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Few people have been as productive in quarantine as Josh Gad, who, when not contributing to Quibi’s DIY Princess Bride, has boosted a number of charities with his Reunited Apart series, which has virtually reunited the casts of Lord Of The Rings, Splash, Back To The Future, Ghostbusters, and Goonies. For his final…

Happy Monday! Have you gotten an enthusiastic start to your week? Paid a bill? Called your senator? Planned a meal or two? If so, you’re in good company, because J.K. Rowling, too, has already checked a box off her to-do list: She’s already completed her weekly bout of disappointing people who love her books through a…

As reported by The New York Times, Joseph James DeAngelo—the man identified as the Golden State Killer in Michelle McNamara’s true crime book I’ll Be Gone In The Dark—has agreed to plead guilty to 13 counts of first degree murder and admit guilt in “a multitude of crimes for which he was not charged, some of which…

As I take a moment to revisit the last time we peeked into the charming pandemonium of Harley Quinn, it’s hard not to chuckle at my now-unwarranted anxieties that hovered over the start of the second season. It’s not inaccurate to say that I harbored my fair share of concerns, from Harley’s questionable lack of…

Last year, Reddit’s former senior vice-president for product Dan McComas said that his time at the online hub “made the world a worse place,” an acknowledgment of the site’s history as a gathering place for hate groups and serial harassers. But those words felt somewhat hollow considering Reddit’s most toxic…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: It’s all disaster movies, in honor of Independence Day (the holiday and the movie) and also in light of the real-life disaster movie happening outside our windows.

It was a gift of a revelation wrapped in a delivery as mundane as parcel paper. Once Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeast’s plucky titular heroine confessed her burgeoning romantic feelings for fellow wasteland survivor Benson, the teenage boy wasted no time letting his friend down gently. “You’re all kinds of awesome,”…

Note: This interview contains spoilers for the Search Party season-three finale.

“It’s time for magic.” With that phrase, Disney revealed on June 10 that Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure would reopen on July 17, the 65th anniversary of opening day in 1955. That date’s been pushed back because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, but Disney is determined to open its doors soon. Guests are …

Will Ferrell isn’t just the star of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga. He’s also its writer and producer. He even birthed the initial idea for the story after a late ‘90s viewing of the contest with his wife’s Swedish family. Entranced by the club pop and out-there characters, Ferrell fell in love with…

Aside from Pablo Honey, which joined in on the ClipArt disaster aesthetic that defined so many early ‘90s releases, Radiohead’s album covers are all pretty great. This is largely thanks to Stanley Donwood, the group’s longtime collaborator and the subject of a new profile from Penguin Books UK that highlights his work…

Despite their opposing views on cheerleading, Courtney Whitmore and Cindy Burman are more alike than they realize. They’re both teens with superpowered family legacies. They’re both frustrated by adults who keep telling them to stay in the high school lane when all they want to do is jump into grown-up action. And…

It’s officially summer, and The Big Orange Couch is the nostalgic audio equivalent of hearing the ice cream truck from your backyard kiddie pool. A breezy recap show for fans of old-school Nickelodeon classics, hosts Andrew and Joey showcase wildly specific knowledge of everything Nick. But their expertise really…

Ava DuVernay is bringing another high-profile limited series to Netflix, this time concerning the life of civil rights activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The six-part scripted drama is titled Colin In Black & White, and per an official press release from Netflix, the series “will…

The tone-deaf, much-parodied celebrity cover of “Imagine” that came out a few months ago made lots of beloved actors and musicians look like blinkered morons, including a few people we all probably hoped would’ve thought better of the idea before agreeing to do it. One of them is Chris O’Dowd, an affable actor and…

As numerous TV episodes have been yanked from circulation over depictions of Blackface in recent weeks, the animated television space has also begun its long-overdue reckoning with racism. Both Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell announced that they would be stepping down from voicing Black characters in Big Mouth and …

Real life can sometimes be so ridiculous that it feels like the world is acting out a script that critics would describe as “a little too on the nose.” Take, for instance, the “Gun Couple,” an impossibly WASPy husband and wife who turned out to “protect” their honest-to-god estate from passing Black Lives Matter…

After cementing Falcon into the MCU across numerous films and an imminent Disney+ series, Anthony Mackie is hoping he can make a positive impact on the franchise’s much-discussed problems with representation. The actor got candid about the issue during a recent installment of Variety’s “Actors On Actors” with …

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

It’s not a cliché to say that musicals are a big deal for much of the LGBTQ community. Over the decades, the art form has created a platform for some of our favorites divas and given us ample opportunity to indulge in that good ’ol fashioned razzle-dazzle. For queer kids bitten by the acting/singing/dancing bug, the…

Jennifer Hudson performed a cover of Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted And Black” at Sunday night’s BET Awards, paving the way for the first trailer for Respect, in which she plays the legendary songwriter.

Well, we were due for a dud.

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Has there been a more corrupted term in recent years than “self-care”? What used to be a battle cry of resistance for Black and queer social justice activists, has morphed into a buzzword meant to sell expensive face creams, a yoga retreat in a five-star hotel, and any product that inches you closer to whatever…

The condemned: Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (2019)

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Like all great comedic essayists, John Oliver traditionally ends his Last Week Tonight main stories with a kicker. But, in keeping with Oliver’s sense of urgency about the looming pandemic eviction crisis, and with apologies, it’s worth quoting the kicker in the lede. Addressing homebound viewers bemoaning another…