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Note: The writer of this review watched Collective on a digital screener 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.

After a decade of jokes, interviews, and at least one trip with Steven Yeun, Conan O’Brien is ready to wrap his late-night show with TBS. But before you whip out that bland office sheet cake, let’s make sure we’re clear about something here: The comedian and host isn’t retiring. In fact, per The Hollywood Reporter,…

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.

Less than a month after Lil Wayne appeared in a photo with our loser president, the rapper has been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by the U.S. District Attorney in the Southern District of Florida.

Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer 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.

It’s become a tradition for contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race to release a single after they’ve been eliminated from the show. Some Drag Race mavens, however, eschew the musical life, choosing to focus instead on acting, writing, or witty commentary.

Last week, observers uncovered incontrovertible evidence of voter fraud. These findings rocked the world, causing an upset in the results of 2020's biggest leadership race and raising awareness of just how fragile our institutions truly are. We are, of course, talking about the most important electoral contest of our…

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the show not the movie, makes two appearances in Josh Boone’s long-delayed superhero spinoff The New Mutants. Both times, it’s playing on a television set in a shared living space, half-watched by the title characters, a ragtag team of angsty teenage proto X-Men. Clearly, the footage is meant…

Dazed And Confused is a chatty film, from a writer-director—Richard Linklater—more attuned than most to the cinematic qualities of conversation. Although it was based on Linklater’s hometown of Huntsville and “played” by the state capital, Austin, we never learn the name of the small Texas town where the Lee High…

Following in the hallowed footsteps of MC Skat Kat, Roger Rabbit, and whatever the fuck was going on in Cool World, Tom and Jerry have entered into an unnatural union with the “real world” for their next big screen adventure. (There were others, probably? This doesn’t seem like a good use of Google’s resources at the…

Obama’s got a new memoir out today called A Promised Land, and in keeping with pretty much every major event (and seasonal change) of his modern political career, he’s also released a Spotify playlist to soundtrack it. Unfortunately, the mixtape—featuring the likes of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” Brooks & Dunn’s “Only in…

Quentin Tarantino is reviving the movie novelization with an adaptation of Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood that expands the story of fictional western star Rick Dalton and his stuntman and BFF, Cliff Booth. The filmmaker has signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins that also includes a non-fiction text titled Cinema…

In 1981, back before we knew that Norwegian musicians were lurking in comic books just waiting to abduct hapless readers, a-ha’s Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen recorded a song called “Miss Eerie” for their band Bridges. In 1984, having formed a-ha with vocalist Morten Harket, they’d take another stab at the…

If this COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna ends up working out, be sure to add Dolly Parton to your gratitude list. The Guardian reports that Parton’s donation of $1 million to coronavirus vaccine research was used in part to support the development of Moderna’s vaccine, which boasts a 95 percent protection rate against…

Twitter’s “gay intern” made it abundantly clear back in March that the social media platform was aware that its upcoming “Fleets” feature shared a name with the queer community’s favorite brand of enema. Still, it remains giggle-worthy that the company is sticking with the name as it prepares to roll out Fleet…

The Department Of Truth occupies the center of a Venn diagram made up of overtly political comics and those that are focused on the power of the human mind. It’s not a comfortable position to be in; both categories touch on heavy topics that have real-world consequences. In the hands of graceless or less empathetic…

The PlayStation 5 came out last week, but in a limited enough supply that it’s pretty hard to actually buy one right now. Fortunately for anyone who doesn’t feel like scouring eBay for overpriced scalper listings, the perfect replacement has arrived in the form of PS5 Simulator, a free PC game from Alex Grade that…

In Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s new period piece Dreamland, Margot Robbie plays Allison Wells, a femme fatale bank robber who’s wounded, on the run in the depression era Dust Bowl, and finds herself mixed up with a teenage kid. That kid, Eugene, hates his step-dad, feels shiftless, and loves to pinch a good detective…

The world of Buckingham Palace is so unmoored from time that it’s easy to forget The Crown has covered over 30 years of history so far. Last season, scenes of Anne listening to David Bowie or Princess Margaret wearing a vibrant zebra patterned sundress were a jarring reminder that the world outside the palace keeps…

What counts as fan service? Is it just the surface-level, feel-good stuff that gets the long-time viewer’s adrenaline pumping—the big action set pieces, the cool new songs, the ’shipper fuel and the exciting cameos? Or is it the deeper satisfactions, too: the elements of a long-running series that finally explain key…

The upside-down nightmare that has been the pandemic shut-down year of 2020 has so disrupted the entertainment world (among all the worlds it’s disrupted) that this year’s Oscar race leaves plenty of room for some dark horses. Like, for example, an unknown neophyte Bulgarian drama school grad whose gift for fearless…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, November 17. All times are Eastern. 

There is perhaps no person on this earth more knowledgeable about Saved By The Bell than Dashiell Driscoll, the comedy writer who turned a childhood obsession with Bayside High into a viral web series, a writing gig on Peacock’s new take on Saved By The Bell, and a podcast, Zack To The Future, with none other than…

It’s been a staggering two whole years since the world’s movie screens were last graced with a new Transformers film, and our lives have only become darker and more depressing over the course of those 24 months. Coincidence? Probably not, but who knows.

By the time a television adaptation of a book series reaches its second season, it needs to feel as though it can stand on its own. This is not to suggest that those who have read the books and those who haven’t will be on an even playing field: even when Game Of Thrones reached the point where the series ran out of…