To watch a modern horror movie is often to watch all the most interesting characters get killed while the boring, blank-slate protagonist goes on to save the day. If there’s one curiosity to so much of modern horror, it’s the tendency to try and connect with audiences by subbing out perspective and personality for…

Jordan Peele didn’t win Best Picture or Best Director at the Oscars this weekend, losing out instead to Guillermo Del Toro’s seventh best movie, but the Get Out mastermind was nevertheless one of the unquestionable “winners” of the evening, even if he only took home one statue. That award made him the first black…

Though he admitted that he didn’t want to risk missing out on winning Jimmy Kimmel’s Jet Ski, Jordan Peele made the most of his acceptance speech time when he won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out at tonight’s Academy Awards. Along with the usual thanks, Peele acknowledged how hard it was for him to get the film…

As part of Jimmy Kimmel’s night-long campaign to keep people from talking too damn much while accepting their awards, Lakeith Stanfield was called on to reprise his role from Get Out. Dressed in the same duds as the film, he popped out to scream the film’s title a few times, lingering on stage for a little longer…

The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are breaking down a category and giving us their picks for who …

The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who …

The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who …

Two years ago, the #OscarsSoWhite campaign sent ripples of change throughout Hollywood and forced the film industry’s ruling class to come to grips with its own lack of diversity. In response, then Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs launched an initiative to invite over 400 new, younger, and more diverse members…

For a lot of us, the Best Picture fuck-up at last year’s Oscars was a momentary and amusing blip, or even an eventual moment of relief: We were free from the tyranny of La La Land, and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight had actually won. It was less reassuring for Jenkins himself, as it turns out, who says the cloud of…

There’s been plenty of popular horror flicks over the years that reaped both critical and commercial acclaim. Rarely, however, do those movies weave themselves into the zeitgeist, affixing themselves into the general discourse that surrounds culture and horror. Even a critical darling like It Follows perseveres mostly…

Though most scripts go through a rigorous rewrite process before they ever leave the confines of the screenwriter’s computer, there are almost always changes—sometimes big, sometimes small—that are made on the fly once everybody is on set together. A new article from The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at some of the…

The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss one of last…

For the past year, as Get Out has made a ton of money and nabbed multiple major award nominations, director Jordan Peele has spent a lot of time talking about what he wants to do next. He talked about making similar horror movies about “social demons,” he considered making a Get Out sequel, and he teased that his next…

Here’s one for anybody who’s spent the last year ducking any and all popular movie conversations, so as to hide the fact that they’d somehow failed to see Get Out (or who just, you know, want to see the Oscar-nominated film again): Director Jordan Peele announced today that, in honor of his horror hit’s one-year…

We’ve already heard which 2017 movies had the best producing, directing, and acting (at least according to the producers, directors, and actors), which only leaves the most important group in all of content creation: the writers. Without those wizards of the written word, all movies and TV shows would simply be…

There’s probably nothing more nerve-racking for a horror director than seeing an audience watch their movie, since you’re looking for visceral reactions from them. Luckily, Jordan Peele hasn’t had such issues with his debut feature, Get Out, which has routinely made audiences shriek and holler with abandon. And last…

Lately, Jordan Peele has taken a step back from the fun comedy acting roles we originally knew him for in favor of making wildly successful and award-winning films—or at least a single wildly successful and award-winning film, since Get Out just came out last year. This weekend, while accepting the Best First-Time…

In what definitely seems like a good sign for how somebody’s night at the Academy Awards will go, the Directors Guild Of America announced the winners of its annual DGA Awards last night and now two filmmakers are walking away with pretty good Oscar odds. The DGA is usually a good predictor for the directing category…

Katie Rife: Well, we’ve reached the pinnacle of awards season: The 2018 Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Watching the live stream, there were two films that exceeded my admittedly cynical expectations: Get Out defied the Academy’s historical bias against genre films with four major nominations—Best…