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Netflix has quite a number of true crime documentaries, in both feature and series form, but even in that crowded field, The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez is likely to stand out.

In Las Pildoras De Mi Novio, Jane The Virgin’s Jaime Camil plays Hank, a seemingly perfect mattress store owner with a deeply complicated pharmaceutical secret. Sandra Echeverria’s Jess falls head over heels for Hank and their whirlwind romance quickly escalates into Hank attending a very important company retreat…

A thought enters one’s head about forty minutes into Dee Rees’ Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted: This movie, this assemblage of scenes and disappearing plotlines and characters in different kinds of mid-Reagan-era attire, is supposed to be a thriller. In fact, the film has already offered up…

CBS canceled tapings of The Price Is Right this week after therapist Amie Harwick, host Drew Carey’s ex-fiancé, was murdered on Saturday, February 15. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 38-year-old “died of blunt force injuries to her head and torso suffered Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical…

Despite living in the U.S. for more than half a century, Canadian Neil Young only received American citizenship last month. Now, in commemoration, Young has just published an open letter, available on the Neil Young Archives, that properly celebrates his new status by writing about how much he hates his president,…

Nothing like a nice reminder that the world is a nightmare and that governments and corporations are not your friends to liven up your Wednesday, right?

Weird how February is just whizzing by after January was like, eight years long. Thankfully, we have Netflix to help us keep track of time. What day is it? Oh, it’s Cheer day. Can you hang out soon? Sure, let’s pencil you in for (checks calendar) Ozark season three. Much easier. Speaking of which, Ozark season three…

Three years after screening at Sundance, Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez’s Gentefied has found new life on Netflix. The multicultural digital series has been adapted and expanded for streaming audiences, with some help from executive producer America Ferrera. In its latest iteration, Gentefied succeeds as a “love…

Saw writer Leigh Whannell stepped out of his friend James Wan’s shadow and into genre-movie glory with 2018's Upgrade, a film whose low-budget ingenuity left The A.V. Club wondering—what would happen if Whannell got some blockbuster cash? With a reported budget of $9 million, The Invisible Man is hardly a tentpole…

It’s already been announced that former Saved By The Bell cast members Mario Lopez (Slater) and Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie) will be a part of the new reboot for Peacock, NBCUniversal’s up-and-coming streaming service. That news was soon followed by the announcement that Mark-Paul Gosselaar will also be on board as Zack…

Contemporary culture is determined to make all of us think the 1980s were a more innocent time. We know this isn’t true. Even if the adults making movies and TV shows, writing music and books, came of age during the decade and remember it mostly as an era defined by neon, synthesizers, and good movies, it was also a…

Another wild audio ride from the folks at Wondery is heading to the small screen: The Wrap reports that The Shrink Next Door is the latest podcast to become a limited series adaptation, and the talent involved in this one makes Dirty John look like a Lifetime Original (which, it kind of was). Will Ferrell and Paul…

Matt Berry’s on a roll. After meandering a touch following Toast Of London’s last season, the English comedian made a splash Stateside with turns on FX’s What We Do In The Shadows and Netflix’s Disenchantment. Now his hit Channel 4 crime-comedy Year Of The Rabbit, which features the star as a thuggish, foul-mouthed…

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For us Chicagoans, the Pitchfork Music Festival lineup reveal serves as an annual reminder that winter won’t actually last forever, that, at some point in the distant future, we’ll be complaining about how hot it is while listening to some bands we adore. Now in its 15th year, the festival will return to the Windy…

No one could ever confuse one of the stripped-bare dramas of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for a James Bond movie. That’d be like wandering into a small country chapel and thinking it a megachurch. Yet for all their celebrated austerity— the absence of music, the stark simplicity of the plots—films like L’Enfant, The…

When you’re embarking on a major life event, it’s always nice to have a good pal around to gas you up, and Martin Scorsese is doing just that for his old bud and former collaborator Paul Schrader. Per Deadline, Scorsese has come aboard to executive produce The Card Counter, Schrader’s upcoming drama and follow-up to…

The first oyster mushroom I ever ate was stolen from the the table scraps of a Saudi prince. I was teenager working a summer job in the business center of the New York Palace, one of the city’s most obscenely expensive hotels, where I took care of the printing and faxing needs of conference attendees, manic event…

Logan Lerman is a real Al Pacino dork. The young lead of Amazon’s new Hunters series has long been a fan of his new co-star, diving deep into his canon of classic films, from Serpico to The Godfather to Dog Day Afternoon. He’s also a film guy in general, something we talked about with him when we sat down for the…

Less than a week after it was first reported, Showtime has officially confirmed development of The Auteur, a new horror-comedy series from recent Oscar winner (!) Taika Waititi. Deadline has some new details on the series, which is based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan, and Luigi Anderson, and is…

Michael Franzese used to be caporegime of New York’s Colombo crime family. Now, after leaving that life behind for a career as an author and motivational speaker, Franzese is uniquely qualified to talk about lots of interesting things the public usually doesn’t get to hear—like, say, how accurate beloved mafia movies…

The effect that Pedro Costa’s 2006 film Colossal Youth had on those who were lucky enough to discover it early would be hard to imagine today. The Portuguese director was then obscure but not totally unknown; he had been honing his creative voice since the late 1980s, with each new feature representing a major step…

A Marshall Speaker, a pair of Tactronics Earbuds, an Anker Gold Box, a G2 Keychain, Asus Vivobook 15, and a Crocs sale are some of Wednesday’s deals of the day.

Earlier this month, Sufjan Stevens announced a mostly instrumental New Age collaboration with his step-father, Lowell Brams. Called Aporia, it pairs sci-fi themes with analog synths and an altogether gauzy vibe, and was directly influenced by the scores to films like Blade Runner, Under the Skin, and Hereditary. We…

Celeste Tauchar’s got hooks. The rising songwriter known as Talker turned heads with last year’s Horror Films, a moody EP that punctuated its atmospheric electro-pop with cathartic bursts of dissonance, but the L.A. native’s latest singles—check out “Learning The Feeling” and “Keep Me Safe”—amplify that release’s…