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Calming fears of fans worried that she’d be replaced with a CGI avatar a lá Peter Cushing in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (more extensively replaced, anyway—a digital version of her 21-year-old self appears briefly at the end of that film), an official casting announcement for Star Wars: Episode IX says that Carrie…

It looks like Peter Dinklage may not be quite ready to put away all those medieval-esque outfits he gets to wear on Game Of Thrones. According to Variety, the actor has signed on to produce and star in a big-screen retelling of the Brothers Grimm fable Rumpelstiltskin.

Although I’d argue this season of Orange Is The New Black has been fairly uneven in terms of its storytelling, one thing is more balanced than ever: this is, at its core, a dramatic television show. Whereas even during the riot it felt like there were characters and storylines that existed solely for comic relief,…

If you circled end of July 2018 on the calendar back in October of last year when you and your coworkers drew up your “When will MoviePass go under?” betting pool, congratulations—it’s looking like you might take home that purse of cash. Which you can then use to buy movie tickets, since your MoviePass might be for…

We spend plenty of time in our office chairs, so it’s all the more important we find the perfect one. The chair that’s the cheapest might not offer the best ergonomics, and the one that looks the sleekest might cost more than a month’s salary. So we ask, which affordable office chair ($200 or less) is your go-to?

Since being introduced in Frieda’s flashback, Carol and Barb have had surprisingly little impact on this season of Orange Is The New Black. The idea of two sisters feuding as the leaders of C Block and D Block is a key part of the culture at Max, but the actual characters have been sketched in slowly while the show…

“Moving like the lit fuse that blazes brilliantly across the opening credits of both the original Mission: Impossible television series and its first big-screen adaptation, Fallout turns out to be a breathlessly exciting action spectacular: the blockbuster spy thriller as sustained endorphin rush. Escalation is the…

The shadowy cabal that’s really pulling the strings over at BBC America is already hard at work on a new season of Killing Eve, which is currently shooting somewhere in Europe, according to Variety. And with series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s career blowing up bigger than a block of C-4 in a designer handbag—Bridge…

Altered Carbon—the very messy but highly watchable Netflix series about the plight of a plucky steampunk hotel owner and the wacky back-from-the-dead soldier who makes running a business so damn hard—has been renewed for a second season of whodunit mystery and nude clone fights.

Although in the worst of circumstances, Taystee has been given a rare opportunity. Because of her role as the face of the riot, and because of the federal investigation choosing to focus their efforts on holding her responsible for Piscatella’s murder, she is now the face of the incarcerated people of America. People…

“The following documentary tells the story of the People v. Lavinia Peck-Foster.”

The story hasn’t even been published yet, but reports of an upcoming New Yorker exposé revealing allegations of sexual misconduct against CEO Leslie Moonves have already caused CBS stock to fall nearly six percent as the media company’s board says it plans to investigate the charges against him. Fueling the panic at…

According to a new groundbreaking study from some of the top minds in the entertainment industry (read: a guy at Rotten Tomatoes), there is a direct and irrefutable correlation between the number of feet Tom Cruise runs in a particular film and the success of said film. Now, before any naysayers butt in with their…

At the end of every episode of Orange Is The New Black, the first thing we see after the fade to orange is “Executive consultant Piper Kerman.”

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…

The summer movie season starts to wind down this weekend with Mission: Impossible—Fallout, the latest entry from one of Hollywood’s most reliably entertaining franchises. In a first for the series, which usually changes helmers with each film, Rogue Nation writer-director Christopher McQuarrie returns to orchestrate…

Episode 1: “Who Knows Better Than I” | Episode 2: “Sh*tstorm Coming” | Episode 3: “Look Out for Number One” | Episode 4: “I’m the Talking Ass” | Episode 5: “Mischief Mischief” | Episode 6: “State of the Uterus” | Episode 7: “Changing Winds” | Episode 8: “Gordons” | Episode 9: “Break the String” | Episode 10:…

When Orange Is The New Black first started using flashbacks, their primary purpose was to provide insight into who these women were before they became inmates at Litchfield. The show opened with Piper’s transition from civilian to inmate, but over time the flashbacks gave us a stronger sense of the journeys the other…

Reviving a dormant superhero property is a tricky endeavor, especially when creators attempt a back-to-basics approach that tries to recapture the magic of a bygone era. To pull this off successfully, the team needs to understand the qualities that made the original concept so engaging, but also account for the ways…

It’s 2018, and Burger King is now America’s moral compass. The company has taken a stand on net neutrality, has run an anti-bullying campaign, and gave a terminally ill dog free burgers for life. So it would seem like the burger chain’s latest video calling attention to the “pink tax” (when products marketed to women…

In the latest installment of GQ’s “Celebrities Break Down Their Iconic Roles” series, Simon Pegg takes a trip down his own IMDB page to discuss the biggest performances of his career. While the British-born actor is best known these days for his supporting roles in blockbuster sci-fi and action franchises, he found…

Tom Cruise seems to want nothing more than to encourage his thetan onto its eventual trip to Venus by endangering his body for our amusement. This is fine because, as we all know, supporting a dangerous cult in its quest to enrich itself and torture its wayward members means the afterlife is nothing to fear. It’s also…

When The Good Place presented at its first Television Critics Association press tour, my question was tied to the fact that it was a rare breed: a television comedy without a status quo, or without what appeared like one. I don’t remember the specifics of creator Mike Schur’s answer, but it boiled down to “yes, that…

The Hulk is terrifying. He’s Mr. Hyde by way of the atomic bomb: When Bruce Banner transforms into his raging green alter ego, he unleashes a monster that can level a town in minutes. Writer Al Ewing embraces the horror aspects of this character in the pages of The Immortal Hulk, kicking off the new series with three…

It’s the summer of 1991 in Cape Cod, a hormonal tragedy crudely destined to end in the billion-dollar biblical cataclysm of Hurricane Bob. The haves are the yachters, vacationers, and tennis-racket preppies. The have-nots are the townies: Hunter Strawberry (Alex Roe), the local prince of pot, a stud with a rumored…