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Celebrated independent film director Lynn Shelton—the mind behind Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance —died Friday in Los Angeles as a result of a previously unidentified blood disorder, her publicist told THR on Saturday. She was 54.

Fred Willard has died. One of the finest minds of multiple generations of comedy superstars, Willard was almost always one of the funniest parts of more than 300 projects—perhaps most prominently in Christopher Guest’s Best In Show and A Mighty Wind, but also literally hundreds of other endeavors—in a comedy career…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

After five seasons and 52 episodes, Netflix’s groundbreaking She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power has come to an end. With the final 13 episodes now available to stream, creator and showrunner Noelle Stevenson is proud of how she and and her team re-envisioned the 1980s cartoon She-Ra: The Princess Of Power for the new…

Frank Bielec has died. A regular on TLC’s home makeover phenomenon Trading Spaces, Bielec was a designer and interior decorator who was as well known for his wit and his big personality as for his skill in designing homes. He died of a heart attack last night, at the age of 72.

Since The Tonight Show is traditionally the only late-night show that works on Friday’s Jimmy Fallon gets the pick of the guests. (And the A.V. Club’s late-night coverage. Sneaky.) Which means that he trotted out everybody’s big buddy Dwayne Johnson to talk about anything he wanted for much of the show. Speaking from…

The Girls will be forced to stay Good for another year, apparently, with Deadline reporting that NBC has just granted a fourth season to its suburban crime dramedy Good Girls. Starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman as a trio of moms who also become a trio of thieves, money launderers, and occasional…

When ranking the musical numbers in Tom Hooper’s transcendentally ill-thought-out 2019 version of Cats, the candidates for “Biggest Trainwreck” are pretty competitive. (Ironically, “Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat” isn’t one of them, because that song owns.) There’s “The Old Gumbie Cat,” of course, in which Rebel Wilson…

The queens of season 12 have shown time and again they are a force to be reckoned with. Despite a few bobbles in the comedy challenges, the queens have brought a level of creativity, personality, and polish to their work that sets this season apart and has made for some incredibly close eliminations. RuPaul’s Drag Race…

Today in There’ll Be A Riot If They Try To Put A Mask On Him News, Variety confirms that Timothy Olyphant has become the latest big-name performer to join the second season of Disney+ Star Wars sensation The Mandalorian. Olyphant joins a cast of incoming talent to the streaming series that includes Rosario Dawson,…

It’s sort of amazing, in hindsight, to remind ourselves that discount movie ticket chain MoviePass managed to disgrace itself straight into the sun without the help of the global pandemic. Make no mistake: The company—which often had trouble fielding enough cash to cover a particular busy Tuesday, let alone the…

The latest in a line of highly irreverent period pieces, Hulu’s The Great takes inspiration from its Russian empress namesake and, more generally, the lives of brilliant women bound to exceedingly mediocre men. The caustically funny miniseries is a decidedly ahistorical romp; while The Great does construct traditional…

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 archives to…