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It’s been three-and-a-half years since the producers of This American Life’s Serial introduced the world to Adnan Syed, the man convicted—rightly, or not—of the murder of his high school girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in Baltimore in 2000. In the process, Serial won a Peabody Award, scored more than 68 million downloads,…

Here’s some good news for anyone still working on a shrine dedicated to sitcom hero Winston “Winnie The Bish” Bishop: A bunch of items from the New Girl set are currently being auctioned off, so you can now own one of Winston’s actual bird shirts, a different one of Winston’s actual bird shirts, a third bird shirt, a …

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. The summer movie season is upon us, which means it’s time for a semi-annual tradition: singing the praises of the most unloved, underperforming, or simply forgotten summer blockbusters.

Recently, the world has come to rest its feverish gaze upon the work of J.J. Bittenbinder, a retired Chicago cop who was brought in to elementary schools to teach children how to stay safe, but who nevertheless terrified a young John Mulaney. Since Mulaney’s retelling of that story in his recent comedy special, …

Four years after its release, the hottest summer movie event of 2014 is finally making its streaming debut on Amazon Prime. We speak, of course, of Leprechaun: Origins, the film that answers the question: Once you’ve been to space and the hood, where else is there to go? (The answer is Ireland—or British Columbia,…

Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz may have gone back and “remixed” the show’s jumbled fourth season into a more digestible structure, but the show’s fifth season—coming on May 29—still won’t be entirely straightforward. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show’s 16-episode fifth season will be split into…

First things first: Thank God and Channing Dungey for a forthcoming fifth season of Black-ish.

There would be no press conference. That much was agreed upon in advance, probably by all parties involved. After all, the last time Lars von Trier sat down for a little Q&A at Cannes—this was back in 2011, to talk about Melancholia—he ended up causing quite the stir, joking (?) about identifying with Hitler and…

In his 2008 article “True Crime: A Postmodern Murder Mystery,” The New Yorker’s resident chronicler of deadly obsessions, David Grann, recounted the strange case of a Polish writer who became the prime suspect in an unsolved murder after a detective recognized details of the crime in his debut novel. The story was…

Cheer up, sad sacks: There’s someone out there for everyone, even a drunk, miserable sack of shit like you. That’s the message of the new trailer for Destination Wedding, the film that reunites the hottest onscreen Goth betrotheds of 1992, Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, as two moody…

Gotham fans still have one more season of Batman-adjacent insanity to enjoy before that show goes off into the dark night, but another prequel about the Caped Crusader’s supporting cast is already in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Epix has just ordered 10 episodes of Pennyworth, a show dedicated to…

In a turn of events that actually fits 2018 like a glove, a British award bestowed upon the best comic fiction of the previous 12 months will not be granted this year, because the committee decided none of the works under consideration were funny enough—and they didn’t even give Kevin James a chance.

RaRazer makes a bunch of our readers’ favorite gaming peripherals, and a whole bunch of them are on sale in their one-day FragFest. Options include everything from mice and gameboards to complete gaming PCs, and every order of $49 or more ships for free.

Any actor will tell you that auditioning is the worst part of the job. The whole awkward, vulnerable experience is only made worse when you have to submit an audition tape—usually a straight-on shot of you standing in an empty room, reading lines to no one from a scene you’ve probably read once before. Frankly, the…

USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony is officially in its third season, and the Bowmans and their allies are in a world of trouble beyond the walls of the Los Angeles bloc. In honor of the new season, we spoke with Tory Kittles and Alex Neustaedter to find out their favorite alien stories from pop culture. The list…

There’s a new Star Wars movie in theaters this month, as Solo: A Star Wars Story arrives on May 25, powered by a starring performance from Alden Ehrenreich and the great and terrible power of the Disney marketing machine. (For what it’s worth it, we liked it quite a bit; Donald Glover’s apparently as good as iconic…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, J.A. Bayona’s forthcoming sequel to the tepid 2015 blockbuster, has made it more than clear that, this time around, it wants us to feel bad for the dinosaurs. That presumably means that Chris Pratt’s pint-sized pal Blue will play a sizable role in the proceedings, which we’re all for if…

Friendship is at the core of John Allison’s work, and he’s created deep, compelling character dynamics in the pages of his long-running webcomic Scary Go Round and his creator-owned Boom! Studios ongoing, Giant Days. Personal relationships continue to be the focus for his new Boom! title, By Night, which teams Allison…

For pure entertainment value, it’s hard to top the Mission: Impossible series— even the Fast And Furious films lack the consistent track record delivered by the Tom Cruise-led franchise adaptation of the old TV show. Each film is the vision of a different auteur, and yet all have delivered a reliably thrilling…

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy—or, rather, a loose translation of something she said—set off a minor internet emergency earlier this morning, when an interview she did with Premiere France was translated thusly: “We think that the next spin-off will be dedicated to Lando Calrissian. Of course, there are still…

Sex isn’t always, well, sexy, especially when it comes to how it sounds. And since nobody really wants to hear breathless grunting and sweaty, matted body hair slapping against bare flesh, the foley artists working on sex-laden flicks tend to have their work cut out for them. Foley artists, if you’re unaware, are the…

You’re forgiven for missing Hyrule Warriors on the Wii U or 3DS, but now that it’s coming out on the Switch, it’s worth picking up for any brawler or Zelda fans out there, even if it’s not really a Zelda game.

Stars—They’re just like us! They publicly complain when their favorite shows get cancelled, lead the vanguard for the campaign to renew said show, and then form lasting bonds of friendship with their fellow stars in an ultra-secret group chat. Just like we all do! As Mashable reports, that’s exactly what Lin-Manuel…

For all its reputation as the crassly opportunistic refuge of the creatively bankrupt, the spin-off actually holds an esteemed place in TV history. Many shows now considered classics in their own right—The Simpsons, Laverne & Shirley, Frasier, The Colbert Report, etc.—began life on other shows, until producers…