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One Donald Trump is already more than enough, but those attending the virtual Cannes Film Festival event next week will get a second dose of the president in the form of Bad President, a satire about Trump’s 2016 election experience. Deadline reports that the film has been picked up by VMI Worldwide, who will be…

It’s Friday afternoon, and if you’re stuck at work, that means it’s time for a very important task: Scouring the internet for ways to kill time until the end of the day. Luckily, we’ve got an especially good one this week, in the form of the following video. A cute little kid and his family have spent the past few…

On June 28, 1970—the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising—thousands of people came together in New York City to march. The Christopher Street Liberation Day March covered about 50 blocks, and while the word “thousands” may sound like a lot, it’s nothing at all compared to what a Pride march looks like now—or…

Yesterday, AMC Theaters tried to ride the middle and ended up careening into a ditch when it announced that masks would be optional when the theater chain reopens for business in Mid-July. The reason, according to CEO Adam Aron, was that AMC “did not want to be drawn into a political controversy.” But it found itself…

Few ‘90s cuts still swoon as hard as Cranberries’ “Dreams,” a track so immersive and enduring that it’s still being covered by the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Japanese Breakfast, MisterWives, Bleachers, and Poppy, among others.

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, with some 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…

Though Perry Mason is named after its main character, much of its strength comes from an intricate network of Los Angeles personalities orbiting around the grizzled detective turned lawyer. Two of the most formative characters are John Lithgow’s E.B. Jonathan and Juliet Rylance’s Della Street, who together loop …

Earlier this week, rapper J. Cole released a new song called “Snow On Tha Bluff” that expresses his feelings and insecurities about the current surge of activism around Black Lives Matter—which is fine, except the track takes more time criticizing an unnamed woman for the “queen tone” of her tweets than it does…

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…

Two months after pulling a “haha, just kidding” on Flavor Flav’s highly public split from the group, a reunified and reinvigoratedPublic Enemy has returned with a new single, “State of the Union (STFU).” Produced by DJ Premier, the track is the latest anti-Trump statement to come from Public Enemy frontman Chuck D,…

Let’s be honest: Superhero action was never designed for the physical world. Studios have done their best over the years, spending millions on “live-action” visual effects shots designed to mimic spectacle that originally cost a couple of bucks’ worth of ink and paper to create. But the end result has typically been…

Sir Ian Holm, the British actor with a wide and varied resume working with directors like Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, and David Cronenberg, has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Holm’s agent confirmed the news in a statement to The Guardian, writing, “He died peacefully in hospital, with…

A few weeks ago on Film Club, our critics reminisced about movie theaters, many of which are still closed because of the pandemic. But the multiplex will reopen eventually. What, by contrast, will become of the video store, which was endangered long before COVID-19? On today’s episode, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife are…

The Apartment premiered in the summer of 1960, three years before Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique kicked off second-wave feminism and a decade before Kate Millett popularized the modern usage of the term “patriarchy.” Yet even though Billy Wilder’s classic Oscar-winning romantic dramedy didn’t have the language…

Happy Juneteenth, everybody! Enjoy the official end of slavery, assess the still-woeful state of American race relations while celebrating Black excellence, and stare wistfully at your backyard as you remember a time when literally everyone cool you know would be there, sharing in the holiday’s celebratory/determined…

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?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20. All times are Eastern.

Let me to begin by saying I did not expect to be writing about a finale without one Gregory “Greg” Gourdet in the kitchen. His elimination last week was deserved, but it was nevertheless a shock; this guy’s proven time and again that he’s got impeccable technique, a level head, and a focused vision that he’s…

The New York Times reports today that Chicago’s iO Theater, a long-cherished institution in the world of friends begging you to come out to see their struggling improv team do a show at 9:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night, will not survive the COVID-19 shutdowns. Owner Charna Halpern announced the news yesterday via an…

Now that we’re all suddenly down a major touchstone of YA serialized literature—courtesy of the poor Twitter and/or life choices of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling—it’s clearly time for that other mainstay of Scholastic Book Fairs in the mid-2000s to come into its own: K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs books. Hence news…

After weeks and months of guesswork, speculation, and general “Hey, wouldn’t it be crazy if we all died to watch a Trolls movie?” madness, AMC Theaters has now set a formal date for re-opening its doors: July 15. Per Deadline, the company’s CEO, Adam Aron, has said that the world’s largest theater chain is “committed”…

MTV’s classic animated spin-off Daria was a near-spotless serving of sardonic observational humor with a killer, now-extinct soundtrack (damn you, costly licensing fees). Whip-smart and often mistakenly painted as unfeeling, Daria and Jane gave voices to a lot of young girls who didn’t quite fit in with their…

Yesterday, New York-via-Columbia band Salt Cathedral took over our Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube pages to perform an intimate house show, as part of our series AVC Sessions: House Shows. During the show—which you can now watch above—the group performed easygoing, funky songs from its brand new LP, Carisma. The…

It would be unfairly reductive to say that Edgar Wright’s movie choices are predictable, but they do tend to follow a certain tone or aesthetic—which is to say that they’re often funny or clever or unique in some way that a non-Edgar Wright movie wouldn’t even think to aspire to. He did his famous genre parodies with…