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Stretching his acting talents to their limits, famously handsome person Idris Elba is gearing up to portray one of literature’s most well-established uggos. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the British actor has signed on to star in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, even though the Victor Hugo…

Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus, an exceptional piece of moody teenage fiction that the young Mary Shelley (née Godwin) first published anonymously in 1818, gave the world a new myth of creation gone wrong: the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist consumed by obsessions, and the nameless monster he brings…

Great news for those the anti-Trump weirdos who love to hang out in the president’s Twitter mentions for some reason that I don’t personally understand: A federal district court judge ruled Wednesday that it violates the Constitution when Trump blocks people on Twitter. According to the goddamn Constitution!!!!!

According to Variety, HBO has chosen some surprising names for its Watchmen pilot, specifically Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens, and Andrew Howard. We don’t know who any of them will be playing, both because HBO is keeping details like that under wraps and because Damon…

Gentrification is a machine made of many moving parts. There are the developers that come to low-income neighborhoods and force out the established residents by building new properties they can no longer afford; the politicians who paint members of a community as undesirable and dehumanize them so the rest of the…

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.

The A.V. Club David Cross interview is a tradition stretching back to the publication’s founding in the mid-’90s, and we’ve charted the course of his career from co-creator of a cult-favorite HBO show to prominent stand-up comedian to blockbuster Easter egg. As a comedian, Cross has always found comfort in discomfort,…

Show Dogs is a family comedy film in which an NYPD Rottweiler must go undercover at a dog show in order to get into wacky hijinks and set up jokes about dabbing or whatever, but some parents are getting offended by more than just the movie’s banality. That’s because Show Dogs has a scene in which lead dog Max—voiced…

Welcome back to Pop Lexicon, The A.V. Club’s series with Kory Stamper, Merriam-Webster lexicographer and editor, where she reveals the origins of America’s favorite colloquialisms. Today, Kory explains not only how science can inform science fiction, but how science fiction can influence scientific discovery, starting…

Welcome back to Pop Lexicon, The A.V. Club’s series with Kory Stamper, Merriam-Webster lexicographer and editor, where she reveals the origins of America’s favorite colloquialisms. Today, Kory explains how not only can science can inform science fiction, but science fiction can influence scientific discovery, starting…

In movies, as in politics, it’s not necessarily advantageous to acknowledge that everyday problems are often insurmountably complicated, with no easy answers. One of the best films released last year, From Nowhere, was seen by almost nobody (not even by critics, excepting those of us who were assigned to review it);…

In what’s amounting to a cold war between Amazon and Netflix, with the trans community caught in the middle, Deadline reports that Jeffrey Tambor—who was fired from Transparent in February amid charges of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior from two trans women who work on the show, and was subsequently …

Today I Learned is a feature where The Takeout writers share something they learned today.

Here’s the most important thing to know about Steve Martin and Martin Short’s new Netflix comedy special: There are about five minutes of straight banjo. This is a petty yet useful detail for most people who have long loved Martin’s comedy while warmly acknowledging his bluegrass—perhaps even turning up to a bluegrass…

Chris Evans may be an A-list millionaire chiseled from pure, unvarnished marble, but, somehow, he still resonates as the most chill Avenger. Maybe that’s ‘cause he shows up charmingly trashed to red carpets, loves his very good dog, and actually uses his fame to help others. Evans exudes a blue-collar quality in…

The announcement of Cartoon Network’s new ThunderCats reboot has been met with some backlash from people on the internet who are mad that it looks like a modern cartoon and not some wild nonsense from the ‘80s, but at least Matt Groening’s new Netflix show Disenchantment won’t look like every other cartoon. Well, it…

M. Night Shyamalan gets a lot of shit. He’s been called a one-trick-pony and a one-hit-wonder, and pretty much everything he’s done since The Sixth Sense has been ridiculed to death online (though Unbreakable has received a much-deserved reevaluation in recent years). But, in his newest video essay, YouTuber Ryan…

Royal weddings are not normal events. They may look like your average nuptials, juiced up on Old World steroids, at first glance, but think a bit more about them and the inherent absurdity of these events becomes clear. For example, and in summary: the public is invited to watch as strangers take intimate vows, their…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is going to need a bigger awards shelf: The 11-time Emmy winner will have to clear some space, as Deadline reports that she’s this year’s recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize, which has been given out every year since 1998 by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…

Sarah Silverman’s been choosing empathy over antagonizing as of late, with her Hulu series I Love You, America finding the foul-mouthed comedian working to find common ground with those across the political divide. She’s also been vocal about the #MeToo movement, since several of her close friends in the comedy…

Sarah Silverman’s been choosing empathy over antagonizing as of late, with her Hulu series I Love You, America finding the foul-mouthed comedian working to find common ground with those across the political divide. She’s also been vocal about the #MeToo movement, since several of her close friends in the comedy…

Even though it was arguably a better match for the visual tone of the film’s trailer, it’s unlikely we’re going to hear the song “I’m Han Solo” pop up anywhere in Solo: A Star Wars Story. That’s mainly because it’s notoriously terrible. The infamous track—a parody of Jason Derulo’s “Ridin’ Solo” with ham-fisted Star…

Björk hasn’t performed on TV in 8 years and this, as anyone who’s seen clips of her shows will tell you, is a real shame. After biding her time for nearly a decade, perhaps spending this period fully considering the ways in which studio lights reflect off glitter paint and plumes of costume feathers, the Icelandic…

Quick heads up: Breaking Bad star Dean Norris appears to be looking for some sex GIFs, if you have any. Last night, just 15 minutes before midnight, he hopped onto Twitter and sent out the following missive to his 518,000 followers:

It’s an odd war that Serena Joy and June wage in “First Blood,” an often excellent but ultimately baffling hour of The Handmaid’s Tale. It begins when Serena Joy, scared and guilty, literally removes the wall that separates her from the woman carrying “her” baby, giving her a chance to see it on an ultrasound monitor.…