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The Disney film studio is in damage control this week, as news spreads that its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast may contain a gay subplot, in what is being described as a first and now a last for any high budget children’s film. Conservative pundits and cinemas alike are protesting the “unnatural”…
Icons End icons [if lte IE 8]> What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old. The fact is that almost everything I’ve watched in the last week, I’ve already written about, and the rest is under embargo. So…
Last week, the American left rejoiced when the career of alt-right Shitgibbon-In-Chief Milo Yiannopoulos collapsed in on itself like a dying star. It provided a flood of feel-good headlines at a time when we really needed them. The Blaze USA Today USA Today The Washington Post And unlike NaziPunchGate, this story is one we can…
Game publishers, tournament organizers and teams are searching for the best way to maximize value, exposure. Photo by: RIOT GAMES Esports might appear confusing and tumultuous to newcomers, but investors’ rationale is straightforward: No one is yet making as much money as they could be on professional video gaming, considering the size and commercial appeal…
Behold, proof straight from Disney that Luke Evans’ Gaston and Josh Gad’s LeFou will be everything you’d hoped they’d be in the live action Beauty and the Beast movie out next month. The studio released the first look at the song “Gaston”, and it’s the best: Advertisement – Continue Reading Below But what’s most incredible…
White men in entertainment can get away with anything. That one, soul-deadening lesson has been drilled into women’s heads recently. We saw reality TV star Donald Trump caught, on tape, sexually harassing a female colleague and giggling about “grabbing [women] by the pussy”—and we saw America elect him president a few weeks later. We found…
I have zero doubts that this final trailer for Kong: Skull Island, released less than two weeks before the film’s release, is filled with spoilers. But I really don’t care. It is simply one of the most insane, monster-filled, action-packed trailers we’ve seen in a long time and we love it. Kong: Skull Island opens…
GIF It’s nice that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has enough self-awareness to recognize how ridiculous it is to pretend that every single moment of this movie is an epic, end-of-the-universe adventure. Sometimes, Drax just needs to eat. As much as trailers for trailers are usually annoying and mostly just a snippet of the…
It’s been a tumultuous few weeks behind the scenes of the upcoming Batman film, but now it’s official. Warner Bros. announced that Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and this summer’s War for the Planet of the Apes, is directing a standalone Batman film. “I…
Voices I’m an Arab actor who’s been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I’m done My first film job at the age of 14 – Steven Spielberg’s Munich – featured me as an Islamic terrorist’s son. When I complained about…