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It’s no secret that we at The A.V. Club are fans of Dua Lipa’s springtime release Future Nostalgia, a tightly rendered, disco-laced LP of dance hits. While we’re beyond the point of declaring anyone a “savior” of this hellish quarantine, the “Physical” performer came somewhat close as one of the earlier artists to…

Miss Piggy may be the apple of millions of adoring fans’ heavily-shadowed eyes, but she’s not exactly a peach to work with. At least, according to longtime Muppet co-star and gadabout Gonzo The Great, who has frequently found at the business end of Miss Piggy’s pointed barbs. Fortunately for Gonzo, the pair’s paths…

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.

Kindergarten Cop is a movie about a kindergarten teacher played by Arnold Schwarzenegger who’s also a cop, you idiot. It’s also the latest piece of cop-centric entertainment to be reexamined following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, which has since prompted worldwide protests and calls to…

Peacock’s newest comedy, Hitmen, is a “genuinely uncomplicated pleasure” that harnesses the chemistry of comedy duo and former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins (also known as Mel and Sue.) Joe Markham and Joe Parham (who are two different people and not just aliases for one person) created…

Hey, guess what Phineas and Ferb are going to do today? In the pair’s first official adventure since their long-running Disney series ended in 2015—and their first full-length one since 2011’s Across The 2nd Dimension—they have to track down their long-suffering sister Candace (Ashley Tisdale) somewhere across the…

HBO Max lured subscribers at launch with an array of IP, including DC movies and Friends and the Harry Potter franchise. No longer would bored viewers with little else to do on a Saturday have to settle for dropping in on a Harry Potter marathon on ABC Family, somehow always tuning in during the third act of Goblet Of…

Netflix’s intro sound—a bass-y thud followed by a wash of reverberation—seems inextricably tied to the streaming service and its programming. It’s inoffensive and simple, pairs well with just about any kind of movie or TV show, and, because the world isn’t fair, was used on its own instead of an older version that…

It’s a familiar scenario: A person is accused of doing a bad thing (or many bad things), and then their friends butt in and say, “WELL they’ve never done the bad thing to me SO...,” followed by a shrugging gesture to indicate they’ve made an unassailable point. The faulty logic being that the accused has always been…

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2020 has given us a lot: a new Beyoncé visual album, Tiger King, an unprecedented and woefully mishandled global pandemic. It’s also given us #bardcore, a recent viral music trend which reimagines pop songs in “medieval” style.

American Olympian Katie Ledecky is a better swimmer than you. She has gold medals proving this and yet, despite the validation that these awards must provide, Ledecky has decided to participate in a viral challenge with a video whose sole purpose seems to be forcing us all to remember that we are not, in fact, as good…

In An American Pickle, Seth Rogen plays two different characters, Herschel and Ben Greenbaum. How they’re related is the essence of the film, but long story short it involves one of them falling into a giant vat of pickle brine and being perfectly preserved for 100 years. (As the movie explains, the science checks…

If Ellen DeGeneres steps down from her long-running daytime talk show—and the allegations made against the workplace she runs certainly make it sound like she ought to—a rare window of opportunity will open. While rumors have suggested the unimaginative suits in charge of picking a replacement host have James Corden…

Tim Heidecker, the comic architect of the On Cinema universe and the chaotic Office Hours podcast, has announced a follow-up to last year’s What the Brokenhearted Do…. Fear Of Death, a “Serious Album about Serious Topics,” is an album-length collaboration with a number of heavy hitters, from Natalie Mering of Weyes…

Hitmen is not your typical lady assassins show: A music cue in the very first episode announces that our titular characters, Fran (Sue Perkins) and Jamie (Mel Giedroyc) will not be joining the sorority of chic killers like Beatrix Kiddo, Villanelle, or Arya Stark. As the signature crunchy sliding riff of “Run Fay…

In an effort to presumably prove that gross toilet humor never goes out of style, Comedy Central is rebooting Ren & Stimpy 25 years after its finale. Per The Hollywood Reporter, ViacomCBS has greenlit a reimagined take on the famed duo (though details regarding this new approach are still very scarce) for an…

The flagrantly generic films of David Ayer have rarely shied away from their Sam Peckinpah pretensions: anti-heroes, dirty work, violence in slow-mo. While The Tax Collector, which marks his return to an overfamiliar Los Angeles milieu, does not suggest that Ayer has developed the moral contradictions of a macho…

In American politics, what was once referred to as a “24-hour news cycle” is now more of a shapeless, time-bending hell blob wherein journalists lurch from one banal horror to the next. Headlines that ought to upend the national conversation, like those about an adversarial superpower reportedly offering bounties on…

Two episodes in a row where The Umbrella Academy’s characters actually sit down and have a full conversation? Be still, my beating heart! After last episode’s family meeting, “A Light Supper” centers on an even stranger family reunion. The Hargreeves siblings accept Sir Reginald’s invitation to dinner and reveal…

The mere words Moosewood Cookbook feel like a time portal back to the ’70s, the age of long-haired hippies in overalls and bell-bottoms and clogs who cooked up large pots of vegetable curries and brown rice to feed everybody in the co-op. Dinner would be followed by a leisurely passing of the joint and then cleanup by…

Jesse Eisenberg, like most of Hollywood (and not-Hollywood) doesn’t have much going on right now. Explaining to Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s Tonight Show that he and his family embarked on a cross-country road trip once the pandemic hit Los Angeles, Eisenberg painted the perhaps incongruous picture of The End Of The Tour

India, 1947. A tiny voice whispers, “Jemima, can you sleep? Are you scared? Don’t be. I shall tell you a story.” A match flickers and dips into a bowl, bringing light to the darkness. What follows is a timely escape into a wonderful world for protagonist and audience alike.

I’m a gay guy who’s involved with a guy I met a few months before COVID-19 took off. He’s a great guy, smart, funny, hot, healthy, and easy to be around. It started as a hookup but we have chemistry on several levels and, without either of us having to say it, we started seeing each other regularly. We both live alone…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, August 5. All times are Eastern.