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Anyone who wasn’t filthy rich had a laugh at Gal Gadot and friends’ tone-deaf “Imagine” singalong last week, but, just as its deluge of parodies began drying up, another has emerged that actually does speak to the self-isolating millennials among us. Eric Slick, a singer and songwriter who also plays in Dr. Dog, put…

It’s kind of hard to watch, read, or really dive into anything too serious right now. The world’s serious enough already. Maybe that’s why everyone’s playing Animal Crossing and letting themselves be swept away by the majestic glory of Joe Exotic’s tight, tight jeans.

Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion has been on people’s minds for the past month, or at least it was before “Hey, let’s watch Contagion” stopped being a darkly funny joke and started just being dark, and now the film’s writer is apparently taking advantage of that new relevance by landing a project that sounds absolutely…

Per Variety, Warner Bros. is postponing their entire slate of upcoming releases with Wonder Woman 1984 as its top priority. The superpowered sequel will be (hopefully) heading to theaters August 14. The rest of its new release block, including the highly anticipated stage-to-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s …

For many of us, this whole self-quarantine is getting really, really, really damn difficult. Thankfully, people are getting equally creative at helping pass the time, and then generously offering their ideas up to the public. Case in point: Illusionist Jeanette Andrews is offering “Magic By Telephone,” a free service…

Paul Wight, the professional wrestler you may remember as WCW’s Giant and WWE’s Big Show (or The Waterboy’s Captain Insano), has been popping up in family-friendly fare for ages now, so it’s not a huge surprise that he’s now headlining his own TGIF-style sitcom. If anything, the surprise is that sitcoms like this can…

Benjamin Kasulke’s directorial debut Banana Split is not so much a movie about teenagers as it is a “teen movie”—the kind where people who look old enough to be currently filing for unemployment trade bon mots while wearing Converse high-tops that look like they have never seen the outdoors. It’s the summer after…

Terrence McNally, the longtime playwright responsible for modern classics of American theater like Love! Valor! Compassion! and Master Class, has died of complications from coronavirus. He was 81.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With A Quiet Place Part II postponed, check out these earlier movies about hostile alien invaders, all available to rent digitally or stream from home.

Godzilla is never shown at its best. The skyscraper-sized destroyer of cities only really shows up when it needs to serve as an allegory for nuclear or climate destruction or to kick the shit out of other, even meaner monsters. Until now, nobody has bothered to show us what Godzilla’s like in quieter times, like, say,…

Netflix is getting a lot of praise right now for being a streaming savior—finally, producing 800 hours of original programming paid off!—but let’s not overlook the great work being done by Shudder, one of the unsung heroes of our new Indoor Kid lifestyle. The horror-centric streaming service (which offers several…

Almost every single industry has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, to the point where listing all of them has become a daunting task. And while some might think that the music industry hasn’t been hit as hard as, say, film and television, that is definitely not the case—as evidenced in part by the recent…

It’s apparently Reality Show Renewal Day at Netflix: The streaming service announced that Rhythm + Flow, The Circle, and Love Is Blind will all return with second seasons premiering in 2021, along with a new series from decluttering expert Marie Kondo.

There is never a good time to be taking anything snake oil vendor Gwyneth Paltrow says about health seriously. It wasn’t a good time to listen to her or her company, Goop, back when they were selling $15,000 dildos, trying to offer Christmas present suggestions, running festivals asking serious questions about how…

Conor Oberst hasn’t shared new Bright Eyes tunes in nearly a decade, occupying himself instead with solo work, Desaparecidos, and Better Oblivion Community Center, the band he started with Phoebe Bridgers. With the pulsing vein that is Fevers And Mirrors turning 20, however, a reunion of some kind was assuredly in the…

For a protocol droid, C-3PO sure has seen a lot of action. Built by the future Darth Vader, the beloved bot has reluctantly blasted his way through the battle on Geonosis, became a god to the Ewok race of Endor, and made the ultimate sacrifice so that his friends could, once again, save the galaxy. Similarly, actor …

Heading into this self-isolation period, some of us took the optimistic approach: We finally have time to make a sizable dent in the overwhelming to-do lists of movies and TV shows available on all 87 streaming services! Within a matter of weeks, we may very well conquer the era of Peak TV—certainly our most…

Italy has quickly become one of coronavirus’s focal points in international news, and unfortunately, not for very positive reasons. With thousands dead, hospitals overrun, supplies dwindling, and infrastructure ground to a halt, the country is perhaps comparatively the hardest hit of any region so far, and a model of…

Sitting in the back of an ambulance rushing his ailing mother to a hospital, cartoonist Madang remembers the happier times from his childhood—specifically the memories of his mother’s irresistible cooking. Young Madang and his little brother float through the air on the wave of smells, and cheerfully sing as they…

One of many major events recently cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has already begun plotting its return: The 2020 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony, which was set to take place in Cleveland on May 2, has been rescheduled for November 7. The news comes via an official press release from HBO, which…

Titmouse, the animation studio behind Netflix’s pubescent comedy Big Mouth and Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse, has an annual tradition. Each year, the studio closes up shop for a day to give the staff an opportunity to work on whatever random, creative ideas they may have been ruminating on for a while. Those ideas are…

It’s been three long years, but Project Runway pals Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are finally together again, about to launch their new series Making The Cut on Amazon. If you love(d) PR, you’ll likely want to follow these two charisma-filled hosts over to the streaming service for their international new series. Amazon…

There’s no shortage of things to watch these days, from Better Call Saul and The Plot Against America to Westworld and One Day At A Time, but, hey, maybe that shit is much too tame for your extreme tastes. Allow us, then, to point you towards Adult Swim’s website and app, where you can currently stream all four…

Parents, these are tough times. Not only are you likely (hopefully) working at home right now in an attempt to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but you’ve also probably become an unexpected teacher, tracking your kids’ homework and praying they maintain their brainpower while “sheltering in place.” We’re all…

On April 5, 1986, French singer Serge Gainsbourg told Whitney Houston on live TV that he wanted to fuck her. Looking like a severely bee-stung Thom Yorke with eyelids heavy enough to dam a river, Gainsbourg slurred the come-on in unmistakable English in front of a live studio audience on Michel Drucker’s Champs-Élysées…