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There have been plenty of arguments over the years about the relative merits of the various Star Trek captains—Does Kathryn Janeway get a bad rap? Does Kirk’s blend of machismo and heart stand up? Why didn’t they let Sisko shave sooner?—but you’d be hard pressed to find a modern Trek fan without at least some…

In what’s either a massive over-estimation of the U.S. public’s ever-waning tolerance for Steven Seagal—or just a savvy way to get him out of their country for a minute—the Russian government today announced that the doughy silk robe enthusiast/alleged professional creep/person accused of sexual assault by at least 2…

It’s difficult, looking back from 2018, to understand just how thoroughly people once lost their god damn minds over 2 Live Crew. So outraged were the moral guardians of the early 1990s over Luther Campbell and company’s gleefully juvenile and sexual lyrics, as least one person was actually arrested for selling their…

Boots Riley’s recent movie debut, Sorry To Bother You, has quickly proven itself to be one of the most electrifying films in recent memory, a consciously conscious blend of science-fiction, satire, horror, and straight-up weirdness, all bent toward exploring our own complicity in the ways corporate America works to…

One of the quieter but stronger episodes of the original DuckTales was “The Curse of Castle McDuck.” After a number of typical, wild, fun episodes, the old show slowed down some to spend a little time with Scrooge regaling his nephews stories of his past while on a trip to his ancestral home (before the inevitable…

The internet has largely killed off the once-cherished art of the video game strategy guide; after all, it’s hard to get hyped for an analog guidebook when one or two quick Google searches can get you a written walkthrough, dozens of screenshots, and roughly a million Let’s Plays of every game ever created to help you…

One of the nice things about a big, media-friendly event like the TCA press tour (currently rounding the corner into its final week of press release-unleashing hell) is that you can sometimes directly ask the people who make decisions about the TV you love why they did all those terrible things to the TV that you…

The quarterfinal is here and for the first, and only, time in The Great British Baking Show history, the theme for the antepenultimate round is biscuits! Usually burned off earlier in the competition, it’s exciting to see the humble biscuit reserved for this more competitive stage and considering the challenges the…

We’re serving up deals on a $70 Anova sous vide machine, a home theatre projector, a Masterbuilt electric smoker, and many more.

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

On Friday’s Late Show, Rob Reiner came out to a standing ovation. Which is what you get when you’re responsible for a handful of stone-cold beloved movie classics one supposes, although, as ever, the garrulous comedy legend remains a reliably entertaining talk show guest in his own right. He also got a second,…

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.

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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.

Bad news, royal watchers (by proxy): Ryan Murphy’s new season of historical throwdown series Feud, centered on the messy divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, is apparently no more. FX’s John Landgraf broke the news today, announcing that, “As far as I know, it’s not active right now.”

Hope you still like nightmarish imagery, unusual assemblages of horror tropes, and storylines that have an unfortunate tendency to faceplant like a freshly murdered clown, because American Horror Story just got renewed for another year of stylish weirdness.

A thirst trap, in internet parlance, is a “sexy” photo of oneself (generally in a state of semi-undress), posted to social media in the hopes of ensnaring public likes and comments. There is no intent on actually pursuing any sort of intimacy from this attention, thus differentiating the thirst trap from something…

Christopher Robin—Disney’s latest assault on our collective heartstrings—opens in theaters this weekend, reacquainting audiences around the world with A.A. Milne’s beloved Hundred Acre Woods characters, enduring symbols of the power and warmth of childhood whimsy and also, in a handful of places, criticism of an…