Apparently it pays to be a reliable filmmaker who has directed some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful blockbusters of all time, as Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Steven Spielberg has recently become the first director to have made more than $10 billion at the worldwide box office.…
The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, 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 are breaking down a category and giving us their picks for who …
The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, 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 is breaking down a category and giving us their picks for who …
Music makes a good thing better. Would Gwyneth Paltrow walking off a bus be so majestic were it not for Nico? Or would Rahad Jackson’s house be as transcendently warped without Ricky Springfield? And can we all agree that it’s Frou Frou’s fault for making us think Garden State was going to be good? Use an evocative…
In a striking display of obliviousness, the Trump White House has reportedly asked to screen The Post, Steven Spielberg’s film about The Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers, a Department Of Defense study that revealed that the United States had remained engaged in the Vietnam War knowing that it…
Yesterday, we reported on a street art campaign that cropped up recently in Los Angeles, targeting actress Meryl Streep with accusations that she knew, and stayed silent about, Harvey Weinstein’s alleged behavior toward women. There was a lot of speculation about who might have been behind the campaign, all of which…
In this special afternoon edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, about The Washington Post’s role in the 1971 publication of a leaked history of the United States’ operations in Vietnam. The film, which…
A pile of muck (old muck, too) with no rake, Steven Spielberg’s National Board Of Review-approved Nixon-era newspaper drama The Post lacks the exact thing it glorifies: a reporter’s instinct for story. Not that there isn’t anything to admire about the movie, which portrays the events that surrounded the leak of a…
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…
As reported by Variety, the National Board Of Review has named Steven Spielberg’s The Post as its Movie Of The Year, with stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep also landing the top acting honors. Spielberg himself got shut out, though, with Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig taking the directing award. Speaking of Lady Bird, Laurie…
Calling it “a big deal” akin to unveiling “a Marvel Trailer if Meryl Streep was playing Thor” (and with Tom Hanks as the Hulk), Stephen Colbert surprised his audience on Tuesday’s Late Show by nabbing the first-ever broadcast of the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film The Post. Since the film, getting a…
La La Land may have been pretty controversial when it was getting all of the Best Picture buzz leading up to the Academy Awards—and for the minute or so that it was the Best Picture winner—but nobody’s going to have a hard time getting on board with future Academy Award favorite The Post. According to Deadline, the…
