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Earlier this week the world got its first glimpse at what it would look like if Pikachu, an electric mouse who works for Nintendo, were a detective voiced by Ryan Reynolds. It was, depending on who you ask ... interesting? Possibly even good? At the very least, the trailer for Detective Pikachu represents a refreshing…

For a generation of teens, HBO’s Taxicab Confessions was a notoriously frustrating watch. Everything around the promotion of the show seemed to promise an abundance of scandalous sexual content, but inevitably you’d find yourself up well past your bedtime watching an alcoholic father confess his greatest regrets in…

At the D23 Expo last year, Disney announced that every Disney Princess, with most of the original voice actors, would be returning to the big-screen in the new Wreck It Ralph movie, Ralph Breaks The Internet. Ahead of the film’s release next week, we sat down with a couple behind-the-scenes folks—art director Ami…

Remember that episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that sort of established an origin story for all of the show’s unhinged weirdness, with several sustained minutes of exposition-free black-and-white footage of an atomic bomb test followed by what seemed to be a depiction of otherwordly evil being birthed into our…

When asked to describe a spooky haunted house, the homes belonging to the Cryptkeeper, the Munsters, and the Addams Family, Vincent Price’s house from The House On Haunted Hill (1959), or more recently, the mansion from Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting Of Hill House come to mind. But how did these once lavish homes become…

2 Dope Queens, WNYC Studios’ critically-acclaimed comedy and storytelling podcast has released its final episode. And that sucks. But the titular queens, Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson, have scored their dream guest to soften the blow for their final episode. Don’t get tears on your keyboard, boo boos: An…

As an actor, Dwayne Johnson has become a chameleon who disappears into his roles, whether he’s playing an awful CG scorpion man-monster, a mean man with big muscles, or a nice man with big muscles, but he’s completely unrecognizable in this trailer for the new WWE film Fighting With My Family. The movie is a biopic…

Ridley Scott is determined to finish the story he started with 2012's Prometheus, despite the majority of Alien fans not really giving a shit about the cold-circuited travails of Michael Fassenbender’s android David. Last year’s Alien: Covenant managed to sneak in a bit more of the deep-space horror for which the…

At first glance, Nirvana and Bobcat Goldthwait appear to have very little in common. But, think again and the similarities come rushing in: Both, for example, were important in shaping the direction of 1990s entertainment, both communicated their art through lots of growly sounds and raw onstage energy, and both, it…

Here’s a fun piece of movie trivia: At the same time Eddie Redmayne was winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Theory Of Everything, he had a film in theaters in which he gave what some consider to be the worst performance of the entire year. That film was Jupiter Ascending—a truly bonkers movie in which…

My first encounter with CBD was in its oil form. I was heading to Palm Springs with my dog nephew, who is a lover but a horribly nervous traveler, and his dads were planning to experiment with CBD to calm Tony (that’s the dog) during the car ride. The first dose chilled him out a little bit, but he was still pretty…

Director Peter Farrelly’s new film Green Book gets its name from The Negro Motorist Green Book, a Jim Crow-era guidebook written by Victor Hugo Green that black Americans could use to know which establishments were safe for them to patronize. The film follows black concert pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali),…

Almost as soon as the lineup for Drone Activity was announced, the snarky social media posts began: “Did you hear about the corporate noise festival?” And the curators behind the show must have seen it coming. Of the monthlong series of events that make up Chicago’s inaugural Red Bull Music Fest, Drone Activity—an…

Music festivals are often trying to integrate art into the proceedings, but that can be tough when the huddled masses are collectively sweating in a trash-strewn field somewhere. That’s perhaps why Pitchfork’s decided to team up with The Art Institute Of Chicago for an alternative type of musical event, one where a…

There have been relatively few sequels produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation—that is, the flagship Disney cartoon brand, not Pixar or any of their TV divisions—and it’s easy to see why. Disney specializes in happy-ending family entertainment, and producing a follow-up to a beloved all-ages cartoon places the young…

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Netflix shepherded the German sci-fi thriller Dark to American audiences, turning a very strange show that likely wouldn’t have turned many heads outside of its native country into a global hit. The show’s success resulted in a second season, as well as an overall deal between Netflix and creators Jantje Friese and…

California’s two major fires—dubbed Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire—have led to tragic losses of life and property. The images of smoke, flames, and devastated homes have focused the nation’s attention on the state, and have led Americans to ask what they can do to help. Chico, California-based Sierra Nevada brewery was…

MTV’s getting desperate, with the network in the process of rebooting a number of its old hits, including Daria, The Hills, Undressed, Æon Flux, and now MTV Spring Break. TheWrap reports that a slew of VJs that better include Simon Rex will be heading to Cancun’s Grand Oasis Hotel, where they’ll presumably introduce…

Join us now for the tale of two cats, hungry not just for stinky salmon treats, but also the intellectual nourishment that comes from contemplating great art. Living in the Japanese city of Onomichi, this pair of feline critics has been trying to gain entry to a local museum only to be stymied, again and again, by…

As with bad sex, most bad hacking scenes in movies and television involve someone needing to announce, “I’m in!” Since not long after people started connecting computers to other computers, Hollywood has been depicting fictional people attempting to use those connections for nefarious means. Naturally, Hollywood has…

As our November preview has already amply demonstrated, the late fall still has several scintillating dramas in store, not least of which is Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl. Florence Pugh, the breakout star of Lady Macbeth, stars as Charlie, an English actress with leftist…

Two moments prominently featured in the Instant Family trailer attempt to wring laughs from the image of an anxious foster kid getting violently smacked in the face with a ball. They speak to the worst impulses of writer-director Sean Anders, whose tendency to go for broad slapstick and cheap gags has carried…

Having never met Jason Mantzoukas before, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert quickly learned the dangers and delights of having the noted improviser, podcast star, Big Mouth, The League, and The Good Place (“Derek!”) scene-stealer, and star of the new film The Long Dumb Road in your house. (And don’t get us started on …

I’ve always wanted to tie girls up, but I can never convince a woman to let me. Lately, I’ve been exploring “bondage singles” sites online, but I’m totally new to this. How do I know which ones I can trust? There are hundreds of profiles, but it’s hard for me to believe I can really just answer an ad, meet a girl in a…