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There’s something almost delightfully disposable about 1999's Galaxy Quest, the light, breezy Star Trek pastiche that seems strategically designed to pop back into your head every three years with a cheerful, “Oh, yeah, Galaxy Quest! Alan Rickman’s great in that!” (He is.) It does not, consequently, feel like anything…

Yesterday, a New York Times report came out claiming that Asia Argento had agreed to pay $380,000 to a young actor named Jimmy Bennett who claimed that she had sexually assaulted him in 2013 shortly after he turned 17. The two met while filming The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things in 2004, and Bennett says they…

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.

Set in a tacky Hooters-style sports bar called Double Whammies, Andrew Bujalski’s delightful new comedy, Support The Girls, more than lives up to its winking/earnest double entendre of a title. The film opens with an orientation session for new employees, who are instructed in the fine art of customer service:…

Catwoman left Batman at the altar back in July, a disappointingly predictable twist that was all part of a needlessly complex plan by all of his biggest villains, and the Caped Crusader has not been dealing with his heartbreak particularly well in writer Tom King’s current run of Batman comics. As Bruce Wayne, he has…

It’s been several years since we poked our readers about their favorite sound bar, and a lot has changed. Wireless subwoofers, surround speakers, and even Dolby Atmos are on the menu now, so it’s time for a refresher. Check out the rules below, then head down to the comments to nominate your pick.

After years of rumors and rumblings about what would happen with the 25th James Bond movie—referred to as Bond 25 until we get a real title—Daniel Craig finally confirmed last year that he would once again be picking up the old Walther PPK and downing some shaken-not-stirred martinis as the famous super-spy. A few…

Jeremy Saulnier’s punks-vs.-Nazis survival thriller Green Room was one of our favorite films of 2016, earning the No. 3 spot on our annual year-end best-of poll. So needless to say we’ve been eagerly anticipating his next film, Hold The Dark, which takes the survival angle to the extreme by heading to the Alaskan…

Companies face an obstacle when it comes to testing outside-the-box food advertising: Customers might be really turned off by unconventional ideas. Take, for example, a long-held maxim that people should not stare at the camera while chewing in food commercials. A company might want to actually test this, but it risks…

Last time we reported on Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran, it was the depressing news that a bunch of sad assholes had driven her off social media after months of online harassment. Despite the public support of people like Mark Hamill and Rian Johnson, Tran kept silent about the experience—until now.

Brian Henson’s The Happytime Murders has been building up an undeniable buzz of late, if for no other reason than the way it allows poor, creatively stifled headline writers to get away with slipping phrases like “puppet jizz” into their work. Starring Melissa McCarthy, puppeteer Bill Barretta (also the voice of The…

Look out, conservative America! The rising tide of the political left just got itself two new champions and they’ve got lots of experience tearing down the pillars of tyranny with their (checks notes) heartfelt acoustic ballads and piano rock anthems. That’s right! As reported by The Washington Post, Jason Isbell…

Cartoonist Keiler Roberts doesn’t shy away from pain in her autobiographical work, understanding that the hard parts of life are what make the joys so valuable. Her work is as delightful as it is harrowing, exploring how these different emotions often intersect. Her first book for Koyama Press, Sunburning, was full of…

Vanity Fair has released a first look at Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, the new film from The Invitation’s Karyn Kusama. And it looks like Kidman and Kusama are going the Sharp Objects “drinking straight from the bottle” route with this one. “We always knew that what we wanted her to look like was a real middle-aged…

With the third season of HBO’s animated series Animals underway, The A.V. Club jumped into a swan boat on Echo Park Lake with creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano to talk about the new slate of episodes. The lake, which lies on the edge of Los Angeles’ historic Echo Park neighborhood, is a favorite spot for…

Yesterday, a number of outlets and tech journalists reported on a new Twitter campaign called “Don’t Believe Every Tweet.” It had an account, a series of polished, gently comedic videos, and a a website with a quote from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that offered “a simple reminder to be skeptical of everything you see on…

At long last, the rest shall be written. Take a deep breath, readers, because here, at last, is the cast of The Hills, reunited and ready for a return trip into reality-TV paradise:

Hopefully, Rachel Maddow took the rest of the day off last Friday after her show aired. Sure, there were only two hours left in the day by then, but still—she probably had a nice cup of oolong, maybe a bento box from that good spot on 63rd. If so, she earned it—Maddow was the most-watched person on TV.

“I’m gonna tell you a story about a ghost, a werewolf, and a pretty shitty pizza place.” Thus begins the first real trailer for Slice, the upcoming pizza-delivery horror movie (Get it? Slice?) from Austin Veseley, the Chicago filmmaker who cut his teeth (again, pun totally intended) on Chance the Rapper’s “Angels” and…

“A woman’s heart is an ocean of secrets.” Titanic’s unofficial thesis receives flak to this day, as 21 years of hindsight confirm that, yeah, it’s strange and perhaps not very romantic for a 100-year-old woman to live her whole life in service of a man she knew for three days. In short, despite James Cameron’s…

Clad in the traditional black cape and spiky circlet of mourning, Madonna appeared at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The show’s producers, we assume, wanted to memorialize Franklin, marking the loss of a musical icon by having another famous singer reflect on a remarkable…

American Vandal trailer reveals the second season’s central mystery: “Who is the Turd Burglar?” Will it be as captivating a question as “Who did the dicks?” We’ll find out on Friday, September 14.

American Vandal trailer reveals the second season’s central mystery: “Who is the Turd Burglar?” Will it be as captivating a question as “Who did the dicks?” We’ll find out on Friday, September 14.

If you’re all caught up on Better Call Saul, click here to read our interview with the show’s latest blast from the Breaking Bad past—which is really the Better Call Saul future.

This post contains discussion of the events of the latest episode of Better Call Saul, “Something Beautiful,” as well as elements of the show’s predecessor, Breaking Bad.