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Since books are both passé and slathered in COVID juice these days, Netflix has turned Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitter’s Club series into a 10-episode series for a new generation of plucky, entrepreneurial pre-teens. We got our first glimpse of the show a few months back, but today the streamer has shared both a…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Shhhhhh! We’re celebrating movies with little to no dialogue.

One of the many perks of hosting a rewatch podcast for a show that you used to be on is that you can sometimes call in favors with your old buddies and create some pretty special, exclusive moments for your listeners. Such is the case with the latest episode of Talking Sopranos, the wonderful new podcast hosted by…

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 …

Ever since 1975, when Steven Spielberg’s Jaws gobbled up every box-office record in sight, Hollywood has treated the warmer weeks of the year like a launching ground for its most expensive, extravagant productions—a whole season of would-be blockbusters, vying for our moviegoing attention from the beginning of May…

You may vaguely remember the odd saga of Quibi review-turned-spiteful revenge podcast Streamiverse—formerly Quibiverse—which was abruptly served a cease-and-desist from the short-form streaming service weeks ago to prevent further adaptations of Quibi’s branding. As it turns out, the only thing stronger than the…

To be fair, a realistic movie about writing would be tedious and frustrating. It’s a solitary activity, and a sedentary one, and not very cinematic. And any lightning bolts of inspiration that may have electrified a writer when they first came up with an idea have generally fizzled into mild, masochistic shocks by the…

RuPaul’s Drag Race knows how to bring the drama. No, we’re not talking about that controversial lip sync decision... or the catfishing scandal... or Ru’s fracking... or the criticized move of the upcoming all-stars season from VH1 to Showtime. Actually, we are talking about that last one. It was announced today that …

It’s Friday and you’ve got nowhere to be. So, why not plop down on the couch with your roommates and enjoy a marathon of a beloved British sitcom? That’s what director Edgar Wright is going to be doing and he wants you to join him. Tonight, starting at 11:05PM local London time (6:05PM EST), Channel 4 will be airing…

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…

John Hughes was an enormously talented writer and director, responsible for creating many of the ‘80s and ‘90s’ best movies. Among his many accomplishments, it’s important to highlight just how good Hughes was at portraying characters who were complete assholes. It’s good, then, that Mel Magazine gave themselves the…

Elisabeth Moss is The Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson in Shirley, a volatile thriller that’s no mere biopic. Based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 novel, it drops a young married couple in the maelstrom that is Jackson’s marriage with Michael Stuhlbarg’s Stanley Edgar Hyman. “The middle-aged couple, prone…

The actor: A Saturday Night Live alum who’s since gone on to appear in some of television’s most off-the-wall shows, Chris Parnell is a jack-of-all-comedic trades. As Rick And Morty’s Jerry, he’s bounced through both dimensions and rocky patches in his marriage, and as Archer’s Cyril, Parnell plays a gray-flanneled…

Earlier this week, Elon Musk and Grimes brought a child into the world and, by naming him X Æ A-12, ensured that any time spent on the nation’s playgrounds will be rife with mockery. But, while many puzzled over the singer’s breakdown of the name’s meaning, others had a very simple query: How the hell is it…

There’s a breathtaking dichotomy between the brazen, wailing frontwoman of pop-punk outfit Paramore and the burgeoning solo artist who admits that she was once so unsure of herself that a solo career didn’t totally register as a real possibility. “I’m realizing how little I believed in myself,” Hayley Williams said to …

Video game fans are often defined by their obsessions. I used to think this was not true of me, until I found myself in a career where I frequently, without being forced to, wrote about them. We all tell on ourselves eventually, I suppose. So let me get ahead of things, and tell you about an obsession of mine.

Social media is, traditionally, best used by ordinary young people. When the elderly get involved, it’s almost always embarrassing. When celebrities do it, the stink of calculated PR wafts off of nearly everything they post. One of the only exceptions to this rule is Anthony Hopkins, a man both old and famous, who…

The earworm DJ/producer duo known as The Hood Internet has been doing their mashup thing for quite some time now, which isn’t in any way a criticism, considering how everything they release is generally a banger. For proof: here’s their recent summary of 1979, their history of hip-hop, and this weirdly catchy fusion…

Fresh off a Netflix standup special and a lead role in the so-so Big Time Adolescence, everybody’s favorite tabloid fixture is ready for another kind of spotlight. Next month, Pete Davidson will see The King Of Staten Island, a semi- autobiographical comedy directed by Judd Apatow, land on VOD. On Thursday night, …

The original Valley Girl became a sleeper hit in 1983. Despite the then-no-name cast, ’80s teens flocked to the Romeo And Juliet story of Randy and Julie, a punk rocker and a preppy girl who fall for each other despite entrenched social barriers. In his first starring role, Nicolas Cage made an indelible impact as…

In the age of streaming, it’s easy to assume that everything is just a click or two away. But even our biggest movie stars aren’t guaranteed to have their entire filmographies online. Two years after he won an Oscar for Glory, Denzel Washington starred in Mississippi Masala, a Romeo And Juliet-style romantic dramedy…

As seen in his impressively homemade music videos on the last two stay-at-home Saturday Night Live episodes, Pete Davidson is spending his New York COVID-19 lockdown ensconced in his mother’s Staten Island basement. Those keeping up with the SNL star’s career and life will remember that Davidson and his mom Amy bought…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9. 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?

The Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia handed down a $289,562 fine to the producers of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 today, citing their failure to “provide a safe workplace” for stunt performer Joi Harris, who died on the movie’s set on August 14, 2017 after a motorcycle stunt went wrong. WorkSafeBC—a…