Dabney Coleman has died. A veteran actor of stage and screen, with nearly 200 credits to his name, Coleman’s (frequently scowling, almost always mustachioed) face was a fixture of American film and TV from the 1960s forward. Renowned for his ability to play just the right kind of loathsome jerk—the kind who was frequently funny enough to make his meaner impulses really land—Coleman starred in films like WarGames, 9 To 5, Tootsie, and many more. He was no less an icon of TV, either, with a resumé...
This was apparently the week for slightly out-of-left-field choices in Hollywood. Anthony Hopkins is set to star in Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess, the first major Hollywood production to ever shoot in Antarctica, for example. (It’s not yet clear if Hopkins’ scenes will actually be set in the pole.) Elsewhere, Oscar Isaac was cast as God in yet another Jesus feature, renowned directors and screenwriters added renowned actors to their Rolodexes, and more. Léa Seydoux leads new...
Alex Proyas’ 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was accidentally shot on set during filming, dying hours later in a hospital at age 28. But The Crow is so much more than that, as hardcore fans of both the movie and the 1989 James O’Barr comic book series it was based on know. I was 18 years old and less than a month away from graduating high school when Proyas’ film was released in theaters on May...
An incredibly distressing video has emerged that appears to corroborate a number of claims recording artist Cassie Ventura made against her ex-partner, Sean “Diddy” Combs, in a suit she filed last November. The video was obtained by CNN and can be watched here, although be aware that it is quite graphic. In the footage, dated March 5, 2016 and taken from several security cameras at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles (which Ventura named in her complaint), Cassie appears to walk down a...
Tom Brady’s Netflix roast had some mildly remarkable aspects—it was live-streamed and three hours long, Kim Kardashian got booed, Brady objected to a Robert Kraft joke—but overall, it was not so interesting that we should still be talking about it almost two weeks later. Yet here we are, for some reason, unpacking this roast like it was the first in history. Which it obviously was not, as participant Nikki Glaser pointed out. Glaser was asked to react to Brady’s reaction to the roast, which is...
So many things have happened since Timothée Chalamet was first announced as the ambassador for Chanel’s Bleu de Chanel fragrance way back in May of 2023. Dune: Part Two was supposed to premiere in November, got delayed due to the strike, and then actually did premiere four months later, for one. But finally, after a full year of people reporting on the actor carousing around New York City with Martin Scorsese, multiple commercials for the commercial, and one leak that we admittedly fell for, the...
It’s been a great few years to be a Beatles fan. Peter Jackson’s Get Back was followed by the “final” track “Now And Then,” which was followed by the expanded and remixed Red and Blue albums, followed by the newly restored Let It Be documentary. All this good fortune now extends to the greater Beatles universe with One Hand Clapping, the legendary 1974 recording session by Paul McCartney and Wings. Never before released in any official capacity, fans will be able to own the jam-packed live album...
To describe something in the Star Wars galaxy as divisive is merely to say that it exists. With each new movie or TV series that comes out, the fandom gets increasingly fractured, with factions picking sides and digging in on multiple fronts. The discourse has gotten so toxic that it almost makes the debates from 25 years ago over whether Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace did or did not have the power to ruin actual childhoods seem quaint in comparison. Not that people ever really stopped...
By and large, I’m not a fan of prequels. I prefer to relegate my “what ifs” to daydreams about the cinematic characters of note that live rent-free in my noggin. That’s because most often what is formally presented in official prequels comes across like a reverse-engineered writing exercise. Do I need a whole film to tell me where Han Solo’s dice came from? Or, from whence the first xenomorph unfurled? Or why Cruella, the Dalmatian killer, started down that path? That’s a big nope across the...
Francis Ford Coppola knows a little something about not having enough money to make the movie you want. The legendary director notoriously funded his controversial sci-fi epic, Megalopolis, directly from his own pocket (and at the expense of a few of his vineyard holdings). But to hear him tell it, he’s not the only one struggling under the financial burdens of the modern era. “I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations...
Kevin Costner is premiering a film at the Cannes Film Festival for the very first time. That’s already an honor, but it’s made all the sweeter because it’s his passion project, Horizon: An American Saga. Costner has given pretty much everything for this film series—blood, sweat, tears, his marriage, his money (LOTS of his money), and in some ways, his reputation (at least in regards to finishing up Yellowstone). Chapter One launches at Cannes and then premieres in theaters June 28, followed...
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what theories it’s got you kicking around. Although there have been any number of deeply depressing trends that have cropped up in gaming over the last 10 years—endless tides of remakes and...