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It took nearly 37 years for The Dark Crystal to see its story expanded onscreen. Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance premiered last summer to critical acclaim, both for its storytelling and the intricacy and imaginativeness of its puppetry, but, despite ending on a cliffhanger, its first season will also be…

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to find another way to say that people are still going to movie theaters to see Christopher Nolan’s Tenet (and other things) even though we’re still in the middle of a pandemic and you really shouldn’t be risking your life and the lives of others just to see—at least according to A.V. Club Film…

Earlier this year, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle sued Netflix over the new film Enola Holmes—as well as the author of the kids’ books that serve as its source material—for violating copyright on 10 Sherlock Holmes stories. While many of the most famous Holmes adventures remain in the public domain, the Doyle estate…

Today in wholesome content: Weezer and Fall Out Boy (and Seth Green?) went head-to-head on Celebrity Family Feud, producing a memorable episode that probably moved a few hundred units of Pete Wentz’s beautiful grandma sweater. It arrives on what would’ve been the heels of their Hella Mega Tour with Green Day, another…

If you’re in the market for a kinda new, primarily mobile streaming upstart, this may be your lucky day! According to the Wall Street Journal, Quibi is currently “exploring several strategic options” after a rocky debut. These options include raising more money on top of its previously garnered $1.75 billion capitol,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The fourth season of FX’s small-screen Fargo starts, so we’re singling out “Coenesque” movies, i.e. ones influenced by or imitative of the work of those famous sibling…

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.

Perhaps sensing that God has really and truly given up on humanity this time, The Passion Of The Christ star Jim Caviezel is back to hyping he and Mel Gibson’s long-in-the-works sequel to the faith-based mega-hit. In a new interview with Breitbart, Caviezel revealed that the follow-up is “coming,” adding that Gibson…

Since its premiere on August 30, Showtime’s Love Fraud has been hailed as the next Tiger King: a highly entertaining docuseries, whose true-crime story is still unfolding as the cameras roll. And the four-part series, from Jesus Camp filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, is certainly a compulsory watch, full of…

Alexandra Dean’s documentary This Is Paris is the latest attempt to revise the legend of Paris Hilton, this time from a particularly sobering angle. Much of the coverage of the movie, which debuted last week on YouTube, has focused on the abuse and subsequent trauma suffered by its socialite/businesswoman subject…

In the midst of the Emmy Awards last night, Marvel surprised comic book nerds and moon hexers alike by dropping the first trailer for WandaVision, the studio’s upcoming Disney+ series featuring the Avengers’ strangest couple. We always knew WandaVision was going to be, to quote Maria Hill, “weird,” but from the looks…

Denis Villeneuve’s much anticipated adaptation of Dune is set for release this December, and Dune Pod was created with the intent to prepare future audiences, as if anything could. Hosts Haitch and Jason are joined weekly by special guests to discuss Frank Herbert’s seminal work of sci-fi literature, Villeneuve’s…

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has long spoken of his dream to reboot his former NBC political drama with This Is Us star and perennial Emmy nominee Sterling K. Brown as president. Since This Is Us still has at least two more seasons, we doubt we’ll be getting a full-on reboot any time soon. But it looks like at…

The Ellen DeGeneres Show is back for its 18th season and as promised, its host wasted no time addressing the toxic workplace allegations that permeated the summer. Appearing in front of an adoring “audience” (or rather, a sea of flat screens projecting remote fans), DeGeneres stood by her claims that she didn’t know…

The process of resuming film and TV productions during the pandemic has been a slow and tentative one. Despite increased safety measures and the creation of “bubbles” on set, some productions have still been hit by cases of COVID-19—like Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which was forced to once again shut down production just…

Today, gentle reader, the world offers a moment of quiet reassurance. Chaos surrounds, grief will not be denied, the tumult of life is unending and the void fathoms deep. But you know what? It’s fucking September 21, and Demi Adejuyigbe has not forsaken us. Even in 2020, the year when even the Emmys included a literal…

Hardened criminal Lori Loughlin is about to start doing her time. Having requested where she must serve two whole months locked away from ordinary society, Loughlin is no doubt getting the last bit of work done on a bicep-covering snake tattoo, rolling a pack of Marlboro Reds into her sleeve, and figuring out the most…

It’s been a long year, fraught with anxiety and isolation and uncertainty, and the nagging dread of impending fascist apocalypse. But Disney has just the thing to cure your 2020 blues: Extra Magic. The corporation has decided to extend holiday hours at Epcot and Magic Kingdom during the first week of December, per a…

In early July, in her hometown in Slovenia, a wooden sculpture of First Lady Melania Trump was burned in an arson attack. It has now been replaced, and in bronze. Behold, the big reveal:

Jim Victor and Marie Pelton sculpted an 800-pound statue of sports icon Gritty that, we regret to say, you are not allowed to eat. This is despite a tweet from Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman that shows the hashtag-ready Butter Gritty appearing bug-eyed, delectable, and described as consisting not of…

As one of the most singularly quirky minds working in art and indie filmmaking today, writer/director Miranda July has enchanted audiences with her delicate storytelling, oddball characters, and intimate understanding of universal insecurity. She’s turned awkward womanhood into a virtue with films like Me And You And…

Who said the dystopia wouldn’t also be hilarious? Last night’s Emmy Awards was by and large a virtual affair, with the nominees streaming live from their towering, marble-encrusted estates. Unable to stroll onstage to collect their statues, they were presented a different kind of pageantry when their categories came…

The ongoing pandemic has had weird consequences for both food producers and consumers. Stores have found their shelves bare due to both panic buying and producers cutting back on the variety of items they make, and with stadiums closed peanut farmers have been sitting on a mountain of unsold legumes. Now, thanks to…

Of the many memes that have come to define the Trump era, “But her emails!” has reached iconic status. Set against a backdrop of a town sinking underwater, it’s a way to signal that so much of our current disaster could have been averted had enough people in swing states voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016…

A legendary stand-up comedian and performer, Colin Quinn was first introduced to the public via his role as the gravel-voiced, cigarette-smoking sidekick on the 1987-90 MTV game show Remote Control. His lackadaisical delivery of any episode’s given prizes (a Mitsubishi Montero, a ski vacation, a Zenith television, a…