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Good news, music fans: One of Broadway’s most high-profile recent hits is getting the cinematic treatment, at last. (And no, it’s not Hamilton. Keep your pants on, Francis, it’s coming.) Variety reports this week that David Byrne’s critically acclaimed career retrospective American Utopia is set to make the move to…

Andy Gill, co-founder, lead guitarist, and longest serving member of influential English post-punk band Gang Of Four, has died. Socially conscious, stripped-down, and endlessly energetic, Gang Of Four’s music did yeoman’s work in developing the punk sound of the late ’70s, transplanting ideas that Gill and co-founder…

“You can live your whole life like it’s a puzzle, put together from the pieces of different sets. Your whole life is full of these pieces that don’t quite fit. But at some point, you start to think it’s you. You’re the piece that doesn’t quite fit. And you spend so long with that feeling that the feeling becomes your…

“They will see you as a rude dude saying all the things polite society is too limp-dicked to say. This is your way back in. This is how you get your love back.”

You asked for it, internet, and now it’s here. A retooled Sonic The Hedgehog, redesigned and resubmitted for your consideration after social-media mockery sent the film’s producers back to the proverbial drawing board. And sure, Sonic’s teeth aren’t as disturbing now. But we still aren’t sure what to expect from a…

For all its ongoing, decade-spanning success, the Mission: Impossible franchise has never been all that kind to any of its characters not named Ethan Hunt. (Or Luther Stickell, the Ving Rhames-played badass buddy who’s the only other person to have appeared in all six extant films.) Although it’s gotten a bit more…

“Okay, when you put it all together, it looks bad.”

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Kids were largely responsible for the popularization of comic books when they first debuted, and after decades of the comics community trying to break the prejudice that these books are juvenile entertainment, kids are once again responsible for driving sales while taking the medium to new heights of respectability.…

My family and I lived in Poinciana, a small Floridian community that was once so far removed from civilization that any necessities that could not be acquired at the local Winn-Dixie required a half-hour sojourn into town. Those trips, plentiful as they were, morphed into family sing-alongs with Mom enthusiastically…

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Maxis’ beloved people simulator, The Sims, and we’re celebrating with this AVQ&A:

An Amazon supplement sale, Anker wall adapter, Chrome Industries Clearance, and an AOC monitor lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.

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With Fortune Feimster’s new standup special, Sweet & Salty, streaming now on Netflix, the North Carolina native spent Friday swapping Southern stories with Late Show host and proud South Carolinian Stephen Colbert. Noting that, as ancestral enemies determined by a random line on the map, they were supposed to fight…

[Note: This article contains spoilers for the part of Dolittle where a dragon farts on Robert Downey Jr.]

It’s like we always say: Never underestimate the power of My Chemical Romance fans with disposable income. Variety reports that the band’s long-anticipated North American reunion tour has already sold out, less than a day after tickets first went on sale. That’s equal to something on the order of 228,600 tickets sold…

Among Disney+’s roster of upcoming MCU-based superhero shows, few are still as shrouded in both mystery and anticipation as Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. The trickster god has always been one of Marvel’s most charismatic assets, after all, and as excited as we are to see the weirdness of WandaVision—or watch the ultimate…

In her new documentary Miss Americana, which just debuted at Sundance, Taylor Swift expresses her desire to be more political: “I wanna love glitter, and also stand up for the double standards that exist in our society. I wanna wear pink, and tell you how I feel about politics. I don’t think those things have to…

Vin Diesel’s Fast And The Furious franchise is the rare Hollywood institution that both contains, and is, Ludacris, something made clearer than ever with today’s release of the trailer for the series’ much-anticipated ninth installment. We can accept many things in these movies’ hyper-stylized world: Cars with rocket…

Kelis’ 1999 debut was born of righteous fury and an infallible beat. “Caught Out There” was an inescapable, empowering hit that had women screaming, “I HATE. YOUSOMUCHRIGHTNOW” in catharsis (as well as young girls, who may not have fully understood the context, but still harbored a passion for screaming). Considering…

Welcome back to another edition of Film Club. Film editor A.A. Dowd is unable to join us this week, as he is in Park City, Utah covering this year’s Sundance Film Festival—check out his excellent coverage here. In his place, senior writer Katie Rife is joined by contributor Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to discuss this week’s…

Kesha’s 2017 album, Rainbow, was deservedly seen as an empowerment victory lap. Released in the midst of her high-profile legal battles against producer Dr. Luke, the full-length jettisoned her neon veneer for glittery songs influenced by folk, glam rock, and soul. The album was still pop-oriented, but Rainbow allowed…