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In The Fight, documentary cameras follow harried ACLU lawyers as they seek to challenge some of the biggest injustices of the Trump administration, from the Muslim ban to the potential citizenship question on the 2020 US Census. The team that made the film also made Weiner, and spent years trying to get access to the…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Morbius has been pushed back to 2021, but you don’t have to wait that long to check out these other vampire chronicles and bloodsucker tales.

If we are to commit only one detail about Beyoncé to our collective memory forever, it should be this: She never gives an ounce less than her entire being to anything she does. When whispers of her involvement in the photorealistic remake of Disney’s The Lion King began, there was a tacit understanding among fans that…

Saying that 2020 is one of the worst years in living memory isn’t exactly an original thought but from where we’re standing on this, the last day of July, it sure seems true. And while we’ll have to wait a while for movies, music, and novels that deliberately capture the feeling of living through this awful time, it…

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, five 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…

The Hollywood Reporter’s new piece about Bryan Singer’s toxic X-Men sets begins with a weird anecdote: Michael Jackson, who wanted to play Professor X, auditioned by showing the producers his short film, Ghosts, in which he played a 60-year old white politician. “You know, I can wear makeup,” he reportedly told…

Sharon Osbourne was once a happy member of the NBC family, judging America’s Got Talent for seven seasons. But that all came to an abrupt end in 2012 when the network dropped her son Jack from the reality competition Stars Earn Stripes shortly after he disclosed that he had MS. Osbourne says NBC Entertainment…

We still have a ways to go before The Matrix 4 arrives at those semi-mythological places from the past that we call “movie theaters,” but it’s never too early to start planning exactly what combination of trench coat, wraparound sunglasses, and combat boots you’re going to wear when it’s time to line up for opening…

Kermit and Miss Piggy have long had a tumultuous romantic relationship, but in 2015, they officially called it off. That hasn’t stopped the longtime coworkers from continuing to strive for civility in the workplace, though it might be fair to say that the striving might be a little one sided. That back and forth is…

Amy Adams has starred in films from Paul Thomas Anderson, Denis Villeneuve, and David O. Russell. She’s played Amelia Earhart, Lois Lane, and a fairytale princess. She’s guested on a beloved sitcom, anchored a prestigious HBO miniseries, and worked with The Lonely Island. What hasn’t she done? Won an Oscar, despite…

Over the last 10 seasons, Taskmaster has become one of the weirdest, most wonderfully strange institutions in the world of British TV panel shows. The show’s premise is deceptively simple: Brit comedians subject themselves to several months’ worth of bizarre lateral thinking assignments—ranging from “Hide and seek for…

Actor Mandy Patinkin announced in a video posted to Twitter Friday morning that he had deleted “about 28,000” of his wife Kathryn Grody’s unread emails. At the time of the recording, some 10,000 unread emails remained, according to Grody, who said she tasked the 67-year-old thespian and musician with conducting the…

Normally, when a priest wants to proselytize about their religion without any invitation to do so, we immediately tune out. That said, we’re also on record at The A.V. Club as big fans of looking at, listening to, or reading about goats and so we’ve reached a bit of an impasse with what we’re about to present: The s…

Now that we’re starting to know what the rest of the year is going to look like—i.e. more of the same, so much the same, these walls are me, and I am they—it looks like a number of famous faces are planning to join the ranks of those already making TikToks and Instagram stories and anything else we can film to pass…

It was roughly two years ago that we learned about NXIVM, the bizarre “sex cult” and pyramid scheme that counted Smallville actress Allison Mack in its ranks. Since then, Mack’s pleaded guilty to crimes related to her involvement, and founder Keith Raniere was convicted of sex trafficking of children, conspiracy, and…

The first season of The Umbrella Academy had a lot going for it: Heaps of style, an engaging cast, and some compelling central mysteries. Unfortunately, what it didn’t have going for it was a particularly strong grasp on plot and pacing. The first season meandered its way towards its apocalyptic climax, never quite…