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This weekend, hundreds of Black Panther fans from around the country gathered in Chicago, braving excessive heat and a Michigan Avenue crowded with Lollapalooza hooligans to attend the first ever Wakandacon. Founded by a group Chicago residents—Ali Barthwell, David Barthwell, and Matt Barthwell (you may recognize Ali…

She may have waited until a little longer than her male (or Themiscyran) counterparts to make an arrival, but it’s official: Supergirl is joining the DCEU, with a feature film based around the Kryptonian badass.

MoviePass’ white-knuckle, edge-of-your-seat travails took yet another turn Monday, ensuring that the prestige drama about its behind-the-scenes turmoil will be that much more entertaining when we use our Stubs A-List subscriptions to see it. Last week, after the moviegoing subscription service temporarily blacked out…

That Jim Halpert became one of TV’s most beloved leading men is even more impressive when you consider he started out with a pretty embarrassing haircut. To be fair, Jim’s floppy, unkempt hair was clearly an intentional choice designed to give The Office the realistic, unglamorous feel of a…

For years, believers in the flat Earth theory have relied on such irrefutable arguments as, “When I look at the horizon it looks flat.” But now it seems they’re going to have to reassess their entire theory because, as reported by The Verge, when you zoom all the way out on the newly updated Google Maps it depicts the…

Despite exploring some ugly, violent material, HBO’s Sharp Objects is damn beautiful to look at. Director Jean-Marc Vallée gives the series an elegant, sun-baked visual palette, and the settings are rich with character and detail. That, too, goes for star Amy Adams’ body, which, due to the numerous words she’s carved…

YouTube has a far-right problem. The online video platform’s reluctance to actually deal with the wackos, nihilists, and hatemongers in its midst has been widely noted and critiqued, and today YouTube responded with a move that, frankly, has been a long time coming: It finally deleted The Alex Jones Channel. The…

Few foods straddle the middle of the Venn diagram between “wholesome, pastoral staple of the American diet” and “hotly contested ethical minefield” quite like a glass of milk. According to culinary historian and journalist Mark Kurlansky, many of the nutritional and moral questions surrounding human consumption of…

With the appearance of numerous sign-waving supporters at a Trump rally last week, the world at large was introduced to a far-right conspiracy theory known as QAnon. Until recently, QAnon stuff remained in the dark corners of 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, but as it continues to spill into mainstream news coverage, we’re…

If you were lucky enough to attend Carly Rae Jepsen’s Saturday afternoon set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza, you were likely to see a few signs urging someone to “give Carly Rae Jepsen a sword.” More than a mere bit of randomness, this is, well, actually a thing. As Teen Vogue reports, the bit dates back to a Tumblr post…

Selina Kyle can’t sleep.

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Disney’s PR turmoil in the wake of the company firing Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn for offensive joke tweets he posted years ago—and has spent nearly as long admitting and apologizing for—continues. Last week, the company essentially told cast members who had publicly asked for Gunn to be rehired that …

A boy isn’t supposed to hit a girl, even when she throws the first punch. It’s the first thing many of us learn about masculinity, on the playground or the school bus. So it feels familiar when Amateur author Thomas Page McBee panics when asked to spar with fellow boxer Larissa. It doesn’t matter that she’s been…

A week after releasing a vague teaser that was basically just Emma Stone and Jonah Hill starting at each other in a perfectly empty white room, Netflix has released a full trailer for its upcoming limited series Maniac confirming that it’s out to beat FX’s Legion at its own retro-futuristic, super fucking trippy game.…

Last night’s Who Is America? featured a few low points for the baby series, but its most attention-grabbing segment was when Sacha Baron Cohen got racist shitbag Joe Arpaio to tacitly yearn for a blowjob from fellow racist shitbag Donald Trump. That’s a headline-grabbing stunt, facilitated by Baron Cohen’s new…

When these 3/4-sized Arcade1Up arcade cabinets first went on preorder for $299, we thought it was a mistake, since they were supposed to cost $399. At this point though, it seems clear that $299 is in fact what they now cost, but inventory is still limited, since they were out of stock for awhile.

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?

Just in time for back-to-school season, Amazon’s marking down a whole bunch of Crayola art supplies in today’s Gold Box.

Note: This interview discusses plot points of seasons three and four of Better Call Saul.

Last Week Tonight continued host John Oliver’s Emmy-winning formula last night. You know the one, where Oliver attempts to make the week’s unendingly grim and terrible events go down easier with intermittent asides of humorously exaggerated reactions that only make you feel worse when he gets back to the awful stuff.…

Okay, let’s start with the good stuff. Joe Arpaio, the aggressively racist Arizona sheriff who was pardoned by President Donald Trump after illegally detaining Latinos, appears in this episode on the “unboxing” show of OMGWhizzBoyOMG, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest creation. A Finnish celebrity with bright orange hair,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 6. All times are Eastern.

It’s been two years since Venture Bros.’ last season finale, and, well. Things have happened, haven’t they? Boy have they happened. So there’s some immediate comfort in just how little has changed on the show. “The Venture Bros. & The Curse Of The Haunted Problem” picks up more or less where season 6 left off. Rusty,…

Nobody wanted to like Succession. Nobody asked for a show about about the rich, white people destroying America. Nobody asked for the Roys—an amalgam of the Murdochs, Redstones, and Trumps—in an economic and cultural climate hobbled by billionaires and clueless media conglomerates. Nobody wanted to like these people,…

It bothers me that this episode is called “Hilter.” Episode titles are rarely that important; sometimes shows can get clever with them ), sometimes they can be funny or exciting on their own, but as a rule, I don’t consider the title when it comes time to review something. And I’m not really considering it here,…