On a recent Sunday night (June 10, to be exact), primetime viewers found themselves with multiple options for LGBTQIA+ stories: Pose, Vida, and Claws. And not only are all three on major cable networks, but they were all created by queer people.
The second season of IFC’s Brockmire took the show to new heights of debauchery, and alcohol-fueled meltdowns. The season wraps tonight with the eponymous disgraced baseball announcer going down an epic path of self-destruction. We talked to Hank Azaria and the cast of Brockmire about their expectations for season…
Hank Azaria’s Brockmire is fueled by alcohol, which led the show’s second season to New Orleans, the city that best embodies Brockmire the man. Las Vegas is only a distant second, according to Hand Azaria. He and Tyrel Jackson Williams discuss shooting Brockmire in New Orleans, the most appropriate place for the show.
Hank Azaria’s Jim Brockmire feuded with a mascot in Brockmire’s second season, which naturally led us to pose the question: What mascot would you want be? Stars Azaria and Amanda Peet, along with the show’s executive producer and writer Joel Church-Cooper, take us through the virtues of the Phillie Phanatic, Mr. Met,…
Some actors, like Daniel Day-Lewis and Gary Oldman, prefer to disappear into their roles, to so fully inhabit a character that audiences don’t even realize it’s them on screen. Others, however, are just too damn weird to do that. Someone like, say, Crispin Glover, is just too Crispin Glover to ever make us forget that…
Comedian Dave Hill has one of those vaguely familiar faces to TV watchers; maybe you recognize his hangdog expression from his small but recurring role as the Creep in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or from when he popped up as the Bookstore Man in the “Tale From The Crypt” episode of The Tick. Hill hides his face behind…
Jim Gaffigan wastes no time in his new stand-up special, Noble Ape, jumping immediately into a significant event in his personal life: Yes, he’s grown out his beard, and yes, it makes him look, in the words of his ever-present, falsetto-voiced inner critic, “like an out-of-shape Civil War general.” After a minute or…
The past year for Walton Goggins has been a busy one. He’s popped up as the villainous Vogel in the rebooted Tomb Raider film, took a roll in the upcoming Ant Man And The Wasp, and wrapped up the tragically short-lived HBO comedy Vice Principals. We sat down with Goggins recently to talk about his career, Vice…
Simon Pegg’s recent turn as a suicidal schoolteacher in Vaughn Stein’s Terminal is quite a departure from his typical roles as comic relief in action flicks or unlikely leading men in Edgar Wright films. We talked with Pegg about why he took on the dark role.
In his new film Hearts Beat Loud, Nick Offerman plays Frank, a single dad and record store owner who, in order to connect with his daughter (Dope’s Kiersey Clemons) before she goes off to college, launches a father-daughter musical act that becomes a breakout hit. At the premiere of the film, we talked to Offerman…
At this point, just two days away from the film’s wide release, the Hereditary hype train is at full steam. Our own A.A. Dowd, who saw it at Sundance, gave the film his stamp of approval, calling it “pure emotional terrorism.” It’s managed to disturb Edgar Wright, Barry Jenkins, Elijah Wood, and every A.V. Club…
In the new comedy All Square, Michael Kelly plays a bookie who befriends a former high school classmate’s son and starts taking bets on his little league games. At the premiere of the film, we asked Kelly and his co-stars—Yeardley Smith, Tom Everett Scott, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.—if they’d make bets on the ending of…
Cloak & Dagger, the latest television offering to be set in the Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (although the relationship between Marvel’s films and television shows is tenuous at best), premieres this Thursday, and early reviews are promising. The series follows Tyrone “Cloak” Johnson (The Night Of’s Aubrey Joseph) and…
Earlier this year, Reggie Watts brought his adaptation of the British game show Taskmaster to Comedy Central. As the titular figure, Watts challenges celebrity contestants—the first season starred Lisa Lampanelli, Freddie Highmore, Ron Funches, Dillon Francis, and Kate Berlant—to perform simple but bizarre tasks in…
Haifaa al-Mansour’s new film, Mary Shelley, tells the story of the world-famous novelist when she was know as Mary Godwin. Starring Elle Fanning as the titular author, the film begins when Godwin is just 18, and follows the events in her life that inspired her to write Frankenstein, jump-starting the science fiction…
Based on a true story, American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) who plot to steal millions from Transylvania University in an ill-conceived attempt at rebelling against their suburban upbringings. At the…
The U.S. government currently classifies marijuana as a “Schedule 1” drug, or a “drug with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” which makes researching the benefits of cannabis in the U.S. incredibly difficult. As a result, patients may have trouble getting information from their doctors…
Based on a true story, Bart Layton’s American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) who make an ill-conceived attempt to steal millions from Transylvania University, preoccupied with their value in the world and…
Based on a true story, Bart Layton’s American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson) who plot to steal millions from Transylvania University in an ill-conceived attempt at rebelling against their suburban upbringings. At…
Director Susanna White’s new film, Woman Walks Ahead, follows the relationship between famed warrior and holy man Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes) and his confidant and portrait painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain). Set in the late 19th century, Woman Walks Ahead uses the dispossession of the Lakota people’s…