Katie Rife's posts

Over the last couple weeks, Film Club has taken a few creative detours. With no new wide releases to discuss, our…

Nobuhiko Obayashi, the former experimental filmmaker and ad man turned mainstream director whose eccentric, colorful…

Immigration tales are usually stories about hard work, of endless early mornings and late nights toiling away at…

With movie theaters shuttered around the world, studios are putting films that otherwise would be playing on the big…

There are two types of people in this world: Those who like to stay up late reading stories that make them want to…

Don’t get us wrong—Sea Fever was unsettling before it became eerily, ironically prescient. But with the world locked…

CinemaScore, for the uninitiated, is a Las Vegas-based market research firm that bills itself as “the industry…

Twin Peaks turns 30 on April 8, as full of secrets as it was on the Sunday night it debuted on ABC opposite Murder,…

Normally, The A.V. Club uses this space to preview all the major films coming to a theater near you. But with the…

Although they’re outnumbered by doddering old ladies and Dirty Grandpas, every once in a while the world of cinema…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, April 2. All times are Eastern.

Marah Eakin: Katie, like me and so, so many other people, I know you spent the past few days blasting through Netflix…

With nothing new coming to theaters for the foreseeable future, Film Club, our weekly movie-discussion series, is…

“The world wants us dead.” That statement is delivered, if not quite casually, then with startling clarity by one of…

Even as Disney’s once-buzzy live-action remakes become routine—the studio released three last year alone, and that’s…

Stuart Gordon, the writer, director, and producer best known for his cult-classic horror films Re-Animator (1985)…

If you don’t know Isa Mazzei’s name yet, you will soon. She broke into the film scene in 2018 with Cam, which The…

Welcome to a brand new episode of Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie-discussion series. Normally on the show,…

Normally, there are two ways to cover a film festival. One is to treat it like any other work week, responsibly…

In the span of just one season, FX’s TV version of What We Do In The Shadows has welcomed a truly impressive roster…