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Sound Of Metal is nothing without its sound design. It’s a story about music and deafness—both auditory phenomena—and its success depends on being able to put you into the main character’s beat-up Converse. The film does accomplish that, thanks in part to its unique, first-person approach to sound. Darius Marder,…

Just last month, Charlie Brown was visited by the Great Paywall, as Apple TV+ announced it had picked up the exclusive rights to Peanuts and all its related content, including the holiday specials A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas. The streamer did offer various stretches of time in late…

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.

This post references plot elements from the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown.

First, Ben Stiller’s Zoolander sequel declined to take on the delightful mantle of 2oolander. Then, the second installment in the Now You See Me franchise made some good will disappear by sticking with a boring sequential number-based naming convention, when the subtitle Now You Don’t was right there for the picking.…

The Daily Beast reports that a young, unidentified woman has filed a restraining order against EDM artist Diplo after accusing him of filming and distributing revenge porn. Attorney Lisa Bloom, who is representing the anonymous plaintiff, confirmed the filed complaint with the outlet, alleging that Diplo—whose real…

Fans of significant double casting, rejoice, for The Princess Switch is back. Netflix’s smash Vanessa Hudgens vehicle returns for the 2020 holiday season with a sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again. This time, Hudgens plays three different characters trapped in a swap situation with royal consequences, all…

Note: The following post contains major spoilers for Big Sky’s premiere.

Earlier reports of Marilyn Manson’s casting in Josh Boone’s The Stand miniseries led fans to speculate that the problematic rocker had been cast as Trashcan Man—a troubled delinquent and pyromaniac who takes great pleasure in blowing shit up. He is essentially the Beavis of this production. But as Entertainment Weekly …

All Chris Columbus wants for Christmas is mayhem. He may not fully admit it, insulating his destructive impulses with protective layers of plastic sentiment, but from his screenplay for the first Gremlins to his direction of the first two Home Alone movies, he clearly yearns to inflict pain in between mandatory…

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While #1 Trump legal goon and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani may be doing everything in his power to complete his legacy as a pathetic, tragicomic figure of American history, comparisons to TV’s most notable bumbling lawyer, Lionel Hutz, may not be appropriate.

Small Axe—the new anthology film series from award-winning director Steve McQueen (Widows, 12 Years A Slave)—takes its name from an African proverb popularized by a 1973 Bob Marley song of the same name: “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe / Ready to cut you down.” The series’ first feature, Mangrove,…

Gather ’round, little lambs, for the Queen of Christmas has a treat for our troubled heads. Mariah Carey, aka Mimi, aka Mirage, aka Songbird, aka The Voice, is delivering unto us a Christmas special this holiday season. Apple TV+ has officially announced Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, a Christmas special…

After years of allowing pretty much any vile shit people can spout off slide, Twitter has started introducing new features meant to both junk up your timeline and, more helpfully, flag specific tweets for containing inaccurate information. The latter update seems to have been rolled out to deal with certain…

A lot of us have reached the point of quarantine where we simultaneously resent and find odd solace in the sight of a telltale Zoom window, which now serves as both a lingering reminder of the ceaseless hell of a pandemic and a bit of a saving grace for those of us still taking things seriously. Yes, some of us might…

There’s been a lot of buzz around GIGA, the new mech-centric dystopian series from Vault Comics. Based on the first issue, the hype seems justified: It reads like a buzz-worthy comic, full of scope and scale, with a bright creative team that is clearly not holding back.

Academic consensus credits Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle as the originator of the “great man theory” of history, a 19th-century notion that the course of nations is shaped by the influence of a select handful of heroes. By Carlyle’s reasoning, figures of exceptional power, courage, intellect, and moral fiber…

Just mere days after Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer also known as the Yorkshire Killer, died in prison after contracting COVID-19, Netflix has shared a trailer for its upcoming docuseries about his crimes. Called The Ripper, it lands on the streamer next month.

With his critically acclaimed nonfiction work, Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates laid himself bare. Writing the book as a letter to his then 15-year-old son, Coates unearthed memories from his boyhood in West Baltimore, then moved to his son’s birth and into the present day. Between The World And Me was…

Walton Goggins is best known for playing dangerous and/or disarming characters on series like The Shield, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, and in films like The Hateful Eight. But as audiences learned when The Unicorn premiered on CBS in 2019, the Justified alum is just as at home in the cozier confines…

After the first season of The Crown casually elided a major character’s Nazi connections, season two had to spend an entire episode retconning that topic into existence. “Favourites” essentially does the same thing with Elizabeth’s role as a mother. At the end of the hour, Elizabeth delivers a revelatory monologue…

It’s never a bad time to give books as gifts. But with brick and mortar stores struggling to stay open—especially during the coronavirus pandemic—buying a book from your neighborhood bookshop means you’re not only potentially giving a thoughtful present, but also helping out your local economy. Don’t tarry, though; if…

People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive turns 35 this year. That’s the age of the famous person handsomeness pageant itself, not the actual winner of the fluffy celebrity publication’s 2020 award in male objectification, as said sexy individual only emerged (in a proto-sexy form) on this Earth some 33 years ago. And, yes,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, November 18. All times are Eastern.