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Hamilton creator and multi-talented entertainer Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in this month’s Mary Poppins Returns, the long-gestating sequel to the 1964 musical fantasy film. In honor of the new film, we sat down with Miranda to talk about Mary Poppins, working with Rob Marshall, and the challenges of making a Hamilton…

Die Hard fans have been through a lot. Die Hard was well-received by both the critical community and the general public when it was released in 1988, spawning four sequels and dozens of Die Hard-esque movies—Speed, Under Siege, Passenger 57, and Skyscraper, just to name a few. The sequels would remain in (somewhat)…

Detroiters star and co-creator Sam Richardson has announced via Twitter that Comedy Central’s much-loved, little-watched Detroiters will not be returning for a third season.

Hoda Kotb’s star is on the rise at NBC, with her getting Matt Lauer’s spot on the Today desk after he was fired at the beginning of the year, but her future at Today will be a bit more lonely going forward. As reported by Page Six, Kotb’s on-screen best friend Kathie Lee Gifford will be leaving Today next year, making…

The music of Queen (formerly, briefly known as Smile) is timeless , with hits spanning over four decades that reach audiences of all ages and demographics. Now, as reported by Billboard, Universal has named Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody” the most-streamed song of the 20th century, with approximately 1.6 billion global…

Anyone who read comics in the ’90s probably remembers Peter David’s mean, bearded Aquaman, a rejoinder to the Filmation and Hanna-Barbera cartoons that had cemented the character’s popular image as a weenie, the Fred Jones of the seven seas, and the butt of endless jokes about his fish friends and the limited…

Jake Gyllenhaal is the best kind of movie star. He’ll play Mysterio in the upcoming Spider-Man sequel, but he’ll also champion smaller, stranger projects like Paul Dano’s Wildlife or, as Variety’s just announced, a remake of Gustav Möller’s Danish thriller The Guilty.

As we wind down 2018, our best-of coverage continues with the following question:

Due to the limitations of television, there’s a whole bunch of stuff from the A Song Of Ice And Fire books that will never make its way into the HBO adaptation. The world George R.R. Martin created is simply too densely packed with cultures and histories for it all to ever be fully represented. In fact, there’s tons…

Tegan and Sara helped blaze the trail for what we know as indie pop, and now the sisters will dig into both their careers and their personal lives in a new co-written memoir, High School. Described in a press release as an “origin story,” the memoir will find the pair alternating chapters to provide their distinct…

It was nearly a year ago that we reported on the possibility of WWE legend and burgeoning movie star John Cena starring in a Paramount adaptation of the Duke Nukem video game series. Now, Variety reports that Paramount is no longer involved—maybe they actually played a Duke Nukem game?—and that producer Jean-Julien…

Lady Gaga got roasted a bit recently (we weren’t innocent) for using variations on the same phrase over and over again on her A Star Is Born press tour. “There could be 100 people in a room, and 99 don’t believe in you. But all it takes is one,” she’s said (and said, and said). It’s easy to lob cries of artificiality…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as the song says, the time when parents pull out all the old favorites to enjoy with their kids: The Polar Express (book only, avoid the movie), A Charlie Brown Christmas, various Grinch incarnations (animated>>>live action), and in a few years, Die Hard. For now, though, in…

The only certainties in this life are death, taxes, and your old, shitty tweets surfacing at the worst possible time. Comedian Kevin Hart learned that last week when old, homophobic tweets cost him a job hosting the 91st annual Academy Awards. The Academy, too, seems to have absorbed this essential American truth, as…

Amazon makes sound bars, because of course they do, and their 2.1 channel, 31.5" model is down to $79 right now. While not an all-time low price, that is its first discount from $100 since July.

Deep learning (or deep fakes) technology, which has frightened and amused people in more or less equal measure since it first started popping up on the internet, has now reached its full potential. Though capable of swapping the faces of anyone who’s ever been filmed before, people have largely embraced deep learning…

Moments of beauty in life are worth recognizing. A tree, alive with color, is glimpsed at the other end of a dark tunnel. Pristine white dresses, made from rich fabrics, delicate lace, and buttons almost impossibly small, fill racks in a store, just waiting to be owned, worn, and endlessly admired. Light streams into…

Though it’s always a group effort (misery loves company), The A.V. Club’s list of the year’s worst movies is almost never a true vote of consensus disapproval. Because while we all tend to see the same good movies, we usually watch different bad ones, catching the lousiest dreck on unlucky assignment and learning from…

On Monday’s Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon asked guest John Mulaney if the Emmy-winning comic, former Saturday Night Live writer, Broadway star, and now animated superhero pig-man would be interested in hosting the now-hostless Oscars. “I mean, yeah, but, like, you know, you’ve gotta think about the ratings,” was…

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The CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover episodes are always a bit of a tough needle to thread. The show’s writers need to appeal to the existing fanbase of each show, continuing—at least a little—some ongoing stories while furthering the three-part narrative, all while welcoming viewers loyal to the other shows in such a…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 11. All times are Eastern.

According to Deadline, Janelle Monáe has joined the cast of Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem biopic The Glorias: A Life On The Road. Monáe will be playing Dorothy Pitman Hughes, the civil rights activist who co-founded feminist magazine Ms. with Steinem in the ‘70s. The movie, which is based on Steinem’s memoir, will…

Peter Jackson’s career path has been an odd one, to put it mildly. His most recent film is They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary about World War I that uses the special effects magic of his Weta Digital studio to restore 100-year-old footage with flashy modern color. Before that he made the Hobbit movies, which were…

Troma’s Toxic Avenger movies are gleefully wild and gross and nihilistic, to the point where Toxie himself has become the mascot for the Troma brand, but modern Hollywood’s insatiable hunger for superheroes can’t even ignore cult classics for very long. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actual movie studio…