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As reported by Vulture and confirmed by his wife, prickly sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison has died. No cause of death has been released, but a statement from his wife, Susan Ellison, says that he died in his sleep today. As a writer, Ellison penned short stories like “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” (which was later…

It’s finally happening: After more than two years away from its world of immature superscience and violent, manchildren supervillains, Adult Swim has set a release date for the seventh season of its super-cult comedy The Venture Brothers. The network announced today that the series will be back on August 5, complete…

Over the past few months, the wildest rumors in video game industry circles haven’t involved the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Two. The most interesting chatter has centered on a tech company that’s been quietly making moves to tackle video games in a big way: Google, the conglomerate that operates our email, our internet…

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According to Entertainment Weekly, Showtime has stepped into its Mark IV Mjolnir armor and ordered 10 episodes of a show based on that Halo games. Various attempts to turn Halo into a live-action feature film or a TV show have been made since the first game came out in 2001, but Showtime has actually hired a…

Most people’s relationship with Nickelodeon is a little different than other cable channels. You watch an insane amount of it during a few years of your life, you become intimately familiar with the programming during that time, and then, one day, you leave it all behind. This can lead to feelings of intense nostalgia—…

Though it wasn’t a monster hit, 2015's Sicario has more than earned its reputation as one of the sharpest thrillers in recent years. But did its pointedly dark conclusion really need a follow-up? Hollywood is filled with unnecessary spin-offs and sequels that explore corners of cinematic universes that were probably…

For all of you Switch owners, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus launches tomorrow, which means today’s your last chance to save 20%. So if you’re into Nazi fighting, today’s the day to grab this.

Listen, we’ll be upfront with you: What you’re about to watch is very stupid. Even the creator—Twitter user and Jurassic Park superfan @SickTriceratopz—calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever made.” But, in addition to combining two pop culture entities we never tire of talking about, it’s also very funny in the way…

As reported by Deadline, Fox has canceled Ghosted after one, tumultuous season. This news comes just a few weeks after Fox rebooted the show halfway through its season into more of a straightforward, Office-style comedy, thanks to the guiding hand of new showrunner Paul Lieberstein—who played Toby on The Office. The…

Matt Groening, the creator of cult hit cartoons The Simpsons and Futurama, is heading to Netflix for his next project, a high-fantasy epic called Disenchantment. We saw our first (static) look at the central characters back in May, but today Netflix has released a proper teaser for the show that introduces Abbi…

Out of all the Marvel Netflix shows, few have held as strong or as stable in their second seasons as Luke Cage, which recently served up a second season that rivaled the first in sheer enjoyability. Certainly, the show’s soundtrack—assembled and composed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called…

Some people use art as an escape, but others immerse themselves in it, wanting to live and breath it every hour of the day. It probably doesn’t surprise you to learn that The Shape Of Water director Guillermo del Toro is one of the latter, but that he owns an honest-to-god “manga/anime cabin” just might.

According to Deadline, Krysten Ritter is going to continue her gradual takeover of all entertainment mediums by making her directorial debut during the third season of her Netflix Marvel show Jessica Jones. That’s after she already starred in one of the most under-appreciated comedy shows of the decade, wrote a…

Lifelong friends Danny McBride and Jody Hill have collaborated to become on of Hollywood’s most reliably hilarious comedy duos. Having met living on-campus at the North Carolina School Of The Arts, they first collaborated on the off-kilter martial arts movie The Foot Fist Way, and followed that up with a pair of HBO…

Although Stranger Things has been getting all the credit of late, stories about loser teens confronting deadly threats in ‘80s small-town America have been around since the ’80s itself. (See: The Goonies, The Monster Squad, the 1986 publication of Stephen King’s doorstop of a novel IT.) Now the subgenre, which is…

What Are You Listening To? is a weekly run-down of what A.V. Club staffers are streaming. Listen to these songs and more on our Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new stuff.

Sure, there are plenty of downsides to Disney owning every major creative property under the sun. But one of the few benefits is that all the mashup, crossover events that were once limited to the fantasies of comic book nerds could now become a reality. So, when Luke Skywalker and Captain America—or, more accurately,…

It’s been a barren seven years since Beavis And Butt-Head last graced us with its vital brand of pop music commentary. After a brief 2011 revival saw the boys return for one more season of misadventures and snuffly, mindlessly giggling meta-television, we’ve been left to decide whether every track in between “rules”…

In some ways, Woman Walks Ahead is the anti-Dances With Wolves. It shares a setting (the Great Plains, late 19th century) and a basic plot (white outsider ingratiates themselves with Sioux tribespeople) with Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar winner. But there are a few key differences. First, the white outsider is a woman,…

Westworld’s second season one-upped its predecessor by introducing not just new parks, but confusing, abstract manifestations like The Cradle, The Forge, and The Valley Beyond. Still, despite all the rips in reality, there was some neat stuff to grab onto in the finale, like Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Bernard’s…

The idea of “paying in exposure,” a.k.a. the thing that completely destabilized the journalism industry in the early-to-mid ‘00s, has been subject to pushback from writers and artists in recent years, and rightly so. Just because labor is creative in nature doesn’t mean it’s not labor. Tell that to Elon Musk—current…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Seagate’s FireCuda is one of the most popular PS4 replacement hard drives out there, mostly thanks to its built-in 8GB of flash storage that can speed up loading times, and you can get the 2TB model for just $80 today, or roughly $15 less than usual.