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It took an enormously deadly global pandemic that still might get worse before it gets better, the complete shutdown of the entire nation for a period of several months, and every big 2020 movie either getting bumped to next year or dumped onto streaming services, but goddamn it, The New Mutants is the number one…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 1. All times are Eastern. 

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office charged Ron Jeremy on Monday with 20 counts of sexual assault. Back in July, the veteran adult film star was taken into custody for a number of disturbing charges, including forcible rape and sexual battery. The new slate of accusations…

Antebellum, the first feature by writer-directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, comes out swinging with a William Faulkner quote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” A long tracking shot lays out time and space: a plantation in what looks to be the titular pre-Civil War American South. The protagonist…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: You don’t have to go to the theater to get your Robert Pattinson fix. We’re looking back on some of the best performances from the one-time vampire, future caped…

If there has ever been a time to have big theater kid energy, that time is now. The optimism! The earnestness! The resilience! The high kicks! We here at The A.V. Club, many of us former (or, let’s face it, current) theater kids ourselves, are zero percent surprised that the new senior class in the University Of…

TCM is about to make it a lot easier for studios to find those elusive female directors they can barely remember. Per Variety, the classic film cable network will air Women Make Film, a 14-part documentary that entirely focuses on women filmmakers from around the globe, including Kathryn Bigelow, Rafiki’s Wanuri…

The Boys are back. Season two of the hit Prime series kicks off September 4, and finds the ragtag bunch of superhero-hating citizens on the lam and, in William Butcher’s case, shaken to the core by what he’s learned about his missing wife. The A.V. Club talked to Karl Urban and Laz Alonso—Butcher and M.M. on the show,…

Approach the door. It’s an unassuming thing, the glass greased with fingerprints, and the times of opening and closing for each day of the week still stubbornly cling to the smudged surface. Perhaps it’s raining (it’s definitely raining), so fat drops run together on that peaked red roof, racing downward to throw…

This sparkly podcast from Earwolf is hosted by actor/comedian Nicole Byer and former SNL cast member Sasheer Zamata, best friends who give listeners a peek at all that relationship entails. In this episode, Zamata discovers her birth time and is finally able to meet with poet and astrologer Heidi Rose Robbins to read…

Note: The writer of this review watched Tenet in a sparsely attended press screening with intensive social-distancing precautions. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here is an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

Frasier The Lion was an early ‘70s sex icon, famed for spending his retirement years banging his way into scientific history. A short documentary from Popular Science looks back on the history of this dynamo and, along the way, helps show that the sexual revolution wasn’t confined just to humanity.

It might be hard to believe, but there are still some people who don’t have a Netflix subscription—okay, that’s maybe easier to believe now that Netflix Original content has superseded all other content on the platform. In an effort to lure more subscribers, Variety reports that Netflix has launched a new site…

Josh Boone’s New Mutants opened to tepid reviews and plenty of vitriol on Friday, but the filmmaker’s already moved on to promoting his next project, one that won’t take three years to premiere. In December, CBS All Access will debut Boone’s eight-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, a post-apocalyptic story…

“The cruelty is the point.” They’re words made famous by an Atlantic headline about life under Trump, and they’re likely to ring throughout your head as you read Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill, a twisty and disquieting novel that, despite what its title might suggest, is not about The Matrix. Kunzru doesn’t explicitly define…

Dave Grohl is at war with a child. Having been called out by a 10-year old drummer named Nandi Bushell (who we wrote about before when she was still just a 9-year old drummer), Grohl has taken the bait and decided to engage in a knock-down, drag-out drum battle against her.

Halloween won’t be quite the same this year, and the only real upside to the dearth of trick-or-treaters and parties will be an excuse to not see people’s Joe Exotic costumes. Still, there’s plenty of good spooky movies and TV shows at our fingertips, one of which just dropped its first proper teaser. Mike Flanagan,…

“The truth is difficult, growing up you’ll understand that, novels aren’t sufficient for it.” This proclamation in Elena Ferrante’s latest novel, The Lying Life Of Adults, is so in keeping with the derisive ways the pseudonymous author’s characters treat bookishness and intellectualism that a reader might miss it. But…

In terms of sheer consistency, very few shows on television at the moment have managed to remain as strong as Better Call Saul. For five seasons now, the Breaking Bad spinoff has maintained superb quality in nearly every aspect of the production—a fact that’s embodied by the show’s continued recognition by the Emmys,…

John Oliver broke the format of Last Week Tonight on Sunday by talking almost exclusively about the past week. That might seem like a contradiction, but, as Oliver notes of his show’s more traditional long-view, single appalling issue structure, Sunday’s show was going to be less “28 Minutes About The Corn Tax Or…

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 31. All times are Eastern.

This week’s episode, “Holy Ghost,” finds Leti as a homeowner of a rundown boarding house in an all-white neighborhood. On the North Side of Chicago, Leti stands alone. She fights off cops, disgruntled neighbors, and a series of ghosts. She both suffers the consequences of her defiant actions and the confidence that…

This interview discusses plot points from the latest episode of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost.”

This year’s MTV Video Music Awards held the somewhat dubious honor of being the first relatively big awards show to happen during the coronavirus pandemic (we say “first” because the pandemic is clearly not going anywhere and big awards show have to happen no matter what), and while it happened on social-distance…