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Ghosts of The Shining and Barton Fink haunt the hotel corridors of The Night

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It's Jurassic Park, but all the dinosaurs are Pee-wee Herman

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The White Tiger plays like Netflix prestige CliffsNotes of an acclaimed bestseller

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Electric eye: 8 songs about electronic surveillance

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It’s hard not to hold shakycam against the otherwise terrific Bourne Supremacy

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Ex-competitive eater Pat Bertoletti teaches us how to tear through a plate of chicken wings

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United by fate: 18 fictional school rivalries

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A Spielberg makes his screen debut in the trailer for indie horror breakout Honeydew

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Calling all nations: 60 minutes of INXS’s non-hits that show why they’re rock icons

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If they make The Big Short 2, it should be about Redditors buying GameStop shares to screw greedy investors

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Due to numerous surgeries, Richard Lewis will not appear in Curb's upcoming season

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How does it feel to know that Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne are "dad rock" now?

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Hey, kids! There's a Game Of Thrones animated series in the works

Not since Scooby Doo first flayed a man alive—in our massively popular fanfic, Fred Finally Gets What’s Coming to Him—has the potential for animated bloodletting seemed so fraught with possibility, as THR reports today that HBO Max is reportedly…

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R.I.P. Bruce Kirby, veteran actor and Columbo co-star

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Here's what's coming to (and going from) HBO Max in February 2021

For HBO Max subscribers, February might offer more than pricey chocolates and teddy bears. (We wouldn’t turn those down, though. It’s been a shitty year.) Next month will spark the 2021 wave of Warner Bros. film premieres, starting with Judas And…

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Cannes 2021 has been delayed until July

For the second year running, the Cannes Film Festival has been forced to bow to the viral realities, with THR reporting today that the venerable French film competition will be delayed by at least two months in 2021. According to an official…

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Lindsay Lohan sends sweet Cameo to help fan, but would like the good press to stop, please

As we’ve previously noted, La Lohan is now on Cameo.

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When Urkel met Tanner: The 16 most ambitious crossover episodes in TV History

Warner Bros. teases HBO Max releases of Dune, The Suicide Squad, Sopranos prequel, and more

The best quotes from Werner Herzog's new interview with a skateboarding magazine

Ghosts of The Shining and Barton Fink haunt the hotel corridors of The Night

It's Jurassic Park, but all the dinosaurs are Pee-wee Herman

The Best Amazon Deals of the Day

The Near-Perfect AirPods Pro Drop to $200

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Zoe Levin on how Bonding learned to "shut up and listen" in season 2

Teyonah Parris says Marvel fans always knew she'd be the best Monica Rambeau

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Adarsh Gourav on haves, have-nots, and justifiable homicide

Cheyenne Jackson on the harrowing production of United 93, his first feature film role

The A.V. Club’s favorite hidden streaming gems

WandaVision’s big threat has been hiding in plain sight all along

Emma Caulfield Ford on Dottie’s secrets and the brilliance of Kathryn Hahn in WandaVision

Ed Burns’ coming-of-age dramedy Bridge And Tunnel is afraid to grow up

Sarah Koenig and LeBron James to adapt Serial season 3 into a limited series for HBO

A welcome return to Riverdale

The best movies on Netflix

The best movies on Amazon Prime

The White Tiger plays like Netflix prestige CliffsNotes of an acclaimed bestseller

Electric eye: 8 songs about electronic surveillance

It’s hard not to hold shakycam against the otherwise terrific Bourne Supremacy

Ex-competitive eater Pat Bertoletti teaches us how to tear through a plate of chicken wings

United by fate: 18 fictional school rivalries

The Return Of The King was the last time a blockbuster could be weird, personal, and Best Picture

Kevin Hart to star in Borderlands movie, which… yeah, that actually makes sense

A notorious Kevin Kline flop preemptively spoofed the serial killer genre

Generic redemption drama Palmer expects us to buy Justin Timberlake as a hardened ex-con

Look past Dario Argento to discover one of the most luridly stylish giallos

Reasonable Discussions: January 27

The best romantic comedies on Hulu

A Spielberg makes his screen debut in the trailer for indie horror breakout Honeydew

Calling all nations: 60 minutes of INXS’s non-hits that show why they’re rock icons

If they make The Big Short 2, it should be about Redditors buying GameStop shares to screw greedy investors

Due to numerous surgeries, Richard Lewis will not appear in Curb's upcoming season

How does it feel to know that Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne are "dad rock" now?

"Enjoy" this collection of hideous celebrity wax sculptures

Hey, kids! There's a Game Of Thrones animated series in the works

R.I.P. Bruce Kirby, veteran actor and Columbo co-star

Here's what's coming to (and going from) HBO Max in February 2021

Cannes 2021 has been delayed until July

Lindsay Lohan sends sweet Cameo to help fan, but would like the good press to stop, please

R.I.P. Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor Cloris Leachman

This Emperor’s New Groove oral history is "actually the story of the making of three movies"

Wonder Woman 1984 basically doubled the number of HBO Max accounts, exceeding 17 million

What are you reading in January?

A young girl acquires deadly power in Nnedi Okorafor’s latest sci-fi journey

Both the living and the dead haunt the unsettling stories of The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed

5 new books to read in January

What great non-2020 book did you read this year?

Inkbots is a 3D comic like no other

Calling all nations: 60 minutes of INXS’s non-hits that show why they’re rock icons

20 years later, Azure Ray’s crushing debut reminds us that we’re never alone

Beach Bunny’s Lili Trifilio on turning her “corona angst” into art

Billie Eilish and Rosalía team up for a haunting lament: 5 new releases we love

Zayn pops up, and a Bee Gee goes country: 5 new releases we love