Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Catch a parent, any parent, in the right/wrong mood, and they’ll cop to a dirty secret: There are days when their kids drive them completely fucking insane. Like, foaming-at-the-mouth crazy. Like, I’ll-turn-this-car-around-and-then-maybe-steer-it-into-oncoming-traffic bonkers. Brian Taylor’s Mom And Dad takes one of…

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. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…

“You put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you do the hokey pokey and you—FUCK!” For the diehard Nicolas Cage fan, that particular bit of dialogue—accompanied by Cage swinging a sledgehammer and screaming—is all the incentive you need to watch Mom And Dad. For the skeptical, here’s some backstory: Cage…

Earlier this year, Nicolas Cage signed on to star in Mom And Dad, a very Nicolas Cage-y movie about a mysterious mass hysteria that compels a mother and father to try and murder their children. Naturally, Cage is set to play the killer dad, and now Variety is reporting that Selma Blair will join him as the murderous…