For someone who started his career basically playing with Barbie dolls, Todd Haynes has never strayed far from what you might call adult preoccupations: desire, identity, sex, addiction, all that good stuff for the…
Johnny Depp and his former managers have been taking part in a brutal legal feud recently, with Depp accusing them of ripping him off by quietly taking some of his money and the management firm defending itself by saying it was paying out money that he had authorized. Now, Depp’s review of his finances has continued…
In this trailer for I Love You, Daddy, Louis CK plays an award-winning TV writer whose spoiled 17-year-old daughter (played by Chloë Grace Moretz) starts spending time with a legendary 68-year-old film director (played by John Malkovich). The story is a thinly veiled nod to the sexual abuse allegations that have been…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
The internet is choked with nostalgia for the youth-oriented entertainments of the not-too-distant past. With Memory Wipe, The A.V. Club takes a look at some of our formative favorites with clearer eyes and asks that all-important question: Were they really that great to begin with?
On Monday, at Elle’s Women In Hollywood event, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy talked about a way to combat the epidemic of sexual abuse and harassment in Hollywood, proposing that everyone in the entertainment industry—including “the studios, the unions, the guilds, and the talent agencies”—should rally together to…
The Harvey Weinstein scandal is a small part of a much larger epidemic of sexual harassment in the entertainment world, as many people in the movie and TV industries have illustrated, but rather than actually facing that issue directly, one Republican politician has determined that all movies should be punished for…
When your Hollywood career is officially super hot, like if you just appeared in a Star Wars movie and became the first man of Asian descent to ever win an acting Emmy, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Riz Ahmed happens to be in that very specific position, and while he’s still got this heat, he’s apparently…
How is it possible that Hollywood hasn’t yet made a movie about Jane Goodall? Her story isn’t just extraordinary, but extraordinary in a way that’s tailor-made for the big screen: A young British woman with no scientific training of any kind volunteers to conduct the first study of chimpanzees in the wild, initially…
As wildfires ravage the state of California, moviegoers may not be especially excited to sit down and watch a 130-minute reminder of how dangerous and frightening it can be to see fires tear across the landscape. But in a way, it’s surprisingly easy not to think about current events during Only The Brave, and not…
For someone who started his career basically playing with Barbie dolls, Todd Haynes has never strayed far from what you might call adult preoccupations: desire, identity, sex, addiction, all that good stuff for the over-18 crowd. On paper, that makes Wonderstruck a radical departure. Like Martin Scorsese before him,…
Recently, actress Lauren Holly appeared on Canadian talk show The Social and shared her own chilling story about an interaction she had with Harvey Weinstein, the now-former movie studio head who has been hit with multiple allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault. During the interview, Holly said she was…
Last September, Netflix declared that it eventually wants half of its entire streaming library to consist of original content, a claim that seemed absurd until a group determined that Netflix had already slashed half of its content from 2012 to 2016—meaning the ratio was already sliding in favor of the originals since…
Based on his movies, Nicolas Winding Refn seems like a man with very particular tastes. Drive, for instance, seems like a straightforward car chase movie about a quiet guy in a cool jacket, but it’s more of an homage to retro European action flicks than it is an artsy take on The Fast And The Furious. For people…
Many of the most successful entries in the man-vs.-nature genre tend to be true-life accounts, probably because there’s something especially affecting about knowing someone actually went through the ordeal you’re witnessing. Films like Into The Wild, Rescue Dawn, and Kon-Tiki derive an additional thrill from the…
Talk about déjà vu. Like an ornery weatherman stuck living the same day over and over again, ticket-buyers trudged again to their local theater and, for the third time this year, made a horror film from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions the No. 1 movie in America. Happy Death Day, which is basically …
Inspired by the people coming forward with their stories about sexual assault in light of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Björk decided to share an account of the harassment she faced during her brief foray into the acting world. Björk explained that she was working on a project with “a Danish director” who made it…
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has always been a strong advocate for having more lead characters in superhero movies who are women. He spent years talking about a Captain Marvel movie before making one and has spent even more years discussing how much he’d like to give Black Widow her own movie, but his attempts to…
A lot of people have had utterly terrible takes on the many sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, with some people suggesting that Mike Pence was right to be afraid of women and others noting that Harvey Weinstein can be a very nice guy when he’s not (allegedly) being an abusive asshole, but now…
With Hollywood still getting rocked by the fallout from the New York Times and New Yorker stories about Harvey Weinstein’s long history of alleged harassment, Björk has come forward with a story of her own about a different man in the movie industry who abused his power. Björk laid it all out in a Facebook post today,…
Angela Robinson’s new film Professor Marston And The Wonder Women explores the two real-life inspirations for Wonder Woman, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne; their polyamorous relationship with the superhero’s creator, William Moulton Marston; and the comic’s depiction of kink. In the video above, Luke…
