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Smashing through a record that literally only ever comes up these days in the context of how long The Simpsons has been on the air, the canonically long-running Fox show is finally about to break Gunsmoke’s 635-episode hold on the title for longest-running scripted prime-time series ever. (For context, Gunsmoke was a…

We’ve all been there: You get jerked around by studio executives for months on end while you’re trying to create a plausible practical-effects model of a gelatinous green ghost, until finally you get some cocaine, go to town on it, and are visited by the ghost of John Belushi to help you finish your design. Tale as…

Janelle Monáe has devoted years to developing the saga of Cindi Mayweather, a renegade android hunted for having the gall to fall in love with a human. The meticulously crafted character is at the center of much of the Grammy nominee’s work, including the funk-opera Metropolis, and her subsequent full-length releases, …

USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony returns next week for its third season, picking up six months after the events of the second-season finale. A lot of things have changed for the Bowman family in that time, most notably that they’re now living outside the walls of the Los Angeles bloc. In preparation for the new…

USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony returns next week for its third season, picking up six months after the events of the second-season finale. A lot of things have changed for the Bowman family in that time, most notably that they’re now living outside the walls of the Los Angeles bloc. In preparation for the new…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: As a new Juliette Binoche movie, Let The Sunshine In, begins its theatrical run in the States, we remember other highlights from the career of this world-class actor.

It’s no surprise that Marvel’s new film Avengers: Infinity War was going to annihilate the competition from the very moment it began its Thursday night preview screenings. The only question was by how much—an Ant-Man’s length or a Hulk’s leap? Having tallied the box office, the answer is now clear: Combine those two,…

In the five months since his initial apology after he was let go from Today for what parent network NBC tactfully characterized as “inappropriate sexual behavior”—Variety published a report with all the creepy details, if you’re inclined to read them—Matt Lauer has kept out of the public eye, allowing his former…

“Hulu debuted The Handmaid’s Tale last April with a three-episode block that was filled with more pain and despair than virtually anything else on TV… And this time, the premiere is made up of just two hour-long installments—but given that dozens of women are lined up on the gallows in the first five minutes, [Bruce]…

Nine episodes into Atlanta Robbin’ Season, each of the four central characters has lived their own surreal horror movie. In “Helen,” Earn was stalked by the Schnappviecher but ultimately succumbed to his fear of commitment. Darius witnessed the bloody final confrontation between Teddy Perkins and his brother after…

It’s been going on five years now since we first reported the news that iconic children’s book series Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark might be coming to the big screen. And now, after years of “who knows if they’ll actually turn a bunch of campfire tales with the most fucked-up illustrations imaginable into a movie”…

Adam Sandler has so many regular and semi-faceless collaborators that it can be virtually impossible to discern their influences and whether they’re positive or negative. Is Tim Herlihy his best screenwriting partner, or just another occasionally funny yes-man who got lucky? Does Dennis Dugan know more about comic…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

The yodelin’ Walmart boy has had a whirlwind month. After a-yelpin’ and a-foot tappin’ his way into the nation’s heart earlier this month through a viral video that combined the inspiring purity of a young talent with the bottomless discomfort of using a retail chain’s aisles as a busking sidewalk, Mason Ramsey…

Attending the Overlook Film Festival has become an immersive experience in itself. In its evolution from the Stanley into its current form, the festival has taken attendees to two isolated mountain resorts—in Estes Park, Colorado, and atop Oregon’s Mt. Hood—until decamping this year to New Orleans’ French Quarter, the…

Attending the Overlook Film Festival has become an immersive experience in itself. In its evolution from the Stanley into its current form, the festival has taken attendees to two isolated mountain resorts—in Estes Park, Colorado, and atop Oregon’s Mt. Hood—until decamping this year to New Orleans’ French Quarter, the…

Is Avengers: Infinity War too much of a good thing? Or do its merits—a daring finale, breakneck pacing, Drax—compensate for its bloat? Today on Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss Marvel’s biggest, busiest, most jam-packed crossover event yet. No major spoilers, we…

We’ve been keeping just as much of an eye as everyone else on this week’s drama involving Kanye West being a little too logged on here at The A.V. Club, but frankly the whole thing has been too exhausting to thoughtfully chronicle every twist and turn, especially after the signed MAGA hats and Trump RTs got involved.

Bohemian Rhapsody, the fairly obviously titled upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic, has had its share of production snafus. First, Sacha Baron Cohen left the project, forcing the film to be shelved for several years. Then, last year, they lost their director because Bryan Singer was reportedly acting like Bryan Singer.…

Alek Minassian cited Elliot Rodger as a kind of hero before he drove a rented van onto a busy Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people on Monday. “All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!” Minassian wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post.

Mixing constant clatter and spasmodic camera movements with a comic strip’s manic pace, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Kings at least earns points for avoiding the predictable pitfalls of a drama set against an episode of relatively recent American history. The backdrop is the Rodney King verdict and the Los Angeles riots of…

Finally, a musical reunion that’s actually surprising: After 35 years, Swedish foursome ABBA is back to gift the world with more deceptively straightforward, infectiously ebullient disco-pop, as The Guardian reports.

Have you seen the Brazilian sci-fi thriller 3%? According to Netflix, there’s a good chance you not only saw it, but binged it. The streaming behemoth’s 2017 statistics (at least, the ones it released to the public) included a list of the most-binged shows globally, and coming in at number two—ahead of The OA, …

Welcome back to AVC Sessions, our series where we bring in an artist, band, musician, singer, rapper, etc. to perform three of their tracks. This week, New Jersey trio Screaming Females join us in the studio to perform a few songs from their latest release, the stellar All At Once. For the final song from their…

Grouper’s Grid Of Points finds the artist at her most vulnerable, while Dr. Dog loses momentum on Critical Equation, and Okkervil River’s In The Rainbow Rain is pretty but a little schmaltzy. These, plus Speedy Ortiz in this week’s notable new releases.