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The reluctance of the mainstream music industry to engage with the predators in its midst has been well-documented, from Kesha’s legal battle with her accused abuser Dr. Luke to the silence from industry executives on decades of allegations of sexual abuse leveled against R. Kelly. Today, a campaign to pressure Sony…

Taking its lead from Bounce TV, the network that chose to wait until Bill Cosby was definitely found guilty of sexual assault before pulling The Cosby Show reruns, Temple University has also decided to distance itself from its most famous alum following the results of Cosby’s trial. Cosby received an honorary…

Bob Dylan, giant of postwar Americana that he is, is still an easy target for parody. He has a funny singing voice that you can emulate by plugging your nose; a lot of his most famous tracks are filled with abstract lyrics sung in rambling verses; sometimes he wears a harmonica on a neck holder—any jackass can work…

Were it up to Jon Benjamin, he probably wouldn’t have written a book at all. He admits as much throughout Failure Is An Option, a sharp and extremely funny memoir that is occasionally as much about not wanting to write a book as it is about his life. During one of several email exchanges with college professors that…

USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony returns this week for its third season with a pretty big shift in setting: After two years in Los Angeles, the Bowmans escaped the bloc and are now living outside of its walls. The onscreen move also coincided with an offscreen one, as the production relocated to Vancouver last…

Avengers: Infinity War smashed opening-weekend records in its wide release, and broke countless hearts when it [REDACTED]. Fans hoping that Marvel might offer some resolution or comfort at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con will have to remember that the studio isn’t planning to tease any of what remains in phase…

Pamela Gidley, an actress probably best known for her role as the elusive Teresa Banks in David Lynch’s prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. The cause of Gidley’s death was not listed in her obituary, which announced that she “died peacefully in her home, on Monday,…

Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair warning: Major plot points for Avengers: Infinity War— including the ending—will be revealed below.

Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair warning: Major plot points for Avengers: Infinity War— including the ending—will be revealed below.

Avengers: Infinity War spoilers ahead:

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Ahead of its November 2016 premiere on Netflix, The Crown was dubbed the most expensive TV show ever made, with a $130 million budget (it’s since lost that standing to Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings prequel series). But apparently, all of that money couldn’t prevent the producers of the show, Left Bank Productions, from…

The condemned: Surge Of Power: Revenge Of The Sequel (2017)

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There’s nothing worse than bad improv, and it’s no stretch to say that most improv is bad improv. Most would agree, however, that you’re in safe hands with Tina Fey, who spent years honing her comedy in dingy Chicago storefronts before hitting it big on Saturday Night Live. Now, in a preview for Fey’s May 4th…

We all knew Avengers: Infinity War was going to have a huge opening weekend, as is right and proper for a Marvel Studios blockbuster. But, much as the film stuffs dozens of characters into one 156-minute movie, Infinity War multiplied the box-office returns even of this February’s mega-hit Black Panther, decimating…

From the outside, Westworld looks a lot like the 1973 film that inspired it: Theme park robots rise up against their human masters and chaos ensues. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO series, however, is using its vessel as an extended series to explore the global implications of artificial intelligence gaining true…

Two and a half episodes in, and The New York Times’ ambient, immersive, and ambitious podcast about the workings of ISIS is vivisecting the deadliest cell on the planet. The cold open of the show’s prologue offers an ISIS member’s rationale for all the killing he’s ordered to perform. It’s the same justification that…

Back in 2007, a young man by the name of Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em broke onto the music scene with his hit single “Crank That (Soulja Boy).” It was a massive hit. With his viral-video-inspiring dance routines and lesser-known songs about Dragon Ball Z, Soulja Boy seemed destined for a lifetime of success. But here we are, a…

When AMC announced its new pop culture docuseries, Visionaries, at the Television Critics Association 2017 summer press tour, the network made it clear that these explorations of genres and media would be informative, but informal—expansive, but specific to whatever prominent filmmaker or producer was at the helm of a…

When AMC announced its new pop-culture docuseries, Visionaries, at the Television Critics Association 2017 summer press tour, the network made it clear that these explorations of genres and media would be informative, but informal—expansive, but specific to whatever prominent filmmaker or producer was at the helm of a…