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In general, the best thing you can say about Adam Sandler’s slate of recent Netflix comedies is a resigned “Hey, who are they hurting?” We now have a definitive—if indirect—answer to that question, with Deadline reporting that Boston morning news anchor Alaina Pinto has now been fired from her job for appearing in one…

Tatiana Maslany has stated that she is not, in fact, She-Hulk. And while this would be a slightly more controversial statement if it applied to an actual superhero secret identity—and yes, we know, Jennifer “She-Hulk” Walters doesn’t actually do the “secret identity” thing, typically—it’s still somewhat of a surprise,…

Leslie Jones spent five years on Saturday Night Live, lending the series some much-needed energy, charisma, and moments of making Colin Jost profoundly uncomfortable. Does Jones—who released a stand-up special, Time Machine, at the start of 2020, and is gearing up to host the Supermarket Sweep revival for ABC—miss her…

A Kuppet air purifier and iHerb’s skin care essentials sale lead Saturday’s best deals.

“You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.”

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This week’s AVQ&A comes from editor-in-chief Patrick Gomez:

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Variety reports tonight that Michael B. Jordan is getting back into the superhero movie business, with the Chronicle and Black Panther star signing on to serve as producer on a Static Shock movie. The most high-profile product from Milestone Comics—founded in association with DC Comics back in 1993, with Black…

Remember when TV ratings mattered very little in the grand scheme of presidential elections, especially when it came to the particularly terrifying ones? Yeah, we don’t either. Considering that 2020 is approximately 37 years long, maybe we’ve always clung to every opportunity to stick it to the guy who desperately…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services …

Although Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat takes strident and frequent swipes at bigoted thinking of all types—misogyny, homophobia, and more—Baron Cohen frequently reserves Borat’s broadest, most aggressive attacks for anti-Semitism, exposing its regressive idiocy when and wherever he can. That attack on bigotry is…