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Warner Bros. made a very adorable attempt at apologizing to the disabled community earlier this week after receiving backlash for its depiction of Grand Hight Witch in its adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. For a number of reasons—including the studios’ failure to acknowledge the actual harm caused by the Grand…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Man Of Steel costars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane appearing together again in Let Him Go, we’re looking back at other onscreen star reunions.

Last night, the 2020 election cycle reached a tipping point. It was not the overnight counts in Pennsylvania, nor Georgia, nor Maricopa county. It was not the almost-certainly-soon-to-be-former President’s dangerous, mendacious speech. It was not Jake Tapper blinking in bewilderment at a guy who apparently didn’t know…

As of this morning, it’s looking more and more likely that former Vice President Joe Biden will be dropping the “former Vice” from his title. And, since we’re all latchkey kids who tend to process shit through pop culture, it was only a matter of time before people began comparing the downfall of Donald Trump’s reign…

It’s the spring of 1940. The alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) has come to a secluded ranch outside of Victorville, California to write his masterpiece, a scathing portrait of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst that will eventually be known as Citizen Kane. Orson Welles, the boy…

When last we checked in with the Blink-155 podcast, the hosts were raising thousands for Black Lives Matter with dozens of earnest covers of Hinder’s “Lips Of An Angel.” Next up? 28 covers of Blink-182's “Dammit” from artists like Jenny Owen Youngs, Antarctigo Vespucci, Lisa Prank, Teen Daze, and PUP guitarist Steve…

During the first two rounds, “1980’s Week” is on track to be one of the best, most entertaining episodes of this season of The Great British Baking Show. The bakes look tasty, the challenges are fun, and there’s plenty of relatable, mostly good-natured grumbling from the bakers and hosts alike about the unfortunately…

Perhaps sensing that J.K. Rowling is enough of a liability for the Harry Potter extended universe, Warner Bros. has officially cut ties with Johnny Depp, who played dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise.

This post discusses events from last night’s episode of The Bachelorette.

Weatherman and co-host of Today Al Roker announced on-air that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “After a routine check-up in September, turns out I have prostate cancer,” Roker announced alongside his co-hosts. “The good news is, we caught it early. The bad new is, it’s a little aggressive, so I’m going to…

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…

Boba Fett started off as a cartoon, so it only feels right that one of his planetary brethren would get the same treatment.

The insidious machinations of gaslighting have been explored in psychological thrillers dating back to the 1940s (see: both Thorold Dickinson’s Gaslight in 1940, and George Cukor’s in 1944), while our fear of in-laws has been around as long as the institution of marriage itself. Both of these real-life horrors are at…

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Something strange happened on the way to the bright, new, blast-processed future: We actually got there.

Spider-Man is never safe. It’s part of the whole ethos, an inherent and inalienable aspect of the great power/great responsibility credo. Whoever it is under the mask—Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Nicolas Cage—they’re out there because they have to be, not because they want to be, getting the shit kicked out of them on…

It’s hard to be shocked at a horrible thing someone’s done when that person’s been telling you for four-plus years that he’s going to do exactly that thing. In the time that—for their sins—Americas has been under the shadow of a Donald Trump administration, the plain fact that he would never, ever, under no earthly or…

Queen Latifah has arguably never been more regal than she was at the 2003 Academy Awards. Her new comedy, Bringing Down The House, was the number one film in America for the third week in a row, and she was attending the Oscars as both a musical performer and a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Chicago. While the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7. All times are Eastern.

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? 

The national election got a little bit Voight-Kampff-y tonight (as opposed to the Mein Kampf-y direction it’s been drifting, upsettingly, for the last several years), as CNN poet laureate Anderson Cooper introduced some powerful new imagery into a news cycle that’s already had to deal with his coining of the semi-word …

As far as prestigious jobs in the cutthroat world of professional comedy writing go, head writer for The Tonight Show is pretty tough to beat. It does come with a hefty drawback, though, i.e., you have to think a whole lot about current events, and specifically, the bloated whale carcass that rests atop them, Donald…

If you hadn’t been watching the 2003-2005 Tony Awards, it may have come as a surprise when Hugh Jackman was asked to host the 2009 Academy Awards. The X-Men star wasn’t known as a comedian like most other actors selected to host the big show, and he wasn’t a nominee (missing out on a nod for his buzzy role in the …

It’s been nearly a year now since Disney first showed off a trailer for Free Guy, the Ryan Reynolds gaming action-comedy that dares to ask the question: What if it-a him, Mario? Or, more specifically: What would it be like if the former Pikachu detective was just a character in a video game, one who suddenly came to…

Anna and Kristoff are getting back together! Well, they’ve never really been apart, assuming characters in Disney movies continue living their lives when we’re not actively observing them, but either way: Deadline says Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff, who played Anna and Kristoff in the Frozen movies, are making…