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Last week, Primer and Upstream Color auteur Shane Carruth gave an incendiary interview to Indiewire in which he doubled down on his long-standing critiques of the studio system and asserted that he is “not in the same business as Hollywood.”

Turns out burning down your home gym gives you lots of time to wax nostalgic about the best era of bubblegum pop music. With her second album, Ooops!...I Did It Again, recently 20 years old, Britney Spears (and totally not her publicity team) has released an Apple Music playlist of turn-of-the-century tunes that will…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: David Lowery’s The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as King Arthur’s nephew Gawain, has been postponed. But there are plenty of other interesting takes on the…

Jeffrey Katzenberg was right about one thing: A whole bunch of shit has gone down in the world since Quibi was first announced in October of 2018. Katzenberg blames the COVID-19 pandemic for the big fat bellyflop with which his and CEO Meg Whitman’s $1.8 billion dollar experiment has landed with viewers, but—although…

Welcome to this week’s second installment of Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie-discussion series. On this very special, format-breaking episode, our critics encroach on TV editor Danette Chavez’s turf to discuss the strange world of The X-Files. Since its premiere almost three decades ago, Chris Carter’s sci-fi…

The world has a lot on its plate already, which is why we’re sorry to spike your blood pressure with news that a bunch of monkeys recently managed to steal three COVID-19 test samples. The good side of all of this is that the samples are now back in human hands and we’re in no danger of an Outbreak situation; the bad…

Erle Stanley Gardner published his first Perry Mason story in 1933, brought the character to TV in 1957, and saw variations of the daring criminal defense attorney unfold in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. Now, HBO is reviving the character for a new series with The Americans’ Matthew Rhys at the helm. Today, the network…

Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard has always cast a bit against type. Take, for instance, Dan Mintz, the very male actor who plays Burgers’ lovable Belcher daughter, Tina. When it came time to cast his latest series, the Apple TV+ animated musical Central Park, the latter met with co-creator Josh Gad, put together…

Some of us do puzzles. Some of us do crosswords. And one of us—podcaster and MCU fan Tony Goldmark, specifically—thought to keep his quarantined brain active by painstakingly assembling the chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, scene-by-scene.

Welcome to a brand new episode of Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie-discussion series. The culmination of a remarkable rise from an independent production helmed by a self-taught filmmaker to the Toronto International Film Festival, Andrew Patterson’s buzzy indie-sci fi movie The Vast Of Night makes its debut on…

As protests against the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on Monday continue to build in the city and around the nation, an Afro-Latino CNN reporter who was arrested on live TV early this morning has been released from custody. The arrest took place at 5:09 a.m. local time, as Omar Jimenez…

Second Life, the online game where people get together to role-play alternate digital lives, has long maintained a fully-functioning economy that players use to generate both virtual and real-world money. Naturally, because of this, its audience has replicated just about every aspect of our actual markets, including…

If one is forced to leave the comforts of college for a world that’s quite literally on fire, it’s nice to at least do so with a few laughs. Let’s give thanks, then, to Conan O’Brien and John Waters, two cultural treasures who both recently gave some excellent commencement speeches to 2020 graduates.

“Facing off” with a seemingly affable animated raccoon may sound a touch dramatic, but anyone who has endured Tom Nook’s fiscal tyranny in Animal Crossing: New Horizons understands that this adorably chipper scammer needs to be taken down a few pegs. Which brave soul(s) will step in and ultimately liberate us from the…

Note: This interview contains spoilers for the Defending Jacob season finale.

David Lynch has been keeping very busy. Since the beginning of the year, he’s released a short film for Netflix (and helped get the word out about its monkey-performed soundtrack), raised money for charity by offering virtual coffee dates, filmed himself giving daily weather updates, and uploaded another short from a…

For years, Family Feud has brought families together, but now Celebrity Family Feud is bringing the casts of hit shows back together. For an episode airing May 31, the show is pitting the cast of Netflix’s hit series Queer Eye against their forefathers in the cast of Bravo’s Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. The A.V.…

Much of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s fifth feature and the one to pull off the feat of setting nearly the entirety of its plot underwater, is a whimsical delight. From the oft-frenetic pace of the protagonist’s long journey (really, this is a road trip film of sorts) to the ensemble of humorous supporting characters…

Corporate chains, storefront businesses, and a police station were hollowed out or set on fire by protestors in Minneapolis last night after an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, died at the hands of city police officers on Monday. President Donald Trump weighed in early Friday morning via his Twitter account.

A popular mantra in the digital era is “You have a smartphone, you have YouTube, no excuses.” But that’s only half the truth. The flip side to this new accessibility is that, while making a movie is easier than ever, it’s still difficult to stand out in an oversaturated media landscape. Just finishing the thing is an…

For many reasons, this has been an unprecedented season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Though the competition series’ 12th cycle has brought in record ratings for VH1 and showcased what RuPaul has frequently described as one of its strongest casts to date, it’s been a bumpy road for the queens. For one, the show’s wise…

The best Star Trek movie is a comedy. In 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to circa-1986 San Francisco to get ahold of a couple of humpback whales. (There’s a strange space probe out there causing havoc and broadcasting whale song, but whales are extinct in the…

Just when you thought you couldn’t take one more grainy video chat substituting for an actual late-night interview as emblematic of how nothing in this world will ever feel normal or safe again, real-life next-door neighbors Jimmy Kimmel and Dakota Johnson shot the shit over their shared fence on Thursday. Honestly,…

Does the truth really not even matter anymore? Apparently not to Mark Zuckerberg. “I don’t think that Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth,” the Facebook overlord said on CNBC’s appropriately titled Squawk Box Thursday. “Political speech is one of the most sensitive parts in a…

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?