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There is exactly one advantage to the fact that a week in 2020 time feels like much, much longer, and it is this: It feels an age since that glorious day that national treasure Mandy Patinkin, titan of sound, stage, and screen, joined TikTok. He and the rest of the Patinkin family, including his delightful wife,…

Holt McCallany cruelly teased us with the potential for five (!) seasons of David Fincher’s serial killer drama Mindhunter last year, telling The Hollywood Reporter that Fincher told him, “[E]ven if I fuck it up, it’s gonna go five seasons, and I don’t intend to fuck it up.” Well, we’re not going to say Fincher fucked…

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…

Elements of Disney Jr.’s current iteration of Muppet Babies may look pretty different for former young fans, between the overly smooth computer animation and the presence of Jenny Slate’s distinct rasp. One person, however, says he’s a little too familiar with reboot (and not in a cute, nostalgic way): TV…

As we wait for the upcoming second season of Creepshow, Shudder’s anthology series based on Stephen King and George A. Romero’s 1982 film, the streamer is celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with an animated special featuring two stories from King and his son, author Joe Hill. Today, Shudder shared a…

Tim Heidecker’s early work as a master of scatalogical short-form comedy has since blossomed into a number of corners: film, podcasting, music, and parody (Decker is probably comedy’s best indirect skewering of Donald Trump). With his first official stand-up special, An Evening With Tim Heidecker, the comedian draws…

Earlier this week, we wrote about an unsettling scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat sequel in which Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, acts like a creep with the “15-year old daughter” of Borat, who he believed to be a young female journalist.

In order to appear on the ballot for mayor in the city of Chicago, a candidate must submit a petition with 12,500 registered voters’ signatures. This is significantly more than what is required by far larger cities, like New York and Los Angeles (3,750 and 500, respectively). It’s even more than what’s required to run…

In some episodes of The Great British Baking Show, the producers push the bakers, presenting complicated and obscure challenge briefs. Some episodes, they play it safe, teeing the contestants up for success. For season 11’s “Pastry Week” however, the producers seem less interested in the bakers’ experience and more…

The ’90s were a big time for witches. The Craft and Charmed found loyal teen audiences as Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Hocus Pocus, and Halloweentown enchanted the younger set. Kiki’s Delivery Service landed Stateside, Willow went Wiccan on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Hermione Granger made her literary debut. Amid…

Note: The writer of this review watched After We Collided from home. 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.

In terms of entertainment, this November serves as a bit of a buffer between the deluge of last-ditch efforts to persuade the country to vote and the soon-to-be unyielding stream of yuletide popcorn flicks. This is also the month that will have a lot of us reevaluating our Thanksgiving traditions, as some of them—like…

By the time the first podcasts on NXIVM were being made, I was already deeply obsessed with what was happening in Albany, New York. I don’t have any real connection to the group or some anecdote about almost being brainwashed in one of their introductory sessions; I just happened to go to Williams College, a small…

DC Comics’ long-awaited The Other History of the DC Universe from Oscar-winning writer John Ridley is set to debut next month. io9 spoke with Ridley recently about what it’s been like figuring out how to give fresh voices to an expansive cast characters who, while well-known in certain circles, have been historically…

So much technological ingenuity is used for nefarious purposes. Whether it’s whatever new dystopian reality social media corporations are building or just a phone covered in fake human skin, our top scientific minds seem to work constantly toward making the world worse in exciting new ways. In light of this, we’re…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

The Snowman, a 2017 thriller starring Michael Fassbender as a detective named Harry Hole, is remembered now mostly for its hilarious marketing campaign and terrible reviews. Jon Daly, though, knows the film on a deeper level than any of us who just giggled at the idea of a serial killer who draws frowny snowmen all…

Halloween is imminent, and if you’re anything like us, you’re getting in the holiday spirit with some of your favorite seasonal staples—going back once more to those timeless classics of the scary-movie genre, like Michael Meyers returning to Haddonfield right on schedule. But while Halloween, like Halloween, never…

Say what you will about Jimmy Kimmel’s checkered history of comedic blackface and Man Show misogyny, but the late-night host has been effectively vocal about the Republicans’ war on your heath care. Ever since now-3-year-old son Billy Kimmel was born with several congenital heart conditions, Kimmel has been unsparing…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? 

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, October 22, and Saturday, October 23. All times are Eastern.

Good news, folks: We’ve got this massive, unkillable headache pounding its way all up and down our skulls right now, which means we must have just exposed ourselves to the American political process in the form of yet another 2020 presidential debate. And, indeed, that was how we decided—of our own, extremely stupid…

Despite the fact that it left its whole “people who Work, making Miracles” premise behind after the end of its first season back in 2019, TBS still seems pretty enthused about Simon Rich’s now-it’s-an-anthology series Miracle Workers. (Given that the show’s regular cast features Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, and a…

Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to the world of s0-called “elevated” horror. After all, her 2013 thriller Under The Skin helped set the template for the sort of prestige, ambiguity-heavy spook-em-ups that have become the bread-and-butter of certain studios in recent years—most notably the tasteful shockmasters…