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Even if we can’t exactly head to our local theater at the moment, music videos like this one for Jackson Wang’s newest single “100 Ways” packs enough cinematic drama to satisfy our appetite for a little bit of artful escapism. The follow-up to the Chinese performer’s 2019 album Mirrors is a thrumming house bop about…

Not all heroes wear capes—like Spider-Man, or even the guy who voiced him in the award-winning animated movie Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Deadline reports that Jake Johnson—previously from New Girl, currently on Stumptown—made a very fine offer on Instagram to kids stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As IFC’s Year Of The Rabbit nears its conclusion, Inspector Eli Rabbit (a perfectly cast Matt Berry) finds himself on the other side of the law—well, more so than usual. Rabbit has either been framed for murder most foul, or perhaps he’s just finally gone off the deep end. In this exclusive clip, Mabel (Susan Wokoma)…

Sure, virtual tours of museums and art exhibits are probably more intellectually stimulating, but nothing really compares to the noisy, joyous chaos of a piano bar packed with drunken revelers and varying degrees of vocal talent. Unfortunately, these kinds of public group activities are hard to coordinate when…

Last summer, we signal-boosted an in-the-works documentary about the time that Johnny Carson inadvertently caused caused a toilet paper shortage. “You can laugh now,” Johnny Carson said on a 1973 edition of The Tonight Show, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t one when he said it, but there …

Produced in conjunction with Austrian public broadcaster ORF, Netflix’s Freud represents nothing more than a missed opportunity. The psychological thriller is set in 1880s Vienna, with a twentysomething Sigmund Freud (Robert Finster) working at the General Hospital, years away from publishing any of the works that…

Ahsoka Tano could be coming to The Mandalorian, according to new reports. Per SlashFilm, the Disney+ Star Wars series recently cast Rosario Dawson to appear as the beloved Jedi Padawan. This will be the first live-action appearance of the popular apprentice, who has only appeared in The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels…

Alexandra Daddario and Taylor Swift’s little brother star in We Summon The Darkness, an ‘80s-set horror-comedy about heavy metal, sex, and serial killers in the era of Satanic Panic. My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers helms the flick, which follows three lady rockers and the bloody after-party following a Soldiers…

Hark! Mickey Mouse has fled his kingdom with all his attendants! The Lands Of Disney, the very Kingdom Of Magic, now lay undefended! The time has finally come for the people of this country to reclaim their rightful bounty of watery fountain drinks, branded merchandise, and mascot costumes. The dread king Mouse may…

For a period of time, audiences looked to streaming giants like Netflix to revive their favorite series after cable networks gave them the axe. But when the platform cancelled One Day At A Time after three seasons—despite a vocal online fanbase—none other than Pop TV stepped in to save the day. The fresh take on the…

The 2020 Summer Olympics might be one of the few major summer events we have yet to eulogize amid this pandemic. While the possibility of us getting to actually witness the Tokyo games in July seems, as with a lot of things these dates, pretty bleak, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is soldiering forward with…

Roughly 13 years ago, acclaimed professional wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his wife, Nancy, and 7-year old son, Daniel, before hanging himself in his home gym. To this day, the why of it all remains murky, but it’s got plenty to do with grief, mental health, and CTE, all of which are unpacked with empathy and clarity…

It’s extremely rare that the internet can come together to agree on something. But certain things like, say, a bunch of celebrities singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” during a global panic where the non-millionaires among us are currently terrified of death and financial devastation, has a way of helping level the…

So, how’s everybody doing? The best you can? Already straining your reserves of funny costumes to wear during work-from-home video chats and Zoom-assisted happy hours? Longing to leave the confines of your residence for a storybook realm that feels a little less magical than usual, but lack the resourcefulness to…

Return! After going through a harrowing and tumultuous encounter with her own Jedi people, accused of a crime she didn’t commit, and hunted down like a fugitive, Ahsoka Tano left the Order, losing trust in the very world she knew and understood. (Now ends my attempt to mimic the show’s opening voiceover.) Fans across…

Provocation has always been a sharp tool in Morrissey’s arsenal. In his earliest days with The Smiths, the singer took then-controversial stances on meat (it’s murder), sex (skip it), and the monarchy (kill it). But as he’s gotten older, his declarations have gotten tougher for fans to swallow, culminating in his…

“The basic ecology of Hollywood is, I’m very much afraid, radically changing.” This was William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and All The President’s Men, writing in the middle of 1982. The problem, as Goldman saw it, was the sudden dominance of what he called “comic-book movies”—a…

Look, everyone fortunate or unwillingly unemployed enough to be stuck at home in these pandemic dog days has had to find new and creative ways to pass the time. You know, since social distancing has inconveniently but responsibly cancelled or postponed pretty much every inessential yet (as it turns out) deeply…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21. All times are Eastern.

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

As Hollywood continues to wrestle with the unprecedented shutdown of the American theater industry, a number of films that were caught off-guard by the the coronavirus panic have found themselves in danger of falling through the cracks. Released just as the full scope of the crisis was just barely being understood,…

As most people adjust to working from home, there has been a massive rise in home use of video conferencing services like Zoom and Google’s Meet. While some of us are trying to just keep the dog from barking at squirrels and the roommate from walking around in the background without pants on, others have been finding…

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There’s a scene right around the halfway point of “Part VII” where Harry goes to visit Jamie in prison. Having secretly recorded the teacher confessing to letting Nick Haas die, detective Harry Ambrose turns over the recording, the police arrest Jamie, and the precinct takes Harry out to a bar to toast the most…

Just about anyone who’s ever spent much time with the vast and bloody world of zombie fiction has thought about their Plan: Where they’d go, how they’d arm themselves, which friends and family members are more expendable than others. (Sorry, Uncle Ron.) Now that we actually find ourselves in a global pandemic,…