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At this point in the game, one could be forgiven for thinking that this whole QAnon thing might be complete and utter hivemind horseshit, and not one man’s heroic intel leaks from within the inner sanctum of U.S. government detailing pedophilic pizza shops and Donald Trump’s four-dimensional chess machinations. Sure,…

Back at the end of June, the cartoon industry faced a bit of a reckoning with the number of white actors playing non-white characters. Jenny Slate stepped down from Big Mouth, Kristen Bell moved over to a different role on Central Park, and then Mike Henry decided to stop playing Cleveland on Family Guy and The…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: As August kicks off and the warmest season begins drawing to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite summer-themed movies.

As this past year has shown us, not everyone can be trusted with being handed the reins to Mike Mignola’s Hellboy wide, weird universe. On top of that, it doesn’t sound like those who can be trusted to deliver the goods for Big Red and the gang are returning anytime soon, either. While Hollywood continues to sort out…

Jonathan Swan was nobody’s favorite journalist when he interviewed Donald Trump back in 2018, but the news-breaking Axios reporter is the toast of Twitter today thanks to his most recent chat with the president. Why? Because he actually asked follow-up questions and, you know, challenged Trump’s relentless onslaught…

For anyone who cares about the free press, and who wants to get back to a fact-based system of laws and norms, one of the more frustrating developments of recent years has been the appropriation of the term “fake news” by politicians who merely dislike the tone of the mainstream media’s coverage. “Fake news” used to…

Birthed almost simultaneously as both a documentary and a book, The Secret took the world by storm in 2006, to the tune of 190 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and 30 million copies sold. Now, it’s getting a cinematic adaptation of sorts, with The Secret: Dare To Dream, hitting (home) cinemas this weekend. …

In late July, rapper Talib Kweli posted a lengthy message to his Instagram account, announcing that after 11 years, he was finally leaving Twitter. “I have officially left @twitter for the greener pastures of @patreon which is membership fee based,” Kweli wrote. “Now most of my exchanges will always be with real fans…

There’s a strong possibility that our society has now progressed beyond the “weed LOL” genre of cinema. However, in 2008, Pineapple Express was a formidable box office hit, earning over $100 million globally and existing as one of the more prominent comedies of its time. A sequel seemed like such a no-brainer for two…

As we watch billionaires profit off a global health crisis while service workers are turned into infantry so people can shop during a pandemic, the national mood toward mega-corporations is anything but warm and fuzzy. So there’s no better time for Netflix to announce Kings Of America, a new limited series created by…

“We had a saying in the Corps: Save one life and you’re a hero. Save a 100 lives—well, then you’re a nurse.” Each new iteration of Nurse Ratched reveals a bit more about the character: Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest established her as unflinching and controlling, while Miloš Forman’s adaptation…

Hey. Hey, listen. This is a stressful time and we all need a little bit of relaxation to get through the day. For some, this may come in the form of a hot bath, a glass of wine, an hour with a good book, or, who knows, maybe a bit of time spent listening to the gluey sounds of someone whispering about the pandemic on…

If you haven’t watched The Bachelor(ette) in recent years, the vision you probably have of the show doesn’t much exist anymore. The premise is the same—beautiful people compete for beautiful person—but the producers’ fastidious commitment to fairytale-like staging has been punctured somewhat by meta flourishes,…

As reopening plans for movie theaters are continually pushed back and altered due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the fate of numerous upcoming film releases remains unclear. While studios are delaying blockbusters like Tenet and Mulan, other films have largely bypassed the theatrical window for a streaming release. …

As we approach November’s presidential election, we have to be prepared for an uptick in painfully ineffectual anti-Trump comedy bits and the resurgence of tweet-threading #resistance grifters. That said, we urge you to watch Sam Fishell’s “donald trump rap,” which begins exactly like a post you’d find deep in one of…

Together, Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have built a media empire out of their friendship. They’ve traded compliments and barbs for years on their YouTube series UNHhhh, have classed up Vice with The Trixie And Katya Show, and have even taken over Netflix’s YouTube channel from time to time with their reviews…

“There’s no way to practice a car hit besides getting hit by a car,” says one of the many daredevils featured in Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, a bruising new documentary unpacking the precarious art of getting blown up, set on fire, and mangled in vicious car wrecks. Michelle Rodriguez, who’s spent plenty of…

Shhhh. Can you hear that? It’s the distant sound of thousands of Don Hertzfeldt fans uncontrollably sobbing at his teaser for the next entry in World of Tomorrow, his ongoing animated existential sci-fi short film series. Hertzfeldt’s first two entries were heartbreaking masterpieces of the medium and we expect…

For over four decades, cult figure Alejandro Jodorowsky—the filmmaker, actor, poet, puppeteer, occasional mime, philosopher, and hopelessly inquisitive man—has been honing the self-devised experimental therapy method he’s termed psychomagic. Through performance exercises customized to the patient’s psychical wound,…

We may be in the dog days of summer, but 2020’s list of great new music isn’t slowing down in the least. All the way from rapper Aminé to singer Zella Day, there are great albums coming out in August that we can’t wait to get our hands on. (Yes, we’re mostly ordering the vinyl online these days, but consider doing it…

“Hell yeah, family meeting!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Diego. Halfway through season two someone finally suggests that maybe the Umbrella Academy should, you know, actually have a group discussion about the apocalypse that’s supposed to wipe out humanity in six days. While that probably would’ve been…

Every Saturday Night Live needs a Jane Curtin. Calling the original Not Ready For Prime Time Player a straight-woman doesn’t do the two-time Emmy-winner justice, because while Curtin was, indeed, peerless at displaying icy disdain at the antics of Roseanne Roseannadanna, Irwin Mainway, Emily Litella, the actual John…

Merely hearing the word Girlfriends still conjures up Angie Stone’s soulful voice and the image of four Black best friends living life in Los Angeles. Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross), the uptight attorney who dreamed of wearing a white dress. Maya (Golden Brooks), the working-class wife and mother turned “authoress.” Lynn…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, August 4. All times are Eastern. 

Much of “Chapter Seven,” the efficient penultimate hour of Perry Mason’s first season, concerns itself with setting up the finale to come. Pete quits, setting him up to get an apology and a plea to return from Perry. (He’ll then find something vital and/or die.) Paul and Perry team up after the former turns up a lead,…