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That Ms. Marvel is the best part of the new Avengers game bodes well for the character’s upcoming live-action debut on Disney+, which we first reported last August. Now, more than a year later, Marvel is ready to announce newcomer Imon Vellani as Kamala Khan, a Pakistanti-American teen so taken with superheroes that…

As we watch our country—democracy and all—steadily crumble at our feet, it’s getting harder and harder to picture what the “American Dream” actually looks like. But as Lee Isaac Chung’s Sundance gem Minari is quick to remind us, America has long stood as a symbol of fresh beginnings and boundless potential for many…

After spending all day yawning through Zoom meetings, it feels good to take a load off, fire up Netflix, and watch some famous people be sad about COVID-19 over Zoom. That’s the thinking, at least, behind Social Distance, a new anthology series from Netflix that was conceived, cast, and filmed remotely in the months…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: In honor of the Netflix release of Sundance sensation Dick Johnson Is Dead, we’re looking back on other documentaries with deeply personal angles.

It was more than four months ago that comic actor and frequent scene-stealer Fred Willard died. Today, one of this final interviews can be read in The Ringer’s new oral history of Best In Show, a Christopher Guest comedy many cite as one of his best. Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, and a number of…

Well, we survived our first presidential debate of 2020. The first! Of three! (Commence unhinged shriek-laughter.) To celebrate (?), Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are teaming up with M. Night Shyamalan for a filmmaking contest in an effort to encourage more people to vote. It’s unclear exactly how participating in a…

Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson was an autobiographical portrait that allowed a career to speak for itself. A collage of unused material from her years spent as a documentary cinematographer, working for directors like Laura Poitras and Michael Moore, the film cannily repurposed raw footage from over two dozen…

In Ratched, Cynthia Nixon plays a strong woman with political aspirations who falls in love with another woman and then undergoes a breast cancer scare. But even though those are all things she’s done in her life, she’s still not sure that Ryan Murphy actually created the part with her in mind. At least, that’s what…

This week the New York Times published an in-depth story about eBay’s bizarre, poorly-coordinated attack on a blogger couple that involved deliveries of cockroaches and fly larvae, unsolicited pizza, and targeted shipments of pornography to the couple’s neighbors. If that sounds like the plot of a movie, that’s…

The feature debut of filmmaker Remi Weekes, His House impressed Sundance audiences and critics with its unnerving tale of Sudanese refugees who move into a haunted house while seeking asylum in the U.K. Today, Netflix, who swiftly scooped up the film earlier this year, dropped the first trailer for the spooky and…

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Very little gets past Redittors. A recent example of this happened recently when a few users shared that they were having trouble finding season six episode of Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force from 2009, “Shake Like Me.” Others noted that they couldn’t locate season three episode of The Boondocks, “The Story Of…

Author, Merry Prankster, and former MKUltra test subject Ken Kesey might have let a bunch of LSD-impaired monkeys loose in La Honda, California decades in the past. Though this sounds like folk legend, there’s enough truth to the details that it’s endured as a very real possibility. Thankfully, KQED’s Rae Alexandra…

It’s a little surprising (yes, even in this existential economy) that we made it to 2020 without a documentary about John Belushi. The late, great comedy legend and SNL icon is the subject of the latest doc from filmmaker R.J. Cutler, whose credits include The War Room (which he produced) and The September Issue, as…

Here we sit, an undecided nation, desperate for the facts that will inform our vote on November 3. Just kidding. If you claim to not know who you’re voting for after four years of this chaos, your joke isn’t funny. Last night’s debate was what anyone who’s been paying attention expected: Trump bulldozing two people…

Once upon a time, TV creator Darren Star specialized in frothy soap operas featuring a plethora of people not yet old enough to rent a car (Beverly Hills 90210, Grosse Pointe, Melrose Place). But then he seemed to tire of his large ensemble dramas, zeroing in instead on plucky, stylish urban heroines ready to take…

Midway through The Glorias, there’s a scene where Gloria Steinem (Alicia Vikander), famous spokeswoman for the American feminist movement, is gamely tolerating sexist questions from a leering talk-show host who describes her outfit—a black long-sleeved shirt and black jeans—as inappropriately “sexy.” Suddenly, the set…

Luca Guadagnino’s HBO series, We Are Who We Are, is not a sequel to 2017's Call Me By Your Name (although that’s apparently on its way). Still, as a modern filmmaker well aware of the power of “cinematic universes,” Guadagnino has managed to find a way to put his 2017 movie’s stars, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer,…

A few expansions into playing Final Fantasy XIV, I decided to try leveling one of the game’s many crafting classes. For one, I’d heard a fair amount of FFXIV’s strongest weapons and most stylish gear were locked behind them. On top of that, I’d found the adventuring life to be expensive. Sure, running dungeons and…

If time travel ever becomes an option, I’d prefer my first expedition to be to Victorian England. It’s not that I have any special affinity for the Victorians—I’m sure the corsets and hoop skirts (or bustles, depending on the decade) would be very uncomfortable, as would the London smog. But the Victorians did an…

Chalk it up to a terrible 2020, but the typical signs that autumn is upon us feel especially welcome this year: The leaves are changing, pumpkin-spiced items are lining the grocery shelves, and Saturday Night Live is gearing up for a new season. Now heading into his fourth year with the show, Chris Redd is eager to…

As the leaves turn and we all brace ourselves for the deafening roar of noise that will constitute daily life in the final month before America’s presidential election, it’s nice to know that we can pop on some headphones and find respite in the upcoming swell of great new music arriving in October. From big names…

First off, apologies for the headline profanity there. Sure, CNN’s Dana Bash summed up the first 2020 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden with exactly that term, but we here at the A.V. Club generally don’t go in for that sort of gutter talk. Plus, did you watch that shitshow? Stephen Colbert sure…

“Embarrassing in its own special way,” and “starring several overqualified actors.” Those could have described Tuesday’s first Presidential Debate of the 2020 election, but—as you may have guessed—they are actually excerpts from our A.A. Dowd’s review of Fantastic Four. The fourth attempt at a Fantastic Four movie was…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, September 30. All times are Eastern.