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2014's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn’t generally regarded as the best movie about Marvel’s preeminent wall-crawler, and in fact its most significant contribution to the world of superhero movies is probably just the fact that it was such a critical and commercial disappointment that it convinced Sony to let Marvel have…

Watch out, Stephen King: Another author’s entire canon is now being processed through Hollywood’s adaptation machine. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is kicking off a “ramp-up” of Dr. Seuss movies after the success of Netflix’s Green Eggs And Ham series (which is coming back for a second season), starting with the…

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.

If there’s anything that can brighten these otherwise dismal days of 2020, it’s the promise of new mega-mashups courtesy of the two producers behind The Hood Internet. From their distillation of 40 years of hip-hop to this genuinely-great-when-it--shouldn’t-be mashup of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and Ginuwine’s “Pony”

As reported by Deadline, a bunch of big-name filmmakers have teamed up with the Directors Guild Of America, The National Association Of Theatre Owners, and The Motion Picture Association to sign a joint letter asking the U.S. Congress to redirect unused money from the CARES Act—the COVID relief fund passed back in…

Super Mario Bros. 35 is an interesting social experiment: Pit 35 players against one another in a contest for survival while playing through classic Super Mario Bros. levels. Unfortunately its charm is already wearing thin.

Here’s a nightmare scenario: The father of your soon-to-be-born child is killed in a tragic accident and, amidst your grieving, a mysterious illness confines you to the home of his offbeat and overbearing family. Such is the fate of Tamara Lawrance’s Charlotte in IFC’s Kindred, a new psychological thriller from…

In The Glorias, Julianne Moore and Lorraine Toussaint play Gloria Steinem and Florynce Kennedy, respectively, merging their real-life activism into portrayals of real-life heroes. The A.V. Club talked to the pair about Steinem’s sense of humor, Kennedy’s sense of justice, and whether either of the actresses would want…

Last week, we reported that the White House had directed the Health And Human Services Department to spend $300 million that could’ve otherwise been used on, you know, health and human services to put together a flashy, celebrity-backed COVID-19 awareness campaign (featuring Dennis Quad!) designed to “defeat despair.”…

Okay. Alright. So... First thing: Brock Pierce played the young Emilio Estevez in The Mighty Ducks and D2: The Mighty Ducks. He was also the “first kid” in 1996 Sinbad comedy First Kid. A lot else has happened in Pierce’s life since then. In fact, so much has happened that it may be easiest to just link the social…

Here’s a nice surprise: Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace just dropped her first solo album, Stay Alive, and it absolutely fucking rules. Stay Alive was recorded and mixed in just four summer days at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio, its 14 songs comprised of nothing more than a guitar, a drum machine, and her voice.

Despite everything, there’s a lot of joy to be found in life if you’re willing to look for it. Take, for instance, Australian comedian Christian Hull—a guy who’s currently engaged in a never-ending quest to guess what color will result from videos of paint cans being mixed online.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, much like Dave Chappelle’s “I’m Rick James, bitch!” was undone slightly by a populace perhaps too taken with its lead character’s funny voice. Baron Cohen’s sweeping satire of American culture—the original film touched on everything from post-9/11 xenophobia to frat culture to celebrity…

How do we determine what is in fact true? In the world of Raised By Wolves, characters attempt to understand the bleak, terrifying world around them by turning to stories rather than any empirical evidence. For the Mithraic, these stories are about worshipping a creator they call Sol, an entity that they insist is the…

Note: The writer of this review watched Possessor 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.

This post discusses plot points from The Boys seasons one and two.

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With Tenet failing to drum up the kind of business Warner Bros. was hoping for, Hollywood has mostly put the breaks on the grand resurrection of the American multiplex. Some films are still scheduled to hit theaters this month, but all release dates should, as usual, be considered fundamentally subject to change.…

Remember when Jimmy Stewart showed up on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show to read out one of his mawkishly sincere poems? (Or at least Dana Carvey’s impression of him doing so on Saturday Night Live?) Well, for those of you whippersnappers asking who any of those people are, your generation has its own beloved actor of…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, October 1. All times are Eastern.

There’s rust flaking off the twisted metal bars surrounding the empty pool. The enveloping woods look as though they’ve been reclaimed by wildlife—unsurprising, considering the middle-of-nowhere drive required to get here. And the paint, faded and peeling off the signs at this long-abandoned water park just outside Ric…

Even in a year as unpredictable as 2020, South Park reminds us it’s one of the few things from the pre-COVID world that remains unchanged. Tonight’s hour-long special event is everything fans of the series could want/expect: 60 minutes of South Park going full South Park to address several things that have transpired…

Director Ben Wheatley has charted an idiosyncratic course throughout his career, careening wildly from bizarre early genre exercises like Kill List and A Field In England, to the wildly ambitious J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise, to the near-cartoon action of 2016's Free Fire. His upcoming slate of projects doesn’t…

I miss Other Barry.

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As has been pretty well established at this point—through whatever cultural, cinematic, or other lens you might need to help you come to terms with it—last night’s presidential debate was a real shitshow, about as clear an expression of Donald Trump’s “control through loud bullying” approach to governance as we’ve…

Say what you like about its effects on sociology, politics, basic understandings of hygiene, and the delicate art of decency, but 2020's been one hell of a year for the science of loneliness. 10,000 months in, we’ve all become impromptu experts on isolation, finding the ideal ways to milk the bare minimums of human…