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One of the most criminally underrated comic book films in pop culture is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Is there a better way to join the festivities (aside from streaming the movie on Netflix, or writing a ballad about a shitty ex) than to read about the time Jason Schwartzman made the professional…

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 …

Episode 1: “8” | Episode 2: “A Small Town” | Episode 3: “Try, Try” | Episode 4: “You Might Also Like” | Episode 5: “Ovation” | Episode 6: “Downtime” | Episode 7: “The Who Of You” | Episode 8: “A Human Face” | Episode 9: “Among The Untrodden” | Episode 10: “Meet In The Middle”

We’re living in year so bonkers that the “wow, I didn’t have that on my 2020 bingo card” became dated well before the halfway mark. Head to social media at any given time and the trending topic could be anything from K-Pop fans mobilizing against racism to a (false) rumor that Simon Cowell is dead. So much is…

When Michelle McNamara died several years back, her work as a tireless amateur criminal investigator came to light, in part thanks to her husband, Patton Oswalt. McNamara had worked for years to unmask the Golden State Killer, getting very close and pursuing avenues traditional law enforcement might not have thought…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Jon Stewart’s Irresistible headed for home-viewing platforms—and with November 3 on the horizon—we’re looking back at other films about elections or political…

An infection. A beach. An urgent need to stay off the beach. Beach House, a gooey-looking flick trading in both cosmic and body horror, certainly feels timely. If anything, it should offer a touch of comfort for those sacrificing a sandy vacation so as not to exacerbate a global pandemic.

Karaoke is one of Japan’s most ubiquitous worldwide exports. But who invented the first machine that let you sing along to backing tracks of popular hits?

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…

A few weeks ago, we caught up with the casts of both Queer Eye and Queer Eye For The Straight Eye backstage at their taping of Celebrity Family Feud. We talked tips and tricks for playing the game, and what style tweaks they’d make to CFF host Steve Harvey.

For the 18 years since he competed on Survivor: Marquesas, Sean Rector yearned to provide a forum for Black reality stars to speak out about their treatment while filming, and their portrayal on screen. “Usually when we would describe them individually, it would seem like it wasn’t valid,” explains Rector, who says…

The “Monkey Christ” is one of the funniest images in history, even though—and maybe in part because—it was only made possible through a monumental fuck-up of an art restoration project. While nothing else will likely ever reach the great heights achieved by that surprised-looking macaque savior, we are kind of, sort…

With the resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons over the last few years, comics has seen a rise in dungeon-crawling fantasy stories that offer fresh takes on the conventions of role-playing games. First Second has already seen huge success with its graphic novel adaptations of the RPG podcast, The Adventure Zone, and on…

Jurassic World: Dominion will be one of the first studio films to resume production next month, a plan so reckless you’d think it were cooked up by one Lewis Dodgson.

If, while scrolling through Netflix’s latest offerings during another in a countless series of evenings in, you felt like you’d already watched every worthwhile film in existence, well, you’d be wrong, but you’d also kinda be right. I can safely say that you will never truly run out of good movies to watch—but only if…

Atlanta-based rapper, writer, and producer Oliver Twixt (pronounced “twist”) uses very few words— “hip-hop artist and content creator,” to be exact—to encapsulate his creative essence. He’s the embodiment of “show, don’t tell”: With neon-piped fashion, a shocking streak of Storm-inspired silver hair, and an air-tight…

The Last Of Us Part II is a sad game where plenty of sad things happen to its cast of sad characters. It also stars a traumatized character named Ellie who can pick up acoustic guitars she finds miraculously preserved throughout the ruins of post-apocalyptic America and, if the player is a real asshole, heap extra…

As history’s longest year carries on, Netflix once again offers up a new slate of entertainment to help ease the cabin fever just a tad. (We’re all still staying home as much as we reasonably can, right? Awesome.) Though we’re beginning to witness a little bit of a dent in the usual heap of highly produced summer…

In Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, Rachel McAdams is Sigrit Ericksdottir, an Icelandic school teacher with an angelic voice and a crush on longtime friend and collaborator Lars Erickssong. (As the pair say in the movie, they’re probably not related.) Behind the scenes, McAdams studied copious amounts…

A few years back, author Daniel Kraus lit up Twitter with a thread about a “lost” film from Night Of The Living Dead director George Romero, The Amusement Park. Kraus, a former colleague of the late filmmaker, called the lo-fi flick “one of those magical (cursed?) objects,” saying it might be Romero’s “most overtly…

In May, Geoff Keighley announced the showing of a Christopher Nolan movie at Fortnite’s Party Royale island. At eight this morning, I gathered with a handful of other avatars to watch the psychological thriller Inception. It wasn’t the best movie-going experience I’ve had, but it basically worked. Maybe Christopher…

With his documentaries How To Survive A Plague and The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson, journalist David France has delivered some of the most vital and revealing reporting about the highs and lows of recent American LGBTQ+ history. But he’s never directed a movie quite like Welcome To Chechnya. In those earlier…

It’s been far too long since we’ve heard from Secret Machines. After three excellent albums that blended haunting shoegaze, driving krautrock, and arena-ready anthemic bombast, the group quietly went its separate ways in 2010 without any formal announcement that it was taking a break. But throughout the previous…

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It’s almost July, and if release calendars can be believed (they probably can’t), we might see a few movies creep into theaters again. (Christopher Nolan’s Tenet just got bumped to August, but the live-action Mulan remake is still scheduled to debut in multiplexes by the end of next month.) Whether that actually…