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Today, comedian Marc Maron has shared a statement on the death of acclaimed independent filmmaker Lynn Shelton, who he had been in a relationship with since at least last year when they made Sword Of Trust together. Shelton died on Friday from a previously unidentified blood disorder, and at the time of her death she…

America has had a handful of great presidents, a few dozen mediocre seat-warmers, and let’s say three to five true motherfucking disasters, but only one president who managed to unite the entire planet against an alien menace and put his own damn butt in a fighter jet so he could personally rip them a new… tentacle…

Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street may have failed to secure Leonardo DiCaprio his Oscar, but the film’s legacy lives on anyway for one specific reason—or, really, a few hundred specific reasons, many of which are four letters long and will get you kicked out of Zoom school if you type them in the chat. The…

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,079,214-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, May 17. All times are Eastern. 

Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.

Phyllis George has died. One of the first women to become a national figure in the world of broadcast sports, George’s long and varied career included stints as everything from Miss America, to a national network morning news anchor, to the first lady of Kentucky. She died yesterday, at the age of 70; according to Variety

Few losses have hit The A.V Club as hard as the news of Fred Willard’s death at 86. The performer has been a constant presence in comedy for fifty-plus years, from the early talk-show spoof Fernwood Tonight in the ’70s, to becoming a mainstay in the Christopher Guest stable, to various sitcom guest appearances in…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are about to blast Ryan Gosling into space—although not literally, as we are now forced, contractually, to make clear. Per Variety, the Into The Spider-Verse duo has just signed on to direct a new space-adjacent thriller starring Gosling, based on an upcoming novel by The Martian’s Andy…