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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: Jackie Chan has two new movies, Vanguard and Iron Mask, headed for release. To honor the occasion, we’re recommending a few of his best vehicles.

Kenichi Kanazawa is an artist who makes stunning displays with sound. Or at least that’s what people say. Look upon a clip of Kanazawa at work and know, without a doubt, that he is in fact a modern-day wizard.

Okay, we get it. This might seem like a bit of a niche story. Some people will see the words ‘Chekhov’ and/or ‘The Sims’ and their eyes will glaze right over. If you are such a person, fine, but if you are also a person who cares about pop culture—and your visit to this very website would suggest you are—then stick…

With his latest memoir, No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael J. Fox reminds us that hope is an exercise and a discipline, not just a feeling or even a state of mind. The actor, author, and activist has already published three books, including two earlier memoirs, that course with the…

Per Variety and AP, comedy veteran Sinbad, whose real name is David Adkins, is currently recovering from a recent stroke. The family confirmed his condition in a statement to the outlet on Monday morning.

In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-by-proxy case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, writer-director Aneesh Chaganty’s second feature makes mommy dearest a formidable foe against teenage dreams of independence. Contrary to what it looks like,…

This well-produced but wonky show examining the American health care system likely has a hard ceiling of interest for each episode. That cap is obliterated, however, by the gripping modern folk tale of a single man standing defiant in the face of an unreasonable claims department. Jeffrey Fox isn’t an attorney, and…

Viral rapper, snitch, and general scourge Tekashi 6ix9ine is free from both prison and house arrest as of this past August, so you can bet he’ll be streaming Hulu’s new documentary about him. It’s out now, and the streamer just dropped a trailer for the tumultuous story of Snoop Dogg’s least favorite artist.

Let’s all get super stoned and drive to Indiana, where a museum in Muncie has opened a permanent exhibit to the late, great Bob Ross—the patron saint of happy lil trees. We could not possibly advise you to get stoned in Indiana, where marijuana has yet to be decriminalized, but perhaps the addition of what is clearly…

A while back, a man named Jeff set out to find the mysterious creature intent on destroying his garden. “Everything I planted was getting eaten to shreds,” he says in a video about his curse. Determined to solve his problem, Jeff installed a motion detector camera and identified the source of his trouble: A groundhog…

In another timeline, the latest season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story arrived just in time to coincide with this year’s election (more like HELLection, nailed it). But the powers-that-be at FX and a deadly pandemic prolonged our wait for the highly-anticipated Impeachment installment, which boasts a cast as…

It only took half a year for them to get their acts together, but they finally did it: WarnerMedia media and Amazon have struck a deal that will bring HBO Max to Amazon Fire TV users beginning Tuesday, November 17. WarnerMedia’s Monday morning announcement was met with a resounding chorus of, “Oh yeah, that was still…

Inspiration has to come from somewhere. For writers, it’s often from those in their orbit, much to the chagrin of, well, those in their orbit. In the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep stars as a successful author who, after hitting a bout of writer’s block, reunites with a few old friends—and a…

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?

This Friday, Amazon Prime will drop Mangrove, the first of five new features from 12 Years A Slave and Widows director Steve McQueen, whose Small Axe anthology aims to shine on a light on the West Indian community of South London. A new film hits the streamer every Friday throughout November and December, with one of…

It was only 42 years ago that CBS blessed (cursed?) us with The Star Wars Holiday Special. The 1978 independent “sequel,” which fell between the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, featured all your favorite characters celebrating Life Day (the galaxy-far-far-away equivalent to Christmas) and introduced…

Episode 1: “Gold Stick” | Episode 2: “The Balmoral Test” | Episode 3: “Fairytale” | Episode 4: “Favorites” | Episode 5: “Fagan” | Episode 6: “Terra Nullius” | Episode 7: “The Hereditary Principle” | Episode 8: “48:1” | Episode 9: “Avalanche” | Episode 10: “War”

On paper, Marvel’s 616 seems like it could be excruciating. It’s a Disney-backed documentary series, airing exclusively on Disney+, about the various fun and heartwarming behind-the-scenes stories of a Disney-owned media brand. The company already spends a lot of time and money pushing the idea that Walt Disney was a…

The royals are a bunch of weirdos. That’s ostensibly the thesis of The Crown, but over the past three seasons we’ve grown accustomed to their surreal world. The opening act of “The Balmoral Test” places itself in Margaret Thatcher’s point of view to invite us to see their oddity anew—and to humanize Thatcher a bit in…

A working actor since she was 11, Julia Stiles has spent literally all of her adult life in the public eye. A brainy child raised in New York, Stiles never fit into the “kid actor” mold, instead breaking into acting via experimental theater, a Cyndi Lauper video, and a bit part as an almost comically ’90s hacker on an…

Addressing the fact that he and his HBO skeleton crew have remained in responsible studio lockdown since the pandemic hit us like a frozen freight train full of medical waste, John Oliver assessed his blank, audience-free void, speculating, “I don’t think [it’s] Purgatory, but I can’t prove otherwise.” We can dig it,…

Animaniacs, the wild, more excitable step-cousin of Tiny Toon Adventures, debuted September of 1993 on Fox Kids. Almost immediately, it became a hit, only losing out to the insatiable Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the ratings. The animated variety/sketch show proved popular with viewers young and old, a development…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, November 16. All times are Eastern.

It’s no huge revelation to say the moon is Moonbase 8's MacGuffin, but it’s worth noting while recapping “Rats,” an episode that continues to frame the natural satellite as more idea than object. Last week, John C. Reilly’s Cap told the late Travis Kelce that the moon was his get-out-of-jail-free card—set foot on the…

I love when a show changes its tempo for an episode. It’s something The Walking Dead does (or did) a few times a season, and it nearly always worked on me. Most weeks, you get multiple storylines spread out over several characters, creating a kind of revolving door serialization that can either be messy or…