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Although they occasionally take place in high-class backdrops—fancy art shows, re-purposed Roman amphitheaters, a line of uber-fancy assassin hotels—there’s nothing especially intellectual about the John Wick series of films. (That’s not a knock, either; Chad Stahelski’s action delights don’t need to be high-brow when…

What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on film and TV. 

After years of serving as little more than a backdrop for Tom Hanks and his wigs to stare blankly at messily constructed anagrams, Paris’ Louvre museum is finally getting some content for the rest of us to enjoy. Relenting to the unstoppable buzz of the Bey-hive, Pitchfork reports that the museum has now started…

Because there’s apparently no part of the entertainment industry that Donald Glover won’t try to ruthlessly flip on its head, the actor, producer, and rapper is reportedly being sued by his former record label for allegedly withholding royalties from them. This is per Variety, which reports that Glover—a.k.a. Childish…

It’s safe to say (I think) that DuckTales has finally got past the giddiness of being a reboot of a well-known, well-recognized show and is starting to come into its own. It needed to get out of that stars-in-their-eyes headspace, shake the cobwebs of snarkiness, winking irony, and self-aware jokiness, so it could…

At this point, it’s safe to say the report of disco’s death was an exaggeration. The backlash against it, culminating in 1979’s infamous Disco Demolition Night by an attention-hungry rock DJ, only accomplished sending disco back underground, back to all the othered communities to which it originally belonged. From…

It’s been a warm and inviting season thus far, but something has been just a little off with The Great British Baking Show. There’s been a bit of a remove between the hosts, Mel and Sue, and the bakers, and while some of the challenges have worked like gangbusters, others have been underwhelming. This may be airing as…

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George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire books are a little grim as far as pure escapism goes, but that hasn’t stopped at least one Maryland prison from banning them on the grounds that their contents qualify as potential tools for escape. Per a recent piece for The Marshall Project, courtesy of Maryland…

Steve Ditko, the legendary and reclusive creator or co-creator of some of the most popular characters in comic book history—including Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and even recent fan-favorites like Squirrel Girl—has died. Famous in later years as much for his politics and his hatred of publicity as for his numerous…

With this arc, a ton of 150 episodes’ worth of Steven Universe storylines are starting to pay off in real, seemingly final ways—or if not final, then at least something close to it. Bringing long-running stories to a satisfactory conclusion is hard on series with 22- and 42-minute episodes; it’s even harder with 11.…

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Finally acknowledging that one of the world’s most expensively tuned content selection algorithms probably doesn’t need your dumbshit take on The Princess Diaries gumming up its works, Netflix has announced that it’ll soon be discontinuing user-written reviews for its various streaming offerings. Per Variety, the…

Sicario: Day Of The Soldado is shameless fear-mongering about our southern border, but apparently it’s pretty successful fear-mongering. The film has grossed $23 million in its first five days of release in North America alone, on a relatively lean $35 million budget. Another sequel seems likely—but not with this…