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The title Teenage Bounty Hunters sounds like somebody was playing Mad Libs at a Netflix programming brainstorm meeting. Created by American Princess scribe Kathleen Jordan and including some big-name executive producers like Orange Is The New Black’s Jenji Kohan, the premise of TBH is one that seems like it shouldn’t…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. As part of Y2k Week here at The A.V. Club, we’ll be listing the 25 best films of the year 2000. These are some of our favorites that didn’t make the countdown.

Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner) tries her best to stay out of politics (unless, of course, she’s the mayor of Springfield). But when a petulant White House advisor uses her to unnecessarily insult a Vice President hopeful, well... that calls for a little more than a concerned groan. Which is why The Simpsons’ matriarch…

It’s around 1 p.m. here in Chicago on Friday, August 14. Somewhere on some picturesque island, someone has lit up a big spotlight the color of Pantone 686 C to summon Wes Anderson from this studio in an abandoned lighthouse carefully stocked with thimbles and antique cameras. We suspect the Pantone 686 C signal is…

Let’s be clear about something: This Geena Davis interview with The Daily Beast is a great read for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that Sir Ridley Scott would personally mist Brad Pitt’s abs with Evian water between takes of the love scenes in Thelma & Louise. Davis talks about the work of the Geena…

Bill Lawrence is a creator with a pedigree. He created or co-created beloved sitcoms Scrubs, Cougar Town, and Spin City, as well as the animated series Clone High. His latest project is Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, which finds Jason Sudeikis plopped into a classic fish out of water scenario—only in this case the water is…

Yesterday, Blumhouse Television announced Welcome To The Blumhouse, a new anthology series of original genre movies a lá Hulu’s Into The Dark, but on Amazon and not based around holidays. That’s a simplified way of putting it, of course: Aside from being housed under the same programming roof, each film in the series…

Thanks to streaming deals, DVD/Blu-ray releases, and a documentary, Freaks And Geeks keeps finding a new audience and reconnecting with its established fanbase. But when Paul Feig’s poignant teen drama-comedy premiered on NBC on September 25, 1999, it looked every bit the outsider that its eponymous characters were.…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and…

When a song as big as Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” comes along, it’s only a matter of time until people get to work transforming it into every possible genre of music. Still, it’s a little surprising to see just how quickly we’ve moved from ridiculous internet remixes of a huge pop song to the inevitable…

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 Fast And The Furious is an action series whose appeal depends a great deal on the lavish practical and virtual effects employed to make its car-racing, car-smashing, and car-exploding as exciting as possible. Despite this, Kent Yoshimura and Kevin Fairy—the duo behind YouTube channel Budget Boyz—have decided to …

The American release of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s second full-length album, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, came one day after the 2000 presidential election. Listening to it twenty years later feels prophetic, the work’s title encapsulating the pervasive feeling of anxiety felt by so many in the…

For the second installment in our month-long series on the films of Christopher Nolan, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife revisit the blockbuster comic-book franchise that made him one of the world’s most celebrated directors. Nearly a decade later, which entry in the trilogy holds up best? And how did this particularly…

Sometimes the bubbling cauldron of comedy creativity that is the Saturday Night Live writers room only boils over once the actual writers leave 30 Rockefeller Plaza. And while SNL could traditionally use a bit more conceptual weirdness in its mix of game show parodies, celebrity impressions, and Alec Baldwin’s Donald…

Say what you like about 2019's Cats; it’s definitely an expression of something—possibly of how horny Cat Dame Judi Dench gets when Cat Ian McKellan laps up a big ol’ saucer of milk. Or whatever the fuck’s going on when Cat Dame Judi Dench stares into the camera for, like, 8 minutes at the movie’s climax. Or that bit…

It only took three years for Edward Norton to solidify his entire Hollywood persona. After his explosive debut in Primal Fear, his transformative turn in American History X, and his era-defining work in Fight Club, he was hailed as the greatest actor of his generation. He earned two Oscar nominations before his 30th…

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?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, August 14, and Saturday, August 15.

We don’t normally think of Sufjan Stevens as being a musician especially interested in modern trends; even the songs he’s been releasing off his upcoming album, The Ascension, have felt like classic Stevens’ tracks, albeit in an even-more-downbeat-than-usual way. But not even the saddest dreamer in indie folk is i…

Dolly Parton was typically Dolly Parton-ish—which is to say, both empathetic and excellent—today, when she responded to questions in a Billboard interview about the #BlackLivesMatter movement in about as straightforward way as anybody could want. “Of course Black lives matter,” Parton told interviewers, before adding,…

The bone-headed, faux-street smart posturing of David Ayer’s Bright is just one of the elements thrown into the overcooked stew that is Netflix’s Project Power, a superhero movie that’s also an anti-drug fable and a father-daughter story mixed with a little bit of insensitively deployed commentary on the American…

In addition to being a serviceable storage space for all those old HBO shows you’ve always been meaning to get to, HBO Max has also swiftly revealed itself as an important, “Oh, hey, put that over there” element of the wider popu culture ecosystem. Which is to say, it’s been a great place for Warner Bros. and its…

Forty whole minutes pass before Dancer In The Dark asserts its aspirations to the grand MGM musical tradition. Up until that point, Lars von Trier’s prizewinning melodrama has operated in a mode of spartan neorealism, unfurling the decidedly non-musical story of Selma (Icelandic pop star Björk), a Czech immigrant…

Yesterday, banjo icons Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn took over our Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube pages to perform an intimate, soulful, and surprisingly funny set as part of our series AVC Sessions: House Shows. During the show—which you can now watch in its entirety above—the married pair fingerpicked and danced…