The A.V. Club
Olivia Kaiser on The Challenge: Ride Or Dies Screenshot: MTV After thirty-eight seasons, MTV’s competition reality show The Challenge has run the gamut of extreme, well, challenges that beget bumps and bruises. But during part 1 of Wednesday’s two-part finale episode, contestant Olivia Kaiser pushed the show’s physical toll to a new limit, suffering a […]
L-R: Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Michael CeraPhoto: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage (Getty Images) Seth Rogen has good reason to be cocky about his place in Hollywood. He got his start on one of the most beloved high school television series of all time (Freaks And Geeks) and then co-wrote one of the […]
Left: Band (Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images Getty Images for NAMM) Right: Foodstuffs (Photo: Post Holdings) Okay, so: OK Go (the band) is now fighting OK GO! (the cereal), over the rights to the OK Go/GO! name, in what we cannot—despite therapy and medications—stop ourselves from thinking of as one hell of an OK Go/GO! Throw […]
Sarah Michelle GellarPhoto: Jesse Grant (Getty Images) As star of the beloved (but in recent years controversial) series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar knows the highs and lows of working within the supernatural genre better than most. The pros? Incredible story-telling! Emotional character arcs! Mind-blowing special effects! Werewolves! But the cons? Sexism. So […]
Pamela Anderson; Tim AllenPhoto: Jon Kopaloff; Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) The back-and-forth between Pamela Anderson and Tim Allen regarding an incident on the set of Home Improvement has reached the… condescending and intimidating stage? Anderson, who appeared in the first two seasons of the ABC sitcom in the ’90s, alleged in her new memoir Love, […]
Kyle Chandler, Uma Thurman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Showtime original series Super Pumped, which will soon be removed from its exclusive home at ShowtimePhoto: Elizabeth Morris (Showtime) Following in the grand tradition of HBO Max, Showtime will begin removing Showtime-exclusive content from its streaming platform and Paramount+. The network is starting with short-lived originals, […]
Avatar: The Way Of WaterPhoto: 20th Century Studios Avatar: The Way Of Water is still the number one movie in America, as it has been all year, and it’s now the 4th biggest movie all time (sucks to be you, The Force Awakens). It only slipped 22 percent from last week, adding $15 million to […]
Top Gun: MaverickPhoto: Paramount For two decades, AARP has made a point to cut through all of the silliness that floods movie theaters every year by celebrating what it calls “Movies For Grownups” with its annual Movies For Grownups Awards—with the only thing that makes a movie “for grownups” being that it doesn’t have superheroes. […]
Somebody fed PhilPhoto: Netflix It’s a generally accepted bit of wisdom these days that Netflix shows don’t last. The streamer more-or-less runs on churn at this point, with even the most successful of shows tending to tap out at about three seasons, all the better to be replaced with something new (and, usually, cheaper). Thus […]
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz in 2018Photo: Tara Ziembra (Getty Images) Sure, last year’s Warner Bros. Discovery merger meant that the new media giant immediately became more known for canceling movies and shows than releasing them, but that’s apparently all in the past. Given that Turner Classic Movies is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., […]
