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The “How do you do, fellow kids” meme is funny because Steve Buscemi has looked 51 since he was 25 and it’s funny when someone who can play Nikita Khrushchev turns his cap backward and lugs a skateboard over his shoulder. Paul Rudd, on the other hand, looks 25 at the age of 51, so when he dresses like a stereotypical…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Devil All The Time from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

Up to this point, the U.S. Army and Navy’s recruitment efforts on Twitch have been fraught to say the least, but over the weekend, the latter courted outright disaster. During a Saturday evening stream of Twitch mega-hit Among Us, players named themselves after America’s atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 and the N-word.

Over the weekend, while Mulan struggled to justify its existence in the Chinese market, a report came out that revealed Warner Bros. is being a little cagey about how much money Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was (or was not) making at the U.S. box office. Apparently, the studio has decided to break from tradition by not…

In the nine years since Sean Durkin released the incredible Martha Marcy May Marlene, the young director’s produced films by his Borderline Films brethren, took a detour into TV, and knocked out a Sharon Van Etten music video. Now, he’s returning to the big screen with The Nest, a domestic drama starring the…

No, J.K. Rowling is not dead. This is something Twitter felt the need to clarify on this, the 14th of September, as #RIPJKROWLING started trending.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin both have new movies coming out, so we’re looking back on other projects released by their production company, Borderline Films.

Note: The writer of this review watched Blackbird from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

When last we donned our flak jackets to report from the front lines of Dave Grohl’s ruthless social media war with a 10-year old drummer named Nandi Bushell, he’d taunted her with a challenge to play Them Crooked Vulture’s “Dead End Friends.” Bushell, who’s a very good drummer, obviously had no issue completing the…

It was a few years back that we were cursed with Shrek Retold, a crowdsourced, feature-length remake of the Scottish ogre movie that proves just how much this deeply shitty franchise has poisoned our brains. Naturally, the same freaks who made it are also responsible for Shrekfest, an annual event that taunts the gods…

The actor: A fixture in animation since the late ’80s, Rob Paulsen has over 500 credits to his name on IMDb. Though the scope of his career is immense—he’s done everything from voiceovers teasing the next episode of Cheers to portraying not one but two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—he’s perhaps best known these days…

Following his turns in The Last Black Man In San Francisco, Da 5 Bloods, and HBO’s sci-fi horror series Lovecraft Country, Jonathan Majors has rightfully become kind of a big deal, and it looks like the acclaimed actor just landed another big deal part. Deadline reports that Majors has signed on to play a lead role in …

The laughs are big and boisterous on this weekly podcast in which the veteran talk-show host chops it up with a celebrity pal, as well as his longtime (and long-suffering) assistant Sona Movsesian and producer Matt Gourley. This guest this time around is Deon Cole, who was an on-air regular/writer for O’Brien in the…

Last night, most of the cast of Rob Reiner’s classic The Princess Bride reunited (online, naturally) to read the movie aloud together. “Except the dead people,” Reiner added. “None of the dead people will be here.”

Back in July we talked a little bit about Malcolm & Marie, presumably the first full-length feature film to be entirely conceived in quarantine (and the lengthy list of COVID-compliant precautions that made it possible). Now, the romantic drama has a home with Netflix. Per Variety and Deadline, the streaming giant…

Not to be outdone by Instagram, YouTube is launching a TikTok copycat of its very own: YouTube Shorts. In an announcement on the official YouTube blog, the company described the feature as “a new short-form video experience” that allows users to “shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones”—and…

Now this is a story all about how, the housing market got flipped, turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how you can Airbnb the mansion from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.

Does evil always have an origin story? In the world of Evan Romansky’s Ratched, the answer is yes. Giving the dreaded antagonist of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest a fan fiction-like makeover, Ratched follows the namesake nurse on her move to the North Californian town of Lucia a few years after World War…

Our pandemic year got a little lively over the weekend, when Chris Evans (Captain America, looks good in sweaters) accidentally shared a video featuring a dick pic. According to Page Six, Evans was participating in a virtual game of “Heads Up” when he shared a video that included his camera roll. On said camera roll…

“Werewolves have guns... get revenge?” Not the most fleshed-out idea for one’s debut novel, but such is the plight of Scare Me’s Fred (Josh Ruben), a flailing horror writer who finds his sense of self-worth threatened when he casually connects with Fanny (You’re The Worst’s Aya Cash), a best-selling author. Holed up…

Adriene Mishler is one of the most popular yoga instructors on YouTube, and over the last six months alone, her videos as Yoga With Adriene have been cited by outlets as disparate as the New Yorker, Paper, and USA Today as having been crucial exercise during pandemic self-isolation. She is beloved for the way her…

Each week seems to bring us another AI-enabled deepfake monstrosity that manages to outdo what’s come before. We thought we’d seen it all when Nick Offerman’s mug was plastered all over the Full House intro. Then we assumed the technology had found one of its best uses in a series of videos that turned everyone from…

“Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit…” For a certain generation of pop culture junkies, the first image that springs to mind when Richard Wagner comes up is Elmer Fudd, clad in shiny armor and horned helm, mangling “The Ride Of The Valkyries” as he operatically hunts (and lusts!) after his rabbit quarry. Perhaps instead…

The world is watching in the trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s dramatic rendering of the Chicago Seven, the anti-war protestors whose sensational trial in the late ‘60s stirred up a frenzy both in and out of the courtroom. Sacha Baron Cohen stars as countercultural icon Abbie Hoffman, who helped organize a peaceful protest…

The raves for Nomadland at the Toronto International Film Festival have resparked excitement for Chloé Zhao’s next movie, the Marvel franchise hopeful The Eternals. That discussion, in turn, has raised the open question (including here in The A.V. Club comment section) of whether a big superhero movie is really the…