards season, The A.V. Club…

“Quiet” is a relative distinction when it comes to Oscar season; Hollywood’s annual pageant of…

There’s a party line when it comes to Universal’s upcoming monster movies: Don’t worry, guys, they’ll be super…

For some—like us or, say, the Academy Awards—Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi mind-bender Arrival was one of the best films…

The producers of the recently Oscar-nominated Arrival are working on another high-stakes science-fiction story, this…

It’s not every year that a sci-fi movie gets nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, so to celebrate the…

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La La Land joins an elite club after receiving 14 Academy Awards nominations morning. Damien Chazelle’s musical…

Sometimes it’s tempting to watch a movie just to see big, expensive special effects. Michael Bay, for example, has…

The Producers Guild of America selected a familiar list of films to nominate for their top prize, the Daryl F.…

When people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, they could be referring to any number of things, from…

The scores for Arrival, Manchester By The Sea, and Silence won’t be getting Oscar nominations this year because the…