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One of the issues with making a character like Flintheart Glomgold the consistent butt of so many jokes is that it makes it difficult to properly develop him, and to make audiences suddenly invest any interest in that development. It takes a whole lot of work to re-jigger a broad narrative to make the ostensible comic…

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 (or, in this case, six) of the books we’re most excited about.

Announced late last month, the upcoming November 26 death of film-streaming service FilmStruck continues to wreak havoc on the lives of movie nerds with disposable income everywhere, who had long heralded Turner Classic Movies’ entry into the streaming wars as one of the best libraries of online movies around. There…

You may not have heard—we get it, we’re mid-binge on, like, five different streaming shows right now—but there’s a national election in three days. And while we know that voting booths, mail-in ballots, and the grim specter of democracy’s looming death can all be scary (so many levers!), we’re happy to report that the …

Every once in a while, House Of Cards stumbles into a timely real-world parallel that may momentarily cause you to forget all the absurdities and pulpy twists and turns that have brought us to this point. For me, it was this episode’s subplot about Claire’s Supreme Court choice pick that got under my skin a bit, for…

“Who here thinks any of this is fuckin’ real?!”

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Steven Yeun is quickly becoming one of the most interesting actors working today. After wrapping up a seven-year run as Glenn on AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2016, Yeun celebrated his newfound creative freedom with an eccentric pair of movie roles: a corporate lawyer who must fight his way out of an office building full…

AmazonBasics makes pretty much everything at this point, and generally speaking, it’s a brand you can count on to be affordable and of good quality. While Amazon runs discounts on individual AmazonBasics products with some regularity, a whole bunch of it is on sale right now.

Even though The Walking Dead has shuffled and slurred and growled a long way from its heyday as must-see Sunday TV, the news that series star Andrew Lincoln would be hanging up his cowboy hat and holstering his Colt Python near the mid-point of season nine still came as a shock. Rick Grimes is the axis upon which…

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

On Friday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed American Horror Story star and titular Billy On The Street, Billy Eichner, with an innocent-sounding “How are you?” Knowing it doesn’t take much to set Eichner’s comedy whirlwind of a mind going, Colbert sat back as the actor, comedian, and voting enthusiast indeed then…

Ruben Östlund’s 2014 dramedy Force Majeure has an instantly hooky, cringe-inducing premise: How does a family move on after their father proves, definitively, that he’d abandon them to save his own ass during an emergency? It’s the sort of painful but recognizable question that easily survives translation, which is…

When Trent (Paul Maddock) showed up in the back half of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s first season, it was like someone threw a firecracker into some sort of especially fraught family dinner. Things were bad, tense, likely to rupture at any moment—then instead of the intended explosion, people scrambled, shrieked, and were…

Raymond Chow Man-Wai, the prolific Hong Kong movie producer who helped introduce martial arts legends like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and more to the world, has died. According to the Straits Times, Chow was 91.

1985's The Color Purple was a landmark moment in the careers of a lot of very famous people: For director Steven Spielberg, it represented (actual merits of the film aside) his first big movement away from popcorn blockbusters, and into something more serious and “mature.” For comedian Whoopi Goldberg, it made the…

We now find ourselves—somehow—a little more than two years out from the beginning of James Cameron’s Avatar sequel barrage, in which the Oscar-winning director will finally live out his dreams of crushing humanity under an unceasing hail of movies about oceans, robots, and those weird hair-tail things that the blue…

Maybe Raymond Tusk had the best take on Claire Underwood. As Bill Shepherd tells her after a tense exchange of threats, Tusk always wondered whether Claire was a real person or just playing the part of one. That could read as a meta comment on Robin Wright’s performance as well. There’s an unknowable essence to…