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The Super Bowl, an expensive sporting event in which two large groups of men play a game between blocks of commercials, approaches. That means we’re about to start seeing a lot of high-profile advertisements made by or featuring big, notable names not commonly associated with 30-second spots. Cheetos has already …

Jim Lehrer, the veteran anchorman and co-founder of the PBS nightly newscast NewsHour, has died. The public broadcaster confirmed via Twitter that the journalist and debate moderator passed away, but did not provide any details as to the cause of death. He was 85 years old.

Adam Driver is back for his third time hosting Saturday Night Live and he’s a guest host we actively look forward to—because he kills it, from the brilliant “Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base” to the extremely senior Abraham H. Parnassus on “Career Day.” So leave it to Driver to offer a show teaser that stands apart…

In a punk-fueled runway display scored by RuPaul Charles’ “American,” RuPaul’s Drag Race revealed the 13 queens who will compete for the coveted Drag Superstar crown. Reigning queen Yvie Oddly hosted the brief showcase, which took place exclusively on Twitter. The long-coined “Ruveal” divulged little about…

The cast of Clea DuVall’s upcoming romantic comedy Happiest Season already seemed good when we just knew it was about Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis, but it just got even better: As reported by Variety, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Steenburgen, and Victor Garber have all joined the cast. We don’t…

In honor of the fast-approaching 92nd Academy Awards, airing Sunday, February 9, Film Club is taking a break from covering this week’s film releases (do we really need to cover The Gentlemen?) to look back at the Best Picture nominees we didn’t cover last year. First up, our critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss…

There are so, so many reasons why snakes rank at the top of the universe’s most horrifying creations, but the most important may be the simplest: They’re incredibly, terrifyingly sneaky. Because they lie flat on the ground most of the time, refusing us the common courtesy of at least possessing legs, snakes can end up…

For some, buying a watch can induce the same choice paralysis as choosing a meal off of a diner menu. There’s so much to consider when buying a watch — analog or digital? Leather, steel, plastic or fabric? Big face or small? Smart or… dumb? Then, there’s the added stress of wealth signaling.

As the journalism industry goes through sweeping changes, the fictional newspapers of Marvel and DC’s superhero universes have transformed to reflect the times. The Daily Bugle has gone through major transitions in ownership and editorial agendas over the years, but with the rising need for good journalism in a time…

February will be pretty big for Netflix, if only because the streaming service will have managed to defy the fates by actually producing and releasing an adaptation of Locke & Key—the white whale of indie horror comic adaptations. After many years and many different networks and streaming services all taking a stab,…

There are plenty of little tiny moments of delight in The Paul McCartney Simulator, an itch.io text-based adventure game from Brooklyn comedian Ramsey Ess. But the best is one that’s such a fun, weird, perfect, and oddly relatable surprise that we’re loathe to spoil it. Perhaps you should go play it and then we can…

Many Star Wars fans are passionate, but few make their passion as permanent as Needles.

A lot of thought has been given to how humanity can best represent itself to any of the aliens who might run into us—or, just as likely, our space junk—at some point. In the past, smart people have carefully curated material like the Voyager Golden Record, filling it with pictures of Earth, great works of music from…

The teen entertainment market is already flooded with programs lamenting the trials of puberty and the importance of keeping our hands to ourselves. There is, however, a noticeable lack of educational tools to help kids gain media literacy. Since us adults are already somewhat screwed in this regard, why not train up…

Bo Peep made a triumphant return in Toy Story 4, having refashioned herself, as our review put it, as a “take-no-shit nomad survivor, liberated by life on the road and her lack of attachment to any one child.” Well, if you’re wondering how she snapped off that lamp, found her voice, and landed in a thrift store, …

At this point, Nicolas Cage the meme has overtaken Nicolas Cage the person, and the mere mention of his name is enough to send a certain subset of filmgoers into a hysterical giggle fit. And with this unspoken set of expectations looming in the background, it takes a visionary director to keep the circus inside the…

The first thing you should know is, Data is dead. That isn’t really a spoiler, at least not for Star Trek: Picard. Data sacrificed himself in Star Trek: Nemesis, the last of the Next Generation movies and possibly the worst. (I go back and forth between it and Insurrection. Generations wasn’t great either.) The…

When The A.V. Club sat down with Josh Thomas this past December, we were eager to hear about the path that took him from his critically acclaimed, semi-autobiographical breakthrough, Please Like Me, to his new Freeform series about a blended family coming together in the wake of tragedy, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.…

In one installment of her When Romance Met Comedy column, our own Caroline Siede wrote, “To All The Boys combines the stylized cinematography of a Wes Anderson movie with the heart of a John Hughes film and the spirit of the best of the 1990s high school rom-coms.” That’s about as good a summation of the appeal of one…

A Cuisinel Gold Box, Vizio surround sound system, hot honey, and Harry Potter wands lead off Thursday’s best deals from around the web.

Dee Rees, whose powerful Mudbound scored a handful of Oscar nominations in 2017, returns to Netflix next month with The Last Thing He Wanted, an adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1997 novel of the same name. A journalistic thriller set against the Iran–Contra affair of the mid-80s, it features an enticing cast that includes…

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The gap is closing. “Varsity Blues” concludes with a flash-forward, as have most of the episodes in this fourth season, but the amount of time between the “present” and the future being shown to us keeps shrinking. In this episode, only a month separates the Riverdale Bulldogs’ big game against the Stonewall Stallions…

Twenty-five years ago last month, HGTV debuted to 6.5 million homes in 44 markets. Its first show, Room By Room, offered easy, kitschy projects, like a baseball-themed bathroom. An entire empire soon followed, with a website, a magazine, dream home giveaways, and a never-ending stream of those annoying House Hunters.…