Welcome to Stream And Stream Again, a monthly column highlighting films (and the occasional TV series) new to streaming catalogs that are of special interest to The A.V. Club’s staff—and hopefully to you, our readers. Here are five new titles streaming this August.
Earlier this year—and, really, for no particular reason or pending lawsuits whatsoever—Casey Affleck announced that he’d be forgoing his expected duties at this year’s Oscars, skipping the job of handing out Best Actress to the winner of the class of 2018. (Traditionally, the best acting awards are presented by the…
We’ve gone too easy on celebrities. For long enough our media has been content only to watch their every move, photographing them unaware as they live out their private lives and reporting endlessly on their relationships. Getting more from these mysterious creatures can be difficult, but, as everyone knows, offering…
Yesterday, Red Sparrow star Jennifer Lawrence’s interview with Marc Maron on Maron’s WTF podcast caused waves on Twitter thanks to this revelation: She turned off Phantom Thread after three minutes.“I got through about three minutes of it,” she said. “I put in a good, solid three. Oh my god, I couldn’t.” Maron went…
Earlier today, Patton Oswalt offered some breathless hype for a segment on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show from backstage, saying it was “incredible” and that he was “stunned” by it. After some very basic detective work, everybody figured out he was referring to Colbert’s interview with Jennifer Lawrence, who was there to…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Lawrence has revealed—apparently by accident—that she’s developing some kind of documentary series “inspired by #MeToo, Time’s Up, and gender wage conversations in Hollywood.” She’s reportedly set to produce this with Catt Sadler, the former E! News anchor who left her job…
This week, in an attempt to get a sexual misconduct class action lawsuit against him thrown out, disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein filed some court documents in which he tried to undercut the claims of his accusers by quoting positive things that Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep had said about him.…
In the midst of promoting her latest film, Jennifer Lawrence says she’s taking a break from acting to work on political engagement with the young folks.
“You must inure yourself to what you find repellent,” intones Charlotte Rampling, playing the unnamed stoic headmistress of what another character in Red Sparrow describes as “whore school.” Her lesson plans must look bonkers; many of them seem to involve forced sexual encounters, sometimes conducted from the front of…
According to Variety, Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to star in Burial Rites, a new film from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. The movie is based on Hannah Kent’s 2013 novel of the same name, which Variety says is about Agnes Magnusdottir, “the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland in 1830.”…
Ever since Daddy humiliated him in front of all of his classmates, Donald Trump Jr. has sought to ooze his way back into his father’s good graces in whatever way possible. That includes inviting the Russian government to meddle in the presidential election, proving his manhood by pensively chopping down trees, and…
Sad news for people anxiously awaiting a polarizing follow-up to one of the most baffling movies of the year—People reports Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky have split up after one year of dating. The Oscar winner and Oscar nominee, respectively, met while working on Mother!, which if, as has been suggested, is…
This article reveals major plot points of the movie Mother!
Marvel is really dragging its feet on giving Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow her own movie, so 20th Century Fox and director Francis Lawrence have decided to just beat Marvel to it with Red Sparrow. This trailer doesn’t offer a ton of information about the film, but what’s here is so reminiscent of Marvel’s super spy…
Darren Aronofsky’s preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning—a curious mix of deep-think and makeup effects that goes back to his black-and-white debut feature, Pi—grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self-destruction, its only prophets…
Unfortunately for Jennifer Lawrence, she’s going to fall just short of pulling off the coveted Forbes hat trick, as her two-year streak of being the highest-paid actress has been ended by surprise contender Emma Stone. Mostly thanks to the success of La La Land and an uncredited cameo in Popstar: Never Stop Stopping, …
The full trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s new movie Mother!, dropped in the dead of night by Paramount, manifests whispered insinuations from its teaser, showing visuals to accompany snippets of dialogue edited into that previous promo. That means we get to see Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer as the mystery couple who…
Not a whole lot actually happens in the teaser trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! that Paramount uploaded onto YouTube yesterday, but anyone who’s seen Repulsion can tell you that there’s plenty of horror to be gleaned from a woman trapped in an empty house. And besides, the horror here is all in the audio, which…
Back in the day, superhero movies were such a hard sell that studios felt compelled to make them relatively “grounded,” usually by ignoring weirder aspects of a character’s origin or costume. But they’re are so common now that Fox is actually preparing to introduce the Shi’ar in the next X-Men movie. For those who…
The plot of Mother!, the upcoming Darren Aronofsky movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, is still largely unknown, but over the weekend, the project got a gorgeous yet supremely creepy poster. Released on Mother’s Day, the illustration shows Lawrence with a glazed expression and her heart ripped from her body. She holds…
