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Reggie Watts is a performer that defies categorization. He’s an actor, comedian, game-show host, late-night band leader, improvisational musician, and now, electro-pop star. Earlier this year, Watts dropped Casual High Technology, the debut album from his collaborative side project Wajatta with DJ and producer John…

Getting a TV show made can be tough, since there are so many different outlets that are all better suited to very specific kinds of programming, but Kevin Smith has apparently decided to make it even tougher on himself by embracing a crowdfunding platform called Rivit TV. According to Variety, Smith shot a pilot two…

If there’s one downside to the culture of nostalgia in which we now live—and there are many—it’s that our desire to see old faces and familiar locales is negatively impacting modern storytelling. One major critique of the Marvel franchise, for example, is that it lacks stakes—there’s no way the franchise is going to…

It’s bizarre but totally appropriate in our postmodern, reference-happy age to see a phenomenon like Stranger Things echo its influences. The feedback loop began with the 2016 debut of the supernatural Netflix series, when much was made of the debts its free-roaming preteen outcasts and their telekinetic friend owed…

If there’s one thing the internet has proven, it’s that there’s meme potential everywhere. While some of us walk the earth, thumbing through websites, watching movies, and playing video games with only a surface appreciation of what’s on the screen, others identify something more.

[The following contains spoilers for season two of The Handmaid’s Tale, naturally.]

Playing the recently released remastered—excuse me—“re-mars-tered” edition of Red Faction: Guerrilla hammers home just how radical that 2009 cult classic was all those years ago. At that point, big-budget games had barely explored their ongoing obsession with open worlds, a design style so uniquely predispositioned to…

To be clear: Eighth Grade is not a horror film—not in any conventional sense, anyway. What it is is the directorial debut of comedian Bo Burnham, a sensitively observed indie drama about a week in the life of 13-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she prepares to transition from junior high to high school. In the film,…

Earlier this week, Warner Bros. risked incurring the wrath of Jared Leto by announcing that it was moving forward with an origin story about the Joker that will star Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince Of Crime instead of Leto—who played a particularly damaged version of the character in Suicide Squad and is set to…

The depiction of Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi became a lightning rod a lot for both the film’s champions and critics. Maybe it was the fact that the aging Jedi—along with his Rebellion-leading sister—represented the last bridge between the original trilogy and the Disney era, the old fans and the new, what Star Wars…

If you are thirsty for some big, expensive, historically based drama with lots of swords and wild-ass costumes in it—and who isn’t, really—the Mary Queen Of Scots trailer will slake your long thirst. Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan and I, Tonya’s Margot Robbie square off as the titular character and Elizabeth I,…

Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. At the premiere of the film, Van Sant talked to The A.V. Club about…

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed its nominees for the 70th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards this morning, carving some 9,100 submissions down to a varied field of competitors that reflects the continued rise of streaming platforms (well, at least one streaming platform) in a shifting TV landscape where…

Some would say the internet is not in dire need of new Simpsons content. From the plethora of dank memes to the endless cavalcade of steamed hams, nearly every great Simpsons moment has been chopped and screwed for someone’s entertainment. Plus, the damn show is still on the air. We’ve got enough Simpsons to last us a…

The podcasters: Perhaps more friendships ought to start with a shared love of horror. Unlike the many popular podcasts helmed by siblings, lifelong friends, or longtime colleagues, Teen Creeps hosts Lindsay Katai and Kelly Nugent first met in early 2016, when the former was a guest on the latter’s Buffy-centric series …

Even for a director known for twist endings, the final reveal of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split was a doozy: That it was actually the second installment in a trilogy begun 17 years earlier with Unbreakable. Given Split’s critical and commercial success, a third installment was inevitable, and Entertainment Weekly has just …

We are getting close to the 10-year anniversary of Avatar, still the highest-grossing film ever made by a long shot. (It’s at almost $2.8 billion, and the next highest is Titanic at just under $2.2 billion.) James Cameron has been working on its sequels—which have varied in quantity from two to four—steadily ever…

Ah, the benefit of X-ray vision hindsight. It was roughly two years after the release of Man Of Steel that we first learned Man Of Steel 2 was likely on “permanent hold,” to use the delightfully oxymoronic parlance of the time. Back then, the given reason was because Warner Bros. was so amped for Batman V Superman.…

THURSDAY, JULY 12 UPDATE: John Schnatter has stepped down as chair of the board at Papa John’s. According to Huffington Post, “Papa John’s will appoint a new chairman in the coming weeks. In the meantime, Olivia Kirtley will act as the company’s lead independent director.” We suspect those pizza boxes will get a…

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.

Chrome, Firefox: One of the more annoying aspects of watching Netflix on your laptop or desktop computer is the trailers the service likes to automatically play on your behalf. I have nothing against interesting trailers for movies or TV shows I might care about. And everyone suffers through trailers they’re not…

The vast majority of Qi wireless chargers on the market will only charge iPhones at 5W speeds, even if they’re capable of supplying 10W to Android devices. A select few though use a very specific frequency that charges iPhones at a maximum 7.5W, and three of them are on sale right now for the best prices ever.

Attempting to pin his guest, former wrestler an current international move idol Dwayne Johnson, concerning the long-gestating rumors of his political aspirations, Stephen Colbert asked point-blank, “Do you actually take that possibility seriously.” “I absolutely do,” replied the former The Rock, once again raising the…

Peyton Reed has a reputation for smart and savvy directing, delivering witty, frothy fun in films like Bring It On, Down With Love, and that movie where Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston break up, The Break-Up. It seemed like a thankless task when he was brought on by Marvel in 2014 to take over directing duties on …

Peyton Reed has a reputation for smart and savvy directing, delivering witty, frothy fun in films like Bring It On, Down With Love, and that movie where Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston break up, The Break-Up. It seemed like a thankless task when he was brought on by Marvel in 2014 to take over directing duties on …