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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. Because it’s 1998 Week here at The A.V. Club, we’re looking back at some of the movies of that bygone year.

The divide between the haves and the have nots remains ever present in this extended trailer for The Deuce season two. Although the time jump to 1978 finds people like Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) daring to dream big enough to be an auteur in the porn industry and not just a bit player, those bubbles are bound to be …

Amazon just announced that it will be discontinuing its 20% preorder discount on physical video games on August 28, and replacing it with a $10 Prime member credit on select games. A $12 cash discount is certainly preferable to a $10 store credit, though it sounds like some digital games may be included in the new…

Representation matters. It also sells. Why does that still come as a big surprise to Hollywood, an industry supposedly built on cynically oversaturating the market to meet demand? This weekend, Crazy Rich Asians topped the box office with a cool $25 million; count what the midweek release made on Wednesday and…

There is probably no one better suited to promoting a new season of Stranger Things than David Harbour, who, in addition to bringing warmth, pathos, and rural-dad hotness to the role of Sheriff Hopper, has mastered social media. Harbour took some time from his busy “smash that retweet button” schedule to present a …

Though it looked like the critically-acclaimed dramedy was on the ropes, Netflix has (finally) ordered round three of GLOW. There’s no word on a premiere date, but art will probably imitate life, with season three taking place in Las Vegas.

It’s difficult to make an internet-paranoia thriller without sounding like a hysterical scold, and even harder to make one without getting accused of hysterical scolding. But the mini-boom of first-person internet thrillers has, if nothing else, found a way to plug audiences directly into that paranoia, making it feel…

Although Adam Cayton-Holland’s first book is subtitled “A Tragi-Comic Memoir,” fans of his comedy and/or his TV show should expect little, if any, of the “comic” part. “A tragic memoir” doesn’t sound as zippy, but it better reflects the devastating story within Tragedy + Time: the suicide of Cayton-Holland’s younger…

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? didn’t put forth its best effort last night, but it did feature one of the series’ most memorable stunts to date. Ex-con Rick Sherman, a character that’s only gotten better and better with each appearance, reemerged last night as a budding chef bringing what he learned in prison…

SyFy’s Sharknado franchise came to a close last night, sending its surviving (and resurrected) cast members back in time—“If we stop the first sharknado we can stop them all,” dribbles Tara Reid—so it could have a shitty CGI shark eat a shitty CGI T-Rex. Elsewhere, flying, fire-breathing sharks spiraled their way…

After several uneven (to say the least) installments in his American Horror Story anthology series, it looks like Ryan Murphy is putting his best foot forward for the upcoming Murder House and Coven mashup. Titled Apocalypse, the eighth season of AHS reunites the good and very bad witches of the Coven outing,…

One particularly nice flourish in this summer’s hit rom-com Crazy Rich Asians is that the soundtrack features a bunch of Western songs sung in Chinese-language covers. That speaks to the way the movie examines Asian and Asian American cross-cultural differences, and also reflects the fact that Crazy Rich Asians is the…

Recently, Michael Shannon—patron saint of intimidating character actors and Oscar nominees who frequent dive bars—gave an interview to Playboy magazine in which he discussed his history of playing complex villains that audiences can’t help but be drawn to. Once the discussion turned to villainy, it was only a matter…

Twice a month, Mary Kay McBrayer and Maegan Stone Brooks analyze horror movies “because no one wants to be scared alone. But no one wants to stop watching scary movies, either.” A literature professor and a behavioral therapist, respectively, McBrayer and Brooks apply serious lenses to the films they watch to…

Over decades of TV episodes, Homer Simpson has earned an important place in pop culture. A picture of his lightbulb head immediately creates a warm, pleasant sensation: he is a generation’s ur-Dad, he is charmingly stupid, and he’s reassuring in his familiarity. Regardless of The Simpsons’ recent quality, his cartoon…

After four years of anticipation, multiple shifted release dates, and a lot of pre-release drama, Nicki Minaj’s Queen was released to the world last week. Despite a trio of glossy singles, one of which includes convicted sex offender 6ix9ine, the record landed in the number two spot on Billboard’s chart, behind Travis…

Tonight on CBS, The Late Late Show With James Corden will air its fourth primetime special focused around the late night series’ most significant contribution to popular culture: Carpool Karaoke, the recurring segment where Corden is joined in a car by a celebrity to sing some songs, share some intimate moments, and…

Whether you’re talking best stand-up comedians, best late-night talk show guests, or best Canadians, Norm Macdonald has got to be a part of the conversation. But what does a Norm Macdonald do on his time off, when he’s not being simply the best? Well, if you were to ask that question this weekend, the answer would be …

You know what? Dating sucks. It’s expensive, time consuming, and emotionally fraught—and that’s if you get lucky enough to get past the tedious initial getting-to-know-you stage. (Or maybe we’re just lazy and emotionally unavailable.) Anyway, Gothamist frames a New York City woman’s staging of her own personal,…

Most people take calculators for granted, especially now that they’re built into our phones. But the noble pocket calculator has a long, surprisingly colorful history. The Twitter account Pulp Librarian—a curator of the art, history and fiction of old paperback novels who runs an online “bibliothèque of…

This modern world has made the smartphone a hub for all of your needs: Banking, shopping, health care—all of it can be managed with a few swipes into the digital ether. Unfortunately, your eventual death will be all too material, and requires some tangible paperwork. What a drag.

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist always worked best in the realm of audio—and not just because Squigglevision could be so wiggling-ly unpleasant on the eyes. The long-running, mostly improvised Comedy Central series was a periodic love letter to the silliness of the English language, whether it was star Jonathan Katz…

Anker makes a lot of gadgets, but noise canceling headphones were a notable gap in the company’s lineup until very recently. So if you want to block out the world with the new Soundcore Space wireless over-ears, you can save $20 right now with promo code SDCORENC.

It’s 1998 Week on The A.V. Club: All week long, we’ll be turning back the clock 20 years to discuss Saving Private Ryan, the Seinfeld finale, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Metal Gear Solid, and more pop culture worth remembering and reflecting upon.

DC’s Midnighter was one of the best action comics of the last five years, and getting the book’s creative team back together on Wonder Woman has significantly turned up the intensity and excitement of the Amazon warrior’s solo series. Writer Steve Orlando, artist ACO, and colorist Romulo Fajardo Jr. take Diana on a…