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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.

Blue In Green is a comic book without traditional lettering, which already sets it apart from 99% of its fellow titles. But more unusual still, it screams jazz on every page. Much as the videogame Ape Out captures the ludic sensation of jazz, Blue In Green lets you read jazz, through the language of sequential…

For 24 years, The Mangrove, owned by late activist Frank Crichlow, served as a humble haven for Notting Hill, London’s robust West Indian community. Throughout its life, the café would ultimately double as a meeting place for artists and community organizers while maintaining a small list of famous clientele like Bob…

Not sure if you heard, but President Barack Obama has a new book out this week, A Promised Land. To accompany its release, he dropped (yet another) Spotify playlist to soundtrack the read. And, yeah, while the songs are a painfully bland selection of inoffensive, focus-grouped obviousness, that isn’t to say its…

As the promotional materials foretold, the cast of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reunited for the first time since the subtly subversive sitcom came to an end on May 20, 1996. Will Smith hosted the gathering on the re-created set of the Banks home, which was the site of many a lesson and laugh over the course of six…

Animaniacs might be back, but it’s not the ‘90s all over again. As the reboot’s showrunner, Wellesley Wild, tells us in the video above, when they started rethinking the show for 2020, “Immediately Hello Nurse was Goodbye Nurse.” Wild says the show also updated the characters a bit more, with Dot relying more on her…

While Donald Trump getting his ass handed to him in the election has eroded some QAnon supporters’ steadfast belief in their Dear Leader’s crusade to rid America of its shadowy cabal of Satanic pedophile Democrats, chances are, if they’ve already bought into that premise, it’s gonna take a lot more to fully dissuade…

Into this age of ubiquitous reboots and increasingly sophisticated animation bounds Hulu’s Animaniacs revival, the first moments of its premiere running wild with allusions to its own pedigree. The setup, a nod to Jurassic Park, treats the return of the Warner siblings—Yakko, Wakko, and Dot—as a gobsmacking discovery.…

The pope’s Instagram account—already a sentence that feels strange to type—liked a photo of a woman in a schoolgirl outfit sticking her butt out last week. This is obviously hilarious, both because it’s now the world’s foremost example of being horny on main and because the Vatican has now had to launch an…

In the vein of 2007's Enchanted comes Godmothered, a Disney+ comedy in which Jillian Bell’s bright-eyed fairy godmother-in-training collides with the general misery of the real world. Bridget Jones’s Diary director Sharon Maguire helms the straight-to-streaming feature, which co-stars Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) as…

When we connect with Tarriona “Tank” Ball, the bewitching lead vocalist of New Orleans soul-funk collective Tanks And The Bangas, she is fresh from a live recording of the band’s forthcoming EP, Friend Goals. She only has a few hours to eat and sleep before she and the gang are back on the road at 2 a.m. This time,…

It’s probably safe to say that, consciously or not, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond have been mailing it in for some time now. And the trailer for their next big adventure feels like one of their laziest efforts yet.

The actor: Few actors have gotten do a second round of Random Roles, but when the opportunity to speak to John Turturro came around pegged to his latest film, The True Adventures Of Wolfboy, there was plenty more to cover from his work since our last chat with him in 2011.

Donald Trump was still running for president when word first circulated about Chaos Walking, a buzzy adaptation of Patrick Ness’ book series starring a pair of fresh-faced heroes in the MCU’s Tom Holland and Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley. Since then, Ridley’s bid adieu to the galaxy and Holland’s Spidey has been resurrected …

Waaaay back in Discovery’s pilot episode, Michael Burnham made a choice to directly disobey her captain’s orders. This choice led to a series of escalating crises which ultimately ended in her captain’s death. It was a strong opening statement for any show, a Trek show in particular. I’m not sure what followed ever…

Live music remains elusive as the pandemic rages on, but there are worse things than filling your four walls with the sounds that have long brought you comfort. Maybe that’s song after song from your favorite artist. Maybe it’s music of your own making. Or maybe it’s simply the laughter of family, brought together by…

Some of the most compelling episodes of The Crown simply dramatize a historical event that feel almost too implausible to be true—like a bizarre fog that turns London into a real-life horror movie. This time around it’s an everyday man who breaks into the Queen’s bedroom not once but twice. That Michael Fagan (Tom…

From Software’s Souls games are all about the tragic pursuit of doomed, nigh-impossible goals. Slay gods immune to the very concept of death. Reverse the apocalypse when it’s already 99 percent of the way complete. Stay sane in a world that demands madness. Stay alive. So we’d like to offer a toast to remakers…

Sure, he’s not anchoring his own super-assassin action trilogy, but the Bill half of the Bill & Ted series hasn’t exactly been napping. Alex Winter, in addition to reprising the role of Bill S. Preston, Esq. alongside longtime pal Keanu Reeves in this year’s amiably improbable, 30-years-later three-quel, Bill & Ted…

Mix The Family Stone with While You Were Sleeping, add a touch of My Best Friend’s Wedding, and give the whole thing a lesbian makeover, and you’ve got Happiest Season, Hulu’s much-anticipated new holiday rom-com starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. If that makes the film sound a touch derivative, that’s…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, November 19. All times are Eastern. 

Kurt Russell has weighed in on politics once again, which is to say he hasn’t weighed in on politics right now. Which is to say, Kurt Russell has some opinions on politics, but only about how he doesn’t have any opinions on politics, and neither should you.

Today in “It’s getting hot in here, but please don’t take off all your clothes, as there have been serious allegations that someone has put a video camera in this restroom” news: Nelly has been cast to play 20th century musical legend (and occasional PR nightmare) Chuck Berry in an upcoming film. Specifically, the…

Big news in the world of cinematic yuletide superheroing today, as Variety reports that Warner Bros.—i.e., the house that Tenet failed to build—has swallowed its pride in the face of a global pandemic and announced that Wonder Woman 1984 will be debuting in the United States on its HBO Max service this Christmas.…

Humanity got one step closer to achieving its ultimate dream of being crushed to death beneath the warm, cheesy embrace of a big ol’ Pizza Hut pizza today, as the distinctively roofed restaurant chain released its plans to allow customers to purchase a weighted blanket that has a glossy JPEG of their pizza on it.…