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Assuming the movie theater industry even survives the coronavirus, which is not a given, something has to be the big movie that convinces people to risk their lives and the lives of others so they can experience the thrill of the cinema once again. For a long time, the assumption was that it would be Christopher…

While some are actively fighting via protest to end state-sanctioned violence and the systematic racism that has long fueled our justice system, others are taking advantage of this critical moment in time to just needlessly break shit. Many called out unreasonably wealthy YouTuber Jake Paul for the latter when a video…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: It’s the start of Pride Month, so we’re looking back at some major or influential highlights of queer cinema.

So you went and got yourself a fancy new Dolby Atmos surround sound setup, and you want to see what it can do. Or maybe you want to show it off to your friends and family, but need the perfect scene to really drive it home. You have more options than you might think.

For the first time in its 53 years of existence, Milwaukee’s Summerfest, the largest music festival in the U.S. by attendance, has been canceled. The annual event, which was set to host the likes of Justin Bieber, Guns ‘N Roses, and Chris Stapleton this year, was previously moved from June to September due to the…

Scott Adams, most notable for creating Dilbert, The Dilbertito, and a septic tank explosion’s worth of pop psychology articles about Donald Trump’s political genius, believes he’s figured out why so many people are out in the streets right now.

Trump goons are a dime a dozen these days, and they’re desperate for those dimes. This, incidentally, makes it difficult to figure out which kind of MAGA chud is shittier—the true believers, or the nihilists in it for the grift. That’s something to ponder as we watch this video of Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former…

During the second half of his impassioned speech at a U.K. Black Lives Matter protest, John Boyega acknowledged a risk that many other marginalized performers face when they speak candidly about racism and discrimination. “Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that,” Boyega said firmly…

Every day, Twitter suspends or bans accounts due to all manner of violations, from harassment to threat of physical violence to hate speech. Donald Trump has repeatedly engaged in all three, but—for some strange reason—hasn’t suffered nearly any of the same repercussions. Well, earlier this week, someone on Twitter…

This morning, the earth trembled as two dipshit titans—Rudy Giuliani and Piers Morgan—awakened from their slumber, striding confidently into the bloody forum of Good Morning Britain to engage in a climatic argument over which of them is the biggest wiener. Understanding that the ongoing anti-Black police brutality…

After four seasons of playing Molly Carter on Insecure, Yvonne Orji’s career is in a precarious position. Orji is incredibly good at playing Molly, the show’s type-A straight man to Issa Rae’s more silly and comical Issa Dee. The line between Molly and Orji is so thin, she even jokes that some of her family members…

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Normally, The A.V. Club uses this space to preview all the major films coming to a theater near you. But with the world in the grips of a pandemic, nothing’s coming to a theater near you; theaters have closed their doors, and studios have pushed back their releases. So for the time being, we’ll instead be previewing…

With the world teetering on the brink of sci-fi dystopia, it’s perhaps a good time to revisit our imaginary post-apocalyptic futures. The 29th-century Earth of WALL-E presents one of the more memorable images of planetary decline. Mountains of neatly cubed trash rise higher that the decaying skyscrapers. Closer to…

To their credit, essentially all of the white late-night hosts are eschewing the usual Hollywood chit-chat this week in favor of opening up their shows to a variety of black voices as the country continues to process the police murder of unarmed black man George Floyd. Now, some might object that it’s about fucking…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 4. All times are Eastern.

Today, in ritualistic toad venom death news: A man best known as a prominent Spanish adult film actor—but who also has a sideline selling candles shaped like his own penis—has been arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter in relation to, well, a death from ritualistic toad venom ingestion. Ignacio “Nacho”…

Chris Trousdale has died. An actor and musician best known for his time with ’90s and 2000s-era boy band Dream Street, Trousdale began his career as a child performer on Broadway, before branching out into music, TV, and film. A statement posted to his Instagram account today stated that he died from “an undisclosed…

It’s downright trendy to be a witch in 2020. I myself admit to having an Instagram feed full of cauldrons and sigils that are really just elaborately staged ads for bath salts—one of the sharper details of this week’s episode of What We Do In The Shadows. “Self-care” comes up a few times in “Witches,” and it’s true…

Some of our agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are acting a little strange. Look, it’s possible the mind reacts oddly to being thrown back in time almost 90 years, who can say. But there’s definitely a few things off with various members of the team, and the others are starting to notice it. This week, they saved the day—if by…

Actor John Boyega has rarely acted like a typical employee of the Disney corporation—which, to be clear, is some of the highest praise we can think to muster at the moment. Among other things, Boyega has never been shy about expressing his thoughts on potentially controversial, mouse-offending topics, whether that…

If you were trying to come up with the least tragic, still vaguely unfortunate thing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic—possibly as part of some drunkenly conceived and hastily-assembled game show, designed to be distributed in “quick bite” chunks for the phone-addicted and attention-deprived—it might be the way…

Twitter fell into the crosshairs of Donald Trump last week when, after years of rearranging its goalposts over what content is acceptable from public figures and what’s not, the social media platform began offering both “fact checks” of his tweets (it’s since walked back that language) and warnings over their…