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Finally free of the Doctor Who franchise and its various and convoluted time travel shenanigans, former Who showrunner Steven Moffat has just announced his next TV project: An HBO adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, complete with its own separate set of convoluted time travel shenanigans. (Man…

When Angel Lamere (Dominique Fishback), the protagonist of Jordana Spiro’s debut feature Night Comes On, returns to Philadelphia, the first thing she does is get her hands on a gun. It’s her 18th birthday, and she’s just been let out of juvenile detention with nothing to her name but a phone with a dead battery and a…

In May of last year, NBC canceled its sci-fi drama Timeless. A few days later, it un-canceled Timeless. In June of this year, NBC re-canceled Timeless. Today, like clockwork (get it?), NBC has re-un-canceled Timeless. At the risk of throwing around wildly dangerous allegations, it’s almost like some Timeless fan keeps…

It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Back in May, Fox gutted its comedy lineup by canceling The Mick, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (though it got better), and The Last Man On Earth, all to make room for the glorious right-wing renaissance heralded by Last Man Standing’s triumphant return to the airwaves. Unfortunately, The Last Man On Earth had established a habit…

Castle Rock is part of the recent wave of excellent Stephen King adaptations that includes last year’s cinematic takes on It and Gerald’s Game. What sets Castle Rock apart, and what might generally push viewers over the love-hate divide, comes down to how distracted they’ll be with picking up on the plethora of Easter…

Literally everything about director Todd Phillips’ Joker origin movie sounds ridiculous, from casting a painfully serious actor like Joaquin Phoenix as the villainous clown to creating a Joker origin story that may or may not feature Batman at all, but Phoenix’s supporting cast might be the weirdest part of all. As we…

The life cycle of Guy Fieri’s celebrity has now entered its resuscitation phase: Comedian Shane Torres’ now-famous bit in which he defends the unabashedly lowbrow chef has kicked off a reconsideration of, if not Fieri’s goodness, at the very least his fundamental harmlessness. But if he keeps doing things like this,…

We’ve all had the experience of watching a beloved TV show only to realize that the best episodes of said TV show are already behind us. In those cases, we usually begrudgingly finish the series due to some misplaced sense of loyalty or because we aren’t aware of the sunk cost fallacy. But what if, using the powers of…

It features fractured, elliptical storytelling. There’s none of the usual question of “whodunit” in the murder mystery that serves as the main plot. And it bucks some of the standard conventions of style and aesthetic in cable mystery dramas, thanks to the bolder choices of arthouse provocateur Antonio Campos (…

As MoviePass continues to swirl the chemical-butter-clogged drain, unused passes to Gotti dribbling from its twitching form, other services have sprung up in an effort to succeed where the company failed—primarily in the all-important arena of “not losing shitloads of money.”

Almost one year after a festival dominated by controversy, the Alamo Drafthouse’s flagship event, Fantastic Fest, has returned with a new code of conduct, a new board of directors, and a new slate of genre cinema from around the world. This morning, the festival announced its first wave of programming, and in keeping…

Today is, canonically speaking, boy wizard Harry Potter’s birthday. He is 38, it seems. (Not coincidentally, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is 53 today.) As of the writing of this article Rowling is yet to publicly celebrate the birthdate of her most famous creation in her traditional fashion of tweeting a new Harry…

Gareth Evans’ The Raid films are two shining stars of modern action cinema, following a special forces cop in Jakarta, Rama, as he beats down wave after wave of attackers in increasingly elaborate action sequences. The movies don’t spend too much time delving into the complexities of the lead character, instead…

Sure, it was Weezer’s “Undone (The Sweater Song)“ that piqued our ears nearly 25 years ago, but it was their buoyant nerd anthem “Buddy Holly” that birthed a new generation of alternative pop-rock. And while we can all agree that the band’s latest output is nothing if not spotty (Everything Will Be Alright In the End…

The Hobbit movies are bad, by any stretch of the imagination. A decade after creating one of the great film epics in the tripartite Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson decided to give Middle-earth another go, this time using a slim all-ages novel as his source material. The director tried like hell to muster the…

In the annals of action cinema from the ’90s, you’ll find a bevy of kinetic marvels that can still dazzle today. You’ll also find the 1993 movie Demolition Man. You will not, however, find a sequel to that deeply stupid but weirdly enjoyable film. And for that, it seems, we might have Meryl Streep to thank—or not…

A couple months with the new Synology DiskStation DS1618+ has demonstrated one thing above all: I should have bought a Synology NAS years ago.

Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, just like we do with The A.V. Club for adults. Every month or so, we will feature a new subject with a few essential pop culture takes parents should know, saving you from the mountains of kids’ dreck…

The internet really liked the last Venom trailer, at least partly because of just how damn fiiiine that slimy bastard is, and this morning Sony finally released a new trailer for the film after teasing it at a Comic-Con panel last Saturday. The first trailer made you wait right up until the end in order to see Tom…

With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep up. So during the first week of every month, we’ll be here to help with a curated selection of new, notable games we think should be on everyone’s radar for the month ahead.

Kicking off his Monday Late Show monologue, Stephen Colbert at first gingerly waded into the recent New Yorker article alleging that CBS head and Colbert’s boss Les Moonves is yet another powerful entertainment figure with a long history of sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. Role-playing his reaction when…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, July 31. All times are Eastern.

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.

We’ve been hearing about the Cowboy Ninja Viking movie for years, with Chris Pratt first being attached to star as the eponymous cowboy that is also a ninja that is also a viking way back in 2014. This year, though, high-profile TV director Michelle MacLaren was attached to direct the Image Comics adaptation, and now …