No one mentions the baby’s name right away. This makes sense: Marlo (Charlize Theron) and Drew (Ron Livingston) are on their third, from a pregnancy that may not have been entirely intentional. Their oldest child, Jonah (Asher Miles Fallica), is struggling with some special needs that have yet to be fully diagnosed.…
Jason Reitman’s new film Tully hits theaters on May 4, reuniting the director, writer Diablo Cody, and star Charlize Theron—the team who ably skewered the final moments of rotting youthful freedom with 2011's Young Adult—to try their hand at motherhood instead. Starring Theron as a struggling mom, and Halt And Catch…
Blade Runner 2049 star Mackenzie Davis has already lined up her next big sci-fi project. According to Variety, the Halt And Catch Fire alum will star in the upcoming Terminator reboot.
“We’ve got the cheat sheet to the exam. We’ve won. I don’t want to miss another opportunity.”
“With everything he’s lost, it’d be a shame if that went too.”
[No one who reads reviews before watching an episode of TV deserves a spoiler warning, but SPOILERS.]
“I don’t think you’re a game designer, I think you’re a world builder.”
“Just when I feel I’ve got my arms around it, I can’t see it any more.”
“Our whole approach, the human touch, it’s now completely and totally... ”
“I know it doesn’t feel like it now. But this is the start of something.”
If there’s a lingering criticism to be made of Halt And Catch Fire’s storytelling going into this fourth and final season, it’s that the show’s underlying schematics aren’t always gracefully integrated into the drama. I’d say it’s “programmatic,” if you’d allow a computer pun this early in the season. Still, in…
Some people just prefer certain kinds of stories. Dads love World War I tales. Our outgoing cousin only likes true crime. And Mackenzie Davis, one of the stars of AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire, is well on her way to conquering every single sci-fi universe in existence. She appeared in The Martian. She starred in the “San…
With more scripted television programs in production than ever before, it follows that there are now a wider range of opportunities for television actors. Looking back at the performances that caught The A.V. Club’s eyes in 2016 confirms that hypothesis: While some of our favorite character actors found new facets of…
Always Shine announces itself immediately as a movie about actors. It opens with a close-up of Beth (Caitlin FitzGerald) looking directly into the camera during what’s clearly an audition. In between running her lines, she’s repeatedly reminded by offscreen voices—all of them male—that this role will require extensive…
The speculative anthology Black Mirror has always been curious (and anxious) about the intersection of technology and perception, finding inspiration in the many ways the march of electronic progress blinds and binds its participants. As the British import returns to augment our reality for a third time—and first for…
The events of the last episode looked like the end of Halt And Catch Fire, partly because the prospect of watching the main characters deal with the wreckage of their personal and professional lives was almost too much to imagine. As it turns out, the final two episodes of this third season recognize that fact. Donna,…
(No rational person reads a review before watching the episode and then complains about it, but here’s your one spoiler warning for “You Are Not Safe.”)
Halt And Catch Fire became a better show when the people behind it realized that Donna and Cameron’s relationship was the heart of the series. But, as compelling and downright heartwarming as the friendship between these two women has been, it’s also complicated. Not all opposites are bound together by their…
Sometimes, an episode’s biggest virtue is what it doesn’t do. “And She Was” sets up several situations that seem headed for predictable outcomes (not to say disastrous ones) and swerves away just when you think things are going to go off the rails. Coming after the bittersweet poetics of last week’s episode, “And She…
Yerba Buena is an old name for San Francisco, something Joe MacMillan and Ryan talk about tonight while Joe looks over the city from his balcony. Ryan, in response to Joe’s musing about how many times the city has burned and been rebuilt, is energized by the thought, enthusing, “Look, that’s what makes the city so…