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We’re all happy that Sonic finally got a reasonably good movie, but let’s hope that Hollywood doesn’t take the wrong lessons from this, like, say, that video games should be mined for potential adaptations the way comic books have been. Not every video game lends itself to a movie, as we’ve learned in the decades…

The horrors of working as a Hollywood assistant was famously chronicled in 1994's excellent Swimming With Sharks, but the story’s been updated for the modern generation thanks to this new Vulture piece: “I Was A Hollywood Assistant And I Got Yelled At On The Toilet.”

For Sacred Lies’ second season, showrunner Raelle Tucker dug into her Rolodex and cast Ryan Kwanten and Kristen Bauer, two people she’d worked with before on True Blood. In the interview above, Kwanten and Bauer said they popped on the project because they knew Tucker’s work, and that they’d be in good hands. It’s…

Another day, another raging debate on Twitter that, with any luck, doesn’t have anything to do with politics. Today’s lunchtime poll: What’s the greatest fake song that appeared on a TV series or in the movies?

If the last two seasons of Westworld struggled to emphasize plot over cerebral fuckery, the third looks to course-correct—the first official trailer for the hit (?) HBO series upcoming episodes, which whisk us away from the show’s namesake park, makes it abundantly clear both the conflict and its players.

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For some odd reason, animated movies have a long history of having weird images and “subliminal messages” purportedly hidden within their film frames, from underwater penis castles to naked ladies to just straight-up the word “SEX” in big ol’ magic dust lettering, all with varying degrees of veracity to the claims.…

Some of you might recall from your recurring nightmares that the initial rollout of Sonic the Hedgehog’s titular character was pretty disastrous, and what most assumed should have been a straightforward, three-dimensional CGI port of a pretty simple cartoon character design instead spawned the above atrocity.

On Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk plays Jimmy McGill, a struggling con-man who just wants to make it as a successful attorney. Ultimately, as Breaking Bad fans know, he does, but Saul is all about that journey. With the show’s fifth season premiering February 23, The A.V. Club sat down with Odenkirk and co-stars Rhea…

Ahead of the Berlin Film Festival, actor and this year’s president of the international jury Jeremy Irons took a moment to address resurfaced, highly controversial comments regarding abortion, same-sex marriage, and sexual harassment. Per Variety, Irons opened the jury’s press conference with a brief acknowledgment of…

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Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire stop-and-frisk advocate who hired some Fyre Fest alums to turn him into a meme, debuted on the Democratic debate stage last night as a gaping sinkhole of charisma that nearly everyone was happy to fill with lit sticks of dynamite. Bloomberg, a Jeffrey Epstein associate and noted Trump…

June Branch is having a truly awful night. She survived a home invasion that resulted in escaped convicts abducting her boyfriend, and as she protects herself with an enchanted Viking hammer, she finds herself stuck with decapitated heads that won’t die. This is the supernatural crime plot of Hill House Comics’ …

“Someone burned down your house down with you inside… Do you know anyone that would do this?”

There’s nothing like adding a little unhinged psychokinesis to a coming-of-age story to spice things up. If it worked for Eleven in Stranger Things, it could work for Sydney (Sophia Lillis), the 15-year-old heroine of Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This. Sydney actually has quite a bit more in common with Stephen King’s…

Searching, a clever, John Cho-starring thriller unfolding entirely on computer screens, was one of the best cinematic surprises of 2018. Now, that film’s co-writer and director, Aneesh Chaganty, is back with a new thriller, Run, which evokes Hulu’s recent series The Act in its depiction of a toxic mother-daughter…

Every once in a while, someone gets lucky right out the gate. But most actors begin their careers doing time in throwaway B-movies and misbegotten programmers. The Night Clerk, for example, must have looked like a great opportunity for a pre-Knives Out Ana de Armas, who only had one big role under her belt—the…

So far as I know, Jean-Luc Picard and Seven of Nine have never shared screen time before. Maybe there was a bit of comic book or novel lore that I missed (I miss pretty much all of that stuff), but in terms of meaningful, mainstream continuity, the two haven’t really talked. Bringing them together on Picard is a…

Over the course of eight episodes, season two of Netflix’s Sex Education tackles many topics through an earnest and empathetic lens, paying tribute to classic teen tropes but also subverting them in unexpected and delightful ways. Main characters and secondary characters alike who appear at first glance to fall into…

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, February 20. All times are Eastern.

For the last several years, Amazon has had a sideline in peddling straight shots of pulpy mystery to those with a craving for it, distributing the near-annual installment of writer Sarah Phelps’ glossy, lurid, emotionally charged set of Agatha Christie adaptations to an American audience. Past installments in the…

This final season of Modern Family has mostly done a bad job of dealing with the passage of time. For a show about to bow out, it’s failed to make anything feel significant or life-changing. It’s a strange thing; plenty of other recent sitcoms, like The Big Bang Theory, have managed to craft focused, narrative-driven…

Adam McKay doesn’t usually truck with metaphor. His recent run of political films—The Big Short and Vice most prominent among them—typically go for what The Simpsons dubbed the “superliminal” approach when it comes to getting relevant financial and historical information on the screen, as ably demonstrated here:

In a turn that we can only imagine will lead Michael Che to launch a vitriol-filled Instagram Stories attack on reality itself, Colin Jost has suggested that he might soon step down from his 15-years-and-counting tenure atop the Saturday Night Live pulpit. Per Variety, early galley proofs from Jost’s new memoir, A…