Death has taken many forms in media over the decades — from a Norm MacDonald-voiced Grim Reaper in Family Guy to an anthropologically-minded Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black — but no depiction is quite like in Tuesday. For the first trailer of the upcoming film, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has the …
Read More »Mia Goth Sued for Allegedly Kicking Background Actor in His Head
A background actor who worked on the film MaXXXine sued Mia Goth, claiming that Goth intentionally kicked him in the head while filming a scene last April, according to a filing obtained by Rolling Stone. Film distrubutor A24 and the movie’s director Ti West were also named as defendants. Goth …
Read More »Paramore Tease Talking Heads Reimagining From A24 'Stop Making Sense' Tribute Album
Paramore fans everywhere are getting out their paint and brushes to apply a full face of clown makeup. At the end of 2023, the band’s social media were wiped clean, and their website was deemed inaccessible, stirring up rumors that they had called it quits for the umpteenth time. But …
Read More »'Civil War' Trailer: Kirsten Dunst Hits Front Lines Amid Air Strikes and Government Collapse
The portrayal of war and societal collapse in film is beginning to feel increasingly less dystopian in its mirroring of the real world. In the trailer for A24‘s upcoming film Civil War, Kirsten Dunst is a photographer on the front lines of an epic battle in which civilians and journalists …
Read More »'The Zone of Interest': Jonathan Glazer's Chilling Holocaust Movie Is a Masterpiece
Holocaust movies are now a genre. It makes one more than a little queasy to acknowledge this. We’re talking about art that seeks to recreate an atrocity of such devastating scale and magnitude; to imagine the unimaginable. You can say the phrase “Holocaust movie” and a number of images and …
Read More »Elon Musk Is Getting the Biopic Treatment From Director Darren Aronofsky and A24
Elon Musk‘s life will serve as the basis for an upcoming biopic currently in development at A24. The production and distribution firm known for its unusual storytelling approach will build the film on the foundation of Walter Isaacson’s 670-page authorized biography Elon Musk, released in September. A24 has recruited Darren …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Wants to Get Rid of Men and Take Over the World on 'Out Alpha the Alpha'
Megan Thee Stallion has her sights set on world domination — and her takeover includes getting rid of all the men. On the soundtrack to A24‘s first-ever musical Dicks: The Musical, in theaters today, the rapper blazes through her masterplan with “Out Alpha the Alpha” with unrelenting dominance. “I’ma tell …
Read More »'Dream Scenario' Is Bald Nicolas Cage's Cancel-Culture Nightmare
Think about some of the weirdest dreams you’ve ever had. Maybe you were perched on a dining room table while hungry alligators slithered toward you. Or the one where you’re sitting by a swimming pool as various objects fall from the sky. Or that nightmare where a tall, terrifying man …
Read More »'Dicks: The Musical' Wants to Be the Most Offensive Musical Ever. It Nearly Succeeds
“Show us your Dicks!” Roughly 90 minutes after someone in the audience yelled that request out, the people sitting in the Royal Alexandra Theatre would find themselves being showered with makeshift confetti, led in a gospel sing-along by folks in church-choir robes, and batting around beach balls and, naturally, inflatable …
Read More »'Medusa Deluxe': A24's One-Shot Murder Mystery With Great Hair
There’s been a scalping at a Northern England hairdressing competition. It’s all any of the hairdressers — “hair artists” might be a better description, given the towering Marie Antoinette-level coifs and rainbow-colored cascades and expertly sculpted geometric ‘dos they’ve designed — can talk about. The victim is Mosca, the presumed …
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