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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.

It’s been a busy month for coronavirus vaccine news. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen announcements of interim phase 3 trial results, final phase 3 trial results, an FDA application, and phase 2 results. By my count, that’s five news events about three vaccines. It’s a bit confusing.

To say that Star Wars properties have some tricky balancing acts to pull off is an understatement. There’s the balance of comedy and action, of course, and the dual demands of satisfying a fan base steeped in nostalgia and exploring the creative possibilities of an entire galaxy. This season, The Mandalorian has…

Poor Adobe Flash isn’t long for this world. At the end of the year, the software will no longer be supported by its creator, completing the long hospice stay that it’s endured for years and leaving a whole lot of the internet’s stupidest (i.e. most beloved) videos and games adrift. Fortunately, the good people at the …

We all could use some unabashed fun to end our 2020, and that’s what we hope to get from Ryan Murphy’s star-studded Netflix adaptation of the bouncy Broadway musical The Prom next month. The 2019 stage production garnered seven Tony nominations, including one for lead actress Beth Leavel, who starred as a Broadway…

It looks like we’ll be saying farewell to the extraordinary Pierce family sooner than later. Per Variety, the CW’s Black Lightning will end after its fourth season. The news arrives just one week after the network announced plans for a Painkiller spin-off series starring Jordan Calloway. The fourth season is slated to…

In Prime Video’s new movie Uncle Frank—out next week—Judy Greer is once again cast as a character named Kitty. It’s the third time she’s been cast as the female equivalent of a little cat, and Greer says she’s not sure why. “I don’t even know any Kitties,” she says in the clip above, saying that she “kind of want[s]…

December isn’t just a time for carols, cookies, and cheer. The holiday season is also the time to stuff your eye-gullets with as much vanishing streaming content as possible. Hulu is purging a lot of titles next month, including its fleet of Star Trek films, the Bourne Identity franchise, and for some unacceptable…

The opening credits for FX’s latest miniseries pointedly read, “based on the novel by Rumer Godden.” Which is true: Black Narcissus was indeed a novel before it was adapted for the screen by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. That’s like pointing out that The Godfather is based on a novel—the movie has so far…

It’s been a somewhat off-kilter season of The Great British Baking Show, with strong bakers stumbling seemingly out of the blue only to be eliminated early. Whether that’s due to the stresses of living in the show’s production bubble or this season’s condensed filming schedule, it has led to a final four few may…

You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at a celebrity comparing Donald Trump’s refusal to concede to a poker movie from 1998, but Edward Norton has provided some surprisingly insightful observations into Trump’s political strategy—or rather, lack of one—this morning on Twitter, where he draws from his experience in…

By now, the message is clear: If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving at all in 2020, you should not be traveling great distances nor meeting up with large groups of people to do so. Sure, these precautions mean missing out on Grandma’s signature flair for suspending frozen fruit in Jell-O mold. But it also means reducing…

Stranger Things only recently resumed filming its much “scarier” new season after shutting down in the early days of the pandemic. That’s too bad, too, as the teaser Netflix released just a few weeks before everything went to hell—Hopper in Russia!—got our wheels turning. It’s been mostly quiet on the Hawkins front…

In Netflix’s latest entry into the holiday genre, Dolly Parton Presents: Christmas On The Square, Parton plays a literal angel heaven-bent on keeping a miserly single gal from—and this is real—selling the entire town she grew up in so it can be torn down and turned into the region’s largest mall.

If Rudy Giuliani wasn’t a total scumbag, actively working to make the world a worse place each and every day, it would be tempting to feel a bit bad for the guy at this point. In this horrible Season Of Giuliani, the man has: 1) Been caught trying to take his dick out in front of a woman he thought was a journalist,…

Amber Ruffin is one of the most consummate comedians working today. She’s steadily made her way from improv comedy at Boom Chicago Amsterdam to Late Night With Seth Meyers—where she became the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show—to writing for A Black Lady Sketch Show and the late but great …

For every naysayer who’s repulsed by horror, you’ll find a fan who finds it to be a well of empowerment and strength. Case in point: Anthony Woodle, a YouTuber, theater manager, and aspiring filmmaker who found comfort in the medium before dying of Stage IV esophageal cancer in September. He was 29.

The latest twist in this very weird year in movies is that Bella Thorne is currently receiving near-unanimous critical acclaim for a role in a genre thriller. Thorne, who has parlayed child stardom into a staggering social media following (with over 24 million followers on her main Instagram account alone), plays the…

Flat Earth Simulator recently appeared on Steam with no fanfare at all. Costing $5, it’s a beautifully presented—if extremely slight—depiction of a proposed model for a flat Earth. There’s interactive recorded narration explaining the theory, which posits that our planet is a floating disc, surrounded by a wall of…

The Delay Monster has come for Eddie Murphy at last. The insatiable 2020-born behemoth that has ravaged many other franchises over the last eight months has now set its sights on Murphy’s Coming 2 America, the sequel to his 1988 comedy classic. The Craig Brewer-directed sequel was recently acquired from Amazon for…

Dolly Parton, the queen of country music, is much more than a writer of hit singles. She’s an outspoken defender of LGBTQ equality, a champion of literacy—her Imagination Library has provided 125 million books to young readers—and now a funder of COVID-19 vaccine research. She also plays a literal angel in the holiday…

On John Belushi’s 30th birthday in January 1979, he was on the No. 1 comedy TV show in America (Saturday Night Live), was starring in the No. 1 comedy movie (Animal House), and had the No. 1 album in the country with the live Blues Brothers release Briefcase Full Of Blues. That would be a lot of success for anyone to…

The Crown has a natural tendency towards dourness. There are times when the show seems to suggest that the Windsors have never experienced so much as a single moment of joy in their privileged, constrained lives. “Terra Nullius” proves how much value there is in mixing things up a bit. This episode contains some of…

It seems that the Academy Awards are still happening next year, just a little later than usual. What that means is that an abnormally long awards season is upon us! On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss two high-profile Netflix releases vying for a spot in the race: David…

Gift giving can be hard at the holidays, but it can be even harder when you haven’t spent any time with your intended recipient for the past nine months, won’t be there to explain the gift, and just don’t know what it is your sister’s kids are into anymore. That’s why we put together a special gift guide for this…