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The season finale of Westworld airs tonight on HBO, but star Evan Rachel Wood is doing something more important than promoting her work this weekend. Evidently appalled by the inhuman bullshit Donald Trump and his goons are doing down at the United States’ southern border, Wood has hopped on a plane and flown down to…
“Did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? The price you’d have to pay if there was a reckoning? ...That reckoning is here.” With these words from Evan Rachel Woods’ Dolores, the action begins in what’s easily the darkest Westworld trailer yet.
In a group effort yesterday, the cast of Westworld dropped a bunch of hints on Twitter that led to the unveiling of a new poster for the upcoming season. The digital promo introduced us to the robo-vulture of the future, which is found in its natural state of standing next to bloody black hats.
The long wait for more Westworld is nearly over—season two is scheduled to premiere on April 22, when we’ll learn what the next steps are in the robo-revolution. Entertainment Weekly spoke with the cast and producers about what’s on the horizon for Dolores, Teddy, and yes, the Man In Black, in what co-showrunner…
In their new film, Allure, Evan Rachel Wood and Julia Sarah Stone play the troubled 30-year-old Laura and the impressionable 16-year-old Eva, respectively. The pair of young women find each other while trying to escape—Eva from her uptight mother, and Laura from her abusive father. Unfortunately, the women’s…
In her new film Allure, Evan Rachel Wood plays the troubled, slightly unlikable Laura, a 30-year-old housekeeper who takes advantage of the impressionable 16-year-old Eva (Julia Sarah Stone), who is trying to escape her uptight mother. Laura convinces Eva to flee and come live with her, but their relationship turns…
In their new film, Allure, Evan Rachel Wood and Julia Sarah Stone play the troubled 30-year-old Laura and the impressionable 16-year-old Eva, respectively. The pair of young women find each other while trying to escape—Eva from her uptight mother, and Laura from her abusive father. Unfortunately, the women’s…
The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. Today we’re looking at the nominees for…
At the conclusion of an other wise pretty uneventful panel at Comic-Con, HBO unveiled a new teaser for the second season of its hit series Westworld. As you might expect from the show that launched a thousand fan theories, “tease” is the right word for it—although its lack of substance could also be because filming…
I’m met at the San Diego airport by Erin, who works for Zimmerman Group. It’s the PR company behind a weekend-long journey I’m taking to the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego. Ask the average A.V. Club reader what kind of person stays in a Hard Rock Hotel, and the answer would probably be “a dork.” Still, both Erin and her…
While it took more than 40 years for the 1973 science-fiction film Westworld to become an HBO series, it didn’t have to be that way. Other downbeat sci-fi movies of that era, including Logan’s Run and Planet Of The Apes, got TV adaptations way sooner than that. Now, righting a historical wrong, artist and animator Tom…
Though it seems fairly safe to say that the cast members of Westworld aren’t actually robots, it turns out they can lip sync with shocking precision. So much so, in fact, that the Dubsmash app rounded up their best lip-syncing antics into one compilation. The nearly four-minute video shows off some truly impressive…
This interview features a discussion of plot points that occurred in episode five of Westworld.
The late Michael Crichton was as cunning as the fictional mad men he occasionally chronicled. In the early ’70s, the Andromeda Strain author accepted a paltry budget and a tight schedule to direct his screenplay about catastrophic breakdowns at a high-tech vacation spot. Westworld made back that meager investment and…
HBO subscribers are probably as excited for the upcoming Westworld series as they are sick of seeing the same damn trailer for the upcoming Westworld series. Fortunately, a fresh trailer has just been released, titled “Dreams.” Also featuring Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, whose life in a Western frontier town…
Sexy Naked Renegade Robot Cowboys is kind of a mouthful, which probably explains why HBO decided to stick with the title of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie upon which its new series Westworld is based. And while that title isn’t quite as explanatory, it’s still pretty evocative of the universe this “mature version”of…
With so many TV networks and streaming services now available, time is at a premium even within the two full weeks of the Television Critics Association conference. So even a juggernaut like HBO only commandeers a single Saturday morning at the TCAs, and was limited to five particular shows.
What would become of American society if the power were to go out permanently nationwide? Odds are we’d be looking at a fairly apocalyptic scenario—something like The Stand, perhaps, except with most people killed by a battle for dwindling resources rather than by a superflu. The new drama Into The Forest, however,…
Here’s the first official trailer for Into The Forest, a Canadian film starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters fighting to survive at the end of the world. Written and directed by Patricia Rozema, Into The Forest is an adaptation of Jean Hegland’s novel of the same title. The trailer lacks the usual…
