Even if you’ve seen Frozen, you might not be aware that, according to Disney’s animators, Elsa actually makes her own clothes out of magical ice. It makes sense, given her aesthetic, but also... ice underwear? Brrr.

In American Dharma, legendary documentarian Errol Morris sits down with legendary nightmare Steve Bannon for a series of conversations about politics, Trump, and classic film. Bannon says Morris inspired him to make his own movies, and Morris tells Bannon that he’s absolutely afraid of him. It’s an interesting…

Let no one fault Trey Edward Shults for giving less than 110%. His third feature, Waves, confers the impression of a rising independent harnessing the confidence of youth to take his shot at a masterpiece. Shults wants to do his Boogie Nights, with the off-the-wall camerawork and big-ticket needle-drops and soul-deep…

In the second episode of I Remember The ’10s, The A.V. Club’s talking heads point their retrospective perspective toward the big screen, remembering 10 years that brought us the glory of Lady Bird, Baby Driver, and Upstream Color; the return of Star Wars; and the utter dominance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

With Trump’s impeachment inquiry in full swing, it’s easy to myopically think that he’s the only president in recent history who faced problems during his administration. And yet, viewers of The Report will discover that both George W. Bush and Barack Obama were dealing with crises of torture, cover-ups, and…

In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.

In Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Jason Statham is the smooth British spy to Dwayne Johnson’s larger-than-life California G-Man. Thus, while The Rock tools around the states in cars that all look like lifted ‘80s Broncos and modified tanks, Statham slides around London in a sleek and suave McLaren 720S. Sure,…

Six years ago, Disney released what would become not just the biggest hit in its long history of theatrical cartoons but also, globally speaking, the biggest animated movie ever, period. What, a bean counter might desperately wonder, was the key to the film’s unprecedented success? Here’s one wild theory: Frozen, that…

Some filmmakers strive to balance their purely artistic impulses with pragmatic commercial considerations via a rough policy of “one for me, one for them.” Gus Van Sant springs instantly to mind—for every offbeat, uncompromising project like Gerry or Elephant, there’s a more audience-friendly Good Will Hunting or Findi…

Given that The Report is about Washington corruption, twisted bureaucracy, and a general lack of faith in certain democratically elected and dually appointed officials, it’s pretty understandable if the movie’s stars would have lost a little bit of their confidence in government. That doesn’t seem to be the case,…

The Good Liar intercuts its opening credits—displayed in a clacking typewriter font—with footage of two senior citizens creating dating profiles. It’s a neat and rhythmic juxtaposition, skipping over the hacky jokes about elderly internet discomfort and straight into the admission that older folks might hone their…

James Mangold began his directing career with a small-scale independent film; though he now operates entirely within the Hollywood system, he’s remarkably managed to keep making the kind of movies for adults the studios have otherwise abandoned. His new film, Ford V Ferrari, feels like some kind of last stand for…

When making Frozen 2, Disney animators seem to have worked themselves into kind of a licensing corner. After all: How do you make a cuddly kids collectible based on a mythic horse made entirely of water? Frozen 2's heads of animation Becky Breese and Tony Smead aren’t really sure, but then again—that’s not their…

Two very different narratives unfold simultaneously in the animated French drama I Lost My Body, which won the top prize in Critics’ Week (one of the parallel festivals at Cannes) earlier this year. One story is a sweet-natured yet stalker-ish romance about a painfully shy and awkward pizza delivery guy, Naoufel…

“How do you feel about the future?” Throughout Brett Story’s loosely structured documentary The Hottest August, some variation of this question is posed to a large variety of New Yorkers: at the beach, at the bar, on the street, in the studio. The answers, even from the most garrulous interviewees, are mostly…

Each successive incarnation of Charlie’s Angels reflects the state of pop feminism in the decade of its release. First came the original 1970s TV version, with its twin peans to women’s lib and sexual objectification; then the early ’00s reboot, less tailored toward the male gaze but still focused on a commercial…

As sure as there’s a hidden Mickey in every Disney movie, there’s some crazy fan theory about said movie. For Frozen, for instance, there’s a theory that maybe Elsa and Anna’s parents are actually alive, stranded on a desert island somewhere, and eventually gave birth to a son, who they named Tarzan. There’s also the…

Though director Alma Har’el and Noah Jupe didn’t quite subject themselves to a Shia LaBeouf movie marathon in preparation for Honey Boy, the two did watch an awful lot of Even Stevens. In LaBeouf’s semi-fictionalized autobiographical film, Jupe plays Otis—a proxy for Shia during his Disney Channel days—so it was a…

In Mati Diop’s Atlantics, discontent reigns over the port city of Dakar, where a futuristic high-rise towers like some cruelly conceived lighthouse. When first introduced, Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), one of the construction workers of this building project, is agitating for three months of backpay; when he and his…

It’s become a cliché to say that some actors are so good that they can hold an audience’s attention just by reading the phone book in an empty room. But that’s more or less what Adam Driver does in the political drama The Report, and danged if he isn’t riveting. Playing the dogged Senate investigator Daniel Jones,…