The 90th Academy Awards are coming up Sunday, March 4th and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who …
Rob Reiner’s LBJ hides Woody Harrelson under prosthetics and make-up. The result looks terrible, like a fish-lipped Dick Tracy villain with an elephant’s ears. Is this really supposed to be Lyndon B. Johnson, the guru of Senate politics who misread the first modern primary? The president who created the largest array…
During the opening five or 10 minutes of The Hollars, three different tasteful acoustic-guitar songs play on the soundtrack. Or maybe it’s the same song, played three times; it’s hard to tell, and the Josh Ritter score only confuses matters further. John Krasinski’s second feature has such a milquetoast,…
John Krasinski’s pulling double duty in The Hollars, a family dramedy in which he’s lucky enough to be related to Richard Jenkins and beloved character actress Margo Martindale. And while he may be Sharlto Copley’s younger brother in the movie, he’s definitely a lot taller than him and Charlie Day, who seemingly plays…
In what sounds like—but, blessedly, is not—the setup for the world’s worst piece of slash fiction, actor Michael Shannon and director Guillermo Del Toro are teaming up to make a romantic movie. Variety is reporting that the two are getting in bed with each other—sorry—for a supernatural romance that might be titled …
S. Craig Zahler’s horror-Western hybrid Bone Tomahawk is a strange movie, one that might take more than one watch to fully understand. Not that it’s deliberately obscure, or has a plot too complicated to follow the first time around. It’s actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric…
Rob Reiner’s LBJ film cast Woody Harrelson as the 36th president early on, then quickly added Richard Jenkins as his adversary and former fictional president Bill Pullman as a liberal Democrat senator. But the story of Johnson’s first year in the presidency couldn’t be told without an appearance from Jackie Kennedy—…
Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Rob Reiner’s LBJ, a film chronicling Lyndon B. Johnson’s transition to becoming the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jenkins will play southern senator Richard Russell, a former ally of Johnson (played by Woody Harrelson) who becomes…
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Lullaby introduces Jonathan (Garrett Hedlund) smoking cigarettes in places he’s not supposed to (airplane bathroom, hospital lobby) and addressing anyone who asks him to stop by reading off of their nametag with maximum condescension. Thus begins the movie-long wait for any sign that Jonathan is more than a…
Adding to a surprisingly busy day for both John Krasinski and Anna Kendrick news, John Krasinski will direct and star in The Hollars, an upcoming dysfunctional family drama, alongside Anna Kendrick. He’ll play John Hollar, a New York artist who takes his girlfriend (Kendrick) back to his small American hometown on the…