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We’re less than a month away from HBO’s premiere of David Byrne’s American Utopia, the Talking Heads alum’s Broadway show that’s here been translated to film with the help of Spike Lee. Described by our own A.A. Dowd as a “spiritual sequel” to Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, the concert film finds Byrne and an…

It looks like The CW’s Arrowverse is really entering a new MCU-style “phase” pretty soon. Arrow, the show that started it all, ended after eight seasons back at the beginning of this year, and now TVLine says Supergirl will also be coming to an end once it finishes up its upcoming sixth season. Production is supposed…

It’s honestly wild that bands keep releasing new albums—Fleet Foxes, for example, dropped a new LP just this morning—when everybody collectively gave up on music following the premiere of Serial. Everybody you see walking down the sidewalk wearing headphones is listening to My Favorite Murder or Reply All or Chapo…

The 1970 Miss World pageant was a notably dramatic and historic affair—one that is outlined in Jennifer Hosten’s autobiography Miss World 1970: How I Entered A Pageant And Wound Up Making History and its star-studded film adaptation, Misbehaviour. Starring Keira Knightly, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, …

The great Brendan Gleeson will next be seen as ‘Ol Donny Trump in Showtime’s The Comey Rule, but why remind yourself of the 2016 election when a show about aging, incest, and mass vehicular homicide is right there? 

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…

Have you ever happened to find yourself doing a close reading of Dreamworks’ middling 2004 CGI-animated sequel Shrek 2? No, of course you haven’t, it’s a passable, forgettable follow-up to pretty great original film. You probably saw it only once in your life—twice, tops, if it happened to be on HBO the same time you…

The success of The Joker’s numerous schemes in The Dark Knight is dependent on a medley of greed, corruption, stupidity, and mostly collective late-stage astigmatism. Blowing up Gotham General, for instance, requires the thousands of nurses and doctors and orderlies and janitors and cafeteria workers and patients and…

Six months and 200,000 deaths later, our president is still downplaying the coronavirus pandemic at packed rallies where the very concept of wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of a deadly disease is a joke. Now, because the dumbest among us only believe stuff they read on the social media accounts of former…

High-profile criminal cases can often be convoluted and confusing—then there are those that reach a truly elevated level of complexity, appearing to pollute any possibility of achieving true justice. Such is the situation surrounding the sensational story of Jeffrey MacDonald, the army captain who was accused of…

The Florida Man has many names and many faces, but only one true calling: For where there is chaos, Florida Man is there. Where there are bath salts and unconscionable acts with lawn equipment, Florida Man is there. And where there are cases of Cold Ones, well, partner, you can bet your ass Florida Man will be there.…

Though they were already global superstars prior to August 21, the release of BTS’ first all-English track “Dynamite” managed to catapult the K-pop sensation even deeper into the stratosphere of pop stardom. After besting a number of records, performing at this year’s VMAs (though they apparently saved the good stuff…

On the surface, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott is simply a coming-of-age story, a sweet and delightful portrait of the wild and wonderful people you can encounter in your early twenties, provided you’re amenable. As the title implies, the titular Billie Scott is about to go blind. That would likely panic just…

Many of us are still poring over this weekend’s first real look at Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, WandaVision, simultaneously dissecting each frame while getting super pumped at just how wonderfully weird it looks. As many have already suspected, it definitely looks like the “mega event series” will further set up…

Michael Hogan, the journeyman character actor best known as Battlestar Galactica’s Saul Tigh, is currently in recovery following a brain injury. According to a GoFundMe started on behalf of his wife, Susan Hogan, the actor is suffering from “complete paralysis on his left side, memory loss, cognitive impairment, and…

In Ryan Murphy’s new show Ratched, there’s a whole lot of fishy stuff going on at a dubiously run California mental hospital. Some of that is due in part to its head doctor, Dr. Richard Hanover, who’s slyly and ably played by Jon Jon Briones. Other hubbub comes from one of the hospital’s most infamous patients: the…

For many, the pandemic (and its subsequent lockdown) hasn’t been quite the creative boom it was for Shakespeare. That was true, too, for Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold—until it wasn’t. The singer and songwriter was sitting on a batch of instrumentals when the Bad Germ swept across the world, struggling to find the words…

Note: The writer of this review watched Kajillionaire 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.

Music videos have never been more accessible than they are right now. They’ve also arguably never been less relevant, at least not since their earliest days. In the ’80s, videos offered a new way for listeners to experience their favorite artists. In the ’90s, a clever video could propel an alternative rock band or…

Back when infectious disease expert, actual doctor, and blessedly apolitical smart person Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on The Daily Show six months ago, viewers flocked to their TVs for his avuncular common sense on the COVID-19 epidemic. Well, it’s September, there is no sign of abatement as we hurtle toward a cold…

It’s hard to imagine now, but when Prince’s Sign O’ The Times hit record stores in the spring of 1987, it was widely viewed as a comeback record. The 1982 double album 1999 had converted the critics’ darling into a certified hit-maker; and 1984’s Purple Rain LP and film turned Prince into a superstar. But 1985’s …

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 22. All times are Eastern. 

Let’s be clear: Friends was really an all-white Living Single. But now David Schwimmer is getting his wish and the internet is being gifted a Friends reading with an all-black cast. The special event, taking place Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, is part of Zoom Where It Happens, which is described as “a new live table read…

Episode two of We Are Who We Are retraces the steps of the pilot, situating us in Caitlin’s perspective rather than Fraser’s. Fraser becomes a background figure, an object of Caitlin’s gaze, reversing their roles.

This year’s Emmy Awards went off surprisingly well, considering that the nominees were all remote and Skyping in with laptops and webcams lent to them by the Emmys producers (“Skyping in” is what we used to call “Being on a Zoom call”), with some of the Friends showing up for a reunion, Schitt’s Creek winning all of…