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Clifford Robinson has died. An 18-year veteran of the NBA—most notable for the eight years he spent with the Portland Trail Blazers, which saw him named an All-Star by the league in 1994—Robinson also made an appearance in the world of reality TV, appearing on the 28th season of CBS’s Survivor. Although no cause of…

Chadwick Boseman died yesterday, at the age of 43, as sudden—at least, to those not privy to his four-year battle with cancer—and shocking a death as Hollywood has been forced to reckon with in some time. Despite the news breaking late on a Friday night, the tributes came swiftly pouring in, as fans, colleagues, and…

As we laid out in our first dispatch from the Fantasia Film Festival’s virtual 2020 edition, conducting coverage of this particular month-long event from home isn’t all that different from usual. All you have to do is take out the international travel (undoubtedly a bad idea, even if it were possible), the in-person…

This week’s AVQ&A comes from assistant editor Alex McLevy:

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The caught-on-camera police shooting of yet another unarmed Black man in America saw professional athletes using their power this week by essentially shutting down sports. From MLB, to MLS, to tennis, to the WNBA and the NBA (and even hockey), players made the bold and unprecedented move to shut it down, not only to…

Of the many ways in which HBO’s Watchmen remixed the comic book source material by Alan Moore, perhaps no divergence was more powerful than the reveal that Hooded Justice, the first masked hero, was a Black man. That man, Will Reeves, had already been through hell before he joined the New York City police force—he was…

Chadwick Boseman has died. As the star of Marvel’s Black Panther—to say nothing of his career-making performance as Jackie Robinson in the 2013 biopic 42—Boseman lent quiet dignity and irresistible charisma to some of the most iconic roles of the last 10 years of film-making. According to the Associated Press, Boseman…

ABC announced today that it’s launching a new limited series focused on prominent women in the fight for equal and civil rights—and specifically on the life of Mamie Till Mobley, who spent the last five decades of her life campaigning, not just on behalf of her murdered son Emmett Till, but in defense of the lives of…

Tech week is a stressful time for any production. Throw in the Vegas setting, high profile branding, and intense scrutiny the Drag Race fandom brings, and of course the queens are a bit on edge heading into their final days of rehearsal. Adding cameras and a docusoap setup feeds this—the audience isn’t tuning in to…

Despite its mostly-dour outer demeanor, The X-Files handled comedy better than a lot of actual comedies; there might be a few duds in the show’s long list of less-serious cases, but the highlights—including Darin Morgan-penned classics like “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” and “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”—stand up…

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling once wrote a book that was 766 pages. Yet somehow, her grievance against the trans community is her longest, most drawn-out story, which now includes the return of a year-old award after receiving some rightfully constructive criticism.

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…