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For decades, M.O.D.O.K. has been one of the biggest jokes in superhero comics, a supervillain whose ridiculous design makes it very hard to take him seriously. But M.O.D.O.K.’s giant head is floating into the spotlight in a big way, taking a central role in the new Marvel’s Avengers video game and headlining the…

When Jimmy Kimmel signed on to host and executive produce the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, he never imagined having to put the show together during a global pandemic. But after coming to peace with what has become our new normal these past few months, Kimmel and his fellow executive producers Ian Stewart and Reginald…

If there’s one thing 2020 has been good for—a fairly big assumption, that—it’s the frequency with which it reminds us of the tenuous nature of life. The world turns and turns and keeps turning, sunrise, sunset, quickly go the days, to everything there is a season, nothing gold can stay, we are dinosaurs and the…

Another election means another sweaty round of Saturday Night Live trying to wring laughs from our beyond-parody president—who, lest we forget, hosted SNL in 2015 (four years after he dug his heels into the racist Birther movement)—while forgetting to satirize his opponent in any meaningful way. Today, in an interview…

COVID’s been slowly sucking the chill from Halloween 2020, delaying titles like Candyman and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It until next year. The silver lining is that streamers like Shudder are working overtime to deliver the scares this year; Blumhouse, too, has a special treat in store for October. As part…

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.

Late rocker Tom Petty had very different intentions for the Rick Rubin co-produced Wildflowers, his second solo album. The 1994 15-track LP, which peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 8, was originally submitted to Warner Bros. as a double album with 25 songs. It was a collection of beloved tracked that would ultimately…

Filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have made a name for themselves with films that defy genre conventions and labels and explore heady concepts about time, transformation, and obsession. Their latest film, Synchronic, is led by the starry duo of Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, which will hopefully attract…

Chris Rock is finally gearing up for the premiere of Fargo’s fourth season after the Bad Germ delayed it by nearly six months. In anticipation, the comedian, actor, and Saw superfan offered up a gripping chat with the New York Times in which he discusses the show, police brutality, and the current state of U.S. racial…

The fourth season of Fargo is finally set to premiere on FX on September 27, four months after its originally intended May premiere. But it’s not the only Noah Hawley project to be put on hold in 2020, as detailed in Variety’s new profile on the creator and showrunner of the acclaimed FX anthology series.

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Jeremy Renner puts out so much ridiculous stuff that his now-defunct app—a social media platform for Rennerheads to connect with one another—has become little more than a footnote in his career. Caroline Goldfarb and Sarah Ramos haven’t forgotten it, though. Far from it. The two are so fascinated by the late app that …

Not to be outdone by Chris Evans, Live Nation has announced a handful of new initiatives to encourage access to voting in the upcoming election—which, if you haven’t heard, is super fucking consequential and will determine whether America has a future (like, any future at all). It’s kind of a biggie. Following in the…

Last week, Rick Moranis briefly came out of retirement to help fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds advertise a phone company. It was a welcome surprise to see the comedy icon reappear, even if it was for less than a minute and in the service of selling stuff. We’ve now learned just how close we were to him returning…

Frank Herbert’s Dune franchise ultimately overwhelmed the first filmmaker to try and bring it to the screen. In Jodorowsky’s Dune, the visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky unpacked how his sumptuous vision for the story—set designs by H.R. Giger, art by Mœbius, a Salvador Dalí cameo—was simply never meant to be. Another…

When people insist that a movie must be seen in a theater, what they’re usually talking about are its visual pleasures, which do tend to be enhanced by the scale and clarity of the big screen. (That was, presumably, the crux of Christopher Nolan’s crusade to get Tenet into multiplexes during a damn pandemic.) But…

The Jurassic Park film series has spanned 27 years and five movies, with a sixth in production—but until now, it hasn’t spawned an animated TV spin-off. This feels like an uncharacteristic act of restraint for a property that has been winking at its own merchandising blitz since midway through the first 1993 film.…

The actor: Former Mindy Project paramour-turned-Birds Of Prey baddie Chris Messina has seen his fair share of “affable boyfriend” roles. And while he has undoubtedly managed to claim more than a few hearts with his performances in Julie & Julia, Away We Go, and Celeste & Jesse Forever, the New York actor does not mind…

It might be inconceivable to anyone who’s ever seen her perform, but Janelle Monáe told Stephen Colbert that 2020 and its attendant, grinding horrors have sapped even her seemingly irrepressible energy and drive. “Honestly, I really haven’t been inspired musically,” claimed the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter,…

I’m a straight man who’s been dating a woman for not quite four months. In the beginning things were light. But things started to get heavy quickly. Two weeks in, she revealed her very serious abandonment issues and then began asking me whether I really loved her and demanding reassurance that I wasn’t going anywhere…

The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards will still take place on Sunday, September 20, and we can once again count on Jimmy Kimmel to host. The rest feels more up in the air than usual, as the ceremony will be attended virtually by nominees and presenters. Here are A.V. Club TV editor Danette Chavez’s predictions of the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, September 16. All times are Eastern. 

It’s been two months since we last checked in on the fight between blues singer Anita “Lady A” White and country music band Lady Antebellum (who decided to change their name to Lady A back in June even though there was already a woman performing under that name). The two sides met to discuss how to proceed back in…

Move your lazy butts over, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, because unlike what you guys did with Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, Madonna is actually going to direct her own biopic. Of course, Elton John doesn’t have as much directing experience as Madonna, and Freddie Mercury has been dead for some time, but still.…

In 2016, Robert Smigel took Triumph The Insult Comic Dog on the election trail, offering a unique satirical perspective on the world of politics in the lead up to (and immediate aftermath of) the miserable fucking shitshow that was the last presidential election. This year, Smigel is doing it again, but in a move that…