The A.V. Club caught up with Beach Slang frontman James Alex and his tour manager, Charlie Lowe, to talk about the band’s favorite songs to cover live, a list that includes entries from The Plimsouls, The Modern Lovers, and The Replacements.
Comedian Dave Hill has one of those vaguely familiar faces to TV watchers; maybe you recognize his hangdog expression from his small but recurring role as the Creep in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or from when he popped up as the Bookstore Man in the “Tale From The Crypt” episode of The Tick. Hill hides his face behind…
The past year for Walton Goggins has been a busy one. He’s popped up as the villainous Vogel in the rebooted Tomb Raider film, took a roll in the upcoming Ant Man And The Wasp, and wrapped up the tragically short-lived HBO comedy Vice Principals. We sat down with Goggins recently to talk about his career, Vice…
Hereditary, “the most traumatically terrifying horror movie in ages,” hits theaters today, so the world can finally see what all the fuss is about. Ahead of the film’s release, we sat down with director Ari Aster and stars Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff to play “What’s Scarier?,” a game where we pit two scary things…
A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club, this time discussing Ocean’s 8, the female-fronted soft-sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy. Directed by The Hunger Games’ Gary Ross, Ocean’s 8 unfortunately lacks the polish, charm, and wit of…
Simon Pegg’s recent turn as a suicidal schoolteacher in Vaughn Stein’s Terminal is quite a departure from his typical roles as comic relief in action flicks or unlikely leading men in Edgar Wright films. We talked with Pegg about why he took on the dark role.
In his new film Hearts Beat Loud, Nick Offerman plays Frank, a single dad and record store owner who, in order to connect with his daughter (Dope’s Kiersey Clemons) before she goes off to college, launches a father-daughter musical act that becomes a breakout hit. At the premiere of the film, we talked to Offerman…
At this point, just two days away from the film’s wide release, the Hereditary hype train is at full steam. Our own A.A. Dowd, who saw it at Sundance, gave the film his stamp of approval, calling it “pure emotional terrorism.” It’s managed to disturb Edgar Wright, Barry Jenkins, Elijah Wood, and every A.V. Club…
In the new comedy All Square, Michael Kelly plays a bookie who befriends a former high school classmate’s son and starts taking bets on his little league games. At the premiere of the film, we asked Kelly and his co-stars—Yeardley Smith, Tom Everett Scott, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.—if they’d make bets on the ending of…
LA-based comic Ian Karmel has spent the last few years writing alongside James Corden on CBS’ The Late Late Show, the 2017 and 2018 Grammys, and the 2016 Tony Awards. We sat down with the comedian to talk about writing for those award shows, and the challenge of writing late-night jokes in the Trump era.
Cloak & Dagger, the latest television offering to be set in the Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (although the relationship between Marvel’s films and television shows is tenuous at best), premieres this Thursday, and early reviews are promising. The series follows Tyrone “Cloak” Johnson (The Night Of’s Aubrey Joseph) and…
Earlier this year, Reggie Watts brought his adaptation of the British game show Taskmaster to Comedy Central. As the titular figure, Watts challenges celebrity contestants—the first season starred Lisa Lampanelli, Freddie Highmore, Ron Funches, Dillon Francis, and Kate Berlant—to perform simple but bizarre tasks in…
Earlier this year, Reggie Watts brought his adaptation of the British game show Taskmaster to Comedy Central. As the titular figure, Watts challenges celebrity contestants—the first season starred Lisa Lampanelli, Freddie Highmore, Ron Funches, Dillon Francis, and Kate Berlant—to perform simple but bizarre tasks in…
Haifaa al-Mansour’s new film, Mary Shelley, tells the story of the world-famous novelist when she was know as Mary Godwin. Starring Elle Fanning as the titular author, the film begins when Godwin is just 18, and follows the events in her life that inspired her to write Frankenstein, jump-starting the science fiction…
Based on a true story, American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) who plot to steal millions from Transylvania University in an ill-conceived attempt at rebelling against their suburban upbringings. At the…
The U.S. government currently classifies marijuana as a “Schedule 1” drug, or a “drug with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” which makes researching the benefits of cannabis in the U.S. incredibly difficult. As a result, patients may have trouble getting information from their doctors…
Based on a true story, Bart Layton’s American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) who make an ill-conceived attempt to steal millions from Transylvania University, preoccupied with their value in the world and…
Based on a true story, Bart Layton’s American Animals follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson) who plot to steal millions from Transylvania University in an ill-conceived attempt at rebelling against their suburban upbringings. At…
Director Susanna White’s new film, Woman Walks Ahead, follows the relationship between famed warrior and holy man Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes) and his confidant and portrait painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain). Set in the late 19th century, Woman Walks Ahead uses the dispossession of the Lakota people’s…
In the midst of their reunion tour, Rachel Haden, Tony Maxwell, and Anna Waronker, better known as That Dog, talked to us about their favorite guilty pleasure TV shows, from The Bachelor to Law & Order: SVU.
