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Screenshot: Tango Gameworks Have you ever caught yourself walking to the beat of a song you’ve got playing? If so, you’ll probably vibe pretty hard with Hi-Fi Rush. I’ve put a few hours into Tango Gameworks’ rhythm-action game, and I’m delighted at how satisfying it is to gel with a game that more or less […]
Clockwork from top left: Beauty And The Beast, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, The Lion King “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” Official Music Video (Screenshot: Elton John/YouTube); The Jungle Book (All other screenshots: Disney/YouTube)Graphic: The A.V. Club Music always played a pivotal role in the films of Walt Disney. “Steamboat Willie,” the short that introduced […]
Alejandro IñárrituPhoto: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association When it comes to criticizing the superhero genre, Alejandro Iñárritu can be considered a disciple of the old school. It was, after all, Iñárritu—way back during the lead-up to his 2014 Oscar-winner Birdman, itself a movie with some pretty caustic thoughts on the superhero as a […]
Clockwise from Top Left: The Lion King, Walt Disney (Photo: Screen Archives/Getty Images), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 101 Dalmatians, Dumbo (all screenshots: Walt Disney Studios/YouTube)Graphic: The A.V. Club Like a lot of kids raised in the early 1900s, Walt Disney grew up in a world where corporal punishment was an accepted form of […]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryPhoto: John Wilson/Netflix Shortly after Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel Glass Onion hit Netflix, the director expressed his frustration that Netflix (presumably) forced him to make the full title of the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery so everyone would know the film was set in the same universe […]
Photo: Neon It’s a little perfect that Infinity Pool, written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, makes its debut just as the topic of “nepo babies” (those given unfair professional advantage through family connections) is a feverishly trending topic. It’s not wholly unreasonable to question who gets the keys to our collective cultural ship, but in […]
Daisy RidleyPhoto: Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images for Disney) Somehow it’s been three years since Palpatine returned. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was our final cinematic disappointment before the COVID-19 pandemic made our lives a near-constant disappointment. While some of us used Chewbacca’s fake demise as a signal to take a break from Star Wars […]
Oscar nominations will be announced next week. I called our culture writer Shirley Li for her tips on the movies and the buzz you should know about. But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic. Top Guns Isabel Fattal: Are there any big themes that have emerged from this awards season, or any […]
Game Of Thrones “The Long Night”Image: HBO We’ve all been there. You tune into a show, often something in the fantasy or sci-fi genre, and you end up squinting at the screen because you can hardly make out what’s happening. Game Of Thrones is a notorious repeat offender (the season-eight episode “The Long Night” is […]
Vin Diesel could totally have played this character.Screenshot: 20th Century Studios Avatar: The Way of Water producer Jon Landau has cleared up rumors about Vin Diesel (Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.3) being in the film after the actor’s long con troll on fans. In an interview with Empire, the producer shared, “He came in, visited […]
