Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and Christmasâthose few weeks annually and unofficially designated as âawards season.â But while the major studios and their indie subsidiaries do tend to hold their big prestige titles until at least earlyâŚ
Considering Wes Anderson is a fairly tight-lipped director, most fans have chosen to view him as, well, a Wes Anderson character: Dry and fastidious, with excellent taste in music. It came as something of a surprise, then, when the filmmaker behind The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and the new Isle OfâŚ
In addition to being an expert tattoo rater and horny tweet reader, Jeff Goldblum is also recognized for his decade-spanning career as an actor. From brief appearances in films like Annie Hall to starring roles in the Jurassic Park franchise, Goldblum has been lucky enough to work with some of the biggest names inâŚ
Wakanda is forever, but Black Pantherâs reign atop the U.S. box office had to end some time. After a more than respectable five-week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash-âem-upâŚ
âIsle Of Dogs may strand mangy, sickly pooches on a floating garbage dump, even putting their furry hides in danger for the sake of a dark joke or two, but the apparent cruelty masks a deeper affectionâa belief in the pure, undying loyalty of the species, around which this deceptively dog-averse filmmaker builds aâŚ
On todayâs episode of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the delightful Isle Of Dogs, Wes Andersonâs second foray into stop-motion after 2009âs Fantastic Mr. Fox. Set off the coast of the fictional Japanese metropolis Megasaki, Dogs imagines a dystopianâŚ
We still have questions about the logistics of the dog-friendly screenings for Wes Andersonâs new film Isle Of Dogs that have been taking place across the U.S. this weekâDo the dogs bark when they see the other dogs on screen? Can dogs even eat popcorn? (Yes, according to the American Kennel Club)âbut as long as theyâŚ
Dogs do not have it easy in the bright, glorious dollhouse worlds of Wes Anderson. Think of Buckley, beloved beagle of the youngest Tenenbaums, run down in the prime of his life. Or poor Snoopy, impaled casualty of the boy-scouts war raging across a woodland moonrise kingdom. (Whoâs to say if he was a good dog, but heâŚ
At this point, Bill Murray canât really do anything that would surprise us. The public has become so accustomed to his idiosyncratic behavior that anytime he acts kind of crazy or pulls some stunt, we just shrug and say, âWell, thatâs Bill.â So, it was really no surprise to hear that, while participating in the IsleâŚ
Wes Anderson is headed back to stop-motion with his latest animated wonder, Isle Of Dogs, set to hit theaters on March 28. Andersonâs intricately choreographed follow-up to 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the film tells the story of a young boy (Koyu Rankin) who travels to the canine island in order to recover hisâŚ
We saw a trailer for Wes Andersonâs Isle Of Dogs way back in September, but for anyone looking to get to know these stop-motion animals a little bit better, Entertainment Weekly has shared a clip of the movieâs stars talking about their characters as their characters. In other words, the video has Bill Murray voicingâŚ
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 Andersonâs Isle Of Dogs.
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. Howâs a voracious moviegoer to keep up? Thatâs where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of everyâŚ
Thereâs a running theme of bad things happening to dogs in the films of Wes Andersonâwhether theyâre getting killed by a strung-out Owen Wilson, drugged with blueberries, or shot with an arrowâbut the violence is rarely dog-on-dog. Hence a slightly shocking moment of violence in the latest clip from the directorâsâŚ
The upcoming Isle Of Dogs looks wonderful, with a post-apocalyptic world full of garbage, dogs, and celebrated character actors offering wry asides over â60s British Invasion B-sides, presumably. Itâs also, for director Wes Anderson, a return to the stop-motion animation style of his 2009 sleeper classic Fantastic Mr.âŚ
Last night, Wes Anderson released a lovely little teaser trailer for his upcoming return to stop-motion animation, Isle Of Dogs, almost single-handedly justifying the odious âteaser trailerâ concept in the process. Now, the full-length trailer has arrived, and it suggests this old director has learned some new tricks.
Over the last few years, weâve come to roll our eyes, with good reason, as the âteaser for the trailerâ trend, in which marketers attempt to build anticipation for the thing designed to build anticipation for a major film. That being said, most teases donât feature intricate stop-motion animation or gorgeousâŚ
Dust off your â60s rock records and prepare to frame your compositions directly in the center of the shot: The countdown to the next Wes Anderson film has begun. Anderson started filming on his latest feature, the stop-motion animated film Isle Of Dogs, back in December, announcing a cast that includes Bryan Cranston,âŚ
A day after we learned the official title for Wes Andersonâs upcoming animated film, Variety reports that itâs set debut in 2018. Fox Searchlight has picked up the rights to the movie for which Anderson has enlisted an absurdly stacked voice cast that includes Bill Murray, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Courtney B.âŚ
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 aâŚ
