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Groundhog Day is one of the best comedies ever made, a clever, heartfelt romance with a surprisingly robust philosophical backbone. Harold Ramis and Bill Murray’s movie tells the story of a weatherman, Phil Collins, who, while covering the fabled Punxsutawney groundhog, relives the same day over and over again until…

Last night’s episode of Westworld gave us a glimpse into not one, but two new parks within Westworld. One we’ve been expecting: The samurai that confronts Maeve and co. near the end of the episode means that we’re inching closer to the much-discussed Shogun World. But the proceedings kicked off in another park…

True, Avengers: Infinity War crossing the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office was something of an inevitability. But the speed with which it did so is still pretty impressive. The film rung up $1 billion in box-office receipts in a mere 11 days, the fastest of any film in cinema history; it’s the 34th…

Transparent may be moving forward without Jeffrey Tambor, but not very far. Late last year, reports emerged that the actor—who led the Amazon dramedy for the first four seasons—had sexually harassed his co-star Trace Lysette and former personal assistant Van Barnes, both of whom are trans women. Tambor initially…

Based on the memoir of the same name, Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. Earlier this year, disability advocacy group, Ruderman…

Tiffany Haddish has so many projects in various states of production that it’s hard to keep track (although we’re certainly trying to keep up), but leading a new animated series from BoJack Horseman’s Lisa Hanawalt is among the most intriguing. Called Tuca And Bertie, the series centers on two 30-year-old bird women…

Following a stellar performance as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Donald Glover capped off the weekend by dropping a surprise Childish Gambino track that pretty much guaranteed he’d be dominating the trending topics on Twitter. The Hiro Murai-directed video for “This Is America” is a…

Actor-comedian Ken Jeong gave up his real-life medical practice to pursue a stand-up career, which led to film appearances and eventually, his own sitcom, Dr. Ken, in which he played a licensed physician. (Clearly, someone didn’t want all those years in medical school to go to waste.) But while Jeong may no longer…

One of the high points of Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s run on Superman is their “Return To Dinosaur Island” two-parter, which pays tribute to the late, great Darwyn Cooke by sending Superman and Superboy to Dinosaur Island. The story builds on plot points from Cooke’s classic DC: The New Frontier miniseries…

In previous memoirs like The Chelsea Whistle and How To Grow Up, Michelle Tea brilliantly captured the seething desires of adolescence and the growing pains of reluctant maturity. Her new book is just as raw, just as honest, just as gorgeously punk-rock rebellious, but instead of being about her lived experiences, …

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the 29-year-old Icelandic actor/professional bodybuilder who plays mute wall of muscle Ser Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane on Game Of Thrones, has never been the kind of guy you want to pick a fight with at a bar. Now, though, he’s got a title to match his 6'9", 400-pound physique: The World’s…

Marvel has some big plans for bringing The Avengers to the world of video games, but considering how sparse the details remain, it seems we’re still a long way off from getting our hands on whatever big-budget spectacle the company is cooking up with publisher Square Enix. In the meantime, Marvel has announced it’s…

Melody Cheng, Helen Wu, and Janet Wang get together every week to discuss their careers, personal lives, and everything else modern Asian-American women experience. This week is all about first dates: dos and don’ts, dealbreakers, the best and worst places to meet, and more. The trio share real-life stories about…

I’m not sure what this says about my aspirations as a parent, but one exciting thing about my kid getting older is that we can now watch more TV together. We’ve been finding more shows to get into as a family—when it’s time for MasterChef Junior, for instance, the three of us will stop what we’re doing immediately,…

For his recent appearance on The Daily Show, David Blaine decided to take a break from his signature “Isn’t it freaky that I knew what your card was?”-style of magic and do something a bit more viscerally shocking. Maybe he was feeding off of how uncomfortable Trevor Noah looked or maybe the current cultural climate…

[The following contains major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and the Guardians Of The Galaxy films.]

Just a few days after releasing the “remixed” fourth season of the beloved dysfunctional-family sitcom, Netflix has released a trailer for the fifth season of Arrested Development. In this era where narcissism and cluelessness are practically prerequisites for public office, Lindsay Bluth (Portia de Rossi) is running…

With the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum in Dallas last week, local brunch spot Ellen’s Restaurant chose to donate a portion of its profits to gun-control groups. The Hill reports the restaurant printed a message at the bottom of receipts letting customers know this; now, Ellen’s says it’s received…

Dan Gregor’s new movie Most Likely To Murder takes the “man returns to his hometown and rediscovers old drama” trope in film, and adds a Rear Window-esque, murder-mystery twist. Most Likely To Murder follows a former big man on campus returning to his hometown to discover his high school sweetheart dating former high…

“Sometimes brutality gets shit done.” That mission statement is spoken by a shirtless Mike Colter in character as Luke Cage, who faces a new threat that might actually be his equal in the second season of his eponymous Netflix series. That threat comes in the form of John McIver (Mustafa Shakir), a.k.a. Bushmaster, a…

The gods are dying. Snuffed out by old age, brittle-boned and weak of heart, too often done in by the very drugs that keep their geriatric bodies performing night after night. They are our leather-panted deities, our classic rock icons, the gods of the 20th century (Hollywood actors, it’s worth noting, are idols or …

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John Oliver, destroyer of pumpkin spice, booster of women engineers, and sworn enemy of April Fools’ Day, has now himself been destroyed in an epic takedown. Last night, Oliver jokingly announced that he was shutting down Last Week Tonight, saying, “we have accomplished everything we set out to do on this show ...…

Can a movie be both generic and specific? Sollers Point, the latest understated drama from writer-director Matthew Porterfield (Putty Hill, I Used To Be Darker), exists at an unusual intersection, its authenticity working overtime to compensate for its familiarity. The film follows Keith (McCaul Lombardi), a convicted…

Premiering three months after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t help but feel significant. The relevancy hits because Margaret Atwood pulled every detail about the controlling and punishment of women in her dystopian novel from real-world examples, mostly historical (going as far…