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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds hitting Apple TV+, we’re highlighting some of the iconic director’s best documentaries.

“Joe Biden will be the next President of the the United States of America,” is a sentence we still aren’t tired of writing out for our readers. And while this fact of reality (barring an act of, well, William Barr) will lawfully come into effect early next year, a lot of people are having trouble admitting this to be…

Greta Thunberg has been a well-known and controversial public figure for about two years now, which makes the images of her in the opening sequence of the documentary I Am Greta unexpectedly poignant. The 15-year-old is seen sitting alone against a wall near the Swedish legislature, with a handwritten sign announcing…

If you enjoy a good mystery, you’ll love the story of D.B. Cooper. In 1971, a man identified only as Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 between Portland and Seattle, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into obscurity. To this day, the perpetrator remains in the wind. According to law enforcement, at least.

Almost every interview subject in Werner Herzog’s latest documentary gets introduced with a prolonged, silent close-up that’s held for an uncomfortably long time. The people being filmed are usually smiling, but they still look slightly anxious, as if uncertain of what’s expected of them; few non-actors know quite…

Late in October, the owners of New York’s iconic Strand bookstore put out a call: The pandemic had hit them hard. Sales were down nearly 70 percent year-over-year, and they needed money. Strand lovers far and wide responded, and within a day of the news, over 10,000 orders had been placed. By the end of the following…

Actor Wentworth Miller is thoroughly done with three things: Prison Break, portraying straight men for pay, and your bullshit (if you’re an internet troll or a person with online boundary issues, that is).

Hark, the benevolent gods of Netflix have bestowed upon ye dorks another season of The Umbrella Academy, the wildly popular series based on the wildly popular comic book of the same name. The Wrap reports that the streaming service has officially given the green light to a third installment, with Ellen Page, Tom…

Oobah Butler is probably the best prankster working today. In the past, he messed with the mechanisms of modern hype to create TripAdvisor’s top-rated London restaurant out of an impromptu backyard eatery and, in response to the resulting media frenzy, hired a team of body doubles to handle his appearances on…

Superintelligence is not to be trusted. Why? Because it posits that anybody would be calmed by the voice of James Corden. Still, it might be funny! The HBO Max comedy stars Melissa McCarthy as Carol Peters, described by those in her orbit as “the most average person on Earth.” That distinction, however, makes her the…

Having learned its lesson with Big Little Lies, HBO intentionally never billed The Outsider as a limited series event, leaving the door open for a second season that could extend the narrative beyond Stephen King’s novel. Richard Price had already begun work on the scripts for season two, which seemed inevitable based…

If Rudy Giuliani was still in touch with whatever crumbs of humanity must still exist in the dark corners of his withered soul, the last few weeks of public humiliation would’ve sent him into hiding. Not content to be filmed trying to take his dick out in front of a woman he thought was a journalist in the Borat…

In 1998, video game company Namco was granted a patent on technology allowing a small “auxiliary game program code” to run alongside the “main-game program code” to avoid an “unnecessary wastage of time.” In more human terms, this meant Namco—and only Namco—could put minigames on its loading screens, which usually…

Note: The writer of this review watched Hillbilly Elegy 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.

Though Lifetime and Hallmark Channel have had the holiday movie market cornered for years, Netflix recently started making its own inroads into that candy-cane-strewn arena. Unhindered by the contraints of cable network programming, the streamer is free to target a wide range of age groups, including adolescents. This…

After a week-long stress marathon that seemingly, blessedly ended with the joyously incontrovertible fact that Joe Biden is going to be the next President of the United States (and Donald Trump 100 percent isn’t), Monday afternoon came along to remind us how we can’t have nice things. Oh, Biden’s still going to be…

Since World War II ended in 1945, the stories of the defining cataclysm of the 20th century and the generation of soldiers who fought in it remain unrivaled when it comes to real-life accounts of bravery, cruelty, and the perseverance of humanity in the face of unremitting horror. But despite all that has already been…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, November 10. All times are Eastern. 

According to a report from Deadline, American Housewife regular Carly Hughes has decided to leave the ABC comedy show, citing “discrimination” and a “toxic environment” on set. Her final episodes as a series regular were in last year’s fourth season, and while she did appear in the season five premiere, that’s it for…

The past week or so has been pretty rough for ol’ Johnny Depp: First he lost his libel suit against British tabloid The Sun, with a judge deciding that the paper’s reference to Depp being a “wife beater” was “substantially true,” and after that he had to resign from his role as the villainous Grindelwald in Fantastic…

In what constitutes a wholly unexpected (and yet arguably well-earned) victory for Titans, the show that dared to say “fuck Batman,” the former DC Universe exclusive is now going to air on TNT—the very same TNT that rejected it four years ago. Granted, it’s only going to be for a few days over the Thanksgiving…

Of all the surreal things to happen in the last week, is there anything more absurd, more perfectly Veep, than the saga of Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

Oh, shut the fuck up, dude.

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The movie theater industry is choking to death from the lack of support from the U.S. federal government, as are a lot of people in this country, but at this point it at least seems to be settling into a comfortable—if wholly unsustainable—groove: A movie comes out, it makes a few million dollars from the few thousand…