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In retrospect, it had been a suspiciously long time since we heard anything about FX’s cursed Y: The Last Man adaptation. We should never leave this thing alone for too long or, well, the film version of it falls apart, or the showrunners of the TV version quit, or any of the other countless things that have gone…

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women managed to breathe new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, which is especially impressive because the March sisters’ story is one of the most familiar in the world, having been regularly made into TV series and plays, musicals and other movies since its 1860s…

The apparently tireless Rolling Stones, now septuagenarians across the board, have just announced a slew of new tour dates for this summer. Pitchfork announces that the 15-stop two-month North American tour will kick off in San Diego on May 8, wrapping up in Atlanta on July 9. The dates appear to be an extension of…

Disregard the headline above. Or half of it, anyway. We actually don’t know what will win at the Oscars this Sunday. No one does—not even the Academy, apparently, which oddly tweeted out its own predictions a few days ago, leaving some to wonder if it hadn’t accidentally leaked the real results. Honestly, just pasting…

Porn plots: They ain’t great. Be it horny schoolteachers, suspiciously sexy pool cleaners, or conveniently biologically unrelated step-siblings, it’s always really just been a means to a generally messy end. This latter sub-genre—often referred to as “fauxcest” (get it?)—is particular having its “moment” within the…

In honor of the fast-approaching 92nd Academy Awards—airing this Sunday, February 9—Film Club is looking back at the Best Picture nominees we didn’t cover last year. Next up is one of our favorite films of the year, Parasite. Join our critics Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd as they sing the praises of Bong Joon Ho’s…

Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are still readying their defenses against Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV+, Quibi, Gas Station TV, and Blerbo Max+ (we made that one up), but IMDb has just swung onto the scene like some guy in a pirate movie—and instead of a dagger in its mouth, it’s carrying the rights to stream Lost, …

Hundreds of years into the future, a community called New Babyl will find themselves forever changed by the discovery of a lost culture called hip-hop. Created by R.T. Thorne, Utopia Falls imagines an environment where peace is entirely contingent upon the people’s total, infallible trust in its governing authority.…

UFOs: They’re not just for Blink-182's Tom DeLonge to expose to the public against the U.S. Navy’s wishes anymore! No, now in addition to being a very real source of government consternation, the strange flying things that your aunt swears hovered over her house for four minutes while she was on that bender last…

Despite the vast number of workplace comedies that have wormed their way across the television landscape over the last few decades, that “workplace” part has typically gotten pretty short shrift. Sure, the cops on Brooklyn Nine-Nine investigate crimes from time to time, and Parks And Recreation occasionally indulged…

Robert Eggers has established a reputation for making films informed by exacting historical research. In both The Witch and last year’s The Lighthouse, his characters speak in period appropriate English, understand their worlds through alien-seeming psychology, and inhabit places laboriously constructed to recreate…

In their English-language follow-up to the nerve-shredding Goodnight Mommy, filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala packed their parkas and headed off to a remote location outside Montreal for The Lodge. It’s a tense, claustrophobic horror about the psychological effects of trauma set in an isolated cabin at…

CBS This Morning host Gayle King is facing a sizable backlash this week over some clips of a recent interview she conducted with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie, during which she asked Leslie about her friendship with Kobe Bryant (who died in a helicopter crash in January) and—more specifically—when Bryant was charged…

The Academy Awards aren’t for everybody. The pageantry, the fashion, the back-patting, the discourse—some love it, some hate it. If you’re of the former camp, we’ve got you covered. If you’re of the latter camp, might we direct you away from ABC and onto the Adult Swim app? There, you’ll be able to enjoy the insight,…

Dave “Coach Dave” Daubenmire is a right-wing Christian activist most famous for videos where he advocates for reclaiming the term “homophobe”; gets real worked up about “male butt sex” via comparisons centered on, weirdly, washing your hands at Wendy’s; and screams about how being called “bigot” is comparable to a…

After cleaning up at the Grammys and winning a Doritos dance-off against Sam Elliott—look, it was for a Super Bowl commercial—“Old Town Road” scribe Lil Nas X is setting his sights on dominating 2020. The latest case in point: His new music video for “Rodeo,” which features a guest spot from his namesake, Nas.…

Jennifer Niven’s All The Bright Places lit up the YA lit world when it arrived in 2015, and suckers for that novel’s tear-stained drama will no doubt flock to Netflix’s upcoming adaptation, which stars Elle Fanning and Justice Smith as teens whose love triumphs over their struggles with mental illness. Today, the…

It’s hard to overstate the impact Lesli Linka Glatter has had on television over the past 30 years. If you’ve ever empathized with high school mean girl Kim Kelly, gasped in horror at an office lawnmower ride gone wrong, or held your breath as Carrie Mathison and Brody go head-to-head, then you’ve seen the director’s…

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Those who accept what is predicted to happen, what is, in fact, already happening, may worry more about surviving climate change than preventing it. But this doesn’t necessarily answer the question of what to do in the meantime. In Jenny Offill’s new novel, Weather, global warming is the problem, but so is the anxiety…

So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…

Say what you want about Jim Carrey, the always-on funnyman whose forays into dramatic roles have ranged from the sublime to the rightfully unseen (with some serious Method assholery thrown in) but he’s not going to come to a late-night interview empty-handed. On Wednesday’s Late Show, Carrey emerged from behind the…

A hyper-sexualized sidekick with a Brooklyn accent straight out of the silent era, psychiatrist-turned-murder clown Harley Quinn has always been a fan favorite in the DC Comics universe, inspiring legions of cosplayers and more than a few black and red tattoos. But this writer never understood what was so appealing…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, February 6. All times are Eastern.