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After years spent playing the sweet, amiable Woody Boyd on Cheers, Woody Harrelson shattered the nation’s monocles as Natural Born Killers’ homicidal Mickey Knox. It was a shocking turn at the time, but perhaps less so when you consider that his father, Charles Harrelson, was a convicted murderer.

Is there any reason to recreate a perfect movie? The 1983 classic Valley Girl is now available streaming for the first time, but right on its heels is its musical remake. The 2020 Valley Girl, a.k.a. the “awesomest story ever told” tells the story of Julie and Randy again, but this time from the perspective of adult…

Once upon a time, Sufjan Stevens fans in Nebraska, Idaho, and South Dakota eagerly awaited the moment their favorite banjo-plucking Christian would write an album about the history and landmarks of their fair state, just as he did with 2003's Michigan and 2005's Illinois. Unfortunately, Stevens’ proclamation that he…

Remember going to the movies? Our critics sure do. Multiplexes and arthouses are shutdown around the world, but that won’t stop film editor A.A. Dowd and senior writer Katie Rife from waxing nostalgic about the moviegoing experience. In this week’s installment of Film Club, our critics dig into their personal…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Antlers, a horror movie adapted from a story by Nick Antosca, is not hitting theaters. In its absence, we’re looking back on other movies based on short stories.

On TLC’s new show Dragnificent, four RuPaul’s Drag Race veterans seek to transform regular women into their best selves just in time for huge life events. In the season premiere, which drops Sunday night at 11pm, Jujubee, Bebe Zahara Benet, Thorgy Thor, and Alexis Michelle help counsel a bride who can’t find the right…

It’s finally official: For the first time in its 51-year history, San Diego Comic-Con has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns. Instead, the 51st installment of one of the biggest entertainment gatherings of the year will take place in July 2021.

You may not immediately recognize the name David Krumholtz, but you almost certainly know his face. The actor has been working consistently since his early teens, appearing in such films as The Santa Clause and 10 Things I Hate About You, as well as TV shows like Freaks And Geeks, Numb3rs, and, most recently, The Plot…

Did you just say, “wig”? Well, someone in the Riverdale Hair & Makeup Department sure did, again and again and again! That’s right, it’s the most glorious time of the year: Riverdale’s spring musical episode, a tradition started back in season two with a bloody good take on Carrie: The Musical. And, in keeping with…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

Trapped inside with not much else to do but worry, families around the world are finding creative ways to pass the time. For some, that means making your own trick-shot game out of a golf ball and loose kitchen equipment. For others, it means performing a quarantine-themed rendition of “One Day More” from Les…

Ben Berman, director of The Amazing Jonathan Documentary and several episodes of your favorite comedy series, is looking for some advice. He’s feeling washed up, he doesn’t have any ideas, and, like many of us, he’s growing increasingly worried about the current pandemic. Naturally (or not), his first instinct when…

By now, the tropes of moviedom’s high school social groups have been etched in stone: There’s the jocks, the band geeks, the burnouts, the Plastics, the Pink Ladies, and so on, and so forth. But in Selah And The Spades—the new teen drama hitting Amazon Prime streaming today—we’re presented with five “factions” not…

If there is one unprecedented side effect of imposed isolation, it’s the specific boredom that causes celebrities to go out of their way to share their more off-base opinions, especially when it comes to the seriousness of COVID-19. Former psychologist-slash-currently unlicensed TV host Phil McGraw—known by his…

An icebreaker adopted by awkward dudes everywhere, the debate over whether the Beatles or the Rolling Stones were the better pioneering English rock band will rage on until a meteor turns us all into dust.

Apple TV+ adds an intriguing new mystery drama to its lineup with Defending Jacob, Mark Bomback and Morten Tyldum’s adaptation of William Landay’s crime novel of the same name. When it was first announced, the eight-part series, which premieres April 24 with three episodes, probably garnered more interest for its…

Kenya Barris has created a TV empire by mining his real life for comedy. In 2014, the America’s Next Top Model co-creator and The Game writer-producer pulled from his own home dynamics to create black-ish, an ABC sitcom about a successful dad from South Los Angeles (Anthony Anderson), a mixed-race mom who can’t stop…

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s been mostly absent from the discourse surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, has emerged for an interview with the Bodega Boys on Showtime’s Desus & Mero. Across roughly seven minutes, the country’s presumptive Democrat nominee for president touched on his recent endorsement from…

As the 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race nears its midpoint, it’s already gifted us with a Werk Room full of meme-able moments and quotes, the lion’s share of which have come from North Carolina queen Heidi N Closet. As we’ve discussed with her previously, she was an early fan favorite of the group, but she death…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our own …

From the start, “Old Friends Not Forgotten” signals noteable differences from the tone of the show as usual. There’s a dark green, basic LUCASARTS intro title card. On my screener, it looked specifically, intentionally, low-rez. The Star Wars: The Clone Wars logo appears, but instead of the bright yellow text, it’s in…

During the season-two finale of British drama The Fall, Gillian Anderson’s sex-crimes investigator realizes a victim could be behind a locked door, and instead of waiting for backup, orders a cop to “Fetch the bolt cutters.” Upon hearing the phrase, Fiona Apple immediately wrote it down. The tool was designed to…

There’s a brief moment early in Beverly Hills Cop where Axel Foley, a resourceful and gleefully disrespectful young Detroit police officer, walks down a Hollywood street and passes two guys dressed in shiny vinyl suits. Foley takes a second and laughs to himself. It’s not a vicious laugh, exactly. It’s more of a…

Thursday’s The Late Show (or, as host Stephen Colbert insists on differentiating his home version, A Late Show), saw Colbert throw to a very special musical guest. And while Colbert and his fellow housebound late-night colleagues have routinely tested out the acoustic qualities of the bathrooms of their illustrious…

After bringing in Cheddar the dog for last week’s Halloween Heist, Brooklyn Nine-Nine decided to double down on everyone’s love of a certain chonky pup with “Ransom.” Obviously, the idea that someone would be monstrous enough to kidnap Holt and Kevin’s ham-loving corgi like this is certainly a twisted one to come from…