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It’s Saturday! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the otherwise-wasted hours of your weekend with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Paul Ryan is quitting the House—say it loud, and there’s music playing—and finally returning to a life where the only people he can regularly terrorize with his bad decisions are his family and his inevitable host of memoir editors and speaking engagement bookers. We have to assume that the transition back to private…

There is a lot of potential in “Who Is Gizmoduck?” There’s the story of a young intern who has access to power beyond his imagination (power, responsibility, etc.). There’s the story of an even younger duck who believes in the hero who saved him, only to be disappointed in what he sees, but to also inspire said hero…

In what might be the most vicious attack against Franz Ferdinand since a bad day in Bosnia in 1914, British trip hop band Massive Attack abruptly canceled a festival set in Madrid last night after complaining that the Scottish band was rocking just too dang hard for them to play. The “Unfinished Sympathy” artists were…

The Great British Baking Show doesn’t do drama. It’s not interested in last minute saves and surprise turnarounds, in emotional twists and turns and challenges that set the bakers up for failure. That’s one of the show’s chief pleasures, its low-stress, high-empathy emphasis on process, hard work, and the satisfaction…

Ah, the ’90s wave of teen-centric horror. Critically maligned (except for Scream, really) and scorned by horror fans for their seemingly milquetoast and sanitized scares, the films finally get a book-length appreciation in the form of Alexandra West’s treatise The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls And A New…

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AMC’s struggles to figure out what to do with its various Chris Hardwick-branded properties took another little step forward today, with Deadline reporting that Yvette Nicole Brown—who previously agreed to step in to handle Hardwick’s upcoming Comic-Con duties in the wake of implied allegations of abuse made in a Medium post

Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.

2018 has been something of an unlikely banner year for Terry Crews, as the recent drama surrounding NBC acquisition Brooklyn Nine-Nine—and his willingness to talk openly and in empathetic fashion about an incident of sexual harassment he experienced a few years back—have emphasized how refreshing it is to have an…

Nine years after the original Zombieland introduced us all to its low-key, cardio-heavy take on the undead end of the world, its cast and director have finally come back together for a sequel. Deadline reports that Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and director Ruben Fleischer have now all…

Irish horror seems to be having a moment, and director Aislinn Clarke has produced another worthy entry into that growing canon with The Devil’s Doorway. In a unique twist on both the found-footage and exorcism subgenres, the film is set in 1960 at one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, where novice priest…