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CinemaScore, for the uninitiated, is a Las Vegas-based market research firm that bills itself as “the industry leader in measuring movie appeal.” On a film’s opening day, their representatives stand outside of theaters and ask hundreds of moviegoers to grade the films they just saw on an A-to-F scale, the average of…

“You’ve got to grab onto that control wherever you can and hold tight for dear life, ‘cause they always try to take if from you, don’t they?”

With theaters around the globe closed and film crews forced to either suspend production or do post-production work remotely due to COVID-19, every major studio is in the process or rearranging is release calendar. We’ve heard from Sony, Warner Bros., and others, and now, thanks to Variety, we know when the juggernaut…

While some releases, like Trolls World Tour, are hitting VOD on the day they were supposed to land in theaters, most are being delayed to this fall or 2021. A Quiet Place II, for example, will now make a racket on September 4, while Fast And Furious 9 won’t unleash its nitrous boosters until April 2 of next year. This…

The teen sex comedy’s evolved significantly over the past few decades thanks fo films like Booksmart and Blockers, and that can make it pretty difficult to stomach some of the things that passed for “jokes” in the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early ‘00s. Objectification of women, blatant homophobia, and outright sexual assault…

Twin Peaks turns 30 on April 8, as full of secrets as it was on the Sunday night it debuted on ABC opposite Murder, She Wrote and a Married... With Children rerun. It’s a show that was subject to intense scrutiny (and hype) even before the world became gripped by the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer. And while the…

The wives wear purple, the daughters blue. It’s the quickest way to tell them apart. God knows age alone isn’t enough—not when some of the former are as young as the latter. They sit on opposite sides of the dinner table, color-coded to mark their respective roles in a very unconventional household. As one of the…

Next Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of the premiere of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal mind-bending mystery, Twin Peaks, and to celebrate Kyle MacLachlan (a.k.a. Agent Dale Cooper) wants to have a watch-a-long with fans. Unfortunately, MacLachlan is a busy guy and only has time to watch one episode.…

Quibi, the short-form mobile streamer that’s set to launch on Monday, has tons of celebrities in its deep pockets—Will Smith, Reese Witherspoon, Chance the Rapper, the Reno 911! cast—but not much in terms of genre. One exception is 50 States Of Fright, an anthology executive produced by Sam Rami, that draws on the…

Bill Withers, the incomparable, Grammy-winning soul singer and writer who gifted the world timeless hits such as “Lean On Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lovely Day,” and many others, has died of heart complications. Withers’ family confirmed his death in a statement to The Associated Press: “We are devastated by the loss…

In the pantheon of misquoted lines from movies, “Luke, I am your father” is right up there with “Play it again, Sam.” True Star Wars fans will remember that, during the fateful showdown between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Empire Strikes Back, the exchange plays out a little differently with Luke asserting that…

Play with fire, get burned. Play with knives, get 25 stitches and surgery to fix a little finger that no longer works.

In the new movie Almost Love, Michelle Buteau is “Cammy,” the perpetually single friend who has, at the start of the film, decided that the new guy she’s dating is a total dud. Fast forward about three minutes to where she’s about to break up with him, and we learn that, much to Cammy’s surprise, he’s also homeless.…

If after watching Netflix’s Tiger King, you’re still scratching your head wondering why more of the on-camera subjects aren’t under investigation, let this exclusive clip from a new documentary about one of the world’s most renowned conservationists be a palate cleanser. The two-hour special Jane Goodall: The Hope is…

Adam Sandler streamed into Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show on Thursday night, guitar in hand, to share a brand new song inspired by, well, (gestures wildly). It celebrates doctors and nurses as it speaks some hard truths about the claustrophobic nature of self-isolating: “And I hope they save us soon, because I’m really,…

There are precious few instances when the image of a completely leveled city engulfed in flames encourages a sense of hope and renewal. However, when you spend an entire season rooting for a recently uncoupled villain aiming to establish herself as Gotham City’s leading threat, total destruction is a welcome…

There’s a show on Netflix called Kulipari. It’s not particularly amazing–it’s a frog vs. scorpions tale but in the scope of a Game of Thrones/The Secret of N.I.M.H.-type epic–but one thing each season has is a two-three episode arc that involves an escape plan that goes horribly, hilariously wrong. They’re the best…

Eight years after the official end of the Vietnam War, George Lucas turned the Viet Cong into adorable teddy bears that could be used to sell toys. The Ewoks, the cuddly, frequently derided scene-stealing insurrectionists from the end of Return Of The Jedi, are tribal jungle warriors who repulse a technologically…

[Spoilers ahead for Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness, also real life.]

Sometimes when two high-concept comedy hooks are particularly worn out, filmmakers try to strengthen them by linking them together. Coffee & Kareem takes this strategy to a chaotic extreme. It’s sort of a domestic comedy about a dorky white guy named James Coffee (Ed Helms) who is forced to make nice with Kareem…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28. 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?

“Will Smith gets a Quibi show? Didn’t we already write this damn thing?” We’ll admit that that is, indeed, the thought that wandered through your humble Newswire team’s heads tonight, on news that, yes, Will Smith—social media influencer, proud dad vlogger, former world’s most lucrative superstar—has gotten his own…

In its midseason premiere, How To Get Away With Murder drops us right back into the chaos that it ended on last episode at the end of last year. Annalise is on the lamb, and Asher is dead. There is that little absurd detail of Wes showing up at Annalise’s funeral at the end of last episode, but apparently there’s…

The “New Orleans” episode of Better Things could not have come at a better time. Truly, a jaunt to the Big Easy is just what Sam—and those of us experiencing the trip vicariously—need right now. Attention, all other TV shows: This is how you do a vacation/wedding episode.