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Apr 25, 2024
The juggernaut of Harry Potter really can't be stopped, even as J.K. Rowling descends further and further into an obsession with the rhetoric of trans-exclusionary radical feminism. The latest stop on the gravy train is a new set of audiobooks from Audible (a subsidiary of Amazon) and Pottermore Publishing (the audio…
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Apr 25, 2024
Every day, once a day, Kyle MacLachlan gives his adoring public a present. Whether he's spoofing Lorde's Instagram or simply trying to understand what "babygirl" means, McLachlan has ingratiated himself into the hearts of netizens. Today, filling the internet void which is as black as midnight on a moonless night,…
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Apr 25, 2024
If you were disappointed by HBO's decision to cancelWinning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynastylast fall, FX's new show about LA's other basketball team might be just the thing for you. Based on ESPN's 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, FX's upcoming series Clipped shines a light on all the players—both on and…
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Apr 25, 2024
Apple TV quickly emerged as one of the most popular and reliable streamers with the breakout Emmy-winning hit Ted Lasso. But the platform offers so much more, including comedies like Shrinking and powerhouse dramas such as Silo and Pachinko. Unsure about what to watch? The A.V. Club has assembled this guide to the…
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Apr 25, 2024
Larry Dalrymple has died. Perhaps best known for his staggering 35 seasons on The Simpsons as the sad, balding drunk who hung out at Moe's, Dalrymple was a long-running fixture of the bar's dank milieu. Springfield barkeep Moe Szyslak confirmed his death on Sunday. No cause of death was given. He was 42.
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Apr 25, 2024
Doctor Who made headlines casting Ncuti Gatwa as the latest Doctor, not only because he's the first Black actor to play the role but because he would be, in the words of Neil Patrick Harris, "the first gay Doctor." (Sorry to the doomed romance of 14 and Yaz, and any headcanons you might have floating around.) Although…
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Apr 25, 2024
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction—part of a case that ushered in the #MeToo movement and led to a long overdue reckoning for predatory men in Hollywood and beyond—was overturned by a New York court today after it determined that the original trial was prejudiced against the disgraced producer and relied on…
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Apr 25, 2024
Sequels to big, dumb, beloved comedies are almost always a bad idea: inevitably disappointing, rarely capturing the magic of the original, often seemingly like a desperate cash grab. (See: Blues Brothers 2000, Caddyshack II, etc.) But Ben Stiller must've thought he was exempt when he took a stab at a second Zoolander.…
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Apr 25, 2024
Anyone who's watched a few episodes of HBO's excellent, very funny Hacks has already been exposed to the comedic wrecking ball style of Megan Stalter, who manages to steal pretty much every scene she shows up in as devotedly incompetent agents' assistant/boss' daughter Kayla. Now, Stalter—who also appeared in this…
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Apr 25, 2024
Donnie Darko crashed into theaters a little over twenty years ago, bringing with it one of cinema's all-time great soundtracks—one that still resonates all these years later. This May, A24 and director Jane Schoenbrun are hoping to provide the same for a new generation with their soundtrack to I Saw The TV Glow, a…
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Apr 25, 2024
Netflix's Baby Reindeer is full of turbulence. Series creator and comedian Richard Gadd lifts from his real-life experience with a stalker to write seven jaw-dropping episodes that are tough to digest. They're emotionally devastating and cause physical discomfort but deliver a profoundly human story that's impossible…
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Apr 25, 2024
Though Boy Kills World (the feature debut of German writer-director Moritz Mohr) tries its best to conjure a snarky, gory action flick àla Deadpool, a sorely lacking script, bloated runtime, and aimless direction render this revenge flick aggressively tepid.
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Apr 25, 2024
In case the title wasn't enough of a hint, Dead Boy Detectives wastes no time establishing its paranormal setting. There are demons, possessions, World War II and Victorian-era spirits, an evil witch, a larger-than-life snake, a glowing squid, and magical mirrors galore in the first episode alone. Netflix's drama,…
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Apr 25, 2024
In a move it's very difficult not to see in terms of the recent nostalgia/horror firestorm surrounding the network's Nickelodeon docuseries Quiet On Set, Investigation Discovery has announced that it'll soon be launching a four-part investigative series into '90s and 2000s pop culture mainstays Nick and Aaron Carter.…
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Apr 24, 2024
"I have this sneaking suspicion that something is going to happen today," Milwaukee Dan sagely introduced Wednesday night's edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. And he was quickly proven right: Even before host Kristen Kish could delight the chef-testants by bringing out baking great Christina Tosi—the James Beard…
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Apr 24, 2024
The U.K. version of Rebel Wilson's new memoir Rebel Rising will be a bit different from the version previously published in the United States—to the tune of most of the material contained in the attention-heavy chapter "Sacha Baron Cohen And Other Assholes," and specifically all of the stuff about Cohen himself. The…
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Apr 24, 2024
It was probably inevitable that, of all the really big names in rap and hip-hop, the first one who'd get seriously obnoxious with A.I was going to be Drake. (It was him or Kanye West, and West's trajectory is so weird and out of step with modern tastes right now as to make the confluence unlikely). After all, A.I. is…
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Apr 24, 2024
Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved." Nevertheless, Billy Corgan is still trying to bring the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) back and has two shows on The CW app that will cage his rage. Announced earlier today, Corgan is bringing his experiences attempting to restore NWA to its former glory to…
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Apr 24, 2024
People have been trying, for at least 20 years, to turn Cormac McCarthy's Western opus Blood Meridian into a movie—and every single one of them has failed. Big names, too: Ridley Scott moved heaven or hell to try to get the movie made in the 2000s, and Tommy Lee Jones, who would later star in the Coens' adaptation of…
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Apr 24, 2024
Even amid the summer of many divorces, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney's alleged affair on the set of Anyone But You maintained a stranglehold on both headlines and the hearts of gossip-hungry viewers across the nation. The two really looked like they wanted to rip each other's clothes off every time they stepped onto…
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Apr 24, 2024
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can't disclose in our official review. Fair warning: This article explains the ending of the movie Abigail.
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Apr 24, 2024
Nicole Kidman is beloved not only by audiences, but by filmmakers. You can see by her extraordinary resumé that she likes to challenge herself, and by the incredibly diverse variety of directors she's worked with that she wants to have a well-rounded career. (Kidman famously pledged to work with a female director…
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Apr 24, 2024
Note: this article contains spoilers for The Curse's final episode, "Green Queen."
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Apr 24, 2024
Billie Eilish shares a lot in her new Rolling Stone interview—about her sexuality, her mental health, her experience with isolation, and her masturbation habits, among other things—but most relevant for fans is the direction of her new album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, debuting May 17. She and her brother/collaborator…
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Apr 24, 2024
Taylor Swift is the biggest star in the world, and The Tortured Poets Department is, so far, the biggest album of the year. Those facts can be proven in numerical terms: the record-breaking tour, the record-breaking concert film, the record-breaking vinyl sales, the record-breaking streaming numbers. But feelings, to…
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Apr 24, 2024
The question that springs to mind at the end of The Veil is: What are we even doing here? What is the purpose of this FX six-episode limited series? Premiering on April 30, The Veil is boring and aimless unless the goal is to (much like the dragged-out The Handmaid's Tale) remind audiences of the all-consuming power…
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Apr 24, 2024
Boy Kills World, starring Bill Skarsgård and his rubber face (at perhaps the most rubber it's ever been), is a bonkers, bloody, and endlessly imaginative tale of retribution and revenge. Skargård is "Boy," a deaf and mute fighting machine hell-bent on murdering the woman who killed his family. Boy Kills World features…
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Apr 24, 2024
One day, should humanity be blessed enough to continue upon its current collective perch, the old op-ed pages of national newspapers will provide their own records of our social temperature in these charged times. Future generations, then, will get to judge—perhaps harshly—the nature of our collective preoccupations.
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Apr 24, 2024
If only for his lifelong collaboration with David Bowie, Tony Visconti would be among the greatest record producers of the rock era. Visconti and Bowie bonded early in the singer's career and, together, they assembled an adventurous and enduring catalog anchored by such classics as Low, "Heroes," and Blackstar.
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Apr 24, 2024
Each era of Saturday Night Live has its mega-stars, the ones whose sketch-comedy contributions linger long after those weekly, wistful goodbye segments and that final saxophone blow. There are, of course, those legendary 1975 originals, the Not Ready For Prime-Time Players like John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase,…
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Apr 24, 2024
I thought that maybe Palm Royale was finally gelling after last week. Everyone was in one location, the humor was clicking, and the reveals felt like payoffs. Alas, it was short lived, as the wheels came off this week in a big way.
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Apr 23, 2024
1985's Clue has long been the gold standard for movies based on board games. While the toxic thinking that led to the subgenre has added a handful of worthy titles to the game closet, most probably think of Battleship, which sunk the genre back in 2012. Very few end up as good as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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Apr 23, 2024
Last week, cinephiles found a horse's head in their bed when The Hollywood Reporter announced that no one in Hollywood has the guts to release Francis Ford Coppola's latest passion project, Megalopolis. Even though Hollywood is releasing a film called Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, the lack of clear good guys and…
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Apr 23, 2024
Last week, cinephiles found a horse's head in their bed when The Hollywood Reporter announced that no one in Hollywood has the guts to release Francis Ford Coppola's latest passion project, Megalopolis. Even though Hollywood is releasing a film called Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, the lack of clear good guys and…
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Apr 23, 2024
The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino's now-abandoned tenth and final film, is now regulated to the what-if portion of Tarantino's career. Like Double V Vega and Kill Bill Vol. 3, it is now another unproduced idea for the filmmaker's filing cabinet. However, the filing cabinet casket and the author aren't the only…
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Apr 23, 2024
Guy Ritchie's two-and-a-half-decade career as a filmmaker has been a bit of a mixed bag, and that's being generous. No one really wants to be pigeonholed, but the fact is that some artists are especially suited to one particular genre, and they do their best work when they stick to it. For Ritchie, that genre is…
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Apr 23, 2024
Sometimes, escapist media works best when it presents a vision of a world that's somewhat close to the one someone is trying to run away from, but without any of the real-life stressors that make that situation so taxing. (This writer watched a lot of Veep in November 2020, for example.) In an interview with The A.V.…
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Apr 23, 2024
Zoë Kravitz's long-awaited directorial debut finally has a trailer. Blink Twice, which Kravitz co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum, stars Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat. Of course, the horror film was originally titled…
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Apr 23, 2024
There's no dearth of options on Hulu, so deciding what to watch can be overwhelming. Instead of figuring out which show will keep you on your couch for several hours, check out our roundup of the best series on the streamer, including beloved Hulu originals, FX hits, network TV favorites, and cult gems. Looking for…
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Apr 23, 2024
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be…
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Apr 23, 2024
The logline for Netflix's upcoming film, Atlas,reads, "Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the…
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Apr 23, 2024
Another Taylor Swift album cycle, another barrage of broken records for music's conquering titan. According to Variety, Swift has already sold 700,000 vinyl copies of The Tortured Poets Department, breaking the record for weekly vinyl sales in just three days. By the time the week is out, she'll have broken the…
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Apr 23, 2024
Anne Hathaway is adding her own story to the growing archive of all the ways Hollywood was an even bigger minefield for women before the Me Too era. As she goes back to her rom-com roots in upcoming boy band fantasy The Idea Of You, Hathaway recalled how chemistry tests used to look a lot different than they do…
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Apr 23, 2024
In Apple TV 's star-studded show Palm Royale, picking out a favorite performer isn't easy considering it features Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Leslie Bibb, and Ricky Martin. So it's no wonder Josh Lucas, who co-stars in the dramedy, agrees that it's a "comedy lab" of sorts. The actor holds…
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Apr 23, 2024
Given the past few episodes, I was expecting more of a showstopper-style finale in which a bunch more characters would die, or maybe someone would seek some kind of retribution for Mariko's death. But no. This is more of a denouement of an episode, a processing of things, and a subtle setting-up of the future to come…
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Apr 23, 2024
It was the first day of Donald Trump's hush-money trial, and while we don't have much to say about the allegedly sleepy, flatulent-laden proceedings, Jon Stewart sure did. Appearing on tonight's Daily Show, Stewart took out his red pen and gave the media a big, fat "F" for its first day of coverage. It turns out that…
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Apr 22, 2024
Some parents offer support through positive affirmation. A simple "Good game, sport," or "Great work, kiddo," can really help keep any young person from the devil's temptations. Positive reinforcement builds confidence, and confidence creates success. That's the American way, but it's not the way of Patrick…
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Apr 22, 2024
Mila Kunis isn't returning to Wisconsin to put a foot in dumbass Eric's ass. The third Meg Griffin told ?ET that she and Ashton Kutcher are not appearing on the next season of That ‘90s Show. After she and her husband "did our thing" and "introduced our son in the show," she's getting the hell out of the Midwest.
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Apr 22, 2024
No one has the confidence of Jerry Seinfeld. His supreme belief in himself oozes out of every mundane premise, slight irritation, and the half-cocked smirk that graces his lips when he comes upon one of his many hilarious observations. Every time a mere mortal raises the pitch of their voice and questions, "What's the…
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Apr 22, 2024
A full decade after popping up out of pretty much nowhere to help a whole generation of music lovers find god, Hozier has somehow done the unthinkable: he's written a song on track to be even more successful than "Take Me To Church." Here's something else that may be pretty shocking to anyone who lived through the…
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Apr 22, 2024
Pearl Jam is doing their best to not join the growing list of artistsforced to send Donald Trump cease and desists over his use of their music at his campaign rallies. But while their new single openly describes how much of an evil loser the former president is, if he somehow missedNeil Young, Phil Collins, and The…
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Apr 22, 2024
Are you really making the most out of your Amazon Prime subscription? Sure, you've got paper towels and cat litter coming in like clockwork. But if you're not regularly combing through the service's streaming catalog, then you're missing out on hundreds of hours of killer TV. Since getting into the original-content…
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Apr 22, 2024
When 21st Century Fox (and with it Deadpool) officially came under Disney's jurisdiction in 2017, there was some rightfully placed concern that the Mouse would bar the merc with a mouth from saying whatever the hell he motherfucking wanted. Fans can rest easy, however, because Marvel just released the first trailer…
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Apr 22, 2024
The cast and crew of 1999's game-changing The Blair Witch Project didn't go out and get terrorized in the woods for nothing, even if that's sort of how they're being treated by Lionsgate and Blumhouse right now. Ever allergic to new ideas, the two major studios announced yet another reboot of the iconic found footage…
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Apr 22, 2024
Hand to god, when the screen on the all-knowing Morpho machine flashed up the words "Are you ready for the next stage?" at the end of The Big Door Prize season one, our answer at the time was an emphatic "No." We (brag) texted a successful screenwriter friend asking them to watch it and see if they found it as…
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Apr 22, 2024
As modern society speeds past dire environmental warning signs, indulges the clamorous embrace of fascistic tendencies, rejects empirical truth and the guidance of experts-in-field, and generally ignores any number of various other flashing red lights, it can be easy to take a fairly bleak view of humanity. For her…
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Apr 22, 2024
It sure seems like a lot of classic cartoon characters have found their way to Paramount , from the Paw Patrol narcs to good old SpongeBob. The streamer also hosts the two most recent films about a certain famous blue hedgehog, so naturally his pal Knuckles' spinoff series would premiere on the platform—on April 26,…
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Apr 21, 2024
The first episode of The Sympathizer felt, in many ways like a prologue. That's doubled down in episode two, where the plot starts growing tendrils that won't bloom for another few weeks and our major players are brought more firmly into focus. I said the series premiere had an air of "previously on" about it, and…
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Apr 21, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, April 21 to Thursday, April 25. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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Apr 20, 2024
There aren't a lot of actors who came out of the filming of Game Of Thrones without making at least a bit of headway on filling out their "cinematic war crimes" demo reels, with actors like Charles Dance, Lena Headey, and Emilia Clarke all getting to regularly engage in the kinds of acts that failed to violate the…
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Apr 20, 2024
It feels weirdly reductive, 30 years later, to refer to The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert as simply a "cult" film. Stephen Elliott's Oscar-winning comedy, about three drag performers traveling across Australia, has entered the canon of films exploring the lives of LGBTQ characters on film, using the…
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Apr 20, 2024
Alex Garland's new "What if all Americans decided to kill each other, but in a sort of unlikely, apolitical way?" thriller Civil War might have been divisive with critics, but it's continuing to be a lot less ambiguous when it comes to ticket sales. Per Deadline, the A24 flick, now in its second week in theaters, is…
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Apr 20, 2024
Congratulations, you're high (in a state where it's legal)! Depending on your mood and level of baked, you may find yourself in a college course-like debate over the differences between Fritos and Doritos, waxing poetic about the clouds in the sky, or scrolling endlessly through your streaming channels in search of…
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Apr 20, 2024
Pearl Jam isn't quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an elite group of alt-rock bands who survived the 1990s unscathed. Although they've had the inevitable ups and downs that…
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Apr 19, 2024
Taylor Swift has once again stolen a record from herself—which must be a nice change of pace, after all that shit that went down with her masters a few years back—with Spotify announcing today that Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already smashed the record for most streamed albums in a single…
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Apr 19, 2024
Devastating the collective political cartoonists of America—forced to crumple up potentially hundreds of hastily scrawled cartoons depicting Bert and Ernie screaming slogans while out on the picket lines—Deadline reports tonight that the Writers Guild Of America has reached a tentative agreement with Sesame Workshop,…
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Apr 19, 2024
For the second time in the franchise's ridiculously successful 23-year history, CBS's CSI franchise is facing the prospect of a world in which there are no active CSI shows on the air. The network announced tonight that it's killing off revival series CSI: Vegas after three seasons on the air, tossing it onto our old…
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Apr 19, 2024
While it will probably take a few more days for all the reactions, close readings, and fervor over The Tortured Poets Department to really crystallize, one thing that's immediately clear about the album is its sheer mass. Including its surprise, 16-track sister album, The Anthology, TTPD is a 31-song, two-plus hour…
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Apr 19, 2024
We would like to posit that no single film role has done more to damage the psyches of British male actors of a certain age, type, and jawline than James Bond. The moment pretty much any of these poor saps hits, like, 25, the rumors and speculation, the internal questioning, the horrific, endless pressure all start.…
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Apr 19, 2024
It's another banner week for casting news. Big name actors like Steve Buscemi, Emma Thompson, and Don Johnson landed new television projects, while Riz Ahmed becomes the newest addition to Wes Anderson's merry band of players. Also, Michael Showalter's Christmas pic Oh. What. Fun. rounds out its cast. Read on for more.
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Apr 19, 2024
What is going on with this new The Office thing? The possible reboot/possible revival/possible spin-off has been all smoke and mirrors and Greg Daniels schemes. But it's real enough to have apparently bagged two pretty big names as the first actors cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Domhnall Gleeson (of the Sta…
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Apr 19, 2024
It's pretty safe to assume that almost everyone engaging with this site isinterested incelebrity gossip in some form, whether that's about directors getting sent t0 "movie jail" or housewives getting sentenced to actual jail. If you think you're immune, first of all maybe stop lying to yourself and second, consider…
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Apr 19, 2024
Storming into theaters this weekend to play alongside murky, politically fraught films like Civil War, there's something comfortingly simple and familiar about a historical action flick dedicated entirely to coming up with ways to kill Nazis. From Inglorious Basterds to last year's Sisu, it's a subgenre that's existed…
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Apr 19, 2024
If you've had a chance to catch Hundreds Of Beavers during its recent roadshow tour, or at any of the many festivals where it's played to enthusiastic audiences, you already know what a weird and wonderful film it is. If not, it's kind of hard to explain. Think of it as a live-action Looney Tunes feature, with…
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Apr 19, 2024
Mandisa, the contemporary Christian artist and former American Idol contestant, has died, according to Rolling Stone. She was 47 years old.
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Apr 19, 2024
Uh oh! It sounds like Monty Python co-founder John Cleese won't be able to fart in our general direction via his show about cancel culture any time soon, because it has reportedly already been canceled. Help! He's being repressed!
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Apr 19, 2024
Uh oh! It sounds like Monty Python co-founder John Cleese won't be able to fart in our general direction via his show about cancel culture any time soon, because it has reportedly already been canceled. Help! He's being repressed!
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Apr 19, 2024
I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with my tail between my legs, much like the titular "Black Dog." My comprehensive review of Taylor Swift's new album turned out not to be comprehensive at all. At 2 AM EST, hours after the scheduled release of the first 16 tracks, Swift announced on her…
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Apr 19, 2024
There's a lot to say about Taylor Swift's latest, a surprise two-part album titled The Tortured Poets Department. Of course, much of that has already been interrogated by The A.V. Club's Mary Kate Carr in her review of the collection. But here at The A.V. Club, we also like to spend extra time teasing apart the most…
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Apr 19, 2024
When he was down on his luck and wanted to support his family and make sure his kids had a good life, Giancarlo Esposito almost took a very different route than his Breaking Bad character, Gus Fring. While Gus turned to the cartel, Esposito recently revealed that he seriously considered committing insurance fraud in…
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Apr 19, 2024
Like some unholy fusion of Resident Evil and Dance Moms, Abigail dares suggest that the only thing scarier than a haunted house is one that's also occupied by a pissed-off tween ballerina with an emotionally absent, narcissistic parent. It's not wrong, but there'll be no Abby Lee Miller showing up to discipline the…
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Apr 19, 2024
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We'll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you're playing this weekend, and what…
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Apr 19, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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Apr 19, 2024
In September 2001—that is, 23 years ago somehow—Cartoon Network launched Adult Swim, a late-night programming block for the kind of people who would check out a kid's TV channel just to see what it was airing after the kids went to bed. It was, essentially, for folks who hoped things would get a little weird. And…
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Apr 19, 2024
When I started this little post-apocalyptic journey seven episodes ago, it was with a question about tone. Was Fallout, at its core, a comedy or a tragedy? But it's a false distinction, in a lot of ways. As our old pal Bud Askins might tell us, either in his flesh body, or trapped with his brain rolling around inside…
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Apr 19, 2024
To call Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver pastiche is to oversell it. As was the case in Part One—A Child Of Fire, The Scargiver is an unmistakable blend of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and George Lucas' Star Wars, so obvious in its make that pointing out the origin of its parts is redundant. The Scargiver doesn't…
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Apr 19, 2024
Because there must always, somewhere, be a pop culture lawsuit designed to make the rest of us gently roll our eyes—and the "Yesterday used Ana de Armas to trick us into watching Yesterday!" people have finally settled out of court—we're very excited to inform you of a new potential class action suit kicking off in…
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Apr 19, 2024
Taylor Swift has cultivated a daunting amount of lore to sift through. The casual fan doesn't need to know the entire backstory to enjoy The Tortured Poets Department, the artist's 11th album, but do casual fans of Taylor Swift even exist anymore? Over the past three years, she's gone from megafamous to ultrafamous to…
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Apr 18, 2024
One of the big things that happened, when the rise of streaming TV kicked off roughly a decade ago, is that everybody got very cagey about numbers, very quickly. Netflix was the first to get the big idea, of course, realizing that, since they'd essentially sidestepped Nielsen ratings entirely (with the polling…
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Apr 18, 2024
In news practically as inevitable as humanity's innate impulse to annihilate itself in a burst of cleansing nuclear fire, Amazon has confirmed today that it's renewing Fallout for a second season of post-apocalyptic Prime Video TV. This is not a shock, in so far as the series (executive produced by Westworld's…
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Apr 18, 2024
Apologies to all the dorks out there with their YouTube channels, but the rain in Seven isn't the mood-setter you think it is. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times celebrating the [ahem] 8K IMAX re-release of Seven (we're really looking forward to seeing "Sloth" in glorious 8K), director David Fincher dispelled…
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Apr 18, 2024
It's a given, in this day and age, that the streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood, and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. But did we also know that there are some pretty interesting Hollywood what-ifs floating in that river of blood, particularly surrounding Zack…
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Apr 18, 2024
Despite the fact that Hollywood's actors and writers went on strike in part because of the encroachment of AI just this past summer, we've already seen the technology pop up more during the past few months. In January, disappointed True Detective: Night Country fans spotted and called out a clearly AI-generated poster…
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Apr 18, 2024
Despite sending some of that affection to the musical stylings of Frank Sinatra and science education over the last decade, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane hasn't forgotten his first love: his precious cartoons. That love has served him well at the Fox network, where his animation domination ruled much of the 2000s…
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Apr 18, 2024
It's hard to believe that the Spy X Family series, based on the manga series of the same name, has only been around since 2022. The characters have become so ubiquitous in fan spaces that it feels like they've been with us for much longer. Even if you've never seen the show before, you've probably seen an image of…
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Apr 18, 2024
What if the public event you were attending was entirely a setup just to getcha? That's the nightmare of paranoiacs and Truman Show fans everywhere, and also the premise of M. Night Shyamalan's new film Trap, premiering in theaters August 9. A new trailer for the film takes advantage of star Josh Hartnett's good-guy…
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Apr 18, 2024
The Witcher had a good run; at least as good as it can get when the lead actor bows out midway through over rumored creative differences. The fact that the show survived to recast Liam Hemsworth as Geralt and even got a spin-off speaks to its success. Now, Netflix has given the series another vote of confidence by…
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Apr 18, 2024
You'd think that, by now, Glen Powell's characters would have learned that adopting a false identity and lying to pretty much everyone you know never pans out well, but nope! The actor is trading being Sydney Sweeney's fake boyfriend in Anyone But You for being the cops' fake hired gun in Hit Man, and—based on the…
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Apr 18, 2024
The one rule of Pretty Little Liars is, no matter how many mysteries you solve, how deep down the rabbit hole you go, or how frequently you unmask A, the twisted, murderous mind games must always continue. Such is the case for the second season of the rebooted series, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (premiering May…
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Apr 18, 2024
Re-airing any sort of exploitative or sexually explicit material—even for the purpose of exposing a predatory system—is a slippery slope, and it's one Quiet On Set subjects Raquel Lee Bolleau and Alexa Nikolas say the documentary's producers didn't handle well. "After watching the show, I saw that it was not at all…
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