The A.V. Club

In a huge development for people who demand new, innovative ways to putz around on their devices, Apple has announced the iPhone Duo—the phone users can fold in half! Presented by new Apple CEO John Ternus (who replaced Tim Cook after Cook stepped down on September 1), the iPhone Duo was the star attraction at Apple’s “Surprise And Shine” event, which also introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, (boasting new, super-shady listening features). The company’s first

Telluride is done and the Venice Film Festival wrapping up, which means that fall fest season is entering into full swing with the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. The fest’s 2026 slate is chock-full of feature debuts to discover, international cinema from dozens of different countries to explore, and the latest work of celebrated arthouse directors like Pedro Almodóvar and Mike Leigh. Before diving into all that this year’s TIFF has to offer—with many more reviews

Paramount Pictures appears to be in the business of creating headlines that’d feel out of date in 2016, let alone 2026, as Deadline reports the studio is chatting up The Housemaid director Paul Feig about directing a “follow-up” to the 2003 F. Gary Gray reboot of The Italian Job. No other details were available at the time of reporting, as the studio is currently seeking writers. But that sound you might be hearing is either the roar of an old engine firing up despite decades o

With Saturday Night Live‘s record-extending 52nd season set to kick off on Saturday (duh), September 26, the show announced its first four hosts and musical guests. In something of a surprise call, the season premiere host will be New York Knicks point guard, NBA champ and finals MVP Jalen Brunson, alongside musical guests KATSEYE, in their SNL debut. Sports figures have long been a, let’s call them, shaky prospect when it comes to performing live sketch comedy on SNL, but they don&#

Big news for folks yearning for new oaters in the age of streaming: Netflix has greenlit a new adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove with co-showrunners and executive producers Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart (both just coming off adapting John Steinbeck’s East Of Eden for the streamer). According to Deadline, nü-Dove will be “envisioned as an ongoing series” that follows former Texas Rangers Cpt. Augustus “Gus” McCrae and Woo

Online anti-gay propaganda and simmering fears come to a boil in the trailer for Tip Toe, the British psychological thriller series from Russell T. Davies. In the series, Alan Cumming plays Leo, a seemingly happy-go-lucky gay London bar owner, while David Morrissey is Clive, the stern electrician father of two teenaged boys who’s lived next door in apparent peace for 15 years.  In the trailer for the series, which premieres on Starz on Friday, October 2, the neighbors’ uneasy

Apple TV produces fewer feature films than several of its competitors —it’s making a bigger name for itself in television these days—but it’s still a destination for quality cinephile fare. The first streamer to win a Best Picture Oscar, its stable of projects includes big-name directors (Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott), A-list actors (Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro), and buzzy documentaries. Like every platform, there are a few clunkers, but there are more hidden gems than many sub

In the latest chapter of the seemingly ceaseless Chris Hansen-Primetime melodrama, the former Dateline NBC anchor sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to rehash prior gripes about the film and the hypocrisy of Hollywood, invoking Harvey Weinstein as he criticized the film for being overly “dramatic” and “dark,” two things we definitely shouldn’t associate with his career. Speaking during a call from Chicago (where he’s appearing a

In a development that will surprise approximately no one, yet another fired 60 Minutes staff member says that he was asked to include Trump administration-friendly talking points in journalistic work, echoing comments previously made by fellow fired workers Scott Pelley and Cecelia Vega. This latest allegation comes from Guy Campanile, the former managing editor who said he was fired in May after he “would not compromise our principles or reputations by jamming unverifiable notions or Whit

Under a current political administration that’s focused on deregulation, benefiting the corporate bottom line at the expense of everyday workers, it’s a dark time for the labor movement in the U.S. Two new documentaries—Yael Bridge’s Who Moves America and Barbara Kopple‘s Union Town—distill this unfriendly climate by observing a shared union conflict: the Teamsters’ 2023 struggle for a new UPS contract.  Who Moves America takes a more focused approach, zeroing

In another example of physical media aficionados being right about everything, Resurrection star Rebecca Hall made the worrying revelation that the Hall-starring 2016 film Christine is in peril of being lost into the digital void. Speaking at a 10th anniversary Telluride screening (via IndieWire) of director Antonio Campos’ acclaimed biopic of late reporter Christine Chubbuck, Hall told the audience that various legal entanglements have put the film in danger of vanishing completely. 

Before there was Pat Tillman, there were the boys of The Mosquito Bowl. Okay, those stories probably don’t have that much in common outside of the fact that sometimes football players join the military. This was true at least as far back as World War II, when college football stars—played in a new Netflix movie by Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, Tom Francis—enlisted in the war against fascism. The new teaser for Netflix’s movie doesn’t get much into the speci

Legendary—and legendarily frank—director Werner Herzog was typically unsparing when asked by IndieWire about a young filmmaker’s AI “tribute” to his work. “I immediately said, ‘You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It’s phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it.'” Herzog, in Venice along with his typically idiosyncratic new film Bucking Fastard starring Kate and Rooney Mara, was referring to About A Hero, a AI-generated “pseudo-docu

The latest trailer for Digger from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu puts the audience in an interesting position. It’s very clear that the titular Digger, played by Tom Cruise, is responsible for at least one major ecological disaster that, rightfully, makes him the subject of widespread scorn. But it also appears like he might be one of the only people in the world who can fix this problem and save the world from future issues like it, largely due to his wealth, fame, and connections, forci

There are a handful of rules for successfully casting Don Adams’ Maxwell Smart in any Get Smart! reboot. First, he looks good in a suit. Second, he boasts a mastery of snappy patter, which dovetails into the third rule: His comic timing must be impeccable. Fail to cast an actor with a solid grip on these three things, and the whole production goes kablooey before the prop guys can make their first shoe phone. Luckily, per Deadline, Warner Bros. appears to be talking with Emmy Award-winning

The Please Don’t Destroy SNL crew is down to one, as writer, occasional performer, and Saturday Night Live legacy Martin Herlihy is leaving the venerable sketch comedy show before its 52nd season. According to LateNighter, which touts the news an exclusive, “insiders” at SNL have confirmed that Herlihy, as did his PDD colleague John Higgins after Season 50, will take his talents elsewhere.  That presumably leaves just Ben Marshall, who was promoted to featured player las

Carrie—both Stephen King’s novel and the various adaptations that have followed it—is generally held up as one of the most enduring horror stories of the 20th century. But beyond that, it’s also a tragedy, as the full trailer for Prime Video’s new Carrie series, from showrunner Mike Flanagan, reminds. Just look how excited Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) is go to to public school with everyone else in Chamberlain, Maine. Look at her lovely joie de vivre as she ma

There’s a misapprehension among a certain kind of filmmaker and filmgoer that when something is muddier it’s more realistic, and when it’s more realistic it’s better. It’s become shorthand for R-rated period pieces like The Uprising, which is nothing if not muddy.  Despite what the film’s conflicted marketing may have teased, The Uprising isn’t a Robin Hood movie, even though it does share some qualities with The Death Of Robin Hood: It’s a gr

Ted Lasso has become an expert at giving me, and likely all of you, whiplash. Season four has been a bumpy ride because the storylines are a hit-or-miss in a way that continues to distance Ted Lasso from the show it once was: A refreshingly feel-good sports comedy. It has been replaced by a far less insightful, funny, or heartfelt version that recycles tired tropes (the Roy/Keeley nonsense) and gets too broad with its humor (Tracey Ullman’s Zelda). Perhaps this shift is the long fallout fr

Crime dramas about missing children, while fundamentally tragic, tend to follow similar beats: Parents become overinvolved in the case because the detectives don’t take their instincts seriously, while the family or a local community with dark secrets is tied to the investigation. In the past year alone, Peacock’s All Her Fault and Netflix’s I Will Find You have delivered versions of this premise. Now joining their ranks is Apple TV’s Last Seen, which has more in common w