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Tim Burton is already creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky, but he’s now lining up a project that would make him altogether ooky as well: According to Deadline, Burton is talking to MGM TV about executive producing and directing a new TV version of The Addams Family, with “multiple buyers” currently competing to pick…

Between the escalating Zoom Dick discourse (dickcourse) and Rudy Giuliani’s deeply uncomfortable Borat 2 cameo, Wednesday was already an untenably horny day online. And then came Fort Bragg.

Sarah Cooper has built a social media empire on the back of her Trump lip-sync TikTok videos, and lately she’s been parlaying that into a regular media empire in the form of a guest-hosting spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and an upcoming Netflix variety special called Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine. Today, Netflix…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Ben Wheatley’s take on Rebecca in theaters and en route to Netflix, we’re singling out other Hitchcockian thrillers—ones that explicitly recall the master of…

Note: The writer of this review watched Synchronic 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.

Donald Trump has a script. Everything he’s done is “the best” and has “never been seen before.” Everyone he doesn’t like is “a disaster” and has committed crimes that have “never been seen before.” Everyone in the media who doesn’t wash his feet with their hair is mean to him in ways that have “never been seen…

My first console was a PlayStation, a gift from my mother’s boyfriend. I don’t remember asking for it; I think it was a gift to curry favor. My mother had an antipathy towards video games that bordered on hostility, so while she didn’t outright ban my sister and me from playing them, it was very clear that the console…

Sony’s big-screen Uncharted adaptation has seen more than its share of setbacks, losing its original star and a bunch of directors before landing on Tom Holland and Ruben Fleischer, but now it’s really happening and Holland is proving it by sharing a photo of him as main protagonist Nathan Drake on social media.…

Black holes, simply put, are goddamn terrifying. The complex astrophysics involved coupled with their sheer scale and power basically make them points in the universe where your brain would literally and metaphorically be ripped to pieces. Like, we’re talking a force so strong that light (which is very fast, we might…

Niecy Nash is having a good year, all things considered: She was invited to join the Motion Picture Academy, she got married, and now she’s getting her own syndicated daytime talk show (Reno 911! also came back on Quibi, but we don’t need to talk about Quibi right now). This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter,…

Every year, the good folks behind the live storytelling show and podcast RISK! throw a live Halloween special where they trade some scary stories and a laugh or five. But nothing is quite as scary as a ceaseless pandemic, so the team will be broadcasting a spooky livestream this Friday night. Fans will notice another…

“Extra, extra!” cries Tom Hanks in News Of The World, Paul Greengrass’ movie about a news cowboy who performs the news for news-hungry villagers in the years following the Civil War. No, you got us, he doesn’t say “extra, extra!” but the image nevertheless sweeps us back to a time when the news didn’t instantly fill…

Books for women and by women tend to get a bad rap. They’re “chick lit,” or “trashy romances.” Fan fiction—which is often written by women for whom writing isn’t a full time job—is viewed as less than, a tawdry, childish foray into a fantasy world. But titles for women and by women are some of the book industry’s most…

Are you not entertained? After watching this YouTube video of Gladiator characters speaking in surfer-bro voices, indeed we are. The clip is exactly what it sounds like, with YouTuber Paul L Benton overdubbing an early scene between Maximus (Russell Crowe) and his mentor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) with a SoCal…

The politically turbulent Wisconsin of today is a far cry from the idealized version of the Badger State seen on Happy Days. So at first glance, a cast reunion feels like a welcome dose of nostalgia, even if it’s for an unrealistically wholesome time that never really existed in the first place. As announced on Act…

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death needs no introduction. Besides being Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous novel, there is an argument to be made that it’s also the most famous anti-war novel, period. Ryan North and Albert Monteys’ new comic-book adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five isn’t…

Brendez Wineglass, a 12-year-old Black girl wearing dainty earrings and a broad grin, had a very simple plan for a more just and common-sense future, mirroring that of many children living under the tyranny of sensible bedtimes, mandatory vegetable consumption, and the kid’s table at Thanksgiving. Wineglass was…

Alison Bechdel has played a major role in bringing graphic novels into the mainstream, with her 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, becoming a commercial and critical hit that spawned a Tony Award-winning musical adaptation a decade later. It’s been eight years since the release of Bechdel’s Fun Home follow-up, Are You My…

The sleeper Broadway hit that was Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin and Matthew Sklar’s The Prom is now a star-studded spectacle on Netflix starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, and Nicole Kidman, all of whom drown in autotune in the first trailer for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming adaptation.

Given how “Far From Home” ends, it’s understandable that Star Trek: Discovery opened its third season with last week’s episode—Michael is, after all, the main character, and the time jump probably wouldn’t have had the same impact if we learned about it without checking in with her first. All the same, I can’t help…

Uma, Oprah, oh no.

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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.

Maybe Jimmy Kimmel’s just a glutton for punishment. After being de-pantsed by Borat earlier this week, Kimmel decided to double down on the perilously prank-happy guests by inviting Eric Andre on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and hoping for the best. Honestly, it went pretty painlessly for the late-night host, as…

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

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel, endures not just because it has proven endlessly adaptable—as a play, for radio, on television, as the Alfred Hitchcock-directed winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1941, and a new Netflix film released nearly 80 years later. The story of Rebecca taps into a…