Patriot Act star Hasan Minhaj might be a rapidly rising stand-up and TV host, but what he really wants to do is shine on the basketball arena. Telling Jimmy Fallon about his recent exploits at the NBA celebrity all-star game on Friday’s Tonight Show, the former Daily Show correspondent explained that it’s going, um,…

Despite the sheer number of cold bodies on the screen, the original Zombieland operated with a pretty economical cast: Outside flashbacks, cutaways, and one absolutely exceptional celebrity cameo, the film relied almost entirely on stars Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin to provide its…

There’s a breaking development in Captain Marvel news this afternoon, Goose the cat is live on YouTube!

Yorgos Lanthimos is having a pretty great year: After a decade of offering up a series of strange, darkly comic provocations on the inner workings of human relationships, he’s finally launched one of his bitter little bolts of brilliance directly into the mainstream of the American movie market, scoring a whole host…

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TMZ reports today that comedian Brody Stevens, a beloved favorite in the stand-up world, has died. Stevens’ death is currently being reported as a suicide.

Ensuring that Sheldon Cooper’s grim rulership over the TV airwaves—a veritable Bazingoligarchy, if you will—will never truly expire, CBS announced today that it’s renewing its Big Bang Theory spin-off Young Sheldon for another two seasons on the air. The Iain Armitage-starring single-cam is the second-highest-rated…

Hot on the heels of the ecstatic first trailer for Elton John biopic Rocketman comes a music video for the iconic track that gave it its title. Not John’s version, mind you, but a cover from legendary singer and songwriter Kate Bush, one that topped the charts when it was released in 1991. Bush’s ukulele-led version…

Now that a Black Widow solo film outing is in the works—with Cate Shortland directing from a script by Jac Schaeffer—it seems like an appropriate time to float theories. Some folks are already positing about how Avengers: Endgame and/or Captain Marvel will inform the plot, though those thoughts don’t seem to take into…

In Anthem, the new game from legendary RPG studio BioWare (Mass Effect and Dragon Age), you play as a mercenary/pest exterminator called a Freelancer in a world that has been ravaged by powerful ancient artifacts. These items, supposedly left behind when the gods who created this world disappeared, are able to alter…

Bernie Sanders was born in 1941. He’s been involved in politics for almost the entirety of his life. He’s no doubt seen many remarkable things over the years, but we can only assume the most incredible of all was captured in a photo from 2017. In it, we see Sanders walking through a mall where a fuckin’ furry and a …

This is a subject near and dear our hearts right now, as we just wrapped up Garlic Week, in which we made garlic bread, garlic beef, garlic soup… pretty much, we all smelled like garlic. Some people like that smell (not vampire-type people), but here was a question that has come up several times recently: What is the…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the Academy Awards right around the corner, we’re suggesting the perfect pairings for this year’s Best Picture nominees—movies to watch with, or instead of, each of them.

The A.V. Club recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Matt Walsh, probably best known for his role as the Vice President’s Director of Communications Mike McLintock in HBO’s Veep, and for popping up in shows like Parks And Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. In honor of his new…

New details have emerged on Showtime’s follow-up to Penny Dreadful. According to Deadline, Natalie Dormer, whom we once hoped to see win the Game Of Thrones as Margaery Tyrell, will lead Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels along with Here And Now alum Daniel Zovatto.