Our first extended look at Pacific Rim: Uprising made it clear that the great kaiju-yaeger battle is far from over, and that the Pentecost family (repped here by John Boyega as Jake) is still on the frontlines. The second trailer throws some new adversaries in the mix, which are, reliably enough, also some big-ass…
Yesterday, The New York Times published the accounts of five women who say Louis CK either asked to masturbate in front of them or forced them to watch him masturbate. The bombshell report was the reason for the cancellation of the New York premiere of CK’s I Love You, Daddy, which is a movie about a middle-aged TV…
Season finales have never really been It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s strongest outings. The perceived need for a big finish tends to elevate plot over character, and the busyness, as a rule, distracts from the joy of watching the characters do deep dives into their collective and individual madness. “Dennis’…
There once was a man named Matthew Mara. But now there is only Rickety Cricket. The moniker—like the innumerable disfiguring injuries and debilitating humiliations that have transformed him into the homeless, drug addicted creature we see here—was inflicted upon Matthew by a quintet of infinitely thoughtless assholes.…
Season 12 has seen It’s Always Sunny stretch itself. And while the show’s stylistic ambitions have been mostly successful (sometimes transcendently so), “The Gang Tends Bar” shows that there are still tremendous rewards to be reaped from simply going back to the basics. Written by Megan Ganz, the episode shows that an…
The worst part of any celebrity’s press day is when they have to enter the Hot Ones arena. Now in its third season, the show with hot questions and even hotter wings has become a staple for First We Feast, and its host, Sean Evans, has endured a 10-wing gauntlet of increasingly spicier chicken wings each week. In…
No matter how many fucks and meth jokes you put in them, they’re still lame—those schmaltzy, nugget-of-non-wisdom life-lesson arcs that middling studio comedies force audiences to endure in exchange for whatever laughs were already in the trailer. Did anyone buy a ticket to Central Intelligence, Office Christmas Party…
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is such a finely calibrated comedy engine that, when it goes wrong, you can just hear the mismatched, ill-assembled parts clunking like actual monkey wrenches. “PTSDee” has some laughs, and a lot of pieces that should be pleasing to fans, but, in operation, the episode jerks…
The five main characters of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia are often described as “the worst people in the world.” And, sure, they pretty much are. Scanning around their Paddy’s Pub HQ most weeks, one can hear the ghostly echoes of Ben Kenobi’s pronouncement about Mos Eisley as “a wretched hive of scum and…
As It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has gone on, the Gang’s insanity has picked up layers. While the show was birthed remarkably itself, the show’s conception as a disreputable hangout comedy has gone deeper, broader, and darker, while valiantly staying on-mission watching what happens when five of the most…
An episode of callbacks, cameos, and score-settling, “Wolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare” nonetheless finds freshness in the Gang’s jangling hang-ups and obsessions. Frank, happily starting his morning off with a pistol and a sandwich baggie of cocaine (“Yeah, we just didn’t wanna interrupt your morning routine,”…
There’s been a lot of talk going into this season about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia tying Ozzie & Harriet for the longest-running live action TV comedy in history (once it finishes its already-booked 14th season). Some call foul, since Sunny only does 10 or so episodes a season, but, as tonight’s episode, “Old…
After the ambitious, mostly masterful musical spectacle that was last week’s season 12 premiere, this week, the Gang fucks around in a water park. And it’s, in its own way, just as successful, a low-stakes goof-around that allows all five members of the cast to do what they do best—make us laugh like brat kids…
In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. The reasons for their picks might differ, but they can all agree that each episode is a must-watch. In this installment: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the first 11 seasons of which…
Comedy on It’s Alway Sunny In Philadelphia is filtered through so many layers that adding one more for an episode is exponentially more challenging, for the creators and for us viewers. A hangout comedy where the people hanging out are collectively and individually the worst people in the world makes for humor that,…
FXX renewed It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia for two more seasons last spring, which will make the show the longest-running live-action comedy series (in a tie with The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet) ever. With season 12 in production, this raises the question of just what executive producers Rob McElhenney, Glenn…
Some movies are governed by such a potent premise that their logline titles tell you everything you need to know. Runaway Train. Castaway. Maniac Cop. Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Samuel Jackson is rumored to have signed on to Snakes On A Plane after hearing the title (that’s actually not true).
During the opening five or 10 minutes of The Hollars, three different tasteful acoustic-guitar songs play on the soundtrack. Or maybe it’s the same song, played three times; it’s hard to tell, and the Josh Ritter score only confuses matters further. John Krasinski’s second feature has such a milquetoast,…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie or TV show coming out that week. This week: In honor of the Olympics, and the Olympic-themed episode of NBC’s Superstore, we’re revisiting our favorite episodes about intra-office competition.
We start out in the same place, the episode intro ominously labeling the setting and time as “unknown,” the Gang back in that white room in their white robes, and everyone doing their best to rationalize why they shouldn’t be judged to harshly for, it seems, sinking an entire ocean liner. With signature lack of focus,…