“Moving like the lit fuse that blazes brilliantly across the opening credits of both the original Mission: Impossible television series and its first big-screen adaptation, Fallout turns out to be a breathlessly exciting action spectacular: the blockbuster spy thriller as sustained endorphin rush. Escalation is the…
Early in the actor’s career, Parker Posey once spazzed out so much during an audition that the casting director asked her agent if she was on drugs. “I wasn’t,” Posey recounts in her memoir, “but just had a lot of energy and was excited to be there.” As it was in person, so it goes on the page. In You’re On An Airplane…
Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.
The trailer for Netflix’s reboot of Lost In Space was released earlier this morning, showing off the extensive resources the famously deep-pocketed streaming service has put into creating “dramatic and modern” CGI landscapes for the “lost planet” onto which the Robinson family crashes in the beginning of the first…
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Netflix has found the semi-sinister villain for its upcoming Lost In Space reboot, with Deadline reporting that Parker Posey has been cast in the role of saboteur-turned-shipmate Dr. Smith. Posey—who recently appeared in TBS’s Search Party, and as one of the deluded glory seekers in Christopher Guest’s Mascots—will…
Post-college existential ennui seems like an unlikely theme for a TV show. But Search Party does an excellent job of nailing that particular time in a person’s life, by using a Nancy Drew-esque mystery as an allegory. This unusual, Michael Showalter-fueled show tracks Dory (Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat, no…
When she finished making Waiting For Guffman, Parker Posey was “devastated.” After all, that was the end of her time with Corky St. Clair, Christopher Guest’s small-town theater maven. Posey was Libby Mae Brown, his devoted, gum-smacking ingenue. “I had never worked in this way that felt so real and felt like family.…
Mascots, Christopher Guest’s first mockumentary since A Mighty Wind (and first feature as a director since For Your Consideration), offers up an unwieldy cast of familiar Guest-ian buffoons: ditzes, prisses, ignoramuses, bickering couples, over-sharers oblivious to their own eccentricity. The formula is identical to …
The 1990s was an incredibly vital and exciting decade for American independent cinema. Who can forget the world-weary nihilism, the effortless cool, the ironic pop culture references, the stylistic experimentation, and the prodigious violence? Better yet, who can forget the hairdos, makeup, and fashions sported by…
One week a month, Watch This offers television recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: In honor of the return of Fox’s Wayward Pines, our favorite episodes about weird towns.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jesse Eisenberg is set to make his directorial debut with a television adaptation of his own collection of short stories, Bream Gives Me Hiccups. Eisenberg will create, write, and direct the TV comedy produced by Jax Media, the company behind current comedy gems like Inside Amy…
Like he has before with Midnight In Paris and Radio Days, in Café Society Woody Allen steps backward through time to luxuriate in an epoch that’s close to his heart. Jesse Eisenberg is this film’s Allen stand-in, playing a young romantic who relocates from New York to ’30s Los Angeles to learn about the film industry…
For a movie with an allusion to another country right there in the title, the cast of the upcoming jewel heist flick The Brits Are Coming has been looking distinctly Yankee-centric. So far, the only cast members announced for the broad comedy has been star Uma Thurman, who’s playing a British thief who’s forced to…
As we reported earlier this month, Christopher Guest has signed an agreement with Netflix to make his next mockumentary (called Mascots) for the streaming service. But we apologize for filling your head with images of Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in frog costumes, because as it turns out, they’re pretty much the…
Parker Posey is having a good year. Along with her regular appearances on Granite Flats, the indie-film veteran has appeared in starring roles in Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle and Jonathan Parker’s upcoming The Architect. And after costarring with Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone in Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man,…
According to Entertainment Weekly, Woody Allen went to such great lengths to guard the plot details of his latest, Irrational Man, he even hid all but 20 pages of the script from its co-star Parker Posey. But now the trailer is released, and that veil of secrecy can be lifted: Woody Allen has made a movie about a…
Tonight’s episode of Portlandia is simultaneously helped and hindered by the fact that amongst its guest stars, it can count such luminaries as The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and Sesame Street misanthrope Oscar the Grouch. On one hand, it’s a remarkable sign of Portlandia’s cultural cachet that it can welcome…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: It’s Love Week at The A.V. Club, so we’ve followed our hearts and lined up a slate of unconventional love stories.
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