Just a little over a month after Geoff Johns stepped down as the chief creative officer of DC Entertainment in order take on “some sort of writing and producing deal,” we have the first new fruits of that vaguely defined new gig. As reported by Deadline, Johns is now set to write and produce a Stargirl series for the …
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We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
When Disney bought Lucasfilm, one of the most painful side effects (maybe the only painful side effect, if we’re being honest) was the untimely death of Star Wars: The Clone Wars—an animated series that looked at the prequel movies and dared to wonder what they’d be like if they were actually good. Clone Wars ended…
Thanks to tight chemistry, killer hooks, and a distinctive sound that’s both lo-fi and retro-pop smooth, New Jersey’s Dentist have managed to stand out amid a sea of like-minded musical acts. The band’s sunny indie-surf sound and energetic, four-on-the-floor rock belies the subtle and dark lyrics often hiding beneath…
It’s a long-standing Comic-Con tradition: While the sweat-soaked masses cram into San Diego’s fabled Hall H to get rewarded for their bladder-testing diligence with exclusive clips and actor banter, the rest of us poor plebes are forced to wait on the outside, listening at the door in secondhand awe at how cool these…
It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.
Last we checked in, Roe V. Wade—the absolutely insane-sounding anti-choice movie co-directed by a guy whose relationship with Sofia Vergara is better known than any of his film roles and featuring cameos from both Tomi Lahren and Milo Yiannopoulos—was having trouble retaining its cast and crew, many of whom bailed as…
Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 are available for Nintendo Switch, where they always belonged, and you can get a copy of both for $52 today, down from the usual $60. That’s not a huge discount, but it rarely goes on sale at all. Just note that while Bayonetta 2 is on the physical game card you’re buying, the first game is a…
Finally, after decades of episodes and a crummy made-for-TV movie, BBC’s Doctor Who is getting its first female incarnation of the old alien in the time-traveling box. We saw a very brief teaser for Jodie Whittaker’s upcoming run as the 13th Doctor for the show’s next season, and today’s Doctor Who Comic-Con panel…
If you awoke this morning with a terrible jolt, possibly as ominous storm clouds began to swirl around your dreams and the only thing drowning out your screams were the screams of all of humanity, it may be because archaeologists in Egypt have opened the mysterious black sarcophagus that was found in Alexandria…
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It is 10:34 a.m., Central Standard Time. I have just ordered a McDonald’s breakfast sandwich and fries, to be delivered to my home, for journalism.
In April, one intrepid internetter showed us what NBC’s Friends looked like without a laugh track. The answer, it turned out, was deeply, thuddingly awkward, as the actors were directed to leave in beats for the canned cackles and, as such, tended to float in a thick air of silence in after each joke. A similar…
Written by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, Blindspotting follows longtime friends Collin and Miles (Diggs and Casal, respectively) through the final three days of Collin’s probation as he tries to put his criminal past behind him, but Miles’ recklessness threatens to land him back in trouble. At the premiere, we…
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his Oscar in 2016, but he may have had a shot at it a decade earlier if he had taken a role in Brokeback Mountain. Speaking with IndieWire, Gus Van Sant says that when he was developing an adaptation of Annie Proulx’s original story—before Ang Lee came along and made the movie with Heath…
We turn today to Toad. He is some sort of mushroom man? This is about as legit a description as exists in Super Mario’s candy-colored nightmare of a video game series. It’s worth noting Toad is both a named character and also the name of a species of Toad-like people. This surreal synecdochic quality is shared by…
Walmart has the NES Classic in stock right now, with a catch. You’ll pay $20 more than MSRP, but you’ll get a 10,000mAh Pokéball USB power bank with it, which as far as mandatory toss-ins go is actually pretty cool. I’m seeing delivery or in-store pickup dates of July 26 here.
When Unfriended hit theaters in the technologically primitive past of three years ago, it looked like a brand-new kind of movie. Unfolding exclusively across the LCD canvas of a terrified teen’s desktop, this ingenious ghost-in-the-machine potboiler spoke a distinctly modern language, telling its hoary horror story of…
Traditional scrapple is polarizing. People who love it, really love it. And people who don’t, well, dry heave at the mere mention of it. The classic version, credited to the Pennsylvania Dutch, is made with off-cuts, trimmings, and offal of a pig—boiled, then chopped. Cornmeal and seasonings are stirred into the…
