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#OscarsSoWhite helped shape the discourse following a 2015 Academy Awards ceremony with nearly no diverse representation among its categories—a result, no doubt, of a voting body that was 94% white, 77% male, and 86% age 50 or older. Since then, the Academy’s sought to shake up its ranks, but, as …

If Blackout Tuesday—well-intentioned, though wholly misguided as it was—managed to successfully accomplish anything, it did spur a very public need to robustly call out celebrities who merely feign allyship with the Black community. Were you a terror to your Black co-workers? Consider your behavior exposed. Does your…

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.

Yesterday, we suggested that the fine TV-watching public spend their Thursday evening revisiting the stellar and still timely first season of Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, Cenac’s late-night series for HBO produced by Cenac and John Oliver, among others. (It is, sadly, now canceled.) We’re suggesting it again now (and…

Though RuPaul’s Drag Race just crowned its newest queen last week, the show is rolling right into a new season of All Stars, bringing back fan favorites from older seasons and more recent adventures for a new round of punishing face-offs. There’s a twist, of course, with the introduction of “lip sync assassins” into…

HBO’s newest dramatic British import I May Destroy You is a breathtakingly thorough examination of not only sexual abuse but also sexual exploitation and the culture of rape that has long perpetuated it. Creator, writer, and star Michaela Coel has channeled her own experiences with assault into a work that is honest,…

There comes a moment in the day when one must simply stop, take a breath, and perhaps sneak a cigarette from the pack you’ve been hiding on the roof since you were a teenager. Alternately, you might wish to commiserate with your spaniel, Gregor, who in addition to perfecting the art of the well-delivered newspaper, is…

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Olivier Megaton, the French action-movie director with the impossibly perfect self-chosen name, is best known for his team-player contributions to Luc Besson’s once-prolific EuropaCorp. Specifically, he’s the auteur behind the internet-famous moment from Taken 3, where around a dozen cuts are utilized to depict Liam…

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…

Poor Ted Cruz is always being let down by the pop culture he loves. Despite his attempts to relate to the world around him through references to everything from The Simpsons and Back To The Future to CatDog and Curb Your Enthusiasm, the media Cruz is so fond of always has a way of betraying him in the end. On a small…

Today the esteemed scientific field of “Yeah, No Shit” Studies received its latest entry: A computational astronomer at Kansas State University has presented a new study suggesting that not just planets, stars, and galaxies spin in a rotation, but the entire universe itself was born with this structure. Not only that,…

As executive producer of HBO Max’s new series Love Life, Paul Feig has placed himself smack-dab in the middle of quarantine content. His show, which stars Anna Kendrick and is now available on the new streaming service, is a perfectly enjoyable binge for rom-com lovers looking for something a little mindless. His…

Now is not the time to try to make cops look cool. This is especially true when it comes to bike cops, who even at the best of times look like absolute dorks while cruising around cities in their spandex and sunglasses. Still, the Miami Police Department, in a baffling attempt to show off the crack squad of cyclists…

Once upon a time, in those halcyon days when crippling anxiety over COVID-19 and economic collapse felt fresh and new, a quarantined nation bonded over its mutual love of Tiger King, a Netflix docuseries about big cats, Trumpian hubris, and a lady who may or may not have fed her first husband to tigers. While the…

A Cuisinart cookware set, and Audro charging stand, a case of Pedroncelli wine from Friends, a Skil drill driver, and a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate sub lead Friday’s best deals.

When a critic refers to a film as “emotionally manipulative,” it’s usually meant as a bad thing. But perhaps the sin isn’t in milking the audience’s tear ducts and twisting their mouths into quivering, overcooked rigatoni noodles but in doing it poorly. After all, if you’re going to cry in public, a movie theater is a…

“If I were writing a paper about it, I’d say it’s feminization of the camp aesthetic—bringing emotion to something that’s hyperrealized.” That’s director Jamie Babbit in an interview about her 2000 lesbian cult classic, But I’m A Cheerleader. The movie’s blend of high camp and rom-com earnestness made it a hit with…

“No kidding, wow, yeah,” was Dr. Bernice King’s eye-rolling response to Jimmy Fallon noting that, as the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, she has “big shoes to fill” as an activist. Calling the fight for social justice “the lifeblood” of the King family, King—herself the CEO of the Martin Luther…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6. 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?

According to Variety, Oprah Winfrey will be hosting a two-night town hall discussion show about systemic racism in America that will air on the OWN network and every single network owned by Discovery (of which there are apparently 19 in total, including the Food Network, TLC, the Travel Channel, and ID in addition to…

A few months after being fired from America’s Got Talent under questionable circumstances (to put it mildly), former judge Gabrielle Union has filed a racial discrimination complaint against the show’s producers and network—so, FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell and his Syco studio, and NBCUniversal. This comes from Variety …

Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar are great films, but they are also—in their own unique and delightful ways—exhausting. By the time Alex Wolff heads up to the tree house and Florence Pugh is crowned the May Queen, it’s not so much that you’re glad the movies are over as much as you’re glad to finally have a…

It’s been nearly three months since Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus after touching a bunch of reporters’ microphones and joking about the then-nascent pandemic, making him the first NBA player to test positive and setting off the eventual suspension of the entire season. Now, though,…