Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Actor Josh Brolin, 50, has peed his pants.
Sean O’Neal: This week, yet another movie-based personality quiz overtook Twitter—specifically, Film Twitter, that loosely defined consortium of critics, industry types, and eager film buffs united by their love of movies and making others feel bad about the movies they love. The “FilmStruck4” challenge was issued by …
The new Deadpool 2 trailer has given fans plenty to talk about. There’s the unveiling of Josh Brolin as the metal-armed, gun-toting Cable, Deadpool’s not-so-subtle jab at Henry Cavill’s poorly edited mustache, and 16-year-old Julian Dennison flipping a double birdie. But the real centerpiece is the shot above, which…
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.
If you watch a certain breed of movie from the mid-’80s through the mid’-’90s, you’ll notice a lot of sequences focused on people sliding down mountains, water slides, even mud slides, in films from Romancing The Stone to The Goonies. A new Fandor video opines that there’s a very specific reason for that, and points…
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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.…
There are probably a lot of people out there who mistakenly think that they’re excited for a potential sequel to The Goonies. These wide-eyed, gentle souls genuinely believe that if Warner Bros. can just get the full cast and creative team back together again, they’ll rekindle the magic of that beloved—albeit…
Crash Test Dummies’ 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was an anomaly even by the forgiving standards of that musically adventurous era. The verses are about sad misfit kids, two with physical abnormalities (prematurely white hair, prolific birthmarks) and one poor boy whose parents are strict Holy Rollers. Bummer. The chorus…
As a kid, one of the most fun aspects of pretending you were Superman, or the X-Men, or any other adventurer or hero, wasn’t actually building your fort, or running around fighting crime: It was drawing up the plans. Whether you were making your own version of a Home Alone-style booby-trapped residence, or outlining…
Because the idea of forcing real children to crawl over the decaying skeletons of long-dead men has timeless appeal, the director of The Goonies has decided to take the experience of watching the film to the next level. According to a new interview with Yahoo! Movies, Richard Donner is helping turn the beloved ’80s…
Imagine buying a house, fixing it up, investing money, time, and love into it, only for the city of Astoria, Oregon to encourage hundreds of thousands of people to stand in front of it. That’s almost exactly what a sign near the house featured in The Goonies says after its current owner got fed up with people showing…
Sloth love Chunk, and getting the high score on a brand new pinball machine. Mike Johnson from Orlando, FL, has produced a custom pinball game dedicated to the 1985 Richard Donner film, The Goonies. Apparently there had never been a pinball machine dedicated to the misadventures of Corey Feldman before, so Johnson…
It’s been 30 years since Mikey and the gang saved the Goondocks thanks to stolen pirate treasure in Richard Donner’s The Goonies. Since then there has been endless speculation about a sequel or a possible musical adaptation of that film. But now comes the perfect way to honor the ’80s classic: by setting a remix of…
Pulling from an impressive assortment of films from all manner of decades, Charles Muzard has created a music video for Action Bronson’s song “The Rising” from the album Mr. Wonderful. The clips derive from such diverse movies as the original Nosferatu, Road House, The Goonies, The Godfather, Blue Chips, Tropic Thunder…
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River hasn’t exactly drawn widespread critical praise. It was mostly dismissed by critics at its Cannes premiere, and upon its limited theatrical release, The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd said the film is a mere collage of Gosling’s influences with little to say to viewers. But maybe the…
Not everyone Hollywood is lucky enough to lock down a career as a big name leading man or woman. For every Will Smith or Meryl Streep there are hundreds of actors grinding it out year after year in roles like the quirky neighbor, the zany best friend, the motivational teacher, or the pain-in-the butt arch-nemesis.…
In April, a TMZ reporter prodded The Goonies director Richard Donner with questions about a possible sequel, until Donner kind of admitted that he was working on one.  That was enough to send the Internet into a whirlwind of incessant chatter about who would be on board for another movie. (Obviously, Josh Brolin…
Like a persistent case of pop cultural bedbugs, Goonies fever is upon us once again. Last week producer Richard Donner confirmed (if you call being badgered by a TMZ camera crew “confirmed”) that a sequel might be in the works, and now the Internet is more excited than Chunk at an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet.…
