Wil Wheaton is part of a select group of people who managed to emerge from childhood stardom relatively unscathed. After starring in films like Stand By Me and going through his awkward teen years on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wheaton managed to continue having personal and professional success by…
Note: This post contains light plot points for season two of Stranger Things.
Saying goodbye is rarely easy, especially when you’re saying goodbye to someone you really care deeply about. In fact, having meaningful relationships with people in general isn’t very easy, but thankfully we can always count on movies to distract us from real life. Of course, watching someone say goodbye in a movie…
Adapted from the nostalgic, bittersweet Stephen King novella The Body, director Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me has one of the more memorable tear-jerking endings of the 1980s. After completing their quest to see a dead body, four boys return to their own sleepy home town and their own separate lives. One of those boys,…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a current director who has helmed as many beloved movies as Rob Reiner. He was born into show business; his dad Carl Reiner was an early creator on The Dick Van Dyke Show and a comedy partner of Mel Brooks. The younger Reiner eagerly dove into the family business, with improv troupes and…
Kids swear a lot. And they have few qualms about using insulting and derogatory terms when addressing one another, especially when adults are out of earshot. These are just facts of childhood. But whether kids are actually allowed to use that kind of rough language in movies and television is another matter entirely.…
In an effort to both serve our readers and help support The A.V. Club, we are going to post daily links to deals and interesting items that we find over on Amazon. If you use these links to click through and buy something—not just the thing you clicked—on Amazon, we will see a portion of that income. You don’t have to…
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.
Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a pleasant pause in the action, and sometimes it’s pea soup from hell on the face of a priest. Food Fiction is an ongoing feature that looks at some of the most memorable foods in the history of storytelling.
When Samuel Beckett said that “every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness,” it’s doubtful he was referring specifically to movie posters. Still, the internet has decided that plenty of posters look even better without all those pesky titles, names, and credits getting in the way of the artwork.…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With the fall movie season upon us, we wave goodbye to the warmer months with some of our favorite films about the end of summer.
American actor William Bronder has died at the age of 84. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bronder died on May 6th at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Legendary soul singer Ben E. King has died at the age of 76. Though he’s best known for his solo 1961 hit “Stand By Me,” King—then going by Ben E. Nelson—got his first break in the late ’50s with The Drifters. Together, the group released genre-defining tracks like “There Goes My Baby” and “Save The Last Dance For…
