Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest film is Cold War, the Palme D’Or-nominated love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-World War II Poland. In honor of the film, which recently made the Oscars shortlist for Best Foreign-Language Film, we sat down with Pawlikowski to talk about the…

The A.V. Club has never had the pleasure of sitting down with Shirley Henderson, probably best known for starring in Trainspotting, the three Bridget Jones films, and as Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films. In honor of her new film, Stan & Ollie, we sat down with the actor for a video version of our interview…

In their new film Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as Stanley “Stan” Laurel and Oliver “Ollie” Hardy, better known as Laurel & Hardy, one of the world’s great comedy teams. Ahead of the film’s premiere at the end of the month, we spoke with Coogan and Reilly about playing one of Hollywood’s great…

Adam McKay’s Vice opens in 1963 in Casper, Wyoming, as the young, puffy, and whoopingly drunk Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) is about to be arrested for driving under the influence for the second time in a year. After losing his scholarship to Yale, he has returned to his hometown to work as a lineman for the local…

Out this Christmas, Vice, explores the story about how Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), a bureaucratic Washington insider, quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush. Ahead of the Vice’s release next week, we sat down with Christian Bale to talk about the film, his…

Hamilton creator and multi-talented entertainer Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in this month’s Mary Poppins Returns, the long-gestating sequel to the 1964 musical fantasy film. In honor of the new film, we sat down with the Tony Award winner to talk about his five favorite musical numbers ever put on screen.

Destroyer, the latest from The Invitation director Karyn Kusama, is very much in the mold of antiestablishment ’70s cop movies like Serpico and Dirty Harry, but with a gender-swapped twist: Nicole Kidman stars as Erin Bell, an LAPD detective who’s still scarred by an undercover assignment that went tragically wrong…

When filmgoers, professional ones included, complain that movies have gotten too damn long, they’re often talking about the increased bloat of blockbusters—a not unfair objection, in this age of supersized superhero epics. All the same, it’s a blanket critique that fails to take into account that some movies actually…

New Girl alum Jake Johnson co-stars as Peter Parker in the gorgeously animated new Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. In honor of the film’s release, we sat down with Johnson to talk about voicing Peter Parker, and how Into The Spider-Verse is a testament to Stan Lee’s legacy.

Rob Marshall has been at the helm of three of the most high-profile movie musicals of the 21st century—the Best Picture winner Chicago, Nine, and Into The Woods. His latest, Mary Poppins Returns, the long-gestating sequel to the 1964 musical fantasy film, hits theaters next week. In honor of the sequel, we sat down…

Was the first live-action Transformers movie really long enough ago to qualify for its own nostalgia revisitation? Granted, it’s been 11 years and five movies since that franchise-starter, but it came out of the gate already coasting on the mashed-up nostalgia for producer Steven Spielberg’s ’80s-fantasy glory years…

If there’s a defining image in the small but remarkable filmography of Barry Jenkins, it’s of someone staring, with tractor-beam intensity, right at the camera lens, as though trying to express the full scope of who they are—their very soul, maybe—through one penetrating gaze. What does this signature shot really…

Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film Roma serves as a love letter to the women who raised him, centering on a young Mixtec woman (played by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio) who works for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Ahead of Roma hitting Netflix this Friday, we sat down with stars Yalitza…

Note: This article contains plot revelations for Deadpool 2—though, honestly, if you haven’t seen that by now, why are you reading a whole piece about a PG-13 recut of it?

Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film Roma serves as a love letter to the women who raised him, centering on a young Mixtec woman (played by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio) who works for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Ahead of the film hitting Netflix this Friday, we sat down with Roma’s stars,…

In the 10 years since Clint Eastwood last starred in one of his own films, the de facto movie-star farewell Gran Torino, he’s embarked upon one of the most adventurous, experimental, and prolific periods of his directing career. (He also made another, less effective movie-star farewell, directed by his longtime…

On paper, it sounds like the stuff of nightmares: Lars von Trier, the Danish maestro of suffering who made Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Antichrist, takes on the most grimly fascinating of real-life bogeymen, the serial killer. But The House That Jack Built, for all its graphic and disturbing violence,…

Over the past week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been scrambling to fill the void left by Kevin Hart when he dropped out as Oscars host. This came shortly after a report by The Hollywood Reporter outlining just how undesirable the Oscars-hosting gig is for performers. But Adam Pally—who has…

There are exactly two good jokes in Mortal Engines, and they involve Minions and a Twinkie. These tiny scraps of humor jump out like Pop Rocks in a bowl of oatmeal, not only because everything that surrounds them is so dingy, but also because they remind us of the possibilities of the film’s core premise: that more…