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Gather your scrying bones and get those tea leaves cooking, because the prophecy has finally come to pass: A modern TV show has achieved the vaunted “six seasons and a movie” milestone at last. Just, uh, not the one that came up with the phrase in the first place, as we regret to inform you that you did not, in fact,…

At the beginning of July, it was announced Scarlett Johansson had signed on to play the role of real-life transgender crime boss Dante “Tex” Gill in the biopic film Rub & Tug. The news—and her salty reply to criticism about her casting—did not exactly go well.

Fans of Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater and MonsterVision, take heart. Your beloved host, Joe Bob Briggs, is back for one more go-round—sitting in an easy chair, drinking a beer, and playing host to some delightfully trashy B-movies. Get ready for one last weekend of entertaining discussion and films of questionable taste.

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, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. Starring opposite Phoenix are Jonah Hill and Jack Black as…

“Lotic’s debut full-length, Power, comprises many of the same whirring spikes of anxious electronic sound that blast through 2015’s Agitations and Heterocetera EPs. But rather than aim darts at the listener, Lotic (who uses they/them pronouns) offers a path through the barbs, leading the audience right back to…

It’s nearly 15 years to the day that Firefly was canceled back in 2003. How fitting, then, that as we approach that most traumatic of anniversaries, we can share with you the following news: Joss Whedon is making a new science fiction drama, and it’s going to be on HBO.

They built first Miramax, then the Weinstein Company together. But now, in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s ongoing public reckoning for his alleged sexual crimes, the Weinstein Company is being sold, and Weinstein’s brother Bob is also stepping down from his position on the company’s board of directors.

Netflix is striking while Antoni is hot, announcing today that, less than a month after the debut of Queer Eye’s second season on the streaming service, it’s already gearing up for season three. The first two seasons of the reality makeover series/pop-cultural therapy session saw the Fab Five traveling across Georgia…

Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic books of significance. This week, they are Batman #50, written by Tom King (Mister Miracle, The Vision) with art by Mikel Janin (Grayson, Justice League Dark), colorist June Chung (Wolverine, Batman/Superman), and various guest artists, and X-Men Gold #30,…

Playing a quadriplegic represents a challenge for any able-bodied actor, but it must be particularly frustrating for someone like Joaquin Phoenix, who uses his body no less expressively than he does his face and voice. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot largely confines Phoenix to a motorized wheelchair, though…

Though it’s fair to be a little exhausted by the prospect of watching far-right blowhards make asses of themselves on television, it’s difficult to not be a little intrigued by Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series, Who Is America? Especially when we know he’s already fooled a murderers’ row of guests into appearing…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

On this edition of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest star vehicle Skyscraper, the newest addition to Hollywood’s vast stable of Die Hard knockoffs, with the action in this entry taking place in The Pearl, a building that comfortably dwarfs…

Given its setting and star, it’s tempting to see Siberia as a lost chapter in the John Wick franchise. Keanu Reeves plays Lucas Hill, a man whose life of quiet reflection, faded love, and the occasional international trip to sell diamonds is interrupted by some Russian gangsters. We know, those details don’t quite…

Blockbuster Video has been dying a slow, painful death since it first filed for bankruptcy in 2010, the lights going out at locations across America one by one like bulbs burning out in a marquee. Until recently, though, Blockbuster was still a viable business in Alaska, where slow internet speeds—the slowest in the…

Yes, we realize they’re both Star Wars movies. That’s not the connection we’re talking about. As Slashfilm recently pointed out, Solo co-writer Jonathan Kasdan confirmed an intended direct link between the two films that was meant to add subtle detail to the ever-growing Star Wars cinematic universe. Fair warning: You…

Behold: The lemon. On Wednesday, a San Diego-based writer and podcaster named Mike Sakasegawa was walking home when he saw a lemon rolling down a hill. The lemon trundles over the concrete, barrels through some detritus, and, as of this writing, has been watched by nearly 7 million people. Sakasegawa’s tweet has more…

Some writers just want to watch the world burn. Case in point: The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Chris Reed, a reporter who woke up one day, drafted an article detailing the many arguments for considering dogs—y’know, the species we’ve collectively agreed is our best friend—parasites, and then went ahead with publication …

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Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit Prose calls to mind the band’s late-’00s peak, while Deafheaven reach higher on album No. 4, and Lotic softens their approach on debut Power. These, plus Pram’s first album in 11 years in this week’s notable new releases.

Purple is a mattress company and they want you to sleep well. This is because, if you sleep well, you’ll be spending more time enjoying their products. To accomplish this noble goal, they’ve enlisted absurdist comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim to produce a series of videos in their signature gonzo style that…

Two minutes into Noble Ape, Jim Gaffigan’s sixth comedy special, the comic addresses the elephant in the room—and immediately makes it do a little dance. “In April, it was discovered that my wife had a brain tumor. I’m not even making this up,” Gaffigan begins. “It was removed, she’s great, everything’s good.” It’s a…

Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the X-Men comics captured the collective imagination of the kids and teenagers who were willing to pay attention to comic books. The books had rich casts of characters. They had great storytelling, with long and ambitious plotlines that would stretch over months or even years. They had…