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Spite ruins lives, sure, but it’s hard to deny the quiet catharsis of a bad deed returned in kind, even if it’s something you’ll end up regretting. The question, of course, is how hard you’ll commit to the bit. How deep does your rage run? And is a commitment to another’s misery really worth it? For Ted Pelkey, a…

By now you have likely heard the story of the legal situation now happening between the country music band formerly known as Lady Anti-BLM Antebellum and the Black woman blues singer who has performed for more than 20 years under the moniker Lady A.

Film and TV schedules these days are mere wisps of a former life that we knew only months ago. As we continue to watch TV and film adjust over and over again to our new reality, we’ve grown accustomed to the ever-elusive premiere dates for some long-awaited properties. Ah, remember premiere dates? Remember time?!

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With the release of Andy Samberg’s Palm Springs and the latest Ghostbusters sequel getting pushed to 2021, we’re highlighting movies starring Saturday Night Live alumni…

If you aren’t clued into #MedievalTwitter, you really are being quite the knave—it’s arguably the best, often sassiest way outside of a grad student TA’s breakout session to learn all about world history circa 1200 CE. Unfortunately, a lot of people out there remain unaware of #MedievalTwitter’s existence, including,…

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your planned franchise,” goes the old saying, one Joe and Anthony Russo appear not to have heard. Deadline reports that the MCU shepherds—they directed Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame—are mapping out a “James Bond-level franchise-starter” based on…

Get Me Roger Stone was one of the most revealing and infuriating documentaries of the last several years, with filmmakers Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme unpacking how its subject’s history of “dirty tricks” are as effective in the political sphere as they are immoral. Now the duo’s using their access to infiltrate…

It’s Friday in America, and men in military fatigues are hauling off peaceful protestors in unmarked vans without providing clear, constitutional justifications. The detained individuals claim these anonymous authorities ostensibly kidnapped and brought them to nearby precincts, where they were asked to waive their…

Vikings favorite Gustaf Skarsgård is no stranger to period costuming. He spent years in kohl, face paint, and linen shirts, traipsing around foggy fields as the show’s resident wacko shipbuilder, Floki. Now, he’s again stepping into period garb as Cursed’s Merlin. Though he’s got a big of a beard going, and really…

The conversation surrounding the entertainment industry’s attempt to scrub away its inherently racist history is split between those who support the change of heart and those who find the sudden erasure pretty disingenuous. Based on his recent interview with RadioTimes, Idris Elba appears to fall into the latter…

Yo La Tengo, nearly four decades into their career, remains one of the oddest, most beguiling experimental rock acts in the business, trading as it does between sturdy indie rock, off-the-cuff noise, and ambient sprawl. As it did on 2018's There’s A Riot Going On, the latter dominates on the instrumental We Have…

It took Amy Heckerling a while to realize she’d written an Emma homage. Her TV pilot script centered on a rich, sunny young woman who approached the world with a can-do attitude—a savvy dumb blonde in the vein of Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. When Heckerling’s agent suggested the project might work…

So, remember that morning we all thought Hawaii was going to be wiped of the map by a nuclear attack? (It was January 2018, if your Trump- and pandemic-pummeled memory has lost all sense of time.) Well, that ten-minute stretch of existential horror is captured in the cover photo of Memoirs And Misinformation, the New…

Legends are meant to be left to interpretation, used for lessons and applications to real-life situations. “What if” is a common question that arises when exploring these legends, and that’s what Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler sought to analyze and bring to life with their Cursed novel. Re-imagining Arthurian legend to…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18. All times are Eastern.

The most important thing to know going into NBC’s “30 Rock: A One-Time Special” is that it is, first and foremost, a means to a promotional end. Yes, it’s an outside-the-box approach to the network’s annual upfront presentation in this climate, but it’s still the network’s annual upfront presentation. With that in…

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?

Like many other television shows, this year The Bold Type found itself forced to end its season early and suddenly strangely out of date. The Bold Type is a series that has never shied away from borrowing from real-world storylines and tackling difficult topics, so it’s odd to see Sutton (Meghann Fahy) and Billy (…

Anyone who spends much time anywhere near the topic of Ellen DeGeneres on social media tends to pick up a few horror stories pretty quickly; it’s not for nothing that a Twitter post from this March, promising a food bank donation for every “Ellen being mean” story told, ended up getting more than 2,000 responses.…

Richard Linklater has just announced that he’s adding a third rotoscoped animated movie to his library of films—although this latest one sounds a tad more wholesome than 2006's fugue state odyssey A Scanner Darkly. Per Deadline, Linklater is working with Netflix on Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure, a moon landing…

Wishbone—the dog who spent his career making your own, totally illiterate dog look like a real lazy asshole—might be getting his own movie. That’s the improbable news reported by Variety this week, noting that the PBS series, about a Jack Russell terrier with a bizarre obsession for classic works of literature that…

Grant Imahara died earlier this week, ending a life and career that saw the electrical engineer and robotoicist become one of the mostly reliably charming and informed faces in the world of science-minded TV. Now, both Discovery and Science Channel have announced that they’ll be paying tribute to Imahara this weekend,…

As of this week, Peacock, NBC’s foray into the streaming wars, is now available in the U.S., and unlike competitors Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, it just so happens to offer a free tier, something that immediately makes it worth considering. Along with a handful of original new series, Peacock arrives with a…

Yesterday, Chicago trio Dehd took over our Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube pages to perform a ripping mini-set as part of our series AVC Sessions: House Shows. During the show—which you can now watch in its entirety above—the group performed songs off its brand new LP, Flower Of Devotion, which is available to…

Though Gina Prince-Bythewood already earned acclaim for previous projects like Love & Basketball and Beyond The Lights, Netflix’s The Old Guard seems to be turning into something of a new breakout hit for her. Just a week or so after that movie premiered, she’s already parlaying her buzz-worthiness into a big…