To put it lightly, Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty isn’t getting great reviews. It currently sits at 33 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and its Big-esque plot—which involves Schumer’s character getting bopped on the head and subsequently believing she’s a supermodel with rock-hard abs—is getting skewered for its tone-deaf…
The Roxie Theater is going to the dogs this month, as Mashable reports the San Francisco establishment will open its doors to our beloved canines for a screening of Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs.
It’s the day before the Oscars, which means it’s time for Hollywood to take its traditionally smaller, cooler trial run for the big night, in the form of the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. Presented by non-profit Film Independent, and voted on by independent filmmakers, the show was broadcast today on IFC,…
Look, everybody knows at this point that you haven’t really made it until you’ve got one of those fancy cinematic universes, filled to the brim with cameos and after-credit scenes and wiki pages keeping meticulous track of the status of Samuel L. Jackson’s eye patch. So who can blame Greta Gerwig—currently nominated…
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 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 number two on…
Thanks in great part to co-host Tiffany Haddish, today’s Oscar nomination announcements were a lively affair despite having kicked off before the end of most nominees’ REM cycles. But once these actors and auteurs did wake up, they were greeted with some of the best news.
This year’s Oscar nominations are announced on January 23, 2018. In anticipation of the conventional wisdom the Academy will likely uphold, we’re highlighting unlikely candidates—the dark horses we’d love to see compete on Oscar night.
“And here are the all male nominees,” is how Natalie Portman pointedly chose to introduce the total sausage party of a Best Director lineup at this Sunday’s Golden Globes. It was one of the most memorable moments of an evening whose unofficial theme was Hollywood’s ongoing reckoning with its legacy of sexism, abuse,…
Greta Gerwig drew some criticism for deflecting a question about Woody Allen at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, which is bad optics, to be sure. But in her defense, it’s probably difficult to make a thoughtful statement about a serious issue in the overwhelming environment that is backstage at an awards show. And…
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is quietly taking over the box office (in a way), but it’s also definitely taking over Rotten Tomatoes thanks to its 164 or so positive reviews. If that number seems oddly specific, that’s because it’s literally how many good reviews Lady Bird has on the site, breaking a record formerly held…
While promoting her poignant portrait of adolescence, Lady Bird, writer-director Greta Gerwig dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to talk about the making of her movie. She had a strict, no-cellphone rule on set, and she encouraged people to wear name tags so that cast and crew could get to know each other.
Faced with an increasingly dispiriting reality, Americans chose to spend their weekend laughing at the funny, hunky god-man and his angry green friend in Taika Waititi’s colorful, irreverent Thor: Ragnarok. Forsooth, the 17th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed a massive No. 1 opening, grossing $121 million…
In her solo directorial debut Lady Bird, mumblecore pioneer Greta Gerwig delivers a coming-of-age story that soars above its peers. Brooklyn’s Saoirse Ronan stars as the eponymous Lady Bird, a rebellious teen who’s itching to get out of Sacramento, a city she mocks as the “Midwest of California” (ouch, we say from our…
Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming-of-age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché. Greta Gerwig, the one-time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet…
Every time I watch Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha (at this point, the number has to have climbed into double digits), I become more convinced that it’s one of the great comedies of the 21st century, not to mention one of the great films, period, about postgraduate life. Suddenly, I’m now also convinced that calling it…
Wes Anderson is doling out some key information about his next, canine-themed film. Though we had previously learned that it was going to be a stop-motion project about dogs starring the likes of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and (who else?) Bill Murray, now we have an official title and an extended cast list. In a…
20th Century Women proves that Mike Mills is the real deal, that his previous success story was not a fluke but the announcement of an exciting new voice. Mills, who used to direct music videos and design album covers, broke into filmmaking with Thumbsucker, a terminally twee indie comedy, based on a novel but…
The first trailer has been released for 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film from writer-director Mike Mills (Beginners) set in Santa Barbara in 1979. Jimmy Carter’s famous “crisis of confidence” speech plays over a smattering of bright footage from the film, which stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig,…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
