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Altered Carbon, a show that fucks, will fuck no more. Deadline reports that Netflix has canceled the cyberpunk series, which saw its second season and accompanying anime film premiere to mixed reviews back in February and March, respectively.

A band of guh-guh-guh-ghosts?! That’s right. Netflix’s upcoming Julie And The Phantoms follows a high schooler who sees her waning musical ambitions reignited after a spectral trio of 1995-era hunks appears in her home. Together, they pen tunes, share smooches, and sidestep a vengeful Satan, who demands they return to…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: We’re highlighting some of the best movies of 2020 so far that we didn’t review.

Why, yes, The Boys are indeed back in town, and the superhero world’s naughtiest saviors will swoop onto Amazon Prime alongside a diverse range of originals and classics. There’s Utopia, for example, which finds Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn spinning a yarn of comic books and conspiracy. Sports fans, meanwhile, can strap…

As Breaking Bad’s kingpin in a chicken franchise, Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito cemented a place for himself in prestige television history. It was a long time coming, though: He’s been a working actor since the late ’70s, with multi-episode arcs on everything from Sesame Street to Homicide: Life On The Streets, and…

Each day, it seems, new scars surface that show just how deeply the 2019 Cats movie wounded the world’s psyche. It wasn’t enough for the movie’s feline mutants to cap off last year with their eldritch singing and dancing. No, they had to slink their unearthly forms into 2020, holding in their weirdly human jaws the…

Radha Blank struck gold at Sundance earlier this year with her directorial debut The Forty-Year-Old Version, taking home the coveted Best Director prize and garnering the attention of Netflix. Seven months later, the streaming giant has released the trailer for the comedy—a black-and-white tale of an artist (played by…

Oscar-nominated costume designer Sharen Davis comes from a world of period dramas, having shaped the look of musical icons both real and fictional, including Ray Charles and the Dreamgirls. But Davis has made her mark on prestige TV dramas as well, starting with Westworld season two before moving into limited series…

On the heels of the buzzy trailer debut for her new drama, Ammonite, Kate Winslet sat down for a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which the actress discusses various topics—collaborating with Ammonite co-star Saoirse Ronan to choreograph their own sex scenes, working with filmmakers ousted as sexual…

Role-playing games have spent too many decades pitting players against bloodthirsty dragons and murderous aliens, ignoring more relatable forms of evil. A long overdue correction has just surfaced in the form of Killing Carrot Top, a free, text-based RPG by Jay Winbrenner that does away with fantasy and sci-fi…

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Comics dealing directly with Christian themes have been mostly relegated to Chick tracts and a lot of mockery. But Evan Dahm’s The Harrowing of Hell offers something completely new, an intimate and emotional exploration of Jesus’ life with a particular focus on the days between his crucifixion and resurrection. In the…

There are some people who still foolishly believe that the COVID-19 coronavirus only afflicts those with weakened immune systems/immune disorders and the elderly. Should those people—despite everything that’s happened over the past six months—somehow still need evidence that COVID-19 can infect literally anyone,…

Originally slated to hit theaters, the visual effects of The One And Only Ivan looked no less dazzling when the film began streaming into homes this past Friday via Disney+. Director Thea Sharrock’s take on the beloved children’s novel used a blend of live action and motion capture performances to bring its characters…

Real-life Mario Kart is such an intoxicating concept that it’s been done by both amateurs and professionals alike. Never before, at least to our knowledge, has the Nintendo racing game been recreated, guerilla-style, on the streets of New York City—probably because that concept seems destined to end in blood, broken…

By and large, we know far too much about celebrities. We know their politics. We know their diets. We know about their interests in tentacle porn and sex gifs. But then there’s Tom Cruise, that charismatic burst of light who, in so many of our minds, seems to exist only as he does onscreen. Sure, we know he’s…

I’ve written about pivot points a lot in this half-season of Lucifer, but there’s perhaps no episode pivot point more necessary so far this season than the one that happens halfway through “BlueBallz.” It’s at that point that we get a Lucifer girls’ and guys’ night episode as temporary distractions from how weak this…

The original Slim Jim mascot more closely resembled Mr. Peanut than a professional wrestler. Wearing a top hat and carrying a cane, the aptly named “Slim Jim” was an elegant mascot touting slightly less elegant snack food—but it wasn’t until these bar snacks teamed up with trash-talking, neon-leather-clad,…

It is rather intimidating talking to Catherine O’Hara, the acting goddess who has most recently gifted the world with the unforgettable Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek. In the decades since her time on legendary Canadian comedy series SCTV, O’Hara has become a vital member of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary troupe in…

Does the world need a nearly 30-years-later Bill & Ted sequel? Look, the world needs a lot of things right now—like, all the things—and if lifelong friends and occasional costars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter want to strap back on their guitars and the time-traveling duo’s surfer-dude lingo and scratch our collective…

It’s possible to imagine a version of The Binge that would be funny. It would likely be around five minutes, and if it might not make it all the way to Saturday Night Live, a fruitful session of improvised sketch comedy could certainly spring from its premise: a Purge-inspired future where citizens are permitted an…

I’m a cis male in my late twenties. I’ve recently become consumed by a specific fantasy I fear is unattainable, a fear that has been made worse by several failed attempts to research it.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, August 26. All times are Eastern.

Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma video game was sort of a Dark Souls-y fantasy action-RPG, with the big hooks being that you could make your own character, that you could make support characters called Pawns that other players could summon in their own games, and that you could climb on big monsters Shadow Of The Colossus…

More than anything, the three John Wick movies have proven that Mr. Wick is a guy who gets shit done, so it is wildly unfortunate for the many goons serving under the international assassin community’s most powerful figures that the shit he gets done almost always involves killing people—killing them, specifically.…