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Although the film’s aesthetic owes just as much to bad-trip ’70s psychedelia, the phrase you’ll hear most often when describing the psychotronic new Nicolas Cage vehicle Mandy is “heavy metal.” (In his review for The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky says it has “enough vintage MTV fog machines to kill a hair metal…

In the tradition of William Castle, who enticed audiences with ostensible danger—taking out an actual life insurance policy on those who saw a particular screening of Macabre (1958); including a countdown to the scariest scene in Homicidal (1961), so that viewers had time to flee the theater—Assassination Nation kicks…

Last week, we reported that Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian punk band/art collective Pussy Riot, had fallen mysteriously ill after a court appearance stemming from the group’s on-field World Cup protest earlier this summer, with the group reporting that doctors believed Verzilov—who had quickly become unable to…

Anticipation is high for Marvel’s forthcoming 1990s-set superhero film Captain Marvel, and fans have likely already committed hours to dissecting the trailer that dropped this morning. But even the most eagle-eyed Marvel fanatics may have been too dazzled by Brie Larson’s granny-punching antics to notice an easter egg…

Netflix had a damn good night at the Emmy Awards last night, with The Crown and Godless winning a handful of trophies each and bringing the streaming service’s total to 23 Emmys this year—if you count the Creative Arts awards that were handed out last week. That leaves Netflix tied with HBO, which won the big drama…

We’re of two minds when it comes to putting punk music onto streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, et al. On the one hand, those streaming services are owned by insanely wealthy, male-dominated tech companies that are basically the antithesis of everything that punk—and specifically the riot grrrl movement of…

Netflix has apparently never heard the myth of Icarus, because it’s currently planning to use its wings of wax to fly directly into the sun, with apparently no disregard for the inherent dangers. That’s a metaphor, of course, but what Netflix is really doing is no less dangerous: As announced today in a press release,…

As we reported back in August, Shout! Factory and Fathom Events are going to bring The Transformers: The Movie back to theaters for a one-night event later this month on September 27, finally giving a new generation a chance to see what a good Transformers movie looks like. Forget the Michael Bay films: This one has a…

It takes a remarkable actor to make a catchphrase for themselves out of the sound we all make when surprised. Keanu Reeves, of course, has accomplished just that. Whether he’s traveling through time, learning how to do martial arts inside a computer simulation, or infiltrating a nefarious gang of criminal surfers,…

It looks like there is even more new Kanye on the horizon. Shortly after it was announced that he would be the musical guest for SNL’s season-44 premiere, Kanye West took to Twitter to share a cryptic image of a minidisc that looked suspiciously similar to the cover to his 2013 release Yeezus. Fans immediately began…

It looks like there is even more new Kanye on the horizon. Shortly after it was announced that he would be the musical guest for SNL’s season-44 premiere, Kanye West took to Twitter to share a cryptic image of a minidisc that looked suspiciously similar to the cover to his 2013 release Yeezus. Fans immediately began…

Once upon a time, instant messaging was king. Before social media apps and smartphones rose to prominence, these free-to-use services ruled. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Instant Messenger, ICQ, you name it—everyone had their drug of choice. There was just one problem with these revolutionary methods of…

It first hit me during A Quiet Place, as John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s fictional kids quietly played a board game by firelight on a reclaimed wood table, a vertical garden growing out of planters on the wall. I had noticed earlier how nicely Krasinski stayed dressed in the film’s post-apocalypse, in unfussy but…

The first trailer for Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson as superpowered fighter pilot Carol Danvers—a.k.a. Captain Marvel—has arrived. In case you forgot this was a period piece, the trailer opens with Captain Marvel falling to Earth and into a Blockbuster Video. (We’re guessing the sci-fi section.) There, she…

Best, Worst, Weirdest focuses on three installments of a long-running video game series to explore its strengths, its failings, and where it got lost.

“You know my methods. Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results.”

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 18. All times are Eastern.

At the beginning of this month, CBS head Leslie Moonves stepped down from the network after a dozen women came forward with allegations that he sexual harassed or assaulted them. Shortly after that, Julie Chen—who is married to Moonves and weirdly used his name on a recent Big Brother—took a break from her gig…

A bunch of awards were already given out—including an Emmy for Pickle Rick, but none for Megan—at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, but tonight was the big show in Hollywood. The stars walked the red carpet with their spouses and friends—or, in the case of Best Actress in a Drama nominee Sandra Oh, their parents—and…

Let’s be totally honest here: The Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special Emmy going to Glenn Weiss, the guy who directed the Oscars ceremony, seemed pretty boring. It’s the kind of award that’s usually good for a snack break, since most TV viewers probably don’t care who directed the Academy Awards, but Weiss…

Even on a show known for its cold opens, this is one for the ages. The screen split vertically down the middle, DePalma style, Kim and Jimmy go about their increasingly separate lives. We see them walking through the same routine on different days, wearing different clothes: Jimmy puts toothpaste on Kim’s brush for…

For having made a big show out of how diverse its nominees were this year, the Emmys sure have been giving a lot of awards to, you know, white people. Having evidently predicted that this would be the case, co-host Michael Che decided to right some wrongs by visiting some prominent black TV actors and presenting them…

A fun game during the crowd shots at award shows is to try and pick out the best famous people you recognize, like Carson Daly, whoever’s lucky enough to sit next to Carson Daly, and any super-big stars who should be doing something more fun than politely clapping for people who are less famous than they are. However,…

After a couple years of hard work and conscientiousness, the entertainment industry has done it: Everything is fixed. As noted in the musical opening at the Emmy Awards tonight, the bad guys are all in jail, the Emmy nominees are just a hair more diverse than they normally are, and both a white guy and a black guy are…

During a recent interview on YouTube show Walk Away (via Entertainment Weekly), Roseanne Barr claimed that her Roseanne character is going to die off-screen from “an opioid overdose” on ABC’s rebooted revival show The Conners. Barr called the decision “cynical and horrible,” noting that she had decided to introduce a…