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Since we’re all just fascinating about the outside world right now, let’s turn our attention to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the setting for Netflix’s upcoming teen treasure hunt drama. Lead character John B (Chase Stokes) describes it as “the sorta place where you either have two jobs or two houses.” John B and his…

Consequence Of Sound just published an excellent, in-depth oral history of High Fidelity for the film’s 20th anniversary, speaking to everyone from author Nick Hornby, director Stephen Frears, screenwriters DV DeVincentis, John Cusack, and Steve Pink to cast members like Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Iben Hjejle.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The teen superhero movie New Mutants, from Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone, has been postponed again. In its absence, we’re looking back on YA adaptations.

While we can all agree that this is just not the year for April Fool’s shenanigans, it looks like we’re still in for some residual (and in some cases, wildly inappropriate) hijinks. In the case of Public Enemy duo Chuck D and Flavor Flav, the seeds of foolery were planted last month during what appeared to be a spat…

It was only a matter of time. Since this massive global event began, people have been taking to social media to talk about it, as one does. Sometimes the talk leads to bursts of creativity. Folks have written songs and song parodies (so many song parodies). They have danced and performed as a chorus. They have written …

What makes an independent film? The question has never had a straightforward answer, and the cultural criteria that define an indie has changed over the decades. But by and large, it has always been something that couldn’t have been made within the Hollywood system. In our attempt to assemble a list of the most…

In the recent past, we could only dream fanciful dreams about what it would be like to see wild animals just hanging out in regular peoples’ homes by watching movies where Robert Downey Jr. sticks his hands up a dragon’s ass or tuning into shows that remind us only really terrible people keep tigers and monkeys as…

If you find yourself thinking, “Yeah, fairy tales are okay, but they’d be a lot better if there were trolls licking toilets and a bunch of swears,” then boy, does Adult Swim have the trailer for you—not the royal you, but a very specific you: an early 2000s high school sophomore who owns more than one Korn t-shirt and…

The video game Borderlands 3 was a big sales success when it launched last fall, according to its publisher, 2K, which described it as “a billion-dollar global brand.” That’s why it was shocking to employees at Gearbox, the developer of the game, when the studio’s CEO, Randy Pitchford, told them yesterday that they…

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

How about an apocalyptic disaster flick to distract you from the horrors of our global pandemic? Ric Roman Waugh, who previously helmed the third entry in Gerard Butler’s increasingly insane Fallen series, is again teaming with the action star for Greenland, a disaster movie about an interstellar comet named Clarke.

When Black Widow does finally hit theaters (or Disney+, which doesn’t seem like such a crazy idea), it will do so with an entirely different score. Film Music Reporter, which reports on music in film (obviously, you lunkheads), reveals that Marvel is scrapping the original Black Widow score from Oscar-winning composer…

There’s a big difference between being single and stuck at home and having kids and being cooped up for the near future. If you’re solo, you can binge your way through the entirety of every single one of The Circle’s foreign iterations, from France to Brazil, while getting to work on that sourdough starter everyone…

Andrew Jack, who appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its sequel, The Last Jedi, has died at the age of 76 due to complications from COVID-19. In addition to acting, Jack was a dialect and vocal coach who worked on numerous high-profile films, including Guardians Of The Galaxy and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy…

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When last we checked in on the engineers over at YouTube channel The Hacksmith, they were responding to an unprecedented public health emergency by creating—and fighting each other with—deadly homemade lightsabers. Now, as the world’s doctors, nurses, and medical technicians struggle to keep pace with a global…

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is a pretty lousy movie, but, at the end of the day, it’s the one we got. For serious fans of the series, that’s a bitter pill to swallow, especially since the weeks following The Rise Of Skywalker’s release saw the entire script for Colin Trevorrow’s unmade ending to the trilogy leaked

In the first moments of its pilot, The Magicians established what one of its deepest pleasures was going to be. The camera pans over a gray and gloomy city scene, with piles of old snow on the ground, a chilly wind blowing, and people bustling about. The focus lands on a nondescript, graffittied metal door of the kind…

April Fool’s Day ain’t what it used to be. The era of whoopee cushions and novelty snake nut cans is over, social media and online echo chambers having paved the way for one of post-truth. And, as much as we’d like to think humanity would collectively abandon coronavirus-related pranks in this time of uncertainty,…

The boys are back in town, indeed. Just when we were beginning to wonder when we’d get to see the space-hopping duo again (beyond that samurai short, we mean), Adult Swim released a Thin Lizzy-backed trailer for the second half of the fourth season of Rick And Morty. Fortunately, fans won’t have to wait it out for…

Many of us sheltering at home are revisiting seasons of beloved TV series as we run out of Tiger King to watch. While many are happy to revisit old seasons of New Girl or The Office, people are a touch more hesitant to tune into How I Met Your Mother: That contentious finale just might have ruined the series for all…

The first episode of Amazon’s Tales From The Loop opens with Russ Willard (Jonathan Pryce), founder of the clandestine government facility known as the Mercer Center For Experimental Physics, addressing an unseen audience about the nature of the center’s work and its impact on the lives of the people who surround it.…

It took five episodes but Little Fires Everywhere is finally digging into Mia Warren’s past to fill in some of the blanks behind her fiercely guarded personality. However, this quest is still shown from Elena’s perspective. While we learn important bits and pieces of Mia’s background, the episode acts as a window into…

On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (home edition), Kimmel got some bad news from guest Samuel L. Jackson. Video-chatting live from the screening room in his guest house (hey, it’s good to be Samuel L. Jackson), the actor informed Kimmel that Kimmel’s long begged-for tagalong on one of Jackson and pal Magic Johnson’s…

My husband and I got married in August of 2019 and we were together for over five years before getting married. I’m very happy and love him with all my heart. I want to have his kids and support his entrepreneurial efforts as he supports mine. We don’t fight, we just have some tiffs here and there. The kicker is that…