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Star Wars has had a habit in recent years of playing coy with questions about its characters’ sexuality, encouraging fans who really want to see Oscar Isaac’s Poe and John Boyega’s Finn kiss while taking half-steps like introducing canonically LGBT characters in Star Wars novels, but not the films. Now Solo co-writer…

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.

It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Saudi Arabian director Haifaa al-Mansour first made waves in 2012 as the country’s first female director. Her feature film debut, Wadjda, received critical acclaim and became the Saudi Arabia’s first official Oscar submission (for Best Foreign Language Film) although it wasn’t nominated. Now she’s following up her…

The CW is a TV wonderland where shows either last forever (telling every story they want to tell and then continue on for another dozen seasons) or they barely make it through their inaugural season before being mercifully canceled. Today, the network released teasers and preview clips for its new shows Charmed and …

In honor of her sixth time returning to host Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey is treating fans to an animated trip down memory lane—albeit a fairly truncated one. The minute-long promo for this week’s season finale tracks a cartoon Fey’s journey from Chicago to New York, where she climbed the comedy ladder from writer,…

Back in September, HBO programming president Casey Bloys teased that Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were planning to shoot multiple endings for the show so nobody—not even the actors—would know what was going to happen. Still, Jason Momoa seemed to have some ideas, even though his character…

Ed Sheeran is one of those celebrities that people love to blame for things: football stuff, soccer stuff, Game of Thrones stuff. So when an Irish ice cream place announced that they were creating a ketchup-flavored ice cream to honor the ketchup-loving pop star, of course everyone got riled:

It’s upfronts week, which means the TV universe is in upheaval. Cancellations! New shows! Surprise network switches! Stephen Colbert, whose Late Show is the sort of late-night institution typically immune to these forces, used the opportunity to flex some of his own creative muscles while appealing to the in-demand…

Video games are a tough hobby to get into. In addition to being brutally expensive and impossibly time consuming, they’re also inherently inaccessible to a lot of people, as the physical demands of modern games and controllers are often too much for players with limited mobility. It’s an issue that’s become more…

In advance of its upfront presentation—which is taking place in New York City as we speak—earlier today The CW confirmed what fans of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane The Virgin have been anticipating for a while: That the shows will end with their upcoming fourth and fifth seasons, respectively, as Deadline reports. …

At a recent convention in Nashville, Arrow star Stephen Amell teased that he’d be making a “really fun announcement” at The CW’s upfront presentation today, and now we know what that announcement is: Batwoman is coming to the next Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, and Legends Of Tomorrow crossover event, and the heroes will be…

DC Comics has won lots of acclaim for how it’s wildly reimagined iconic Hanna-Barbera characters over the last few years, including crossovers like Batman/Elmer Fudd or Green Lantern/Space Ghost. One upcoming team-up will pair heroes from the decade of bell-bottom pants, but don’t dare think that Black Lightning/Hong…

For fans of the franchise, it can be difficult to think about the director’s credit on Solo: A Star Wars Story without it having a little asterisk next to it. Around this time last year—and right at the tail end of principal photography—Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from the production and replaced by veteran…

It’s a question that comes up every time a Mad Max or a Pixar creation crashes the Palais, and every time one doesn’t: Do Hollywood blockbusters really belong at Cannes? To see one at the festival, an event theoretically devoted to provocation and innovation and basically any kind of world cinema not processed for…

The internet has been having some fun lately, debating whether a little audio clip sounds more like it’s saying “yanny” or “laurel.” The split between what people hear, reminiscent of the good old days of The Dress, has inspired the kind of universal humor and gentle fun that too rarely fills our timelines these days.…

Courtney Barnett’s debut full-length, 2015’s Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, established the Australian indie-rocker as a potent musical force. With its tumbling guitars, ragged vocals, and grunge-punk tones—all of which coalesced on the scorching, sassy “Pedestrian At Best”—the album exceeded the…

The Royal Wedding is this Saturday morning, and you either give an enormous shit about the entire enterprise or have no idea what’s going on. Either way, there will probably no better way to experience it than via HBO’s coverage, which will be hosted by Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon as their dopey, pastel-colored…

The Backstreet Boys are doing their bit to hasten the return of Von Dutch hats to America’s malls, priming the pump for the imminent wave of early ‘00s nostalgia with their first new single in five years, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” In what we choose to believe in our hearts is a cheeky wink to Popstar: Never Stop…

With “Brave New World,” Riverdale’s second season puts on its red leather jacket and rides off into the sunset. And, for once, all looks hunk-dory—until it doesn’t! Though our favorite “meddling friends” wrap things up on peaceful terms, trouble is a’brewing in the form of Riverdale’s own League Of Doom, which has …

Before NBC saved Brooklyn Nine-Nine, before full-scale original-cast revivals were a regular TV thing, even before rerun ratings and DVD sales pulled Family Guy and Futurama back off of the shelf, there was Home Movies. The humble animated comedy about an aspiring young filmmaker played by and named Brendon Small had…

Human-shaped charm mountain Terry Crews was typically delightful in his sit-down with Trevor Noah on Wednesday’s Daily Show. Noah ran down Crews’ seemingly endless list of accomplishments (former NFL player, painter, furniture designer, sitcom star, former-future POTUS) as the two talked over what’s arguably Crews’…

Designated Survivor started out like this: the HUD Secretary was about to be fired. Before that firing actually took effect, he was selected to be the Designated Survivor for the President during the State of the Union. During that State of the Union, someone blew up the Capitol, and Tom Kirkman assumed the…

It’s a common trope in zombie fiction to imply that the humans are the real monsters, usually because of some horrible way bad people take advantage of a zombie apocalypse to be extra bad (like Negan from The Walking Dead, The Governor from The Walking Dead, or every other character from The Walking Dead). Rarely has…

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