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…
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? If you’re picking up a faint whiff of presidential aspirations, unstoppable charisma, and a firm commitment to getting involved in national politics sometime, many years from now, then yes, you’re smelling it pretty accurately.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson can do a lot of things most humans can’t. He can punch his way through an endless onslaught of bad guys in the Fast And Furious films. He can seem simultaneously macho, vulnerable, and endearing in Moana. He can even do the People’s Eyebrow. But, after seeing the latest poster for his…
Look, The Rock knows nonsense. The Rock worked for Vince McMahon. The Rock wrestled for the WWE. He knows how to sell feuds with no coherent buildup. He knows how to make an unearned face turn pop. His first gimmick was “wears crepe paper?” and he still spun it into stardom. So, now that he’s a bonafide Hollywood…
Since Ballers first came to the airwaves two years ago, the question has vexed TV viewers who have nothing else in their life to think about—who’s a fan of this show? The series, which stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a retired NFL player and financial manager, is not very good, and outside of aimless Entourage fans…
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the world’s highest-paid actor, the sexiest man alive, and best friends with Lin-Manuel Miranda, so some might say he’s been promoted from “most electrifying man in sports entertainment” to, simply, “most electrifying man.” Of course, not everything The Rock has done has enraptured his…
Saturday Night Live will end its impressive 42nd season with a series of hosts that, save for one, have already visited Studio 8H multiple times over. (Chris Pine is the lone actor among them making his debut.) Melissa McCarthy and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will make their entry into the Five-Timers Club, while former…
With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute.
One of the upshots of being one of Hollywood’s most prolific working actors is that you wind up touching a staggering number of people. Hence the widespread outporing of affection today for John Hurt, who died earlier this week of complications from cancer. Stars ranging from The Rock to director Terry Gilliam (and…
Every now and then a GIF comes along that does more than slow down the speed at which a webpage loads—it takes you on a journey. It teaches you something not just about yourself but about the nature of the moving image and its capacity to tell emotionally resonant stories through the presentation and elision of visual…
How was your 2016? If you were on the internet, it was probably awful. But don’t tell that to YouTube, who released their annual Rewind video today, an exhausting, seven-minute odyssey through a Black Mirror-esque universe in which everyone is a viral star preening for your approval. PewDiePie, the “Damn Daniel” kid,…
Having conquered both the wrestling ring and the big screen, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is now looking to conquer YouTube as well. He’s currently got 1.4 million subscribers on his channel, where he’s been releasing comedy videos and Q&As since July. So when he debuted a video last week called “Lin-Manuel Miranda &…
With Moana, Disney defied some of its conventions while still giving us essentially a Disney princess story. But apparently it wasn’t going to be a girl power tale originally. Director Ron Clements told CinemaBlend that the story was initially going to focus on the demi-god Maui, now voiced by The Rock. “[Co-director…
Pop culture is hitting critical mass, as a scripted comedy about the hyper-masculine soap opera that is sports entertainment is coming to Fox. Dwayne Johnson and Will Ferrell are teaming up for a sitcom—sorry, “single-cam, hour-long comedy”—about the world of professional wrestling. The project was just picked up and…
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has only been on YouTube for two months, but his channel is already host to a pretty eclectic batch of content. Some of it is on-message—a style guide from the guy who designs the costumes on Ballers, a foul-mouthed reality show about wrestling promos—but some of it is just bizarre. Witness,…
After reportedly displaying some chemistry in Central Intelligence, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart decided to take their newfound movie friendship into previously charted territory for a Jumanji remake. The project has long been in the works, but it didn’t really gain traction until recently; even Jack Black and Nick…
The action-packed buddy comedy Central Intelligence opens on Friday. The A-list cast includes Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart, Aaron Paul, Amy Ryan, and Brett Azar as “Agent Wally.” The cast may not include the person who happens to be reading this article now, but the good people at Warner Bros. Entertainment…
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.
Now that he’s proven himself to be The Rock that can beat up all the other rocks, Dwayne Johnson is continuing his mission to be the most genially good-natured and likable man on the planet. He’s currently in the middle of filming Central Intelligence, the comedy co-starring sentient double-take Kevin Hart and…
Ballers (HBO, 10 p.m.): We can’t imagine anyone pitched this series any harder than just walking into the room and declaring, “THE ROCK AS A PILL POPPING FORMER FOOTBALL STAR, AND ALSO, BOOBS PROBABLY!” We also can’t blame whichever HBO execs greenlit said pitch. Joshua Alston wasn’t impressed with the first few…
