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There is no tenet of good writing simpler or more repeated than “show don’t tell.” So it’s surprising in retrospect that so many people who trade in words (and appear to take doing so seriously), people like J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Gloria Steinem, attached their names to a letter published in Harper’s on…

One day, everyone you know and love will die. Much of human endeavor is built around trying to either ignore or defy this immutable truth, but we all carry it with us anyway, sitting heavily on our chests like the snub-nosed incubus in John Henry Fuseli’s painting The Nightmare. If we’re lucky enough to have parents…

It’s a widely accepted fact: the ocean is very big, very unknown, and very goddamn scary. Anyone claiming to disagree is free to try making it through the Lovecraftian nightmare that is scuba diving while an unseen sonar beacon echoes through the vast, uncaring waters.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch moving from July to October, we’re singling out other ensemble comedies to watch instead.

Viggo Mortensen is an actor best known for his starring roles in fantasy epic The Lord Of The Rings and gritty dramas like The Road and Eastern Promises. Buckethead is a musician best known for playing guitar really fast and wearing a KFC bucket on his head. Despite these apparent differences in their careers,…

Back in January, we reported that The Crown would take its final bow after season five. But does anything ever actually end? Reboots are now the standard in film and television, Cher has had multiple farewell tours, even Lucifer recently announced a sixth and final final season after previously alluding that the fifth…

Fans of daily desk calendars everywhere rejoice: Gary Larson has made a surprise return to the much beloved, surreal, cow-heavy Far Side universe. Earlier this week, Larson quietly posted a handful of new, single-frame comics on his website—his first new public work within the series in over two-and-a-half decades—and…

While Hollywood has been grappling with the limitations of producing in the middle of a pandemic, some creatives aren’t waiting around for the industry-wide green light to head back to work. In fact, one filmmaker in particular managed to produce an entire feature film starring A-list talent without so much as a…

An untimely death—or an entire series of them—isn’t usually where a story begins, but in the case of We Are Little Zombies it’s both the inciting incident and a meet-cute of sorts for the kids at the heart of this wildly original new film, arriving in theaters and virtual cinemas on July 10.

There are more than enough lavishly produced superhero movies out there already. What audiences need isn’t another focus tested Marvel blockbuster, the sharp edges of any personality sanded off to appeal to the widest possible market. What we need are tremendously goofy-looking fan films, created by people whose…

If Palm Springs is a fresh riff on the time-loop story immortalized by Groundhog Day, then that makes Camila Mendes and Meredith Hagner this movie’s Ned Ryersons. As Tala, the bride-to-be, and Misty, her bridesmaid, Mendes and Hagner think they’re just living out a picturesque California wedding, unaware that guests…

The actor: Though he’s been (playfully) dogged for years about having a name a little too similar to another actor’s, Dermot Mulroney is a one-of-a-kind performer. He cut his teeth on serious dramas like Longtime Companion and Where The Day Takes You, embodied wanderlust in neo-Westerns like Bright Angel, starred in…

As the search for missing Glee star Naya Rivera began anew at dawn Thursday morning, the actresses’ former costars have taken to social media to send their well-wishes and ask fan to continue to think positively. “Please pray for Naya Rivera to be found safe and sound,” Demi Lovato, who played Rivera’s girlfriend on…

Although COVID-19 can affect anyone, some groups are at a higher risk to contract and potentially—how do we say this—um, die from the coronavirus. That includes all your grandmas and grandpas, but don’t worry because ABC is not going to let them get sick without having a chance to find a G.D. soulmate. Your favorite…

Nintendo’s next big Switch game is Paper Mario: The Origami King, announced less than two months ago via a humble tweet and arriving on July 17. The Paper Mario series’ reputation has been a bit spotty as of late, but Origami King has by and large gotten rid of the more annoying parts of the last couple games, leaving…

A few weeks ago, the Academy announced that it would be extending the eligibility window for next year’s Oscars by a few months. The reasoning behind this decision was clear: With so much uncertainty about when theaters can open again, there’s no guarantee that the kind of big prestige projects that normally dominate…

Twitter is the terrible thing we all just can’t stay away from, its incessant blurts of peremptory whim very often laying bare people’s worst selves in one irrevocably handy, 280-character nugget. Donald Trump, just to pick one example, routinely uses the microblogging platform to spout criminally inaccurate,…

Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and is feared dead after her 4-year-old son, Josey, was found alone on the boat they’d rented. According to multiple reports, the actress rented a pontoon at Lake Piru in Ventura County, Calif., on Wednesday and spent the day swimming with her son. When she was late returning the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, July 9. All times are Eastern.

Good news, everybody: After two months of mulling the idea, we’re happy to report that we’re still pretty fucking psyched at the thought of Ryan Gosling playing a werewolf. Especially if, as Variety reports, he might end up doing so under the auspices of director Leigh Whannell. The Upgrade and The Invisible Man …

We’re far enough along in the gestation of eSports as a phenomenon that big cash paydays for teams who excel at games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Fortnite are no longer especially noteworthy—nor, for that matter, is the presence of such high-tension virtual action competitions on broadcast TV. Indeed,…

I’ve said it before, but it remains true: Much of this final season of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. has felt like a victory lap, a chance for the creative team to get loose and have some fun as they coast towards the finish line. And while it hasn’t exactly resulted in the most compelling season ever, it’s been quite…

Sad news, fans of Sabrina Spellman fighting or flirting with the devil: the Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina are coming to a close. Variety reports that the supernatural Archie-verse series will wrap up later this year, when Netflix airs the fourth season (part, whatever) of the well-received mixer of teen angst and…

If you’re like us, you probably cherish those times in your life in which worrying about the legal, philosophical, and branding troubles of the country music trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum—now known as “Lady A,” and also “Those people who won’t stop stepping on easily avoided public relations rakes”—was not…

There’s a grand tradition in country music: You take what’s topical—heartbreak, disease, booze, love, whatever—and you make a song about it. Woody Guthrie sang about the dust bowl and The Depression. Jimmie Rogers sang about Tuberculosis. Tammy Wynette sang about her “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” And now, Old Crow Medicine Show is…